Author, A. J. Llewellyn

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Roman and Philippe are hotshot Hollywood wedding planners about to embark on a new exotic location for big-buck weddings—Tahiti. The French government has just changed the law to allow foreign marriages to take place on these wild, untamed islands, and the ten-day, all-expenses paid trip to the South Seas can’t come at a better time for the couple.

With Roman in remission from a near-fatal bout with male breast cancer, Philippe feels this is like their own honeymoon…except for one small thing. Philippe’s former lover, Tane, is still living in Tahiti and has his sights set on claiming Philippe for himself. Roman, feeling insecure following his devastating illness, watches helplessly as the big, muscular island god makes a play for his man.

Philippe, too, seems thrilled to see Tane again. He would love to re-experience the sexy islander’s touch, only with Roman participating in a threesome. But will Roman become mesmerized by the mysterious islander and agree to the salacious proposal?

Come, feel the heat of Tahiti, and a demi-god named Tane…

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By A.J. Llewellyn

Ever since I was a kid, I loved being told stories. My mother became very ill when I was five and spent most of her time in and out of hospital. She died when I was six and my dad, God bless him, was not the kind of guy to open the big book of fairy tales on my shelf and read me one of my favorite stories. I used to hold the book and look at the pictures, picking out favorite lines, but I began to re-imagine the stories and of course, I was always the hero in them.
I got into tons of trouble, but no matter how tough things got, I had a happy ending. I always lived happily ever after.
I guess this constant fantasy world was the genesis of my writing. I still love and believe in fairy tales. Several months ago, I went to LA’s Chinatown for the New Year celebration. I spotted a guy who was very handsome. A tall, slim, sexy Asian guy dressed in black, I wondered if he was a priest, a cop…or even a vampire.
It was an unusual evening. Unusually chilly. I decided he was a vampire since he was acting so mysterious. I followed him through the strange mist that swirled over Hill Street.
There were people all around, but it seemed to me, it was just me and him.
The red lanterns that hang high over the old Chinatown community cast an eerie red glow over everything.
Chinatown in LA is a melting pot of Asian cultures. Japanese, Chinese and Korean communities fuse, with not always the greatest of ease.
I followed the handsome man and started constructing my own fairytale.
Soon, I’d given up the physical chase and I went home to write. I called my partner and frequent co-author D.J. Manly and told him my idea for a story I wanted to call Banpaia – Japanese for vampire.
I went to work, feverishly, and quickly sent a note to our cover artist Angela Waters at eXtasy books. I told her what I wanted.
Like the idea for the story, my cover art request was unorthodox.
Angie slipped right into my dreamworld and gave us one of my favorite covers of all time – with the red Chinatown lanterns in there too.
When it came time for D.J. to write his sections of the book, I couldn’t have been more pleased and also, more intrigued. He too, had somehow stepped into the dream and followed the handsome Asian man. What he wrote was more exquisite than usual.
We spent a long time talking about Banpaia and the haunting man who dominates it. It was unusual for us, because we have such a strong symbiosis we don;t often have to talk about the work. It’s there on the page, but then, this whole experience has been beyond magical.
I wish every book was like this.
D.J.’s input was invaluable. In fact, thanks to him, the ending begs a sequel. Though the first book comes out in three days and was finished several weeks ago, in dreams, the vampire beckons me to follow.
And I will, once again, turning the pages of the big book in my mind…following the lanterns, the swirl of mist…haunted by the stranger’s smile. Hunted by the man they call Banpaia.

Aloha oe,
A.J.

Crazy love. We’ve all experienced it…I think. I’ve mentioned before I’ve experienced my own demented moments in love…but how about a crazy friendship? And how about crazy business? Have you ever done anything utterly crazy in a friendship or in the course of conducting business?
I don’t know about you about I’ve had my fair share of lapses in dealing with people but there are lines I would draw in any transaction. For example, how dumb do you have to be to trust a complete stranger with your body AFTER you’ve had a heated argument?
There is news out of Australia that a guy went to a tattoo artist and they argued. He wanted a dragon on his back and the artist complied. The guy went home and showed off the tattoo to his roommate and learned to his horror that he didn’t have a dragon tattoo but a giant, 15 inch penis! And to add insult to injury there is also a misspelled gay slur on his back.
Here’s the link to the article:
http://tinyurl.com/34odt6m
I have to say as an outsider it’s hilarious. I have no idea what the tattoo artist was thinking. Surely he knew he’d wind up in legal trouble but that must have been some argument to risk criminal charges, which he now faces.
Have you ever done anything crazy in business or friendship?
I think the craziest thing I did – and it still shames me to remember it – was the time I was asked to give a well-known actor some feedback on a screenplay he wrote. Now, this is my day job and the guy knew this which was why he solicited my advice. He didn’t offer me money. I guess he thought he was doing ME the favor. Anyway, I made the colossal mistake of telling him the truth. I’m still not sure I was completely wrong in being honest in telling him his screenplay sucked, but I’ve learned that experience, like a 15 inch tattoo on your back teaches you some life lessons in craziness.
How about you? How crazy have you gotten? Please leave a comment and the best one gets a free ebook from me!
Aloha oe,

A.J.

They’re Baaaack!

Supercop Jack Cannon’s met the man of his dreams and isn’t about to give up loving Lucky…even when the man is marked for death.

                       LAID 3

 By A.J. Llewellyn – from the Mind of director John Bruno

A M/M, M/M/M tale of lust, sex and revenge                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Purchase Link: http://tinyurl.com/2wtpvxz 

LAPD SWAT team member Jack Cannon takes a vacation to join his hot and sexy lover, Lucky, in London, where his man is working on an undercover assignment. Jack’s plans for a feisty little R and R don’t sit well with the hit man who’s been hired by a mysterious source to bump off Lucky.

With things heating up between Jack and Lucky all over London from public rest rooms to five-star hotels, Jack lures the wild assassin into their sensual web. This is either gonna be the beginnings of a spicy, feisty threesome…or a triple homicide.

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I’m in Honolulu and as I write this blog, I am halfway through the final galley edit of my book “Xu” which publishes at Amber Quill Press on November 17. 5 days!
It’s fitting that I am here since this where I set my story, many of my stories in fact.
I’ve been filled with nostalgia since my moment of arrival on island (as the locals put it). Driving along Nimitz Highway from the airport, I passed River Street, the Chinatown stomping ground for my character Jimmy Thunder from “A Vampire in Waikiki”.
I can feel Jimmy and Tem flying around and I like to think my two favorite vampires are guarding the island.
I swear I can feel the spirit of Detective Jardine, the 1950s homicide cop who protected and patrolled Chinatown. Other people tell me the same thing.
I passed the shipping terminal where Matt and Thomas took the Superferry to Maui in the “Black Point” books. This has especially filled me with sadness since the ferry (a wonderful invention) has since been abolished due to alleged water pollution.
I tried to have lunch at the (thinly disguised) Zippys at Ala Moana Mall where Katie finds a job – and magical help via Kimo and Lopaka in “My Hawaiian Song of Love” but it was closed for renovations.
Almost all my characters wind up at Duke’s for mai tais and macadamia wantons…of course, I toasted them all there as I sipped my cocktail and watched the ocean in front of me yesterday.
I feel all my characters around me, whirling in my mind…and none more than Lindo Santiago, the leading man in my new book, Xu.
Yes, Honolulu is my mental playground but it was to me the perfect setting for the story of a closeted gay boxer who is forced to abandon a career he loves when he almost dies as the result of a beating in the ring.
He takes his first vacation – to Honolulu. It’s here that I feel him and “Xu” (pronounced Zoo) the powerful, dynamic, mysterious man who saves him.
Last night, my companions walked along Kalakaua Avenue and we watched the people parade. The freak flags were flying high. I see a disturbing rise in homeless people begging on the street. Their encampment, near the ocean is over a mile long and I saw the fear and revulsion on some tourists’ faces.
It reminds me of Santa Monica 10 years ago.
It isn’t supposed to be like this here. One man asked me for 50 cents. What in the heck can you buy with 50 cents?
My niece stopped to pet “Lani the Friendly Guinea Pig” and we paid a buck for that. To me it smacked of exploitation but as Eleanna pointed out, Lani’s grass skirt and floral hat were immaculate and the pig herself looks very well fed. But still…I know the police are asking many homeless people if they would like to go home. Almost all of them were sent here via one way tickets from jails up and down the Pacific northwest coast on the mainland.
Some have accepted the offers, some resist. Maybe, like Lindo Santiago, they are certain that somehow, some way, love and miracles will find them. Ala Moana – In Paradise.
What about you? Is there a place for you that is life-changing? Please leave a comment and the best one will win a copy of “Xu” when it publishes!
Aloha oe,

A.J.

Logline:  Some call it love, some call it passion, but when a soul is taken over, others call it…seduced.

 Seduced

Children of the Rainbow Series Book 2

By A.J. Llewellyn

 M/M Paranormal Romance

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Synopsis: Paden Campbell wants nothing more than to enjoy his newfound togetherness with his love, the rainbow-walker, Track. The two men are growing closer, but Paden’s solitude with his man is shattered when the mother of a young gay man approaches him. Her son is missing. Closer investigation reveals that Sean Maverick, who has traveled to Hawaii to visit his mom after a bad relationship break up is afraid of water. He loathes the sea, hates pineapples…and Hawaii.

So how come, when Paden and Track walk the rainbow to help find him, the messages they receive are that Maverick can be found in the sea? What are these conflicting messages and can Paden and Track battle the forces of an ancient ocean deity to unlock the mystery? Paden enlists the help of his son’s powerful husband, the great kahuna, Kimo Wilder, to help in the battle for a soul…seduced.

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I’ve noticed a rising tide of readers and reviewers commenting on books in which the characters either do or don’t engage in safe sex.
This is an interesting issue since it’s become something of a trend to criticize books in which characters, particularly gay characters don’t glove the love.
Where do I stand on this topic?
When I first started out writing M/M novels three years ago, I didn’t address the issue since, like politics, bills, debt collectors and other ‘facts of reality’ were not encouraged by publishers.
Also, my first books were the Phantom Lover series and Kimo and Lopaka were a monogamous gay couple whose single foray into a threesome was with Lopaka’s ex lover. No condoms were mentioned.
At the time of writing that, it didn’t seem romantic to introduce the idea, especially since the sexual act was not supposed to include actual penetration, but ended up doing so. It would have spoiled the shock of the moment – and a major story arc.
We are writing romantic fiction and let’s face it, condoms were not addressed for decades. Neither was the pill, STDs etc etc etc.
In my more recent books, I have characters using condoms. In Cops and Rubbers, I even have an HIV character who insists on plastic wrap even for rimming.
But how safe is safe? And how badly do fictional authors really need to address this issue?
If my characters were to be completely safe, there’d be no rimming AT ALL since there is risk of several diseases including hepatitis this way.
They wouldn’t suck a single cock – again, risk of infection.
Where would the romance be if we eliminate everything?
How about let’s stop kissing – bacteria, you know.
I have just written a World War II romance about a gay Honolulu prostitute in Vagabond Heart, which is being published by Total eBound on November 15.
They didn’t wear condoms back then, but true to the era, the character and the men he services who are US military, they are required to wash in a silver solution and submit to weekly ‘clap’ checks.
I personally don’t feel condom use is always required in fiction, particularly romantic fiction.
My job as an author is to take the reader away from every day troubles to a world of make believe.
I’ve had more comments from women readers than male readers on the condom issue. In fact, a very good author friend of mine received a negative comment from a male reader who felt he’d been “bashed over the head” with the condom use in sex scenes.
That note surprised me, since this has become something of a trend in fiction.
I am glad the awareness exists, but readers should keep in mind we are not writing non fiction.
In the real world, people don’t use condoms. Of course, they should unless they are in a committed relationship.
In the real world, most gay men don’t have threesomes and foursomes either – unless they are porn stars. In a genre in which we write about vampires, shapeshifters, zombies, immortals, etc, things like condoms, phone bills, hemorrhoids, etc. aren’t sexy.
Where do we draw the line?
Should werewolves carry rubbers?
That’s not to say I don’t think all books should be about rich, healthy, tall, muscular guys with huge dicks. Far from it. I just think we need to embrace fantasy and romance, and yes, there are times when condoms should figure in the equation…however, there are exceptions.
I just read a book where the author magically had condoms on standby in a situation where it would have been ridiculous and this, in its own way threw me out of the story.
Where do you stand on this subject?
Please leave me a comment and the best one wins a free ebook from me!

Aloha oe,
A.J.

Two new releases at www.eXtasybooks.com for September!

“Snake Eyes” is already in Amazon.com’s top 100 GLBT books for 2010. My co-author Stephani Hecht and I are STOKED!

SNAKE EYES:

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River King is worried about his mom, Honey. An obsessive-compulsive-collector, she’s pounced on every questionable craze in pop culture history. She spent a fortune on now-worthless Cabbage Patch Dolls, Beanie Babies and Yugio Cards…you name it, she’s got…in multiple copies. Her latest obsession however is so secretive he’s got a bad feeling she’s in trouble when he can’t reach her. He’s not wrong. After he asks the local cops in her Brooklyn, NY, suburb of Park Slope to make a routine welfare check on her, he is stunned to learn that Honey is unconscious. She’s been bitten by a snake. And not just any snake.

How in the world did his mom happen to own an uturu pit viper? River soon learns his mom, whose life hangs in the balance, has been obsessively collecting deadly snakes and venomous lizards bought mostly online and in furtive flea market deals. With the aid of local cops, a zoologist and hunky ‘hoarder’ therapist, Colton Fanning, River soon learns that love, like snakes, can strike at any time…

MATED: Book 4 in the Mingo McCloud Series:

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Mingo and Francois thought they’d be safe from catastrophe in beautiful Connecticut. Even on the mainland, Hawaii’s hottest crime-fighting couple can’t stay out of trouble…

Mingo McCloud, his lover Francois and their son Ferric are in Hartford, Connecticut for their best friends’ wedding. Mingo and Ferric are carjacked on the way to picking up the brides’ wedding cake. Francois, furious that he wasn’t there to protect his family, drops the super-secret case he’s been working on to take Mingo and Ferric for a quick, sun-drenched trip to his birthplace of St. Martin in the Caribbean.

Unbelievably, Mingo and Ferric encounter the same two men who carjacked them in Hartford…and it soon emerges that they are connected to Francois’s latest security case. Francois is now hell-bent on revenge, whilst Mingo must deal with long-dormant feelings for his ex-lover Kaolin who is on vacation in St. Martin. He wants Mingo back and will do anything to win his heart…even to marry him. But there’s another guy hovering too, hunky FBI agent Sage Brantley, who wants another hot threesome with Mingo and Francois. Who will die? Who will get bedded? Are Mingo and Francois fated to be mated…and, were the carjackers’ guns made in Taiwan?

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Kevin Branigan thought he was moving to Austin, Texas for a job. Instead, he got a life.

Kevin Branigan begins a new life in Austin, Texas, working as a bouncer at his brother’s bar. He intervenes when a drunken patron beats up his girlfriend and Kevin winds up being arrested. Sentenced to community service in a gay church, Kevin begins to think that the signs are all bad.

However, late one night at the bar, he’s seduced into a hot threesome with two of his co-workers. He finds himself drawn to this dangerous mix, as well as to hunky undercover cop Cruz Dixon.

Unfortunately Cruz appears to have a boyfriend. Or does he? Can he win over Cruz, who’s captured his heart and his mind?
Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of ménage à trois and ménage à quatre sex.

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