Author, A. J. Llewellyn

OUT TODAY!!!

THE MEDIATOR

My first release with the amazing and awesome total-e-Bound!

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Icarus Smith has two problems, and they both want him…Their Mediator.

Icarus Smith has just landed an unusual assignment. A licenced mediator used to handling squabbling spouses, he’s been hand-picked to mediate between two, world-boxing champions about to demolish a forty million dollar welterweight championship title fight.

Somehow, Icarus needs to persuade Italian superstar Paolo de Luca to step into the ring with America’s hottest champion and Paolo’s arch-nemesis, Adam Wyler. So far, the fight scheduled to take place at New York’s Madison Square Garden is a bust. Fans have bought tickets, Pay-Per-View sales are through the roof. Just like Lady Di’s face once adorned dishcloths, these guys have their faces on buttons, badges, posters, TV and print ads.

And they don’t care. But Icarus has an even bigger problem. He’s just accepted promoter Thaddeus Halsey’s huge wad of cash to broker this deal and Icarus has only just realised that Paolo is the hot guy he exchanged sweaty-boy sex with in Rome.

Can Icarus do it? Can he persuade the man who broke his heart to face the guy who now apparently wants it?
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By A.J. Llewellyn

Once in a while an author has an experience so serendipitous he has to shout about it from the nearest rooftop.

Recently, Rejean, one of my dear friends and a staunch supporter of mine since Phantom Lover was first published three years ago, sent me an email. He said he had modeled some leather ensembles at an AIDS benefit auction and loved the clothing so much, he bought a couple of the pieces for himself. One of them was a leather jacket that had a cock ring dangling from the epaulette. The clothes had belonged to an artist who died 20 years ago.

“Wouldn’t it be a great story,” he wrote, “if the guy who buys the jacket, uses the cock ring and becomes possessed by the dead artist?”

Hell, yeah it would be a great story. I couldn’t sleep. Once I got his permission to write it, I took off with the idea, belting out 10,000 words that same night. I couldn’t sleep. Like my book character, Kristofer Edan, I became obsessed with the dead artist – whom I named Rafael Ortiz. I awoke at the crack of dawn to call my long term eXtasy Books publisher, Tina Haveman, the only other person in the world I know who is awake at five a.m.

She was on her computer.

I quickly told her the story and she loved it. “You know I love paranormals,” she said.

I told her exactly what I wanted on the cover. A hot guy in a leather jacket and a cock ring dangling from the epaulette.

“You’re not going to believe it,” she said, “but I just bought a photo of a very hot guy in a leather jacket. I think it’s going to be perfect. I can put the ghostly image of another man behind him. Just one question. What’s a cock ring?”

After I fell off my chair laughing, I explained what it is…which led to our biggest concern. The title. You can’t have the word cock in an ebook title because Paypal will shut you down for obscenity. We ran around some ideas and decided together on The Sex Ring. I use this in the blurb as well – but in the book, all bets are off. It’s a cock ring. 

This led to the final piece in the puzzle. I needed a major gay porn star for a prominent role in the story and preferably somebody with a taste for kink. I won’t say why because I don’t want to spoil the story. In my mind there was only one man for the job, Tony Buff. I wrote the story using his name and certain er…parts and pieces belonging to him. Then I began wondering, is this okay? I mean, he’s a public figure, but still...

So I sent him a note, explained things to him and offered him a free copy of the book when it is published. And waited. I began to fret. I really felt I needed Buff for the book and was overjoyed when he wrote back, sounding genuinely excited about the idea. He said, “I look forward to reading it and getting to know the character I have apparently inspired.”

I felt like Dorothy who clicked her shoes (in my case, scuffed Nikes) and got a miracle. Tony Buff will be getting his copy as soon as the book comes out tonight at midnight EDT and 9pm PDT.

The Sex Ring was the most fun I’ve had writing a book in a very long time. I combined it with my usual dredged-from-mysorry-ass-life stories, this time, a plotline concerning my day job as a copywriter and beach rats. Yes. Rats.

I hope wherever he is in heaven, the artist whose original jacket and naughty cock ring inspired all of this, is smiling. I wish I could have met him…but I guess on some level, maybe I have.

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Aloha oe,

A.J.

OUT NOW!

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Hell hath no fury like a pirated ebook author…

Jason Jagger has finally realized his dream. After years of struggling, he is a successful, multi-published author of gay erotic paranormal romance ebooks. His happiness, however, is shattered by rampant online piracy. He feels he’s in a constant cat-and-mouse game with pirates fond of uploading his books to multiple file-sharing sites. One flagrant, prolific pirate in particular seems to feel it’s his duty to illegally upload Jason’s books as fast as Jason can write them. Just who is this person with the nickname of Private Eye? And why has he targeted Jason?

With his obsession about e-piracy growing, Jason knows both sides of the argument, but he doesn’t see it as a victimless, faceless crime. He’s struggling to make ends meet as it is. Rumor has it that the theater where he works is on the verge of closure, and his lover, a recovered meth addict, is starting to act weird again.

Jason can’t help but wonder how the thieves would feel if he turned the tables on them. So with nothing to lose, he decides to track down Private Eye. But has he picked the wrong guy to mess with? This game may have long-lasting consequences, especially when, in the eyes of his quarry, it’s a game of Cops and Rubbers…

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 Track

Children of the Rainbow Book 1: A new M/M, Paranormal, Shapeshifter series by A.J. Llewellyn

 Available NOW! www.eXtasybooks.com    

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 I couldn’t meet a normal guy. Nope, I just had to go find myself a rainbow straddling, evil-defeating, hot and sexy guy.

Synopsis:

Children of the Rainbow series is a spin-off from Phantom Lover, in which all the treasured characters from that series will appear as the story progresses.

Track, the lover of Paden, has assumed human form after the pair meets in the book Paden (Book 14, Phantom Lover series). Track tells Paden they can be together, but their love exacts a price…one that Paden is soon to learn can be dangerous and potentially deadly.

On the day of a tsunami warning in Honolulu, Paden wakens to find Track is with him after several weeks of absence. They are needed, Track tells him and soon they’re traversing a rainbow to unravel the mystery of a young man who has committed a kapu. He has broken a sacred taboo and the gods of old Hawaii are angry. The young man begs for help. Paden is surprised when Kimo’s toddler daughter, Pele, named for Hawaii’s powerful volcano goddess, arrives, having followed Paden into the spirit realm. She intervenes and the repercussions Paden soon learns, are cataclysmic.

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Current mood:  bouncy
Category: Writing and Poetry

 

By A.J. Llewellyn

I am a Buddhist by choice, Greek Orthodox by birth, and I enjoy both religions and the wisdom I learn from both. I recently shared my deep anguish and frustration over dealing with relentless ebook piracy with my mentor at my weekly Buddhist meetings. I explained my side of things. I explained how I spend an hour a day combing the Internet to remove illegal uploads of my books.
“Remember something,” she said. “That which you resist, persists.”
When my Greek priest said something similar recently and mentioned the words, “love your enemy”, it got me thinking.
And when I think, I write.
And out came my upcoming August 1 release, Cops and Rubbers, in which an ebook author tracks down the man who’s been pirating his books relentlessly.
When Jason Jagger tracks down his thief…he is in for a big surprise.
Being an erotic romance novel, there’s plenty of love and sex. But could an author learn to love a pirate? I think so. It was kind of fun – and alarming – to present both sides of the piracy debate.
Who’d have thought that I could step outside my own issues and look at this objectively?
I sure didn’t.
But, I did. I still don’t love piracy and I never will. But I love books, I love to write and I have to believe things will change.
My publisher at Amber Quill Press was a little surprised when he read the blurb to Cops and Rubbers, knowing me as he does, but Trace Edward Zaber, artistic genius that he is, gave me an amazing cover and I can’t wait for the book’s release.
Much of the story in Cops and Rubbers is true. I’ve worked at a theater selling tickets, just like Jason. I also moonlighted as a nail polish salesman over the phone and did all the crazy part-time jobs Jason does in the book to supplement my addiction: writing.
Yep, writing is a bad habit and not one I’m likely to give up any time soon. Like Jason, I’ve sat back and wondered is it worth the 16-17 hour days juggling day jobs with the love-job, to have your work stolen quicker than you can get it out there?
With or without piracy, there’s something to be said for being able to tell your stories, for being published. I am glad people like my work and I am happy to have such awesome publishers.
I hope when the book is released, you’ll check it out, and just like me, maybe you’ll learn to love a pirate.
Ahoy matey!
A.J.

Currently listening: The Best of The Sunday Manoa Volume I By Sunday Manoa

My beautiful niece and goddaughter, Eleanna, came to spend the night with me last night after telling me she needed bonding time.
At the age of 14, I reckon her parents and I are lucky she still wants to hang out with us.
I takes it while I can still gets it.
I have an eight year old nephew who is already telling his parents they are boring, so Eleanna is my shining hope that I am not hopelessly…well, boring.
In spite of a mountain of deadlines and my new macrobiotic diet I just knew she’d hate, she arrived all excited. Her parents are my cousin Chris and his husband, Tracy, who were married here in California before Prop 8 overturned gay marriage.
It has hurt her greatly that this proposition has personally affected her family, but she is an amazing young lady who thinks that one day the whole issue of gay marriage will be behind us.
I happen to agree.
Over dinner of rice and vegetables – “You’re kidding, right? Where are the cupcakes?” – we talked about her school, life, some Jonas kid she’s crushing on, and then we talked about Argentina and Hawaii.
In the same week our beloved Hawaii outlawed same-sex civil unions, Argentina became the first Latin America to legalize gay marriage.
For Eleanna, it’s only served to highlight the state of things back here in California.
This morning, as we turned on the radio to listen to the news as we made breakfast, the big story was that Argentina’s neighbors, Uruguay and Paraguay, are considering legalizing gay marriage too.
My girl pondered the ripple effect on America.
Call us a pair of Pollyannas, but we got excited at the prospect of tolerance one day being the law of the land here…and then the bomb dropped.
Talk show host Bill Handel is one of my faves and I often listen to him in the morning, Unfortunately he’s on vacation for the last 10 days has left his show in less capable hands. I was astonished when his gaggle of replacement hosts discussed Prop 8 and how a recent poll showed that 51% of Californians support same-sex marriage and yet these were the same statistics the polls showed last time when gay marriage was shot down by prop 8.
And then Rich Marrotta, a sports announcer I have usually admired said, “I am uncomfortable talking about gay marriage.”
He said a bunch of other things too. I noticed his co-hosts didn’t agree, but when things turned contentious, the subject was changed.
I wish they could have seen the look on my goddaughter’s face. The anguish and bewilderment were truly upsetting.
I have no idea why this subject continues to make straight men uncomfortable. We’re not asking them to be gay. We’re not asking them to don pink shorts and show up at Gay Pride.
I hope the day comes soon when this is no longer a discussion and we can move on.
I really, truly do.

Aloha oe

A.J.

BRUNY
Honeybone Series Book 3
By A.J. Llewellyn
Available NOW at www.eXtasybooks.com
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Bruny Island…a natural wonder of Australia. Is it an unspoiled, last bastion of paradise, or do death and darkness surround it?

US Marshal Dean Honeybone and his lover, Jean-Luc, are in Tasmania visiting Kaia Pendleton, the little girl who, along with Dean, is the only survivor of a plane crash off the coast of eastern Australia. Kaia, who now lives in Launceston, is not coping well with her new life with her strict grandmother, romance novelist Kat Pendleton. Kat calls Honeybone and Jean-Luc, hoping a short visit from them will help Kaia settle down in school…however, it is soon clear neither man experiences the problems with Kaia that her grandmother does.
Both men long to take her home to the US with them, but Kat Pendleton refuses, citing Honeybone’s dangerous job. Meanwhile, Cho Paek, a beautiful young Korean immigrant student has vanished on a trip to remote Bruny Island. At the request of his boss, Honeybone takes part in the search for Cho, leaving Jean-Luc to deal with Kaia…

To celebrate the book’s release (and it’s yummy cover) I’m giving away an Aussie gift basket, chock-full of Aussie biscuits, candies and two heavily-featured items in the story, a jar of Peck’s Anchovette and a packet of the yummiest biscuits EVER, Iced Vo-Vo’s.
All my readers who purchase the book will be entered into the draw. And that’s not all.
Those who purchase Bruny THIS MONTH and didn’t read the first two books simply need to email me their online receipt to ajllwllyn@aol.com and will get the first two ebooks in the series free.

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Current mood: blessed
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Last night, I watched a re-run of Two and a Half Men, a show, I frankly admit to being completely addicted to. It is the best show on TV. I’ve yet to see a single un-funny episode.
My niece, Eleanna, whose parents are both men, watched the episode, ‘Tucked, Taped and Gorgeous’ (season 4 episode 21) with me. We laughed out loud at this particularly funny episode.
The action revolves around two brothers Charlie and Alan Harper (Charlie Sheen and the divinely brilliant Jon Cryer) who reconnect with a gay male friend. He’s so great and so easy to be around that both brothers end up questioning their sexual identity.
I thought this episode was brilliant because Charlie – off screen and on – has the rep for being a real ladies’ man. And Alan is a divorced father with a teenage son. How cool for a mainstream, network TV show and a ‘light comedy’ at that, to weave such powerful words into an insightful episode where straight men question their sexuality.
It encouraged me to think that mainstream media is finally realizing gender is fluid. I personally think it might have been great if Charlie discovered he was gay…but at least the discussion happened. There was some real soul-searching, aided and abetted by the three funniest women on TV: Conchatta Ferrell (the brothers’ housekeeper, Berta), Jane Lynch (their therapist) and Holland Taylor (their mom).
While Charlie secretly agonizes over his sexuality, Alan finds it loudly and proudly forced onto him with his ex wife, his mom and every other woman he knows telling him how proud they are that he is out of the closet.
When Berta says, “Alan, life is much happier when you decide if you are the pin or the cushion,” you can hear the mixed reactions of the studio audience.
It may seem an offensive statement but that’s Berta. Poor Alan, however, starts to find acceptance and happiness at the notion of being gay, until he discovers otherwise.
Gay or straight, most of us at some time have found ourselves attracted to the opposite sex, the same sex and in Charlie’s case, a transvestite who was, well, tucked, taped and gorgeous.
I am happy mainstream TV provided the beautiful words in this episode that may or may not help men and women who are feeling changes within them find the lifestyle that suits them most. There is nothing wrong with being gay…or as the only, real gay character in Two and a Half Men states, “There is nothing wrong with being straight.”
My wish as a writer, reader and fan of Two and a Half Men is that the discussion should continue to bridge the great divide – with or without the laughs.

Aloha oe,
A.J.
Currently listening:
The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band Vol 1
By Gabby Pahinui
Release date: 1991-07-25

I am so pleased to announce that The Wine-Dark Sea,my new M/M Tale set in Paris, the city of love.
This has been an incredible odyssey for me since it was three years – almost to the day – that I sold my first book Phantom Lover to eXtasy Books and began my path to writing gay erotic romance novels.
I have worked hard, often late into the night on a daily basis and have been ecstatic to make so many friends online and in person through my stories – and theirs.
Last September, editor Kelli Collins tweeted me and asked if I would like to submit a book to Ellora’s Cave.
I almost fell over I was so ecstatic. We emailed back and forth a few times and she was so lovely.
That she found me at all is entirely due to romance author Nicole Morgan who urged Kelli to contact me.
I wanted to write something special for EC. To be honest, I was petrified. I’d written and had published about 50 books at that point, but this was EC!
I took my time, working on my story and it all fell into place. I was determined to submit the book before New Year’s Day 2010 and got it in to her on December 31.
Kelli told me it would take three to four weeks to read and I settled in for a long panic as I mulled over my story.
As with many of my books, parts of this are based on my actual experiences.
I dated a man much like Alain in this story and was stunned to reconnect with him long after we split and discovered he was undergoing gender reassignment, just like the character in the book.
Gender reassignment is a fascinating topic to me because I keep meeting more and more men and women who feel they were born in the wrong bodies.
My friend on whom Alain is based, is still not happy, even though now he is officially a woman, but that’s another story.
My main character, Daniel, is a man pretty much like me, who wants one true love. He does find it, after quite an adventure-filled search.
I was ecstatic when Kelli contacted me several weeks after I submitted my full-length novel to her. I was confident I had a good story but was overwhelmed when she said some of the things she wrote in her email. She has told me and many of her authors, her den, that EC has never published a book quite like this.
I hope it is a success for all of us.
I have found Kelli has challenged me love of ellipses, my spelling, my…everything. Sorry, I couldn’t resist an ellipses for old time’s sake.
What shocked me more than anything was how much she ‘got’ Daniel’s story and loved him, Francois and Daniel’s ultimate true love (who shall remain nameless since I don’t want to spoil the surprise), in spite of all their flaws.
She even wrote my book blurb, selected the excerpt. I trust her and my publisher at EC one-hundred percent. I am a multi-published author who still has so much to learn and I thank Goddess Pele for introducing me to Kelli Collins, Jaid Black, Raelene Gorlinsky, Nicole Morgan…and to the woman who inspired Alain.
I love you all.
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Aloha oe,
A.J.

BONDED: Book 3 in the Mingo McCloud M/M, M/M/M gay erotic mystery series By A.J. Llewellyn is OUT NOW!

There’s malice in the palace…and for Mingo and Francois, Honolulu’s trade winds bring more than sun, sand and sex on the balmy island breeze.

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Mingo and Francois are back! First they were WANTED, then they were NEEDED, now they are BONDED…to each other and to a strange, electrifying case at ‘Iolani Palace. As Honolulu’s dynamic duo wrangles two hot new criminal cases involving a fake king and fake money, Francois’ past catches up with him. Can Mingo handle Francois’ revelations and the huge changes they bring?
And what of the “king” who claims to be the rightful here to the lost Hawaiian crown? What is his connection to Mingo? What’s Mingo’s mom got to do with it all? And what about hunky FBI agent Sage Brantley who wants to team up with our guys for another scorching threesome? Will they do it? Will Mingo and Francois find the answers to all these questions or will they wind up in the pokey?

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