Friday, March 9, 2012

Celebrating Some February Releases From JMS BOOKS

Today on our Cyber Launch Party Blog, we're spotlighting some of the February releases from JMS Books!

CAWNPORE by Tom Williams

Sequel to The White Rajah

After his time in Borneo with James Brooke, John Williamson travels to India. Working for the East India Company in Cawnpore, he struggles to fit in: a gay man in a straight society; a farm labourer's son in a world of gentleman's clubs and refined dinner parties; a European adrift in an alien land. But he finds he is good at his job, overseeing a colonial administration that has been running the country for a hundred years. He falls in love with the country and, in particular, with a young nobleman in the court of the local lord.

Successful at work and happy with his lover, he thinks he can finally meet life on his own terms. Then Indian troops rise in mutiny and the country is plunged into war. With the British Raj teetering on the edge of destruction and Cawnpore a byword for horror across the Empire, Williamson has to choose whose side he is really on.

In this sequel to The White Rajah, the fictional Williamson is caught up in real historical events which provide a thrilling background to his own story. Williamson meets some of the key figures at a crucial point in British history and witnesses events which shocked the world and shaped the future of British India.

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GUARDIAN SPIRITS by Helen Ayim

Robbie’s job at the library gets a little bit more interesting when a dangerous-looking stranger comes in and asks for a book the library doesn’t stock. Undaunted, the stranger settles down to wait.

The stranger returns the next night, and the night after. Finally one evening an elderly patron returns the book.

Before the stranger can claim the book, a rival appears. She, too, wants it, and she isn't about to let it go without a fight.

Who are these people? And what's so special about this book that they'll fight to the death to own it?

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KNOCKING BOOTS by J.M. Snyder

Johnny thinks he's the only guy on the ranch interested in sharing a fellow cowboy's bedroll ... until he witnesses an illicit tryst between his foreman Hal and another ranch hand named Delfino. After watching Delfino pleasure Hal, Johnny can't get the Mexican vaquero out of his wet dreams. He wants Delfino to do the same things to him, and he'll do whatever it takes to hook up with the cowboy.

To his surprise, Delfino doesn't mind showing Johnny a good time in the barn ... for a price. Once the two men are alone, Johnny learns first-hand just how well a hot stud like Delfino can please a man.

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MY ONLINE SECRET ADMIRER by J. Tomas

While bored in his Computers class one day, junior Mike Halston stumbles upon another student's anonymous blog and is surprised to find himself listed as the sexiest guy in their class. So what, someone has a crush on him? Who could it be?

Enlisting the help of his best friend Talley and his best girl friend Marie, Mike tries to figure out the identity of the mysterious blogger. Unfortunately he suspects it may be a female student, since only his friends know he's gay.

Then a second blog entry makes him realize the blogger is someone close to him. Could it really be Marie? Or does Talley know more than he's letting on?

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THE PIRATE'S GAMBLE by Eden Winters

One man, two lives. In modern day Jamaica, Ian Lewis enjoys a well-earned reputation as a shining star of the archaeology world. However, in the eighteenth century, he's notorious for other reasons: being the captain of a rag-tag crew aboard the pirate ship The Naughty Maid. With the help of a mysterious talisman and his knowledge of ancient treasures, he travels back in time to save priceless artifacts otherwise doomed to be lost forever.

His greatest treasure, however, wants to stay lost ... or rather, deeply in the closet. Tired of hiding the true nature of the relationship he shares with fellow archaeologist David Kane, Ian employs his pirate cunning in a gamble that just may cost him everything -- including his life.

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11 comments:

  1. Have you noticed any changes in the types of stories that readers are responding to?

    lenikaye@yahoo.com

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  2. Intriguing line up! Are these stories part of serieses, or stand alone?

    f dot chen at comcast dot net

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  3. Looks like some good books coming out. I've found a couple to add to my to buy list.
    sstrode at scrtc dot com

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  4. Welcome JMS Books and its authors! What a great line up of releases! Congrats on your new books and please feel free to stop in and tell us all about your new release and how we can learn more about you and your other work.

    Btw, it's great to see a time travel, especially since March 14th is Time Travel Day - perfect timing!

    Hope you all enjoy your launch party today and may your new release be your biggest seller yet!

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  5. My question is for all of you, when did you know you wanted to write and how did you come to write in the area you are writing in now?

    Best of luck with all your books, I'm off to read your excerpts and hopefull find some new authors to love!

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  6. Questions for all the authors: What other books have you written?

    ashley.vanburen[at]gmail[dot]com

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  7. These books all sound very interesting. What was the inspiration for these books?
    bn100candg(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  8. Hi ya'll! I'm thrilled to have my story spotlighted here. Leni, I'm finding that readers currently seem drawn to contemporary but there are die hard fantasy and historical fans too. flchen1, my story, The Pirate's Gamble, is a stand-alone, but who knows? Maybe some day Ian and David will have another tale to tell.

    Time travel day? Awesome! Ley, I currently have five novels: The Telling (a free offering), The Wish (re-releasing in August), The Angel of 13th Street, Settling the Score, and Duet (a historical/contemporary/paranormal). I have a new novel, Diversion, publishing on March 18. I also have quite a few short stories, many of them offered as free reads.

    bn100, The Pirates Gamble was written three years ago, and was originally intended for a pirate anthology. Sadly, I didn't make the deadline for submission and released the short story on my own. I really love the JMS Cover!

    Katie, I've been writing since I was small, but it took a conversation about a book with a friend and her saying, "We could do this, you know," to inspire me to write and publish that first story.

    Thanks for the well wishes. You can find me at edenwinters.com, or on Goodreads.

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  9. I've read The Telling and loved it actually I've read it a couple of times. Do you plan on writing any more about the main characters in the future?
    sstrode at scrtc dot com

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  10. Oh! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. There is a short sequel called Night Watch, that takes place a year after The Telling ends.

    For three years I've been working on a full-length sequel for Ryan and Terry, but it's slow going. Ryan is in a darker place than even Michael, and it's hard to stay in his head very long at one time to get it written.

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  11. I've read the short sequel too. I can't wait until you finish Ryan and Terry's story. I know it will be great.

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