Sinfully December Hot Pick: Broken Ink

The lovely team over at Sinfully Reviews choose five hot picks every month (and run a giveaway with the Hot Pick choices too!). For December, it was gorgeous to see that Macky from Sinfully chose Broken Ink as hers! So this is a huge a thanks to Macky and everyone at Sinfully Reviews!

For a look at what she had to say, please follow the link here:

Sinfully December HOTPICKS

Prism Book Alliance Recommended Read: Broken Ink

REALLY, REALLY chuffed to hear the lovely ladies over at Prism Book Alliance have given Broken Ink a place in their December Recommend reads! A huge thanks to Caroline! And Brandilyn for taking my work on!!! These badges *polishes the Prism one on the left* and recs are such a pleasure to get!! For those even slightly wicked and curious, there's one or two tiny extracts from Broken Ink below!

 

Blurb: 

Carrying a tattoo on your skin no longer just comes with a risk of infection. Get the composition right, you have the latest mind-control drug on the market. It’s the sex-traders’ dream, or worst nightmare, depending on the concentrated dose of the ink—and just who’s wearing it.

For Kiyen, the ink means he’s able to strip raw the minds of the best and worst of society. He’s one of MI7’s top killers and never more driven to select and take down a target. For Falen, the ink has ensured he’s spent his early years as a willing sex slave and low-grade empath. Hiding out in a small town and trying to bury the needs running through his body, Fal’s hoping to stay under the radar of MI7 and their specialist killers. But the ink itself has a mind of its own, wanting to ignite the natural dynamics driving a Dom and sub, so when Kiyen is forced into Fal’s small world, prejudice battles a pure need to touch. Only problem is: Kiyen’s on the run, and in a world where thought can be the worst crime of all, Fal’s in for a fight for his sanity to find out just what it is that’s making a young killer run for his life. (M/M)

Available at all good distribution sites, plus here: Broken Ink

 

Voting Time: 2nd Round: 2014 Sex Scene Championship

Vote Here

It's Part 2 of the 2014 Sex Scene Championships, and I'm up against a lovely lass -- Kathy Lyons-- going KO with her to find out who goes through to Part 3. If you'd like to read both sexed-up extracts and have a vote on who goes through, it would be really great to see you over there. Voting only lasts for 48 hours, with both extracts being found here: Sex Scene Championship Part 2 Round 3 : Jade Lee writing as Kathy Lyons (@JadeLeeAuthor) and Jack L.Pyke

1st Live Author Chat

Click here for Chat Room Link. Password: Jack

Okay, this'll be my first official author chat on my own. Being on 8/25 at 8-10 EST time, which makes it 1-3 a.m. UK time my end (early Tuesday morning), it will probably also be open to "It'll be all right on the Night" comments from my side. :)

If you have any questions on the Don't... series, or just want to come and say hi, it will be great to see you over there.

The link o thet chat room is here: Chat: Jack L. Pyke, And the password is Jack.

New Release: Breakdown (and a host of giveaways)

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Can't believe it's here already! But today (19th August) Breakdown goes live! It's the third novel in the Don't... series, and it ties very closely to Antidote, bringing in the five very hard months for Jack and Jan away from Gray. I say away from Gray, but he's there. In his very unique way -- he's always there.

Breadown also brings in my start to the Society of Masters, and connections to Lynn Kelling's gorgeous Deliver Us series! After meeting Gray, Jack, and Jan over in America in Forgive Us, Trace makes a cameo appearance in Breakdown, which then sets up the main shared world journey between them all in the last of my Don't series: Gray Matters.

Breakdown has already received some outstanding reviews, and some are offering some cracking giveaways:




Breakdown: Sinfully Sexy Book Revwies: set paperback giveaway & Review
Breakdown: Lynn Kelling: Behind the scene look at Breakdown (ebook giveaway)
Breakdown: Attention is Arbitrary: gorgoeus ARC review 
Breakdown: Baba first Goodreads ARC review

There are a lote more giveaways to come, plus an interview! Links will posted as they are published!

Just for a reminder on what's to come: Breakdown

The evidence is there in his hands: the DVD and notepad convincing Jack that Gray is responsible for his kidnapping and torture, tearing Jack and Jan brutally apart. But with Jack trapped in his own mind, lost to blackouts and self-harming, getting away from Gray must take a back seat to getting away from himself.

While locked away in a secret facility run by the Masters' Circle, a new beast is unearthed from the depths of Jack's tormented past. Martin only comes out to play when Jack needs to hide, a psychopath as capable of ruining Jack's life as he is of defending him. Martin is the repository for Jack's most horrifying memories, protecting him from the bloody tasks Jack can't handle. Martin's purpose is to drive everyone Jack fears - or loves - away, before they get the chance to hurt Jack again.

Now Jack hurts more than he ever has before, Martin is back, and Jack has to figure out what Martin knows that Jack forgot, before it's too late. (M/M)

It's avaiable in all formats and at all good distribution sites!

A special and final thank you to my readers! Your support has completely and utterly floored me!!! I've made some fantastic friends along the way: huge mention to Sue Bowdley for running the Society of Masters fan club over on Facebook; also to Kathy Kyle Mcfarland who took such gorgeous time to produce a fan book trailer of Breakdown. (Still makes me fill up seeing it, Kathy!) And also to all those in the M/M Depraved Minds Club over on Facebook too! You're such a fantastic group of people (I love it over there, Louis and Justjen!)! V, as always -- huge, huge thanks! And also to LisaT, who has stepped in to help share posts when I've found I've been caught off gaurd with timing!!!! And to Carol over on Goodreads, who was of the first to show such kindness!

Fuck Monique! I'm feeling a wee bit speechless at the moment. Does blown away sound the right statement about this book or is that not even enough? - See more at: http://sinfullysexybooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/breakdown-dont-3-by-jack-l-pyke-release.html#sthash.q4gz3xU7.dpuf

Fuck Monique! I'm feeling a wee bit speechless at the moment. Does blown away sound the right statement about this book or is that not even enough? - See more at: http://sinfullysexybooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/breakdown-dont-3-by-jack-l-pyke-release.html#sthash.q4gz3xU7.dpu

2014 Sex Scenes Championship_Voting Time

Okay, I thought I was going up on the 12th, but I went up on the 11th instead. It's 2014 Sex Scene Championship, where a whole load of authors offer a snippet of sex scene from our published work, we fight it out, and hope you lovely guys come along and vote!

Mine is a scene from Don't... and boy was it hard to find a scene that didn't have a threesome in it.

If you have the time, please go vote! If not for me, then for someone else in the competition. It's a load of fun, with loads of prizes up for grabs!

The link to my sex-scene knockout stage is here: Jack L. Pyke, 2014 Sex Scene Championship.

I'm really late doing this, so -- sorry! Please go vote!

Sinfully Sexy May Hot Picks: Don't... & Antidote

May Hot Picks

The gorgeous ladies and gent over at Sinfully Sexy Book Reviews have very kindly chosen Don't... and Antidote as  May Hot Picks, and my novels are there, sittig among some very excellent authors and novels (so huge humbled blushes).

This is just a huge thanks to Monique, Macky, Mark, and Tina over at Sinfully Sexy!

Thank you!!! (Hope you don't my borrowing of your picture!)

His_ M/M Romance Download links for Free Novella

Just a quick update: my contribution to the M/M Group's Love's Landscapes:  His  is now available for free download from their main distribution site: M/M Romance Group: His, by Jack L. Pyke

There's Mobi, PDF, and ePub formats available

There's also a whole host of other authors on there supporting this M/M Goodreads Dear-Author challenge, certainly enough to keep me busy for a few months anyway. :)

Just a reminder that it's contemporary BDSM, novella length, and the dear author letter itself is being used for the blurb. :)

Released on Goodreads: His (free BDSM novella for Loves Landscapes)

This year's Dear-Author challenge is in full swing over on the M/M Goodreads group, with a host of authors supplying hours of gorgeous free m/m reading material.

Among a few other releases today, my contribution this year: His, is out in the wild too.  At first, it's just available Here through the M/M group itself (you'll need to join in order to read it). But in a week's time, it will be free to download from the m/m goodread's publishing site. (I'll update with with links as they come in.)

Being BDSM contemporary, it comes with a high on kink (and kidnap) level.

I don't have a blurb this year, as full credit should go to Kim Alan, the lovely lady who provided the prompt and (damn tempting) photo. And to use her words:

Dear Author,

He offers such a pure, unfettered submission to the man strong enough to tame him; he’s the best thing that ever happened to this powerful (read: spoiled) Dom. Still... even the best of Doms aren’t infallible, and this one almost lost his beautiful boy. He straightened his head out quickly enough, but by then his boy wasn’t quite so forgiving. If his stubborn sub is so damn resistant to reason, drastic measures are called for… right? What choice does a desperate Dom have but to resort to a tiny bit of kidnapping, and a wee touch of restraint and, well… I’ll let the author decide what else it’ll take to get them to their HEA.

Please no cheating or third parties, and a HEA is a must. Beyond that, author, push our boundaries as far as you dare. And yes, you may take that as a challenge.
 
*****

Yes it plays with kidnap, yes I will stop kidnapping guys and doing wicked things to them one of these days, and yes -- it doesn't play by the rules. But then life rarely does, let alone fiction.

May Recommended Read: Antidote, From Prism Book Alliance

May Recommended Read

 

I'm just going to say a huge thanks to Brandilyn Carpenter and Caroline Brand over at Prism Book Alliance for Choosing Antidote to humbly sit amongst great authors for their May Recommended Read.

It's really special to see, as I know Antidote is a very tough and hard read on readers.

So... *Blushes* and a huge, huge thank you, guys!!!

Pre-Order Available: Antidote & Forgive Us

Antidote and Lynn Kelling's Forgive Us (that introduces Jack, Jan and Gray into her Deliver Us seires) are now available for pre-order. *Does a little pre-order dance*

*Whispers* If they're pre-ordered and bought through the the publishing site, both Lynn and I take home a higher royalty percentage. (hint-hint!)

Antidote can be pre-ordered (earning double Fantastic Fiction points for all pre-orders) from here: Fantastic Fiction: Antidote. (Published 13th May)

Forgive Us can be pre-orderd (earning the same double points) from here: Fantastic Fiction: Forgive Us. (Published 6th May).

Ms. Kelling's novel will definitely be using Jack, Jan, and Gray to the full in her novel. I've read it. Loved it. And highly recommend it. Go see what the boys get up to in America first!




Disclaimer: although I have seen Ms. Kelling work her magic on my characters, I earn no profit from Ms. Kelling's novel, and Ms. Kelling none from mine. We have no financial ties in this shared-world project, just an innvestment to share characters, worlds, and have a heap of fun in the process.

Antidote Release Date

Antidote has been given a release date for May 13th 2014.

For those of you who would like to know, there's a 'Coming Soon' page on the publisher's website, Forbidden Fiction, so if there are any possibe changes to this date, any change will be noted there.

Antidote is the sequel to Don't..., and it is also a minor part in  the Society of Masters project with Lynn Kelling. Lynn Kelling's Forgive Us is the main novel in the SoM project.

Tiltle: Antidote
Genre: M/M BDSM Dark Thriller
Length: Novel
Formats: Print/ebook

Antidote Blurb:

Video footage of Jack Harrison sleeping with Cutter, a man who has mutilated teenagers, should have stayed dead and buried with the man who had filmed it. Yet when footage to Jack’s past starts appearing on Internet porn sites, Jack’s whole world is again turned on its head. At first the porn links are done to unsettle, to disrupt Jack’s fire and ice world: all the sexed-up adrenaline of being caught between the pleasure to Gray Raoul's BDSM kink, and the gentleness of Jan Richards’ vanilla touch. But when the content of the porn sites force even Gray to turn his back on Jack, leaving Jack isolated and away from the full protection of the Master’s Circle, Jack is left at the mercy of a group of men who are out to alter Jack’s whole perception on his BDSM lifestyle.

As brutally as possible, Jack’s sex life is now live webcam feed for a whole new audience

Cover Reveal: His, by Jack L. Pyke (Explicit Imagery also contained)

Oh-kay... It's that time of the year where the M/M Goodreads' group event comes alive: the Don't Read in the Closet, where all works produced will be free -- and that makes for one huge supply of free m/m reading material from some of my favourite authors.

The basics of the challenge is... a reader chooses a photo and writes a Dear Author letter in order to prompt an author to write the story. After that, a bunch of authors run around shouting 'claim' -- it gets savage, lol!

This year the event itself is titled Love's Landscapes, and I managed to fall on such a gorgeous letter and photo prompt (both are below)

First off, the title of my free novella couldn't be simpler:

                             His

And that be the cover up there. (A huge -- huge thank you here to Elena Giorgi for my cover art!!). It's full-on M/M BDSM contemporary erotic romance, with a little (okay -- a lot) of psych-play.

Kim Alan is the lovely author/reader who supplied the letter and photo that I managed to claim, and if you're interested, both are coming up below for you to have a look at and see where this particular story will be going -- (be warned, though,  EXPLICIT IMAGERY below).


Letter:

Dear Author,

He offers such a pure, unfettered submission to the man strong enough to tame him; he’s the best thing that ever happened to this powerful (read: spoiled) Dom. Still... even the best of Doms aren’t infallible, and this one almost lost his beautiful boy. He straightened his head out quickly enough, but by then his boy wasn’t quite so forgiving. If his stubborn sub is so damn resistant to reason, drastic measures are called for… right? What choice does a desperate Dom have but to resort to a tiny bit of kidnapping, and a wee touch of restraint and, well… I’ll let the author decide what else it’ll take to get them to their HEA.

Please no cheating or third parties, and a HEA is a must. Beyond that, author, push our boundaries as far as you dare. And yes, you may take that as a challenge.

And the photo itself that prompted the letter... oh man... I fell in love with it. It's the boots -- the boots next to those shackles!! That and a fully sated Dom holding his utterly exhausted sub...

The release of His comes in June(ish), along with loads of other free stories from the M/M Goodreads Group. They'll go to the group itself first, then will be available from the M/M Romance Group publishing site (plus the likes of Smashwords etc).

Free Audio Excerpt Available: Antidote

The lovely guys over on Goodreads' BDSM Bedtime Stories have kindly provided an audio excerpt of Antidote, with the lovely Sirly Eric as narrator. It covers some serious play time with Jack, Jan, and Gray, with Gray up for more than a little... remastering of Jack. 

Antidote itself introduces a little of the Society of Masters shared-world project with Lynn Kelling's Deliver Us series. It's good to know because La Crimson Femme has also taken time out to interview Jack (with Gray) and someone Ms. Kelling herself knows quite well from her Deliver Us series. And, well, Gray and him... are playing Jack up a little as La tries to interview Jack. It gets a litlle wild with two top Doms causing some trouble over there, so just... be... warned.

For those interested in the audio & interview, here's the link to  Goodreads and also to La Crimsom Femme's blog.

But of course, the audio is available here too:

4 Nominations in the 2013 Goodreads' M/M Romance Member's Choice Award

Tis a mouthful, but one I'm still repeating a few times. *Huge blush* Between the two of them, Don't... and Lost in the Echo have been nominated in four catergories over in the 2013 Goodreads' M/M Member's Choice Award. As with the Rainbow Awards, mine is there among most of my favourite authors, so it's good just to be able to wiggle my bum down next to them and throw a few cheeky smiles in their direction. 

Nomination catergories are... For Don't...

                                                   Best Debut: Don't...

  Best BDSM: Don't... 

 (says hi to Miss Kelling, 'cause she's in this one too)

Best Slave/Dub con/Kidnapped: Don't... 

And Nominations for: Lost in the Echo

Beast Tear Jerker: Lost in the Echo

Thank you to both all of those who have picked up Don't... and Lost in the Echo to read and to those who have nominated (there wasn't a bribe in sight, I swear!).

If you'd, y'know, *waggles eyesbrows* like to go and vote for your favourite M/M author, book, genre, the place to be is here on Goodreads.

Latest Release: Underground Erotica (Anthology: coming December 1st 2013)

Going dark... going sexy... going tasty teasers with tales from... Underground Erotica.

Anthology: Underground Erotica

Release Date: December 1st 2013

Short story title: Original Sin

Author: Jack L. Pyke (plus Maryn Blackburn, Karenna Colcroft, C.P. Foster, Lauren Gallagher, Erin Lark, Kate Lowell, and Cleo Peitsche)

Price: $3.99 (All proceeds go to Absolute Write, a writing community) Pre-order at All Romance Ebooks

I've put an early Christmas order in for the guy on this cover *whistles*. But Don't be fooled, although he's got a lovely lady by his side here, my short story "Original Sin" is very much pure male on male erotica. 

Original Sin. The reason why there's honour amongst thieves.

Barely touching his early twenties, Connor's opted for the safe life, just needing to make it through the factory work week without screwing up. But after being left in the middle of nowhere by his boss, Connor's only way to get back is to carjack a ride home.

Problem is, he’s not the only one with his eye on this particular prize. And this other watcher, he comes with a hell of a lot more experience at taking what isn’t his. Tonight, for screwing up his plans, Connor's about to be shown why you never sin against an original sinner.

And for a taste of what else is in store:

Welcome to the Underground!

The erotica authors of the Absolute Write are taking you underground—sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively. Karenna Colcroft’s haunting story gives sex in public an unexpected twist, and Erin Lark makes waiting out a storm into something special—and hot!— before Kate Lowell draws you deep into a cave for a steamy encounter. Lauren Gallagher sends you back to the 1930s for some gambling, bootlegging, and a little forbidden ménage, while Maryn Blackburn brings two enemies together in the wintery depths of World War II.

If you’re in the mood for something extra spicy, you’ll love how C.P. Foster opens up a very new world for a curious barmaid. And stick around because Cleo Peitsche and Jack L. Pyke keep the kink coming.

Come join us—but fair warning. Once you go underground, you may never want to come back…

All proceeds from this anthology benefit the Absolute Write online community.

 

Antidote: Release Update

This is just a quick update on Antidote's release date. I've had word that we're tentatively re-scheduled for February 2014.

The audio excerpt from Antidote is still scheduled for December 21st 2013, and it's still coming at you free from the Goodreads BDSM Group's Bedtime Stories. (Free, one of my favourite words :) ). If you're not a member there, a link will be availble from here seven days after release on the Goodreads' site.

BDSM Week: Guest Post at Boys in our Books

Guest Author Post at BioB

The lovely ladies over at Boys In Our Books are hosting a BDSM Week over on their reviewing blog this week. Today I'm guest posting and going over my first BDSM experience! Scary.

*Chuckles*  Okay, it's my first BDSM reading experience, but it's still scary, okay.

There's a host of other author guest posts taking place this week, including the gorgeous Lynn Kelling, Lisa Henry. Kim Dare, JP Barnaby and so many more authors who delve into BDSM authorship.

Be great to see you over there to see what everyone's talking about.

For those interested, here's the link to Boys in our Books.

Cover Reveal: Antidote. Introduction to The Society of Masters.

 

I'd seen the mock-up to this cover last week, and (grinning ear-to-ear) I'd fallen in love with the tone. So seeing the final version this morning came as such a wicked surprise, especially seeing the symbol at the bottom of the right hand cover there.  

The Society of Masters... whips... it all looks and sounds so, so... secret and sexy. I'll explain in a minute, but first: 

Antidote (blurb):

It should have stayed firmly in the past.

Video footage of Jack Harrison sleeping with Cutter, a man who has mutilated teenagers, should have stayed dead and buried with the man who had filmed it. Yet when footage to Jack’s past starts appearing on Internet porn sites, Jack’s whole world is again turned on its head. At first the porn links are done to unsettle, to disrupt Jack’s fire and ice world: all the sexed-up adrenaline of being caught between the pleasure to Gray Raoul's BDSM kink, and the gentleness of Jan Richards’ vanilla touch. But when the content of the porn sites force even Gray to turn his back on Jack, leaving Jack isolated and away from the full protection of the Master’s Circle, Jack is left at the mercy of a group of men who are out to alter Jack’s whole perception on his BDSM lifestyle.

As brutally as possible, Jack’s sex life is now live webcam feed for a whole new audience.

Antidote's cover is pretty special to me, partly because it's the sequel to Don't..., but also because of that symbol on the cover. If you have a sneak peek at Ms. Kelling's new cover to Forgive Us, just down there to the right hand corner, it carries one too.

The Society of Masters represents everything behind mine and Lynn Kelling's shared-world project (between Don't and Deliver Us). It also means that every project concerning the Society of Masters will come with a variant of this symbol: a whip circling the name of our realm: The Society of Masters (or SM for short).

Antidote will be the introduction to the SoM, briefly setting the scene for Ms. Kelling's Forgive Us (book #3 to Deliver Us). Ms. Kelling's novel will be the main setting for the shared-worlds to begin with, with Jack, Jan, and Gray taking a trip over to America. My Don't #3 novel will then see Trace, Gabe, and Dare come over to English shores. Other tie-in projects are also in the making.

Every time I take a step back and look at all of the possibilities to this Society, it frustrates me that I can't write all of the ideas down quickly enough. I need more hands, and I need more time, because the opportunity and ways to connect the worlds are limitless. And as an author, I love the drive and passion that it is instilling. 

Antidote coming soon:

Interview at Boys In Our Books

The lovely Boys in our Books interviewed me today (23/9). The questions hit a different persepctive for me, just coming at it from a reader's pov, albeit an author/reader one. Getting the time to get comfy and talk about books is something I love, so it was good to rave about what hits the spot for me and why. And there were some lovely people who stopped by to join in and make it a really enjoyable ride.

Professionalism pretty much flies out of the window when I'm talking about characters and plots that leave me floored, jealousy can set in, too, lol, especially when I sit there thinking, I wish to God I'd written that. I fall hopelessly for certain tyes of characters, and if the story grips, pretty much all sense of time flies out the window.   


So this is just a thanks for the lovely team over at BIOB for hosting (putting up, lol) with me today.

For anyone interested, the interview is here, at Boys in our Books.