Fiction bibliography
This is the full bibliography of my published fiction. There's a separate summary page with a catalogue of free fiction available on the website, and the book listings on this page give links to the book's own page, all with free excerpts. Most of my fiction is gay erotic romance, and most of it's science fiction or fantasy, but there are exceptions. I'm still updating these pages plus the individual book pages after the closure of Loose Id.
There's also a printable list with just the titles, ISBNS etc on a separate page, given in order of first publication, and also by series.
Novels
Dolphin Dreams
Erotic paranormal romance, 101,000 words, m/m/m menage, set in present day England. Martin's met
the men of his dreams. Tall, handsome, dominant but not domineering. Just one small
problem -- they're dolphins.
More details plus cover and excerpts here.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 3 April 2007, 232 pages, ebook, ISBN: 978-1-59632-383-4. Loose Id edition out of print 7 May 2018.
New edition self-published 2 November 2019. Available at Amazon in most countries, including Amazon US and Amazon UK, and links to many other retailers are at Books2Read.
Lord and Master
Erotic romance novel, 62,000 words, contemporary, m/m. Mark and his new boss are teasing the straights. An openly gay
CEO and his pretty young PA just have to be having an affair. Don't they? What
starts as no-strings-attached sex becomes much more.
See series description on this page and the book's own page with more details plus cover and links to excerpts here.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 13 February 2007, 142 pages, ebook, ISBN: 978-1-59632-410-7. Loose Id edition out of print 7 May 2018.
New edition self-published 26 August 2019
Lord and Master 2: Taking Work Home
Erotic romance novel, 40,000 words, contemporary, m/m. Direct sequel to
Lord and Master.
Sometimes an office romance is just a fling. For Mark and his older boss, Steven, dates and great sex have become love. Now they have to fight his family and their own demons to make their relationship work.
See series description on this page and the book's own page with more details plus cover and links to excerpts here.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 19 August 2008, ebook, ISBN: 978-1-59632-742-9. This edition out of print 7 May 2018.
New edition self-published 17 August 2019.
Nice Tie
Erotic romance novel, 42,000 words, contemporary, m/m.
Alex loves watching a man do up a silk tie, and he’s just found the perfect eye candy on his morning commute. A pity Robin’s his new client at work, and off-limits as a dress-up doll. More details and excerpts here.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 01 April 2014, ISBN: 978-1-62300-771-3. This edition out of print April 2017.
Currently out of print.
Spindrift
Erotic paranormal romance, 58,000 words, fantasy, m/m, set in present-day Scotland.
Richard finds the truth in legend, when he finds a silkie bereft of his
skin and in need of a home. He'll help Niall find his skin, without taking
advantage--no matter how much it hurts to let him go...
See series description on this page and the book's own page with more details plus cover and links to excerpts here.
The novella-length sequel Ship To Shore has also been reprinted.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 12 July 2005, 131 pages, ebook, ISBN: 1-59632-135-0. This edition out of print 7 May 2018.
New edition self-published 15 September 2019.
Stormy Nights
Short story collection, 45,000 words, m/m, contemporary, paranormal. (A mix of short stories and novelettes, but it's novel length so I'm putting it here for convenience.)
Sex and love, lies and truth, shades in between. Happy endings and might-have-beens. Nine tales of these things between men.
First published as an ebook and as a paperback (Amazon UK, US) by NineStar Press on 24 July 2017. More details and buy links on Storm's website.The Syndicate: Volume 1
Now available as a free download on this website.
Erotic romantic comedy, 42,000 words, m/m, sf, mild BDSM. Stuck on a spaceship, what can two wise-cracking, sexy men possibly do to pass the time? See series description on this page for more details.
First published as an ebook by Amatory Ink, March 2003. One chapter went missing during editing of this edition, and is available on the book's page on this website. (Out of print.)
New edition published as an ebook by Loose Id, 7 September 2004, ISBN: 1-59632-034-6. This edition out of print 9 June 2008.
First published in print in an omnibus trade paperback with volume 2
by Loose Id, 19 December 2005, ISBN: 978-1-59632-134-2.
This edition out of print 9 June 2008. Secondhand copies (and one or two new copies) are available
from both brick-and-mortar and online bookshops, including
amazon.com
New edition published on this website 21 December 2008.
The Syndicate: Volume 2
Now available as a free download on this website.
Erotic romantic comedy, 40,000 words, m/m, sf, BDSM. On the spaceship Mary Sue, Allard's finally found a job he likes, colleagues he likes--and a man he more than likes. Just how far is he prepared to go for the man he loves? See series description on this page for more details.
First published as an ebook by Amatory Ink, May 2003. (Out of print.)
New edition published as an ebook by Loose Id, 26 October 2004, ISBN: 1-59632-035-4. This edition out of print 9 June 2008.
First published in print in an omnibus trade paperback with volume 1
by Loose Id, 19 December 2005, ISBN: 978-1-59632-134-2.
This edition out of print 9 June 2008. Secondhand copies (and one or two new copies) available
from both brick-and-mortar and online bookshops, including
amazon.com
New edition published on this website 21 December 2008.
The Syndicate: Volume 3
Now available as a free download on this website.
Erotic romantic comedy, 40,000 words, m/m, sf, BDSM. Vaughan and Allard are tying the knot. But who will be the bride, and who the groom? And where will they find Something Blue? See series description on this page for more details.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 16 November 2004, ISBN: 1-59632-036-2. This edition out of print 9 June 2008.
New edition published on this website 3 December 2008.
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Novellas
Buildup: Mindscan
Erotic romance novella, 25,000 words, m/m, sf, D/s, part of the Buildup universe. Captain Reeve convinces a tortured dissident to trust him with his life, but can Reeve persuade him that all his secrets are safe with him -- including the D/s desires he hides?
See series description on this page and the book's own page with more details and links to an excerpt and and reviews.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 22 March 2005, ebook, ISBN: 1-59632-071-0. This edition went out of print 24 March 2016.
Currently not available.
Buildup: Pulling Strings
Erotic romance novella, 36,000 words, m/m, sf, D/s, part of the Buildup universe. Second novella in the Buildup universe. Not a direct sequel to Mindscan, and can be read as a standalone, although both books will eventually be part of a single story arc.
See series description on this page and the book's own page with more details, cover art and links to an excerpt and and reviews.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 28 February 2006, ebook, ISBN: 978-1-59632-230-1. This edition out of print February 2017.
Currently not available.
First Footer
Erotic romance novella, 35,000 words, science fiction, m/m, set in present-day UK. Matthew was hoping not to be single by the end of the New Year's Eve party, but the blind date promised by his matchmaking friend never showed up. The stranger who did was very strange indeed... More details and excerpt here.
Originally published in the ebook anthology A Kiss At Midnight by Loose Id, 27 December 2005, ebook, ISBN: 1-59632-211-X (out of print). New standalone edition published by Loose Id, 23 January 2013, ebook, ISBN: 978-1-62300-274-9. This edition went out of print on 2 December 2016.
Currently not available.
Spindrift 2: Ship to Shore
Erotic paranormal romance novella, 18,000 words, fantasy, m/m, set in present-day Scotland.
Human novelist Richard found love with the silkie Niall. When an attack
leaves Niall's sister critically injured, the two must work together to
save her...and keep the secrets of the silkies. Sequel to the novel
Spindrift.
See series description on this page and and the book's own page with more details plus cover and links to excerpts here.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 1 November 2005, 65 pages, ISBN: 1-59632-178-4.This edition out of print 7 May 2018.
New edition self-published 22 September 2019.
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Novelettes
Black Leather Rose (novelette version)
Erotic romance novelette, 11,000 words, m/m, mild D/s. John's been hurt once too often, and he's in no hurry to let anyone into his inner world. Can Charles reach past his defences to claim the rose behind the thorns? More details and excerpts here.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 12 June 2007, ISBN: 978-1-59632-511-1. This edition out of print 7 May 2018.
Not currently available.
Based on a previously published short story.
Lord and Master: Old Age Creeping Over Me
Novelette in the Lord and Master series. Contemporary erotic romance, m/m, 13,000 words. It's set in May 2004, two months after the end of the main story in the first novel. This is a standalone and you don't need to have read the novel first, though obviously you'll get more out of it if you already know the characters. It was written for the people who wanted to see something from Steven's POV.
Published on this website as a promotional piece for the series 9 August 2008. Complete story here, and more details about the series.
The Syndicate: Four Leaf Clover
Now available as a free download on this website.
Erotic romance sf novelette, 9000 words, m/m. Is green beer best reserved for green aliens? What sort of rings do leprechauns wear--and where? And, above all, Does Everybody Want To Shag The Irish--and what do you do about it if you're Welsh?
See series description on this page and the book's own page with more details, cover art and links to an excerpt and reviews.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 8 March 2005, ISBN: 1-59632-100-8. Loose Id edition out of print 9 June 2008.
New edition published on this website 3 December 2008.
Yule
Contemporary erotic romance novelette, 9000 words, m/m, D/s, bondage. Suspension bondage and a very particular and personal type of spear... On the feast of Yule, two young men re-enact Odin's self-sacrifice upon Yggdrasil, trying to gain wisdom to resolve the issues in their relationship. More details plus excerpt here.
First published as an ebook by Loose Id, 18 December 2007, ISBN: 978-1-59632-597-5. The Loose Id edition went out of print in December 2015.
Currently not available.
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Short Stories
And if I offered thee a bargain
Contemporary fantasy with m/m content, short story, 5,500 words. Jack never dreamed that a reluctant trip back to his home town would thrust him into the world of the sidhe. He finds that the legends are true, but the sidhe have changed. They have a new bargain to offer the mortals who bring them fresh stories and share new technologies. But is the price of this new bargain worth it? More details and an excerpt here.
Originally accepted and paid for by the Haworth Press anthology Distant Horizons, but the anthology was one of the books cut after Haworth was sold.
It was then published in the September 2007 issue of the webzine Forbidden Fruit, 1 October 2007. The zine closed in February 2009, and that version is now out of print.
Next published as an ebook by Musa Publishing's Erato imprint, 7 September 2012, ISBN: 978-1-61937-427-0, and went out of print with Musa's closure in Feburary 2015.
Included in the collection Stormy Nights published by NineStar Press, 24 July 2017.
And The Lights Go Down
Erotica noir short story, 2600 words, m/f, voyeurism. Dark fantasies are all very well when you know you can keep them fantasies--but what happens when you discover a new one?
First published in the Stormy Weather issue (issue 16, Jan-June 2006) of the webzine Suspect Thoughts, 27 December 2005. (Out of print.)
Currently not available.
Any Port In a Storm
Erotica short story, 5000 words, contemporary, m/m/m.
First published in
Mammoth Book of Urban Erotic Confessions
Available from Amazon UK, Amazon US, Kobo, and other bookstores.
Included in the collection Stormy Nights published by NineStar Press, 24 July 2017.
A Sparrow Flies Though
Erotica short story, 1,500 words, contemporary m/m. High tech cottaging provides a
few moments of light and warmth on a dark cold night.
First published in The Mammoth Book of Quick and Dirty Erotica by Constable & Robinson in
the UK
Available from Amazon UK, Amazon US, Google Play, and other bookstores.
Included in the collection Stormy Nights published by NineStar Press, 24 July 2017.
A Trifling Affair
Erotica short story, 5500 words, m/m. Sometimes it's a tricky operation seducing a colleague during a business trip...
First published in this form as one of the May 2004 guest stories at Justus Roux.
(Originally published in a somewhat different version as fanfic.)
Reprinted by Loose Id in their Hurricane Katrina Aid Blog, 2 October 2005.
Also available from the fiction downloads page on this site.
Black Leather Rose (short story version)
Erotic romance short story, 4000 words, m/m, mild D/s.
First published in this form in Plain Brown Wrapper's gay romance ebook anthology for Valentine's Day, Counting the Ways. 14 February 2005, ebook anthology. (Out of print.)
A novelette developed from this short was published by Loose Id, 12 June 2007.
Bread and Butter Pudding
Erotic romance short story, 3,600 words, contemporary, m/m.
First published in the Dreamspinner Press anthology Not Quite Shakespeare, 2 June 2014.
The anthology is out of print, but second hand copies of the paperback are sometimes available on Amazon (UK,
Out of print.
Ghost Train
Speculative fiction short story, 800 words. Sometimes a nickname is all too appropriate. Accepted and paid for in 2005 by Extraverse webzine, but the issue was never published.
Gone Fishing
Erotic sf short story, 3000 words, m/m, contemporary paranormal. Man meets merman. Excerpt.
First published by Amatory Ink in the Mythic Fantasies ebook anthology. 2002, ebook. (Out of print.)
Reprinted by Torquere Press in the Myths ebook anthology. October 2004, ebook. (Out of print.)
Included in the collection Stormy Nights published by NineStar Press, 24 July 2017.
In Like Flynn 1: A Collision With Reality
Erotica short story, 7100 words, contemporary, m/m. Flynn’s not as anonymous as he thinks when he tells his chatroom friends what he wants his new boss to do to him. When his boss confronts him, Flynn’s choice is put up or shut up. He can play out the fantasy or walk away and forget about his fantasies forever.
First published as an ebook by NineStar Press on 2 January 2017. More details about the series.Knotting the Tie
Erotic romance short story, 6200 words, contemporary, m/m. Standalone sequel to Nice Tie. After a year together, Alex knows what he has with Robin is for life, and he wants to stand up and say so in public. It’s time to propose, and he’s doing it the old fashioned way – roses, champagne and going down on one knee. More details and excerpt here
First published as an ebook by Loose Id on 10 November 2015. ISBN: 978-1-68252-021-5. This edition out of print 7 May 2018.
Currently out of print.
Lord and Master (short story version)
Erotica short story, 1500 words, contemporary romantic erotica, m/m. A secretary muses on his relationship with his boss. First published in the 23 August 2006 issue of the webzine Clean Sheets. (Out of print.)
This gave me an idea for what turned into a series with two novels, a novelette, and another story. More details about the series.
Lord and Master: Flight of Dreams
Short story in the Lord and Master series. Contemporary erotic romance, m/m, 7100 words. It's set on Mark's thirtieth birthday, about two years after their wedding, i.e. some time after both the original novel and the sequel. This is a standalone and you don't need to have read the novel first, though obviously you'll get more out of it if you already know the characters. For those who wanted to see something from Steven's POV, here's your chance.
Published on this website as a promotional piece for the series 16 June 2008. Complete story here, and more details about the series.
Love Is Blind
Contemporary erotic romance short story (with Alex Woolgrave), f/f, mild BDSM, 2800 words.
It's a hard life being a writer's partner, especially when they want to try out an idea for practicality
-- at four in the morning...
Published in Constable & Robinson's Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica anthology, 30 August 2007. Softcover, ISBN 9781845294779. US edition published by Carroll & Graf, ISBN 9780786720446
Available from Amazon UK, Amazon US, Google Play, Kobo, and other bookstores.
Naked
Romantic erotica short story, 3000 words, m/m, D/s, shaving. Just how far will a man go
to understand his partner's desires?
First published in Alyson's
Ultimate Gay Erotica 2005
Reprinted by Loose Id in their Hurricane Katrina Aid Blog, 18 September 2005.
Self-published at Smashwords, 28 October 2012, making it available in additional file formats. This edition out of print.
Included in the collection Stormy Nights published by NineStar Press, 24 July 2017.
One Size Fits All
Erotic romance short story, 3000 words, m/m, mild D/s. It's amazing the things you can
find when you rummage through your lover's underwear drawer.
Excerpt.
First published in the 8 July 2004 edition of the webzine Fishnet. (Out of print.)
Reprint self-published through SmashWords 09 November 2013. ISBN 9781301797073. This edition out of print December 2016.
Included in the collection Stormy Nights published by NineStar Press, 24 July 2017.
Promises to Keep
Erotic romance short story, 5000 words, m/m, contemporary paranormal (vampire). A middle-aged lecturer assumes the obvious when he's propositioned by a young man. But the man's not young, and he's offering more than sex. He's a vampire...with promises to keep. More details plus excerpt here.First published as a Fling ebook by Loose Id for Halloween 2004. 19 October 2004, 27 pages, ebook, ISBN: 1-59632-043-5. This edition out of print 7 May 2018.
Not currently available.
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Series/Universes
Buildup
In the distant future, space-travelling humanity has settled much of the galaxy--and as humanity is prone to doing, has divided into different political groupings and cultures, with varying degrees of tolerance both for each other and for other intelligent species. No one political domain is powerful enough to dominate, but that doesn't stop some of them trying...
The novellas Mindscan and Pulling Strings were originally published by Loose Id. They're both standalone books that are complete in themselves, and it's not necessary to read them in the order they were written.
There are rough notes for several other stories of varying lengths. There's rather more story to come than is suggested by the brief summary above, but the characters don't know that yet. :-) Next book planned is about Base Commander Trel, a character who appears offstage in Pulling Strings. As always, don't hold your breath. I'm not the world's fastest writer.
In Like Flynn
Be careful what you wish for in public; especially when it's your hot new boss.
A series of erotica short stories, starting with A Collision With Reality and with more to follow. Flynn’s not as anonymous as he thinks when he tells his chatroom friends what he wants his new boss to do to him. When his boss confronts him, Flynn’s choice is put up or shut up. He can play out the fantasy or walk away and forget about his fantasies forever.
Lord and Master
The one PA in the building who can't marry the boss.
A tycoon-secretary romance where the tycoon and the secretary are both men, and both industrial scientists. It has a disabled hero, although that's not obvious until well into the first book, and has a much more realistic take on disability than "true love and great sex are a magic cure". (Yes, I'm getting a lot more in your face about that 15 years on from writing this book. We get HEAs too, thanks.)
When Mark Paulson went for a job interview with an old friend of his PhD supervisor, he wasn't expecting to be instantly attracted to the man. Steven Frost was simply looking for a young scientist to train as his assistant in running his engineering company; he wasn't expecting to get an attractive young man who looked the part of an openly gay CEO's trophy secretary. They were amused by other people's speculation about them, at least until the attraction flared into something they couldn't ignore...
So far, the original novel, Lord and Master, set in 2003-March 2004 (with an epilogue in 2006), a novelette Old Age Creeping Over Me set in May 2004, Taking Work Home, a novel set in June to December 2004, and a short story Flight of Dreams set in 2008.
The whole thing started as a short story which eventually became the basis of a chapter in the novel, although the original short story is different in tone to the romance series. The story spent a couple of years sitting in various anthology slushpiles, and by the time it was published, the Civil Partnership legislation had passed in the UK -- which gave me an idea...
More information about the series here.
Spindrift series
When myth comes to life, love becomes legendary...
What if the legends of Britain were real? How do the last few silkies living off the shores of Britain and Ireland cope with the modern world and its cradle to grave paperwork, when exposure could mean the status of freaks -- or worse? And what happens when a sympathetic outsider stumbles into the secret of one small Scottish fishing village where not all the fishermen are as human as they look?
So far one novel, Spindrift, and the sequel novella Ship To Shore. I've no further books plotted out yet, but there are some obvious strands from the first two books to follow up on.
The Syndicate
Please note that the commercial edition of this series is out of print, and the entire series is now available as free downloads on this website. The print omnibus of the first two volumes is still available second-hand (and new copies are available directly from me, as I still have a few author copies left).
A few centuries from now, the technology in IT may have changed, but the BOFHs haven't. An erotic sf series demonstrating that geeks have sex lives too, written with Alex Woolgrave. It's a romantic comedy with the sex on-screen. :-) It's best described as fluffy BDSM gay romantic comedy in space, although the BDSM doesn't get all that obvious until Volume 2.
The series to date consists of three volumes of linked short stories and a short novel forming an overall story arc of about 120 000 words, plus a 9000 word novelette. The first three volumes are a romantic comedy following the relationship of geek and engineer from their first meeting to their wedding night. The original plan was to write the short stories in volumes 1 & 2, which together make up a novel which more or less follows the classic romantic comedy plot, complete with "Will you marry me?" scene in the final chapter. So we did that, and the book was split into two volumes by the original publisher, because at the time longer ebooks were often serialised. There was a throwaway line in the "Will you marry me" scene about Vaughan liking the idea of Allard in white bridal robes. After we'd written it, we thought, "You know, we'd quite like to see Allard in white bridal robes." When we mentioned the idea to the beta-readers, it turned out that they liked the idea as well. So we wrote a short novel, Volume 3, all about the preparations for the wedding plus the big day itself. One of these days we may get around to telling people the story of the interesting ways in which the honeymoon did not go according to plan.
The first two volumes were originally published in 2003 by a now-vanished micropublisher. Those two plus volume 3 were then picked up by Loose Id as part of their first quarter lineup when they opened in 2004. The first volume, second volume and third volume were available as ebooks, along with a novelette, The Syndicate: Four Leaf Clover, which was added to the series in March 2005. Four Leaf Clover was written for St Patrick's Day, and actually comes after the as-yet-unwritten honeymoon story in the series timeline.
Volumes 1 & 2 were also published in
an omnibus trade paperback published
by Loose Id ISBN: 978-1-59632-134-2.
Second-hand copies are available from both brick-and-mortar and online bookshops, including
amazon.com