I’ve just released a full-length novel. Shelter Me is a dystopian gay romance set in a pre-apocalyptic future. I think it’s the best thing I’ve written so far. I hope you’ll love it!

Love and survival — is it too much to ask?

Leo Park is an empath on the run. He’s escaped the secret research facility where he’s been held since he was six years old, but how can he survive without being captured? He has no money, all his ideas come from old movies, and he’s carrying his baby brother, smuggled out in a carton.

Cole Millard lives by his own rules in the Oregon woods, refusing to fear the world war that’s coming closer every day. Now his freedom is threatened by a naive 19-year-old with a baby in tow and a spooky way of knowing what Cole is feeling. But Leo is vulnerable and desperate. What’s a guy to do?

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Shelter Me is a fast-paced dystopian gay romance novel set in a not-too-distant future, with a hot backwoodsman, a desperate fugitive, a six-month baby, and the world on the brink of an apocalyptic war.

Length: approx 220 pages (66,000 words)

It’s the first in my new Heven series but it could stand alone. It has a proper ending – no cliffhanger!

Here’s an extract from Shelter Me:

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Leo set the bag down and took Jae out of it. Jae’s mind brightened at once, happy to be out. Leo turned around slowly, so Jae could see everything.

“Look, little bro, some of the trees are changing color—the ones that aren’t evergreens. I bet you were never up so close to a tree before. What do you think, shall we explore? You’d like that, wouldn’t you? We’re out free in a real forest, and who knows how much time we have together. We don’t have any special place to go, right?”

Jae waved his arms and said, “Bub-bub-bub.”

“Isn’t it prime? Look, there are leaves and birds and all kinds of stuff.”

Leo went on, carrying Jae and the bag separately, heading uphill, away from the road. It was good to have no people around, asking questions. He wasn’t used to strangers. But being alone, except for Jae, was weird, too. He caught himself checking for security cameras … in a forest.

He found a thin trickling stream and followed that awhile, then sat beside it and ate two bananas, playing peekaboo with Jae—the regular kind, hiding his face and peeking out. He tried Jae with some squished banana from his own mouth, but Jae spat it out, so Leo gave him more milk from the bottle. He sniffed around Jae’s rear. It didn’t smell, and Jae wasn’t uncomfortable, so the diaper must be okay.

Then he headed back to the highway, or he planned to. He went along the stream, but he couldn’t find the place where he’d come out of the trees.

“I know it’s downhill,” he said to Jae. “We crossed the stream a couple of times, but I think we started out on this side. Hey, here’s a place where someone’s come through. Maybe this was it.”

They went on down, away from the stream, following some kind of path. But it twisted and turned and went back uphill. He figured a path was a path—it must lead somewhere—and he kept on going. Then the way ahead was blocked. Leo stopped.
“The bushes weren’t so thick the way we first came up. I guess maybe we took a wrong turn somewhere?”

He concentrated his mind. If they were close to the road, he should sense people zipping through in their cars. But he only felt the low-level fears and hungers of small animals.

Maybe this was a quiet time for traffic. He waited.

Then he sensed one human. A stealthy, quiet mind, moving slowly, coming closer.

Hunting.

Tracking them.

Leo’s heart pounded. He put Jae in the bag and started to run, crashing through the bushes, one arm over his face for protection against the scratching twigs, the other hugging the bag to his chest.

The hunter came after them, moving faster now, his mind focused, hyped on adrenaline. The guy knew Leo was close, knew he almost had them.

Clumsy with fear, Leo skidded on a patch of dry needles and lost his balance. He twisted so he wouldn’t fall on Jae. His head hit a tree trunk, and pain stabbed at his ankle. Dizzy, he tried to get up and couldn’t.

The hunter came into sight—a bearded, shaggy-haired figure in khaki, half hidden by the pine trunks. A figure carrying a shotgun, pointed right at them. A man whose mind was set on killing.

Leo pushed the bag containing Jae out of range behind a tree. Sorry, little bro, I did the best I could. Maybe you’ll hear about me someday. Then he turned his face away and waited for the bullet.

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I’ve released a new novella: Big Guy. It’s a sweet standalone male/male romance with hot guys, weird diets, a happy ending and no cliffhanger.

Overweight Truman Rautigan and his mom are about to be made homeless, but she’s a top slimming salesperson who could win her dream house if Truman comes through with some sales of his own. Instead, he’s stashing food in his bottom drawer and indulging in late-night binges.

When his mom sends him to infiltrate a rival weight loss group, he meets the gorgeous Brad, biker, mechanic and successful slimmer. But Brad couldn’t be interested in Truman, could he? What if he knew Truman’s real reason for being there? Truman could lose everything if his shameful secrets are exposed…

If you want even more bang for your buck, Big Guy is included with two other novellas written by author friends of mine in the Man Strokes bundle. Here, along with the weird diets, you also get werewolves and a wedding. In the bundle:

The Invitation by K.Y. Shelton

Cynical ex-football hunk Jesse needs his wedding booth photography business to keep pulling work to pay his bills. But when a job puts him face to face with an old friend who’d abandoned him years ago, Jesse is furious. Aaron, the nerdy shy guy who vanished without a trace after high school, is taller, broader and alive.

Jesse knows he needs to speak with him. But the hundreds of guests keep both the photo booth and the best man Aaron busy with activity. And the neurotic wedding planner watches on with an eagle eye. With time running out, Jesse must make a choice. Forge his professional reputation, or confront the old friend who’d broken him all those years ago.

Make Me Howl by Jae Jordon

It’s never fun, when coming out gets you thrown out—especially when you haven’t done any gay stuff yet. It’s worse when you’re not even sure you’re gay. Dale’s had to stay with best friend Kirk since his parents made him homeless. When he tries to find love, he’s attacked. Then two handsome foreigners move in across the street, and Dale finds he knows exactly what he wants. But can he get it?

Two men, with different problems—could each of them be what the other is looking for?

Plus, of course, Big Guy by me 🙂

Click on the cover to see Man Strokes at Amazon. You’ll also find it at Barnes and Noble, Apple iBooks, Kobo and more.

Here’s an extract from Big Guy:

I took a couple of steps into the room. Okay, I wasn’t the only male. I spotted two others, sticking close by the sides of their protective females. Then a third—oh, wow. What a hunk. Big, but muscled, with thick dark hair, wearing jeans and a sleeveless shirt. Those arms—he could have played for the Packers. What was he doing at Luvaloss? He looked perfect as he was. Somebody’s husband, maybe? I hoped not, though I had no reason to care. I had no chance with a guy like that.

While I was lost in awe at his rippling upper body, a cuddly-looking young woman walked up to me, clapped her hands and exclaimed at the top of her voice, “I’m Sarah. And you must be Melinda’s friend’s gay son!”

Everyone stared. Fine, I thought, go ahead and announce my orientation to the whole room. What next? My weight, then my checking account balance?

The hot guy flashed me an amused smile, like he could see right through me. The idea made me nervous. I was here undercover, after all.

Sarah grabbed my arm, and walked me over to a table where three plus-sized ladies were filling out forms. “This is registration. Cassie will be with you soon.”

I nodded to the ladies, and sat down to tackle the form. Mr. Tr—no, wait. ‘Troy’, I wrote. I always liked that name. And ‘Russell’ instead of Rautigan. Russell was my middle name, so it belonged someplace on the form. It could have been a genuine mistake, that I put it under ‘last name’.

Cassie, the group leader, came over before I was done adding my medical history, and gave us the new member briefing. She was younger than Mom, but equally slim and energetic. I guessed a person had to be, to sell weight loss. Why did Mom think I could do it?

I zoned out while Cassie talked about food groups and vitamins. I’d heard it a million times before. I waited for the part where she would tell us about the meal replacements. Then I’d find out what the damage to my wallet would be, and how big of a storage space I’d need for my monthly cartons.

Big Guy and Man Strokes are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, Kobo, Scribd and other online booksellers.

When he’s taken to a drag bar by a friend, shy ‘straight guy’ Alex finds he’s fascinated by the girls he sees. But his Cinderella is not so sure that Alex is her prince …

Two In One is a hot and sweet crossdressing short story. It’s set in Manchester, UK, and I originally wrote it for limited release to people attending the 3rd annual UK GLBTQ fiction meet in Brighton.

With the 6th meet coming up in a couple of weeks, I’ve now released the story into the wild. You can get it at Amazon.com and all other Amazon locations.

Length: approx 5,500 words (approx 20 pages)

UK GLBTQ Fiction Meet 2015

I can’t wait for the 6th annual meet which is happening on 11-13 September – in just 12 days! We’ll be in Bristol again and I’m looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones!

The programme is a delight. I’m so tempted by the BDSM workshop on Saturday, even though I don’t see myself writing BDSM. You never know, right?

And Sunday will be a nightmare because we are so spoiled for choice. I have to pick only ONE of these:

• Character building workshop
• Humour in fiction
• No thank you, Delia – reading and writing love & romance without “stuffing the turkey”

And then only ONE of these:

• Sex scenes, what makes them sizzle? And what turns them into a damp squib?
• Unlocking your dark side – convincing killers, gripping plots and the like

I want to go to them all! Might have to stick a pin in the programme. What would you pick? Let me know in the comments!

I have a story coming out in a new anthology from Dreamspinner Press released today, to mark the UK GLBT Fiction Meet this weekend.

The anthology is called ‘Not Quite Shakespeare’ and my story’s titled ‘Wrong Number’. It’s about a young guy in London who accidentally reveals more about himself than he planned, to one of his bosses.

You can see an extract from ‘Wrong Number’ and discover more about me in my interview on Elin Gregory’s blog here:

http://elingregory.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/not-quite-shakespeare-megan-reddaway/

It’s a funny story and I think the opening will make you laugh.

You can order the anthology from Dreamspinner or from Amazon in the USA or UK.
UPDATE 2017: Not Quite Shakespeare is now out of print. The rights to my story are reverting to me, so I’ll release it myself soon.

And I’ll be at the meet in Bristol this weekend (6-8 June 2014), so if you’re there, come up and say hello!