Review Copies of The Omega Prince
Just wanted to pop by and remind everyone that I am still offering a couple of free reviews copies of my latest book The Omega Prince in exchange for an honest review on Amazon. Let me know if you’d be interested in a copy by filling out the form below 🙂
The Convergence Theory Free Reader Copies
Review Copies
As with THE DUALITY PARADIGM, I will be offering review copies for THE CONVERGENCE THEORY for people who are interested. I only ask that you write an HONEST review, state that you received a review copy somewhere in your review, and post your review on the web and link me (Amazon, Goodreads, personal blog etc). If you’re interested in reviewing Book 2 send me an email: liacooperromance AT gmail DOT com.
You can read chapter 1 here on my blog.
Blurb:
Walking away from your soulmate is not for the faint of heart…
Following the Matilde Walker murder, Detective Ethan Ellison is back working misdemeanors and minor crimes, but he’s only just begun to realize how much the experience has changed his life.
Meanwhile, Detective Patrick Clanahan would give anything to get the memory of Ethan out of his head. If he can’t have him, and every sign suggests that he can’t, he sure has hell wishes everything at the station didn’t remind him of the other man.
Murder, UST, pining, and emotional turmoil lurk right around the corner for both men as Seattle hurtles to the hottest summer on record and their fates bring them back together in THE CONVERGENCE THEORY, Book Two in the Blood & Bone Trilogy.
This is the tense sequel to THE DUALITY PARADIGM.
Contains explicit M/M and minor M/F content.
Book 2: The Convergence Theory Book News
Available on Amazon $2.99
So I made a DAY-Of post about the release of my new book here and on twitter but I’m a big believer in NOT SPAMMING my list so after that first day I kind of stayed quiet. But you know, we all have busy lives and don’t always stay up-to-the-minute on our blogroll or RSS feeds. I figure it’s time to make another little post saying Hey, lookit, I published the sequel!
You can read chapter 1 here on my blog.
Blurb:
Walking away from your soulmate is not for the faint of heart…
Following the Matilde Walker murder, Detective Ethan Ellison is back working misdemeanors and minor crimes, but he’s only just begun to realize how much the experience has changed his life.
Meanwhile, Detective Patrick Clanahan would give anything to get the memory of Ethan out of his head. If he can’t have him, and every sign suggests that he can’t, he sure has hell wishes everything at the station didn’t remind him of the other man.
Murder, UST, pining, and emotional turmoil lurk right around the corner for both men as Seattle hurtles to the hottest summer on record and their fates bring them back together in THE CONVERGENCE THEORY, Book Two in the Blood & Bone Trilogy.
This is the tense sequel to THE DUALITY PARADIGM.
Contains explicit M/M and minor M/F content.
Review Copies
As with THE DUALITY PARADIGM, I will be offering review copies for people who are interested. I only ask that you write an HONEST review, state that you received a review copy somewhere in your review, and post your review on the web and link me (Amazon, Goodreads, personal blog etc). If you’re interested in reviewing Book 2 send me an email: liacooperromance AT gmail DOT com.
Book 3 News
So what’s in store next? I’ve got ~33% of the final book in the trilogy written and I’ll be working on that over the next couple of months. Originally i’d hoped to have to ready to be published very soon after book 2 but it looks like early Winter is going to be more accurate. I’ll be posting a sneak peak of the cover and Chapter 1 as we get closet to the release date, so stay tuned!
I’ve also started a tumblr based WIP called The Omega Prince. TOP began life as an exercise in having fun with my writing. I just wanted to write a sweet fantasy AU, not of our world, that examined Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics in a non oppressive culture. IDK about you but I get sick and tired of fantasy AUs that are just our world, with all of its prejudices and misogyny, and the serial numbers scrubbed off.
Here’s the first snippet for you reading pleasure:
He was Lord Riven now, the only son of the late Lord Riven.
A middle child, considered spoilt and indolent in his youth through very little fault of his own. It was the prerogative of the peerage to keep their children in the comfortable style to which they themselves were raised. And so the youngest Lord Riven was instructed by tutors in the manor castle, taught to ride and mock fight, and left to enjoy the pleasanter pastimes in life such as hunting every day except Sundurn, which was reserved for feasting.
The son, known to his sisters and closest companions as Dierik, was little seen at the High Court of the King of Lyle, and there was much talk bandied amongst the other houses when his fourteenth birthday came and went without his joining the King’s Guard as was the want of most noble sons looking to distinguish themselves.
No acts of valor, scholarship, or might were thus put forward to advance the young Dierik, and his name was predominantly forgotten until his twenty-fourth year when news reached the High Court that Lord Riven and his household, excepting the son and the youngest daughter, had been murdered in their beds and the manor castle burned to its foundations.
After that, the name Riven was explicably attached to gratuitous rumors ofpatricide and plot though no evidence ever surfaced that the son was in fact the root cause of his family’s fall. The damage was already done. The more greedy and tenacious corners of the court, smelling blood, were quick to circle the floundering house. Within a month expeditionary forces began to make their presence felt all along the Lord Riven’s boarders and shortly after, the son gathered his knights and loyal vassals and marched to his defenses.
That was eight years ago.
You can read along with the rest of it as I write it here: http://lia-cooper-writes.tumblr.com/ and the tag #the omega prince.
Looking For Lesbian Romance Book Recs
Hey guys, so at some point I do plan on getting this blog back to its regularly scheduled programming.
One of the things I want to do is another book review. Specifically, I’m looking for something in the f/f genre. Any of you have some recs? Books you liked, authors you love? I’m pretty easy for genre as long as it’s well written and character driven.
Summer’s Out
In other news, the draft for Book 2 has been sent off to beta readers and I’m waiting to hear back. My writing partner and I have started a new summer schedule (M-F 8:30-10:30) which is rough, lmty, but productive. I’ve been editing her sci-fi novel while I give Book 3 some time to percolate in my brain.
Next month I’ll be taking an intensive drawing class (it’s called Drawing Marathon and meets 9am-4pm 3 days a week, whoa!) Maybe I’ll post some scans if the end results aren’t too terrible 😉
What are your summer writing plans? Tell me about them in the comments or find me on twitter! @LiaCooperWrites
~Lia
The Reading Corner: A Rogue By Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean
♥♥♥ ½
Not too long ago I would have protested that I was not by any means a fan of historical romance. And maybe calling myself a “fan” is too strong even now but I think I might be standing on shaky ground either way.
Last time on The Book Corner I raved about Untamed by Anna Cowan—a book I described as a sexier Jane Austen. It had regency romance, gambling, and an alpha female protagonist. Apparently these are some of my favorite things.
This week I’m reviewing A Rogue By Any Other Name by Sarah MacLean. A Rogue is the first book from Sarah’s Rules of Scoundrels series, which I picked up as a KDD at the end of January. I first heard about the Rules of Scoundrels books from the DBSA podcast and have been dying to read one ever since.
I had very little idea what A Rogue was about when I started reading it beyond that it was a Regency historical romance. I can’t say I didn’t know gambling would be a central theme in the story—after all, the 4 scoundrels are all co-owners of London gambling hell—but in my brain it didn’t really connect with Untamed until I was halfway through the opening scenes where our hero—Bourne—loses his inheritance in a card game.
Rules of Scoundrels
Overall, the writing in A Rogue was quite good and the relationship between the hero and heroine was more or less above board, for an historical. I didn’t stay up all night reading it, desperate to get to the end, and I wasn’t particularly thrilled with the heroine but it was an entertaining read. I found the pace lagging a little through the second half. At times it felt like the two protagonists kept having the same argument (about their feelings or lack of feelings) over and over again, to the point that I probably would have only given the book a 2 ½ or 3 rating but for the ending. The epilogue includes a short scene between Cross—one of Bourne’s business partners—and the heroine’s younger sister that made me laugh out loud and cry, “Shit, now I have to keep reading!” Not kidding, I yelled shit in the middle of my empty house. 1 part dismay, 3 parts delight.
I should probably make more of an effort to judge a book based solely on its own merits and not compare it to anything else but in some ways it comes down to taste. The alpha heroine in Untamed was a huge draw for me. A Rogue features a much more demure heroine whose spent her entire life being passed over by men. And while she does stand up for herself by the end—including playing cards in the hero’s stead—she never reached quite the breathlessly HBIC presence displayed by Kit. Or maybe it’s that it took her too long for me to be really satisfied with her character growth.
Will I keep reading Rules of Scoundrels? Yes, definitely, as I find them for sale. If you enjoy Regency, demure heroines, childhood friends and more alpha male heroes A Rogue By Any Other Name is a good read.
Book Launch News
Just a reminder that my first book, The Duality Paradigm (Blood & Bone Book One) is now available for sale.
“Two beings do not compete, rather collaborate. They contribute to creation in a coequal way.”
Everyone knows magic users and werewolves are intrinsically diametrically opposed…
Seattle Police Detective Ethan Ellison, born into a long line of Quebecois magicians, leads a fairly unassuming life working Theft and consulting on magical misdemeanors. He’s spent eight years building a life for himself in Seattle, far from his father’s shadow. He works hard, lives under the radar, and fucks whoever catches his eye.
Detective Patrick Clanahan, beta-heir to Pack McClanahan, is a tightly wired bundle of rage and guilt, still trying to come to terms with the murder of his last partner.
When a human woman is murdered in werewolf territory under suspicious circumstances, Ethan is reassigned to worked the case with Clanahan in the hopes that he’ll be able to balance out the wolf’s rougher edges.
Too bad they mostly just rub each other the wrong way.
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The Reading Corner: Untamed by Anna Cowan
♥♥♥♥/5
I first heard about Untamed by Anna Cowan while catching up on the DBSA Podcast—yes, from back in August. But I’m so glad that that I did! In general, I read for characters and inter-character relationships but I have a hard time finding romance books that are written to a high enough standard and have interesting, believable characters. Out-Of-Character (OOC) actions are probably the #1 thing that throws me, as a reader, out of a story. But as soon as I started reading the preview for this book, I knew I was going to have to buy it.
Untamed is a debut novel from Anna Cowan, published by Destiny Romance, an Australian romance imprint for Penguin. It tells the story of Kat Sutherland, the eldest child in a family that has fallen into destitution. Poor and more accustomed to menial labor in the country, Kat takes it upon herself to save her sister from a scandalous affair with the Duke of Darlington by confronting the Duke. This does little more than capture the Duke’s attention, and he engages Kat in an elaborate deception in exchange for leaving her sister’s reputation alone.
On the podcast, they referred to this book as “the one with the cross-dressing duke.” But it’s so much more than that. It has a cross-dressing duke, an alpha female protagonist, clever supporting characters, social machinations, gambling, and a little sex. Anna Cowen’s written a delicious, in character and racier Jane Austen.
Kat Sutherland Doesn’t Need To Be Tamed
Did you ever see the BBC’s ShakespeaRe-Told version of The Taming of the Shrew? If you didn’t, go watch it because it’s delightful, but I digress. The character dynamics in Untamed and that movie are very similar and equally engaging. The Duke is clever, witty, mad and secure in his own personage. Kat is self-possessed, smart, uncompromising and true to herself. She does not sit around waiting for anyone to rescue her. I think it’s this quality that is most appealing. I’m sick to death of stories where the hero sweeps in to solve all of the heroine’s problems. The two characters are partners who have excellent, often difficult to bear, tension and who support one another.
My only complaint was that I think the story could have done with a little bit more sex. But I’m biased. I read a lot of erotic fiction so I’m accustomed to a fairly explicit rating. I would rate Untamed at maybe Teen for it’s use of fade-to-blacks, which are perhaps keeping with the style of a Regency novel. And in the context of the rest of the book, is a rather minor gripe that is not enough to keep me from re-reading Untamed sometime in the future.
If you’re looking to mix it up with an historical romance with a believable, take-charge heroine this holiday season, check out Untamed.
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