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New Year, new book

Gordon — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 01:15:59 +0000

The Other Side of Winter (Santuario 2) is pretty much wrapped at my end. We finished the copy edits yesterday, and I ordered my box of print copies. I don’t expect proofs to be too much of a headache (famous last words, I know). What I should do for that one is break my head over posts for the blog tour.>>If there’s any particular topic you’d like me to cover, or any questions you’d like me to answer, shoot me a comment, or hit the red ‘Get in touch’ button on the right edge.<<

As for the Bluewater Bay novel, I wrote synopsis and blurb last weekend, and finished the cover art request, so that one’s out of my hands until the dev edits come back.

That leaves me free to work on Black Box. I started writing that one around Christmas, but fizzled out after only a few hundred words. The plot outline I had was just not working. The beginning bored me to tears. And if it bores me, it’s going to bore you, which is not acceptable. I’d been more or less idly kicking that one around in my head for the past few weeks, the muse feeding me stingy little bits and one-liners that ever so slightly shifted the characterization of both protags. Today I sat down to redo the outline. I threw index cards around like confetti, rearranged them in elaborate mosaics, scribbled here, scratched out there–in short, I made an inspiring creative mess of things, and I’m much happier with what I have now. I should be able to do at least the first few chapters, before I run into a couple of looser points that need to be tied down still. We’ll see.

The Other Side of Winter (Santuario 2)

Gordon — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 16:44:59 +0000

is now available for pre-order.

Cover by Reese Dante

Not all wounds are visible.

Skanian investigator Bengt fell in love with fellow policeman Alex Rukow in a week. But that was a year ago, and they’ve been apart ever since. Then Alex escapes the corrupt and destitute island nation of Santuario and comes to live with Bengt. Happy ever after . . .?

Alex’s lifelong dream of leaving Santuario has come true at last. But he finds himself adrift in a society he doesn’t understand. Worse, past nightmares come back to haunt him, and after so many years of suspicion and self-reliance, it’s harder than he imagined to trust someone else.

Bengt just wants Alex to share his comfortable life. But the more he tries to give, the more Alex pulls away. Their physical connection couldn’t be better, but Bengt can’t seem to get through to his difficult, taciturn lover outside the bedroom. Meanwhile, he has his own demons to confront—not to mention a serial killer on the loose.

Bengt and Alex must dig deep for the courage to face their pasts, but it may be too late to save their relationship or their lives.

Looks like Santuario has a cover

Gordon — Mon, 28 May 2012 19:36:54 +0000

For now you’ll just have to believe me that it’s utterly gorgeous and that both guys look delish. I promise I’ll show you as soon as TPTB give their d’accord. In the meantime I’m laboring to produce a blurb (which is harder than one might think). What to include and what not. What to reveal and what to keep hidden. Decisions, decisions.

Head hunting

Gordon — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:14:19 +0000

I confess, that it’s been surprisingly hard to envision new faces for the boys after I’ve been carrying them around in my head for such a long time. But I just spent a perfectly delightful two hours looking at models to represent them on the cover. That’s some serious eye candy out there. It’s going to be good, I can feel it.