Forgive Us (Deliver Us 3) and My Brother’s Lover (Twin Ties 1) are both finalists in the 2014 Rainbow Awards!! They’re both in the Gay Erotic Romance category. This is the first time any of my stories have been recognized by the Rainbow Awards and it’s unspeakably, wonderfully invigorating and humbling to be included in such esteemed company, especially after working so damned hard to make these books come to life. Heartfelt thanks to everyone who’s helped along the way, especially the awesome folks at Forbidden Fiction and my priceless partner in crime, author Jack L. Pyke – a fellow finalist for her Society of Masters novel, Antidote. A thousand thank yous, too, to everyone on the jury who have been reading and rating hundreds of submissions – your open-mindedness is greatly appreciated!

It’s mind-blowing to see two Society of Masters novels – Forgive Us and Antidote – on this finalist list. It really is a dream come true. Also, for anyone unfamiliar with my Twin Ties series, the 2nd book in the series (Twin Affairs) is widely available at all major retailers with the exception of Amazon, who has banned it for being too hot for their content restrictions. Click here for all buy links for Twin Affairs.

Check out the fantastic review for My Brother’s Lover that accompanied it’s 2014 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention:

“She’s brilliant. 40. Wow. Lynn Kelling certainly delivers on the promise to not shy away from the dark spaces of life in her writing. My Brother’s Lover is a complex, finely nuanced tour de force that will creep into your psyche with the delicate tread of a Shaolin monk treading a span of rice paper without leaving a single footprint. The story is almost unbearably erotic, titillating, dizzying, and has a fine, stinging bite of discomfort. I highly recommend this read. It will move you.”

Arctic Absolution, my M/M Romantic Thriller about a cop (Dixon) and ex-con (Jaye) tangled up in some dangerous situations in remote Alaska, has an estimated release date of December 2014. I’ve got my fingers crossed that we’ll have cover art soon. The story itself is just getting a final polish, but is mostly wrapped up.

My amazing editor at Forbidden Fiction, Rylan Hunter, was particularly intrigued by Jaye’s character. He urged and inspired me to write a prequel to Arctic Absolution about Jaye’s time in prison. That’s what I’m currently writing, and I’m already past the 16k word mark after little more than a week and with no end in sight. I’m thinking it’ll be novella length, but you never know. There’s a lot of story to tell and I’m having a lot of fun exploring what it was like for nineteen year old Jaye to join a gang and essentially become the property of someone in exchange for protection.

The other new projects also on my plate are Our Sins (Deliver Us 4), Twin Ties 4, and a spin-off piece about Pres and Carter from Twin Ties. Those of you who stopped by my author chat got a sneak peek of an excerpt of that Pres/Carter story. We’re planning additional author chats soon, and will likely be sharing more WIPs there, so stay posted for dates and announcements!

Thanks as always for reading. If there’s a particular project you’re excited to get your hands on, let me know! It just might inspire me to work on it faster! 😉

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For more information on The Society of Masters, the shared world project for Jack L. Pyke’s Don’t… series and Lynn Kelling’s Deliver Us series, including buy links and the official timeline/reading order list, CLICK HERE.

Threshold – A Society of Masters Anthology – has been released!! It contains 7 M/M erotic romance stories and novellas, which are prequels or give insight into my Deliver Us series and Whatever the Cost. All of these stories are part of the world of the Society of Masters.

Threshold is a good introduction to this world for those who are new to it, and, at the same time, expands it for those have read the novels. Though these stories are short, they pack a punch and are not for the faint of heart! They’re intense, hot, incredibly dark at times, bittersweet, and romantic.

Click here for links to buy or more information on each story within the anthology…

If you have questions about Threshold, comments you’d like to share, or are curious about what’s up next, join me for my author chat Monday, Sept. 15, 8-10 EST.

I’m doing my very first author chat on Monday, Sept. 15 from 8-10 EST. Stop by, say hi and join in the conversation! We’ll be talking about my upcoming release, Threshold, which comes out this Tuesday, as well as the next book in the Deliver Us series, and my two other upcoming releases – Arctic Absolution and Song of the Lonesome Cowboy. Bring your questions or comments about the books! I’d love to see you there 🙂

Please help me in welcoming the brilliantly talented Jack L. Pyke, whose latest erotic thriller, Breakdown, is released today! Breakdown is the third novel in the Don’t series and part of the Society of Masters shared world project. Disclaimer: My character, Trace, from Deliver Us, appears in Breakdown but I receive no financial gain from its sale, I just get to have a whole lot of fun seeing how Ms. Pyke handles him… Scroll down for giveaway information!

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Hi, Lynn, thank you for allowing me to borrow your blog and for allowing me to look at a little insight behind Breakdown.

Hand on heart, I honestly didn’t think much could top the psychological stresses of Antidote: all the isolation from society, torture, and attempts to ‘cure’ a disability, along with a harsh look at the very brutal corrective-rape culture. The level of mental deconstruction that Jack Harrison went through wasn’t something that could have an easy fix, and Antidote (even Don’t… in a way) looked very much into the cause and effect of psychological reconditioning, or more how Jan’s, Gray’s, and Jack’s lives were slowly broken down through it. Those two novels dealt largely with mind games, but the settings weren’t fixed, allowing room for Jack to walk away when life became too much.

The one issue that really niggled, and that needed further explanation in my eyes, was the rehabilitation of someone who has been through such physical, sexual, and mental levels of abuse, and in a place where they couldn’t run and hide. With how Gray knew he needed distance for Jack to heal, it didn’t seem right that the reader missed that important part of Jack’s life, where Jack’s darkness is at its worst when he’s forced to face the fallout.

I’ve got to admit here, though, I almost—almost—bit off more than I could chew with Breakdown.

The setting in Breakdown shifts to Jack’s time in a psychiatric unit. Even without the complication of being attached to the Master’s Circle and hidden behind government walls, a psychiatric unit isn’t an easy location to pin down. Here the old “Write what you know, research what you don’t” comes firmly into play. Looking into treatments, recreational plans, and just the general day-to-day living inside a psychiatric unit took so much research, and generally pushed me outside of my comfort zones as a writer. But every author has their private sources, and the ones I came into contact with (from both the staff and patient side of those in a psychiatric unit), they’ll forever hold my sanity in their hands. I’ve never been more humbled than when I was given real insight into a working psychiatric unit.

Added to this, Jack’s BDSM lifestyle plays a very important part in the portrayal of state of mind, with Breakdown going back to the origins of an eighteen-year-old Switch who’s trying very much to fight a rising submissive side. Antidote looked at twisting Jack’s reality of BDSM, but Breakdown looks into how Jack runs with the idea that he has to be forced into submission in order to justify his enjoyment in submission. This then allowed Gray’s hard influence on Jack to come in, and at a time when Jack is going down very dark paths in his youth, it’s the one part I’ve really loved, and I mean loved, tackling.

This in no way leaves Jan out of the picture. This series is written in a way that looks into how healing occurs at different times with different people, and also how sometimes people get missed and lost in the crossfire. But for Breakdown itself, I wanted to give a sense of pure isolation for both Jack and Jan at this point, how that isolation is needed to help bridge the distance that Vince has forced between them. Which is why Jack’s point of view comes in purely with Breakdown. Don’t and Antidote used a mix of Jan’s and Jack’s, but that didn’t give me the isolated feel that was needed to help the healing process.

Throughout this series, it’s been hard not to play favourites with these three men. They all bring such a different flavour to the series, with the dynamics of each one revealed at different bursts through each novel. Gray will always intrigue me the most. He’s such an easily drawn man in one hand: he gets the job done despite the technique used, but there’s a deeper and very dark element that almost depicts how he revels in a side that twists Jack’s nightmares, only Gray has the control and will to feed and control it. I like to play with flaws, and Gray comes with so many when it comes to Jack. Knowing how words get spoken to hurt in the heat of the moment, I wanted that coldness, just that downright drive to take someone down when someone gets too close, regardless of who it was. But with Gray, there’s that deep history with Jack that Breakdown brings to light, and, hopefully, his motivations, drives, and intensity are understood a little more.

As for where the end of Breakdown leaves Jan, Jack, and Gray as it moves into the final novel…. it’s not going to be an easy finish for them. There’s an element at work throughout the series that still wants to see them struggle and fall, and they’re pushing for it at every turn. Strong international help from Lynn Kelling’s Trace, Gabe, and Dare from the Deliver Us series helps to pull them to their feet, but Gray Matters will get to see just how dark Jan, Jack, and Gray are when it comes to the final threats against them as a triad.

Or, and not forgetting Martin, how all the mind games have been mere foreplay.

Thanks very much for having me today, Lynn. It’s been really good getting to talk about Breakdown.

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I’m thrilled to announce that Threshold, a collection of short stories within the Society of Masters, will be released September 9! It will contain these short stories (featuring characters from Deliver Us and Whatever the Cost):

• Expected Lies
• Divine Surrender
• Never Happened
• Pleasures of Paradise
• Escape
• Trick and Truth
• Between Here and There

CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF THRESHOLD, NOW!

Though they may be short, these stories are dark, dirty and not for the faint of heart. Before Liam and Jacen struggle to break free of life as prostitutes working for their employer, The Company, in Whatever the Cost, they had different names and sinister enemies. Jacen was Travis Saxon, a farm boy with a devil living next door. Liam was Avery Williams, a near homeless teenager aged out of the foster care system, trying to survive the challenges of poverty.

Expected Lies, Divine Surrender and Never Happened all take place before the events of Deliver Us. It’s prom night for high school seniors, Darrek and Kyle, in Expected Lies. Ben meets a troubled teen named Kyle Roth looking for just the right Master to tame him in Divine Surrender. Gabriel and Ben’s relationship is not without its complications in Never Happened. Pleasures of Paradise takes place after Deliver Us but before From Temptation. Gabriel and Darrek celebrate their two year anniversary with a months-long trip to a tropical island in the Florida Keys catering to the Masters and slaves of the BDSM community.

Escape blurb: Marriage, new names and a fresh start have helped Liam and Jacen Timothy leave their old lives behind. Now safer and deeply in love, Liam persuades Jacen to share part of his past he never has been able to before. Many years earlier and while home on break from college, Jacen, formerly Travis Saxon, was in a car accident which broke both of his legs. Travis thought he had finally escaped the man who preyed upon him since he was a young boy. Recovering at his family’s farm from his injuries, caring for Dennis, his seriously injured younger brother, Travis is unable to run when his predator, a neighbor named Brian Andrews, comes and seeks him out. Blackmail and threats move Travis to cooperate, for the sake of helpless, beloved Dennis. As Travis is consumed by a truly terrible, horribly familiar nightmare, it’s his instincts and knack for survival against all odds that reveals to him, at long last, the way out. (M/M)

Trick and Truth blurb: Avery Williams needs to be someone else. Anyone else would be an escape from the harsh reality facing him. Tonight, that someone is Jimmy, his roommate, who goes dancing at the gay clubs in the city. As Jimmy, Avery finds what he needs—sex with a stranger who pays handsomely for the privilege. But once the fantasy has ended, all that’s left is the painful, unavoidable truth waiting at home. (M/M)

Between Here and There blurb: Ever the tease, Avery Williams leads his lover, Timothy, on a chase that brings them to Ben Franklin bridge spanning the Delaware River. Behind them is Camden and their daily struggle to stay off the streets. Before them is the vibrant, elusive promise of the future. Trapped between, Avery lets himself be caught by the boy who owns his heart. Dreams and demons alike lie in wait as Avery gives Timothy yet another piece of himself in the hopes that it will somehow save them both. (M/M)

Expected Lies blurb: As Darrek reluctantly prepares for prom night, Kyle watches on with amusement. Darrek is frustrated with Kyle’s lack of interest in bringing a girl to the prom and staying by his side, but Kyle is unphased by his best friend’s increasingly strange emotional responses. Kyle has plans of his own that involve far less fancy clothing—far less clothing at all, really. Little does he know the extent of Darrek’s determination to get what he wants. (M/M)

Divine Surrender blurb: When Ben Knox discovers a clean-cut, blond, apparently-straight teenager named Kyle Roth in his office, looking for a professional Dominant, instinct draws him in. Since the exceedingly particular Kyle has already passed on fellow Dominants-for-hire, Gabriel and Trace, Ben digs down beneath first impressions to expose Kyle’s true motivations. Reassured by Ben’s straightforward approach, Kyle demonstrates his willingness to obey and, quickly, their contract is signed. But, skillful as Kyle is at masquerading as the person the world expects him to be out of self-preservation, Ben has plenty of experience dealing with bruised souls. Kyle’s bruises, though, go deep and the vulnerable darkness that Kyle tries to hide lures Ben in and takes them both farther than either is prepared to go.  (M/M)

Never Happened blurb: For Gabriel Hunter, a professional Dominant, avoiding real intimacy is paramount. Even the cautious love he has for his closest friend—fellow Dominant Ben Knox—is a potential source of further pain. Ben knows all about the shadows in Gabriel’s past. Every once in a while, when the opportunity presents itself, Ben can’t resist giving Gabriel a sample of what he’s been missing. (M/M)

Pleasures of Paradise blurb: To celebrate their two year anniversary, Gabriel Hunter and Darrek Grealey escape to a tropical island in the Florida Keys catering only to Masters and slaves of the BDSM community. The types of gifts Darrek and Gabriel give each other during the trip are vastly different, testing them both even as they fall deeper in love, rediscovering the pleasures of the power dynamic which first caused them to fall in love. As the end of their trip draws near, Gabriel plans a surprise for Darrek unlike anything he’s previously faced. Darrek is forced to choose between his instinct to doubt himself and the chance to trust Gabriel in ways he’s never dreamed possible. (M/M)

Some of the things that have been keeping me busy lately are my novels Song of the Lonesome Cowboy, Arctic Absolution, and Loving the Master. I’m currently working on edits for Song of the Lonesome Cowboy, and Arctic Absolution should be coming back my way any day now too. I wrote these two books about a year ago, and I’ve been really eager to get to this point of getting them ready for release.

Song of the Lonesome Cowboy is a very dark, twisted story about a sweet country singer who has spent years lying to his best friends and band members about the predatory, powerful man stalking and threatening him. There’s a heartwarming love story woven in there, too, and the balance of dark and light has made this story a deliciously guilty pleasure of mine for a while.

Arctic Absolution is one of my more straightforward love stories, though of course it has its dark, disturbing elements as well. Thirty-two-year-old Dixon Rowe is an Alaska State Trooper who intercepts a robbery in progress one evening at the local general store where he first encounters the perpetrator, Jaye Jarson, a twenty-one ex-con and former gang member. The more Dixon tries to do the right thing by Jaye, who has been isolated, freezing and starving in a small cabin on the edge of the wilderness, the more dangerous things become for both of them as Jaye’s survival instincts and Dixon’s past with his violent ex instantly clash. This story is one I’ve often gone back to re-read just for pleasure in my downtime and I’m beyond excited to share it!

And, finally, Loving the Master is a prequel to Bound by Lies and part of the Society of Masters universe, but also a standalone story about how billionaire Dom, David Davenport, fell in love with an awkward, near-homeless waiter named Shea Whittier. I just finished writing the first draft and have submitted it for publication with Forbidden Fiction.

Next up on my radar is writing the 4th book in the Forgive Us series, and the 4th book in the Twin Ties series.

My Brother’s Lover AND Forgive Us have been chosen as two of Prism Book Alliance’s June Recommended Reads! Click here to enter the giveaway!

Huge thanks and much gratitude to the lovely folks at Prism for selecting my books.

My Brother’s Lover (Twin Ties 1) Buy Links:
Fantastic Fiction, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords

Twin Affairs (Twin Ties 2) Buy Links (NOTE: This book has been banned from Amazon for being too hot! You can buy the ebook through all other vendors):
Fantastic Fiction, Amazon (paperback only), Barnes & Noble, All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords

Forgive Us (Deliver Us 3) Buy Links (Note: Deliver Us & From Temptation are the preceding books in the series): Fantastic Fiction, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, All Romance Ebooks, Smashwords

To celebrate the release of my three novels – Forgive Us, My Brother’s Lover, & Twin Affairs – I’m giving away signed paperbacks through Goodreads. Two copies of Forgive Us are up for grabs, and one copy of each Twin Ties book. Hop on over to Goodreads to enter –>

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Forgive Us

by Lynn Kelling

Giveaway ends July 02, 2014.

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My Brother’s Lover

 

by Lynn Kelling

 

Giveaway ends July 02, 2014.

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Goodreads Book Giveaway

Twin Affairs

by Lynn Kelling

Giveaway ends July 02, 2014.

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at Goodreads.

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For yet ANOTHER chance to win a free book (your choice of any of my ebooks), check out my interview with FFP and leave a comment here. Drawing on June 15th.