Hello folks!

This week we're staying at the children's hospice for a few days rest, so I've managed to schedule all my social media and blog posts ahead of time and am feeling very smug. 

For those of you who are new to the list, Littlest, our thirteen year old, has a very rare life-limiting neuromuscular and condition and is very servery disabled. She needs a lot of care in our daily life and we go for regular respite breaks to the hospice. Kids' hospices are brilliant places, it's so much fun for all of us as a family and we get to relax knowing she's being taken care of. We never thought we'd get this far with her, so her thirteenth birthday last week was a real milestone! Here she is, picking flowers.

I've been focusing on getting my launch promo in place for The Quid Pro Quo these last few days. It's up on Goodreads now if you'd like to add it. Edits come back on the 23rd and then I'm going to go straight on and start writing book three for release in the new year.  

Here are the giveaway draws and bookfairs for your delectation and delight (I've marked the new ones, handily, with new!):

• Booksweeps: Win a load of books and an ereader by following authors on Bookbub (new)
• LGBTQ+ Paperback Giveaway: sign up to the Bookthrone newsletter and enter to win a $50 Amazon voucher and 10 LGBTQ paperbacks of your choice.
• My October Giveaway Draw: Win ebooks of Taking Stock & Eight Acts.
  
• Sapphic First Kisses: A free anthology of snippets from more than 50 lesfic authors.
• LGBTQ+ Audiobook Adventures Bookfair: Seven different authors, seven different LGBTQ+ Audiobooks!
• LGBT Books: Twenty-three free LGBTQ stories.

And scroll on down for this week's featured author Alexa Piper with The Devil's Necromancer, for office news, releases and blogposts. 

Happy Reading!

Ally

Office news

We've all been back in the early morning office at various points this week. I've been trying to schedule all my promo for this coming week so I can relax at the hospice. Ofelia released Ghost Dater, her Halloween story. J. M. Snyder has been joining us in what is the middle of their night to get some words down. And Nell says to tell you Nell has written 1800-ish words on a new story for a submission call that might not even be a submission call. She's quite grumpy in the mornings :).

On the blog:

• Edale Lane drops in to talk about the concepts behind her Night Flyer series--a sixteenth century female superhero!
• A. L. Lester: What I've been reading (Seducing the Sorcer by Lee Welch, The Salisbury Key by Harper Fox and The Green Man's Heir by Juliet E. McKenna) and telling the world more about The Quid Pro Quo.

The Devil's Necromancer

Lionel, a necromancer and consultant for the Brunswick Police Department, wants nothing to do with immortals. Specifically, he wants nothing to do with Lucifer, who shows up on his doorstep one day with a ridiculous proposal. Lucifer, also known as the Devil, wants Lionel to be his pretend boyfriend. Except the pretend part is something the Devil doesn’t really seem to care for.

Lucifer has read enough romance novels to know that a good dose of forced proximity might be just the thing to get the stubborn necromancer he desires into his bed. The Devil’s plans are soon complicated when Lionel proves more uncooperative and oblivious to love than Lucifer could ever anticipate.

While the Devil wants to claim Lionel, all Lionel wants is to get away from Lucifer. Meanwhile, magic users are being murdered in the city. Lionel cannot escape the implications of those murders for long, and the case soon takes a different turn. Will Lionel be able to escape the Devil’s thrall, or will the necromancer fall for the immortal seducer?

Publisher’s Note: The Devil’s Necromancer contains scenes involving dubious consent that some readers may find offensive.

I am still collecting to help my friend and her two kids with fresh food and heating, including a £30/$35 fruit and vegetable box once a fortnight. They have been using the food bank since Easter 2020 and are really struggling because she's too sick to work and the benefits system is basically inadequate. She's gradually improving now we are in autumn 2021, but things are still tight. Thank you so much for being here, I know quite a few people have contributed before and I'm so grateful to you.