Throwback Thursday - Secrets, Skin and Leather

I thought I'd do this book today as I've just self-published the re-release of the two short stories that follow it in a mini-collection on All Romance ebooks and Amazon (link to come).

I remember when I first got this cover from the publisher - I was SOOO happy :) It's still a favorite!

Secrets, Skin and Leather

Scott Daley is a high-powered executive by day, but by night he plays on the fetish scene. He keeps his two lives scrupulously separate, not wanting his clients to have any idea what he gets up to. Afraid it might ruin him, Dal keeps the wild child firmly in the closet.

So when Dillon, a distant business associate, sees Dal at a club one night, things take a dangerous, and exciting turn. Dillon invites him to what he thinks is a business meeting, but it turns into a weekend of debauchery that sets off a torrid affair. Meeting whenever they can, high-powered Dillon and ambitious Dal explore all of the ways they can love each other, living just enough on the edge to get a thrill.

And maybe get caught. When things go sour, Dal hits the road, running as far away as he can, trying to figure out how to minimize the damage to his life and his career. Dillon isn't quite ready to let him go, though, and sets out to get Dal back. Can Dillon convince Dal that some secrets are worth letting out of the bag?

Sean Michael creates an exciting world where business meets pleasure and all of the games have high stakes in this steamy novel. Wrap it up and take it home!

Buy links:
Publisher
All Romance Ebooks
Amazon
It's also available in paperback

smutty excerpt:

Dillon leaned back against the bar, a whiskey, neat, in his hand.

He'd been to the Golden Scabbard once or twice before. When he was bored, when the suits at work got to be too much and he needed to be out with people who knew how to have fun, how to let go.

The Scabbard hosted a wide variety of people, and in just a glance he took in goth boys and transvestites, leather-daddies with their boytoys, punks, sluts.

His own outfit of tight leather pants and a T-shirt was tame here, but it let him more or less blend in and just enjoy the view.

And what a view he had. The man he was looking at was stunning, wearing a pair of skin-tight, tissue-paper-thin jeans and a black leather cincher around his waist. The man's eyes were kohled, nipples rouged and hard.

Dillon's cock, at half mast since he'd walked in, slowly started to fill, pushing against the leather ties that held his pants closed.

He took a mouthful of his drink, eyes scanning the rest of the room in a slow perusal before coming back to the sexy minx in the cincher. The man was lean, broad shoulders tightening down into a perfect, tiny ass. A perfect, tiny ass that shook to the music like it was made for it.

Groaning, Dillon dropped his hand to his thigh, working hard to keep from sliding it along his prick.

His prick. That he could imagine plowing into that perfect little ass.

He started working out his game plan to make it happen.

Someone came up, kissed Mr. Perfect Ass good and hard before continuing on, leaving the group of men dancing together laughing and hooting. Oh, yeah, he wanted a piece of that. A nice, long, hard fuck.

He finished his whiskey and put the glass back on the bar, still watching, focused now. There was something familiar about the shape of Perfect Ass' jaw... Dark spiky hair, bright light blue eyes, lush laughing mouth -- where had he seen that face?

He ordered another drink, trying to work it out before he went to make his move and secure his entertainment for the night.

Come on, Dillon, look past the kohl, figure it out...

It was the way the light fell, shadowing the bright eyes and making the smiling face suddenly sharp-edged, stern.

Jesus Christ.

It was Mr. Stick-Up-His-Ass Proper Boy from the merger meeting he'd ditched earlier in the day.

No fucking way.

His eyes narrowed. Yes, fucking way. That was exactly who it was.

Who the Hell knew that prim and proper demeanor, the uptight face and stern business suits hid this?

Another man came up, took a kiss, hand putting a tiny silver clamp on one tight nipple.

No. No, that was his.

The surety of his thoughts surprised him. He came here and to other places like it for a quick fix of his boredom. For one-night stands. He never came here for more. But something told him he wanted this one for more than one night. Something in the way that tiny ass shook and those little nipples begged for more attention than just a clamp.

A new plan began to form in his head. One that included not only sliding into the sweet ass beneath the cincher, but debauching the prim and proper businessman as well.

Dillon finished his drink and slipped out of the club, riding the anticipation like a drug.

Sean

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Happy Humping Day!

Happy Humping Day!

To celebrate, I shared a somewhat smutty excerpt of my new release -- Of Love. And I had a couple of hot dogs for lunch!


Sean
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Of Love now out!

Of Love is now available at Dreamspinner and all the distributors!

Of Love

Free-spirited computer programmer Kent McMann loves life, candy, his family, and his job designing apps. With his go-getter attitude, he succeeds at anything he tackles. So having a child with a surrogate mother is the perfect start to the family he’s always wanted, even though he still hasn't found his longed-for Mr. Right.

Then, into Kent’s life comes triathlete Dex Lochland, who also happens to be a successful app designer, and the two of them hit it off. They soon begin a relationship full of fun, sex, laughter, and love. But when Kent learns his attempt at fatherhood with the surrogate has succeeded, Dex is shocked. Unknown to Kent until that moment, Dex has never wanted children.

Kent's decision before he met Dex might cost him the man of his dreams.

Buy links:
at the publisher, which is 25% off until end of day June 25
at All Romance Ebooks
at Amazon

smutty-ish excerpt:

“When do you get time to work?” Dex’s training took up a lot of his time; thankfully his apps had to do with said training.

“I have lots of time, and I don’t spend seven hours a day working out.”

Oh, zing!

Dex couldn’t deny it. “Guilty as charged.”

Kent cackled, that big bird sound ringing out, and Dex kissed him, hard. He loved the way Kent’s laughter filled his mouth. It was like sharing that happiness in the best way, and the kisses felt like bubbles, like cotton candy, like all of the sweet things.

He could learn to need this, very easily.

Dex stroked Kent’s cheek, fingers rubbing against the barely there stubble.

“Need to shave, huh?” Kent said.

“I like it. It makes me think things.” Like feeling that stubble against more sensitive parts.

Kent chuckled softly, nuzzling again. “I bet I know what you’re thinking….”

He refused to blush. Refused to. “You do, do you?”

“Mm-hmm. I bet it’s naughty.”

“You haven’t known me long enough to read my mind.” But wasn’t that a cute thought?

“No? I’m insightful. Everyone says so.”

“Yeah? So what was I thinking?” Because he wanted to hear the words from Kent’s mouth. That would be hot as hell.

Kent grinned. “You were thinking how hot it would be to feel that stubble on your inner thighs, on your sac.” He paused. “On your shaft.”

Dex groaned as his cock went fully hard. “Damn, you’re good.”

“Insightful.” Kent rubbed their cheeks together again.

“Sexy,” he countered, breathing Kent in.

“Happy.” His ear was nibbled.

“Yeah, you are. I like that about you.” That and the way Kent was making him wriggle in delight.

Kent licked and lapped around his ear, teasing him, giving him tiny bites. A shiver moved through Dex, and he turned his head slightly so he could return the favor.

“Oh.” Kent’s single sound was hungry. Wanton.

Groaning, Dex licked again, tasting Kent’s skin. Meanwhile, Kent found the hot spot under his ear, licking it and blowing a stream of air across it.

That had him shivering again, groaning. “Fuck!”

“Oh, that’s good. Right there.” Kent licked again, tracing a lazy circle over his skin.

“Uh-huh. Found me out.” Dex’s eyes dropped closed.

Sean

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Movie Tuesday

Got the BluRay of Chappie on Friday and watched it on the weekend. This was one that I wanted to see in the theatre, but I never get to as many as I think I'm going to and I didn't get to this one.

There are going to be spoilers in my talking about this one, so if you haven't seen the movie yet and do not like spoilers (like me!) turn back now!

This was a fantastic movie. First of all Chappie -- loved him. LOVED him. And his family and his maker were awesome characters, just different and interesting and real and I do love the South African accent -- it's not something we hear very often in North America.

Then there was Hugh Jackman, who is usually the hunky hero but in this movie was the nutjob bad guy. The one place where I thought the movie actually fell down a bit was that we didn't feel his being on the edge enough at the beginning of the movie. I wouldn't want too much more, but it just needed a little bit more to make the tipping point for him be totally believable.

I also loved that while extremely often the AI in movies is the big bad (I blame Arthur C. Clarke with his Hal from 2001), and while that was Jackman's character's big tipping point -- his robot didn't have any AI, it was 100% under human control -- it was in fact the humans in this movie who were the big bad, starting with Hugh Jackman's character.

Chappie walking like a gangsta. OMG, such a great touch. Especially at the end when he goes after the human who killed his mommy. I also loved that he had a South African accent as well. I loved the way he learned and how everything was so black and white to him, just like a human child. If you never break a promise, then you never break it, period. If it's wrong to use guns to kill people, then you do not. (And America's way of getting around that was very clever, though in the end people lying to him were called on that and Chappie couldn't understand why everyone lied to him).

And Chappie not understanding why people continued to hit him or cut off his limbs, etc, when he'd said please don't - he'd asked so nicely, why would they keep hurting him? So wonderfully childlike and it just made him that much more likeable. I loved the parallel, too, with the armoured vehicle guard saying 'please don't hurt me anymore' to Chappie and him suddenly taking notice of exactly what he was doing when he was 'putting them to sleep'.

The ending was brilliant. They didn't try to delve into the science, so they didn't get it horribly wrong so it was easy enough to just ignore whether or not it was actually possible to make these things.

Loved the soundtrack. Loved the fact that the robots looked absolutely real, not CGIed.

Yeah, this one gets two very enthusiastic thumbs up from me.

Sean
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My God It's Monday

Good grief here we are over three weeks into June with just over a week left to go. I keep saying it, but I honestly don't know how the days go so quickly. Hell, I'm still rather amazed that it's already mid-year. It doesn't seem that long ago that it was New Year's.

And while today was hotter than I like it and I know I have the entire summer of hotter and muggier and urg to look forward to (not), I also know that it's going to be September before I even know it. Then I'll be enjoying cooler evenings and mornings and anticipating my Thanksgiving trip and the colder weather.

We're not there yet, though, thank goodness, as there are deadlines to be met before then. With the end of the month coming up, that means I have deadlines to hit. For July 1 I have four. So if I'm scarce that's why, and if I'm not, it's because I'm procrastinating ;)

I've got a proofing that needs to be gone through and returned, as well as an edit that needs the same. It's an eternal circle, isn't it? Write, submit, do forms go through edits, go through proofing, yay, it's released, write, submit... etc.

Watched the new season of True Detective last night. I don't know if it's because I managed to doze off through some of it, or because I mainlined the first season after all the episodes were available, but I don't find it nearly as compelling as the first season, which grabbed me right from the very first episode. I was fascinated and had to know what was going on. I'm going to re-watch this first episode of this season, though, and possibly give the second episode a chance before I decide whether or not to drop it.

Well, I suppose I should get the last of the things crossed off my to do list so I can call it a night.

I hope you all survived Monday!




Sean
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To my readers

I really do love my readers - you guys all rock.

I know that I have the best job in the world - I get to sit down and play with all the guys who live in my head. I get to do every day what I love to do. There isn't anything else in the world I would rather be doing. I mean that sincerely and honestly. But what makes it extra special is the fact that there are people out there who want to read the words that I write.

Any time that I hear someone is looking forward to one of my books coming out, it makes me smile and feel grateful. Any time someone tells me that I'm their go-to read when they're feeling down, it makes me feel warm inside. Any time someone tells me that my books helped them through a really bad time, I feel humbled.

You guys make a huge difference and I appreciate each and everyone of you who has bought a book to read, whether you read them all or have only read one - thank you so very, very much.


Sean
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Summer Book News

Lots of book news to share!

I shall continue to self-publish the Velvet Glove books and some of my other backlist books over the summer, but in addition to that, there's a lot of new stuff coming out as well. Gosh, no wonder I've felt like I've been so busy in 2015...

The next Briar Rose is coming out in July! This one is called Blended Family and features two couples where the subs have been best friends forever and they want to become a foursome. At least that's the plan and they figure better to do that somewhere neutral so they can back out if it all goes wrong. Look for this one in July from Torquere Press.

The next Beer & Clay (Brewing) will be available for pre-order in August (early download at Totally Bound in September and at the distributors in October). This one will feature Peter and Christian in their own scenes, as well as Damon and Toby.

I have just turned in SWAK: Bondage and it's expected to come out August 19. This one is very hot, if I do say so myself.

I wrote a longer fantasy novella called Healing Fire featuring dragon shifters. All Romance Ebooks is publishing this one and if all goes well it should be out in early August.

I've signed contracts for a number of my now out of print books with Dreamspinner and the first of these - First Steps will be out in September/October. I've already finished the first round of edits on it and I'm excited about it re-releasing. It has been out of print for a while and it's one of the first books I did featuring kids.

Speaking of Dreamspinner, I just signed a contract for the first book in a new series with them - the series is called Iron Eagle Gym and the first book is The New Boy. It'll be out probably sometime in December or January, depending on how editing goes. I'm already well into book two.

I'm working on a novel to self-publish that involves a threesome, and I just started a new series that is going to be a ton of kinky fun, that I think I might self-publish as well. The new series is running hot at the moment and it's hard to hold back and work on the things that have deadlines...

Trig's story will be on my writing table soon as well, and Rook, Knight and Bishop are going to be having their how we all met story coming soon - a Chess pre-quel. I know who the players are in the next Underground book, and I have several new ideas I want to get moving on, too.

All in all, the men in my head are keeping me busy busy busy and I honestly could use some more hours in my day. Like really, really.

But now, I am going to go and do something that doesn't involve a screen, but quite possibly does involve the imbibing of liquid of the alcoholic variety ;)

Happy Weekend everyone!

Sean
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