A warm Love Bytes welcome to K.C Wells who is visiting us on the featured GRL Blog Tour

She is “Celebrating” with us and also shares some information on her newest release “Confetti, Cake & Confessions”

There is also a giveaway on the end of this post!!

Welcome K.C !

LET’S CELEBRATE!

What am I celebrating? This month marks the end of my first year as a full time writer!

Last year was… eventful, to say the least. The Evil Day Job took a new turn and things got pretty scary for a while. Did I say scary? For a while back there I was terrified. The future looked uncertain and I didn’t know what I was going to do if events took a turn for the worse. And in the midst of all this panic, my dad asked me one question that was to change my focus entirely.

“Could you make the writing pay?”

That stopped me dead in my tracks, because the question implied a future I hadn’t even considered – not teaching anymore. For one whole day I allowed myself to think about not teaching.

It was Sheer. Bliss. I was happy. Relaxed.

Of course, the next day, the worries started up again. Could I do it? What about the mortgage, the bills? But the way I’d felt for that one day was enough to keep me going. When I got back to the hubby, I told him how I felt. I could see from his face that he was sceptical. But when he started talking about looking for teaching jobs on the mainland (We live on the Isle of Wight), a wave of panic washed over me. I started crying. I think he got the idea about how I felt….

That was in April 2013. For the next three months, I threw myself into my writing. I became a writing machine! I look back now on what I accomplished during those months: I finished Trusting Thomas, wrote Someone to Keep Me with Will Parkinson, wrote Making it Personal, Waiting for a Prince…. And by June I’d released my first self-published book. When the fiasco concerning the EDJ came to a head at the end of June, it coincided with the release of Making it Personal and An Unlocked Heart, the first book in the BDSM series Collars & Cuffs. Those two books provided a welcome boost to my confidence. Their success made me think that maybe I could do this after all…

So based on that, I made the decision that I was going to write full time. Seriously scary moment…

And a year on, how are things?

Well, the bills – and the mortgage – get paid. I’ve been able to travel to the USA a few times. My dad is now asking if I’m merely scraping by or if I’m ‘comfortable’. Hmmm. Not sure about that one. I know I am watching my Amazon figures at the end of every month, trying to work out how things will work out in two months’ time when they actually pay me. I have good months – now and again I’ve had the odd very good month – and then there are leaner months. Swings and roundabouts, really. It’s not like this is a hobby, is it? I mean, this is IT. Every time I bring out a new book, I’m having kittens. Will they like it? Will it sell? Will it bomb? Yeah, a lot hangs on how a book is received these days.

With what I learned from putting out my first self-published titles, I was able to help others do the same. I started editing for my bestie, Max Vos, and he’s now got a few titles out there. Then along came Emmett S. Skipper, and that’s been fun. It’s been a great experience to work with other writers and find I could share what I’d learned. Max was able to come spend a month with me, and we got to the UK meet in Bristol, the island, Paris, London… We had a blast.

This year I will have brought out five books with Dreamspinner Press: Someone to Keep Me with Parker Williams, Love Lessons Learned, A Dance with Domination, Final Exam and Damian’s Discipline, with Parker Williams in October, the next instalment in the Collars& Cuffs series. As for self-published titles, not so good. I brought out the last in the Personal series, Personal Secrets, in February, and then three of them were translated into French – exciting! But as for new titles, today marks the first new title for a while.

Confetti, Cake & Confessions came from a suggestion back in December 2012 when I was doing my first Dreamspinner Facebook chat. I asked the readers if there was a storyline they’d love to see, and someone suggested stepbrothers who fall in love. The idea sort of stuck with me. The book is what I’d call a real love story, and judging from the comments of those who’ve read it so far, they would agree.

And as for what’s in the future? Well, let’s look at the Dreamspinner books first…

Right now I am writing #6 in the Collars & Cuffs series, Make Me Soar. It should have been #3, because it’s the story of Dorian who appeared in the first book, but by then I’d started writing with Will, and Dorian had to take a back seat. I’m about 20K into it, and this book is killing me. It’s so difficult to write – not because I’m having writer’s block issues or anything like that, but because of the subject matter. Dorian is really going through hell right now – and I’m going through it with him.

After that, I’m writing a stand alone, First. Not telling you about that one yet 😉

Will and I are then going to write the penultimate book in the Collars & Cuffs series, Dom of Ages, about Eli and Jarod. Oh, I think you may really like that one. J

My first ménage/fantasy comes out in January, A Bond of Three, and by now you’ve realized that I’ll be extremely nervous about that.

And as for the self-published titles, I’m spoilt for choice as to what to write next. There’s the next in the Island Tales series, set on the Isle of Wight – Submitting to the Darkness. OR I could be writing my first ever thriller, Fatal Designs. Then the other day I had an idea for one more book in the Personal series… Oh, and a new series about rugby players…. AND the one about Franco, the priest from Personal Changes…. And then there’s the translations into German and Italian.

You get the idea? KC Wells has never been so busy. But that’s how it’s going to be from now on. This is my job, after all.

And I am loving every minute of it. 😉

 

K.C her Latest Release:

Blurb:

Tony Porter and Marc Powell had lived in the same house for the past eight years, since their single parents moved in together. When Tony’s mother Marie and Marc’s father Dennis decide to tie the knot at last, it should be an occasion of great joy for everyone. Except all Marc can think about is having to spend the next two weeks with the young man he’s been in love with since he was sixteen.

Tony feels so torn about Marc coming home from college. He keeps telling himself that it’s wrong to feel this way about him. After all, in two weeks’ time they’ll be related. So when the two young men are thrown together to prepare for the wedding, tensions rise and discoveries are made.

It’s going to be a very long two weeks, and a wedding that no one will ever forget.

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Tony had been a part of his life since Marc was eleven, and the two boys had grown close. That had been part of the problem. He’d always thought of Tony like a brother, his best mate and fellow mischief maker all rolled into one. Marc loved him, with the same love he had for Marie, Lucy and Ryan. They were his family, in all but blood.

So getting to the age of sixteen and realizing he was having distinctly non-brotherly thoughts about Tony had been a shock. He’d fought the attraction at first. God, how he’d fought it. It made things easier that Tony had only been fifteen. Marc wasn’t about to act on

his feelings: Tony was still his little brother in his mind. But as Marc had gotten older, his feelings hadn’t subsided: if anything, they’d intensified. At eighteen, he’d seen how beautiful Tony had become, and that was when the sexual attraction had really kicked in. He’d argued in his head that it didn’t matter, it wasn’t wrong, that he and Tony weren’t related. That had worked for a while.

Then Marc had left home to attend Mountview, and bloody hell, he’d missed Tony. He’d stayed in touch, phoning every week and emailing virtually every day, even if it was only one or two lines. When Tony had gotten an iPhone, not a day went by without some contact between them. But fuck, Christmas…. When Marc had come home for the holiday, he’d been unprepared for the depth of his feelings for Tony. It had been great to see him, to spend time with him, but just being close to him had been torture. He’d lain in bed listening to Tony’s rhythmic breathing as he slept, and had faced the truth: he loved Tony, loved him with all his heart, but fucking hell, he wanted him.

In his arms, in his bed… inside him.

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