Happy Re-Release!
It’s official! Innocence & Carnality is back up for sale!
It was a difficult decision to self-pub my book. Pulling my
rights back after Dreamspinner Press’ lack of payment—I’ve been paid only
approximately 10% of everything they owe me—was one of the hardest things I’d
ever done. The financial trouble they were having only came to light for me
after I & C originally released last year.
I wanted to believe they were making strides to make things
right. Pay back past due royalties, rebuild author relationships, and get back
to proper business. Dreamspinner was one of the big boys, so of course things
were going to right themselves.
Unfortunately, they didn’t. The situation depressed me so badly,
I barely wrote last year. Another author had gotten legal advice and shared how
if Dreamspinner went bankrupt (which was a definite possibility) the contract
language to revert rights wouldn’t supersede bankruptcy law when they seized
assets. For a publisher, assets are the books. I wasn’t going to lose my book
for however long it took for the courts to unwind the mess we were in, so I
asked for my rights back in December.
It didn’t take long, but I was able to re-publish Innocence
& Carnality through Amazon as the sole owner of my story, and it’s now
available to read through Kindle Unlimited, or you can purchase your own ebook
or paperback copy.
Blurb:
Innocence
is his only currency.
The gilded cage of propriety where Nathan grew up as a member of the Deilian aristocracy became a true prison when, at fifteen, his homosexuality came to light and created a terrible scandal. His parents see only one way to preserve their reputation amongst the other noble families: fit Nathan with a chastity belt to increase his value to a potential partner and marry him off as soon as possible.
The recipient of that prize is Lord Rother Marsh Delaga III. After a hasty wedding, Rother whisks Nathan away to the strange and seductive land of Marisol, where Nathan will begin a new life, free to explore the pleasures of the marriage bed, though his life is still not his own.
But Rother’s Delaga House is a place of secrets, dangers, and depravity Nathan can scarcely comprehend. Where friends are few and peril waits around every corner, Nathan must employ all the manipulation he learned from high society, along with his talent for clockwork. Most of all, Nathan must adapt, compromise to survive, and cast off the preconceptions of his homeland.
Because only he can orchestrate his freedom, and it’ll come at a cost.
The gilded cage of propriety where Nathan grew up as a member of the Deilian aristocracy became a true prison when, at fifteen, his homosexuality came to light and created a terrible scandal. His parents see only one way to preserve their reputation amongst the other noble families: fit Nathan with a chastity belt to increase his value to a potential partner and marry him off as soon as possible.
The recipient of that prize is Lord Rother Marsh Delaga III. After a hasty wedding, Rother whisks Nathan away to the strange and seductive land of Marisol, where Nathan will begin a new life, free to explore the pleasures of the marriage bed, though his life is still not his own.
But Rother’s Delaga House is a place of secrets, dangers, and depravity Nathan can scarcely comprehend. Where friends are few and peril waits around every corner, Nathan must employ all the manipulation he learned from high society, along with his talent for clockwork. Most of all, Nathan must adapt, compromise to survive, and cast off the preconceptions of his homeland.
Because only he can orchestrate his freedom, and it’ll come at a cost.
Buy Link:
Available as ebook, paperback, or read for free as part of
Kindle Unlimited.
About the Author:
While spending years more focused on visual arts, J. Alan Veerkamp never
let go of his innate passion for storytelling, wanting to write and draw comic
books when he grew up. Once he discovered M/M fiction, a whole new world opened
filled with possibilities. Why couldn’t you have fantastic and dynamic sexy
tales with an M/M cast? He started reading the online tales of authors like
Night Tempest, Rob Colton, and Alicia Nordwell, which only fueled his need to
create. Eventually he found GayAuthors.org, and with a little coercive nudge,
started sharing his tales with an unexpected level of positive response. The
experience and support gave him the courage to cross his fingers and aim for
the world of M/M publishing.
Born and raised in Michigan, J. Alan continues to type away,
wishing it was practical to use a noisy old-fashioned keyboard that clacks with
each strike, if only to annoy his loving partner and spoiled miniature
dachshund.
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