I wish I could say I am here with news about a release date but, unfortunately, I’m not.
2023 was a tricky year for me one way and another.
I am still working on Bayden’s Alpha. I’m not going to give up on it. At this point, I really don’t know when I will be well enough to edit and finish it to a standard that I could publish, but please believe that I am doing my best.
Thank you to everyone who has reached out and asked about my progress on Bayden’s Alpha. It means a lot to me that people haven’t completely given up on either me or the book. I just wish I had better news to share in response to all your kindness.
Here’s hoping that 2024 will have some wonderful things planned for us all.
I think 2022 was a rough one for a lot of us. Fingers crossed that 2023 will be much better 🙂
Only a small update I’m afraid. I don’t have a release date for Bayden’s Alpha to share just yet.
A relapse last summer, during the heatwaves we had in the UK, reduced the hours I was able to work considerably. Another relapse last autumn put me completely out of commission for far longer than I would have liked, too.
I’m back working again, but am a bit behind where I hoped to be. My confidence in an early 2023 release date was, shall we say, very misplaced.
I’m not going to guess a release date at this point. I don’t want to keep on disappointing people. Just please know that the book is written, I’m editing it as fast as I can and will share it with you at the absolute earliest opportunity.
On a positive note, one of the reasons I haven’t posted sooner is that things have kind of being going well and I haven’t wanted to jinx it, lol.
Since last October, when my health finally started to improve, I’ve been able to gradually increase the amount of time I can spend writing.
I started off struggling to do fifteen minutes a day. I’m now up to two to three hours a day. Which is the most I’ve been able to do for years!
I’ve been working consistently on Bayden’s Alpha, the sequel to Axel’s Pup. And, I can finally announce that I’ve actually finished writing it!
I’m working on re-writes at the moment and tentatively think it’s going quite well 🙂
I was aiming for it to be about 120k words. It’s currently standing at 290k words. Which actually makes it longer than Axel’s Pup, and Duck!, and Worth Waiting For all combined.
As you can probably guess 290k words is going to take a lot longer to edit than 120k would have.
I’m confident that I should finish my work on it this year, as planned. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I’ll be able to get it through professional editing and proofing in time for a 2022 release date.
So it might still be a late 2022 release, or it might be early 2023 when it finally goes on sale.
It taken me so long to write this book that I’m not sure many people will actually still be interested in reading it when it finally comes out, but I’ll be honest – I love this book. I love Bayden and Axel and all the other guys in their universe too.
If I have my way there’ll be lots more to come in the Werewolves & Dragons series once Bayden’s Alpha is released. I have over a dozen books in the series plotted out already! Some of the characters in them are being introduced in Bayden’s Alpha, which I’m really excited about.
I have lots planned for the Avian Shifters series, too. And there are a couple of completely new series in the wings that are all planned out and just need to be written.
If I can keep working the hours I am now, I hope to have lots of stories to share with you all soon.
The fact that anyone has actually hung in there with me means so much. You guys are the best.
Sometimes a quickie is all you have time for, and sometimes a quickie is all you need.
This volume contains all three stories from the Kinky Quickies Collection: Better than Sex, Different, and Making It Count, plus a bonus story His Very Last Chance.
Better than Sex
Wallace is all the things Brody isn’t—confident, stunning, sex on legs, oh, and straight. Brody is resigned to considering working alongside Wallace to be the highlight of his week, and fantasising about Wallace to be the full extent of his sex life, but apparently, Wallace has other ideas.
The moment he started working with Brody, Wallace knew he was going to have trouble keeping his hands off the guy. In an effort to stay professional at work, he’s kept his sexuality to himself, but that’s about to change.
When Wallace hears Brody say that seeing their latest project leave the premises is better than sex, Wallace knows he has to take action. It’s time someone taught Brody how good sex can be—especially when it’s served up with a generous helping of leather.
Different
Matthew and Stuart have been dating for more than five months, and Stuart genuinely believes that things are going well—right up until the moment Matthew suggests they try something different, the kind of different that involves bondage, spanking and leather.
Matthew’s been building up to making this suggestion for weeks, dropping subtle hints and hoping Stuart won’t completely freak out at the mention of kink. Now, with Matthew’s desires out in the open, all he can do is hope that introducing something different will make their relationship perfect rather than destroy it completely…
Making It Count
Duncan’s wanted to do a scene with Toby ever since he met him in their first study group of the year, but when Toby failed to flirt back or pick up on a single kinky hint, Duncan knew he had no choice but to back off. He always thought that Toby would be interesting if he ever came out of the kinky closet—but it never even occurred to Duncan that he’d suddenly find the boy standing on the doorstep of the club he runs.
Toby’s been fascinated and intimidated by Duncan in equal measure for months. When his flatmate bails out on a kinky play-date with Duncan at the last moment, Toby’s need to grab the opportunity finally overtakes his nervousness. Before he has time to think twice, he’s there, offering himself up as a replacement sub for the night.
This might be the only chance Toby has to fulfil all his fantasies surrounding Duncan—and he’s determined to make it count.
His Very Last Chance
Drew screwed up; he knows that. So, when his master, Kingsley, summons him on New Year’s Eve, Drew knows he deserves whatever punishment Kingsley has in store for him.
Everything changed for Kingsley when he overheard Drew running his mouth to his friends on Boxing Day. Now, there’s only one way they can possibly ring in the New Year: by starting over fresh, either with a complete ending or a new beginning.
Content notes for this title are available on my website, but please be aware that they may contain significant spoilers.
Please remember to check if you already have all the stories before you consider buying! All the stories in this collection are previously published! (His Very Last Chance was previously in O Come All Ye Kinky Anthology.)
In other news – work on Bayden’s Alpha is going well. It should come out next year. When next year will depend to quite a large extent on how long it ends up being. I’m a lot of words in, but there feels like there’s still a lot of words to go in Bayden’s and Axel’s story!
And that’s it. Happy December Everyone and I hope you all enjoy the winter celebrations of your choice 🙂
First off, I’m not dead 🙂 I’ve had a few emails over the last couple of weeks from readers who were concerned about that, because I’d been silent for so long. I really do apologise to anyone that I made worry. That wasn’t my intention.
Second, I am still writing. That’s the other question that’s popped up the most. Progress, as always, has been dependant upon my health. However, after a lot of hard work over the last couple of years, I’ve finally got myself to a point where my health, mental and physical, is the best it has been in decades. Progress is starting to speed up and I’m feeling very positive about it all 🙂
I don’t have a release date for Bayden’s Alpha (the sequel to Axel’s Pup) yet, but I’m feeling confident about it coming out next year. I also have about a dozen other titles planned out for the Werewolves & Dragons series, so hopefully Bayden’s Alpha will be the start of a flurry of them!
I have a lot of titles planned out for other series too, including the Avian Shifter series and a few brand new series, plus some stand alone novels.
Now that I’m writing regularly again, I’m tentatively hoping that I’ll have lots of stories to share with you soon-ish.
While I don’t have anything new to offer at the moment. I will have a re-release compilation becoming available before the end of the year.
Kinky Quickies is a compilation of four previously published short stories: Better than Sex, Different, Making it Count and His Very Last Chance.
The first one is currently available as a single title, but will be coming down from sale before the compilation becomes available. It hasn’t been altered for the compilation. The other three titles have been re-edited since they were last available, but none have been extended.
His Very Last Chance was previously available only as part of the O Come All Ye Kinky anthology.
It’s just a little project, but it will mean that I will have re-released new versions of all my titles that were originally published either by Amber Allure or by Riptide. (Only all my remaining Resplendence ones will be left to be republished then and I hope to slot them in between new releases in due course.)
And that’s it 🙂
I will be checking my various social media accounts over the next few days and will try to get in touch with anyone who contacted me while I was absent. I’ll also be back to post details of the Kinky Quickies release.
However, I probably still won’t be on social media much at all going forward. I don’t think I can sustain both a social media presence and a writing schedule, so I’m going to prioritise writing for the foreseeable future.
If you want to contact me, email is still your best bet. To the best of my knowledge I am completely up to date there. If you’ve sent me anything there and I haven’t replied to it, please re-send it if you still want to speak to me 🙂
Finally, after some technical difficulties (mostly caused by me not having brought out a print book for so long I’d forgotten how to do it!), Thrown to the Lions – The Complete Series is now available in print!
Money. Excitement. Duty. Lust.
Four men have agreed to be thrown to the local pride of werelions. Each man might have had a different motive when he first applied for the position of willing human sacrifice, but one thing is guaranteed—once a man is delivered, bound and naked, to the lions’ doorstep, he’s destined to receive far more than he ever bargained for.
And, as for the lions who accept those sacrifices—from the leader of the pride, all the way down to the gentlest cub, they’re about to find out just how much trouble humans can be.
This volume contains all four stories from the Thrown to the Lions Series: Ryland’s Sacrifice, Marrick’s Promise, Ellery’s Duty and Cameron’s Pride.
The series is also available in ebook if you prefer, in all the usual places. All the links are here.
In other news, I’ve nudged back the release of Kinky Quickies – The Complete Collection, which was planned for this month.
The new story I was hoping to add to it grew into something which is far too long for the collection and which will probably end up being the start of its own series.
Kinky Quickies – The Complete Collection will still come out. It will probably be just the four existing books without any new additions, because I’m not sure my brain is working for shorter stories at the moment. I’m guesstimating a release date in the first half of 2021.
On the plus side, the fact that my brain seems willing to work on longer stories and series instead can only be a good thing for Bayden’s Alpha!
I have been working on it, I am making progress and I’ll provide a proper update when I have something definitive to share 🙂
Four men have agreed to be thrown to the local pride of werelions. Each man might have had a different motive when he first applied for the position of willing human sacrifice, but one thing is guaranteed—once a man is delivered, bound and naked, to the lions’ doorstep, he’s destined to receive far more than he ever bargained for.
And, as for the lions who accept those sacrifices—from the leader of the pride, all the way down to the gentlest cub, they’re about to find out just how much trouble humans can be.
This volume contains all four stories from the Thrown to the Lions Series: Ryland’s Sacrifice, Marrick’s Promise, Ellery’s Duty and Cameron’s Pride.
Ryland’s Sacrifice
Principles don’t pay tuition fees. When Ryland’s doctoral maths scholarship disappears overnight, he has two choices. He can borrow money from fellow student, Jason Burrows, who has very interesting ways of collecting debts. Or, he can volunteer to be thrown to the werelions.
One night spent playing the part of a willing human sacrifice to the local pride will give him enough money to finish his PhD. It seems like a good deal—right up until the moment he finds himself naked, blindfolded, bound and surrounded by lions.
Marrick’s Promise
Marrick thinks that being thrown to the lions will be the ultimate adrenaline rush, and he’s not disappointed. But his plan is to try everything life has to offer once. He has no intention of visiting the lions again.
Blaine and Luther don’t expect to give any of the human sacrifices they share another thought once they leave the den. But this man is different. They have no intention of letting this one go.
Ellery’s Duty
As a well established dom, Ellery has been watching subs from the local leather scene disappear into the lions’ den for years, but he’s not convinced that everything is as fine as they all claim it is. He’s determined to find out what is really going on. And, if the only way he can do that is to volunteer to be thrown to the lions himself, so be it.
Kefir’s never worked out what the other lions find so interesting about the human sacrifices who visit their den, but this new man is unlike any other human he’s ever met, and Kefir’s captivated. Can the smallest lion in the pride claim a man like Ellery as his pet—and is that even the way Kefir wants to think of his human mate?
Cameron’s Pride
Franklin knows the way the game is played. It’s the man with the money who calls the shots, and Franklin has plenty of money. When he sees a beautiful lion shifter called Caramel dancing on the stage at his favourite club, he doesn’t hesitate to reach for his wallet. And, when Caramel disappears before he can even open negotiations, he’s quick to pay a fortune in order to be thrown to the only pride of gay werelions in the area so he can find him.
Cameron’s been living without a pride for years, doing whatever it takes to survive. Dancing in clubs, and doing whatever the guys who throw money at him want him to do in the alleyways behind those clubs, hasn’t given him the best opinion of humans. All he knows for sure is that the rich ones are the worst.
The pride is determined to track down the lone lion that’s living in their territory and bring him safely under their care. But is it too late for Cameron to find a sense of pride—and even if he does, will he ever feel safe enough there to let a wealthy man like Franklin into his life?
All four books have been re-edited since their original release in 2010 (where the hell did a decade go!). None have been extended.
A print version is in the works, just finalising it now 🙂
I’ve written some content notes / content info for those who would like them. You can find them on my website here, but please be aware they may contain detailed spoilers.
So, eight months ago, I wrote a post on here and mentioned that I wouldn’t be on line much.
That turned into eight months of not being on line at all.
I wrote that post one day after taking my last opiate pain killer and I kind of underestimated how long it would take both for my brain to get back to normal and for my body to get used to not depending on them for pain-management.
(Just to be clear here, this isn’t a drug addiction type thing. It’s a pain hurts and re-building your pain tolerance after being on pain killers for years takes time type thing. And also a side effects take a hell of a long time to leave your brain completely type thing.)
I had hoped to jump straight into writing Bayden’s Alpha, and I did try to do that, but eventually had to admit my brain wasn’t initially up to it. So, I turned to another project that had been on deck for a while.
The Thrown to the Lions Series went out of print when the original publisher closed down over eighteen months ago. Over the last few months, I’ve re-edited it, re-polished it, and it’s now with my editor.
It hasn’t been extended, but I am really pleased with how my work on it turned out.
Rather than bring them out as single titles, the whole series will come out as an e-book box-set, and one big print title.
The fantastic Kris Norris just finished the new cover for it!
I’m hoping for an October release date. Details will be added to my website soon 🙂
But there’s another box set coming out even sooner. Pride Publishing is bring out an e-book box set version of the Pack Disciple Series.
This one hasn’t been re-edited or tweaked at all, so the text will be identical to the single title releases. But it does have a fixed release date – July 22nd!
You can find all the info on the publisher’s website, just click the pic below 🙂
And there’s also a third box set in the works. The Kinky Quickies Boxset will contain four existing short titles which were re-claimed from publishers, plus a brand new short story that I’m working on at the moment.
I’m aiming for a November release date on this one, so it might be pushing it to call it coming soon, but it already has a cover, again by the lovely Kris Norris 🙂
Details to be added to my website as soon as I have a chance.
Then, once I have written that new story for the boxset (and proved to myself that I can still actually write something new again!) it’s finally going to be back to Bayden’s Alpha 🙂
I love that book so much, and my brain finally seems to be working well enough to tackle it again. I have over 100k words written on it. How many of those words will survive editing is another matter, but I do finally feel like I’m in a position to finish it on this next push.
No release date in view yet, but as soon as possible. I know I’ve kept people waiting way too long already!
And that’s it for coming soon news.
Apologies that I haven’t ventured back on to social media just yet. Hopefully I’ll be able to hop on to all the channels during this week and I’ll do my best to answer anyone who has been in touch while I’ve been away.
For now, email is still the best way to get in touch with me. (Thank you to those who reached out to check if I was okay when I went quiet for so long. I really didn’t mean to worry anyone.)
And finally, it seems impossible to talk about anything at all without also speaking about everything that’s going on in the world right now, but I also find myself completely without words for it.
Covid-19 has turned the world upside down. Protest movements are working hard to overturn centuries of injustices. As a writer I should have something eloquent to say on both those matters, but I don’t, so I’m just going to say this.
Please do your best to stay safe and follow the social distancing rules that apply in your part of the world, and please do your best to listen to the people speaking up about experiences of injustice and discrimination.
The world is upside down, but maybe there’s a chance that when it finally turns the right way up again it could be a slightly better world.
Sorry it’s been a while since I posted any updates. Unfortunately, I haven’t had much to update people on during the last few months. But I do finally have some nice news!
Pride Publishing are going to be releasing the Perfect Timing Collection in e-boxset format this December 🙂
It’s six books split across two box sets.
The first box set contains You First, Time to Do, and Bi Now, Gay Later. It’s coming out on the 3rd of December.
The second box set contains The Stroke of Twelve, Before he Cheats, and While Under the Influence. That will be out on the 17th of December.
There will be no changes to the text, so please make sure you don’t have the single title releases before you buy.
(Full disclosure – at some point in the very distant future, I might manage to reclaim the rights and issue self-pub editions, and those editions will be re-edited, but that’s a long way off. Especially since I have over 30 titles already reclaimed and waiting to be edited and re-released!)
Please also be aware that there are two titles from the original Perfect Timing collection which aren’t in these box sets. Two titles (Silent Night and Three Minute Man) were MF, and they were removed from the collection when Totally Bound split from Pride Publishing. They are currently out of print completely.
The box sets should represent a saving compared to buying the titles individually, but most of my titles currently seem to be on discount on the Pride Publishing website, so you might be able to find some savings on other titles there already 🙂
A few months ago, when I checked in on here, I posted that I wasn’t going to be on social media much. That “not much” turned into over three months of “not at all”.
Apologies for the lack of a response to anyone who has tried tocontact me through Facebook, Messenger, or Twitter since then. I’m doing my best to go through any and all the notifications on the different sites and catch up with everyone now.
I’m still not expecting to be on social media much for a while yet, so email is still your best bet to catch me going forward.
And, for those of you still following the ongoing health saga…
I’ve come to the realisation that, as illogical as it feels, I’m actually better at writing when in pain than I am at writing when on pain killers. So, after five years on daily tramadol, I’ve come off all my pain meds.
It hasn’t been a particularly fun process, but the last time I was off all my meds I wrote Axel’s Pup, so it seems like that is what it’s going to take to finally get my brain back in gear and get the sequel finished, and I really want that to happen, so there we are, lol.
So far, my brain is much clearer, my writing out put has already increased, so I’m feeling really hopefully!
So, last but not least…
Still working on Bayden’s Alpha, still loving it. Hoping the medication changes I’ve made will give me more concrete news to report soon-ish.
The short version of this post, for everyone who would just like to know if there is any news on Bayden’s Alpha – I’m still working on it, I am making progress, but I don’t have a release date yet.
The longer version…
Since we’re already half way through 2019, it seems like a good moment to check in.
So far, to say 2019 hasn’t gone at all as planned is an under statement.
The year started with my father’s health deteriorating rapidly. He passed away in February. He’d been battling Chronic Lymphatic Lukemia for over 25 years. He had recently been diagnosed with Merkel Cell Carcenoma, but deleloped sepsis and passed away before he could receive treatment for it.
(Sepsis can affect anyone. There’s currently a campaign to raise awareness of sepsis. Please consider visiting the Sepsis Trust Website and making yourself aware of the symptoms.)
I kept working and writing through the first quarter of this year. I wrote every day. I’m not sure how productive it will turn out to be in terms of the quality I produced during that time, but it gave a sense of normality that helped.
Then, in mid April, everything caught up with me. My own health relapsed somewhat. I had to stop working and ended up taking almost two months off.
A couple of weeks ago, I finally recovered to the point where I was able to return to writing. I’m back to working almost every day now and my head is now probably in the best place writing-wise that it has been for years.
With everything that was going on in real life, I completely flaked on promoting them so you probably haven’t heard much about them, but I did bring out three novellas in the first half of this year!
They were all actually written and edited last year, it’s just the release dates that happen this year.
From the start of this year, my writing project has been Bayden’s Alpha (Werewolves and Dragons 2). The sequel to Axel’s Pup. I have about 90,000 words. I’m not sure how many of those will survive re-writes and edits, but it looks like the finished book will end up even longer than Axel’s Pup (which was 180,000 words).
As I said, I’m in the best writing head space I’ve been for years, so I have high hopes at the moment. I know it’s taken me a long time to get this book to you, so I’m really hoping people will think the finished product will be worth the wait.
There’s no release date yet, and there probably won’t be one until the book is ready to go off to editing. I want to give it whatever time it needs now, so it can be the best book it can be.
I think that’s it for the first half of the year. Apart from one little titbit.
Yesterday, and celebrated 11 years since my first title was accepted by Totally Bound / Pride Publishing, way back in 2008. It’s been a wild 11 years, with over 100 titles published!
I’m hoping the next eleven years will bring even better books, and that the last six months of this year will go more to plan.
Happy July Everyone!
P.S. I’m trying to stay off social media as much as possible, so I can get more writing done. Unfortunately, this means replies will likely be slow. I’ll probably only see Twitter, Goodreads or Facebook message at the middle or the end of the month. But my emails are always open and are checked regularly.
(That said, I had a major email crash recently and some messages may have been lost despite my best efforts to retrieve them all. If you sent something to me and didn’t receive a reply, please resend! I never ignore emails intentionally!)
Kim Dare 