The One That Got Away available now!

Every Fisherman has a story...

Billy Wilson grew up in a small community where being gay meant that you liked to skip through the fields on a sunny day. His desire to travel and his struggle to come to terms with his sexuality were the reasons he moved away, vowing never to return to the cabin by Wilson’s Lake unless it was over his father’s dead body.

Now he has to scatter his father’s ashes on the lake where his father liked to fish. Like father like son. Billy is a storyteller by trade, and his father used to tell him some whopping stories, including the one about the fish that got away. Billy’s in for a few surprises; most of all he’s going to discover the truth behind the story.

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A fish, a pigeon, and a swan. Unusual creatures with unusual tales of love lost and discovered await you in this new m/m romance anthology. Read about the biggest fish story ever and the man who had to come to grips with the stories his father told in The One That Got Away by Sharon Maria Bidwell. Follow a racing pigeon as he tries to get back to his lover in Fiona Glass’s, Steal the Sky, and finally return to the struggling relationship between Rudy and Sandy as they come to terms with Sandy’s heritage and rank in Emily Veinglory’s heartpounding tale The Swan Prince.

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NB: The first copies of this book went out with some errors, which happened at the editing stage and was not the fault of the authors. In my case, a paragraph that should have been moved was repeated. My sincere apologies to anyone who received a copy of this version, although it shouldn't have detracted too much from the overall story.

Want to see why you should fall?

Want to taste a Virgin?

Excuse the innuendo. LOL.

I remember laughing whenever I heard an author complain that they had been asked "Where do you get your ideas?" I was still laughing…until it happened to me. The truth is there is no simple answer to this. Writers get their ideas from anywhere and everywhere. Sometimes something so simple as a phrase or a title can do it. Perhaps that's why the Del Fantasma series available at Aspen Mountain Press has proved so inspiring. Set around a bar run by a vampire called Cody Warren, the inspiration for each story comes from the title of a drink. The authors currently working with AMP have produced some fabulous stories using just a couple of words as a springboard for their muses. These stories are part of a series but can equally be read individually, although they should perhaps all come with a warning on the cover as they are highly addictive. Read one and I almost guarantee you will want to read another!

"Virgin Special" released last week and is my latest offering for the series. It's also my first m/m/f novel for AMP as well as my first vampire paranormal. So where does one come up with the idea for a very special kind of virgin?

While holidaying in the Caribbean many years ago, I came across a little cocktail book that I still possess to this day. Wanting to write another book for the 'Del' line, I flicked through the pages seeking inspiration, and it definitely found me. Then, as many authors do, I started playing the old 'what if' game. What IF my main character was not only heartbroken but a virgin? What IF Cody set him up with two vampires equally heartbroken? In that moment Virgin Special came into being.

I'm afraid that aside from reading my novel, the only Virgin Special I can invite you to try is the cocktail. Here's the recipe. I have to admit I've not tried it and I'm trying to imagine how it tastes, but the book describes it as: "A very pleasant and refreshing summer drink." If it's like most things I drank in the Caribbean it'll taste deceptively fruity or watery, and then it will suddenly knock your socks off!

Virgin Special Cocktail
Take a glassful of fresh raspberries, bruise them a little and pour upon them:
2 glasses of Old Brigand Rum
2 glasses of Brandy
1 glass Redcurrant juice and half glass sweetened lime juice.
Let steep for half an hour, then add 1 glass sherry and some ice.
Shake and serve in 6 cocktail glasses.
Decorate with a cherry.

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