Z.A. Maxfield

Happily. Ever. After.

Lost/Broken Links and Other News

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Crazy day! I’ve only just discovered that the image links on my “Links” page have disappeared! If I hadn’t been linking to an author whose book I recently read and enjoyed I would never have noticed. So, for now, my website “Links” Page and “Books” Page are under construction. Soon — All too soon, I have to add more books and every single slot on that page is full, at this point. I have no earthly idea how to put in more. Since I plan to write more — many, many more books, I’d better be searching out a solution. So in the meantime, please pardon the dust on those pages while I work on them. If anyone has a question that isn’t addressed on this website feel free, PLEASE, to email me personally at zamaxfield@yahoo.com, and I’ll try to help.

While we’re talking about links, if anyone wants me to link to their author page on wiki or their website please let me know, send me a banner and a link and I’ll put it up there, you can link back or not as you like.

In the meantime, I’m about to update my coming soon page with news about two Christmas stories, so be on the lookout for news about upcoming releases.

And finally, the biggest news of all, my editor really LIKES the title “The Pharaoh’s Concubine.” She believes it’s fun and different and attention getting, and so I’m happily placing myself in her capable hands and leaving the title As Is for the moment, at least until she tells me otherwise.

(Did I mention I LOVE all my editors and they have the last word?) I got such great suggestions for titles, one or two might actually end up as books, just because I liked the title!

A GREAT BIG thank you again to everyone who tried to help me out of my title slump, I have a little something planned in the near future for you all, a little something extra in the nature of a just for giggles story to thank everyone for their kindness… Keep an eye out around Halloween for that, I’m thinking of a free Fall holiday read centered around my favorite time of year!

What Is Everyone Talking About?

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The I Do Anthology

An anthology of stories by authors dedicated to Marriage Equality. All the profits from the book will go to to Lambda Legal Fund.   

I am so thrilled to be a part of this, and humbled too, by the number of fine writers who have donated stories.  (If you see Alex Beecroft, who was the one to propose the idea, that’s me hanging on her coattails and her every written word. Write like the wind, Alex!)  

I Do will be available in January.  Printing costs and distribution services have been donated by the phenomenal people at MLR Press. 

 

This Anthology defines “Labor of Love”, and I’m so proud!

TABLE OF CONTENTS??

The Lindorm’s Twin Brother by Tracey Pennington??

Desire and Disguise by Alex Beecroft??

The Roaming Heart by Charlie Cochrane??

Outed by Clare London

??Lust in Translation by Storm Grant

??Making memory by Lisabet Sarai??

Swansong by Sharon Maria Bidwell??

Finally Forever by Jeanne Barrack??

Code of Honour by Marquesate??

Tango and Temptation by ZA Maxfield??

The Mistake by Pat Brown

??Holy Macaroni (and Cheese) by Allison Wonderland??

The Snow Queen by Erastes??

Better than beautiful by Zoe Nichols and Cassidy Ryan

??Semi-detached by Emma Collingwood??

Rules of the Game by Mallory Path

??Templeton’s In Love by Jerry Wheeler??

True Love by Moondancer Drake??

Salad Days by Fiona Glass??

Wedding Announcement by Lee Rowan

 

Jiminy Christmas!

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I’m running out of stupid exclamations.  But really, I couldn’t be more shocked.  I was getting my daughter’s friend a book on Amazon and decided to check out… well… MOI, and there I was… # 10 on the gay and lesbian bestseller list for Kindles.  Here

This changes hourly, and then, when I showed my husband I was #2.  Okay.  I’ve been sick for a few days, and now I dunno.  I’m just so amazed to see myself there at all!  *gasps*  

Okay, I’m seriously working on that Ethan and Barry story to have it all wrapped up and under the tree for you by tomorrow night, when even silly google-wanking writers (oh, you knew that’s what I was doing, didn’t you?) will be tracking Santa’s progress with the offspring and searching the sky for a little red-nose-reindeer.  

I couldn’t have a better year without accidentally losing four sizes and finding the money for a new wardrobe in the attic.  Everyone of the people at my publishing houses and on my flist and in my yahoo group and with whom I’ve had reason to correspond has become very dear to me.  Thanks everyone, I’ll post again tomorrow, but right now, I just wanted to say wow.  And Happy Holidays.  


Ohmygosh

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I just discovered The Long Way Home is a Kindle Edition at Amazon!  I have a Sony eReader which I only purchased a week before the Kindle came out, what rotten timing!  It’s not that I don’t like my reader, it’s just that the Kindle sounds so much sexier.  I’m a Kindle Edition, Rawr.  Kiiiiiiinnnndle, like ‘light something on fire’.  Hmm…

Don’t forget you can still be one of the first folks join my Yahoo Group, here, so you can tell everyone you knew me when (I wasn’t a homeless old woman living in her car and talking to statues. 😉 ) I might have mentioned that I’m having a drawing on January first and everyone will have the chance to win a signed print copy of Crossing Borders, and eBook copies of The Long Way Home and St. Nacho’s.

I Do Anthology

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I’m delighted to announce that my short story, “Tango and Temptation”, was accepted by the team of writers who were making the decisions for the charity anthology “I DO”, spearheaded (and I don’t think that’s a metaphor, I think she really has a spear, 😉 ) by Alex Beecroft.  This book will be released in February by MLR Press, and all the proceeds will be given to Lambda Legal to support marriage equality.  

Alex is such a terriffic person and a wonderful writer.  I wish I had all the names, but I know some of my favorite writers are involved which makes me feel like I was picked for the cool kids team at school. When there’s more to follow up with on this story I’ll be sure to share it.  

Yes, now you know why all those YouTube tango embeds…

You can see from the ‘Freebies’ page on my website that marriage equality is a cause dear to my heart so you can imagine how delighted I am to be able to participate in this way.   

Hey! This just in… for those of you who have been following the Freebies Uber Couple, Barry and Ethan, sometime before Christmas Eve, I’m going to share the story of their first Christmas together, in “The Cursed Noel”.   

Their love was new and the boys were poor!  Ethan’s family had disowned him and Barry’s wanted him home for Christmas.  Ethan was surly and declared that they were a family and didn’t need anyone else, trying to make Barry choose. Barry was understanding until he had good reason to think Ethan might have made other plans.  Christmas 1978: Karen Carpenter is singing ‘Merry Christmas Darling’, and everyone is still dancing disco, and Ethan’s plan to wrap his lover in beautiful music almost causes the whole thing to end there and then.

Look on my website in the next couple of days as I add to the Barry/Ethan stories, and Merry Christmas!
Oh, and yeah, still **twirling** and still #1 at ARE, don’t know if by the time this loads I’ll still be there though!

My day in the sun!

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I woke this morning to discover, alas, that my day in the sun is over.  Still, considering I never imagined in a million years I’d ever make the top ten of ANYTHING, at all, getting to number one at All Romance Ebooks for twenty-four hours was more than fun.  

Did you ever have one of those days when every news headline from “Jellyfish Gone Wild” to “California Plans to Control Emissions” just cracks you the hell up?  Or a simple misreading of something or being interrupted makes them seem funny?  Like “Protect Your Most Valuable Asset“.  

My family is putting up Christmas lights, and naturally, all four of my men are screaming at each other.  It’s kind of that time of year.  “Shut up, don’t know you know this is a dang joyous family event?!!”  During the annual lighting of the house, my daughter and I hide in my bedroom like the family Frank.  I’m sorry, now, that I didn’t write a Christmas-themed story.  I am sure to rectify that for the coming year, because I like Christmas and have always made an effort to make it as special as possible.  Now that the children aren’t little anymore that has become harder, what with everyone wanting to go everywhere with their friends and liking their music better than carols.  It’s becoming more difficult to involve them in family activities that don’t have to do with them getting cash.  

It’s fun to remember though, back to my own childhood, that when my parents were saying the same things about me I wasn’t gone, I was just different.   

So, tomorrow, the TREE.  Yep.  This will mean housecleaning and possibly cookie baking.  In the mean time I have finished the rough draft, (actually this time I think I really did) of the sequel to St. Nacho’s, and next week I will be working on my one other WIP, ePistols at Dawn and then, perhaps, I can submit them and spend Christmas doing something else besides worrying about work. 

And for Aidara because Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without Korean boy bands or colorful scooters…

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What she said…

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