Good morning and welcome to the final stop of the Alex in Wonderland blog tour! Big thanks to the FWF ladies for having me over! I’m Alex, and Jessica’s had me running around all week sharing excerpts from the book and organizing the Sex Club Clue Contest. Today’s excerpt is a steamy one — literally!

Oh, and be sure to play Sex Club Clue for a chance to win a free ebook from Jessica’s backlist. Details are at the bottom of the post.

Alex in Wonderland Buy Link: http://is.gd/alexsite

Blurb: What can go wrong in a sex club? Plenty, as Alex is about to find out. Still, when morning comes, the worst night of his life might just turn out to be the best after all.

Excerpt:

He headed for the lobby but somehow he made a wrong turn and wound up in the steam baths instead.

Billowing clouds of warm mist surrounded him. Everywhere bodies were in motion—fucking, sucking. It was like a dream. The steam played hide-and-seek with butts, legs, faces, cocks. Moans and cries echoed off the tiled walls.

Arousal wound through his body, sinuous as the steam. What was he doing, chasing after one fantasy when a smorgasbord of pleasures surrounded him? Hadn’t he focused on one man long enough?

As if in answer to his thoughts, two men beckoned. They leaned against the wall, trading languid kisses. One of them, a Hispanic man with a big, uncut cock, looked him up and down and smiled. His partner, a white guy with a shaved head, nodded. They held their hands out to him.

He joined them.

“I’m Joe,” the Hispanic guy said, “and this is my partner, Reese. We like to get a big guy like you between us and finger cuff him. Are you into that?”

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Okay, so I’m a guest at this year’s Outlanticon/Gaylaxicon, May 3-5 in Atlanta (details here). Yay! This is the first year I’ve been able to attend the con at all, never mind being a guest, so I’m SUPER excited about it :) I’m on a panel about Dr. Who’s alleged gay agenda, y’all! I mean, come on!
**squee moment**

Here’s the thing that’s making me nervous. Apparently, I am doing a panel ALL BY MY SWEET LITTLE SELF (at 11 p.m. on Saturday night, no less) called Erotica & Horror: The Perfect Combo. Now, this is a fabulous idea for a panel. I should know, since I thought it up. You’re welcome. And I do love to rattle on about stuff I think I know. But I did not realize I would have to talk ALL BY MYSELF! So, this is me right now: @_@

As anyone who’s ever read my blogs before has probably guessed by now, I am begging for help, OMG please!politely requesting your input. Any particular angle you think I ought to cover? Any particular reason you think erotica and horror are so compelling together? This con has a focus on GLBTQ culture so I’d like to include as much from that viewpoint as possible. I’m probably going to be re-reading some of my Clive Barker and Poppy Z. Brite collections in the coming days to try and figure out why and how those authors combine erotica and horror so well.

Thanks in advance, y’all :) By the way, if anyone is attending the con, PLEASE come say hi, any time and anywhere, I’d love to meet you! FYI I’ll be reading an XXX-cerpt from my upcoming futuristic sci-fi romance Hell’s End (Hellscape book 1) at Naughty Bedtime Stories on Saturday night at 11. Sock puppet theater is included, and the fabulous and always entertaining Kiernan Kelley has promises detachable penises *g*

What have I been up to lately, you ask? Well, my parents got me a microwave kiln for Christmas and I’m almost embarrassed to admit it’s taken me this long to start playing with it, but you can chalk that up to how crazy hectic the day job has been. Anyway, here’s some of what I’ve been playing with.

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There are some times where you wonder

1. Who figured out that their cat is submissive,
2. that the cat liked to be paddled and
3. had the time to video it.

All I know is it’s utterly twisted and wrong, and I love it to death…

~James

www.James-Buchanan.com

I’ve missed so many of my posting days that it is brash of me to jump in here on an off day but hopefully my fellow bloggers with forgive me. I feel the need to write at the moment.

That’s what I feel like. Like I’m dragging myself out of a dark corner. I have been caught up in the business of business aka running MLR Press and reaching my personal goal of giving readers the best m/m and gay romance and fiction available that I’ve done the unthinkable – I’ve stopped writing.

Only so many hours in the day, blah, blah, blah. So sad.

After some long hard thinking I realized my biggest problem was I have three sequels half finished and the muse for all of them is hiding. Hiding like in he took a trip to Pluto. I didn’t feel like I could write anything new before I finished up these stories. Everyone is waiting for them. I didn’t have the RIGHT to work on something else. So I wrote nothing at all.

But new ideas (along with new muses) were picking at me, pinching my arms, disturbing my sleep and distracting my thoughts. But I ignored them because, well, they weren’t allowed to come out and play until I had finished half-started projects. But they didn’t seem to care about that. They just wanted to pick at me. They wanted me to roll their sweaty, needy bodies across the page and let them be happy. Dear lord, trust me, they really, really want this.
They picked and picked until a few weeks ago when I declared Fridays my personal day for writing. Business be damned, I was going to finish up a project or two!

But… the muse only wanted to whisper new characters in my ear, fill my head with two sexy new men thrown together by circumstances, new actors cast in their roles acting out the danger and romance and, yes, sex–hey, it’s ME writing; of course there is hot sex. I couldn’t NOT write about it.

So… I have given myself permission to write even if it is something no one wants or is interested in. It’s not one of the half-started sequels everyone has been waiting for but at least I’m writing and their muses may come back to play after this!

I’ve finished the first two chapters of a story titled DARK SIDE with the protagonist ex-Special Opts, ex-CIA turned private Security specialist doing covert, too-hot to handle through normal channels jobs. A white knight in tarnished armor with a blunt demeanor, a heart hardened by a lifetime of taking lives to save lives, and a personal life that isn’t any more extensive than the time he spends doing personal hygiene, he is suddenly tripped up by an easygoing, gentle man who literally drops into his rigid, dangerous, fast forward life.

Again and again and again. Did I mention this is a gorgeous, easygoing, gentle man? Well of course he is, this is erotic romance!

While sorting out the new persistent twist in his life, he and his handpicked security team keep on saving the world piece by tiny piece.
Like it, don’t like, at least I’m out in the light and writing.

For anyone who follows me on Twitter, you might recognize the post title as my occasional new hashtag, #thingsilearnwhilerunning, created because I usually pick up at least one new tidbit of knowledge while running. It might not be anything profound — though sometimes it is — but it’s usually something I find interesting, useful or at least entertaining. So here’s me sharing some of the things I’ve learned over the years while running :)

* You need two working earbuds to properly listen to Radiohead. Especially The National Anthem. Listening through one is NOT satisfactory.

* Cows will chase you if you wave at them (yeah, I Tweeted my shock and fear).

* Lots of people get lost trying to find the bed and breakfast down the road from me. I think they need a bigger sign.

* A perfectly healthy 48-year-old woman can break her ankle by stepping on a lump in the grass and twisting it. The ankle, not the grass-lump.

* Broken bones take 6-8 weeks to heal, but recovery takes a crap-load longer than that. And the spot where you broke the bone will ache FOR-FUCKING-EVER, every time you run, so get ready.

* The same gel that keeps my inner thighs from getting all rash-y on a run also keeps my make-up on! Okay so I got that from Pinterist, but it’s related to running. Kind of.

* The dozen or so dogs at the trailer a couple of miles away bark REALLY A LOT, but they never actually cross the road to get at me. Except for the one little puppy who followed me for like half a mile last summer. I had to chase him away so he wouldn’t get run over in the main road traffic. It made me sad to do anything but pick him up and cuddle him because OMG he was adorable.

* I said this on Twitter, but I’m saying it again because it bears repeating: I’ve learned, over and over again, that I can push myself harder, go farther, endure more, do more than I ever believed I could. And that’s one of the reasons I keep putting on my running shoes and going back out there :)

Hope you all have a good one :)

Well, sort of. Easter is the season of chocolate bunnies, Cadbury eggs, Peeps and jelly beans (enough sugar to keep an elementary school bouncing off the walls for a month). It is also the day for dyed eggs: dozens and dozens of them. The youngest of the spawn is now too old to hunt them, but is still insisting we dye some.

This, then, brings up the question of WTF do you do with all those day-glow cholesterol bombs. In this household the answer is deviled eggs. Now, I must always make at least some in the traditional 1950’s recipe of egg yolk, mayo, mustard and pickle relish mashed together and piped into the white…otherwise my sister will inflict terrible hurt on my body. The year I decided not to make the traditional version, well, I still have mental scars from it.

I personally prefer to use the basic deviled egg as a jumping off point. Now, I’ll apologize in advance, because, except for baking, I don’t measure. I learned to cook from my great-grandmother who eyeballed everything. I work in the realm of pinches, smidgens and that-looks-good-enough. These are some of my favorite deviled egg variations and good for all sorts of summer get togethers, cocktail parties or poker nights.

My basic base consists of hard boiled eggs, split with the yolks removed. I now use a food processor, but before I got that I had a blender and that worked okay as well. Put the yolks in the processor with a couple heaping spoonfuls of mayo, a couple not as heaping spoonfuls of stone ground mustard (I like the taste better, but you can use regular yellow mustard if you want). Turn it on and start making paste.  It will be too thick so add a drizzle of olive oil…you don’t want too much or it will change the flavor too much so if it’s still too thick put in some more mayo. It should end up about the consistency of peanut butter. If you’re a purist, this is the point where you fold in the pickle relish to taste and fill the egg halves. Sprinkle with paprika.

A tip: if you spoon the mix in, it gets messy. I take a plastic bag (ziplock or such), fill the bag with the egg yolk mix and get it all into one corner like an icing tube. Twist the top closed and snip off a little bit of the bottom corner and use that to pipe in the contents. The result won’t win any foody awards, but it will keep your kitchen counters from looking like they were bombed with yellow napalm.

First variation is pretty simple. You just add chopped baby shrimp or finely diced ham and fold it in with everything else. Put a slice of pickle on the top with ham or some caviar with the shrimp for the garnish. I wouldn’t recommend the dried salted camarones you can buy a the Mexican grocery…I tried it as a garnish one year: they get a little mushy when in contact with the egg yolk mix and the resulting texture is unpleasant.

For a spicy version, substitute the olive oil for a little jalapeno juice from the jar of sliced jalapenos and omit the relish. Fry up some bacon, really crispy and crush the strips as much as you can (bacon bits…even “real” ones not recommended for this). Fold in the cooled, crushed bacon and some chopped up jalapeno slices. Pipe the eggs and top it with a jalapeno slice and sprinkle with a little chili powder.

The final version is spicy as well. Again no relish or olive oil. Get a small can of chipotle peppers. Pour a little of the juice in instead of the oil and one or two of the peppers (you won’t need all of them for a dozen eggs) and pulse the processor to chop the peppers. The egg mixture will turn a rather vibrant orange. Fold in some very finely grated cheddar or “Mexican mix” cheese (I buy it pre-grated for this). Fry up some Hormel chorizo slices (not chorizo sausage…it’s too soupy) and then crush them. Pipe the egg yolk/cheese mix in and sprinkle the top with crushed chorizo slices.

Happy Easter folks!

My youngest son wants to be a marine biologist. Since he was a little thing, about five, he’s had a facination with sharks. As he’s grown older his interest has grown to include other types of fish. This happens to be something we share. At one time I also wanted to be a marine biologist. Needless to say Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is a huge event at our house.

Moby Dick wouldn't be still

Tyson has mentioned a time or two that since marine biologist are poor and live on grants for research it’s a good thing I’m a writer and can work anywhere. He’s also mentioned that it would be great if his father (who also likes sharks) and I tagged along on his research boat. You know…in the event he needs a new scuba gear or something. The kid has it figured out.

Sherlock

This past November he inherited a fish take with two huge goldfish(Moby Dick because he’s big and white and Sherlock because he’s not the brightest bulb in the bunch) from his grandmother. As a teen I too had an aquarium and loved goldfish. Especially, Orandas. At the pet store one day, I introduced him to Orandas. He fell in love and had to have one. So Pudge the fish came home with us. He’s a baby orange lionhead Oranda.

Pudgy Wudgy smiling for the camera

I got to noticing our nitrates were higher than we wanted. We kept doing water changes and have kept everything up but I got to thinking. Turns out we have a crappy filter. Everytime we changed out filter cartridge we threw out our biological filtration. I should have realized before that we only had mechanical and chemical filtration sooner, but I’ve been out of the game for awhile. I’d bought plants from the beginning because I prefer them to plastic ones and they have the added benefit of acting as biological filtration. Anyway, we bought a new filter, one that allows us to add biological media. So, for the next several week we are now in the process of cycling our tank. I say we, because guess who is helping him learn the ropes? So since I’m paying such close attention to Pudge for the foreseeable future I thought I’d introduce him to you. Isn’t he a cutie?

Pudge's big belly

Okay, it’s not really a “gay sex” update so much as an update on what I’m writing and publishing right now, and where all I’ll be appearing in the coming months. But that all involves gay sex. Or at least the books do. And y’all are interested in that, right?

So here’s what’s going on:
** On May 21st, Hell’s End, book 1 of my newly-conceived Hellscape series, will release from Samhain Publishing. I’m SUPER excited for this one. It’s a dystopian sci-fi/futuristic romance set on a space station. Click here to check out the blurb and chapter one excerpt on the Samhain website.

** In November sometime, I’ll have a Christmas novella releasing from Riptide Publishing. Working title right now is Long The Mile and it’s set in Asheville, where I live. I think it’s an awesome story. It’ll be part of a bundle of themed stories and part of the profits of that bundle will go to charity. Watch the Riptide Website and my books page for details. (my website does not want to load for me right now; hopefully it’ll be back to normal later, sorry!)

** I’m working on an erotic horror short story right now. Actually it’s done, I just need to rework and polish a few things before I send it it. I’m not saying yet where it’s going, since I don’t have a contract yet, but I’m excited about it. Y’all know I love horror so I’m anxious to see how this goes over. Here’s a tiny little TOTALLY UNEDITED taste:
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