Fireworks
© 2010 by James Buchanan
Forth of July and I’m cleaning a swimming pool – not at a party or BBQ, but just me and Jose’s pool and the New Mexico sun.
Jose didn’t have a swimming pool in his back yard…he had a swimming pool that was his back yard. It took up the whole length [...]

Antelope Valley Pride, next Saturday.  I’ll be there with books and swag and such.  Drop by and say hi.
I like the smaller Pride celebrations, little more intimate…less Budwiser sponsorship dominated. Lot more fun.
This year’s Antelope Valley PRIDE will be held on Saturday, June 19th from 10am-5pm at Poncitlan Square (38315 9th Street East ) Palmdale, [...]

The third book in the Taking the Odds series featuring Nicky & Brandon.
All or Nothing
#3 in the Taking the Odds series
byJames Buchanan
ISBN#    978-1-60820-147-1 (print) $14.99
978-1-60820-150-1 (ebook) $6.99
Release Date    April 2010
Cover Artist    Deana C. Jamroz
Paperback:    212 pages
Available At:    MlrBooks (ebook)
Amazon.com (paperback)
Barnes & Noble (paperback)
Blundering his way forward in his relationship with Nevada Agent Nick O’Malley, [...]

Spring Cleaning
by James Buchanan
(c) 2006
Mark sat on the steps of the apartment building surrounded by his stuff.  One suitcase of clothes propped up his back. The collection of Justice League Comics, double bagged and boxed in two long white cardboard cartons, rested next to him.   It was all he’d managed to salvage before Charles tossed [...]

Sorry I missed the other week folks, I was knocked on my butt by a nasty virus.  But I’m up, I’m moving…I’m shilling for votes.
Voting for the LRC’s “Best of 2009″ Awards begins on FEBRUARY 15th and ends on FEBRUARY 22nd.
I’m up for three and other’s here are up as well!
I’ve proposed naked Jell-O [...]

© 2007 James Buchanan
 Tony stared out over the moonlit snow.  The cold rail cut through layers of clothing.  He’d dressed to impress, not to be warm.  “This was such a rip.”  He bitched, to everyone and no one at once.
“No shit!”  The only other occupant of the balcony took a drag of his cigarette.  Red [...]

And the territory of Deputy Joe from Hard Fall.  I’m figuring this is going to inspire book 2…plus a lot of fantasies about cowboys in general.  Here’s a slide show of my last trip out there.  Beautiful country.

So I’ve decided to do a book involving Torerros – bullfighters – in Mexico. I can appreciate the power and the beauty of the dance of death. These are men who put their lives on the line every time they step into the ring. They are flamboyant and sexual and hyper masculine [...]

I was discussing with a beta reader today the flow of a narrative and whether a character (Nick O’Malley) would ever actually want to move to the city where the other character (Dt. Brandon Carr) resides.  Now, Nicky is from Vegas.  I don’t have to explain Las Vegas to anyone.  Even if you’ve never been [...]

 
Little rough as it’s only been through one round of beta reading, but here’s an excerpt from the third Nicky & Brandon Novel:  All or Nothing.

Not bothering to turn on the light, Brandon staggered into Nicky’s office.  He tried to be quiet, but it was hard laboring under seventy-five pounds of dead weight.  Shayna was [...]