Current mood: blessed

Hi Everyone,

I just received notification that The Forbidden Island is being published in March by www.extasybooks.com!

I am so happy! This is the first official sequel to Phantom Lover, my first book for Extasy which was published in September last year and was in the top 10 of best sellers (No. 5) for that month.

Fly Me to the Moon, an 'in between titles' Christmas sequel finished in the top 10 for December (N0.6) and since it won Cover Art of the Year award at the P&E Polls for my brilliant publisher/artist Martine Jardin, I have been a patient boy, waiting and hoping to keep the Phantom ball rolling!

All those voodoo spells worked!

Kidding, of course. If I could really do workable voodoo, I'd use it to produce a skinnier ass. I would also turn Jason Statham into a gay man (and my hot new boyfriend). And my kitchen would self-produce chocoloate cupcakes and Kona coffee every morning!

The Forbidden Island, the first of three sequels also in the editing queue is officially in my editor J's hands and I waiting for my crack at the first round of edits.

In the meantime, I am working on a short story (about 5,000) words for Extasybooks' Sanguinary anthology - all about blood, vamps and weres and will be an actual published paperback book featuring the work of Extasy's authors. It's gonna be hot!

My own story is based on an actual gruesome tale I heard whilst hiking in a spooky and very remote spot in Kauai. My version will involve lotos of M/M sex, of course!

In closing, I would like to say how humbled I am by the genius and grace of Hawaiian slack key master Keola Beamer. Though he has been nomonated for a Grammy this year in the Hawaiian music category, he is declining to attend the ceremony because though honored by his nomination, he doesn't feel his album The Coming of the Snow is really Hawaiian.

He is choosing instead to keep an earlier commitment he made to travel to the outer Hawaiian island of Molokai to help a group of very troubled teenagers. If that doesn't make this man and ALL his music Hawaiian, then I don't know what does. I had the privelege of meeting Keola and his beautiful wife Moana last year and they are truly the embodiment of the word ALOHA.

Aloha oe,

A.J.  

Currently listening : Ka Hikina O Ka Hau (The Coming of the Snow) By Anonymous Release date: 12 December, 2006