Well, it is finally out! My Civil War historical novel, CONFLICT, has just been released in print by Phaze Books.
It has been on the cards for some time and it is really exciting to know it is now available in Print as well as eBook.
I think the only thing more exciting will be to actually hold the book in my hands 
Stevie
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Kinda embarrassed to realise I forgot to announce my latest release which was actually on 9th May!
TWISTS AND TURNS was the sequel to my popular fantasy Sip, THE WRONG PATH, released some time ago by Torquere Press.
BLURB:
Zeke and Crispin, who met in Stevie Woods’ story, The Wrong Path, are surprised to learn that the accident that brought them together was no accident. Determined to get to the bottom of things, Crispin takes Zeke into town to meet with Zeke’s father. Zeke has more than information on his mind; he needs to tell his father that he’s no longer interested in a marriage of convenience. Will Zeke and Crispin be able to make a life together, or will a powerful, determined man be able to interfere with fate?
Stevie
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The day has finally arrived! My fantasy/paranormal novel, ON REFLECTION, is released by Torquere Press today. I’m really excited about this one – nervous too as it is a little different for me. The first time I have written a paranormal, but I have always been fascinated by vampires and had wanted for some time to write about them. I just wanted a different take on the theme, hope the readers think I succeeded
It still has an historical feel to it and even though it’s set in a fantasy world I think a lot of it will feel very familiar.
Buy link:
http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1776
Stevie
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It’s out at last! It seems ages I have been waiting for this book to be released but finally it is for sale
CONFLICT is the sequel to my novel, CANE, and I hope my reader will enjoy learning what finally happens to Pieter, Sebastian and Joss.
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Two men, one war. Can love survive when each takes a different side?
Leaving his lover behind to support the abolitionist cause, Piet Van Leyden finds himself leading one of the first all-black Union troops into the heart of battle. Reuniting with free slave and former love, Joss, brings some comfort, but will his presence tempt Piet into forgetting the love waiting for him at home?
Sebastian Cane wonders how he’s able to go on without Piet by his side. When a series of unfortunate events lands him a prisoner of the Union, Seb knows he must rely on his wits and his love for Piet to survive…and get home to him.
Available from Phaze Books: http://www.king-cart.com/Phaze/product=Conflict/exact_match=exact
Enjoy!
Stevie
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I have a new release for Christmas! A contemporary m/m novelette published by Torquere Press as part of their Single Shot Extravaganza, Fortune’s Choice.
BLURB:
Just before Christmas, Keith returns home to claim an inheritance, but can’t decide whether to stay in his aunt’s old house, or keep his city apartment. He loves that house, but his hometown holds bad memories. Deciding to stay until New Year’s before making a decision, Keith goes to buy a Christmas tree and runs into the one person he isn’t ready to meet again.
Seeing Dale again is sweet torture, complicated even more because Dale’s out and about with two kids. But Dale seems happy to see Keith again, and extremely interested to discover Keith is a successful author. Not only that, but under the pen-name of Guy Fortune, Keith is one of Dale’s favorite gay authors. Will Dale have a confession to make for Christmas?
EXCERPT:
He parked in the small lot and pulling his collar up against the cold, he walked to the section where the Christmas trees were lined up.
There were a few other people wandering around, inspecting the trees. Keith saw a couple he did not recognize so he passed by, then he spied Mr. Murphy and, other than a few gray hairs, the man had hardly changed. Keith smiled at him and the man stared at him, probably trying to place him but coming up short. Keith decided to let him think on it; he would introduce himself later when he had chosen a tree.
He walked down another aisle and saw a man bent over talking to his two young children. Keith idly wondered where the man’s wife was. Abruptly, the man straightened, turning slightly to point at a neighboring tree and Keith was forced to suck in a breath as he recognized the man.
Oh, God, Dale. After all these years, the thought of the boy, the man, could churn up his insides like nothing else. To see him in the flesh… Keith felt his whole body tighten up. He looked… oh my Lord, he looked even better than he had at age seventeen, when Keith lusted over his friend day and night. Better than he had at aged twenty, when Keith knew he loved him and ached each night with the knowledge that he could never have him. Dale Ormiston might not have been the only reason Keith had left Mereton and headed to the bright lights of the city, but he was one of the main reasons and, in the end, the most pressing reason.
Keith had thought that making a clean break, leaving behind an unrequited love and building a new life for himself would be the best thing for him. In some ways, it had worked. He had been successful, though not in the way he had expected. He did have a good life, not spectacular, but he made enough from his writing, both fiction and non-fiction, to be comfortable. The one thing he had never achieved, though, was happiness in his private life because he had never been able to leave behind the feelings he had for Dale. Oh, he’d tried. Trawled the gay bars, picked up and been picked up, probably slept with more men than had been good for him, trying to find someone to capture his heart and mind the way Dale had, but it had been useless. No one measured up to his boyhood friend, and gradually he accepted that no one ever would, or ever could. He still had the odd fling, but now he never expected anything else and no longer looked for emotional attachment.
It was almost a shock to recognize that he had clung to a vague dream that returning home to Mereton, he might finally fulfill his long suppressed fantasy that he could yet win Dale. He had been stupid. Dale Ormiston had always been at the top of the cheerleaders list and one of them had obviously finally caught him.
Keith dragged his eyes from Dale and looked at the two children with him. A boy and girl, aged about seven and five he guessed. Pretty children, with Dale’s big green eyes and light brown hair. He wondered who the mother was. She didn’t seem to have made much of an impression in their looks. Abruptly, Keith realized that Dale might turn around and see him at any moment, and he knew he was in no state to see the man he still loved after all these years. Not with his children. God!
Available from Torquere Press:
http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1702
Stevie
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Having to go to work and continue with ‘normal life’ is not easy at the moment. I’m not the most relaxed person at the best of times, so with the release of my novel yesterday I’m on tenterhooks. Which is a waste of time really cause it’s far too early to know how the book is going! As I said – I’m calm, really, sure!! My way to try and relax, I’m gonna add a little snippet from Cane that I really like – a moment of recognition:
Pieter had been home for barely a day before he saw Joss again. Pieter had learned from one of the overseers where the young slave was working and finding him on his own stacking tools at the edge of the field was perfect. For Pieter, the difference four years had made to the young man was breathtaking. Joss had always been tall and slim with lively dark eyes, but now he had added muscle and carried himself with grace. The twenty-year-old Joss brought only one word to Pieter’s mind – beautiful.
They stared at each other, both smiling and both apparently unsure of what to say or do. Then without conscious thought, they found themselves wrapped up in each other’s arms, laughing and both talking at once.
“Pieter!”
Tillie’s voice behind him sent shivers of warmth up Pieter’s spine. She was carrying a large basket of food, lunch for the overseers, Pieter guessed. He had missed her so much. He had wanted to embrace her when he first saw her on his return, but with his father’s presence in the room it hadn’t been possible. With a last squeeze to the shoulders, he released Joss and turned to Tillie. Pieter swung his surrogate sister around, grinning happily.
“Oh God, I have missed you two so much!” Pieter said but found his eyes kept drifting toward Joss.
When Pieter had discovered his penchant for men in Amsterdam, everything had finally made sense for him. He had always assumed he was simply shy when it came to the girls he’d met growing up, the only one he had ever felt comfortable with was Tillie, but Pieter came to realize that he simply wasn’t interested in women that way. He gravitated toward men and they to him. Barend had keyed him into the truth. The same truth Pieter recognized as he looked at Joss now. The young slave couldn’t take his eyes from Pieter either.
Stevie
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Available now – A Million Pinpricks
Well the day is here at last, my novel Cane is available for sale. Not surprisingly I am very excited.
This morning (6.30) I went to Torquere to make sure it was up so I could do a link to my website. It was – and there was also a Review from Kiernan Kelly and a very nice review it was too!
Kiernan Kelly, bestselling Torquere Press author, writes: Set during the volatile years preceding the American Civil War, Stevie Woods brings us a novel that is heavily laden with emotion, that examines the temperament of the day with a fine and compassionate hand – the hope and hopelessness, the dignity and futility of a world where men are enslaved both physically and spiritually.
Pieter is a privileged young man who nonetheless is held hostage by his father’s manipulations; Joss is a slave on Pieter’s father’s sugar cane plantation. Heartbreak is all that the two can expect from their clandestine and forbidden affair. Only Pieter’s father’s death allows Pieter to return to his island home, but finds that it is too late – Joss had been sold years before.
Finding himself in the United States, Pieter is pitted against the very same issues that had torn his heart to shreds on his father’s plantation. What Pieter discovers among the stalks of sugar cane is a new love, and old friend, and a dangerous hate that stalks his every step.
Woods treats the sensitive subject matter compassionately in this novel of lost love and newfound hope.
Stevie
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