Fiction
Free downloads
Some of my fiction is available for free download on this site, or elsewhere on the web. There's a page with a detailed listing of the free stories. They're mostly gay erotica and original character slash (m/m, but often with a different emotional emphasis to mainstream gay erotica). There are also free excerpts available for most of the commercially published stories. There are links to the excerpts in the bibliography, and there's also a quick reference index page for excerpts from short stories.
Bibliography and printable list of titles
There's a printable list of my fiction, plus a full bibliography of my fiction on a separate page, with links to stories, excerpts, cover art and reviews.
My author page at Loose Id where you'll find all my Loose Id titles. You can also find some titles at Fictionwise and All Romance Ebooks. (Plus places like Powells, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, etc.)
Recent sales and publications
Lord and Master - Flight of Dreams Short story in the Lord and Master series. Published on this website as a promotional piece 16 June 2008. Contemporary erotic romance, m/m, 7100 words. Complete story here.
It's set on Mark's thirtieth birthday, about two years after their wedding, i.e. some time after both the original novel and the forthcoming sequel. This is a standalone and you don't need to have read the novel first, though obviously you'll get more out of it if you already know the characters. For those who wanted to see something from Steven's POV, here's your chance.
Yule
Novelette published as an ebook by
Loose Id, 18 December 2007. Contemporary erotic romance, m/m, D/s,
9,000 words, co-author Lindsey Mullen, more details and excerpt here.
Literary Nymphs: Jules and Lindsey delivered a wonderful holiday story that is sure to please readers of BDSM.
And if I offered thee a bargain Short story published in the September 2007 issue of the webzine Forbidden Fruit, 1 October 2007. 5500 words, contemporary fantasy, m/m, sidhe. A modern man meets one of the sidhe, and finds that legends are true, but the sidhe have changed. They have a new bargain to offer mortals who bring them fresh stories...
Love is Blind Short story (with Alex Woolgrave). Published
in Constable & Robinson's
Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica
anthology, 30 August 2007. Softcover, ISBN 9781845294779.
US edition published by Carroll & Graf,
The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica
Black Leather Rose
Novelette published as an ebook by
Loose Id, 12 June 2007. Contemporary erotic romance, m/m, mild D/s,
11,000 words, more details and excerpts here.
Night Owl Romance: 4.5/5 and This is a beautifully written short fic, full of emotional realism and deft observation, which lifts it well out of the common run.
Literary Nymphs: 4/5 and Black Leather Rose is a fiery romance packed into a short story... A quick read that’s sure to leave you wanting more.
Dolphin Dreams
Published as an ebook by Loose Id, 3 April 2007.
Paranormal erotic romance in a contemporary setting (dolphin shapeshifters), m/m/m menage,
D/s, 100,000 words, more details and excerpts here.
Coffee Time Romance: Jules has written an exceptional story that spell bounds and keeps the reader turning the pages until the end.
The Romance Studio: Dolphin Dreams is a highly original and exquisitely told story of love and trust like I’ve never read before.
Lord and Master
Published as an ebook by Loose Id, 13 February 2007. Contemporary erotic romance, m/m, yaoi, 62,000 words,
more details and excerpts here.
Based on the short story published by Clean Sheets in August 2006.
Joyfully Reviewed: Recommended Read and I’ve always been a huge fan of the yaoi genre, and with Lord and Master Jules Jones has managed to write a fantastic romance that satisfied every one of my yaoi needs.
Literary Nymphs: 5/5 and This scorching tale is also sweet and full of emotionally intense moments that will keep readers riveted from beginning to end.
Work in progress
Or not in progress, as the case may be. Most of this isn't being actively worked on at any particular time. It's stuff that will happen eventually, and in many cases there's a significant chunk of it already in existence. Things that show up in this section are often short stories or novelettes that will be reworked into novels. I've got a bad habit of starting to write a short story for an anthology, and ending up with something that gets accused by beta-readers and editors of being the synopsis for a novel. If it's listed here, they can see what its current status is without nagging me about it.
Lord and Master 2 -- set of three linked shorts that will be a novella/novel-length sequel to Lord and Master. Rough draft finished March 2008 and submitted to my editor at Loose Id.
Taxman -- urban fantasy set in contemporary London. Subject of a whine in rasfc about not sure whether it's one for an sf publisher or a romance publisher. Temporarily laid aside while I wasn't able to focus on a novel, but will probably be picked up again once I've finished the edits on L&M2.
Buildup 3 -- I will write it one day. I swear I will...
"The Knights Templar thing" is in fact an sf novel. It got that title because the dream and ensuing story fragment that generated it were about a Knight Templar. It's not (primarily) erotica, but it does contain quite a lot of explicit gay sex, which means that it's going to be fun finding a publisher when I finally finish the damn thing. Not enough rumpy-pumpy for the porn publishers, too much (or the wrong type) for mainstream sf publishers...
Journey Into Freedom. Specfic political allegory, with more gay sex than is probably good for its chances of selling. Now on the "send it out to an open slushpile, get it back, repeat" merry-go-round. I was actually being rude about the British Empire, but since history has a habit of repeating itself, people have taken it for a critique of more recent politics. I'm not sure whether this will hinder or help its chances. Possibly both...
Untitled erotic romance project with Alex, aka the accountant story.
Sufficiently Advanced Magic is a slightly unconventional vampire novelette. The novelette is what I sent off to a publisher for consideration, but I keep getting nagged by my betareaders to turn it into a novel. They want to know what happens next. It got a "like it but can't use it" rejection from Circlet, along with yet another comment that it has the makings of a novel. I think I'd better give in and put it in the novel queue.