The Home for Mell Eight's Original Slash Fiction

I'm a slash writer, which means my stories all contain a strong male/male romance. If that is not your thing, hit the back button. If you do love slash then welcome and enjoy! 

Release Dates:

           Road to Home
  Ebook: January 7, 2015
        The Oracle's Golem
    Ebook: January 21, 2015
    The Oracle, Volume One
    Print: Date Coming Soon!

Current Projects:

  • Ground of Insurrection -Editing!
  • The Oracle's (Water)
  • Dragon Dilemma
  • Dragon Deception -- Editing!
  • Kelpie Blue

Submitted Projects:

  • Thunderbird -- Submitted!
  • Dragon Consultant -- Accepted!
  • The Oracle's Sprite -- Accepted!

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I am away from my desk right now.  Please leave a message after the beep.  BEEP! 

  • Right now I am on vacation in Florida where I'm supposed enjoying warm sunshine.  Since I'm the one traveling, it inevitably means it's been cloudy, cool, and raining for most of the time.  Low seventies and mid sixties Fahrenheit is a heck of a lot better than negative four, but I won't be returning to a colder clime with a tan.  The first stop was Universal Studios, which was fun.  I got myself a Hogwarts scarf in Hogsmeade, rode a few roller coasters (with my eyes closed and clutching the panic bar for dear life), and I generally had a good time.  Now I'm at my Nana's where a pool and jacuzzi are about to make life perfect.  I'll be returning home this weekend and I'll wave to Rocky Mount as I drive by that exit on the highway. 
     
  • Of course, since I'm away I haven't had much time for writing.  While I was in the car for two days traveling and while standing in line for rides at Universal I was able to do some mental planning.  I now know another big facet of the plot for Dragon Dilemma and, oddly enough, I think I figured out how to escape the scene I'm stuck on in Ge-Mi.  Whether I'll have the time to write it all down this week or whether it will have to wait until I get home depends on if I sit at the side of the pool in a comfy chair relaxing with my computer or if I instead swim and soak away my troubles in the jacuzzi. 
     
  • Everyone seems to like Road to Home so far, which is awesome.  I'm always happy to hear when someone enjoys reading one of my books.  The Oracle's Golem is still available for preorder with a 15% discount at LT3 until Tuesday night, January 20th, so if you haven't gotten your copy yet you should head there soon!  The Oracle, Books 1-3, is the paperback compilation of The Oracle's Flame, The Oracle's Hatchling, and The Oracle's Golem.  It arrives in stores on January 21st as well, but you can preorder your copy right now.  Print books are always 25% off in the LT3 book market, which is an amazing deal. 
I will post again with an update on any writing I was able to accomplish when I'm back home in the snowy cold.  Brrr. :(    I hope you also have a good rest of your week! 
1/9/15
  • Dragon Consultant was returned to me with an edit and resubmit letter.  LT3 wanted me to change the story so it was entirely in first or third person.  I had written it so one main character was in third person and the other in first, which LT3 informed me might confuse readers.  I switched all the first person parts to third, resubmitted it Monday night, and yesterday afternoon LT3 said yes to the edited version!  The contract will go in the mail tomorrow.  I am so excited!  When I get more information on release dates and such, I'll share it everywhere. 

    What this means is my Supernatural Consultant Series is a go!  I know it's going to be months before book one is ready, but I now have confirmation that the series is worth working on.  I'm hoping to get the next few books written and ready to submit before the first round of edits comes my way. 

  • The second book in the series, Dragon Deception, was written in the same style as Consultant.  Half of the book was in first person and the other half in third.  I spent most of Tuesday going through it and removing all the traces of first person I could find.  In the process I also got a lot of editing done and went ahead and formatted it for submission.  I will comb through it at least one more time before submitting it to LT3 sometime at the end of January or the beginning of February. 
     
  • Next I turned my attention to Dragon Dilemma, book three.  I had just started writing it and was only one thousand words in, but I had begun with the character I was planning to write in first person.  It didn't take long to change it over to third person and in the process I also managed to plan out the next few scenes.  I still have a long way to go in this story, but it's heading in the right direction. 
     
  • I haven't started switching Dragon Detective, book four, to third person yet.  There's two reasons why.  First, I want to get book three written before I finish writing book four.  (The current word count of Detective is 12k only because at one point I thought it would be book two, so I've been working on it for a while.)  Second, I'm mid-paragraph in Detective and I don't want to throw off the writing flow I've got going at the moment by going back to the beginning to change the first person around.  I need to finish the scene I'm working on first, which won't be until Dilemma really starts taking form. 

    I'm really hoping to have Dragon Deception, Dragon Dilemma, and Dragon Detective in LT3's hands by this summer.  I know it's a lot of looking far ahead when I've only just gotten an acceptance letter for the first book in the series, but I'm having so much fun with this series that I can't help it!  Wish me luck and keep an eye out as I'll be posting updates on this series' growth regularly. 
1/7/15
  • Out Now: Road to Home


    When he gets a phone call late at night, Mihi expects it to be his husband, Rafi, calling to say he is finally home. What he gets instead is a nightmare: Rafi's mission has failed. Despite orders from Rafi that he is not to come after him, Mihi heads to Europe to find his missing husband. But rescuing Rafi, and getting them both back home, may be the one assignment he'll never complete...

Road to Home is available in all ebook formats and in print! 
1/5/15
  • Big news first: The Oracle's Sprite has been accepted by LT3!  The contract went out in the mail today.  I will post again once I learn about a release date. 
     
  • My second bit of news is just as heartening, but requires a touch more work.  LT3 didn't reject Dragon Consultant.  They sent back a rewrite request instead.  I had structured the story with one main character's perspective in first person and the other main character's perspective in third person.  LT3 requested that I make the entire story either first or third person to alleviate potential reader confusion.  Once that was done, they asked that I resubmit.  I've decided on third person and have been wading through my story trying to find every I and my to swap them with he and his.  It's not hard to do, but it's a bit aggravating trying to locate them all.  I should have Dragon Consultant back with LT3 sometime tonight or tomorrow morning.  I'm hoping they'll accept it this time!
     
  • Of course, restructuring Dragon Consultant to be entirely in third person means I will also have to change the format for the rest of the series.  Dragon Deception, book two, will have to be my next task.  Luckily I haven't gotten to editing it yet, so the changeover should be pretty smooth.  After that I'll need to fix all my works in progress in the series before I can continue working on them.  Dragon Dilemma and Dragon Spy will be easy since I just started writing them, but Dragon Detective will take a bit of work since I'm mid-paragraph and don't want to mess up my flow.  Once that's done (and once LT3 accepts Dragon Consultant) I'll get Deception ready for submission.  There's lots to do, but this series is really taking form and I'm so excited to see where it goes! 
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