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:

    Won't Back Down Anthology:
        Heart's Tournament
        Ebook: May 14, 2014
    Paint, Guns, Money, and Love
            Ebook: June 4, 2014
            Road to Home
              July 2, 2014

Current Projects:

  • If a Butterfly Don't Fly
  • Kelpie Blue
  • The Oracle's Golem
  • Magnified
  • Dragon Consultant

Submitted Projects:

Third Time's the Charm
--Accepted!

Satisfaction Guaranteed:
Heartbeat
--Accepted!
Five of my books have received this lovely award.
I have been working with Less Than Three Press since December 2011.
Hadash Aviv was Nominated!

News:
4/16/14
  • Unfortunately not much has happened in the writing front this month.  I got a little bit written in Dragon Consultant, am halfway through the epilogue of Lynden Leaves, wrote a few sentences in Oracle's Golem, worked out the next scene in Magnified, and not much else.  I think I've barely strung a hundred words together total.  That's really sad. 
    The truth is, I'm stuck.  Magnified, Dragon Consultant, both of my Out of Underhill stories, and Ge-Mi are all lacking the main antagonist.  I need to figure out who the bad guy is and why, as well as how to introduce them to my stories.  Until I figure that out, none of those stories are going anywhere.  My frustration is carrying over into everything else I'm trying to work on too, including Golem.  I have a feeling the rest of April will continue the same way, which I'm not happy about. 

  • I have been plugging away at the edits for Road to Home.  There's a lot to rework and more research to be done.  Passover began at sundown Monday night which meant that for the last few days I was unbelievably busy, but now I have way too much free time.  My goal is to finish the edits and get them back to LT3 this week.  Wish me luck! 
4/7/14
LT3 is turning five and to celebrate they are holding a huge giveaway!  All of their books are on sale and from April 7-10 they're giving away dozens of books for free.  Road to Revenge will be given away on April 9 and Finding the Wolf on April 10.  Get your free copies today and don't forget to stock up on all the other books too!  Click on the banner below to be sent to more information. 
4/3/14
There are two giveaways of my books that you should all check out! 
  1. Wings of the Stars at Hearts on Fire
  2. The Oracle's Flame at ScatteredThoughtsandRogueWords
Good Luck!

4/2/14

After a horrific accident during a mecha showcase event, Tarle is shunned by the robotics community and forced into hiding. Unable to abandon mecha entirely, he starts building a new robot in secret.

Starr is a porn star. He's used to the open admiration of his fans and the derision of his detractors, but the bombing of his house is more than he can take. Desperate to escape, he runs away to a dead-end town at the edge of space, where he is taken in by Tarle.

Hiding away together, they find, is far more appealing than going it alone, but no one can hide forever, especially when there are people determined to find them.
3/26/14
3/22/14
  • After writing my rambling blog post about how I have too many stories on my plate, my to-do list has grown.  Instead of being buried under all my stories, I'm neck deep in edits!  I am still working my way (very slowly) through the edits for Third Time's The Charm, but today I also received the edits for Road to Home.  If I thought the rewrites for TTTC were tough, the editor for RtH decided to only edit the first 19 out of 73 pages because there were "too many issues" to continue.  Oy.  I've read through some of the comments and it's clear to me that while the editor does have a point in some places, in others I want to smack myself upside the head for not making some things that were perfectly clear to me also clear to others.  It's a classic editing issue of not being able to read your own work.  One of the problems is that I've described what the editor believes to be THE Department of Homeland Security in D.C., when it's really A super secret office within the DHS.  Rafi isn't exactly your run-of-the-mill DHS agent and his office isn't either. The editor did amazing work google imaging and other fun things because I didn't make myself clear.  And that's only the first issue I've messed up!  So, yes, I have a hell of a lot to fix. 

    What this boils down to is I'm not sure if the July release date I pushed for is feasible.  I have to fix a ton of issues, the editor has to edit those changes as well as go through the next 54 pages, and then it comes back to me again for more fixing.  It's going to be a whirlwind couple of months for RtH. 

  • I have been successful on the writing front, though!  I've written 3k in Lynden Leaves (I really need to come up with an actual title for that story!), 2k in The Oracle's Golem, and 2k in Magnified.  I have written more in a week, but 7k isn't a bad showing!  If I could just write that much in only one story I could have something actually finished!  Dear Muses, please let me finish writing a story soon! 

  • Paint, Guns, Money, and Love is completely ready to go!  The release date is June 4, 2014, which is when it will be finished running as a serial story.  I have my author copies of the ebooks and I've heard that the paperback may be heading to the printers in time to coincide with the ebook's release.  June is still a while away, but it's nice to have something to look forward to! 
3/17/14
3/12/14
  • Breaking the Shackles, Stealing the Dragon, and Melting the Ice Witch are now available at World Wide Audiobooks!  Pick up your audiobooks today. 

  • Wings of the Stars is available for preorder at LT3.  Get a 15% discount if you buy before April 1, 2014. 
3/10/14
  • The Oracle's Hatchling is selling well and everyone I've heard from seems to really like it!  Thank you to everyone who has read and/or reviewed. 

  • The last three books in The Dragon's Hoard Series should be arriving in audiobook stores in just a few days.  I'll keep everyone posted on when they come out! 

  • LT3 has very kindly agreed to take on Third Time's The Charm.  I'm very grateful for their help getting my short story ready for everyone to enjoy.  Of course, they just sent me back some edits and at first glance it looks like I might end up rewriting the entire thing!  The comments and suggestions are amazing and very detailed, which means I have a lot to do to get it fixed up.  I'm looking forward to the challenge! 

  • Kelpie Blue is really starting to take shape.  I'm trying to figure out just how fast I want the romance to go, especially since there are going to be some time skips.  I also need to solidify the overarching plot that will carry the story through to the end.  I would say I've never worked on something this complicated before, but Magnified and If A Butterfly Don't Fly are both as challenging.  I'm kicking myself a little bit for working on all three at the same time. 

  • Riptide Publishing has posted new anthology prompts.  Without an invitation or an agent, being accepted for an anthology call is the only way to become one of their authors.  I have ideas for three or four of their calls so I'm going to give it a try!  Keep an eye on my Current Projects section for all the info on what I'm working on.  LT3 also has a new call out that I'm interested in writing for, so I have lots to work on!  I really hope I can do it! 
3/5/13
Out Now: The Oracle's Hatchling
Buy it Today!
    Ling is hated because his birth killed his mother. He hopes that testing will ease his troubles—either his rank will be so low that everyone forgets about him, or it will be so high they'll be forced to respect him. What he doesn't expect is to walk out of the testing chamber with an egg emblazoned on his back. Laughed out of the Monastery, Ling hides himself in Altnoia, where he becomes embroiled in a plot to overthrow King Edan and the Oracle who supports him.
 
    The ringleader behind the plot is Prince Damarion, son of the evil despot who forced King Edan to flee in the first place—but his motives are not anything that Ling could have anticipated. Neither could he anticipate a friendship, or what that friendship could become, and the choices it would force him to make.
2/28/14
  • There's only a few more days left to preorder The Oracle's Hatchling.  It comes out next week! 

  • My next book to come out is Wings of the Stars, part of the Loose Screw anthology LT3 put together for their existing authors.  I'm working on the copy edits right now, which is the last step in LT3's editing process.  I expect it will be available for preorder in the next few weeks!  Be sure to also check out all the other stories in the collection. 

  • I'm still plugging away at all my stories.  I'm trying to work out a timing issue in Kelpie Blue, so that story has stalled for the moment.  Is it okay to jump an entire year in one chapter?  I may have to add another chapter between what is currently planned for chapters two and three to make the time skip less jarring.  I'm thinking of titling it, When Water Freezes and Kelpies Mope, but since I don't really have more plot than that title implies I can't say for certain how the story will work just yet. 

    I've also been working on If A Butterfly Don't Fly.  It's a story with lots of bands and music, so I've been trying to figure out the lyrics for two songs.  In My Truest Love, my last musically inclined story, I got away with snippets of lyrics from a chorus, an abbreviated song, or just a song title.  If A Butterfly requires a full length song, which is darned hard to write! 

    Magnified is currently being stubborn.  I think the muse in charge got offended that he was so rudely shoved aside by his brothers to make way for Out of Underhill.  I'm not sure who the evil villain is just yet or what his/her motivations are, which makes it difficult to set up the foreshadowing I need.  The romance portion of the book is starting to take shape, which is a plus, but it isn't quite enough to force the story to move forward. 

    Instead of working on The Oracle's Golem, I started writing book four.  Book four doesn't have a title or more plot than just the prologue.  It's also contingent on the ending of Golem, which I haven't written yet.  Why it decided that now was a good time to pull my attention was beyond me.  I'll get Golem finished soon, I hope.  I know exactly how the book is supposed to go, so it's really a matter of finding the motivation to sit down and write it. 
2/22/14
  • I have an official release date for Road to Home!  July 2, 2014.  That's almost exactly a year since Road to Revenge came out.  The date is contingent on how well the editing and formatting for publishing process goes, of course, but I'm super excited anyway.  I'll keep you updated on Road to Home's progress as the release date quickly gets closer! 

  • The Oracle's Hatchling is available for pre-order at LT3!  If you buy it now you'll get a 15% discount.  It's also up for a giveaway in LT3's March Giveaways section.  Make sure you take advantage of these great opportunities before Hatchling comes out on March 5th! 

  • I'm still working hard on my Out of Underhill series.  I currently have three chapters of Kelpie Blue planned out and I thought you might enjoy seeing the tentative chapter headings:
    1) Blue and Stealing the Diary.  And Eating Yummy Cucumbers.  2) Brin Gets a Job.  Blue Gets Bored.  3) Can Blue Run?  …and not eat the other horses in the race?
    As you can tell, I'm having a lot of fun with Blue.  In a way he's a more mature version of Tori, my child-like dragon from Stealing the Dragon.  Blue is his own unique character, of course, but he likes to have fun in much the same way Tori does.  It's so interesting working with creatures who might look human, but because they very much aren't can behave in ways none of my other characters can.  Tori can play with his rubies and Blue can--actually I don't want to give it away.  You'll have to wait for Kelpie Blue to come out first!  ;p
2/20/14
2/15/14
  • The Finding the Wolf audiobook is officially available today!  WorldWide Audiobooks released it earlier this week, but today is the day other audiobook retailers begin to sell it as well!  FtW is already available with Audible!  Keep an eye on your favorite audiobook retailer to get your copy today. The rest of the series will be available in audiobook in just one month! 

  • I think I'm working on too many stories right now.  I'm having trouble sticking to one for long enough to add measurable length to the word count.  I've written a couple hundred words in just about every story I've worked on this week, but I don't feel like I've actually advanced any plots.  I haven't gotten pulled exclusively into just one story, which means that when I sit down to work on one, ideas for one of the others start filtering in.  I inevitably switch to a different story multiple times throughout the day.  It's not fun and I'm really hoping something changes soon. 
2/12/14  Out Now!

My Truest Love, part of the Rocking Hard Volume 2 anthology.


    By day, Cole is the lead singer of popular band The Four Kings, traveling the galaxies to sing to their adoring fans. Though a glamorous life on the surface, it's far from easy and even more dangerous than some would guess, because his real job title isn't lead vocals—it's spy.

    Buy It Now!
Out in Serial at LT3

Paint, Guns, Money, and Love


    The mafia doesn't much care for gay men, but Nick's not in the mafia so that shouldn't matter. All he wants to do is paint and he's finally found the perfect subject in a man who looks good in real life and on a canvas. But something about Lucy is a little off and Nick soon learns that the mafia might not be so far away after all.

    Check out the first chapter!