The Home for Mell Eight's Original Fiction
Mell Eight is an author of LGBTQIA original fiction, primarily M/M.
If that is not your thing, hit the back button, otherwise welcome and enjoy!
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Out Now:The Spy
June 10, 2025 
The Prince
January 14, 2025 
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I have been working with Nine Star Press since August 2019.
I worked with Less Than Three Press from December 2011 to July 2019.
Supernatural Consultant Volume One received this award.
Ground of Insurrection was Nominated
Hadash Aviv was Nominated
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6/8/25
Last weekend my sister stopped by and helped me plant my garden. She does a masterful job putting flowers into my window box. I think I mentioned I had to buy a new box for this year as the last one rotted to pieces, so getting the flowers in was a long process. While she did that, I planted my green peppers and peas from pre-grown plants, and lettuce and beans from seeds into planters on my back deck. Today I noticed the seeds have sprouted, and I have beans coming in! The green peppers are flowering too. A few more weeks and I'll have fresh vegetables from my garden! I am also super excited about The Spy, which is coming out in two more days! Those who purchased from NSP are already reading it. Everyone with patience will have it on June 10th! Here's the Amazon link, and here's the universal link for anyone who needs them. I've been working on Baron of the Shifting Sands. I originally thought the next chapter was going to be the big battle, but as I started working on it, I realized I was about to time skip again. Given I've already had to go back and add about three chapters to this story to fix bad time skips, I wasn't about to let that happen again. I had to pause and add another chapter first. This time I can say for certain the next chapter will be the big battle. I originally planned for this story to be maybe 20k words, but once the battle is written and I add in the aftermath and the epilogue, this story will definitely reach 40k. An update on my floor saga! It's still ongoing, but a ton of progress has been made. The floors are done in the foyer, kitchen, dining room, and living room! They're gorgeous and I'm so happy with how the luxury vinyl turned out. The light gray makes the space feel softer and much more welcoming. The bump because the floors weren't level is now gone. Since the floors are one sheet of plywood lower (since we removed one to get rid of the bump), I can also put the mat for the front door actually in front of the door. I'm so happy with how it turned out, although getting all my furniture and tchotchkes back out has been a slow process. However, the bathroom that started this all is still a disaster. The tiles never arrived, so they had to reorder them and that took a few weeks. Thankfully the tiles did finally arrive and are currently sitting in my foyer. They will be installed next weekend, after which I will schedule the plumber to come reinstall the toilet and sink. And only then will this project finally be done. 5/11/25
Let me give you the most important news first, and then I'll explain where I've been the last month! The official release date for The Spy is June 10th! If you preorder with NSP, you can read it on June 6th. The Spy is available for pre-order at NSP right now, and I expect it will be available everywhere else very soon. I will share some links once it's on the other sites. And now, on to the saga. In some previous posts I told you all about what happened with the toilet and how I'm now replacing all the floors on the main level of my house. I was making really good progress with the project. I picked out all the flooring, set a date for construction to begin...and then came the difficult part. I had to clear out the first floor. I have souvenirs from all the places I've visited, glassware from my grandparents, rugs, and tchotchkes everywhere. I also had to remove the pictures from the walls and any small pieces of furniture that I could move on my own. My basement and guest bedroom are now absolutely stuffed with everything that used to be on my main floor, but getting to that point required many trips up and down stairs. I knew the start date for the project was imminent, so I grit my teeth and got it all done. Unfortunately, that meant I was exhausted and didn't have energy, or time, to get any writing done. However, the date construction was supposed to begin came, and went. They cancelled on me because a bunch of the workers called in sick. I have no problem with that; health is important! So I rescheduled for a week later. On the new start day, I was standing in my kitchen, looking out at the front drive, waiting for workers to arrive. No workers. I got in contact with the company only to learn they cancelled on me again, this time without telling me first. I was a little upset at this point, but I've gotten this far in the project so it isn't as if I could turn back. We rescheduled for this Monday (tomorrow) with a different construction crew. I'm really hopeful that third time's the charm and we can finally get this project going! I'll definitely let you all know how it goes in my next post. Like I said, writing while I was getting the house ready for the project just wasn't possible, but I finished clearing out my house in time for the first start date. I've therefore had the week while I was waiting for start date number two to recuperate, and in that week I have been able to do some writing. Baron of the Shifting Sands is sooooo much better now! (I mentioned this in an earlier post, but basically I realized the reason the story sucked was because two scenes were AWOL.) I finished adding in those two needed scenes. In the process, I removed a jarring time-skip, was able to add in a heap of romance, and also was able to make the plot make a whole lot more sense. I'm incredibly happy with it and this story definitely doesn't suck now! I'm estimating about two more chapters are left to be written. The big climax is the next chapter I'm going to work on. With the plot issues previously making the climax impossible now gone, I can actually write it. After that is the conclusion/epilogue. If things keep progressing, I'm hopeful I might be able to get this story submitted for publishing by the end of the summer, so please wish me luck! 4/6/25
I shouldn't complain about a little rain, especially not when I know there are people getting catastrophic weather right now, but I really wish the weather in my area would stabilize. One day it's lovely and warm, in the 70s. I had my windows open and went out for a short walk. Next day, it's pouring rain and in the low 40s, and I'm huddling under blankets. People are always so happy when spring arrives, but for me the weather whiplash is not fun. While I certainly find April showers annoying, April isn't my least favorite month. This is because Passover occurs in April! I really enjoy the time getting together with family and baking a ton. I'm going home to visit my parents again this year, so it should be a good time! For those of you who read all the way through my very long post last weekend to the end, you saw Divine Judgment was accepted for publishing with NSP! Apparently I've been spelling judgment wrong, though. The UK spelling is Judgement, while the US spelling is judgment. Who knew? Not me, since I've been spelling it the UK way this entire time. LOL My editor very kindly corrected me. Regardless, the search for a new title for the book continues. We haven't yet come up with one we like. If you have any ideas for a decent title, please let me know! I haven't been able to do any writing this past week. Work was really draining, and I'm mentally prepping for packing and Passover right now, so I've been distracted. Still, I did read through a stand alone story I've been working on for a few years titled Baron of the Shifting Sands, and I had a breakthrough. I always thought the story felt disjointed but couldn't pinpoint why. It kept stalling whenever I tried working on it. On this read-through I finally realized here's a massive, missing scene right in the middle where I have a bit of a time-skip. If I'm able to write that scene and remove the time-skip, I might also finally be able to write the climax of this book. It's really close to being done, so please wish me luck in being able to finally get this one completed! In case anyone is wondering after my last post, I have picked out my new floors! I'm going with a light gray luxury vinyl plank for the main areas. The vinyl is more damage resistant than hardwood and considerably cheaper, but looks close enough to the real thing that it'll be really nice. I picked out a porcelain tile for in front of my fireplace (since per fire code I have to have tile there) that looks like an expensive slate. And for the bathroom, which started all of this mishegas (craziness), I picked a fun blue and gray tile that is simple, but interesting. They're going to do the ordering on Monday, so now I just have to wait for it all to come in. I'm still on schedule for a May install, so I should have lovely new floors in time for summer! |
