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:

    The Oracle Series; Book Two
        The Oracle's Hatchling
            March 5, 2014
        Breaking the Shackles; Audiobook
        Stealing the Dragon; Audiobook
        Melting the Ice Witch; Audiobook
                      March 15, 2014
    A Loose Screw Anthology:
        Wings of the Stars
        Ebook: April 2, 2014
    Won't Back Down Anthology:
        Heart's Tournament
        Ebook: May 14, 2014

Current Projects:

  • If a Butterfly Don't Fly
  • Kelpie Blue
  • The Oracle's Golem
  • Magnified
  • Ge-Mi

Submitted Projects:

Road to Home
--Accepted!

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:
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!
2/8/14
  • Finding the Wolf is officially available as an audiobook!  You can purchase it right now from Red Planet Audiobooks.  It will roll out to all third-party vendors starting on its scheduled release date of February 15th.  LT3 will link to other vendors as the audiobook becomes available.  The rest of the Dragon's Hoard series will follow next month! 

  • I have an official release date for Wings of the Stars.  It will be ready for sale on April 2, 2014.  Look for pre-order sales to start sometime in March! 

  • I have written a good chunk of The Oracle's Golem.  I have an idea of where I want the story to go and I'm getting ideas for book four of the series as well.  My goal is to have Golem in LT3's hands before Hatchling comes out on March 5th.  I think it's very doable! 

  • Just a reminder, there's only a few more days to buy My Truest Love, part of  Rocking Hard Volume 2, for a 15% discount.  It goes on sale February 12th.  Paint, Guns, Money, and Love will also start running on LT3's serial section on February 12th.  There's so much to look forward to next week! 
2/2/14
  • January was a pretty good month in terms of writing!  I finished writing Road to Home and now it's somewhere in LT3's editing queue.  Heartbeat was also accepted for their Satisfaction Guaranteed anthology.  I've finished the edits for The Oracle's Hatchling, due out in March, and Heart's Tournament, due out in May.

    Magnified has exploded in terms of size and depth this past month, with no signs of slowing down any time soon.  I've also started work on a new paranormal fantasy about fae and singing called If A Butterfly Don't Fly. 

  • My goals in February are simple enough: write a lot!  I would like to finish Magnified and The Oracle's Golem.  I would also love to finish all the research I need for Butterfly and Kelpie Blue.  At some point I would also like to get my Trickster's Eye series going, but that's on the bottom of my to-do list. 

    February also has some exciting releases to keep an eye out for!  Rocking Hard Volume 2 is already available for pre-order.  If you buy it now you can get 15% off.  It arrives in stores on February 12.  Paint, Guns, Money, & Love will begin running in LT3's weekly serial section on February 12.  If you have a serial subscription be sure to check it out!  On February 15 Finding the Wolf will come out in audiobook, which is amazing.  I'm really looking forward to hearing the finished product.  As always I will post more February news as I learn it! 
1/27/14
  • Dreamspinner Press did not accept Third Time's The Charm for their Juicy Bits anthology.  :'(   Rejection's never fun, but since it's always a learning experience I can never complain about it.  Magnified was rejected by LT3 and look at what it's since grown in to!  Now I have to decide what to do with Third Time's.  It's too short to resubmit elsewhere.  Do I try to write a part two to make it long enough?  Or, should I release it as a free story?  Would LT3 take it as a freebee, or do I need to delve into the intricacies of cover art and formatting?  Should I try self publishing?  There are too many options!!!  Does anyone have any suggestions? 

  • On the writing front I am currently fighting off the bite of writer's block.  It's not that I'm stuck, it's that I need the next bit of important plot in all of my stories.  I need to build up to an action sequence in Magnified, but since I don't actually know what action is about to happen how can I?  In The Oracle's Golem I'm trying to decide if the plot would function better from two different perspectives.  Ge-Mi needs a touch more oomph to carry it to the next big romance scene and If A Butterfly Don't Fly won't be flying anywhere without a ton more research.  In desperation, I've dusted off The Red Apple Witch, a fairytale I've been working on for ages and haven't had the motivation to write the last 5k that's been sitting untouched in my head for months.  Finishing it and thereby getting it off my to-do list might galvanize my brain into breaking free of its funk!  It's worth a try, at least. 

  • Rocking Hard Volume 2 is available for pre-order.  Don't miss your chance to get a 15% discount today.  My story, My Truest Love, is in there. 
1/21/14
1/19/14
  • LT3 said yes to both Road to Home and Heartbeat!  The contracts are ready to go in the mail.  Once everything is signed and official all the other things like release dates and covers will start getting organized.  I'm so excited!  Hopefully DSP will send me good news too. 

  • The edits for Heart's Tournament are completely done.  The anthology won't be released until May 14th, but the hard part is finished  This is probably one of my personal favorite anthology submissions I've ever written, so I'm looking forward to release day! 

  • I took a quick mental health break on the writing front after cranking out the last 15k of Road to Home in a week.  Having edits to do helped with that, but the plan is to hop back on the bandwagon this week.  If a Butterfly Don't Fly is forcing me to do the research on fae and Celtic mythology I've been putting off for Kelpie Blue, so hopefully both of those stories will really start taking off.  Magnified needs a new twist or some additional drama for part four to really come together.  Sometimes vampires need that extra kick to get their stories moving.  The other two stories I'm actively working on are Ge-Mi and The Oracle's Golem, so expect some fun progress there too! 
1/14/14
  • Road to Home is done.  Sort of.  All that's left is editing, but that editing includes trying to add about 1k words so I meet my minimum word count.  I want the sequel to be nearly the same length as the original.  It shouldn't be too hard to find places to expand.  I also need to add a few short paragraphs to the epilogue.  Finishing a story is the hardest part, because I have to tie everything up neatly and let my characters go.  I'm expecting to be ready to submit to LT3 by the end of the month! 

  • Speaking of submissions: still no word.  I'll give LT3 and DSP another week before I bug them about it.  I'm still hoping for good news! 

  • I've posted the covers of the Dragon's Hoard audiobooks.  They're a smaller version of the original covers, but still very awesome.  Finding the Wolf will be released on February 15, 2014.  The next three books will all be released together on March 15, 2014.  I'll post more information on the audiobooks as I learn more! 
1/9/14
  • I'm guessing no news is good news, when it comes to submissions.  I've never worked with DSP before, so I don't know how long it will take them to get back to me.  LT3 is currently going on a journey and I'm not expecting any word from them until they return. Hopefully they're busy putting together a contract instead of a rejection letter.  Am I being too impatient? 

  • I'm sure you've all seen the cover for The Oracle's Hatchling, since I posted it everywhere.  It's beautiful!  In case you missed it, click here.  The edits for Hatchling are back with LT3 and heading towards the next step in the publishing process.  I don't foresee any issues having the story ready to go by March 5th.  Keep an eye out for it to go on pre-order soon!  

  • I have heard the demos for The Dragon's Hoard Audiobook.  It was kind of surreal (but also totally awesome) hearing someone give voice to the characters inside my head.  For some reason all of my characters were given British accents, which was a surprise to me.  Did anyone else have British voices in their heads while reading Finding the Wolf?  I am so excited to hear how it turns out. 

  • It's been a busy time on the writing front.  Job number three ended, so I've suddenly got a ton more time and energy to write, which is lovely.  Magnified is still going well, but I'm at a delicate point where all the foreshadowing is coming to a head.  If I don't get it right the entire story may flop, so it's slow going with much rewriting.  Road to Home is picking up again and it is going to be amazing.  I almost can't write it fast enough to keep up with the ideas in my head!  I have also begun work on a new story tentatively titled If a Butterfly Don't Fly.  It's got a music theme, but I'll be throwing in some fae at some point.  I'll put together a work summary for you guys sometime next week. 
1/2/14
  • The New Year has come and it has brought lots of snow with it.  I am quickly getting snowed in, but it looks like just the right kind of snow to make snowmen.  Fun will be had. 

  • I have two fun things to share in regards to The Oracle Series.  The first is that the edits for The Oracle's Hatchling are sitting on my desktop.  They seem to be pretty straightforward--no major re-writes like in the first book--so Hatchling should be ready to go on time!  I have also seen the first draft of the cover and it is beautiful!  The amazing artist is doing a quick color change and then I should have it up and ready for you to see too. 

  • On the writing front my muses have taken control and won't let go.  I wanted to get a large chunk of The Oracle's Golem finished this past weekend, but every time I tried my muses said "what if you do this or change that in Magnified?" and I got yanked away.  The bottom line appears to be that until I finish writing Magnified I won't get anything else done.  Of course, the issue is that I don't quite know how I want Magnified to end.  Until I figure out that important bit, I'm left floundering on how to tie the major plot twists together so it turns into a cohesive book.  I think I'm going to set my muses a deadline of January 31st and if Magnified isn't completely written by then I'm going to force them to move on to something else.  Wish me luck! 

  • No word on either of my submissions just yet, but publishing companies deserve a few days off on the New Year's too.  I also don't yet know how Hadash Aviv did in the M/M Romance poll.  I'm sure I'll hear soon.  I just hope it's all good news.