New Policy Changes from R&P.

New policy changes.

R&P Publishing Welcomes You

The Rooster and the Pig started as a little publishing House in Tonawanda, NY, so named because of the Chinese zodiac signs of its original founders. The owners decided the Publishing House would laugh at lines in the sand, and publish whatever tickled their fancy, and push all the shiny red buttons and only worry about whether or not the fictional stories, or poems, or autobiographies, or non-fiction tales were well written and not give a rip about whether they were about men loving men, or women loving women, or men loving women. Those beliefs still hold true today.

So, at Rooster & Pig Publishing you'll find everything from the fluffiest of a romance you could ever hope to lay eyes on, to the rough tough true grit of tales that plumb the depths of the human heart and soul. We wouldn't have it any other way. Come on in. Poke around. Find something you like, scamper off and read it, and then come on back again. Our doors stay open, and there's always something worth reading somewhere around here, no matter what you're in the mood for.
We are currently open to submissions.

We have a new anthology call. October 1-31th: Theme: Interracial Vampire Love . Word count: 10-20k words. One character must be a vampire the other MC must be of a different race than the vampire (for example: if the vampire is black, his love interest must be white or Hispanic or whatever). We are looking for M/M or M/M/M+ pairings only.
Submissions go to: submissions.rppublishing@gmail.com.

Anthology Guidelines
Submissions must be between 10,000 and 15,000 words. All submissions, once accepted, are subject to editing, but this isn't an excuse to submit first drafts by any means (beta readers are your friend).

All works submitted must be unreleased works. If you've published anything, anywhere, on public forum, it is considered published and therefore cannot be submitted.

This is the "No-No" List. If you're manuscript contains the following don't even try:

Bestiality (intercourse with animals)
Necrophilia (intercourse with a corpse)
Rape (rape can be a part of a characters past but the rape must be handled respectfully)
Scat or golden showers (sex or play with feces or urine)
Snuff (sex in which one or both participants are killed/murdered)
Obscene violence (slasher, splatter punk, and torture porn)

Submitting Your Manuscript
Submissions must be sent via email. Please do not send hard copies of your manuscript to our place of business, they will be recycled and not reviewed.

Submission Instructions:


Rooster & Pig has had a policy change and is now accepting partial manuscripts. Send in your synopsis and your first three chapters and it will be considered!

Rooster & Pig accepts all genres, pairings, and lengths for publication.

Rooster & Pig has an open door policy.

Rooster & Pig's name comes from the Chinese zodiac and shows that we are ambitious, loyal, strong, dedicated, passionate, and intelligent.

All submissions are to be sent to: Submissions@Roosterandpigpublishing.com

Please send your manuscript to submissions.rppublishing@gmail.com
Your email subject line should read: Anthology Title: Story Title: Author Name
Include a 300-350 word bio of the author as a cover page
The top right corner of your cover page should also include: Anthology Title: Submission Title, author's name, address, phone number, and email.
Author's name, anthology call, anthology title, and page numbers, should be on every page at the top of your anthology submission. The best way to do this is in the header of your document. Page numbers are under "Insert."
Your submission must be sent via attachment in Word, .doc, or .docx format, the file named Anthology Title- Submission Title- Author Name
Also include a brief synopsis, no more than 500 words, with your submission (be sure to include the beginning, middle, and ending in your synopsis)
Double spaced, 12 point font, Times New Roman, with 1" margins
Please, do not indent your paragraphs.
Do insert a blank line between paragraphs and use ### between scene breaks

Please allow three to four weeks after an anthology submission is closed regarding the status of your submission.

Good News, Everyone!

We have decided to extend the Steam Punk Writing Contest to the end of October. If you've been working on your submission, you now have until October 31st to get it to us. For more details on this contest, check out our earlier post about it here.

In other news, Vicktor Alexander's latest work Chain Me has become a bestseller! It's burning its way up the charts at ARe. Be sure to grab your copy of this steamy story today!

Lastly, we have recently updated our submissions policies. Instead of requiring whole manuscripts, we will now take the first three chapters and review those. If your work is of a high enough quality, you may find yourself with a contract for publication with us. So, if you've been working on something and it's not quite finished but you want to see if we're interested, feel free to go ahead and submit it to us now!

Stay tuned to this space for more news from Rooster and Pig in the days ahead!

-- G.K.

Why Rooster & Pig?

Hey all! It's Vicktor Bailey. I am one of the owners of Rooster & Pig Publishing and one of its founders. How you doing?

One of the things I get asked a lot, when people aren't asking me questions about submitting to us, is why I chose the name Rooster & Pig Publishing. I know, I know. You have an image of a farm and a rooster standing on top of a pig, but your image would be wrong.

When Rooster & Pig was created the original founder and I thought up a bunch of names and none of them seemed like they were "right" for us. We were silly but serious and we didn't want to be like other publishing houses around us. They were great and they all have something about them that make them unique but we knew from the conception of R&P that we were destined for big things. Things that hadn't been attempted by other publishing houses. So we thought and thought and one day we were discussing zodiac signs. And not just regular zodiac signs, because I'm a Scorpio and when people hear that they instantly think sex, possessiveness, a sharp tongue, and for some a Dom. I'm not saying these things are wrong about me but I didn't want the publishing house to only be thought of in that way. So looking up the Chinese zodiac sign it was discovered that the original founder's Chinese zodiac sign was a rooster and mine was a pig. Which with me being Messianic Jew we thought was hilarious.

Days later we came back to the name of the company and it hit us like a bolt of lightning: Rooster & Pig!

You see the particulars of these two zodiac signs are perfect for what we wanted to accomplish and convey for our publishing house.

The Rooster: They are deep thinkers considered to be honest, bright, communicative, ambitious, capable and warm-hearted. They have strong self-respect and seldom rely on others. As most roosters are born pretty or handsome, they prefer to dress up. They have a quick mind and hot temper. They like to be busy and neat. They are not reluctant to fall behind others and hate dawdlers.

The Pig: People born in the Year of the Pig are honest and frank, chivalrous and gallant. They have a calm appearance and strong heart. They do whatever they want with their strength. They are tolerant and optimistic, but not until they become your friends can their virtue, advantages and fidelity to friendship be appreciated. They are quick tempered, but hate arguments and quarreling. They are kind to their loved ones. They are not afraid of difficulties and problems but try to work them out. They treat friend sincerely and they do not tell lies unless they have to. They are kind and light hearted and usually go to sleep easily.

One thing became obvious to us, not just because of our signs and who we were as people, but because of what we wanted to publish and what we believed as far as books and writing went that we were the epitome of fluff and rough.

And thus we became The Rooster & The Pig Publishing: Where Fluff Meets Rough.

We have learned a lot from dealing with other publishing houses. We have learned a lot because we are authors also. We have the college education to handle the business side of things and we have a fresh approach to publishing that we believe opens the door to the many things we want to do for our authors, our books and our company.

When it comes to our books we publish everything. All genres. From general fiction to romance to fantasy to poetry to nonfiction to erotica to children's books to YA to NA and everything in between. We don't discriminate.

We publish all pairings M/F to M/M to F/F to menages to polyamorous couples. We publish trans* books and asexual books.

We publish all lengths and we welcome authors who have either never published anything before or who are veteran authors.

We have a full staff of people ready to walk our authors through the process of becoming published. We are professional but we are fun and silly.

We are a small publishing house with BIG plans. Our name may make you look twice but we hope our policy makes you stay and sub something to us.

We are looking for you. Your unique story, your unique writing style. And now we are accepting partial manuscripts so that book you have only written about three chapters for but you have the entire synopsis written for? We want to read it.

So, no, we aren't farm animals or a bunch of farmers try our hand at this publishing business. We are the rooster &  the pig Chinese zodiac signs publishing company. Majestic creatures, ambitious, kind, fluffy and rough.

So if you have a book, a story you want to tell, we hope that you'll consider submitting it to us. We are open for submissions and we want you to be a part of the R&P family!

If you have any questions ask them in the comments below and I'll answer them.

-Vicktor A. Bailey

Owner, Rooster & Pig Publishing

Send your submissions to: Submissions@roosterandpigpublishing.com

Did you know we're running a steampunk contest/anthology call? And what about our Interracial vampire anthology call? Get your stories submitted!

Writers and the Remix Culture

It's no secret that many of us -- especially fantasy writers like me -- got our start by working in someone else's established universe. For me, my first "real" creative work was from the Legend of Zelda when I was eight or nine years old. After that, it was the worlds of Dragonlance and the Death Gate Cycle when I was thirteen years old. I did also work in my own universe, though the concept (Atlantis) wasn't terribly original (hey, cut me some slack, I was fifteen), and the execution was...well...adolescent to say the least (again, I was fifteen).

In time, I graduated to world-building while playing and writing campaigns and adventures for Dungeons and Dragons. I also developed a healthy dose of respect for cartographers, artists, and dungeon designers -- not to mention architects! By the time I got into college, I was generally writing my own original works, mostly plays and short stories as I had not really developed the chops for novel-writing. I did, however, continue to write fanfics. I wrote several set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation universe and one set in the world of Final Fantasy VIII. The fanfic that really got me convinced I could finally do a novel was Alayne's Story, posted over at my own website. I spent the better part of five years writing that story, posting it on the World of Warcraft European forums every Friday. Even today, I still dabble in fanfics when I need to just build up my chops or let something original percolate so that I don't over/underwrite it too badly.

The Internet, through services such as Fanfiction.net, have really given a good boost to remix writers. None of us ever think to try to profit from our works. After all, the characters and the settings are not "ours" in the ownership sense of the term. However, it is distressing to sit back and see just how many authors and corporate owners feel threatened by fanfic writers or feel as if having fanfics written with their property would somehow diminish the value of that property. This is a rather blinkered view, if you ask me. Yes, certainly, there are a lot of poorly-written fanfics out there. I've seen plenty of them where I wondered if the writer had any concept of grammar, spelling, or readability. There are some fanfics that, while earning passing marks for grammar, spelling, and formatting, fail because the story is unoriginal, the pacing is poor, or parts of it were too gratuitous. Granted, I'm sure all of us have written at least one or two scenes or treatments just for catharsis (and if you haven't, you're either not a writer, lying, or under the age of six). But, for the most part, we wouldn't show those to anyone. There are many fanfics out there that cater to a specific audience or attempt to "fix" the story that the creator told because parts of it were unsatisfying. There are some, like mine, that delve into the "what if?" realm where we change events and then ride the ripple of that change throughout the universe (these are often called "alternate universe" or "AU" fanfics). There are some that attempt to tell the story of the characters in the days after the ending. And many of these are quite good. Many are very original. Many, in my opinion, rival the "canonical" or "licensed" works in quality.

For those authors and owners who either tolerate or, better still, embrace their fans and their fans' written fanfics, these things can enrich and enhance the community -- not only of that particular work, but the writing community in general. For those authors who try to stamp out fanfics using their works, who focus on exercising complete control over their works, the community of writers is left much poorer for their successful efforts.

After all, in the end, we're all fanfic writers of one kind or another. All of us grew up hearing nursery rhymes and fairy tales and I'll bet every last one of us, even the non-writers out there, would sometimes imagine "what if?" "What if Snow White didn't eat the apple?" "What if the evil stepmother was actually nice to Cinderella instead?" "What happened during 'happily ever after?'" "Why was the Wicked Witch...well, wicked? What made her like that?" From these questions and our imagination, new stories were born. And from practice in doing that, we began to build original tales with new characters, new roles, new monsters, new conflicts.

"There is nothing new under the sun." By tolerating -- nay, encouraging -- fledgling writers to test their wings out with established characters, events, and universes, we enrich the literary universe and ourselves. At least, that's what I think. And I will always be eternally grateful to Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto,* SquareSoft (now Square Enix), Blizzard, and the BBC for not suing the crap out of me whenever I, unlicensed and unauthorized writer that I am, decided to dabble in their universes for a little bit when I needed a break from my own.

-- G.K.

Shigeru Miyamoto, Robert Jordan, and Brandon Sanderson are my Holy Trinity of Writers. They are served by the Archangels Russel T. Davies, Margaret Weis, Tracey Hickman, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, and Piers Anthony. Don't you dare judge me.

Are You A Plotter Or A Pantser?

I'm sure that many of us have different ways of writing. Some write to music. Others to silence. Some do well with a deadline. Others love the "whooshing" sound that deadlines make as they fly past. Some of us write by hand. Some by typewriter. Most by computer. Some of us write chronologically. Others write important scenes out of order and then tie them together.

But the greatest distinction of all is between plotters and pantsers and, at some point, each of us has done both.

For those of you who are not writers, plotters are writers who meticulously outline their drafts, do all of their research beforehand, have copious notes organized in a manner that is intuitive to them, and then proceed to write exactly what they've planned. Pantsers are those of us who do a bit of quick organization and then jump right in. Notes are jotted down as we reach the point where we needed them five pages back. We may keep tabs on things -- especially when we're doing fantasy world-building -- but our wikis, notebooks, or whatever are filled out on the go. We look at our outlines more as opening bids than ironclad commitments and have been known to completely change the ending of the story three or four times before we actually write it out.

Plotters abhor our chaotic method. And, in a lot of ways, they are right to. Several times I've developed a series in my head and sworn I was going to get all of the world-building done in advance only to open up Word and be twenty pages in before I realized I hadn't done an outline yet.

So, which are you? Which would you prefer to be if you could choose?

-- G.K.

Big News For Rooster and Pig!

First of all, we'd like to welcome TN Tarrant to the Rooster and Pig family! TN has just submitted her latest work to us and we should be announcing a release date for it soon. She is a well-known writer in her circles with several works out in print. We are definitely looking forward to having her as part of our crazy, eclectic family!

Also, with it being the start of August, we are now taking submissions for the Rooster and Pig Steam Punk Writing Contest! If you've been working on your submission, send it in before August 31st for your chance to win.

We're looking forward to reading your entries as well as showing you the latest and greatest from our newest author.

-- G.K.

Music and Writing?

So, how do you write? Do you listen to music while you write? Does it help you to think? Or do you get ideas from songs you've heard?

Me, I can't listen to music while I'm writing. I will start writing down the lyrics if I try. And, even if it's orchestral or classical music, I get distracted by it. White noise (such as the sound of my fan and my AC going full blast) is okay. Anything more structured than that, though, and my mind latches on to it. I can't even bear to have people talking in the background (which drives my room-mate crazy because I'll close the door to the computer room if he's on the phone while I'm writing which means I get all of the delicious AC to myself while he sweats to death in another room). However, I do often find myself listening to music to get through difficult chapters or writer's block. Often, I can see parts of my story or even the entire thing in general being set to particular songs.

At the moment, I'm on a nostalgia kick with my music so my song list includes Led Zeppelin (yeah, Stairway to Heaven is on there), Blue Oyster Cult (Don't Fear the Reaper), Sarah McLachlan
 (seriously, don't judge me when I'm all melancholy), Iron Butterfly (again, don't judge), Pink Floyd, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. When I get to a part that I'm having trouble writing, I'll often pop my headphones on and listen to a few songs, just letting the words and the melody help me work through the block. Yesterday, while listening to Building A Mystery, I managed to come up with a way to bridge two parts of my story that was better than what I had in my outline.

So, how about you? Is music a hindrance or a help to your writing?

-- G.K.

Why Do You Write What You Write?

So, as the title of the post says: why do you write what you write?

As authors, I'm sure most of us have been asked "where did you come up with the idea for that story?" I know I've heard it a fair few times myself. And, the truth is, my story ideas generally gang up on me and mug me at about 2 am, pulling me out of sound sleep and saying "think about us. Write about us. Start plotting that outline. Yeah, you have to get up in a few hours to work, but so what?"

As for what I write: I'm pretty solidly in the fantasy and sci-fi camps. I do write urban fantasy and some historical pieces but mostly, I'm working in either a realm of magic or a realm with science so advanced it could be mistaken for magic. Romance and love may be a subplot in my stories (okay, frequently it is) but it's never the main plot. Bringing down evil empires, stopping the bad guys, wrestling with inner demons -- those tend to be my main plot drivers.

Why do I write fantasy and sci-fi? Because those are the two genres that I think grab people the most and take them to the highest of heights, the lowest of lows, and leave you breathless, wishing and dreaming and growing so attached to the characters that you (as a reader) want to learn more. They also give the writer the most room to work with and the most tools to use to build a world that might look a bit like Earth (if you squint) but operate under completely different laws. You can also do a lot of fun things with magical systems (such as making them very complicated so that you have to keep track of what is allowed and what is impossible) and societies. Often, when I'm writing a historical period piece, I find myself struggling to make the society believable because, since it's so close to my own (being on Earth), I tend to start projecting modern assumptions into a society that isn't modern. When I write fantasy or sci-fi, I'm able to avoid that stumbling block altogether even if some of the action takes place on Earth.

I'm a big-time world builder. I think I enjoy planning my stories and plotting them out as much as I enjoy writing them. I got started in this when I was a teenager and had to write my own Dungeons and Dragons modules and campaigns because I couldn't afford to buy the pre-made sets. From there, my own imagination and love of reading took off and I would get bored if I tried to write a novella or longer work set on Earth. In time, I have gotten off that crutch but still, I enjoy creating my own worlds and sharing them with my readers, sometimes doing things that would be so far beyond imagining in a human-only Earth-based society that it requires a completely different planet and culture to pull it off.

So, what about you? What do you write and why? Inquiring minds want to know!

-- G.K.

And Now For Something Completely Different: Writing Contest!

That's right! We are holding a Writing Contest during the month of August. So, get your pencils ready, round up your beta-readers, and get cracking on a short story with a steam punk theme and you might just win a $50 Amazon gift card as well as the chance to see your work included in one of our short story anthologies!

The rules are fairly simple: write and submit a story with a steam punk theme and setting. We will have categories for M/M pairings, F/F pairings, and M/F pairings as well as a category for "no romance." Once your story is finished and you've made all the tweaks to it you think it needs, email it to us as an attachment (.docx, .rtf, .pdf, and .doc only, please). In the body of your email, please include your legal first and last name, your postal address, the category you're entering, your pen name (if you have one) and the title of your story. Also, be sure to label the subject line "Steampunk Contest Entry" so we know what you're sending. Stories should be at least 2,500 words and no more than 30,000.

The submission period will begin August 1, 2013 and end August 31, 2013. You can read the full rules and conditions here.

Best get cracking immediately! We're looking forward to reading what you've got!

-- G.K.

Um, hello there

Well, since I'm new here and my role is to add content to this blog (amongst other things), I guess I'll go ahead and introduce myself. I'm the newest person here at The Rooster and the Pig and I hope to be here for a good long while. Forever, if possible. And, while we're at it, you can call me "G."

Yes, as in the seventh letter of the alphabet. It's short for "G.K. Masterson" which is my name. I am a writer -- mostly swords and sorcery fantasy but I do cross over into science fiction, urban fantasy, and historical fiction. I've been writing ever since I had enough manual dexterity to grip a crayon -- though it did take a few years for my writing to make any sense. I've written four novels but only have one published: Twilight of Lanar'ya. I do dabble in fan-fiction just for the stress relief when I get writer's block. I've been reading since I was three years old and have a rather impressive library as well as a Kindle nearly filled with books. If you're curious as to what kind of books I read...I'll read just about anything.

So, enough about me. I'm sure that, over time, we'll all get to know each other quite well. I will be looking for new talent to add to our collection of authors so if you've got a story ready, we'd love to see it. You can find our submission guideline here. We do accept anything (within reason) as long as it's in English (or a close enough facsimile that we can puzzle out).

Donc, allons-y!

-- G.K.

Impossible by Vicktor Alexander Coming June 14,2013

Impossible by Vicktor Alexander

Blurb:

Alexander Dieson always knew that he was different. Yes, he could shift like the other wolf shifting cowboys on the Tate Ranch, but he could also make fire and a host of other things. When his parents move him to California from Texas he resolves himself to spending a life alone. 

Ross Barber discovers the scent of his mate hours after the younger man moves away with his family. He spends ten years searching for Alex and finally finds him just after Alex’s life has been completely turned upside down. 

Ross promises Alex that he will help find his mate’s missing siblings but in the process of their search they learn the truth about Alex’s DNA and are completely shocked by the way their lives and the Tate Ranch changes because of it. And when they learn how high up the plot to kidnap and sell paranormals actually goes, the Tate Pack will never be the same.

 

https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-impossible-1219147-145.html

http://www.bookstrand.com/impossible-mm

Excerpt:

“Hey! You!”

Ross looked up at the shout and found himself facing the throng of men who had left the house and now spread out to surround him. The man holding the toddler walked back to the front of the house before he returned. Ross looked around at them all, noticing the pack’s Alpha stood among them, not at all shocked that he would be involved in something shady—most Alphas he’d met were—testing his odds and figuring out his best course of action. His father was a former Green Beret and his mother had been Special Ops. 

Ross had been trained from the crib in hand-to-hand combat, just like his sister. They’d been trained to kill when they had no other options, and his parents had always made sure they knew how to get themselves out of any situation they ever found themselves in. Most people would think his parents had done him a disservice by raising him to be a fierce killing machine, dominant, aggressive… mean as all get out, but Ross didn’t see it that way. There were some fucked up things out there, and not all of them were in the paranormal world. Ross, his sister, and their parents had come in contact with evil in its purest form and he would be damned if he would ever be caught unaware.

He tensed his muscles, ignoring the fact that he was completely nude because of his shift, and waited for the first man to come charging at him. That was always where people went wrong. They immediately went on the offensive when it was defense that won games, no matter what his football coach had told him.

“Hey, look, we don’t want any trouble,” Vet said, the new Alpha, if the power that swirled around him, almost bringing Ross to his knees, was any indication. His hair, which looked black in the darkness, blew in the late night breeze and his scent wafted up to Ross’s nostrils. Ross took in a deep breath and wrote the Alpha off as his mate again. He hadn’t been back at the Tate Ranch in quite a while. Even though much of it was like returning home, there were still aspects of the pack lands that were new to him. Namely, the fact that the men before him were older and their scents, while at the core were still the same, had subtly changed. Ross knew Vet. They had, in fact, gone to preschool together, come out to each other, lost their virginity together, and had shifted together for the first time. It was shortly after losing their virginity to each other that Ross and his family had left the pack to assist in a rescue mission.

Apparently the pack had added more new members since then. One of them was his mate, but Vet, even with his new, more powerful, cloying scent, wasn’t his mate. None of the men who currently watched him were. Which meant that his mate was in the house. “We just want to know what you’re doing skulking around the Dieson home. I am the new Alpha of this pack, and I would have you identify yourself.”

Ross tucked away the name Dieson for later and bared his neck to the Alpha in a show of submission. “My apologies, Alpha. You may not remember me, but my name is Ross Barber. My family and I just re-joined the pack today. You met with my parents earlier.” Ross waited for Vernon “Vet” Tate to nod before he continued. “I smelled my mate and came to find him,” he finished simply. He noticed the large man who had been holding the toddler earlier tense and immediately turned his attention to him. “Do you know who my mate is, Beta?”

Ross grinned when he saw the big man blink at him in stupefaction. He wasn’t sure how he was always able to know exactly what someone’s position was in a pack, coven, herd, company or wherever, but from the time he was a child, it had been a gift of his. He could either peg what they currently were, or what they would end up being. It freaked people out all the time; he just saw it as a fact of life.

The larger man recovered from his shock and growled low in his throat, showing a small measure of aggression at Ross’s blatantly disrespectful tone with him, before his shoulder drooped and he whimpered in the back of his throat. The sound was one of despair, and Ross felt his blood run cold. Had something happened to his mate? And what did the Beta mean to the man who belonged to Ross?

“His name is Alex Dieson. Alexander Mitch Dieson. He’s not here anymore,” the Beta answered.

Ross felt his heart stop in his chest. He crouched low to the ground, a growl rumbling up from his belly and bursting forth from his lips. He didn’t know why the Beta sounded so upset that Alex was gone since he’d obviously had something to do with it, but Ross didn’t care. The Beta would be the first to go. The other wolves crouched low, and Ross ignored the small, niggling voice at the back of his mind that pointed out that there was no smell of blood in the air anywhere, so his mate wasn’t hurt. Ross’s eyes took in the other wolves, and he noticed that the Alpha remained standing.

“Hold it, guys. He doesn’t understand,” he said, the power in his words causing them all to freeze. He stared at Ross and sighed. “Alex isn’t dead or hurt. At least, we have seen no evidence that he is. We came to invite him out for our weekly bowling party and found his home deserted. All of his stuff is gone, as well as those of his parents. We believe they left town sometime earlier today, without the permission of the Alpha, and with no indication about where they were going. They didn’t leave a note or a letter behind to explain their actions, either, though Alex did leave something written on his wall for us to see.”

Ross didn’t allow the Alpha to continue talking, instead turning and yanking off the doorknob to the back door in his rush to get inside. He ignored the shouts of the men behind him as he ran upstairs. He followed the scent of his mate and charged into the room where the smell was heaviest. He stopped when he saw the words written on the bare blue wall. There, written in large, black permanent marker were words that filled Ross with hope and a determination to find the man who belonged by his side.

I’ll be back.

Ross would make sure of that. He would find his mate and bring him back to Wichita Falls, where he belonged, no matter how long it took to find him.

 

 

 

Vic

Vicktor Alexander

Author of Erotic M/M Romance

Where Naughty & Nice Boys Get Roped Into Romance Time and Again

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