A new pen name, and a fic with an audience of me

[sholio]

I wrote a thing:

Ragged Pages (2400 words, gen)
Brief tag scene set just after The Archive of the Forgotten. There was a line from the book that I couldn't get out of my head, and also a need for MORE COMFORT.

.... so I wrote a fic for the Hell's Library series, a post-book tag for the second book that probably will make very little sense out of context and also spoils a bunch of things (though possibly less than you'd think; I wrote up a little intro at the beginning that explains the essentials for not being COMPLETELY lost if anyone decides to read it without book context).

And in other news:

I have a new pen name for contemporary (non-shifter, mundane-world) romance written with my sister, and we released our first book today! We're doing a similar thing as the Zoe Chant writers, where we each write our own books and release them under a shared name, Liz Harman.

The first book is my sister's: Mermaids of Owasco (out today, also on KU)

The second book is mine: Wild Island Horses (up for preorder, releases July 2)

After that we have some billionaire romances and office romcoms under development, and I might write another island beach book because I really had fun with that one! I'll have some free copies to give away later this month.

You can sign up for our mailing list here, and you can also download a free story set after Mermaids of Owasco. (It does spoil the book a bit, but you can grab it for free to see if you like the writing style.)

Comments

[chelseagirl]

I will never not do a double-take at that, because I have a real-life friend named Liz Hardman.

[sholio]

Haha, wow - okay, that must be weird! In our case it's a combination of (versions of) our real-world names.

[chelseagirl]

Funny thing: I always thought I'd use my mom's maiden name with my own first name as my pen name.

Catherine Hahn.

So yeah, Kathryn Hahn gets to keep her real name to herself.

I'm dropping my Cate Simon pen name for the mysteries because there are other Cate Simons on social media but no one else with my very similar real name. But if I write another romance, I might revive Cate.

[lunabee34]

Oh how cool that your sister is also a writer! That's awesome that you can collaborate like this.

[sholio]

Thanks! We're having fun. :D

[indywind]

How neat that you can collaborate with your sister.
And your covers are gorgeous.

[sholio]

Thank you so much!!

[oracne]

Congrats on the new pen name!

[sholio]

Thank you! :D

[sheron]

What lovely, warm feelings the wild horses book cover gives me...! :)

[sholio]

Thank you! :D That's what I was going for, so YAY.

[scioscribe]

Congratulations on the pen name debut! It's so cool that you're doing this with your sister.

[sholio]

Thank you!! :D

[yhlee]

Congrats on the new pen! :D

[sholio]

Thank you! :D

[sovay]

I have a new pen name for contemporary (non-shifter, mundane-world) romance written with my sister, and we released our first book today!

Mazel tov!

(. . . so the mermaids are a metaphor?)

[sholio]

Thank you!

They're sort of a metaphor. It's a fake/hoax mermaid that is basically the reason for the couple's meet-cute.

[silverflight8]

Do you have a list of your pen names somewhere? I lose track 😆

[sholio]

I don't blame you; it's a lot. XD

I need to get a proper centralized list of EVERYTHING. Right now, there's:

Zoe Chant - I'm one of a group of writers using the name. My series under the Zoe are Bodyguard Shifters, Stone Shifters, and Bears of Pinerock County.

Lauren Esker - my solo paranormal and sci-fi romance pen name.

Layla Lawlor - urban fantasy, sci-fi, basically "everything not romance".

Liz Harman - the new one, contemporary romance cooperatively authored with my sister.

Mar Delaney - This is my F/F romance pen name, but I currently only have one book out (Moose Madness) and I'm not really doing much with it.

I also had an older M/M pen name, but since I pulled my books from Dreamspinner once they stopped paying people, I no longer have anything in print under that name and will probably re-issue them under a new pen name at some point.

[silverflight8]

Thank you! You're a words machine! :)

[sholio]

It sometimes feels like it! :D

[calandrahunter]

Happy releases days!

[sholio]

Thank you! :)