The Official Authorly Stuff of Amelia C. Gormley

Risk Aware – Free for a limited time at Amazon!

This week, Risk Aware is free at Amazon!

You can also pick up Strain for $0.99 for a limited time!

Player vs. Player is now available! Also, end of year deals on my other books! #newrelease #freereads

Decided to sneak this in there before the end of the year! Player vs. Player is now available, in both digital and print forms!

As with all my recent re-releases, this title is only available at Amazon, so that readers can take advantage of having it in their Kindle Unlimited library. However, for anyone who reads on another platform, I offer you a workaround. If you purchase the book at Amazon,…

Help for my family…

This is Bailey.

Bailey is approximately 5 years old, and lately she has barely been eating or grooming herself and we don’t know why.

She has moderately severe mats in her fur around her belly where she doesn’t let us pet or groom her. She has lost a little weight, she is hungry enough to beg (very uncharacteristically, because she’s never been the sort of cat who does that) when we’re eating…

As you may remember from back when I released it as Saugatuck Summer, Sea Change is my favorite of all the books I’ve ever written. Beautiful broken, self-sabotaging Topher has a very special place in my heart and I’m so glad he’s back with us again!

Both titles are available on Kindle Unlimited. Unfortunately, this means you can’t get them anywhere except Amazon due to exclusivity requirements. If you wish to acquire an .epub file rather than a .mobi, so that you can read on your Nook or Kobo or iThing, buy the books on Amazon and screenshot your purchase confirmation/receipt. Then contact me here using the contact form on my About page. I will get back to you via email and once you shot me the purchase confirmation, I will make the file available to you!

Be sure also to check out the Sea Change soundtrack by Casey Stratton! (Yes that is the old cover and title on Casey’s store. Due to issues Casey is dealing with right now, I don’t feel comfortable asking him to upload a new cover or do the work to change the title. His wonderful music is still the same, and that’s the important thing.)

Concierge Service, now available

I got to talk to Pam about this when she was in Oregon this summer and I’m so excited to get to read it! This is right up my alley!

I almost forgot to announce this! This week, Strain is on sale at Amazon for $0.99. You can also, as always, read the entire Strain trilogy on Kindle Unlimited!

In other news, my Saugatuck series is getting ready for release! Saugatuck Summer has undergone a title change, and is now titled Sea Change. Still starring the same broken, irrepressible Topher, though!

And Geoff and Robin are as sizzling as ever in the re-release of Risk Aware!

I’ve just started the process of uploading the Strain books to Amazon to relaunch that series as the first part of re-launching all my titles that were published elsewhere.

YAY! I’m so excited!

For now, I’ve decided to only release the books with Amazon.

The good news for those of you with Kindle Unlimited is that you will have access to the books that way rather than having to purchase them, so if that has been an obstacle in the past, hopefully it won’t be anymore.

For the few of you who do buy through other retailers, I understand this may be somewhat distressing. And I’ll be honest, I’ve been really reluctant about participating in KDP-Select and Kindle Unlimited because I believe that Amazon’s model is extremely destructive for self-publishers and small presses and I object on principle to giving a single retailer exclusive rights to distribute my book.

However, it turns out, inhabiting the moral high ground doesn’t actually pay very well.

So, I’m going to try to split the difference. If you wish to read the book in epub or pdf format, buy it on Amazon, screencap your receipt or purchase confirmation, then contact me with a link to that screencap image using the contact form on my About page, here:

https://ameliacgormley.com/about/

You can also use any of my social media accounts.

Once you’ve done that, I will contact you with a link to download a copy of the ebook in the format of your choice.

Um, wow.

Now Available on Kindle Unlimited!

RISK AWARE

(this book takes place prior to Sea Change, in the same universe)

eBook ISBN: 978-1-62622-613-5 eBook release: Sept 22, 2018 (1st edition May 9, 2016) eBook Formats: .mobi Print ISBN: 978-1-62622-614-2 Print release: COMING SOON! (1st edition May 9, 2016) Word count: 85,300 Page count: 280  

A Life Half-Lived No More...

Hemophiliac Geoff Gilchrest has lived his entire life swaddled in figurative bubble wrap, thanks to his overprotective mother. Now he’s free of everything except the prison of his own mind, where forbidden desires war against crippling self-doubt.

Geoff is a masochist. He craves his sex with a side of pain and degradation. But when getting shoved against a wall could result in catastrophic brain injury and even a moderate flogging could leave him paralyzed—or worse—it’s hard to find a dom willing to step up and give Geoff the experiences he’s been longing for.

Robin Brady has doubts of his own. Still stinging from massive violations of trust on the part of his drug-addicted ex, he has retreated to Saugatuck to start a new life. But the yearning in Geoff’s eyes calls to him, and he knows that, armed with a deft hand and foreknowledge, he can give Geoff what he’s been seeking, without putting Geoff’s safety at risk.

First, though, he’s got to convince Geoff to trust him—not just with his well-being, but with his pride. Geoff’s injured self-esteem and trouble with communicating what he perceives as weaknesses, could end them before they have a chance to begin.

Find it at:

Amazon

Now Available on Kindle Unlimited!

Sea Change

eBook ISBN: 978-1-62622-611-1 eBook release: Sept 22, 2018 (1st edition May 19, 2014) eBook Formats: mobi Print ISBN: 978-1-62622-612-8 Print release: COMING SOON! Word count: 100,700 Page count: 340  

One summer can change everything...

Topher Carlisle’s always been the black sheep—literally—in his middle-class family. Biracial, gay, and genderfluid, his family doesn’t think he’ll amount to much, and he just might believe them.

After a bout of severe depression has put both his academic and financial prospects in danger, he accepts his best friend’s offer to stay in her family’s summer home while he works to make up the shortfall of his athletic scholarship. But his tendency for self-sabotage is strong and soon a terrible mistake in judgment leaves him homeless.

From the moment he sees Topher, artist Jace Sieger knows that this is someone he needs to capture on canvas. He’s no stranger to poor life choices, and he sees something in Topher worth nurturing.

The challenge, though, is chipping through Topher’s prickly defenses to reach the sensitive, traumatized soul beneath. With the help of his friends Geoff and Robin, maybe, just maybe, they can convince Topher he’s worth something after all, and that a few mistakes don’t make him irredeemable.

What starts as a casual vacation fling grows into something that will change both of them forever.

(This novel is a newly-released and retitled second edition. It was previously available under the title Saugatuck Summer.)

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Amazon

This book is temporarily out of print!

PLAYER VS. PLAYER

eBook ISBN: 978-1-62649-183-0 eBook release: Dec 8, 2014 eBook Formats: pdf, mobi, html, epub Print ISBN: 978-1-62649-184-7 Print release: Dec 8, 2014 Word count: 74,600 Page count: 282

Pushing for change can be dangerous when change starts pushing back.

Video game writer Niles River loves the work he does at Third Wave Studios: creating games with mass appeal that feature women, people of color, and LGBTQ characters. To make his job even better, his best friend is his boss, and his twin brother works beside him. And they mostly agree that being on the forefront of social change is worth dealing with trollish vitriol—Niles is more worried about his clingy ex and their closeted intern’s crush on his brother than he is about internet harassment.

But now the bodies on the ground are no longer virtual, and someone’s started hand-delivering threats to Niles’s door. The vendetta against Third Wave has escalated, and to make matters worse, the investigating detective is an old flame who left Niles heartbroken for a life in the closet.

No change happens without pain, but can Niles justify continuing on with Third Wave when the cost is the blood of others? If he does, the last scene he writes may be his own death.

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Now Available!

BANE (A STRAIN NOVEL)

(This novel takes place after the events of Juggernaut and Strain, and features the same characters)

ISBN: 978-1-62-622606-7 Word count: 75,800 Page count: 279

The weapon that nearly destroyed humanity may be their only salvation.

Rhys Cooper once thought he was a dead man. Instead, he’s proven immune to the virus that nearly wiped out humanity.

Now the Clean Zone’s scientists want to know why. Summoned for testing, Rhys is about to learn first-hand why his Juggernaut partner, Sergeant Darius Murrell, and the rest of his superhuman comrades in Delta Company don’t trust the uninfected survivors in the Clean Zone—or the remnants of the government that unleashed the epidemic in the first place.

For a decade, Zach Houtman has yearned for his lover, Nico Fernández, but fear of infection has kept them apart. Separately they keep tabs on the last vestiges of the corrupt government, particularly the head of the Clean Zone’s virus research division. Secretary Littlewood seeks to unlock the secrets of the Bane virus. But Nico knows how dangerous Littlewood will be if that ever happens.

Zach and Nico now have the perfect bait to draw Littlewood out: Rhys. But Delta Company isn’t about to let Rhys walk into hell alone. They’ll take Littlewood down together, or not at all. Even if they succeed, however, for Zach and Nico one question remains: can infected and uninfected people ever be together safely?

Now Available!

JUGGERNAUT (A STRAIN NOVEL)

(This novel takes place prior to the events of Strain, in the same universe)

ISBN: 978-1-62-622609-8

First edition: August 2015 (now out of print) Second edition: April 2018 Word count: 100,400 Page count: 370

They helped destroy the world. Now they have to survive the new one.

Nico Fernández has a charmed life. Working as a high-end escort in his mother’s agency beats the hell out of being trafficked for slave wages in some corporate brothel. And no one needs to know about his occasional side jobs, like seducing political and military dignitaries, and “nudging” them with mind-altering agents to swing their votes to favor his longest-standing client. 

Zach Houtman’s life should be charmed, but isn’t. His father, the Reverend Maurice Houtman, in pursuit of political aspirations, insists Zach act as his advisor rather than indulging in his true calling: ministering to the most vulnerable outcasts of society. Politics, however, gradually turn Zach’s father away from Christ and toward malicious zealotry, and Zach discovers his campaign is courting violent fundamentalists.

When one of Nico’s “special jobs” results in military approval for a weaponized virus that mutates, unleashing a deadly plague to claim billions of lives, Nico and Zach are thrown together. Each burdened by terrible guilt for their unwitting roles in the calamity, they find safety and solace in each other. But the new world is a dangerous, violent place, where the handful of survivors are willing to do anything, and kill anyone, to get by.

Now Available!

STRAIN

ISBN: 978-1-62-622605-0 First edition: September 2015 (now out of print) Second edition: April 2018 Word count: 104,300 Page count: 375

In a world with little hope and no rules, the only thing they have to lose is themselves.

Rhys Cooper is a dead man. He’s spent years hiding from the virus that wiped out most of the human race, but an act of futile heroism has him counting down his remaining days. The timely arrival of superhuman soldiers offers some feeble hope—but only if Rhys can reconcile himself to doing what is necessary to take advantage of it. 

Sergeant Darius Murrell has seen too much death and too little tenderness. His job is seeking out the infected to put them out of their misery, or sending the uninfected survivors to a safe haven where he and his fellow Juggernaut troops will never be welcomed. Rhys’s situation is different, though. Not only is there an improbable chance that Darius won’t have to put a bullet in Rhys’s head, but he has somehow managed to get under Darius’s skin.

The virus Rhys must infect himself with in order to survive is sexually transmitted, and optimizing his chance of exposure requires him to submit as often as possible to Darius—and the other soldiers. Though the boundaries of morality have shifted in this harsh new world, Darius and Rhys question whether their humanity is too high a price to pay for Rhys’s survival.

Now Available!

STRAIN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION

This collection contains:

Strain Juggernaut (A Strain Novel) Bane (A Strain Novel)

In the early 22nd century, the U.S. military created Project Juggernaut. It was meant to solve a hopeless tactical imbalance in overseas wars by providing the US military with supersoldiers while crippling enemy resistance.

Instead, it introduced a deadly pandemic that all but obliterated humanity.