#SFFRomance

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I have an audiobook!!!!

I am SO excited to share this with all of you! I love, love, LOVE the way this audiobook turned out. My fabulous narrator, David Lane Pusey, absolutely captured Wyatt and Nova's sunshine/grumpy dynamic, the queer found family, and the bananas adventure romance!

From me and all the Lords of Dystopia, Happy Pride and Happy Listening!

Earth Earls Are Easy is available in audio at all the major audiobook retailers, including Audible, Apple, Chirp, Libro.fm, Kobo, and Audiobooks.com!

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Things you will find in Earth Earls Are Easy! Check it out on Kickstarter today and help us bring it to life in ebook, print, and audio! (link below)

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🚨 Last Day!🚨 Thanks to all the new supporters! Let's get one more big push for Earth Earls Are Easy! Here are many of the great things you can find in this sci-fi romance romp! Don't miss out!

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Continuing our Earth Earls Are Easy teasers with Nova Pratt, mercenary for hire. Nova is a Paladin type. Lawful Good. Order and rules make her feel comfortable, and she wants the world to have clear Good/Evil boundaries, even though she knows deep down that's impossible. She's generally stern and grumpy, but can't help being drawn to Wyatt's brand of happy chaos. 🥰

THINGS NOVA LOVES:

sturdy boots and pants with pockets

motorbikes

cleanliness and organization

bananas

helping people

You can always find out more and watch the book trailer on the Kickstarter page!

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MEET WYATT from Earth Earls Are Easy! "Cat," you say. "What's the deal with this Kickstarter book?" Let me tell you, starting with our hero, Wyatt Hartford, Earl of Windborne. I call Wyatt a "Rainbows and Sunshine Chaos Gremlin." He loves colors, music, and dancing. He's always moving, always thinking, constantly with a brain full of bees. He's also adorable and sweet, proudly and loudly queer, and unable to be anything but himself. 🥰 THINGS WYATT LOVES: -his pet bat, Flurry (and all animals) -his army of drones -his computer for playing with the drones -rainbow colors and shiny nail polish -feeding people

You can always find out more and watching the book trailer on the Kickstarter page!

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Sneak Peek of Earth Earls Are Easy today!

I love, love, love writing these four guys interacting.

PROLOGUE

Wyatt Hartford had left Earth only seven minutes ago, and already he was homesick. Or maybe real sick. The smaller the blue-green orb outside the window became, the more his stomach churned. He was going to hurl. Puke. Cast up his accounts.

“What if we never see grass again? Or water? Are there even animals on Mars? What if I never see another squirrel?”

 A sniffle and a snort sounded behind him, and Wyatt glanced down at his companions. The little boy—the sniffler—sat on the beige carpet, clutching a faded red plush rabbit to his chest. The two older boys occupied the utilitarian gray chairs that took up most of the space in the utilitarian gray room. Everything on the ship was beige or gray. He was never going to see colors again.

His gaze flew back to the window, locking on Earth’s brilliant blue oceans and islands of green.

“Come down from there, Windborne.” The duke’s voice had already dropped to a commanding baritone that made Wyatt cringe at his own thirteen-year-old squeaks. “We have business to discuss.”

Wyatt ignored him. It was bad form to ignore a duke. Especially his duke, the head of Earth’s Chamber of Parliament. Of which Wyatt was now a member. He really should have paid more attention in his Politics and Policies of the Empire class.

“Fuck off, Morland,” growled a surly, but still boyish voice.

Wyatt grimaced. At least he hadn’t sworn at the duke. Rion Brandt—Martial House golden boy and all-around arse—had no such restraint.

“Don’t speak to my cousin like that!” cried the little boy.

Wyatt again turned away from his view of Earth, this time to see the boy’s pale, tear-streaked face glowering up at Brandt. His blue eyes flashed with fury, and he brandished his bunny plushie like a weapon. The kid had spirit. Maybe they weren’t doomed after all.

“Oh, I’m sorry,” Rion sneered. “I should have said, ‘Fuck off, Your Grace.’”

The little boy hopped up and swung his toy, smacking Brandt right between the eyes. Before Brandt could retaliate, the boy scrambled up into the duke’s lap.

Morland’s usually rigid expression softened, and he hugged his cousin. “Easy, Aubrey. He’s one of us now. Starting today, we’re all brothers.”

“He’s mean.” Aubrey began to sniffle again. “I hate space. I want to go home.”

There was no home anymore. Nothing but a mess of wars and natural disasters. Eton was the only place Wyatt could remember, but it had never really been home. He had no family, no friends. As heir to the Earl of Windborne, he’d been isolated, even from the other boys in Innovation House. He’d had extra training, extra work, and little time for socializing with anyone other than the peers who came to teach him.

Those men were all dead now. He was Windborne.

It felt strange, more than sad. Confusing. Another wave of nausea swept over him. They were rocketing away from everything he knew.

“See here,” Morland said sternly. “We’re all unhappy. None of us asked for this. But we have twenty-five thousand people aboard this ship that are counting on us. We are their leaders. We own the territory on Mars where they will build new lives. We might be young, but we’ve been trained for this. We have money and titles, where others have nothing. It will be up to us to lift our voices for our people. The only way to do that is to work together. Vote together. We must forge connections with the members of the other Chambers so when the time comes to convince them our ideas have merit, they won’t disregard us.”

Rion tipped his chair to balance on the back two legs. “And the way we do that is to obey all Your Grace’s orders, eh?”

“No. The way we do it is to support each other. For example, when you topple over, I’ll offer you a hand up, even though you’ve been nothing but a twat since entering this room.”

Rion raised both middle fingers. “Just because you’re—” His chair slipped, sending him crashing to the floor.

“I tried that earlier,” the duke explained. “These chairs aren’t very stable.”

Wyatt laughed. Maybe the stuffy young duke wasn’t the automaton people compared him to.

Aubrey scrambled from his cousin’s lap and ran to Brandt’s side, extending a hand. “I’m sorry I said you were mean. Do you want to be my brother?”

Rion stared back in silence for several seconds, before accepting Aubrey’s assistance. “Okay. I like you, kid.”

“My name’s not ‘kid.’ I’m Aubrey Balister, twenty-first Marquess of Wells.”

“I’m Rion. You’ve got good aim with that rabbit. Think you can knock space-boy down from that window ledge?”

“My name is Wyatt, and I’m watching Earth disappear. It’s better than listening to you lot bicker.”

“Can I see?” Aubrey asked.

Rion boosted the smaller boy up to the ledge, where he squeezed in beside Wyatt. Then Rion dragged his chair over and stood on the seat to get a view of his own.

“Damn. It is beautiful, isn’t it?”

The duke joined them. “We and our people will always carry a part of Earth with us.”

“Is Morland always like this?” Wyatt asked Aubrey.

The boy nodded. “Leo talks like the books they teach us in school. But he’s nice. You should be our brother, too.”

Wyatt examined the faces of the other boys. Young. Troubled. But all proud and strong in their different ways.

He put an arm around Aubrey. “I think I’d like that very much.”

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Last chance!

🚨 Last Chance!🚨 We're nearly to the end of the campaign for Earth Earls Are Easy. It's quirky. It's queer. It's fun and funny and romantic, and I hope you'll check it out if you haven't yet. Don't miss out!

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Most of my books don't get playlists, but Wyatt loves music and dancing so much, that he and Nova deserve one. Listen here:

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🚨 Final Week!🚨 I appreciate any and every like, share, comment, word-of-mouth, etc. as we head toward the end of the campaign. And I hope you'll check out Earth Earls Are Easy if you haven't yet. It's quirky. It's queer. It's fun and funny and romantic, and I hope you'll all love it as much as I do!

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🐦 There are only a few hours left to get the Early Bird bonuses. So if you want to pledge and you haven't yet, you might want to do it tonight! 🐦