Book / Story Release – Ryder O. Cox

Discovery (Inheritance Part 1) – A Dark Gay MM Romance Novella, is now Free~!

ryderocox — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 03:28:21 +0000

03/08/2023

Hey Ryders! Happy Wednesday! PS: I’ve decided to call all my followers “Ryders” because why not?

It’s been a stressful week. Still. Again. Some more. Uuuuuugh. But I’m not giving up, dammit, so let’s get into it!

This week’s updates include a free spicy book just for you, a hot gay romance novel book sale, and a fun new section that I think you’ll at least find amusing, so be sure to read all the way to the end! And please don’t hesitate to leave a comment letting me know if you have any questions, suggestions, or just wanna talk about my cat-children. They love you already, I promise!

Why is Mr. Copernicus Wearing the Cone of Shame!?

So last week has been more stressful than I could have anticipated. It started off with a power outage that lasted about 2 days. In literally freezing weather. It was GREAT.

Mr. Copernicus is 19 years old. For those of you without cast, that’s pretty old. He’s basically in his 90s in human years. So I was worried it might be too cold for him.

I waited a couple hours and when the power didn’t come back, I packed him up and took him to a friend’s place….Whose power went out about 3 hours after we arrived.

Luckily it came back on the next morning, so we were all safe and warm. But when we got home, Copernicus was a little lethargic. I noticed a mark on him and we took him to the emergency vet.

Long story short, they had to drain an abscess and now he has to wear the cone so he doesn’t lick it too much. We also have to give him medicine, which he HATES. He’s my little baby boy who I’ve had for the past 18 years and so I worry about him pretty much constantly. We’ve got a follow up visit on Friday, so fingers crossed that he gets a clean bill of health!

Dark, Kinky, & Taboo Gay Romance

Ryders, check this out~! This month’s sale is 100% my jam, and if you’re reading this then there’s a good chance that it’s yours too. Seriously, my ‘to be read’ list is growing faster than I can read. Especially when I’m also trying to write books of my own! But there are at least like 10 books on this list that I’m adding to my TBR anyway LOL. Most of them are available on Kindle Unlimited, so check them out. I’d love to hear what you think!

Dark, Kinky, & Taboo Gay Romance

Click here to read A Hellhound Called Derek by Michelle Frost

I realized pretty immediately after last week’s blog post that I messed up the URL to the book! So if you were hoping to read A Hellhound Called Derek last week but couldn’t find the URL, here it is – for real this time! And in case you missed it, here’s the synopsis:

Touch his mate and you’ll wish for the fires of hell.

Alpha of the Hellhound enforcers, Derek doesn’t think he has time for a mate until the Paranormal Council of the city gives him one.

Hollis is smart, funny, vulnerable…human, and his police commissioner uncle has designs to use Hollis’s new mating for his own ends.

He’ll learn quickly not to mess with a hellhound’s mate.

A Hellhound Called Derek is the first in this fast-paced novella series where the paranormals are all deliciously protective of their humans…no matter what type of trouble they get into.

Click here to read A Hellhound Called Derek by Michelle Frost!

Fuck Amazon! Here’s your copy of Discovery

Fam, I’m just so fucking done. I’ve gone back and forth with Amazon for weeks now on this and I just don’t want to fight anymore. If Amazon wants to be homophobic and not allow my book on their site, then fine. I’ll just give it to my loyal followers for free. Click Here to download it through Book Funnel!

For those of you that are new, my last blog update was all about how I had planned to auto-release Discovery on March 1. I had everything uploaded and approved, but then I realized that I hadn’t added ‘gay’ to the title or subtitle. When I edited the book to add the word gay, Amazon suddenly decided that my book ‘violated their guidelines’ with no further explanation.

I emailed back and forth, getting the same copy/pasted ‘we reserve the right to determine what does and does not meet our guidelines’ line every time, so fuck it! Here’s the link with the description, trope, warnings, etc where you can just download it for free. Click Here to get the book! – https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x8qtukeiqu

How Can You Support Indie Authors?

Like I mentioned last week, I added an entirely new page to my site with plenty of ways you can support me and other independent authors like myself without having to spend a dime. The graphic above shows the basics, but this page has a more in-depth description of how to do each one and why each one helps – https://ryderocox.com/best-free-ways-to-support-indie-authors/

Inside Ryder’s Mind

No questions this week, so we’re gonna do something different. I’m super ADHD, and one of the ways I cope is having conversations with that part of my brain as if it’s a separate entity. When I don’t have any questions, I’ll just be dropping my ADHD thoughts here. I hope you find them fun and amusing!

If you want to send me a question to answer, feel free to hit reply to this email, or if you want to send an anonymous question, you can use my NGL link – https://ngl.link/authorryderocox

Now for the ADHD thought of the week… +

Me: Ok. We’re on a schedule today. No getting distracted.
ADHD: Ok, but we should really pluck our eyebrows.
Me: Yeah, ok. That’s a quick task-
ADHD: For like an hour.
Me: What? No!
ADHD: And do our makeup for another couple hours.

More coming soon!

That’s it for this week, but I’m still working on those ideas for how to make these newsletters more fun and engaging with things like giveaways and more ways to get involved in my life and my journey as an author. I’d like to grow my list to around 2 times what it is now before we do any of that, but if you’ve got something you’d like to see me do here, even share something you’ve made with everyone, let me know by replying to this email and I’ll do my best to make it happen!

Latest Books

Practice Makes Perfect

Get it now FREE on Bookfunnel!

Sparks fly when best friends Mateo and Morgan decide to work together to get good at dating. They’re two good-looking college guys, they just need a little practice.

Too bad they have no one to practice with but each other.

Hey, at least Morgan looks cute in a skirt, right?

Getting dumped sucks, and nobody knows the truth of that statement more than Mateo and Morgan. They’ve been best friends for a couple years, but neither of them can keep a girlfriend for more than a couple months! Mateo hasn’t even kissed a girl, let alone get past first base with one. So of course he turns to his bestie, Morgan, for help. And, after all, practice makes perfect, right..?

Killer Love

Harris McGuire and Dalton Gardener are both assassins utilized by the mafia. Dalton is one of the highest professionals on the totem pole, known for his precision and planning, who works for the top crime family in the area. Harris, on the other hand, is a brutal yet efficient freelancer who various mafia outfits have been known to contract. The two assassins’ paths cross on occasion and they enjoy a friendly rivalry, with Dalton teasing Harris for not ‘settling down’ to work with a single mafia family and Harris thinking that Dalton is the more stuck up and limited of the two due to the mafia’s rules which he must follow to a T.
But one day, unbeknownst to each other, they both receive peculiar assignments – to kill the other assassin. Dalton’s comes from his mafia boss, whereas Harris’ is from a strange anonymous (but wealthy) client. The two men chase each other around the city attempting to complete their jobs, each using his own skill set to the best of his ability.
But when Harris corners Dalton in his home, it’s not fighting that he has on his mind…

Tainted Belief

Bad: An asexual Catholic priest falls for the choir director at his church.
Worse: That choir director just happens to be an incubus in disguise.
For as long as he’s been an adult, Father Nikolas has been a priest. He went from high school to seminary school and then found a flock to lead in a small suburb of London. He’s never needed or wanted anything else, really. But when he finds his eyes lingering on the choir director long after everyone else has left, Niko begins to question everything.
Leviathan was cast out from Heaven and he chose to become an incubus, pursuing the pleasures of mankind instead of their torment. He sees Father Nikolas as just another meal, someone to play with, seduce, nourish himself with, and leave. But all that changes when he finds himself growing feelings for the priest.
Representation: trans main character (FtM), asexual main character, male homosexual main characters, POC main character

Practice Makes Perfect is now Available to Everyone FOR FREE!

ryderocox — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:42:40 +0000

Still Growing!!!

Hello readers! If you’re on my mailing list, you’ve already read this info, plus gotten a special bonus sneak peek at my cover mockup for Depths of Desire! Everyone else, consider joining the mailing list here, and read on for more updates!

This week’s updates are pretty big, with a brand new book release, new promos, sneak peek at an upcoming cover idea, and I even made a brand new Tiktok, so be sure to read to the end! And please feel free to drop me a message any time, whether you have something you want to ask, some advice, or if you just wanna talk about my cat-children.

MORE Steamy Gay Books!

I’ve been trying to grow more and more, as all indie authors are I’m sure, and one of the better ways to grow is to get more folks to join my mailing list. In order to do that, I purchased a BookFunnel subscription and joined another badass promo for the month of December! I get ‘karma points’ for every time someone clicks my link to the promo, and higher karma grants me access to more and bigger/better promotions. I’d really appreciate it if you could please click the link below even if they don’t sound like your thing, but the one for December is all MM sexy books, so I think you’ll find at least something good there. It doesn’t start until the 1st, but it runs all month, so check out all the smexiness that the other authors have to offer!

Click here to check out the sexy gay books!

NaNoWriMo

…is finally over! For those of you who don’t know, this was my first year trying National Novel Writing Month. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s basically where people challenge themselves during the month of November to write 50K-100K words in a month. You set your personal goal at the beginning (I chose 50K) and are supposed to write & update your profile with what you’ve done each day.

I didn’t meet my goal, but I still got probably 1/4 of the story for Depths of Desire written, and the majority of the rest of it outlined. It’s been a great experience, and I think I’ll definitely try again next year, but maybe with a bit more ‘prep’ in the month of October. You know, as opposed to the none that I did this year.

Depths of Desire

The new story I started for NaNoWriMo is called Depths of Desire. In case you missed the update, it’s about an actor named Percival Warrens, Percy for short, who is filming a movie about mermaids. He is, in fact, the star of the film, and gets to wear a gorgeous custom mermaid tail and everything.

But while they’re out at sea filming, a storm throws him overboard and sinks the ship. But he’s the protagonist, so he can’t die, right? However, his rescuer is none other than a real merman, who tries to take Percy as his mate!

Last week, I mentioned that I was looking for a cover artist, but this week I felt super creative and decided to give it a go on my own. Mailing list subscribers got to see the concept I came up with and give their opinions. Why not subscribe now?

Check Me Out on Social Media!

Like I said in the beginning of this email, I got a brand new Tiktok. The new link is in the graphics above, but you can also just go to https://tiktok.com/@spicygayromance and I’m trying to update at least once per day. So far I’ve only missed US Thanksgiving Day, so I’d say that’s a pretty good track record for someone with ADHD haha. My tiktoks are blurbs, information, tropes, and scenes from my books, so I’d love it if you’d check them out, follow me, and like/reshare my vids to spread the word <3!

Practice Makes Perfect is Officially Live!

I’m sooo excited to announce that Practice Makes Perfect is officially available for everyone! It’s 100% free on Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Google, but currently $0.99 on Amazon. They say they’re working on the price match, but we’ll see. I’ve been having some trouble with them lately -_- I’ll have to figure out something special to do for those who bought the book because it’s supposed to be FREE! If you have any thoughts, please let me know!

Practice Makes Perfect has gotten sooooooo much love even before it was released! Check out these amazing reviews:

TONS of great reviews on Goodreads. Read them all here!

Titles and Treats: Watch the video on Tiktok!

Mx Sally Bend: Read the review on their site!

Heidi Lynn: Read the Review on her blog!

Raina Reads: Watch the video on Tiktok!

Quick synopsis of the book:

Sparks fly when best friends Mateo and Morgan decide to work together to get good at dating. They’re two good-looking college guys, they just need a little practice.

Too bad they have no one to practice with but each other. Hey, at least Morgan looks cute in a skirt, right?