Dudes. Wow. Thank you. Black Dog Blues is Sid Love’s Book of the Month for July 2013. Thank you. Really. I’m very touched and thankful you like Kai and his… um… band of companions. And Newt.

Smooches and thank you!

ANNOUNCEMENT: BoTM – July 2013!!!.

Book of the Month – July 2013 (FINAL VOTING).

Wooooot! Black Dog Blues is up for the final vote. And damn the peeps in the category are stellar. Congrats to everyone! And WOOOOOOT!

Go Vote for your Faves. Vote for two every 12 hours!

Black Dog Blues is up for consideration at Sid Love‘s place for July’s Book of the Month, Week 4. Damn there are so many good books on that poll. Seriously, go vote for your faves because dayum.. July was a VERY good month!

Book of the Month – July ’13 (Nomination Poll: Week 4).

Great News!

Rhys Ford’s Whiskey and Wry (Book Two of the Sinners’ Series) is coming from Dreamspinner Press on August 19th, 2013.

The Official Blurb:

He was dead. And it was murder most foul. If erasing a man’s existence could even be called murder.

When Damien Mitchell wakes, he finds himself without a life or a name. The Montana asylum’s doctors tell him he’s delusional and his memories are all lies: he’s really Stephen Thompson, and he’d gone over the edge, obsessing about a rock star who died in a fiery crash. His chance to escape back to his own life comes when his prison burns, but a gunman is waiting for him, determined that neither Stephen Thompson nor Damien Mitchell will escape.

With the assassin on his tail, Damien flees to the City by the Bay, but keeping a low profile is the only way he’ll survive as he searches San Francisco for his best friend, Miki St. John. Falling back on what kept him fed before he made it big, Damien sings for his supper outside Finnegan’s, an Irish pub on the pier, and he soon falls in with the owner, Sionn Murphy. Damien doesn’t need a complication like Sionn, and to make matters worse, the gunman—who doesn’t mind going through Sionn or anyone else if that’s what it takes kill Damien—shows up to finish what he started.

SWAG NEWS!

NOW…further news. I’ll be designing tour shirts for Sinner’s Gin… well one tour shirt to start. I’ll be putting these up on CafePress or some other Print On Demand site for you to purchase. They’ll be “at-cost”. No money in my pocket but hey! a shirt! Probably mugs too. Let’s see how it goes. I have to design the damned thing. I’m thinking of going retro old school rocker…skulls, wings, etc. Wish me luck. Watch this space for details.

Holy crap…. Kai. Dudes. Really. Thank you.

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,687 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

#23 in Books > Gay & Lesbian > Literature & Fiction > Fiction > Gay
#25 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Gay & Lesbian > Fiction
#100 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Fantasy > Paranormal & Urban

Thank you all for taking the chance on my special Kitten. Really, thank you.

Thank you for fighting the fight.

Finally Married

I wish them the best.

I have released the Hounds.

After a few long years of Kai simmering on my hard drive, I’ve finally been able to release him and the black dogs he hunts. There are so many people who have had a hand in this book’s release, I can’t even imagine listing them. I made a poor attempt at thanking them in the acknowledgements.

Kai is a bit different from my other series. It’ll be an occasional book but definitely a series I plan on continuing. It’s pretty much urban fantasy with a bit of a protag twist. Hope you all enjoy the book.

In other news, don’t forget Whiskey and Wry will be out in a couple of months so… if you wanna see what happens to the guy at the end of Sinner’s Gin, stay tuned.

Title: Black Dog Blues
Author: Rhys Ford
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Length: >85,000 words (novel) (ebook format, print to follow)

Purchase Links:
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Dog-Blues-Gracen-ebook/dp/B00DK3DPSI
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/328969
Barnes and Noble: Link being processed but it will be available on the Nook.

Release Date: 23 June 2013

Black Dog Blues Blurb
Ever since he’d been part of the pot in a high-stakes poker game, elfin outcast Kai Gracen figured he’d used up any good karma he had when Dempsey, a human Stalker, won the hand and took him in. Following the violent merge of Earth and Underhill, the human and elfin races were left with a messy, monster-ridden world and Stalkers were often the only cavalry willing to ride to someone’s rescue when something shadowy and dark moved into the neighbourhood.

There certainly were no shortage of monsters or people stupidly willing to become lunch for one.

It was a hard life but one Kai liked. And he was good at it. Killing monsters was easy. Especially since he was one himself.

After an accident retired Dempsey out, Kai set up permanent shop in San Diego, contracting out to the local SoCalGov depot. It was a decent life, filled with bounty, a few friends and most importantly, no other elfin around to remind him he wasn’t really human.

That was until a sidhe lord named Ryder arrives in San Diego and Kai is conscripted to do a job for Ryder’s fledgling Dawn Court. It was supposed to a simple run; head up the coast during dragon-mating season to retrieve a pregnant human woman seeking sanctuary with the new Court then back to San Diego. Easy, quick and best of all, profitable. But Ryder’s “simple” run leads to massive trouble and Kai ends up being caught in the middle of a deadly bloodline feud he has no hope of escaping.

No one ever got rich by being a Stalker. But then hardly any of them got old either. The way things were looking, it didn’t look like Kai was going to be the exception.

Thank you all who voted and read and really just kept with me. Most of all, thank you all for having faith in what I’m doing to Cole and Jae. I promise… I um… won’t let you down.

Not to say everyone’s bits will be intact but I won’t let you down!

Thank you all. Very much.