Hello from Pittsburgh. It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted anything, huh? When last I posted, I think Scoreless Game was about to come out. Well, that did come out, in print and audio. You can find those everywhere you buy books, including directly from LA Witt’s storefront. Yes, audio is there too. (She sends me half the royalties, don’t worry.)
We’re slowly working on the third book in the On The Board series, Shift Change. It’s Sean Klinger (Zing) and Chad Wayland’s story. Sean was introduced in Scoreless Game who gradually came out as genderfluid, and you might remember Chad as Isaac’s friend from Rookie Mistake that also, unfortunately, was a victim of Travis Canterbury. Both Chad and Sean will get their happy ever after, and we’ll get to see Julien and Isaac’s wedding, too.
In the meantime, I’ve been writing. I didn’t post about it here, but I released Love of the Game, a low-angst, grumpy-ish/sunshine hockey romance, part of a shared world series called The Games We Play. It’s available in paperback and as an audiobook, narrated by Michael Ferraiuolo.
Drake Williams was the up-and-coming young player on the Pittsburgh Lions, racking up points like a star. Now in his third season, his star has fallen and his scoring touch is gone. The puck hates his stick, and he’s more liability than asset. No other team in the major league wants him. When the Lions waive him, he’s sent to the Greensburg Otters—proof of how far he’s dropped.
Greensburg feels like a million miles from Pittsburgh rather forty. But when Drake unexpectedly finds a queer biker bar off the beaten path, he thinks he might survive his time in the minors, especially when Jon, the bar’s sexy owner, flirts with him. That is, until the next morning, when he’s re-introduced to Jon as Jonny Eriksson, team captain of the Otters.
Jon Eriksson’s got the hockey IQ but not the hands or the wheels for the big league, and that’s fine. He likes the Otters. Of course he knows who Drake is, and he’s intrigued by the distraught, young player. Jon knows Drake’s the real deal—a star in the making—and will only be on the Otters long enough to recapture his game. It’s Jon’s duty to help rekindle that love for the game.
That’s not all that gets ignited, though. Soon enough, they’re tangled into each other’s life in a way Jon’s never felt before. But what happens to their smoldering love once Drake is recalled to the Lions?
I also produced two audiobooks, one of Cinnamon Roll, and the other of Close Quarter. Both were also narrated by Michael Ferraiuolo.
I’ve got a few projects on the back-burner, including a paranormal romance. But I’m not the fastest writer, as you have probably gathered.
Outside my writing life, I’ve been learning to play hockey, joined an adult hockey league, and have been taking art classes at the local art center (mostly pastel painting and pottery), along with keeping up with my day job as a technical writer.
I also adopted a re-homed Maine Coon cat aptly named Rex. He’s a giant baby.
And that’s pretty much what’s been going on.
Anna Zabo 