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About E. J. Russell
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Multi-Rainbow Award winner E.J. Russell holds a BA and an MFA in theater, so naturally she spent three decades as a financial manager, database designer, and business intelligence consultant (as one does). Sheâs married to Curmudgeonly Husband, a man who cares even less about sports than she does. Luckily, C.H. also loves to cook, or all three of their children (Lovely Daughter and Darling Sons A and B) would have survived on nothing but Cheerios, beef jerky, and satsuma mandarins (the extent of E.J.âs culinary skill set).
E.J.'s book, The Druid Next Door, was a 2018 RITAÂź finalist. She lives in rural Oregon, enjoys visits from her wonderful adult children, and indulges in good books, red wine, and the occasional hyperbole.
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E.J.'s books:
Mythmatched Universe
Fae Out of Water trilogy
Cutie and the Beast
The Druid Next Door
Bad Boy's Bard
Supernatural Selection trilogy
Single White Incubus
Vampire with Benefits
Demon on the Down-Low
Howling on Hold
Witch Under Wraps
Possession in Session (subscribers only)
Cursed is the Worst
Quest Investigations series
Five Dead Herrings
The Hound of the Burgervilles
The Lady Under the Lake
Death on Denial
Enchanted Occasions Universe
Best Beast
Nudging Fate
Devouring Flame
Legend Tripping Universe
Stumptown Spirits
Wolf's Clothing
Art Medium Universe
The Artist's Touch
Tested in Fire
Art Medium: The Complete Collection
Royal Powers Shared World
Duking It Out
Duke the Hall
King's Ex
Magic Emporium Shared World
Purgatory Playhouse
Contemporary Romantic Comedies
Clickbait
Mystic Man
For a Good Time, Call...
Historical
Silent Sin
Holiday Shorts
The Probability of Mistletoe
An Everyday Hero
A Swants Soiree
Christmas Kisses (box set)
Monster Till Midnight
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Blog postMythmatched romances in audio! All eight currently retail-available Mythmatched romances are now in audio!
The Quest Investigations mystery series (set in the Mythmatched world but not technically romances) will be coming to audio later this year. The two books that are presently free (Possession in Session and Cursed is t
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Blog postIâm on the Big Gay Fiction Podcast!
I had the privilege of sitting down (virtually) with Jeff Adams on the Big Gay Fiction Podcast. It was such a pleasure to chat with Jeff, whoâs such a charming host that I felt totally comfortable despite my 100% introversion!
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Blog postAll Mythmatched books in Kindle Unlimited for a, er, limited time!
All eight of my retail-available Mythmatched books are now enrolled in KU until June 13, 2021! (The ninth bookâPossession in Sessionâremains free to my newsletter subscribers.)
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Blog postFlashback Friday
My supernatural suspense novella, The Artistâs Touch, is on sale for 99¢ through February 28, 2021, so I thought Iâd revisit one of the posts from its release blog tour back in February o
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Blog postFlashback Friday Since Best Beast, the prequel to my Enchanted Occasions series, is presently offered in the Winter Wonderland giveaway (until January 10th) and available for pre-order at Amazon (releasing January 15th on Kindle Unlimited), I though it was the right
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Blog postFlashback Friday Since The Thomas Flair is on sale for 99¢ throughout January, I decided to dedicate the first Flashback Friday of the new year to a post I wrote about my tour of the US Olympic/Paralympic Training Center while I was gearing up to write the book.
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Blog postFlashback Friday Iâve written over a hundred blog posts related to my books since I released the first one (Northern Light, later revised and expanded as The Artistâs Touch) back in 2013. Iâve decided to resurrect those posts here on my own blog as a regular Friday
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Blog postDuking It Out Release Week
My friend, author Chris Cox, contacted me a couple of months ago to invite me to join him and several other authors in a new shared world series. âThereâs royalty,â he said, âwith superpowers.â
Well. Talk about an offer I couldnât refuse! And Iâm so, so happy to announce the launch of our new Roy
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Blog postBaking in the Time of Social Distancing
Those who know me also know that âshelter-in-placeâ is pretty much my default setting. But choosing social distance by preference is a heck of a lot different than maintaining it for the safety of oneself and others. We all need to take whatever comfort we can in these crazy daysâand
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Blog postâSilent Sin is a gorgeous story set in the golden age of silent film.ââJoyfully Jay
My first historical novel, Silent Sin, released this week and Iâm thrilled with the reception itâs getting. Yay! ~*~*~*confetti*~*~*~ The book is set in the early 1920s, as the film industry was first establishing its
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Titles By E. J. Russell
Being in tech time-out totally sucks.
Hector Gonzales knew the danger when he hacked the magic grid to marry it with human technology. Heâd never imagined this system crash: A total tech suspension while the tradition-bound supe council reviews his case. Heâs reduced to running errands for his friends, and seriously? How had people survived before GPS? Then several wrong turnsâthank you so much, stupid paper mapâlead him to a remote burger joint. And when he spots the cute guy behind the counter? His wolf wakes up and howls You have arrived at your destination.
Getting firedâagainâtotally sucks.
Rafi Abbas tries to give customers what they want, he really does. However, when he gets distracted by the lovely man with the gorgeous brown skin, he screws up another customerâs order and his boss fires him on the spot. With no money, no job, and soon nowhere to live, Rafi has no business saying yes when the lovely man asks him out. But something about Hector whispers home.
Obeying the Secrecy Pact totally sucks.
To keep the supe community safe, werewolves cannot partner romantically with humans. That rule has been programmed into Hector since he was a pup. But as the day slides from bad to worse to are-you-freaking-kidding-me, Hector sees the moratorium for what it is: ridiculous and outdated. For Rafi, heâs willing to challenge the status quo.
After all, things canât very well get worse than worst. Right?
The Skinny on Djinni is a M/M paranormal romance set in E.J. Russellâs popular Mythmatched story universe. While it features instinctual attraction, fated mates are not a thing. Youâll recognize some familiar faces from other Mythmatched tales, and although the romanceâcomplete with HEAâstands alone, the story answers a couple of long-standing questions!
Temp worker David Evans has been dreaming of Dr. Alun Kendrick ever since that one transcription job for him, because holy cats, that voice. Swoon. So when his agency offers him a position as Dr. Kendrickâs temporary office manager, David neglects to mention that heâs been permanently banished from offices. Because, forgiveness? Way easier than permission.
Alun Kendrick, former Queenâs Champion of Faerieâs Seelie Court, takes his job as a psychologist for Portlandâs supernatural population extremely seriously. Secrecy is paramount: no non-supe can know of their existence. So when a gods-bedamned human shows up to replace his office manager, he intends to send the man packing. It shouldnât be difficult â in the two hundred years since he was cursed, no human has ever failed to run screaming from his hideous face.
But cheeky David isnât intimidated, and despite himself, Alun is drawn to David in a way that can only spell disaster: when fae consort with humans, it never ends well. And if the human has secrets of his own? The disaster might be greater than either of them could ever imagine.
Word count: 76,300; page count: 303
Former Queenâs Enforcer Mal Kendrick doesnât think his life could get any worse: heâs been exiled from Faerie with a cursed and useless right hand. When heâs not dodging random fae assassins in the Outer World, heâs going toe-to-toe with his tree-hugging neighbor. And when he discovers that the tree hugger is really a druid, heâs certain the gods have it in for himâafter all, thereâs always a catch with druids. Then heâs magically shackled to the man and expected to instruct him in Supernatural 101.
All right, now things couldnât possibly get worse.
Until a mysterious stranger offers a drunken Mal the chance to gain back all heâs lostâfor a price. After Mal accepts, he discovers the real catch: an ancient secret that will change his and Bryceâs life forever.
Ah, what the hells. Odds are they wonât survive the week anyway.
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Word count: 91,200; page count: 360
Thatâs why werewolves embark on a Howling: a three-year rite of passage in which theyâre sent to a group residence to wrestle with their wolfy instincts and assimilate into the Wider World. But Tanner Arayaâs Howling is almost over, and he could be called back to his remote pack at any moment. His twenty-first birthday might be his last chance to act on his strongest instinct and finally kiss Chase Denney.
Chase is RA at the Howling residence affectionately dubbed âthe Doghouse,â and he takes his job seriously. So seriously that when he realized he was developing feelings for a resident, he forced himself to keep Tanner at a distance. But now that Tannerâs twenty-one, heâs not Chaseâs charge any longer. They could be friends orâif Chase is luckyâsomething more. At least until they both return to their home packs for good, as tradition demands.
It would take a miracle for them to get togetherâespecially when the other Doghouse werewolves insist on âhelping.â
Warning: Many Frisbees are harmed in this story, forgiveness is not always easier than permission, and the five-second rule does not apply.
As far as rock star Gareth Kendrick, the last true bard in Faerie, is concerned, the only good Unseelie is . . . well . . . thereâs no such thing. Two centuries ago, an Unseelie lord abducted Garethâs human lover, Niall, and Gareth has neither forgotten nor forgiven.
Niall OâTierney, half-human son of the Unseelie King, had never lost a wager until the day he swore to rid the Seelie court of its bard. That bet cost him everything: his freedom, his familyâand his heart. When heâs suddenly face-to-face with Gareth at the ceremony to join the Seelie and Unseelie realms, Niall does the only thing inhumanly possible: he fakes amnesia. Not his finest hour, perhaps, but he never revealed his Unseelie heritage, and to tell the truth now would be to risk Garethâs revulsionâfar harder to bear than two hundred years of imprisonment.
Then a new threat to Garethâs life arises, and he and Niall stage a mad escape into the Outer World, only to discover the fate of all fae resting on their shoulders. But before they can save the realm, they have to tackle something really tough: mending their own broken relationship.
Word count: 77,000; page count: 301
When Ky HernĂĄndez bonded with his familiar, Zuri, his life changed forever. Their connection turned him into a practicing witch and led him to his calling as a medimagical professional. However, it totally tanked his love lifeâwhat guy would settle for eternal second place behind a parrot? So Ky keeps his witchy nature under wraps and sticks to hookups with humans, which can never go anywhere. But the mouthwatering barista at the coffee shop next door makes him thirst for more than a caffeine fix.
The charms Ewan Jones uses to appear human are inconvenient, disorienting, and . . . necessary. Ewan and his siblings are achubyddion, metaphysical healers whose powers are coveted by unscrupulous supernatural beings. And letâs face it: all supes are unscrupulous, given the right incentive. Heâs grateful for the protections that hide his little family, and for the barista job that keeps them housed and fed. Heâs just so lonely. And his regular, Ky, the super-hot, commitment-averse EMT, seems like the perfect candidate for a one-night shot at intimacy. After all, humans are no threat.
It takes a clumsy coffee shop intern, a mysterious werewolf epidemic, and one snarky parrot to unravel their pastsâand give them a chance at a future.
Royal dukes from rival countries, shipwrecked on a deserted island. The grudge match of the centuryâor a love story of super-heroic proportions?
Sander Fiala, Duke of Roses, is fourth in line to the South Abarran throne, even though his rogue power earned him the nickname âThe Monster of Rosesâ and got him banished from the Castle. But right before heâs about to set off on his annual birthday sailing trip, the Queen asks him to meet with the notoriously volatile North Abarran Duke of Arles.
Tarik Jaso, Duke of Arles, expects the worst from people becauseâletâs face itâpeople are the worst. His superpower bombards him with any and all electronic transmissions, whichâŠyeah, people suck. So when heâs attacked and wakes up in the cabin of a stranded boat, he knows heâs royally screwed. Because the man looming over himâthe man heâd gone toe-to-toe with right before the attackâis the infamous Monster of Roses.
Tarik is positive the Monster is behind his kidnapping. Sander is sure the whole thing is Tarikâs fault. As they work toward rescue, Tarik realizes that the disturbingly hot Sander is no monster, and Sander discovers that Tarikâs temper masks a caring soul wrapped in a cantankerous (though undeniably sexy) body.
For their burgeoning connection to endure, theyâll have to duke it out with political factions, dark conspiracies, and centuries of traditions that keep them on opposite sides of the border.
But first? They have to get off this damn island.
Duking It Out is a 46,000-word M/M enemies to lovers, opposites attract, superhero rom-com, featuring Only One Bed, a grumpy duke who should know better than to jump to conclusions, a self-doubting duke whoâs good with his hands (heh), gossipy seagulls, competent assistants, a guaranteed HEA, and (unfortunately) capes.
This case is really going to the dogsâŠ
After I try a little off-the-books interrogation to locate my selkie almost-boyfriendâs nearly-ex-husband (donât ask, itâs complicated), Iâm in the doghouse again with my bosses, who bust me back to surveillance. Ugh. So when another human inexplicably storms into Quest Investigationsâsomething our security spells ought to prevent since Iâm supposed to be the only human admitted to our officesâIâm reduced to staking out local fast food restaurants to check out the guyâs alleged sighting of a giant, glowing-eyed, dumpster-diving spectral hound.
Ridiculous, right? Humiliating, too, not to mention boring. But at least they didnât fire me.
Imagine my surprise when there actually is a giant, glowing-eyed, dumpster-diving spectral houndâone of the Cwn Annwn, Herne the Hunterâs traitor-tracking dog pack, to be exact. Jeez, who let this dog out? Itâs my case, though, so itâs up to meâMatt Steinitz, aka Hugh Mannâto return him to Faerie. But while Herneâs normally hopping kennels are inexplicably unpopulated by pups, theyâre playing host to one extremely dead body.
Uh oh. Looks like someoneâs bite was a lot worse than their bark.
Guess my love life will have to take a back seat again while we nose out the truth.
Dammit.
The Hound of the Burgervilles is the second in the Quest Investigations M/M mystery series, a spinoff of E.J. Russellâs Mythmatched paranormal rom-com story world. It contains no on-page sex or violence, and although there is a romantic subplot, it is not a romance. The series is best read in order.
DOA becomes BRB when this client goes MIAâŠ
When I agreed to accompany my selkie boyfriend on a private boat trip, I didnât realize the invitation included a swim. In the Pacific. In November. Naked. And I certainly didnât expect to have our swim derailed the instant I got in the waterâholy crap, thatâs c-c-coldâby a literal boatload of selkie clan leaders.
Climbing out of the water in front of themâdid I mention naked? Yeah, way to make a brilliant first impression. Then things get worse: I get served. Not in the metaphorical sense, either. Nope, Iâm being sued.
By Death.
Well, not Death precisely, but an Ankouâa Celtic psychopomp who escorts the departed to their final destinations. This guy is miffed that his workload has increased exponentially, which he blames on my actions in Sheol on an earlier case. Iâm not about to take the heat when eons of shady demon shenanigans finally come home to roost, but here at Quest Investigations, we aid any and all supernatural folk in needâespecially if theyâll drop their specious lawsuits against the agencyâs lone human.
When the Ankou skips out on us, though, all hell breaks loose. Because without anyone to lead them on, the dearly departed become nearly departed and stick around to party hearty. Now itâs not just the selkie leaders complicating my love lifeâitâs the ex-living as well.
And when one of the ex-living decides not to remain ex? Things get really complicated, not to mention deadly.
Dammit.
Death on Denial is the fourth in the Quest Investigations M/M mystery series, a spinoff of E.J. Russellâs Mythmatched paranormal rom-com story world. It contains no on-page sex or violence, and although there is a romantic subplot, it is not a romance. The series is best read in order.
Somethingâs definitely fishy about this caseâŠ
On my last stakeout for Quest Investigations, I nearly got clotheslined by a grove of angry dryads. I expected my bosses to reprimand me, but instead they handed me my first solo assignment. Me! Matt Steinitz, the only human on the Quest roster!
Okay, so the mission isnât exactly demanding. Obviously, the bosses wanted to give me something they think I canât screw up. Iâm determined to show them what I can do, however, so I dive right in with no complaints.
At first glance, it looks as simple as baiting a hook: A selkieâs almost-ex-husband is vandalizing his boat with unwanted deliveries of deceased sea life. All I have to do is document the scene, tell the ex to cease and desist, and present the bill for property damages. Boom. Mission accomplished, another Quest success, and as a bonus, I get to keep my job.
But then things getâŠcomplicated. Suspicious undercurrents muddy up my oh-so-easy case. Nothing is as clear as it should be. And the biggest complication? My inappropriate attraction to the client, who may not be as blameless as he claims.
Turns out those dead herrings arenât the only things that stink about this situation.
Dammit.
Five Dead Herrings is the first in the Quest Investigations M/M paranormal mystery series, a spinoff of E.J. Russellâs Mythmatched paranormal rom-com story world. It contains no on-page sex or violence, and although there is a romantic subplot, it is not a romance.
Well, partially. That was what got grizzly shifter Ted Farnsworth into trouble. He wasnât trying to break the Secrecy Pact. He just wants people to see the real him. So he signs up with the mate-matching service Supernatural Selectionâwhich guarantees marriage to a perfect partner. Not only will Ted never be lonely again, but once his new beaver shifter husband arrives, theyâll build Tedâs dream wilderness retreat together. Win-win.
Quentin Bertrand-Harrington, scion of an incubus dynasty, has abstained from sex since nearly killing his last lover. When his family declares itâs time for him to marry, Quentin decides the only way not to murder his partner is to pick someone whoâs already dead. Supernatural Selection finds him the ideal vampire, and Quentin signs the marriage agreement sight unseen.
But a mix-up at Supernatural Selection contracts Quentin with Ted. Whatâs Ted supposed to do with an art historian who knows more about salad forks than screwdrivers? And how can Quentin resist Tedâs mouthwatering life force? Yet as they work together to untangle their inconvenient union, they begin to wonder if their unexpected match might be perfect after all.
Silent film actor Casimir Moreau had imagined that life as a vampire would be freewheeling and glamorous. Instead, heâs plunged into a restrictive society whose rules he runs afoul of at every turn. To ârehabilitateâ him, the vampire council orders him mated to an incubus with impeccable breeding whoâll mold Cas into the upstanding vampire he ought to be. Or else.
As an inactive beaver shifter, construction engineer Rusty Johnson has foughtâand overcomeâbias and disrespect his entire life. But when his longtime boyfriend leaves him for political reasons, Rusty is ready to call it a day. Next stop? Supernatural Selection and his guaranteed perfect mate, a bear shifter living far away from Rustyâs disapproving clan.
But then a spell snafu at Supernatural Selection robs both men of their intended husbands. Rusty canât face returning to his clan, and Cas needs somebody on his arm to keep the council happy, so they agree to pretend to be married. Nobody needs to know their relationship is fakeâespecially since itâs starting to feel suspiciously like the real thing.
Word count: 80,000; page count: 300
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