New year goals...

I have them. I just hope that I can keep them...:)

Do you ever do that? Make goals only to drop them by the middle of January? I'm determined to not do that this year. I'm determined to get back into writing.

2019 has been such a sucky year in a lot of ways, especially in the writing arena. Too much drama. Too many issues with publishers closing down. Writing has lost its magic and become too much work. I now have to find my own cover artist, find an editor, format. I have no idea how to format. None. I suck at it.

So...I haven't written in a while.

The stories are there, I've just lost the desire to write them down. I probably shouldn't say that. I haven't really lost the desire to write them down. I want to write them down, I just hate the thought of the work that comes after that. I want to go back to the days where all I do is write and let someone else handle the actual work part...:)

But this year I'm determined to change that. I want to continue to write and I will. I'll get those stories down and hopefully, get them published.

That's my goal for 2020. To start writing again.

{{hugs}}
Trista

Master Delacroix

Is now in paperback!! woohoo!!

To purchase click here

{{hugs}}

Trista

New release....sort of.

It's taken me over a year to get all my EC and Loose Id books re-released. Now i'm working on my Liquid Silver books. The first to be re-released is a book titled, It's Only Physical.

Here's the new cover. Isn't it hot?? :)

It's Only Physical will release at the end of January.

One month after that, A Shot in the Dark will release at the end of February.

A Shot in the Dark is the next book in the Mercenary series. It's also a crossover and will included a very sexy character from the Crime and Punishment series, Master Delacroix...:)

I still have ten more books from Liquid Silver to release, but I'll scatter them in with new releases that I plan on putting out this year, which will include Mike and Carol's story from the Mercenary series, a new menage from the Entwined Fates series, and an interesting mixture of horror and erotic that I've been working on called Dark Desires.

I'm hoping to make 2019 a much more productive year. Keep your fingers crossed I can keep up..:)

{{hugs}}
Trista

Available for a limited time...

The entire Spark of Magic series is in a box set for a limited time at a very special price of .99. So be sure and check it out before it's gone...:)

Spark of Magic box set

New releases...

Declan is the next book in the Crime and Punishment series and will release sometime tonight. Yay!!

 Blurb:

F.B.I. agent, Declan Reed can’t believe his luck when he sees sexy Jillian Drance standing in the middle of his BDSM club looking like a lost puppy.

She agrees to one night only. She doesn’t have time for relationships and doesn’t want one. A demand that suits Declan just fine until he realizes that one night wouldn’t be nearly enough.

Jillian isn’t interested in a relationship with any man, much less a man who’s life is in constant danger. Unfortunately, she can’t stop thinking about him and the way his dominating personality makes her feel.

Just when Declan is starting to break down her walls, the serial killer he’s been after turns his sites on exasperating Dom. Can Declan catch the killer before the killer catches him?

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While I'm waiting for Declan to publish on Amazon, I've started working on the next book in the series, Sweetest Sin.

Sweetest Sin will actually combine two series. The Mercenary Series and Crime and Punishment. A cross over of sorts..:)

I'll keep you posted on the progress, and in the meantime, if you haven't read the series here are the links to the books in reading order.

Topping the Domme 

Master Delacroix

Theirs To Share

Burning Submission

The Master's Den

Theirs to Share..:)

Now available...And check out that new cover!! :)

Cowboys...

Do you love cowboys? How about menages? Well, I have both covered in The Cowboys and Witch, which is now live at Amazon both for sale and in Kindle Unlimited!

https://www.amazon.com/Cowboys-Witch-Trista-Ann-Michaels-ebook/dp/B0752W9N41/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1503569182&sr=8-2&keywords=the+cowboys+and+the+with+by+trista+ann+michaels

Big sale

Spark of Magic is on sale for .99 on Amazon. Be sure and grab the first book in the Spark of Magic series while it's so cheap!  :)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071XMVSG1

Now available..:)

Captive and Destined For Two have been re-released and are now available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.

coming soon

Dead Reckoning....

Now Available...

A Ghost of a Chance...:)

check it out on Amazon and Kindle unlimited for a limited time..:)

Now available

                                                             A Ghost of a Chance..:)

Coming soon...

Coming in May!!

New release!!

Just two weeks until the release of Two For Tessa!! I'm so excited. This story is a stand alone story, but will loosely tie into the Mercenary series. It will be book three if you want to read them in order..:)

Book one - Social Prey
Book two - Dirty, Sexy Dom

Book three -

Re-releases!!

I've got a ton of them..lol

Starting March I'll begin re-releasing my Ellora's Cave titles starting with the Fantasy series.

Fantasy Bar
Fantasy Resort
Fantasy Seduction

Seduction is already out, but Bar and Resort will both release in March. After that will come Two For Tessa, which is the new romantic suspense, either at the end of March or first week of April.

Over the next two years I'll be releasing at least one book a month. Some new, some previously published. So it's going to be a busy time at my house. I just hope I can keep up with the schedule I've set up...lol

<hugs>
Trista

Coming soon!!!

Coming soon!! Two For Tessa. My newest romantic suspense menage!

This story is stand alone but will loosely tie into the Social Prey series. If you like suspense, drug cartels, two hot brothers and hot kinky sex then this one is a must read!

On sale!!

On sale for December! Book one of the Crime and Punishment series. Get your copy today before it goes back to regular price!

Topping the Domme

A new menage..:)

Below is an excerpt from my upcoming menage, Two For Tessa..:)

Enjoy!

Three FBI agents. One massive amount of trouble.

Logan sat in the passenger seat of the Buick Enclave and stared out the window. They could’ve gotten here in a day, but since they’d started out so late, they’d stopped off in Bristol, Tennessee for the night before heading to their destination in Nashville. Tessa wanted to see where they would be living before they headed out to buy clothes.

Malcolm made a right hand turn and Logan sighed tiredly at the massive gate before them. “A gated community. What fun,” Logan murmured.

“Full blown suburbia,” Malcolm replied, but less cheerfully.

They’d grown up in Washington. Neither was a fan of the suburbs.

“Yep,” Tessa said with angry sarcasm. “Communities ruled by nosy associations that have nothing better to do than think of ways to drain your pocket book and steal your house.”

Both he and Logan turned to look at her.

“What?” she asked.

“Where did that come from?” Malcolm asked.

Her lips twisted as she turned to look back out the window. “Sorry. My parents lived in one of these during the financial crisis. The association foreclosed on their house when they couldn’t pay the dues. I tend to get a little resentful.”

“It’s understandable,” Logan said softly.

Tessa looked at him and smiled slightly. “I’ll try to do better, especially since we’re going to be living here for a while.”

“Speaking of that,” Malcolm said as he grabbed the gate card from the console between the front seats and waved it in front of the computer screen. The gate beeped and began to slide open. “Let’s go over everything. I’m Malcolm Morningside and you’re my brother, Logan Morningside.”

“Obviously,” Logan drawled.

Logan continued as he followed the GPS instructions to their house. “You’re staying with us while you finalize your divorce and find a new job. I’ve transferred here from Miami, but we came early in order to hopefully find a house to buy before my new job starts in a little over a month.”

“Details, details,” Logan drawled.

“Hey, it’s those details that will make this more realistic and hopefully, keep our behinds from being found.”

“I know, Mal. I’m just giving you a hard time,” Logan replied.

“Tessa?” Malcolm asked as he glanced into the rearview mirror.

When she didn’t answer, Logan turned in his seat to look at her. She sat staring out the window, lost in thought or possibly admiring the large houses that overlooked the lake behind it.

“Tess,” Logan said a little louder.

She jumped and stared at him in surprise. “Oh. Sorry. I’m Tess Morningside.”

“And you are?” Malcolm asked, wanting her to continue.

She sighed. “Why couldn’t I have been your sister? Why do I have to be your wife?”

“Because for one, we look nothing alike,” Logan reasoned.

“I could be adopted,” she countered.

“And for two, a married couple with my brother staying with us sounds more believable than three siblings. Not to mention the disgusted looks I would get when the neighbors caught me staring at your ass. Brothers don’t do that,” Malcolm said.

“Are you seriously not able to control yourself any better than that?”

“Have you seen your ass?” Malcolm asked as he glanced at her in the rearview mirror.

Logan bit back a smile. “You do have a nice ass, Tess.”

She crossed her arms and returned to staring out the window. “Both of you need to grow up.”

Ellora's Cave waiver...

Why I signed.

I'm sure everyone has heard about the letter EC sent out and the waiver that was attached. For those that haven't seen it, I posted it below...

Ellora’s Cave Publishing: Final Announcement – October 3, 2016
My mom and I would like to thank the vast majority of you for 16 incredible years. The first ≈ 13 of them were life-changing and genre-changing for all of us. We made history together, which is a feat most people will never be able to lay claim to. I’m honored and proud to have been a part of this heady accomplishment—a victory for female sexual autonomy that no one can take away from us. For this reason and so many others, it is with a heavy heart that my mother and I have made the decision to begin the process of closing Ellora’s Cave Publishing.
We did everything we could possibly do to turn things around—my mom more so than anyone—but it simply wasn’t meant to be. Between the oversaturation of erotic romance titles available, the financial devaluation of said titles, and being buried in Amazon’s search engines, the prospect of the market once again turning in our favor is grim at best, impossible at worst, and requires government intervention either way. We don’t want to leave you in limbo based on such unfavorable odds. We have gone around and around trying to figure out the least complicated way to get your rights back to you...the best compromise we have to offer follows on page 2.
My mom and I will be closing this chapter of our lives with many fond memories. For every utterance of false gossip hurled our way, we have three times as many happy moments to counter them with. In other words, thank you for being a part of Ellora’s Cave. We are choosing to hold onto the wonderful memories and carry them with us into whatever comes next. It has been an honor and a privilege to work with you and for you.
Warmly,
Tina and Patty
P.S. We realize our announcement, while likely not unexpected, still leaves everyone with questions concerning their books, especially rights reversions. Bear in mind when reading the remainder of this email that EC is now (a) down to a staff of 2 and (b) doesn’t have the people power to continue answering emails, which is why (c) we need a couple of months to accomplish closing down in the most efficient way possible. We don’t want to leave anyone’s rights in limbo—which could definitely happen if we don’t take the time to individually revert them back to you—so please read carefully from this point forward.

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To expedite an otherwise lengthy process, Ellora’s Cave will revert the rights of all remaining books back to every author who agrees to the following six terms:

1. You understand and agree you will receive your reversion letter on or before December 31, 2016 via the email address you return this signed release from. (For those moving their titles to New York, the reversion letter is all the proof you need that your rights are indeed exclusively yours again. Even if you do not plan to go the New York route, I highly suggest keeping your reversion letter accessible; self-publishing is still in its infancy so it’s difficult to guess what will be considered standard proof to vendors in the near or distant future.)
   
2. You understand and agree all vendors will be given notice that your books are to be removed from their sites by midnight on December 31, 2016.
   
3. You understand and agree you are free to republish your books beginning January 1, 2017 at 12:01 am EST.
   
4. You understand and agree to waive any claim/s to outstanding royalty monies owed.
   
5. You understand and agree you are permitted to keep the cover art to your books if you choose to, but that you are solely responsible for “stripping” the Ellora’s Cave name and logo/s from the artwork before uploading it to retailers.
   
6. You understand and agree that ISBNs are publisher-specific and therefore cannot and will not be transferred to you. (You currently don’t need an ISBN to self-publish through Amazon and New York houses provide their own ISBNs.)
   

Your Pen Name: _________________________ Your Legal Name: ________________________________
Your Signature: ______________________________________ Today’s Date: ______________________
List of all Titles: ________________________________________________________________________
Please email this completed form to: Ecrevertrights@gmail.com no later than November 1, 2016 in order to have your title/s included in the master list we are creating for each vendor, which notifies them of all books to be taken down from their sites by midnight on December 31, 2016. The proof of rights reversion letter legally required to republish is separate and will be processed in the order they are received, but will arrive via email no later than December 31, 2016.

**

Understandably, most everyone was angry, including myself. 

When I was first published with EC well over ten years ago, I was so excited. And over the next couple of years, I gave them several books. 7 in total. It wasn't long after that, probably around 2010, that I started having issues with royalties. 

At first it was just me and a very few others who said anything publicly. Surely I wasn't the only one who saw the problems, but if any others were having issues, they weren't talking, except for a tiny few.

Finally, a couple of years ago, more authors began to talk, blogs were written, then the lawsuit against Dear Author happened and everything exploded. We all know what happened next.

I'd been trying for a while to get my rights back, but they always refused. They claimed I sold too many copies, but yet wouldn't pay me. I kept hitting them with emails, and yes, I got nasty. She even posted them on her bullying site, which I think now has been taken down. There's no love loss there between me, Jaid and Patty. I think I've made it pretty clear what I think of them and their business tactics.

I even went with several other authors to see a lawyer. We were told that EC was in breach of contract, not on just one issue, but three. We had a case, unfortunately, we didn't have the money. Six figures was the estimate. We talked about a possible class action, but there just wasn't enough money there for the lawyers to waste their time, not to mention they assumed they would probably never see a dime of it, so our case was not taken on. Once again, EC would get away with their thievery.

I had pretty much given up and could only hope that they would eventually close their doors. Then the waiver arrived.

At first, I was angry. Seriously? They want me to waive my royalties?? Tell me again how you're not a thief, Jaid?

After thinking about it and talking about with my husband, I decided to go ahead and sign the waiver. In truth, I would never see the money that's owed to me anyway and at least this way, I can finally get my books back and early this morning, I received the rights reversion letter in my email.

I will have the rights back to all my books as of January 1st, 2017, but I will not see a dime of any sales between now and the time they take them down. But you know what? As mad as that makes me, I continue to tell myself that it's almost over.

I will re-cover, re-edit those books and starting January 2nd, I will begin self-publishing them on Amazon, not all at once, but as I get them done. I should have them all out by summer 2017.

Even though I had to give up my royalties, I can at least see a light at the end of the tunnel and I can only hope that eventually, Karma will rule.

<<hugs>>
Trista  

Fun times....

 This past weekend hubby and I took our 14 yr old daughter to Florida for the Sun and Fun Fly In. She just started taking flying lessons, so hubby thought she would really enjoy seeing the planes and all the cool stuff the venders had for pilots, both old and new. And of course any excuse for hubby to explore all the new planes as well...:)

Here are some of the planes we saw...Below is a Phenom...because it's Phenomenal..:) Yeah, corny, I know..lol

And I don't remember what this one is. I just posted it because I love getting weird angles...:)

These are my favs. I love the old warbirds. They're just so cool..:)

And I have no idea how they even get these big monstrosities in the air to begin with.

This is the Icon. This was my dd's favorite. Looks pretty cool, but it comes as kit. If you can build it, you can get it for around $225,000. If you want it assembled? Over a million.

Yeah, I don't think we're getting that one..lol











Over all, Lakeland's Sun and Fun Fly In was pretty cool. The weather was great, the sky a beautiful blue, the airshow was a little slow to start, but once the reenactments started, it livened up quite a bit. We had a pretty good time and I came up with a great idea for a hero...:)