Clancy Nacht

Clancy Nacht

About

Clancy Nacht squeezes writing in amongst her web development day job, her husband, and her three feral rescue cats. Living in Austin, she indulges her love of indie music, photography, and constant influx of new faces a college town provides.

With a major in Journalism, she has written for newspapers and magazines but did not delve into professional erotic writing until 2009. Since then she has been published by Ravenous Romance, Noble Romance, and Dreamspinner Press.

She watches “House” for the House/Wilson moments, but secretly thinks House should get with Chase, considers sarcasm a fine art, truly believes the zombie apocalypse is coming, and watches a lot of porn.

And she will never, ever grow up.

The Time That's Given

The Time That's Given

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<p><strong><em>Have you ever awoken from a vivid dream and wondered which side of waking was real?</em></strong></p><p>Burt Higgins' retirement is not going well. His children have grown, and his wife has gone off to earn a late-life degree, leaving him alone in his sprawling suburban home. With too much time on his hands, he broods on the state of the world, obsessively following the worst of cable news and the Internet. Increasingly angry at the state of affairs, he nurtures a fantasy that a dark lord from another realm has foisted these problems on humankind. If only he could transport to that world, he'd confront the demon and use the magic found there to defeat the beast and end despair forever.</p><p>On a particularly bad news day, while housebound in the midst of a snowstorm, he retreats to his study to shut out the world and immerse himself in his books. When, on a whim, he lights a candle purchased in an obscure Prague curiosity shop, a magical guide appears and offers to take him on whatever quest he chooses. When he asks to become a hero in a fantasy realm, he discovers a more complex world than he expected, and battling evil with magic turns out to be far from his greatest challenge.</p><p><strong>EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS</strong> a specualtive fantasy adventure sure not just to entertain you, but to make you consider your life, your dreams, your goals. [DRM-Free]</p><h2><strong>Books by David Litwack:</strong></h2><ul><li><em>Along the Watchtower</em></li><li><em>The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky</em></li><li><em>The Time That's Given</em></li><li><em>The Children of Darkness</em> (The Seekers - Book 1)</li><li><em>The Stuff of Stars</em> (The Seekers - Book 2)</li><li><em>The Light of Reason</em> (The Seekers - Book 3)</li></ul><h2><strong>More Great Fantasy Fiction from Evolved Publishing:</strong></h2><ul><li><em>The Awakening of David Rose</em> (David Rose #1) by Daryl Rothman</li><li><em>Shadow Swarm</em> by D. Robert Pease</li><li><em>Kingdom in Chains</em> by J.W. Zulauf</li><li>The &quot;Grims' Truth&quot; Series by Isu Yin &amp; Fae Yang</li></ul><p> </p>

Story Behind The Book

The story has a lot of elements to it, a lot of ideas that I was drawing in, but the story at its heart is really about finding that one person in the world that is your perfect match--that no matter how much of a weirdo everyone else thinks you are, that there is someone out there that will fit you perfectly. Ezhno is an anomaly for a Native American. He loves inventing, has a taste for fine clothing. Conrad also loves inventing and a taste for dangerous men that his family really doesn't understand. Both don't feel entirely at home with where they began, but they find a home in each other. They each see what they desire in the other and thus they fit.

Reviews

<div><span style="line-height:21px;font-size:12px;color:#333333;"><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"></span></span></span><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.8em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:12px;color:#111111;">“I honestly laughed out loud when I read the blurb about the pleasuring machine and when introduced in the story, the scene is not only hot but very enjoyable. It’s funny, tongue in cheek (both cheeks!) and sets up some great lines between the men. Conrad’s sense of the absurd really makes the story fun to read.” </span></span><a href="http://threedollarbillreviews.com/2010/08/19/a-certain-pressure-in-the-pipes-by-clancy-nacht/" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;vertical-align:baseline;color:#b85b5a;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Read the whole review at Three Dollar Bills Reviews</span></span></a></p></div><div><span style="line-height:21px;font-size:12px;color:#333333;"><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="line-height:21px;font-size:12px;color:#333333;"><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:13px;">“A Certain Pressure in the Pipes was a surprise for me. I haven’t read much in the Steampunk genre and after reading this story, I’ll be picking up more. Historical meets futuristic. Add in some hot man on man action and campy humor and you have a story that I couldn’t put down.” From </span></span><a href="http://seriouslyreviewed.blogspot.com/2010/08/certain-pressure-in-pipes-by-clancy.html?zx=ef497d755f4114c1" title="Seriously Reviewed Full link"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:13px;">Seriously Reviewed</span></span></a></span></span></div><div><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:13px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:13px;">&quot;</span></span></span><span style="line-height:normal;font-size:small;"><span style="color:#111111;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:13px;">There is not enough Steampunky gay romance/erotica, I should start by saying. I've looked, and I haven't found much. This isn't 'too genre' for those who aren't into it, but the ways the genre's trappings are brought into play are delightful and well-chosen. The atmosphere of the story definitely takes advantage of the 'alternate history' Steampunk is all about, painting an Old West where a cheeky, lusty young gay man meets a brilliant and sartorially splendid American Indian in the town jail. That's definitely an original premise, and the banter and humor throughout live up to the slightly screwball beginning, making the whole read a light-hearted and enjoyable one. That setup leads to seriously sexy results when the two men join forces to perfect a certain risqué invention of Conrad's. Overall, it left me smiling and, yes, a little flushed.&quot; from Amazon.com</span></span></span></span>