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She's got one life to live

Anita takes a chance at a job she's not sure she can handle and she's tickled pink when the gorgeous billionaire picks her little bakery to cater his big charity event. But what was supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime turns into the storm of a century.

He's got one leg to stand on

Frank Wilson has built his reputation and his world-spanning lawn ornament business on one tenant: honesty. There's nothing fake about Frank Wilson -- not his fabulous fortune or his amazing physique.

...or his inner flamingo.

Trapped together with his fated mate in his big empty office building with a thousand gourmet cupcakes and no power, Frank is sure that -- finally -- nothing will stand between him and everything that he'd ever wanted, in the arms of a curvy woman wearing an apron. The only problem is, she's not interested in settling down to join his flock.


And to win her heart, he's going to have to put his foot down.



Larry has the perfect life. He travels from casino to resort using his keen lizard shifter skills to win at cards, with no care in the world...until he meets a virgin seal shifter named Shea at the bar of a little place called Shifting Sands Resort...

Shea has clearly lived a sheltered, coddled life of luxury, always protected from life's rougher elements and things like card sharks and cheats.

Now Larry has a week to clean up his act, woo his mate, and concoct a life that won't scare away a sweet innocent thing like her.

But Shea isn't as pure and virtuous as she appears. As a mantis shifter, she knows it is her destiny to find her mate...and eat him.

Can a lucky lizard and a vicious man-eater find happiness on the golden beaches of Shifting Sands?


Both of these fabulous titles are coming...never*! Happy April Fools' Day!



*Maybe.

This book is really special to me. I mean, I'm sure that authors say that all the time, but this book? This one hit me right in the heart - and it's free until Monday!

When I first introduced Gizelle in Tropical Tiger Spy, way back when I was a baby writer, I only knew that the then-nameless gazelle was going to play an important role. I didn't realize how important...and initially, I had no plans to pair her up with a mate of her own.
But readers asked, and I couldn't resist.

This was one of the hardest books I've written - it was a whole pile of tricky balances. Gizelle is innocent, but not at all a child. Conall, in some ways, is as damaged as she is...and she spent her childhood in a zoo! It was the first time I wrote a deaf character, and for the first half of the book, they can't even touch each other. Gizelle's growth and bravery - through this book and this whole series - is a big part of the Shifting Sands series.

I love this book so much. It's funny and hopeful even while it's sometimes heartbreaking, and I especially love how it shows how much love and support the Shifting Sands staff has for each other.

Although this is book 7, you can drop into the series from this book and read it without picking up any of the rest of them - it stands alone and the end is satisfying and complete. It's Gizelle's first Christmas! Discover the holiday, and the magic of love.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDTW6P2

It's an incredibly weird time to be releasing books, but current world events weren't even on my apocalypse Bingo card when I started my schedule, so...here are some new books!

Broken Lynx, Book 5 of Green Valley Shifters, is a silly, fluffy, short shifter romance. It's low-peril, small town, and (sort of) single dad.



Zoe Chant's Series Starter Set is a collection of starter books to my three Zoe Chant series, Green Valley Shifters, Fae Shifter Knights, and Shifting Sands Resort. It is FREE until Friday!

Have an April Fool's Day piece of ridiculous:



It’s hell being this cute.

Ever since hellhound poodle shifter Packer Davis won an Internet prize for ‘cutest demonic shifter,’ his bodyguard business pack has made his life miserable. And no one wants to hire someone that’s fluffy and adorable. So when a mysterious client books him as a protective escort to a tropical resort for shifters only, he can’t pack his bags fast enough.

Cat shifter Christy Brown needs to get out of town and off the radar of some Very Bad People, and a discount booking at the newly reopened Shifting Sands Resort seems like the perfect escape. On a whim, she hires a bodyguard, sight unseen.

Cats and dogs aside, Christy and Packer know that they’re in for a wild ride as soon as they meet at the airport and recognize that they are fated mates. They aren’t expecting the stowaway in Christy’s luggage, or the fireworks waiting for them at the resort.

TROPICAL HELLHOUND’S HEARTBREAK, Book #11 in the off-beat Shifting Sands Resort series, coming NEVER, because this is just a silly April Fool’s Day bit of fun (please forgive me!) prompted by the title suggestions of readers James Born and Andrew William Bryan.

...except that now I kind of DO want to write it...and probably will. (As a short, not as a full-length!)

PROMPTED is available now!



Get it free with a subscription to my (pen name) mailing list: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/r764d3yysx
On Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082ZSRBD3
Other vendors: https://books2read.com/u/4ExVvM

Also available is a Shifting Sands Resorts short story, A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS: https://www.zoechant.com/a-recipe-for-happiness/

It's short, sweet, slightly spicy, and works as a standalone if you've never read the series.

(Also, the first book in the series is free today! Just in case you know someone who is getting a Kindle for Christmas...)

Merry Christmas!

So, that was a month!

Let's see:

I published two books: Tropical Leopard's Longing and DandeLION Season.
I also deleted massive amounts of DandeLION Season and wrote about 9,000 new words before publication.
I did edits and formatting for both books.
I wrote approximately 10,000 on Tropical Lion's Legacy
I did NINE pieces of artwork for the NDA project that will not die. (SOON IT WILL BE REVEALED!)
I hosted a birthday party for a seven-year-old-to-be. And survived.
I finished another hunky shifter coloring page (Bastian, not yet posted)
I did sketches for Sketch Fest and Muse Fusion, and a few random other sketches. I am rusty.
I started outlining Fatemaker stuff.
I pretty much knocked my goals out of the park.

For March:

Finish Tropical Lion's Legacy. It's at 20k, so probably another 20k of writing. I'm aiming at 1000 a day and we'll see where we get.

Release Bastian's page on Etsy. Or maybe a 10 page collection, now that I have enough!

FINALLY gush about the NDA project.

Outline Bearly Tolerable so I'm ready to hit it hard in April.

Do some art

Outline first Fatemaker book and create character sheets.

Goodness, when did I last post? I won #inktober, but only by virtue of counting the ornaments I painted. (They were paint pens. Close enough.)

I put out a new book, Tropical Christmas Stag: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDTW6P2

It is probably my favorite book that I've ever written, and arguably my best. It's not doing nearly as brilliantly as Tiger Next Door, but the reviews make me mist up happily, and I utterly loved writing it.

I have the sequel to Tiger Next Door drafted, but it still needs a pretty heavy round of revisions before I pass it on to first readers, and for NaNoWriMo, I'm working on the next Shifting Sands book, Breck's tale. I'm at 28,000, which is not up to speed to win NaNo, but I had to stop and work out several plot kinks (huh huh, kinks...) and I'm really liking how it comes together. It's a pretty bold premise for the romance genre, with a bisexual hero and a major asexual side character. (Plus magic and destiny and doomed duels, oh my!)

And in really exciting news, I got a Bookbub feature for the first box set of Shifting Sands scheduled for Dec 1 and I am trying not to think about it too hard. (Shut up, lizard-brain. I do so deserve this.)

I am taking a few moments off from building my wordcount to do a 2018 Chopping Block. It's long overdue, and has been weighing pretty heavily on me mentally. Look for that... soon, because I think it's going to feel like a pile of bricks off my brain.

I can haz Kickstarter! (And we're funded!)



I can haz book!



I can go haz sleep!
(click images for links!)

Book! Book! BOOK!

I'm flailing happily, in no small part because I no longer have to be secretive about my participation in this group pseudonym.

I am Zoe Chant!

One of several, mind you; I did not write everything under that name, just the Shifting Sands Resort series, and Dancing Bearfoot.



These are my spicy not-a-books I've been referring to; they are short, silly, fluff romance books, with a side of magic and a slice of adventure. No jerks, no doormats, always a happy ending and never a cliffhanger, though there is an over-arcing story that will conclude in four more books. (er, five. Book six comes out next month! But four more to write.)

(And I am so looking forward to sharing it! Wheeeeeee!)

Latest book: http://myBook.to/tropicaldragondiver

Or start with the box set of the first three: http://myBook.to/shiftingsandsbox1


(If you would prefer not to see these updates and continue pretending I am a sweet, innocent, child-safe artist only, please just drop me a note and I can exclude you from posts on this topic so you can continue to follow me safely. I will NEVER post anything graphic or NSFW, but I totally get it if you'd just not like to know about this part of my body of work, as it is a bit of a departure from my usual.)