Sedonia Guillone

I haven’t been able to post lately because I’ve been in our little place in Georgia (Foorest Gump was filmed a few miles away!) and I don’t have Internet access at home. I was supposed to be back in Florida weeks ago but the septic tank in our new place backed up into the house last Saturday, then on Monday, my boyfriend injured his back and we were at the hospital in Savannah.

Now we have a new drain field at our house and Mitch is on the mend but it’s been one thing after the other. Remember what I’ve been saying about the Year of the Rat? It’s got a hold of me for a while longer I think. Just hanging on…

I’ll post again as soon as I can! Thanks for your support.

Sincerely, Sedonia

If you love the White Tigers series, I hope you’ll let me know by signing the new fanlist! sign here

I just started watching thiz show on crunchyroll.com and I’m already hooked! It’s a true historical about a ronin, Kansuke Yamamoto who rises to power in feudal Japan as a master battle strategist. It has everything: samurai, sword fights, romance and the usual Greek style family dynamics. Oh, and it also has Gackt as Uesugi Kanshin, a warlord. He hasn’t appeeared yet – that comes much later, but I’m really looking forward to it!

Fuurin Kazan also stars one of Japan’s greatest actors, Tatsuya Nakadai. He was one of Akira Kurosawa’s stars who often played across from Toshiro Mifune as a rival samurai.

Anyway, the series is beautifully done and acted with a neat opening sequence. I highly recommend it to fans of samurai film and history.

In between driving a loaded cargo van 400 miles (believe me, for me, this was a major accomplishemnt!) and moving, I’ve managed to work on Men of Tokyo: Sudden Heat. I’ve gotten to 41k and a few more words, which I’m really glad for.
Recently I reached that place in a story where the whole plot becomes clear in my mind, like the home stretch of a race, and I can basically just write it out. I’ve grown to love this story a great deal. Hiru is a wonderful character, a gentle giant, sweet and kind but also unexpectedly hot and passionate!
I gotta run now and unpack the van. I’ll update again as soon as I’m able.

If we’re lucky, this one won’t nail us in the way it appears that it will. Even so, we’re heading to Georgia to our new place, which has a chance of getting nailed as well. I’ll keep you posted.

Hopefully in the midst of all this, I’ll get a chance to work on Men of Tokyo: Sudden Heat. At this point in life, writing is like a vacation from life, lol, and I get to create a world where things work out the way I want them to. Well, that and the fact that Hiru and Quan Chan are both incredibly hot, wonderful heroes and it’s a great pleasure to tell their story.

Thank you to everyone who comes to this blog and visits. I really appreciate the interest and support! Hugs, Sedonia

Well, thankfully, Gustav passed and left New Orleans mostly alone. I wish all disasters could just not happen this way to people! I’m grateful for this turn of fate.

However, as you know, we just have control over so very little! I have a girlfriend from college I want to see. She’s only a few hours away right now in Orlando visiting family. We haven’t seen each other in 15 years and were best friends. We did everything together, roomed, took all our classes together, meals, spent almost 100 percent of our time together. But between her getting a cold, my getting a cold, our purchasing a house near Savannah, GA, (which ALSO looks like it’s going to be in the path of a storm!), and my stepdaughter leaving for India today amongst all the chaos that goes with that, I’m not sure I’m going to see her. I sure hope I do, but of course, circumstances look like they’re working against me.

I guess all I can hope for is that the Year of the Rat gives me one of my favorable months right this week! lol.

On the positive note, our Secrets anthology coming out December 08 (yay! Will be on shelves everywhere!!) is already racking up favorable reviews!

This from Wild on Books: It is no secret that Red Sage Publishing consistently nabs some very talented romance authors for their popular series of SECRETS anthologies. SECRETS VOLUME 25 continues that trend admirably, with four wonderful novellas by some great writers.

Even though we in South Florida haven’t been free of these storms’ paths, the worry now is really for New Orleans. After what the folks down there have been through, some having just moved this past month into their new homes, this is the last thing in the world they need. I pray that everyone will get out safely and that New Orleans itself will survive this storm.

Last night on the news we saw footage of a family who is determined to sit it out and they are in an area this is expected to be the hardest hit in the entire New Orleans area. I can’t believe it! I just hope every one there will be all right!

I was honored to receive this incredibly favorable review form Sensual Ecataromance. It’s the kind of review every author wants to get!

Genre: contemporary
Page Count: 197
Price: $6.58
Reviewer: Keely Skillman
Sensuality Rating: Sizzling
Star Rating: 5 Stars

A deranged villain, a determined and gentle hero, and a uke in distress make for one whopper of a deliciously yummy man love story that will bring tears to your eyes.

Yuzo Kitano has been Taro Suzuki’s plaything for far too long. Despite all the hard living he has done, Yuzo has remained sweet and even innocent to a degree. Desperate to break free and leave the abusive Suzuki, Yuzo makes a daring escape and goes to the one place where he knows no one will give him back to Suzuki: the White Tiger and its owner, Kikuchiya Fujimara. Yuzo has admired, perhaps even loved, and longed for Kiku for quite some time. He knows that he cannot stay at the White Tiger because of the danger into which his presence puts all the kind souls living there. A few precious days spent with Kiku will have to be enough for a lifetime.

Kikuchiya Fujimara was once a yakuza with the Suzuki-gumi. He left that life to lead the men at the White Tiger by example in the White Tiger path. His psychic abilities make getting close enough for a real relationship and finding a true White Tiger path partner more than a bit difficult. Touching Yuzo does not fill his head with the types of gut wrenching visions touching others gives Kiku. Can he find a way to protect Yuzo AND keep him near or is Kiku destined to lose yet another that he could love?

Sedonia Guillone delivers yet another masterpiece with Men of Tokyo: Sudden Surrender. Prepare to cry, laugh and get furious right along with all the characters; I know that I did. Though, you might want to get a VERY large pitcher of something very icy to keep your core temperature somewhere around normal enough to avoid spontaneous combustion. Yeah, the love scenes really are THAT hot. I did not even notice the passage of time while immersed in Sudden Surrender because it flows so effortlessly from page to page and completely grabs my attention.

Ms. Guillone does such a beautiful job of bringing all her characters to life that I find myself wanting to go kick some villain posterior every time Suzuki appears in the book and then cuddle and sooth Yuzo and Kiku. Kiku is so gentle and kind while being tough and protective that I cannot help but love him within just a couple of pages. Yuzo is such a sweet, resilient darling that I just want to gobble him up! Ms. Guillone has such a fantastic way of bringing Tokyo’s streets and the White Tiger alive that I feel like I am actually there. Let me not forget the myriad supporting characters; they bring a wonderful depth and realism to the story that just makes me want to move into the White Tiger despite all the yakuza buzzing about it. I could gush for pages and pages; but, really, you should just go get it yourself. Then we can gush together!

Just a word to the wise: If you are offended by men kissing men and more detailed man on man action, please do us all the favor of leaving this book on the virtual shelf. The rest of us promise not to point and laugh as we will be too busy devouring this offering.

My cold is working its way out. Mitch is coming home today so that is probably a big reason why I’m feeling so much better.

I’ve had good rest these last couple of days and got so much writing done I feel basically caught up. Of course, I’m working on Men of Tokyo: Sudden Heat and I reached that point in the story when I fall in love with the characters and I am beginning to feel the deeper connection between them. I know I’m there when I find myself wanting to re-read the scenes I’ve already written simply for enjoyment and to get that…what do you call it…that kind of sigh when the characters are falling in love along with the sizzle of the attraction between them.

Of course while doing that I’ve listened to plenty of Gackt and watched a couple of videos. His music seems to be good for my writing. Even the harder songs are heflpful when I’m writing passion scenes. I’ve been reading translations of his lyrics that a very intelligent woman in Japan did as a labor of love and it really helps to know what he’s saying although I’d listen anyway without the translation. It’s really the quality and sound to his voice that I like to hear beyond the lyrics.

Oh, and of course, I watched a samurai film. Well, I’m not sure Zatoichi is exactly a samurai. He was a master swordsman who was blind and made a living beating yakuza out of their money in their gambling parlours (his hearing was so sharp he could hear how the dice lay and he could hear when a die was loaded) as well as giving massages. Being a masseur was a traditional line of work for many blind people in Japan in the feudal period. In any case, Zatoichi is a fascinating character and I have a small collection of those films. But the one I like to watch from time to time is Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (The literal title of the film is Zatoichi to Yojimbo) because, you guessed it, Toshiro Mifune is in it. Ostensibly, Mifune is the bodyguard of the son of a corrupt silk merchant who’s taken over a small town that was once a dear place to Zatoichi. But things are not what they seem and the interactions between Toshiro Mifune and Zatoichi are at once hilarious and deep. I only recommend the film however if you like sword play with blood, like these characters and don’t mind Shakespearian/Greek style tragedy between family members.

Released today at Fictionwise! In desperation for his life, Yuzo Kitano escapes the sadistic clutches of Taro Suzuki, one of Tokyo’s fiercest yakuza, and seeks refuge with Suzuki’s arch-rival, Kikuchiya Fujimara, owner of the White Tiger, a luxurious love-hotel for gay men which also serves as a spiritual community for its inhabitants. From early meetings with the handsome, charismatic leader who trains men in the sexual Tao, Yuzo senses deep inside he’s found someone he can trust and who will keep him safe. What he doesn’t expect is the absolute sensual bliss he finds with Kikuchiya’s skilled lovemaking and realises he’s found what he’s really wanted his whole life. But does Kiku want him in return? At first, Kiku sees only Yuzo’s alluring beauty and desperate need for protection. But the headstrong impulsive Yuzo is also the first man Kiku has ever met whose touch is healing and calming for him, rather than a distressing channel for his psychic abilities, and the more he makes love to Yuzo, the more Kiku is in danger of losing his heart to another for the first time in his life. However, Kiku also knows that when Suzuki finds out where his slave has gone, there will be hell to pay. Kiku has already made one harrowing sacrifice to the yakuza in return for his freedom and might not survive a second…