John’s mentioned in a blog post that he’s made his novella When the Music Stops free for a couple of days in celebration of its one-year anniversary. It’s available in various formats on Lulu, so if you’re into morally-dubious, beautifully written historical romance (why wouldn’t you be?!) then I can’t recommend it enough:

“Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by lithe limbs and brilliant blue eyes. Doctor Archer has never really understood women, nor has he ever had time for courtship; this is a sacrifice he has willingly made for his career. He thought – believed – for most of his adult life that his vocation was to tend the sick of mind. Romance was a frivolity, carnal urges something he successfully sublimated, resisting the drive to spoil himself. Now, in the overbearing loneliness of his 4am bed he touches himself in secret, panting and hungry and stunned by shame”