K.M. Frontain's Blog, page 10
April 5, 2013
Price match on Amazon.fr
This is Prince Ugoth, fan art by Ambra. Ugoth is a major character throughout The Soulstone Chronicles.
Ah! Some enterprising person(s) with a French Amazon account clicked price match until Bound 1 did indeed get price matched as free on their store.
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B006G4O5QO
And so did Gryphon 1: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B006G57YRU
I never opened an author account over there, so never suggested readers do this, but I am very happy to see it done without my influence. I left a note about it on my author page for the U.K., figuring English speaking people, ya know. They might want the book free. But so far, nothing happening there. I cannot leave links to competitors on an author page, so I asked readers to do a bit of research before clicking the little price match button.
Amazon U.K. here:
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April 2, 2013
Not His Kiss to Take by Finn Marlowe
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/265643
This novel bravely explores some kinks that might surprise or offend some readers (enema play for one), so be prepared for bondage, a mouthy submissive and lots of kinky sex.
I did not like the doctor to begin with. He comes off a predator who only targets twinks as relationship material. So throughout the story, I always had at the back of my mind the inevitable ‘but!’: But when will he get tired of dream twink and dump him for no longer fitting the twink image? In a story about realistic people in a realistic setting, a person with an age fetish is a downer for me when two characters fall in love.
The submissive, not gay but perhaps bi, had the hell beaten out of him by homophobes, and this included rape with an object. His acceptance of the dominant’s advances sometimes felt too quick, sometimes not. I was ambivalent about this guy too for that reason. Sometimes I felt like he was a jaded rent boy packaged as a straight, out-of-luck skater boy/dishwasher.
All the same, once I tossed my objections to both characters, the book was an interesting read. The author was brave to explore the medical kinks in this story. Kudos for that. Overall, well written, but not for everyone.
I gave it four out of five on Smashwords. For those fearless readers of homoerotic fiction, this one might get you to explore the genre further than usual.
Odd dichotomies that make life interesting
Above: an image of Dorval train station near the airport. To see the larger photo, visit this excellent site: http://www.trainweb.org/mrobicha/Stations-Photos.htm
I was up super early this morning to drive someone to the train station.
I’d like to recommend train stations to all persons suffering from airport stress. Well, at least Canadian train stations. Every single one I’ve been to has been like a zen retreat compared to an airport.
Get this: Montreal Airport, everyone upset-ish, hardly looking at each other, rushing around, easily fired to a temper tantrum Now go to the nearest train station, which is on an island smack in the middle of a tangle of freeways. Big freeways.
Zen. Middle-aged gentlemen casually get on with their jobs. They don’t rush. They’re friendly. They smile. The station is full of calm people, or it’s all but empty, and everyone who is there is either casually looking down the track to see that big train coming or sitting calmly in the station. The ones waiting outside are in no hurry, even when the train is two hours late for whatever reason. It’s like they chose the train because, even if it’s late, it’s a comforting inevitable event. Oh, and late trains mean free ticket or huge percent off the next trip.
There you have it. Train stations in Canada. I may use a station in a scene in a modern story some day. It deserves time in a story. If my nightmares get time, so should zen amazing places found in the midst of freeway tangles.
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Working on The Sun God, excerpt
I'm having trouble copy and pasting this post today (brown font keeps showing up in the preview), so here's a link to the other blog.
http://kmfrontain.blogspot.ca/2013/03/still-working-on-sun-god.html
