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New Release Spotlight: Moonshine by Holly Day

Hello, everyone! Thank you, Nell, for letting me drop by again. Yesterday, A Drop of Moonshine was released. Can you guess which day we’re celebrating? Yes, National Moonshine Day, which is today! Are you having your glasses at the ready?

I’m not much for hard liquor. I could have wine every day, but it’s not often I drink anything stronger than that. I am, however, in the middle of making lilac wine. Yup, you read that right! Has anyone of you ever made lilac wine??

Years ago, I made eld...

Goodbye May

O the month of May, the merry month of May,
    So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!

Quote from The Merry Month of May by Thomas Dekker

I know I’m a few days late with this post. It usually goes out on the first day of the new month, but my week has been busy and I haven’t been able to find the time to write it. Heck, my entire month of May has been busy, and I feel like I’ve been playing catch-up all month. (I still am, you should see my laundry basket ) How do you even juggle ...

Happy Birthday, Always You!

Today, Always You, my childhood BFFs-to-lovers story turns two years old. It’s a short, emotional M/M contemporary, gay awakening story about Thom and Lee, friends so close they’re accused of behaving like an old married couple. With lots of emotional obliviousness and crushing on young Clint Eastwood!

Don’t you just love friends-to-lovers stories? There’s something so magical about the thought of falling in love with someone you know so well, someone you already trust. It’s also a terrifying...

Long Weekend Sale @ JMS Books

BOOK SALE ALERT! 40% off all ebooks over at JMS Books thru Monday. Including all my books, of course. Clickety-click the link below and buy some cheap books!

link to my jms author page

A few suggestions for you:

Less Gardening – More Nakedness

Strike a Pose: Didrik’d do anything for his BFF Filip, including taking naked pictures for a charity calendar of his dad Johan, the stunning man responsible for Didrik’s gay awakening. Now a widower, Johan is ready to move on. As they star...

Release Blitz and Giveaway: The Plans Trilogy Box Set by Addison Albright

RELEASE BLITZ

Book Title: The Plans Trilogy Box Set
Author: Addison Albright
Publisher: JMS Books, LLC
Cover Artist: Written Ink Designs
Release Date: May 28, 2022
Genre:  Fantasy M/M Romance
Tropes: Arranged Marriage, Memory Loss
Themes: Virgin/first time, abduction, newfound courage, hope, royalty/princes
Heat Rating: 3 flames    
Length: 73 459 words

This is a box set of three stories that were previously published individually.
The three books in the trilogy, together, stand alone with no cli...

Read Around the Rainbow: My Characters as Teenagers

The third topic for our Read Around the Rainbow webring is What was your character like in high school/as a teenager? And to be perfectly honest, I considered sitting this one out. You know me; I write short, slice-of-life stories mostly under 20K words (with a few exceptions). Emotional stories. The kind of stories that rarely calls for in-depth character portraits that go into every minute detail and dig deep into the teenaged years of the characters. My kind of story calls for enough back...

Sunday Book Recommendation

I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump lately. I find nothing interesting, all blurbs sound like blah-blah-blah to me and it makes me sad and frustrated. Back before we moved to Malaysia, my day job made me so stressed I completely stopped reading, I didn’t read a single book for years and years. It sucked, and I don’t want that to happen again. So I’m re-reading old favorites. I’m re-reading Harry Potter fanfics I love, just to keep up with the reading habit because reading is important to me. I...

World Naked Gardening Day: Perfect Rows by Holly Day

My dear friend Holly Day is the last of the naked gardener writers to visit my blog, and before I leave the space to her, I just want to say that I completely adore the cover. Admittedly, the guy is decidedly un-naked considering the theme, but it’s a trivial matter, let’s ignore it

Hello everyone! Thank you, Nell, for letting me swing by today! As I’m sure you know by now, we’ve done this author collaboration thing where we’ve all written a story for World Naked Gardening Day. With we, I m...

World Naked Gardening Day: Warning! Deep Water by A.L. Lester

Hello everyone! Thank you so much to Nell for letting me pop in today to tell you a bit more about my part of our collaborative World Naked Gardening Day project. Nell, Holly Day, K. L. Noone, Amy Spector and I have all written gay romance novellas based around World Naked Gardening Day, which happens on the first Saturday in May. This year it’s the 7th, which is when our stories happen to be released!  You can read about all of them here. 

Warning! Deep Water is a 16,300 gay romance set ...

World Naked Gardening Day: The Hermit of Aldershill Manor by K.L. Noone

Please help me welcome K.L. Noone to the blog, my second visitor here to talk about her naked gardening shenanigans, and all around lovely human being. Welcome, Kristin, we’re happy to have you!!

Hi there! Thank you to Nell for letting me drop in again – this time, it’s to tell you about my contribution to our collaborative World Naked Gardening Day project – for which Nell, myself, A.L. Lester, Holly Day, and Amy Spector have all written gay romance novellas based around World Naked Gardeni...