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Facebook GRL author givaways

Today Sept 4th starting at 3 PM EST in the Facebook Vibrant Promotions Party Room, the LGBT Romance author group for GRL is having multi-author takeover with fun and giveaways to celebrate our big Prolific Works giveaway! Here’s the link to the party room https://www.facebook.com/groups/77358...

You do not need to be attending GRL to join in, meet the authors, and maybe win some books. Another event with more authors will occur on the 11th. (My turn will be a scheduled post with a book giveaway on the 11th, since the event is while I'm at work.)

*ALL TIMES EST*

3:00 PM Susan Hawke

3:15 PM SJ York

3:30 PM Shane K. Morton

3:45 PM Kayleigh Sky

4:00 PM Meghan Maslow

4:15 PM BL Maxwell

4:30 PM Beth Bolden

4:45 PM Drea Roman

5:00 PM D J Jamison

5:15 PM

5:30 PM K-lee Klein

5:45 PM

6:00 PM Michelle Frost

6:15 PM Liv Rancourt

6:30 PM Victoria Sue

6:45 PM Amy Aislin

7:00 PM Morgan Brice/ Gail Martin

7:15 PM Pandora Pine

7:30 PM Erin McLellan

7:45 PM EJ Russell

8:00 PM Maz Maddox

8:15 PM Brigham Vaughn

8:30 PM Sharita Lira

8:45 PM K Evan Coles

Into Deep Waters in paper edition

I wrote Into Deep Waters and released it as a freebie in 2012. Since then I've had quite a few requests for it in paper format, and I finally decided to follow through. I appreciate the formatting help of Deb from Beaten Track Publishing (who also created a perfect period photo for the back cover.) The tiny short coda story "Can't Hurt to Believe" is included at the back of this volume.

The paper book is now live on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Into-Deep-Wate...

I'm always happy to see readers enjoying the story of Daniel and Jacob, and their 69 years together (and counting).

I will bring a few copies with me to sell at GRL this year. (You can also preorder any of my paper books including this one for GRL so you're guaranteed I'll have a copy for you. My GRL preorder form is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TCQC... )

GRL Authors' free books

If you're looking for some good free reading, check out the GRL Authors' LGBT Romance collection on Prolific Works (was Instafreebie) - you do have to enter an email to download (and may then get an author newsletter, but can always unsubscribe.) This collection includes 77 gay romance offerings from novels to shorts - some are perma-free books (my own stories are the freebies Nor Iron Bars a Cage and Like the Taste of Summer); some are free just for this giveaway, and some are noted as preview excerpts of longer works for you to get a free taste.

This giveaway runs Sept 1 through Oct 31. If there's an author you've been curious about, or wanted to "meet" before GRL, here's potentially a chance to check out their writing. (Not all attending authors have a participating story.) You do not have to be going to the conference to download the stories. Enjoy.

https://claims.prolificworks.com/gg/r...

Also remember that there is still time to register for GRL in Albuquerque, NM - Oct 16-20 Registration is open through Sept 8th.

This event is great fun - a chance to hang out with 400 people who all love M/M romance, meet a hundred authors, ask questions, get swag, go to panels, win free books, have fun at evening parties, and more. The official dates are Oct 17-20, but you won't want to miss the narrators' panel Wed evening the 16th, if you can make it there.

Check it out - https://gayromlit.com/2019-events

"Like the Taste of Summer" on Amazon

My 15,000 word novella Like the Taste of Summer has been a free read available on most platforms for years, but I thought it might be nice to have it on Amazon as well. After a bit of hitch (because someone once uploaded a pirated copy to AZ, and they wanted to know if I had permission from the "original" publisher) we got things straightened out and it's now live. I hope this will get my little story a few new readers.

Amazon US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W864LVP/
Amazon UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Like-Taste-S...

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Jack managed to get a scholarship to a small-town college in the middle of the Iowa cornfields, September 1981. It wasn't New York, or California, but he figured it would be better than being home. College would be be a new start in a new place, maybe somewhere he could be himself.

Sean was local, born and bred, on the opposite side of the town-and-gown divide, but attraction knows no boundaries. When personal tragedy brought them together, it was the beginning of something extraordinary.

This is the re-release of a story written for a Goodreads M/M Romance writing event in 2011.

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The current price is at .99 (despite me giving them the links to where it's free.) If you would like it to go free on AZ, please go to their link for "Would you like to tell us about a lower price?" under the product details and link the Smashwords (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...) or B&N (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/like...) freebie - usually Amazon will price match.

I have a soft spot for this story, one of my first freebies, and hope some new folk enjoy it too.

Beyond the Binary

Reading blog posts for International Non-Binary People's Day yesterday encouraged me to blog on Love Bytes Reviews about trying to develop a better sensitivity to people beyond the binary in my writing and reading.

http://lovebytesreviews.com/2019/07/1...



(Photo credit - The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary – taken by Zackary Drucker – https://broadlygenderphotos.vice.com/)

Pride 2019

Last weekend was Twin Cities Pride, and fellow authors Rory Ni Coileain, Posy Roberts, and I had great fun talking to readers, librarians, and several new and aspiring authors. We lucked out with the weather - despite predicted thunderstorms, we had only a few light sprinkles of rain. My son made it there on Sunday for his first Pride, and we enjoyed everything from the booths and crafts to all the dogs of Pride.



It's always a great experience, a chance to touch base with a new audience, and to promote the genre and the idea that there are books out there focused on positive stories with LGBTQ characters. I met a young African-American man who told me about the romance book he was working on with a gay, autistic guy like himself as MC. I hope we helped encourage him to keep writing it.

The first Pride was a protest, but Pride currently is also a connection, a community. A chance for people who may be isolated to walk among a crowd of others who share common experiences and identities and goals. From infants to elders, Furries to leather guys, lesbians and bi women in pasties holding hands, teens in Ace flags and tall guys in drag, it was great to see everyone there.

Sex positivity and M/M

I blogged today on Love Bytes Reviews about sex-positivity in M/M romance.

http://lovebytesreviews.com/2019/05/1...

Audio book giveaway

LGBT Romance Deals is a newsletter which highlights deals on books and sales and giveaways. The Audiobooks newsletter features deals and promo for audio books, and I'm offering a Rafflecopter giveaway for 5 freebie codes for both The Rebuilding Year and Into Deep Waters in audio. (US and UK Audible codes) Check it out, and enter the drawing if you are interested.

https://lgbt-romance.com/2019/05/12/l...

Angel Martinez reads from Unacceptable Risk

Angel Martinez is an M/M (and other LGBTQ stories) author and she does a Friday Reading Day where she reads an excerpt from other authors' spec fic stories. This Friday, she generously read a section from Unacceptable Risk, the first book in my Hidden Wolves werewolf series. Take a listen to her presentation of the meeting between Simon (in his wolf form) and Paul the veterinarian here: https://angelmartinezauthor.weebly.co...

Then check out her readings of some other interesting fantasy and SciFi stories, including her own most recent release The Mage on the Hill at Friday Reading Day I really enjoy Angel's writing, which ranges from the light and warm to the fascinating to the emotional, mostly fantasy and SciFi. She also does a great job reading aloud (not one of my own skills) and there are some unknown-to-me stories and authors among them. Enjoy.

Love in Translation

I'm blogging today on Love Bytes about the experience of seeing my stories in translation.


http://lovebytesreviews.com/2019/04/1...