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March 19, 2016
Rainbow Snippets
Saturday!! Hang on, it is Saturday, isn’t it? YES! Saturday so that means another snippet. But first an explanation.
Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook GRoup set up so authors of LGBT fiction can post six [approx] sentences of a WIP or a published work on their own blog then post links to the group to make them easier to find. Then we all read each others snips, comment if we have time, and get an idea of what books to look forward to. Click the image above if you would like to join in.
I have b...
March 16, 2016
New Release – Traveling Light by Lloyd Meeker
This is a re-release rather than a new release and I can’t express enough what a joy this book is. I read a previous edition, but I don’t believe that any substantial changes have been made. Good luck Lloyd!!
Title: Traveling Light
Author: Lloyd A Meeker
Publisher: DSP Publications
Page Count: 243 pages
Available: NOW
Cover Artist: I don’t know but I would LOVE to give them credit for it.
ISBN-13: 978-1-63476-653-1
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March 15, 2016
Guest Post – Torque by Charley Descoteaux
My guest today is Charley Descoteaux, one of my favourite people , whose work is always fresh and unusual and features a host of diverse and compelling characters. Welcome Charley!
Guest post below the book details and below that there’s a cracking long excerpt and a contest. Good luck.
Author Name: Charley Descoteaux
Book Name: Torque
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Pages or Words: 47,337 words
Categories:
Contemporary Romance,
Ménage/Poly,
*Trans,
Bisexual,
Asexual,
LGBTQ+ Fiction
Publis...
March 14, 2016
Blast from the Past – Illusions and Dreams by Z Allora
Sometimes it’s really worth checking out backlists. There are some marvellous books out there but with hundreds of new titles every week it can be very hard to find them.
Authors – have you got a title a year or more old that could do with a little love? Readers – have you got a favourite book that you think deserves some attention? Message or email me and we’ll set something up.
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I suspected tha...
March 12, 2016
Rainbow Snippets
Happy Saturday, folk. As ever it’s snippet day. click on the picture and it will take you to the Rainbow Snippets facebook group where a variety of authors post links to bits of published works and WIPs with LGBT protagonists.
Mine is a bit unusual in that my POV character is straight – the married sister of a soldier returned from the Great War with considerable emotional and physical scars. Bethan and her husband, who are hard-pressed to run the farm even with Alwyn’s assistance, have agr...
March 5, 2016
Saturday Recommendations
It occurred to me earlier this week that I haven’t done one of these for a while. The thing that jogged my memory is that the long awaited second book of a series is just out and I thought it might be nice to give some love to the series as a whole.
It’s called Melusine’s Cats and it’s by Chris Quinton. 
I think we are all familiar with romances that features fuzzy animals, or babies or cutie poo toddlers, as a bonding device to bring the protagonists together. Well you don’t get much of that...
Rainbow Snippets
Click the image to go to the Facebook Group
Rainbow Snippets is where a group of authors post links to their work featuring LGBT protagonists. Each snippet has around 6 sentences and will be drawn from either a published work or something that’s still under construction.
I had a bit of a consult last week and some of the commenters liked the idea of carrying on with my Great War story, Calon Lan, which is set in Wales and describes a male/male romance from the point of view of the sister of...
February 28, 2016
Rainbow Snippets
I forgot about this yesterday so I’ll have to do some catching up with all the fabulous snippets posted on the Facebook Group where a collection of authors – about 30 of them – post approx six sentences of published books or works in progress with LGBTQA protagonists. If you’d like to see some too, click the little picture above and look for the pinned post.
I’m continuing with Calon Lan, a story set during the Great War about a gay love affair observed by the naive sister of one of the prot...
February 22, 2016
New Release – The Guy with the Suitcase by Chris Ethan
Title: The Guy With The Suitcase
Series: Once Upon a Guy, Book One
Author: Chris Ethan
Genre: Gay Romance, Contemporary, New Adult
Length: Novel
SynopsisPierce is homeless.
Young and strong-willed Pierce has been living in the streets of New York City for six months, since his
parents kicked him out of their perfect, Christian, suburban house. Pierce is gay. And he is suffering the
consequences for being true to himself.
Rafe is homeless.
He is also sick. Impressionable, but far from inno...
February 20, 2016
Blog Tour – Callum’s Fate
Title: Callum’s Fate
Author: Dianne Hartsock
Genre: Fantasy, Gay Romance, Erotic Romance
Length: Novella
Publisher: Wayward Ink Publishing
In 1780, Scotland, following a harsh year of drought, Callum Mackenzie is forced from his father’s farm in the hopes of finding work.
But as fate would have it, Callum is lured onto the moors by the will-o-the-wisp. Lost in the dark, he falls into enchantment, encountering faeries and nymphs, until he stumbles into the arms of a licentious Barrow...
