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December 15, 2015
New Release – Who He Used To Be by Douglas Black
Title: Who He Used To Be
Author: Douglas Black
Page Count: 34
Category: Contemporary Romance
Blurb:
When Jeff, the man Connor moved across an ocean to spend the rest of his life with, announces their relationship is no longer working, Connor is caught unawares. Without Jeff, Connor has no reason to stay in Florida, but he doesn’t want to return to Scotland.
An impromptu visit to a nightclub leads to Connor meeting Parker, a man nothing like clean-cut Jeff and a lot more like the bad-boys...
December 12, 2015
Rainbow Snippets
Week 2 of the snippetry and here’s a little more of Calon Lan – an historical MM romance set during the Great War and told from the POV of the sister of one of the lovers. Here Bethan and Nye continue their conversation about Alwyn’s letters.
“They went through a lot together. It must be good for him to have someone who understands.”
“You’d think he’d sooner forget the bloody war.” Nye’s mouth was full of boiled ham and potato but Bethan heard the swear word clearly.
“Nye Harrhy, I’ll wash y...
December 11, 2015
Cover Reveal – Shades Champion
Author Name: Cheryl Headford
Book Length 214 Pages
Release Date: 18th December 2015
Publisher: Wayward Ink Publishing
Cover Art by: Kellie Dennis: Book Covers by Design
Blurb:
Shade has been kept in the dark for eight long years. Now he’s facing a world that terrifies him. A world that seems to hold no place for him.
When the authorities are unable to find a home for Shade, Penny, reluctantly accepts him into the secure school she manages, despite thinking it’s the wrong place for him. Pen...
December 9, 2015
Book Blast – The Right Kind of Woman by Voss Porter
Book title: The Right Kind of Woman
Author: Voss Porter
Series: Southern Lesbians
Book Number: One
Words: 79,450
Blurb:
Just when free-spirited farm girl, Cara Spencer Holloway, feels the regulatory world of her closeted, Southern enclave will swallow her whole, her three miscreant brothers team up to carelessly throw her together with regimented, Northern software designer, Dre Martin, on a misguided stop en route to Florida. One steamy stop leads to another and soon the two women will learn...
December 8, 2015
New release – Bitter Springs by Laura Stone
Author Name: Laura Stone
Book Name: Bitter Springs
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Pages or Words: 302 pages
Categories: Fiction, Gay Fiction, Historical, M/M Romance, Romance, Western/Cowboy
Publisher: Interlude Press
Cover Artist: Collen M. Good
Blurb:
In 1870s Texas, Renaldo Valle Santos, the youngest son of a large and traditional family, has been sent to train with Henry “Hank” Burnett, a freed slave and talented mestenero—or horse- catcher—so he may continue the family horse trade. B...
New Release – The Beary Best Holiday Party Ever by B G Thomas
Title: THE BEARY BEST HOLIDAY PARTY EVER
Author: B G Thomas
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Pages: 76
Cover Artist: Catt Ford
Available: NOW
Blurb:
Before he discovered the Heartland Bear Clan, Ron Corbin figured no one could ever love a “fatass” like him. But the big group of big men accepts him, and likes him just the way he is. Having finally found a place he belongs, he works hard to get elected president of the club—and wins. He’s the happiest he’s ever been.
But Paddy Brennan, a sexy bea...
December 6, 2015
New snippetry group – Rainbow Snippets
I don’t know about you, but I miss Six Sentence Sunday. I made an image to use for it and everything. Here is its:
It was a huge group with a very diverse set of authors, some of whom absolutely rocked and some of whom I still follow. But eventually it folded and the group diverged into special interest groups. Most of the MM ones had words like “sexy” in their titles and I never really felt I fitted in there when posting six or however many sentences about whatever – loading a Long Nine, sh...
November 30, 2015
Squeee
I’m so excited *chair dances* and I just can’t hide it!
This month I have written more than in the past 2 years put together. Now I just need to consistently do a bit each day.
Anyhow – excerpt – this is the bit where I hit 50k:
Mal looked at Gary’s collarbones, which were level with his eyes, and tried to get his head round the idea that this immense, intimidating, inarticulate and very straight man was trying to facilitate his gay best friend’s love life. It was one of the sweetest things...
Cover Reveal – New Lease of Life by Lillian Francis
Hi, Lillian Francis here, and I’ve popped in to show off my amazing cover for my novel, New Lease of Life, coming soon from Dreamspinner Press.
But first the Blurb.
New Lease of Life
Phillip used to laugh a lot, back when his friends called him Pip. However the good deed that left him hospitalized not only marred his body, it stripped him of his good humor too. Ever since, he has pushed his friends away and shut out the world. Donating his vintage clothing to a charity shop should have been...
November 29, 2015
Almost there
I’m feeling quietly chuffed. 48534 words for Nanowrimo!
I never thought I’d manage that. The story is almost finished too in the sense that I’ve got it’s skeleton laid out, I just need to add some muscle and connective tissue and some glandular oomph – all the usual stuff including the bits where I’ve typed [add sex scene here].
Anyhow, here’s an excerpt. Everyone else has had the flu, now it’s Mal’s turn:
Twenty minutes later he was regretting ever moaning about wanting his Mum. Betty was n...
