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April 8, 2016
Coke's Clown -- New or Not
Coke’s Clown first appeared as a short novella, years ago. As I started rereleasing the Roughstock books, some of the novellas toward the end of the already written books begged for a more complete story, now that I have the time to write them.
Coke’s Clown is one of those books.
Coke’s Clown has more the 35K of new story in it, including a storyline that I’ve felt was hugely necessary, if not to the underlying storyline of Jason Scott, than to the character of Coke.
Writing this book reminded me, unquestionably, of why I fell in love with Roughstock, with the whole universe. I’m burning to write Leading the Blind and the third and final Coke/Dillon novel. In introducing y’all to more men, to a new wave of cowboys that live to ride their bulls and the people they fall in love with.
Coke’s Clown is available April 12 from Pride Publishing and I pray that all y’all like it.
https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/cokes-clown
April 7, 2016
My Workout Playlist :D :D
45 minutes of jogging, 5 days a week needs a fine damn playlist
PYT — Michael Jackson
I Want Candy — Bow Wow Wow
Buddy Holly — Weezer
The Loco-Motion — Little Eva
We Will Rock You — Queen
Let’s Get It Started — The Blackeyed Peas
Lollipop — The Chordettes
La Bamba — Ritchie Valens
Little Deuce Coupe — The Beach Boys
In the Mood — The Puppini Sisters
Lightin’ Strikes — Lou Christie
I’m Into Something Good — Herman’s Hermits
Friday I’m in Love — Cure
It’s In His Kiss — Betty Everett
Hey Jealousy — Gin Blossoms
Two Princes — Spin Doctors
One Week — Bare Naked Ladies
Ay Papacito — Grupo Limite
Another Saturday Night — Sam Cooke
Mr. Jones — Counting Crows
Real World — Matchbox Twenty
What I Like About You — The Romantics
Low — Flo Rida
Dame Lo Que Quiero — RKM and Ken-Y
Aw Naw — Chris Young
Lay It On Me — Chris Young
This Ole Boy — Craig Morgan
Chicks Dig It — Chris Cagle
Chillin’ It — Cole Swindell
Come Go With Me — The Dell Vikings
Tell Me How You Like It — Florida Georgia Line
Fastest Girl in Town — Miranda Lambert
Better I Don’t — Chris Jensen
Ball Cap — Glen Templeton
American Kids — Kenny Chesney
Cruise — FGL
Truck Yeah — Tim McGraw
All Over the Road — Easton Corbin
Homegrown — Zac Brown Band
Cool Down:
Looking for That Girl — Tim McGraw
Text Me Texas — Chris Young
Much love, y’all.
BA
April 6, 2016
Guest Post: Miranda Macleod
Author Name: Miranda MacLeod
Book Name: A Road Through Mountains
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Blurb: A Road Through Mountains
When Cecily Parker volunteers backstage at the Oakwood Theater, the only thing she wants is a few hours of relief from the doldrums of her upper class suburban existence. The last thing she expects is to be reunited with the only person she ever truly loved, a woman she left behind almost twenty years ago.
Rorie Mulloy has built a career as an award winning production designer in Hollywood, but her personal life is anything but a success. When she agrees to design the sets for a community theater production of A Streetcar Named Desire in Connecticut, she has no idea that the woman who broke her heart and ruined her for love will be assigned to her crew.
As the sparks are rekindled between them, these star-crossed lovers just might have a second chance at love. But only if they can overcome the ghosts of their past, and survive the sometimes comic cast of characters determined to keep them from their happily ever after.
Pages or Words: 65,000 words
Categories: Fiction, Lesbian Romance, Romance
Excerpt:
Cecily's heart thumped and her own fingertips began to tingle with a sudden jolt of adrenaline that coursed through her at the shock of recognition.
Surely it couldn’t be…
The woman stopped talking, as if aware that guests had joined them in the room. She began to turn, revealing a creamy bronze face, and just a hint of freckles sprinkled across prominent cheek bones like a fine dusting of cinnamon. Her eyes shone with the brilliant blue of an Alaskan glacier in the afternoon sun.
In truth, the room was drenched in shadows and not a single detail of the woman's appearance was the slightest bit visible. It didn't have to be. Cecily saw it all vividly in her mind just the same. She knew without a doubt, once she managed to will her heart to stop racing and forced her eyes to look up, that the face looking back at her would most certainly belong to Rorie Mulloy.
Cecily silently cursed her luck. What were the odds? The very first time since college that she'd dared to venture backstage at a theater, and she found herself face to face with the reason she'd left in the first place.
Buy the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Through-Mountains-Loves-Encore-ebook/dp/B01DRHUBOW/
Meet the author: Miranda lives in New England and writes heartfelt lesbian romances featuring witty and charmingly flawed women that you'll want to marry. Or just grab a coffee with, if that's more your thing. She is an avid reader and a good cook, and loves to travel. Before becoming a writer, she spent way too many years in graduate school and has worked as a temp in just about every office building in downtown Boston at one time or another.
Where to find the author:
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/MirandaMacleodWrites
Website: www.mirandamacleod.com
Publisher: Apple Blossom Press
Tour Dates & Stops:
Parker Williams, Divine Magazine, The Hat Party, Happily Ever Chapter, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words,
The Jena Wade, Bayou Book Junkie, Wake Up Your Wild Side, Full Moon Dreaming, A.M. Leibowitz,
My Fiction Nook, BFD Book Blog, Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents, Unquietly Me, Oh My Shelves,
Wicked Faerie's Tales and Reviews, Rednecks and Romance, Nephy Hart, MM Good Book Reviews, Molly Lolly,
April 5, 2016
Guest Post: Sean Kerr
Author Name: Sean Kerr
Book Name: Dead Camp Series: Dead Camp Book: One
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Blurb:
Eli is an ancient vampire with an ego the size of a planet and a sex drive to match, but his tumultuous past left him broken, so he hides from humanity and cowers from love, left to endure the crushing guilt that haunts his every waking moment. Even his best friend Malachi, a ghost who is hopelessly in love with Eli, remains unaware of all that transpired in London. Malachi can never know the truth.
When the Angel Daniyyel pays an unwelcome visit, Eli must face his secrets, secrets that he has tried so long to hide. To make matters worse, a chance encounter with the most beautiful man he has ever seen shatters his beloved isolation, pushing him into the world of the living once more. Something about this strange man seems so familiar, but Eli can’t even remember who he was before he became a vampire, never mind explain the unwanted emotions the enigmatic stranger ignites in his dead heart. So Eli has a choice—return to the world that ruined him, or continue his self-imposed exile with no hope of salvation.
Meet the author:
I think that as I approach that milestone that is fifty, I must be one of the oldest gamers on the face of this earth. Many a day you will find me lashed to my PS4 enjoying a good session of Skyrim. Who doesn’t love a good session of Skyrim? I love writing—I have done it since I was a child when I would happily write about the latest episode of Doctor Who (Tom Baker in those days) in my schoolbooks. Growing up and becoming a business owner with my friend Jayne left little time to pursue my dream of publication, but of late the desire and the compulsion to put words onto paper have once again dominated my life so that now, my laptop has become surgically fused to my fingertips. There is something desperately satisfying about telling a story. My fascination with History, Religion and Conspiracy theories have, in this instance, gone hand-in-hand with my love of all things vampire, fantasy, sci-fi and horror. I drove my parents nuts when I was young because that was all I would read about in books, all I would watch on television, but they have held me in good stead, and long may my obsession with the subjects continue, at least, that is, until the day they put me in my own wooden box. And imagination is such a wonderful thing. I once had a rather vivid dream about David Tennant and the Tardis console, but I could not possibly go into details about that here. Let’s just say that my polarity was well and truly reversed. Dead Camp is just the beginning. I have to check my knickers every day at the thought that this book is now in the public domain. My first book, and I hope the first of many. And to those out there who love to write, who love to transport us to new worlds, or old worlds with a twisted perspective, I say to you keep going. I never thought I would ever see my work available to download, and thanks to eXtasy Books, the dream that I always thought unobtainable has finally come true. So thank you all at eXtasy, I am one happy homosexual thanks to you, and thank you the reader for taking the time to read this strange tale and allowing Eli and the incomparable Malachi into your lives. And now I really need Skyrim.
Where to find the author:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sean.kerr.146
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/Dead-Camp-blog-402721546519007/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sgk69
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6207037.Sean_Kerr
Dead Camp site:: http://seankerr5.wix.com/deadcamp
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6207037.Sean_Kerr
Publisher: Extasy Books
Cover Artist: Latrisha Waters
Tour Dates & Stops: 29-Mar: Full Moon Dreaming, Velvet Panic, BFD Book Blog 5-Apr: Rednecks and Romance, Jessie G. Books, Hearts on Fire, The Dark Arts 12-Apr: Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words 19-Apr: Wicked Faerie's Tales and Reviews, Inked Rainbow Reads, Emotion In Motion, Book Lovers 4Ever 26-Apr: Bonkers About Books, Divine Magazine, Nephy Hart, The Hat Party 3-May: My Fiction Nook, MM Book Escape, Bayou Book Junkie 10-May: Dawn’s Reading Nook, Cathy Brockman Romances, Unquietly Me 17-May: Kirsty Loves Books, The Novel Approach 24-May: Elisa - My Reviews and Ramblings, Havan Fellows 31-May: MM Good Book Reviews, Making It Happen, Love Bytes 7-Jun: Happily Ever Chapter, Alpha Book Club 14-Jun: Molly Lolly, A.M. Leibowitz, Outrageous Heroes
April 4, 2016
What I'm Working On
*cheers myself on* ;-)
Writing:Catch and Release — third in Release seriesSTSB — Super secret project for DDSSniper — mercanary story for AReTying the Rope — Roughstock Brazilians In edits/rewrites:Back to Back in editsFuck ForgivenessReal WorldCommitment Ranch At beta:Claiming Their Mate At proofing:nothing On hold:Double UEternity is a Long TimeSoft Place to Land Subbed:nothing The week's plan?Heading to RT in Vegas, baybee!April 1, 2016
Guest Blog: AC Katt
Author Name: A.C. Katt
Book Name: The Sarran Senator
Series: The Sarrans
Book: Four
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Blurb:
The Sarrans return home from Earth in triumph, having gained many new Earthen fems, coffee, chocolate, and cats.
Senator Samuel Johnson joins his grandson Michael, his daughter Sara, and her WarriorPair on Sarran. To his delighted surprise, he bonds irrevocably with Tarin, one of Sarran's top engineers. Tarin had been bonded before and thought he would never experience a bond again, yet Sam's love gives him a new lease on life. Now they only hope the Goddess has a fem for them.
Then the Sarran Elders host a mixer for Sarran warriors to meet the Earthen fems. Margaret Mary O'Neil, Meg to her friends, is a talented woman who fled to Sarran like so many Earth women looking for a new life. When she meets Sam and Tarin, her life changes forever.
But while things are looking up for the Sarrans, with new babies being born and WarriorPairs settling down, their enemy the Zyptz are relentless in their efforts to wipe them out. When the Zyptz attack both Sarran and Earth, the mutual dependence between the two becomes ever more evident.
Categories: Biesxual, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay Fiction, Ménage, Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction
Excerpt:
::We will need to get our promise rings and Asta glasses, but we can decide where to live and get our rings and glasses later. Right now I want you under me.:: Tarin pushed Sam’s shoulders down into the softness of the couch pillows. Sam turned on his side so they faced each other.
::I foolishly didn’t bother to ask, although I should have consulted Mark, but now that I’ve taken the vial, does my equipment work the same way?::
::Yes and no. Externally you will see the slick that pours from under your foreskin. This enables one of us to penetrate the other and our fem without pain when we bond. Internally, there will be a type of a tube, a Secondary Sperm Valve that connects your channel to the seminal vesicle in your partner. When a Sarran Warrior receives sperm from his bonded, it opens the valve. The sperm goes through the valve to connect to the seminal vesicle where they mix with the sperm of your bonded. It is only when they mix that we can impregnate our fem. Our offspring are born with half of our fem’s DNA and one-quarter of each of ours. After we form the bond with our fem, we may make penetrative love with her or without her, as the Triad chooses.::
::I feel foolish asking for such basic information. I had the whole voyage to research this aspect of Sarran physiology. I was concentrating on helping Michael adjust to Sara’s Warriors.:: ::You did the right thing, my fox. From the holos you showed me, Michael had reason to be wary.:: ::Now I feel like a pre-pubescent offspring in health class, not knowing how my body is supposed to function.:: Sam blushed. ::How do I please you?::
::All the ways you’d please yourself without penetration. Let me show you.:: Tarin sat up, got off the couch, and knelt in front of Sam, removing the boots Mark and Juraens had fabricated for him on board the Brightstar. Tarin kissed the inside of Sam’s knee. Sam moaned. He never knew he had a hot spot there.
Tarin removed his own boots and then attacked Sam’s flightsuit. The one-piece garment came off quickly, giving Tarin access to Sam’s body.
Sam looked at his lover in appreciation. “You have a beautiful, hard form. I love your wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. You are everything I ever looked for in a man. If I had met you before Mary, I doubt I would have joined the army. I’d have become a college professor and lived in a house very much like this with you always at my side.”
Sam ran his palm down Tarin’s side from his shoulder to the curve of his ass. “Beautiful ... I can’t believe how lucky I am and it seems even our dreams are in alignment.”
Tarin blushed. ::I keep in shape because any Sarran Warrior can be called to battle at any time. You were in governance, how did you train? You have a hard and well-made body, my fox.::
::In the Senate Gym. I exercised and had a trainer. If I were going to be the President, I had to be in the best shape I’d ever been in my life. The job is debilitating. Although the United States is only one country on Earth, the President of the United States carries the weight of the world on his shoulders because we act as the planet’s police and are the only major power left on Earth. Russia and China have the land mass and China has population, but the United States still has the upper hand in weaponry. We, like the Sarrans, also have fierce Warriors.:: ::Being on council is much the same as you describe the presidency. The Elders aged quickly during the war and later when the Zyptz took our fems, the Elders bore the brunt of finding a solution. Our population is dangerously low, a mere twenty-thousand WarriorPairs. If you add the unbonded Warriors and offspring, it is another ten thousand. We need all of these bebes our fems are carrying and we must keep them safe.:: ::You have too much open land to police properly. What you need is a type of radar that lets the government know immediately if the atmosphere has been breached, or better still, something that shields the planet from all but our own vessels.::
“I’ve been working on that project with Bron. It’s almost ready.”
Sam was about to speak and Tarin put a finger on his lips. ::My fox, I want to know everything about you. We could talk until dawntine but right now, I want to love you. We’re naked and wanting. Can we make love?::
Sam smiled and kissed his bonded’s eyes. “I was counting on it.”
Buy the book: Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01C3J942U
JMS Books; http://www.jms-books.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=82_200&products_id=1648
Meet the author:
AC Katt was born in New York City’s Greenwich Village. She remembers sitting at the fountain in Washington Square Park listening to folk music while they passed the hat. At nine, her parents dragged her to New Jersey where she grew up, married and raised four children and became a voracious reader of romantic fiction. At one time she owned over two thousand novels, until she and her husband took themselves and the cat to New Mexico for their health and its great beauty.
Now, most of AC’s books are electronic (although she still keeps six bookcases of hardcovers), so she never has to give away another book. AC is a late bloomer, however, she claims to have found her niche writing LGBT romance.
She hangs out at ACKatt.com and ackattsjournal.com; where she keeps her blog. To get snippets of new releases and Works in Progress subscribe to AC Katt’s Kattery by sending an e-mail to mlhansel@gmail.com.
Where to find the author: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AC-Katt-62628106022/?fref=ts
Twitter: @ackatt
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ackatt/
Website: www.ackatt.com
Blog: www.ackattsjournal.com
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2893673.A_C_Katt
Publisher: JMS Books
Tour Dates & Stops: Parker Williams, Molly Lolly, BFD Book Blog, MM Good Book Reviews, Sassygirl Books, Bayou Book Junkie, Full Moon Dreaming, Bonkers About Books, Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, Book Lovers 4Ever, Happily Ever Chapter, Alpha Book Club, Wicked Faerie's Tales and Reviews, Havan Fellows, Unquietly Me, Redz World, A.M. Leibowitz, Inked Rainbow Reads, V's Reads, Man2ManTastic, Oh My Shelves, The Dark Arts, The Hat Party, Rednecks and Romance, The Fuzzy, Fluffy World of Chris T. Kat, MM Book Escape, Chris McHart
March 31, 2016
Throwback Thursday: Daddy's Stroke
So grateful that you’re better, Daddy. I love you *this* much. Can you believe it’s been a whole year?
March 30, 2016
March 29, 2016
Why Historials- guest post by Julia Talbot
Hey y'all! Julia Talbot here, hijacking the wife's blog to talk about historical romance in m/m.
I couldn't be more tickled to see historical romance making a comeback in the world of m/m. Thanks to authors like KJ Charles and Ava March, the genre is getting a breath of fresh air, and I love it, because I loved to read historical romance. I cut my teeth in Kathleen Woodewiss and Johanna Lindsay, and I want MORE!
Romance is just like TV or movies. Popularity wanes, then returns. I knew historicals would make a triumphant return when TV began putting out shows like Salem and Sleepy Hollow and Penny Dreadful. Sure, they're paranormal, too, but they all had elements of the costume drama.
My history with writing historicals is a little more turbulent than reading them. When I first started in gay romance, readers would devour anything. There was no competition to speak of, and I blissfully wrote the kind of historical romance I imagined Karen Robards would if she was writing gay. Heavy on costume and light on history. At the time, there was a small, but very vocal group of reviewers who only read and wrote historical gay fiction, light on the romance, and well, they tore me a new asshole.
Licking my wounds, I moved on to paranormal and contemporary, and didn't look back, because I never wanted to go through that kind of trauma again, LOL.
Now I feel like new breath has been given to gay historical romance. People are reading and writing the kinds of books I love, and it's time for me to bust out and do some more yummy historical books.
With that in mind, I've brushed up, added 2000 words, and re-released an older gem of mine, a book called A Gentleman of Substance. I did add some more historical detail, but I concentrated on the relationship, and I couldn't be pleased.
Here's my lovely cover by Kris Norris.
And you can find the book in paperback and ebook on Amazon or in ebook on All Romance Ebooks here!
And here's the blurb to get you going!
Michael St. James hates tidewater post-Colonial Virginia with a passion. Banished there thanks to an ill-timed duel, Michael is bored with the countryside, and thinks his new companions are poorly-educated boors. What he needs is a challenge, something to stimulate his mind. Which is why, when Michael meets Daniel Calhoun, he takes such an immediate interest.
Daniel Calhoun is a gentleman farmer who has no time for the social niceties demanded by a man of his station any more than he has patience for changing fashion or politics. When he sees Michael St. James, Daniel sees a man with no substance, and he’s certainly not interested in becoming friends, or more, with the irritating man. There’s more to Michael than meets the eye, as Daniel soon discovers, and the two embark on a scorching affair that might just be the ruin of both of them. Can they find a way to be together, or will Daniel and Michael be forced to hide what they feel?
This title was previously published under the same title. 2000 words have been added to the text for the second edition.Thanks for letting me play!
XXOO
Julia
March 28, 2016
What I'm Reading Now
What I’m reading right now? Jurassic Park by Crichton on audio and Black Wolves by Kate Eliot.
March 2016 (total: 16)
Switch by Sean Michael — I’d missed this one
The Crawling Abattoir by Martin Mundt — utterly hilarious. I embarrassed my wife on the plane cackling.
Dollhouse by Anya Allyn — this was like watching a TV pilot. Not for me.
Taken by VM Black — fast paced, great heroine
Wicked for You by Erzabet Bishop — great worldbuilding
Toybox by Al Sarrantonio — very King-esque but nothing happens.
27 Action Writing Blunders by James Scott Bell — for beginners only
Black Butterflies by John Shirley — totally worth the read
Nuts About You by Kate Lowell — squirrel shifters O.o
Promises Part 1 by AE Via — bought the second book immediately after reading the first
Promises Part 2 by AE Via — loved these two boys
Two Men and a Virgin by Kate Richards — cute as hell
Fierce by Sabrina York — not bad at all. Love a strong heroine
Lay It Down by Mary Calmes — Mmm. I do miss Spain.
Bend Over by Brina Brady — a little too hard core for my tastes
The Centaur’s Solstice Wish by Siobhan Muir — sweet and dear
February 2016 (total: 7)
Challenge the Darkness by Dirk Greyson — I absolutely adored this. Bought the 2nd in the series already. Charming, warm, good world building.
The Curious Case of Winter King by Kiernan Kelly — a fab, fun homage to Stephen King. I loved it.
Tattered Loyalties by Carrie Ann Ryan — tons of world-building and I loved the heroine of this one.
Entwined by Colette Gale — this is hilarious. A retelling of Tarzan and Jane
Marked by SJD Peterson — I think I must have read this before. It’s very familiar.
Pornography and Seriality by Sarah Schaschek — fascinating theory. I’m not sure I agree 100%, but fascinating.
Krampus by Brom — the charm at the front didn’t hold up.
January 2016 (total: 5)
Dom of Las Vegas by Tricia Owens — On the good, the sex was hot, the main character was interesting. On the not so good, the main character had detailed on-screen sex with a number of other characters and, in a romance, that’s not for me. The writing style was fine and I quite liked the secondary characters.
Nightmare House by Douglas Clegg — I’m usually a HUGE Clegg fan, but I did not enjoy this one. I found it neither scare nor atmospheric. I was disappointed.
A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles — took me about 1/4 of the book to get into this one, but once I did, I found it clever and charming and I actually had a couple LOL moments.
Bazaar of Dreams by Stephen King — The best part (and I don’t mean this in a nasty way) was the notes before each story. Loved it.
Collected Short Stories by Andre Debus — I am madly in love with the way this man writes. One of his short stories changed how I saw life.
Much love, y’all.
BA
