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Release Blitz - Merrick The Art Thief by Michelle Woody

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | JMS Books
Length: 56,030 words 
Publisher: JMS Books
Blurb
Brilliant art thief Merrick Davidson can steal anything, except Grant Silvan’s heart. Merrick has to keep Grant at arm’s length for fear of revealing his secret. When Merrick’s biggest rival exposes his secret to Grant, the rejected lover returns to win back his relationship with Merrick, but there are obstacles to overcome.


Wyatt Silvan, Grant’s father and Merrick’s employer, is after the famous sev...

Rainbow Snippets - 11th/12th August

Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook Group that invites authors to post 6 sentences of their work each weekend. It can be from anything you like, your current WIP, a recent release, the golden oldie that even you had forgotten you had written, or just a scrap of an idea (as long as it has 6 coherent sentences). Nothing of your own work worth mentioning? How about a 6 sentence review of your favourite LGBTQ+ story.

I've had a bit of a snippet break--haha, months--but I'm back with another snippet fro...

Release Blitz - Salt Magic, Skin Magic by Lee Welch

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK
Length: 78,000 words approx.
Blurb
Lord Thornby has been trapped on his father’s isolated Yorkshire estate for a year. There are no bars or chains; he simply can’t leave. His sanity is starting to fray.


When industrial magician John Blake arrives to investigate a case of witchcraft, he finds the peculiar, arrogant Thornby as alarming as he is attractive. John soon finds himself caught up in a dark fairytale, where all the rules of magic—and love—are changed.


To s...

Audio Review Tour - The Master Will Appear by LA Witt

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Audible US | Audible UK
Length: 12hrs 59mins
Narrated By: Michael Ferraiuolo
Blurb
Dr. Mikhail "Misha" Budnikov takes one look at fellow fencer Ryan O'Connor and instantly knows his type. The undisciplined hothead is all ego with no finesse and even less control. In short, Misha's pet peeves personified. To put the arrogant kid in check, Misha challenges him to a sparring match, which he predictably wins.


Not so predictably, Ryan asks him to be a mentor and show...

Review Tour - Nothing Serious by Jay Northcote

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK
Length: 40,000 words approx.
Cover Design: Garrett Leigh @ Black Jazz Design
Blurb
What happens when “nothing serious” turns into something more complicated?


Mark O’Brien is finally being honest with himself. His relationship with Rachel is over and he’s moving out of the home they’ve shared for six years. They get along, but he can’t fix a relationship when the person he’s with is the wrong gender.


Jamie Robertson, one of the removal men, is huge and ridiculously g...

Fiction Friday

Just two today, because I've mostly been reading for blog post reviews, so I'm taking advantage of the Goodreads 'post to blog' button.


Escaping Exile by Sara Dobie Bauer

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Excellent. An interesting take on a vampire story.
There's nothing sparkly about Andrew. He's not a soft-focus vampire, he's charmed and killed. Killed one too many times, which is how he ends up in exile, his only companions a tribe of cannibals, who he can't kill because they smell of death and decay. A...

New Lease of Life on sale

To celebrate National Book Lovers Day, Dreamspinner have got 30% off across the store from 9th to 14th August

This includes 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 the final act in a year-long campaign to se...

Release Blitz - Blood Bathory: Be Not Proud by Ari McKay

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK
Cover Design: Lou Harper
Length: 330 Pages
The Guardians Of Gaia Series
Book #1 - Blood Bathory: Like The Night - Amazon US | Amazon UKBook #2 - Blood Bathory: Absence Of The Sun - Amazon US | Amazon UK
Blurb
Death, be not proud…

The conclusion of the war between Elizabeth Bathory and the Guardians of Gaia draws closer, but the theriomorphs and their allies are caught between vampires loyal to Elizabeth Bathory’s daughter, Anna, and humans controlled by Elizabeth and...

Release Blitz - Goal Line by RJ Scott & V.L. Locey

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK
Length: 54,000 words approx.
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
Harrisburg Railers Series
Book #1 - Changing Lines - Amazon US | Amazon UKBook #2 - First Season - Amazon US | Amazon UKBook #3 - Deep Edge - Amazon US | Amazon UKBook #4 - Poke Check - Amazon UK | Amazon UKBook #5 - Last Defense - Amazon US | Amazon UK
Blurb
Fear and sadness mark Bryan’s life, can Gatlin show him that you have to trust before you can love?


Gatlin Pearce is creeping up on thirty-eight and i...

Release Blitz - Ghost Hunted by BL Maxwell

Buy Links: Amazon US | Amazon UK
Length: 62,000 words
Blurb
Jason Thomas had always been obsessed with the ghost stories he'd watched on television from the time he was a kid. He'd always dreamed of visiting those haunted places, and playing amateur ghost hunters with his best friend Wade. As they grew older, Jason's fascination with ghosts grew as well, and he'd drag Wade along to different haunted houses or hotels, always hoping to see an actual ghost.


Wade Rivers loved spending time with Jason...