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Review - Into You by Jay Northcote

It's no secret that Jay Northcote is an autobuy author for me. Or that her audiobooks are a regular feature of my car journey to work. Her books are feel-good cute without being cloyingly sweet with sympathetic characters that have you rooting for their happy ever after.

In Into You the characters are younger than Jay would normally write them, Scott and Olly are both 18, but this doesn't affect the writing in any way, although I'm surprised how little time either guy spends on the playstation...

Waiting for a Spark

As of a week or so ago Waiting for a Spark is currently out of print.

I intend to re-release under Finally Love Press at some point in the near future. It needs little in the way of work, just a new cover and then some formatting. Maybe a new blurb.

I'm on the look out for something sweet with a London vibe, quite similar to the original cover (which I had quite a heavy hand in designing). Preferably something premade since they are generally cheaper. If anyone finds anything they think is appr...

Fiction Friday

My last few reads have been excellent enough that I wanted to make sure I did another Fiction Friday post straight away.

I mentioned How to Howl at the Moon in the last post. That was a 5 star read for me.

And I followed that with yet another 5 star read. Megan Derr's  This book can only be described as a fairy tale. Rafe, our lead, may be a wharf rat and sometime time whore but he is loyal, patient, generous with the little he has. Tresse, the noble he falls in love w...

Coming soon from Jay Northcote

I've just finished reading this. So good. I'll be pimping with buy links nearer the time but for now why don't you add it to your Goodreads shelf.

What do you do when the body you wake up in isn’t yours?

Olly and Scott promised to be best friends forever. They grew up on the same street, went to the same school, and did everything together. But one hot summer night, teenage experimentation caused hurt feelings and confusion, and their friendship was destroyed.

Four years later they’re both eight...

Guest Post - Custom Fit

Today I'm pleased to introduce a friend and one of my favourite authors.  Josephine Myles is here to celebrate her latest release, Custom Fit (book 2 in the Tailor Made series), and is sharing an exclusive excerpt.
Thanks for inviting me, Lillian! As you know, you are in many ways responsible for this book ever seeing the light of day. It was your enthusiasm to know more of Felix and Andrew’s story that encouraged me to turn all those ideas into a sequel… even if it did take me a long tim...

5 Star Review - Resistance

5 stars for Resistance - C. E. Case at Inked Rainbow Reads

"(Resistance) is pure romance stuff: hot sex, family issues, internalized homophobia. But while the story feels familiar, it doesn’t feel old fashioned. Rick and Mal inhabit a modern world. Francis shows us that world with tenderness and depth."

"Resistance gets better as it goes along. It twists from two blokes getting it on into a true tale of a relationship where the only enemy is fear."

"It’s a wonderful book to spend a day with...

Fiction Friday is back

So, according to this blog (and I have no reason to doubt it) my last FF post was on 1st July!

Also according to Goodreads I've hit 150 m/m books this year.

Must have loads to report this month then, it's been nearly six weeks after all.

Erm, no, I've been reading a lot of fanfiction, mostly Teenwolf and Merlin. I particularly enjoyed  The Lonely King by Cori Lannam.

I've also read a fair few of those freebies that you pick up from Amazon all the time and then clutter up your TBR pile foreve...

Series review for Village Love

4 'feels good' hearts for the Village Love series (so far) from Dan at Love Bytes. And 4 hearts for each individual book. Find his full review here.

I love that these stories spoke so personally to him... "The whole MRI sequence, the shoulder injury, and the mate named Smudge, all played to my personal experiences, and in the case of Smudge, got me thinking about a friend from the UK that I lost touch with more than thirty years ago."

"The tale of these two meeting and overcoming each of their...

What they're saying about Resistance

Resistance has had some positive reviews over the last few weeks. Thought I should probably share some of them with you.
4 hearts from Pixie at MM Good Book Reviews

"both Mal and Rick are great characters that you can easily see care a lot about each other."
"some of the secondary characters made this story shine just a little more; Edna, Rick’s elderly neighbor, was a little star she shone brilliantly in the couple of scenes she was in. Smudge was a shining beacon as he lends a shoulder to Rick...

It's release day for Elin Gregory

If you follow my babblings on a regular basis you'll know I've been waxing lyrical about this book forever. Even in its unpolished form this was probably my favourite book of 2015. I honestly can't wait to read the finished article.



Eleventh Hour by Elin Gregory 


Borrowed from the Secret Intelligence Service cipher department to assist Briers Allerdale - a field agent returning to 1920s London with news of a dangerous anarchist plot - Miles Siward moves into a 'couples only' boarding house...