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November 28, 2024
Read Around the Rainbow - Retellings
It's that time of the month when a group of like-minded authors discuss the chosen topic of the month. #readaroundtherainbow. And yes, it does appear that I'm here two months in a row. Shocker!
The topic this month is retelling. But what is a retelling?
Mark Twain quote: “There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and ma...
November 21, 2024
Release Blitz - Deck the Hulls by Kat Cassidy
RELEASE TOUR: Deck the Hulls by KatCassidy
"This Christmas, he’s hiding more than hisidentity… Length: 25,000words
Series: Silver Shoals, Book 1
Genre: Contemporary,Small Town Holiday Romance.
Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity,Small Town, Holiday Romance.
Content: Brief mentions of unsupportivefamily, past relationships, addiction and enabling, light gore.
Heat:2 out of 5
November 19, 2024
Release Blitz - Arcane Entanglement by Ava Marie Salinger
Release Blitz- Arcane Entanglement by Ava MarieSalinger
Pride and Prejudice meets JonathanStrange & Mr Norrell in this steamy MM historical fantasyromance! Length: 82,000words
Series: The Mage and His Brute, Book 1
Genre:Historical, Fantasy Romance.
Heat: 4 out of 5
He thought he had tochoose between duty and desire.
But what if he could haveboth?
Inan al...
November 11, 2024
Release Blitz - Winnie Takes Paris by Lane Hayes
RELEASE TOUR - Winnie Takes Paris by Lane Hayes
The fabulous stylist, the absentminded professor, and a Parisian adventure…
Length: 54,000 words
Series: Love and Travel, Book 2
Genre: Contemporary
Tropes: Age-Gap, Opposites Attract, Humor, RomCom, Travel Romance.
Heat: 5 out of 5
Winnie
Hey, I don’t regret taking an oddball assignment to assist a British professor abroad. I could use a break from my life as an aspiring hair and style guru in LA. ...
November 8, 2024
Release Blitz with Review - The Unquiet House by Ellie Thomas
NEWRELEASE
Book Title: TheUnquiet House (Regency Paranormal, Book 2)
Author: Ellie Thomas
Publisher: JMS Books
Cover Artist: in-house withpublisher
Release Date: October 26,2024
Tense/POV: Third person, past tense,single POV
Genres: MM HistoricalParanormal
Tropes: Hurt/Comfort,Opposites Attract, Friends to Lovers
Themes: H...
Release Blitz with Review - The Unquiet House by Ellie Thomas
NEW RELEASE
Book Title: The Unquiet House (Regency Paranormal, Book 2)
Author: Ellie Thomas
Publisher: JMS Books
Cover Artist: in-house with publisher
Release Date: October 26, 2024
Tense/POV: Third person, past tense, single POV
Genres: MM Historical Paranormal
Tropes: Hurt/Comfort, Opposites Attract, Friends to Lovers
Themes: Haunting, ghosts, romantic suspense, peril
Heat Rating: 3 flames
Length: 17 520 words
It is not a standalone story.
It is book 2 in my Regency Paranor...
Audiobook Tour - Persistence of Memory by J.M. Snyder
AUDIOBOOKTOUR
BookTitle: Persistence of Memory
Author: J.M. Snyder
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Narrator: Nick Johnson
Release Date: September 25,2024
Tense/POV: first person, presenttense, single.
Genres: MM Dystopian Romance
Tropes: amnesia
Themes: love despiteeverything
Heat Rating: 1flame
...October 24, 2024
RATR - Monsters
It's been a while since I've contributed to a Read Around the Rainbow group post. Often it's simply because the last Friday of the month rushes at me because of deadlines in the day job and I miss the posting date, no matter all my good intentions. But this month I stuck my oar in with the topic so I have to make the time to post 😃.
It's scary season. Whether you celebrate Halloween, Samhain, or Day of the Dead. Maybe you simply shy away from the darker nights and longer shadows of the shorter da...
October 16, 2024
Cover Reveal - The Royal Rogue By Sarah Honey
The Royal Rogue
By Sarah Honey
Thomas Malone is the new Captain of the Guard atLilleforth Castle. He loves his job, but it leaves him no time forhimself. It's been way too long since he's had anyone share his bed, letalone his life. To say he's frustrated is anunderstatement.
To makematters worse, the King’s disreputable cousin Evan Devere, the Duke of Ravensport, is back from histravels. Evan is ...
October 10, 2024
Release Blitz - Melting the Ice, Portland Evergreens #1 by Beth Bolden
Title: Melting the Ice, Portland Evergreens #1
Author: Beth Bolden
Release Date: October 10, 2024
Cover Art: Book Brander Boutique, www.romancepremades.com
Length: 90,000 words
Available in: ebook, Kindle Unlimited, two paperbacks (cover model & discreet), and audio, soon after release, narrated by Darcy Stark
MM Contemporary Sports Romance
Tropes: double bi-awakening, friends/roommates-to-lovers, hockey player & football player
Tags: but we're just bros, on a couch, conducting a science experiment, ...
