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May 24, 2015
SEXcerpt and Reader’s Choice Giveaway! Leta Blake is at Diverse Reader with a cut sex scene from Training Complex! #free #gay
Head on over to Diverse Reader for a SEXcerpt and a reader’s choice giveaway!
Click through HERE to read a cut sex scene from Training Complex and to participate in a rafflecopter for a reader’s choice giveaway! Any of my books are available to one lucky winner!
As a tease, I’ll start the scene off for you here!
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Warning: 18+ readership and mildly spoilery for the issues in the book as a whole, as well as a particular kink.
Matty sat on the toilet and shook the cock cage, rattling it to the best of his ability. The vibration of the lock on the polycarbonate resonated against his straining flesh but it gave him no relief. “Fuck, fuck,” he whispered, needing more stimulation, needing anything that would take his mind off his desperate need to come.
He’d never, ever felt so horny in his life. He knew this was true because while every single hour since putting on the cock cage had consisted of escalating horniness, rising unbearably moment-to-moment, but the fact that he’d been so overwhelmed at a dinner with Anja and Ben, of all people, that he’d had to leave the table and frantically, uselessly masturbate in the toilet stall said it all. Hands down, it was both the most horny and most mortified he’d ever been. Well, maybe failing at the Olympics was worse. Or that time with Rob and the toilet in Montana, but that had ended up being weirdly intimate. Oh, God, he didn’t need to think about anything intimate.
“Matty?” Rob’s voice preceded the fall of his footsteps and the sound of the bathroom door swinging shut. “You okay in here?”
“I’m fine.”
“What’s taking so long?”
Matty looked down at his dick, pressed hard and miserably against the polycarbonate cock cage, and then at his swollen, aching balls, already so full of unreleased spunk. Fuck, he needed to come.”
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DIVERSE READER’S REVIEW OF TRAINING COMPLEX:
I want to be Leta Blake when I grow up! *sigh* I always need to sit back and decompress after reading one of her books. Where do I begin here? Okay, Training Complex is the sequel to Training Season. We join Matty and Rob in New York. Matty is coaching figure skating and Rob is a PT. These two love like no others. Leta brings that all consuming, old fashioned, From Here to Eternity feel to the love they have. Of course on a hotness scale it just explodes. SO HOT! They have a BDSM relationship and I want to buy Leta a huge ass drink for getting it right. You want to know how BDSM works? THIS, HERE. She knows what she’s talking about. She addresses SO many issues in this book, Disordered eating, depression, anxiety. And it’s breathtaking. I love reading her books because it’s like being wrapped in a blanket of perfection. There are a million layers to her plots, and her characters. She flows through it brilliantly and it feels almost effortless. Training Complex is the perfect balance of angst, happiness, love, loss, and fear. Leta brings them together in a way that you are left truly content. Bravo, Leta. Another 5 star story!
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May 23, 2015
Blog Post: Guestpost & Giveaway Leta Blake – Training Complex | Love Bytes
Blog Post: Guestpost & Giveaway Leta Blake – Training Complex | Love Bytes.
Follow the above link for the opportunity to win a book and to read about product placement in Training Complex! :D
May 21, 2015
“Thank you Leta Blake for yet another amazing read!!!” Review of Training Complex #gayromance
Some reviews make me laugh! :D And, boy, can I relate to this one!
“Be still my heart. More Matty and Rob!!! I loved every second of this book. Even when I wanted to punch Matty in the face. o_O
Thank you Leta Blake for yet another amazing read!!!”
via Goodreads | Amanda Barnes’s review of Training Complex.
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May 20, 2015
“These two love like no others. Bravo, Leta. Another 5 star story!” Review of Training Complex #amreading #bdsm
These two love like no others. Leta brings that all consuming, old fashioned, From Here to Eternity feel to the love they have. Of course on a hotness scale it just explodes. SO HOT!
They have a BDSM relationship and I want to buy Leta a huge ass drink for getting it right. You want to know how BDSM works? THIS, HERE. She knows what she’s talking about. She addresses SO many issues in this book, disordered eating, depression, anxiety. And it’s breathtaking.
Training Complex is the perfect balance of angst, happiness, love, loss, and fear. Leta brings them together in a way that you are left truly content. Bravo, Leta. Another 5 star story!
via Goodreads | Meredith (West Haven, CT)’s review of Training Complex.
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May 19, 2015
“I can’t remember feeling this happy after reading a book.” Review of Training Complex by Leta Blake
“A must read for anyone who enjoyed “Training Season”. Leta took us on an emotional journey that was at times heart breaking. In my opinion, doing a wonderful job of dealing with some pretty heavy issues.
Rob and Matty are one of my favorite book couples. These men aren’t perfect. They both make mistakes. My heart broke for them both throughout parts of this book. I love Matty very much but at times I just wanted to knock some sense into him. But their love for each other is undeniable and absolutely breathtaking!
It was wonderful to see Matty getting healthy and both of them getting happy, both individually and as a couple. The battle is always worth it in the end!
Their ending couldn’t of been more perfect! I honestly can’t remember feeling this happy and content after reading a book. It was just PERFECT!
I am a huge fan of Leta Blake. If you haven’t read any of her books, you really should give her a try!”
read more via Amazon.com: Leda Helgeson’s review of Training Complex
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Training Complex (Training Season #2) by Leta Blake #LGBT #Review
Thrilled with this wonderful 10/10 review from Rainbow Gold for Training Complex!
Originally posted on Rainbow Gold Reviews:
Beth reviews Training Complex (Training Season #2) by Leta Blake, self-published by Leta Blake on May 11, 2015, 345 pages.
Figure skater Matty Marcus didn’t capture Olympic gold, but he won rancher Rob Lovely’s heart.
After Rob sold his ranch and Matty hung up his skates, they started a new life together in New York City. Now Matty has taken on a fresh challenge as a figure skating coach, and Rob’s second career as a physical therapist should be everything he’s dreamed of. But in the brutal heat of their third summer in the city, Rob yearns for the wide-open country, and the intensity of city life awakens Matty’s demons.
Matty asks for increasingly intense BDSM scenes, and his disordered eating and erratic behavior ramp up the stakes. Rob struggles to stay in control, and after a well-intentioned anniversary gift goes awry, he still thinks he can handle the fallout…
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May 18, 2015
“Off. The. Page. Scorchingly. Delicious!!!!!” 5 Stars! Review of Smoky Mountain Dreams by Leta Blake #gay #romance
“It was sweet, emotional, funny (the quips from Gran are LOL-good), poignant, and SO damn well written. I wish I could visit Smoky Mountain!! And the sex w/Christopher and Jesse??? Off. The. Page. Scorchingly. Delicious!!!!! I look forward to reading more books from this author.”
via Amazon.com: Elaine’s review of Smoky Mountain Dreams.
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Which of my characters scares me? Who supports my writing? And more! At Crystal’s Many Reviewer’s today! :D #interview #spotlight
Today I’m over at Crystal’s Many Reviewers as a Spotlight Author for Beyond the Last Page! Thank you, Crystal, for your awesome interview questions! I actually did this interview several months ago, so you’ll find that I talk about the process of writing Training Complex as an ongoing thing rather than a completed event. I’ve sampled a few of my favorite questions/answers below, but be sure to follow the link to read more and see the books she’s chosen to spotlight!
What is the most intense scene you have ever written? Did you find it difficult writing that scene?
There are some scenes in Training Season that were pretty intense. I didn’t find them difficult to write so much as unnerving because I felt sure readers wouldn’t like them. (I’m having this same reaction to a scene I wrote for Training Complex, the sequel to Training Season.) As it turned out, some people liked the scene, some people hated the scene, but most reacted strongly to it one way or another, and that was probably good? It struck some kind of chord for sure. Someone once told me to write into the fear. Whatever you’re afraid of doing in the scene, write into that. I’m trying to take that advice a bit with Training Complex.
Author addition: Now that the book is out, I’d like to say that I’m pretty pleased with how much I wrote into the fear. It was risky and it was a little scary, and I guess I feel like I’m doing something wrong if I’m not scaring myself with my writing sometimes. Gotta leap off cliffs in life, you know? Gotta take a flying leap into what makes you sweat a little!
Who in your personal life was the biggest supporter of your writing?
There are different kinds of support, I think, and I’ve been lucky enough to receive a lot of support from a lot of people in my personal life. My husband takes my writing seriously and makes it easier for me to find time to do it by taking up more than his portion of household duties and childcare. Several of my closest friends aren’t very interested in gay romance in general but they still buy and read every single book I put out. That’s support for you. My parents are also quite supportive in multiple ways, as is my daughter who even gives me suggestions for new books. My best friend has always been supportive and helpful, giving up hours of her time to listening to me ramble about imaginary people, and helping me to solve their problems so they can get a happily-ever-after. There isn’t really anyone in my life that isn’t supportive and I’m lucky that way, I know.
Author addition: I really am incredibly lucky to have family and friends who support me. I haven’t had a negative outcome from my writing in terms of social issues…not yet anyway. There may come a day and we’ll see how I handle it then. But for now I want to give props where they are due. I can’t write in isolation. I depend on my family and friends for so much support and I am grateful beyond belief at how they never let me down.
What is one thing you wish your readers could understand about the writing process?
I can’t speak for other authors, and in fact other authors have indicated that what I’m about to say is not true for their writing experience, but one thing I do think readers don’t always understand about the way I write is how little I experience choice in the process. For example, I’ve had people say, “Why did you choose to make X character do/say that particular thing?” And my experience of writing is that very little of it is my choice. I experience the process as the characters bossing me around, not vice versa. Characters very rarely do what I want them to do and will balk if I try to force them. So, sometimes I’ll read something where a reader has said, “I wish Ms. Blake hadn’t decided to make the characters do xyz,” and I think, “But that wasn’t up to me. That was their choice.” I’ve had people tell me that I’m crazy for saying that, though, so…perhaps I am.
Author addition: So true. So, so, so true. I’m their slave, basically.
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May 17, 2015
“It was just PERFECT!” Review of Training Complex by Leta Blake #gay #amreading
“Their ending couldn’t of been more perfect! I honestly can’t remember feeling this happy and content after reading a book. It was just PERFECT!
I am a huge fan of Leta Blake. If you haven’t read any of her books, you really should give her a try!”
read more via Amazon.com: Leda Helgeson’s review of Training Complex (Training Season Series B….
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I’ve been waiting to see them all in a row like this! #StrainSeries @RiptideBooks
Very exciting news about new books in Amelia Gormley’s Strain universe!
Originally posted on The fiction of Amelia C. Gormley:
As promised, I’m putting the Juggernaut and Bane covers up here today. But then I have also wanted to see the whole series laid out, chronologically. While it doesn’t matter which order you read Juggernaut and Strain in, this is how they fall:
They helped destroy the world. Now they have to survive the new one.
For rentboy Nico Fernández, it’s a simple job: seduce a presidential advisor to help cement approval to launch Project Juggernaut. He’s done similar work for General Logan McClosky before, and manipulating people for his favorite client beats the hell out of being trafficked for slave wages in some corporate brothel.
Zach Houtman feels called to work with the most vulnerable outcasts of society. But his father, the Reverend Maurice Houtman, insists that Zach work for him instead as he runs for Senate. Zach reluctantly agrees, but is horrified to see his father leave behind…
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