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April 28, 2017
2016 Winners of the NLA Writing Awards
Did you all see that the winners of the NLA Writing Awards were released? These annual awards celebrate the best in BDSM-positive writing and publishing, in both fiction and nonfiction categories. As a member of the awards committee I’ve been involved with these awards for several years and this year had a bumper crop of books!
To quote from the press release that came from NLA: International:
National Leather Association: International, a leading organization for activists in the pansexual SM/leather community, announced the winners for excellence in literary works in SM/leather/fetish writing published in 2016. The judges received a great number of nominations this year and judging in most categories was quite difficult with such exemplary pieces of writing.
Winner of the Geoff Mains Non-Fiction Book Award is Peter Tupper and David Stein (ed.) for Our Lives, Our History (Perfectbound Press). Honorable mention in this category goes to David Wade for “Vanilla Breaks” (Xcite Books), Richard Levine for “Jolted Awake” (Alfred Press in cooperation with Lulu Enterprises, Inc.) and to Slavemaster and slave 7 “Beyond Obedience” (Createspace).
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In the John Preston Short Fiction category, the winner is D.L. King for “Cupcakes and Steel” from the anthology For The Men and The Women Who Love Them (ed.) Rose Caraway (Stupid Fish Productions). Honorable mention for short story goes to Caraway Carter for “7 With 1 Blow” (Beaten Track Publishing) and Ferrett Steinmetz for “Rooms Formed Of Neurons and Sex” which appears in Uncanny Magazine.
The winner of the Pauline Reage Novel category winner is Angela Hamm for The Gambler’s Lady (Blushing Books). Honorable mention in this category goes to Amelia C. Gromley for Risk Aware (Riptide Publishing), Scott Alexander Hess for Skyscraper (Unzipped Books, an imprint of Lethe Press) and Jade A. Waters for The Assignment (Carina Press)
The winner of the Cynthia Slater Non-fiction Article Award is Erica Mena for “(K)ink #5 – Writing While Deviant” which appeared on January 26, 2016 on TheRumpus.net. Honorable Mention in this category goes to Jack Fritscher for “He Was A Sexual Outlaw: My Love Affair With Robert Mapplethorpe” which appeared March 9, 2016 in The Guardian.
There is no winner of the Samois Anthology Award as there were no submissions this year.
Congratulations to all the winners! Writers, publishers, the NLA starts taking nominations for judging in September and the deadline is typically December 31st annually for books published in the calendar year. Contact awards@nla-international.com for more details.
April 25, 2017
Art Within Context and Why “Universal” is Literary Code for “White/Mainstream”
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole yesterday when I dug into — don’t laugh — my archive of grad school poetry. Well, okay, laugh. I was so chipper and naive and the poems are so earnest and trying so hard. They’re better than my junior high poetry but only in certain light. Some of them are actually good. Or they would be if they had been able to live and breathe within a matrix of expectations on equal footing with the literary canon.
My whole Twitter epiphany was graciously collected by Charles A. Tan (no relation) on Storify:
[View the story “Cecilia Tan on Poetry and “Universal” as Code for White, Straight, American Mainstream” on Storify]
The gist of the thread is this: my grad school poetry professor couldn’t see that there was a contradiction for those of us who weren’t white, straight males when told that we had to write “universal” themes in our poems that could be understood implicitly without having to be “explained”. In his view, if someone couldn’t understand your implicit message it was because it was a bad poem, and if you had to make it too explicit that was also a bad poem. By extension the messages that could be received most implicitly were “literary” ones. In other words, if it was about a white man’s alienation after an act of war (for example), the reader should “get” that even if war was never mentioned explicitly in the poem. The problem is that if the implicit message is something that is “universal” within a marginalized community–for example, internalized homophobia–those who have never experienced it won’t “get” it. And rather than admit that there are things outside their experience, the literary establishment instead brands those topics as marginal, and only lauds their appearance when they make themselves accessible to the literary mainstream.
Short version: “literary” is a worldview that centers academia, particularly white male upper middle class academia. At the time I just didn’t have the perspective to see that. “Literary” equals “laudable” in MFA programs. It’s a self-reinforcing system.
I quit writing poetry because for me to perform the same artistry would require my poems to exist in a context where the implicit things that didn’t have to be “explained” were things like internalized homophobia, questioning cultural identity, and code switching. And that context didn’t seem to exist. My poems were “meaningless” to the literary establishment, and I had plenty of things to write instead, in other contexts. (Come to think of it, founding the English language’s only erotic science fiction publishing house in 1992 was me creating my own context for my fiction.)
This introspection was all brought on by the fact that Sheela Lambert of the Bi Writers Association — the editor of Best Bisexual Short Stories (Circlet, Amazon) and the driving force behind the Bi Book Awards — is editing a book of “bisexual poetry.” (Call for submissions here.) I’m bisexual and I figured I would look and see if there was anything obviously “bisexual” about my poetry from back in the days when I wrote poetry. If. Ha. “If.”
In fact, lo, I went back and saw that a ton of my angsty metaphor-laden poems from the early 1990s are now, in retrospect, quite obviously about internalized homophobia and/or about being caught between communities, even if not a single person in my poetry workshops (including me, sometimes) could articulate that. But I wonder if these poems will read “properly” if they were to be published in a book with a bisexual or queer context? I guess I will submit them and see.
March 6, 2017
German editions of Cecilia Tan’s Secrets of a Rock Star series!
Look what is now up for pre-order on Amazon! German editions of the Secrets of a Rock Star series! Well, the first two books at least. The third one is still in production. They are being published by the publishing house Bastei Lubbei and are available all the usual ebook selling places.
I don’t read German so can’t vouch for the accuracy of the descriptions…Google translate makes them a bit hilarious. But if you enjoy reading in German, these are my latest BDSM-themed romance novels, with rock stars, heiresses, and a secret Hollywood club.
Book One: Dunkle Symphonie: Amazon | Google Books | B&N Nookstore | Bastei publisher website
Book Two: Fesselnde Harmonie Amazon | Google Books | B&N Nookstore | Bastei publisher website
January 31, 2017
HARD RHYTHM is rock star romance with a kinky beat! Out today!
Yes! It’s finally here! The third book in the Secrets of a Rock Star series went live on Amazon at midnight and by now you should be able to buy it from every other bookselling place, as well, including:
IndieBound (local independent bookstores) | Amazon | Publisher website | Walmart (!) | Barnes & Noble | Apple iBooks | Google Play | Kobo
If you’d like to read a hot relatively spoiler-free excerpt, RT Magazine posted a Hump Day hotness one a few weeks ago: Hump Day Excerpt of Cecilia Tan’s HARD RHYTHM
Reviews coming in!
“As always, Cecilia is at the top of her game, giving hot, steamy sex together with characters you care about. Relationships you want to succeed, packed full of naughtiness. I’ve said it before, and I continue to stand by it, Cecilia Tan is one of the greatest writers of smut out there. Few others can combine the tenderness of a budding romantic relationship together with the endorphin packed beginning of D/S relationship the way she has with the Secrets of a Rock Star series.” — Robin just posted that to her BookLikes blog!
“Madison and Chino are a bit older [both 29] than the previous characters and their internal dialogues as well as their actions show more maturity.” and “The Hamilton sisters and [Madison] address a threat to their club in smart and calculated ways emphasizing that even if each woman in this series feels best on her knees before a hot man, she is still a powerful force to be reckoned with.” — From BDSM author and educator TammyJo Eckhart on Goodreads
If you missed it before, Publisher’s Weekly gave it a starred review, too!
“If you, like me, adore cocky heroes with soft centers, then Chino’s the one for you,” says Stacey Voigt’s Bedtime Stories! “Cecilia Tan handles the sizzling hot sex scenes with an expert touch, keeping the action going while still addressing the realities that take place alongside intimacy, particularly kinky intimacy.”
(Loved this comment from a reader on FB today!)
Excerpts!
Throughout the day today various excerpts will be appearing, shared online by various folks. I’ll add links here as they go live or you can see them in my Twitter feed (@ceciliatan) and Facebook page!
Excerpt 1. On Cailin Briste’s blog
Excertp 2. On Tara Sue Me’s Facebook page
Official description:
Are they ready to go all the way?
Maddie Rofel has seen it all. Even the kinkiest games she witnesses working as a hostess in L.A.’s most exclusive private sex club fail to shock her, much less turn her on. Until the night she has a very personal encounter with drummer Chino Garcia, and the two discover an intimate connection neither can deny. Suddenly the jaded hostess is softening under Chino’s touch, and submitting in ways she never expected . . .
All his life, Chino has been running from something. Normally he beats back his demons by losing himself in his music. Now he’s losing himself in Maddie. And, while it drives Chino wild when Maddie bares her body to him, what he really wants is for Maddie to bare her soul. For that, Chino will have to push Maddie past her furthest limits-and share his own dark secrets.
January 25, 2017
Countdown to HARD RHYTHM is on. Your new book boyfriend arrives 1/31!
His name is Chino. He’s the drummer for the top-selling rock band The Rough. He’s the most laid back member of the band–or is he? Beneath that careless exterior hides an intensity and a passion that only the right submissive can bring out…
This is not a drill. HARD RHYTHM releases on January 31st and if you’ve enjoyed any of my previous BDSM romances, you’re sure to enjoy this one, too. If you are on Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook and wouldn’t mind sending out a brief announcement on Jan 31st saying the book is live, sign up NOW on Thunderclap to automatically be part of the announcement: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/51269-spread-the-beat-of-hard-rhythm
As the time draws nearer it would help the book immensely if folks would pre-order it from their favorite retailers or bookstores, either in paperback or (where apropos) ebook:
PRE-ORDER LINKS:
IndieBound (local independent bookstores) | Amazon | Publisher website | Walmart (!) | Barnes & Noble | Apple iBooks | Google Play | Kobo
If you’d like to read a hot relatively spoiler-free excerpt, RT Magazine posted a Hump Day hotness one a few weeks ago: Hump Day Excerpt of Cecilia Tan’s HARD RHYTHM
And Publishers Weekly listed it today in their Most Anticipated Books of 2017 list! See that list here:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/72588-the-most-anticipated-books-of-spring-2017.html (They also gave it a starred review!!)
HARD RHYTHM is also handily winning a Goodreads cover poll for favorite romance novel cover of the month! Check it out here: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/148586-january-2017-romance-cover-contest-vote-for-your-favorite
I was super excited to see BDSM author and educator TammyJo Eckhart posted an advance review on Goodreads and thought it was even better than the other two books! She writes, “Madison and Chino are a bit older [both 29] than the previous characters and their internal dialogues as well as their actions show more maturity.” and “The Hamilton sisters and [Madison] address a threat to their club in smart and calculated ways emphasizing that even if each woman in this series feels best on her knees before a hot man, she is still a powerful force to be reckoned with.”
Official description:
Are they ready to go all the way?
Maddie Rofel has seen it all. Even the kinkiest games she witnesses working as a hostess in L.A.’s most exclusive private sex club fail to shock her, much less turn her on. Until the night she has a very personal encounter with drummer Chino Garcia, and the two discover an intimate connection neither can deny. Suddenly the jaded hostess is softening under Chino’s touch, and submitting in ways she never expected . . .
All his life, Chino has been running from something. Normally he beats back his demons by losing himself in his music. Now he’s losing himself in Maddie. And, while it drives Chino wild when Maddie bares her body to him, what he really wants is for Maddie to bare her soul. For that, Chino will have to push Maddie past her furthest limits-and share his own dark secrets.
December 20, 2016
HARD RHYTHM: advanced reviews and praise for Cecilia Tan’s new BDSM romance
Hard Rhythm hits the shelves next month (January) and the ebook goes live on Jan 31st so we’re starting to see reviews and notices come in! I’m super excited about the reception it’s getting so far!
Starred Review in Publishers Weekly!
I’m very psyched to say this means all three of the books in the Secrets of a Rock Star series have earned the coveted star from PW. The whole review is great but the first sentence rocks my world, “Tan skillfully makes her third Secrets of a Rock Star novel (after Wild Licks) do double duty, first as a wildly creative, enthusiastic, immersive, and incredibly hot romance between experienced kinksters, and second as a public service announcement that clearly illustrates the difference between BSDM and domestic abuse.”
RT Book Reviews
RT, meanwhile, gave it three stars: “This is the third book in a trilogy on rock stars but the author keeps the focus on the person and not the profession. When [Chino] finally makes his move, they quickly move from casual acquaintances to a deep and fulfilling D/s relationship.”
Goodreads
And some readers who have gotten advanced reading copies (both through my newsletter — which you can sign up for — and through NetGalley) have begun to review the book on Goodreads. In particular I was very happy to see TammyJo Eckhart, a longtime BDSM presenter, educator, and writer herself, thought it was the best of the three books, and says “The emotional complexity of all of the relationships and situations in this novel feel real, feel engaging.” Also, “Even if each woman in this series feels best on her knees before a hot man, she is still a powerful force to be reckoned with.”
If you can spare a tweet (or reblog or FB share), to help spread the word about the book, please join my Thunderclap! It only takes a couple of clicks and will only share a one-time message when the book goes live. Click here: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/51269-spread-the-beat-of-hard-rhythm
Pre-order the book now, everywhere: IndieBound (local independent bookstores) | Amazon | Publisher website | Walmart (!) | Barnes & Noble | Apple iBooks | Google Play | Kobo
December 7, 2016
Christmas Magic novella now available! Return to Magic University!
Remember last December when the Magic University digital box set became available? The new piece in that set–a 15,000 word sequel to the series entitled CHRISTMAS MAGIC–is now available to purchase on its own!
I originally wrote the novella as a holiday gift for MU fans to thank them for helping to spread the word about the box set and supporting the series. Christmas Magic is from Frost’s point of view. There is a lot about Frost we don’t see in the MU books because they’re from Kyle’s point of view, although if you’ve read the short stories in Spellbinding you’ve seen a few in Frost’s voice, now.
Get it at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble Nook
Apple iBooks/iTunes
Kobo
AllRomance eBooks
Riverdale Avenue Books
OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION:
In this novella sequel to the Magic University series, Christmas Magic picks up the tale a few months after the end of The Poet and the Prophecy, at Christmas time.
And who better to tell a Christmas tale than Frost? After the cataclysmic events that shook the magical world, it’s time for Frost to come to grips with the changes in his magic and his body–with the help of the people who love him most.
Un-official description:
That’s right. There’s a Christmas tree, and stockings, and hot cocoa by the fire… but this is a Magic University story, so of course there is also deeply emotional sex and a mystery which fills Frost with existential dread.
And we get to see a bit of what Kyle and Frost are like as a couple. It’s a 15,000 word novella, only 99 cents, and I hope you enjoy a return to the campus as much as I did!
November 26, 2016
Duck Day 2016: corwin and ctan’s “kaiseki” Thanksgiving
As those of you who follow me on social media know, corwin and I celebrated our 25th anniversary this year by taking an amazing trip to Japan. For our annual gastronomic extravaganza known as “Duck Day” (because corwin has never liked turkey and started a tradition of always having duck back when he was in college and cooking Thanksgiving for himself for the first time), it probably comes as no surprise that this year we drew on the trip to Japan for our inspiration. [See previous duck day posts.]
“Kaiseki” is a complex term that can refer to a way of eating, a cuisine, or a specific kind of high-end restaurant meal in Japan, sort of like how “French” can mean a lot of different things depending on the food context. While in Japan we experienced both the incredible service and perfection at Arashiyama Kitcho (possibly Japan’s best restaurant, and the pinnacle of kaiseki), the amazing traditional vegan food at a Buddhist monastery on Mt. Koya (the roots of kaiseki cuisine), uni torched with in the shell on the streets outside the Tsukiji Fish Market, perfect tea service in a tea house at the center of a lake in the park that had once been the royal duck hunting preserve, and a booze-fueled pub crawl through the izakayas and hidden eating spots of Akabane with a chef friend of a friend. (To name only a few of the amazing meals we ate.)
Here’s the traditional Buddhist meal we were fed at the monastery where we stayed:
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Sep 28, 2016 at 4:56am PDT
(“Temple stays” [“shukubo” in Japanese] are a totally done thing in Japan, by the way. I highly recommend going to Mt. Koya. You can book your monastery stay via the Internet and then purchase the Koya-san World Heritage Train ticket to get there on the Nankai Line from Namba Station south of Osaka, which you can get to from anywhere in Japan by Japan Rail.)
Compare to the extremely fine elegance of Arashiyama Kitcho:
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Sep 26, 2016 at 4:19am PDT
The light towers in the “village” of delicacies shown above are carved of whole daikon.
Horsehair crab with vinegar jelly. #ctanJPN #arashiyamakitcho
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Sep 26, 2016 at 3:30am PDT
Anyway. Our goal with this meal was not to try to recreate the elegance of Kitcho or the authenticity of the shojin-ryori cuisine of the monks, but to use some of the courses in a kaiseki meal as a template for creating a meal that brought some of the flavors and experiences we discovered on our trip to our dinner guests. Just like a traditional haute cuisine meal includes certain possible courses, i.e. the amuse, cheese course, fish course, soup course, etc… kaiseki includes such courses as seasonal, lidded food, steamed food, nabe (soup or stew), rice, etc.
The first key to an incredible meal is ingredients. You just can’t do it without the right stuff. Everywhere in Japan we were served real fresh grated wasabi. It’s almost nothing like the powdered kind! Delicious, refreshing, not overly horseradish-y at all. We saw it for sale in the market in Kyoto for about $6 a root. If only they could be had here for that! These were Fedexed from the West Coast:
The Rhizome Fairy arrived! #freshwasabi #duckday16
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Nov 23, 2016 at 11:54am PST
The other thing we had every day in Japan in some way, shape, or form was yuzu. Yuzu is rare here. I see Meyer lemons and even Buddha’s Hands in Whole Foods regularly, but only once have I ever found fresh yuzu in Massachusetts, at a Japanese grocery that no longer exists. After we’d been traveling for about a week I said to corwin, you know what? I’m not sick of yuzu yet. By the end of the trip, we still weren’t sick of it. (We also never got tired of Japanese food.)
A video posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Nov 24, 2016 at 1:51pm PST
Here’s the menu we handed out to our guests:
Here's what the menu we gave our guests looks like #duckday16
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Nov 24, 2016 at 8:03pm PST
Duck Day 2016
Kaiseki
kai·se·ki (pr. kīsekē/)
noun, Japanese, from kai (from kaichu ‘kimono pocket’) + seki ‘stone.’
a style of traditional Japanese cuisine in which
a series of very small, intricate dishes are prepared.
一 Seasonal
Uni
with cran-boshi, purple potato puree, and chips of kale and sweet potato
paired with Dove Tail Omori nigori (unfiltered) sake
All ingredients local, including the Dove Tail Sake (Waltham, Mass.), Maine uni, cranberries pickled ume boshi style.
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Nov 24, 2016 at 6:34pm PST
Opening course fully plated with UNI! Maine uni. #duckday16
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Nov 24, 2016 at 6:36pm PST
二 Sashimi
Charcuterie of Duck
with fresh wasabi, house made gari and pickles
Okay so instead of taking “sashimi” literally, we did it as a cold duck charcuterie course, with a cured duck breast, duck sausage, and a duck liver mousse on purple daikon. With miso-pickled eggplant (nasu), cucumbers pickled in sake lees, a daikon pickle, and pickled ginger.
Second course "sashimi" (duck charcuterie and Japanese style pickles & fresh wasabi) #duckday16
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Nov 24, 2016 at 6:37pm PST
三 Steamed
Dumplings
Duck Shumai, Chive Dumpling, with chili garlic sauce
paired with Oorong Chu-Hi (chilled carbonated oolong tea with shochu)
These are not Japanese, of course. Our meals are often Asian fusion and it’s my tradition to usually try to tackle some kind of Chinese wonton or dumpling. As usual I cannot recommend enough Andrea Nguyen’s book ASIAN DUMPLINGS if you want to learn to make them yourself. This was my first time every tackling traditional shu mai (but with ground duck instead of ground pork, zomg delicious) and the crystal green chive dumplings I love at dim sum. (Chinese chives are much bigger and milder than what we usually call chives.)
Duck shumai! First time I'm making shumai from scratch #duckday16
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Nov 24, 2016 at 7:59pm PST
Chive dumplings! My first time making these. #duckday16
A photo posted by Cecilia Tan (@ctan_writer) on Nov 24, 2016 at 7:56pm PST
After steaming, the chive dumplings were then pan fried.
The plated dumpling course. Spiral cut carrots, homemade chili
November 18, 2016
A List: Free book and ebook publishing software and resources
I’m teaching a workshop tonight at the Artisan’s Asylum, the awesome makerspace in Somerville, and thought I’d share this handout list here since then all the links can be live.
This is a list of all the free or open source bits of software and other things that I’ve used in my publishing ventures. I’ve also used a lot of expensive things like Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress, and so on. But not everyone has the money or the access to the high-priced programs, so part of my workshop is basically how you can do it all using free or very inexpensive options.
Book-making Software & Free Stuff You Will Need
Download a printable one-page version here: PDF
OpenOffice/NeoOffice/LibreOffice
free/donationware open software “clone” of MS Office suite
OpenOffice “Writer” is the Word equivalent
OpenOffice Plugins:
Altsearch – Alternative Find/Replace (so you can find non-printing characters) http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/alternative-dialog-find-replace-writer-altsearch
Writer2epub (http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/writer2epub)
GIMP:
Image editing software (https://www.gimp.org/downloads/)
Cover designs for ebooks must be 1400 pixels x 2100 pixels minimum
Free image sources:
Pixabay.com (free portal to Shutterstock)
FreeImages.com (very limited, free portal to Getty Images)
Cheap image sources:
Dreamstime.com
iStockphoto (also owned by Getty), Shutterstock, a few others
Sigil
WYSIWYG epub editing software INDISPENSABLE (https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil)
Calibre
meant to be used as an ebook library tool but has crude/ugly format conversion functions and DRM stripping functions (https://calibre-ebook.com/download)
ePub Zip/ePub Unzip
Script that unzips your epub and then puts it back together again, allowing for manual deletion of encrypted files (http://en.freedownloadmanager.org/Mac-OS/ePub-Zip-Unzip-FREE.html)
Typesetting and layout
Scribus is open source free https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/
Adobe Indesign is the standard, costs $74.99 for one month cloud access, $39.99/mo for 1 yr.
Epubcheck
Online code validator: http://validator.idpf.org/ (does files up to 10MB)
Barcodes and Createspace Templates:
Bookow.com free barcode generator: http://bookow.com/resources.php#isbn-barcode-generator
Bookow Free createspace template: http://bookow.com/resources.php#cs-cover-template-generator
You might also be interested in my other posts:
Type and Design for Small- & Self-Publishers
Farming Out to Professionals
Elements of Book Design
Page Layouts
Widows, orphans, and hyphenation
“Smart” quotes, section breaks, and fleurs
Ebook design versus print design
The Publishing Nitty Gritty: All the Hoops to Jump through to Self-publish (slightly out of date but mostly still relevant)
November 15, 2016
The Prince’s Boy complete box set is now live! Get the bonus Jorin/Kenet story.
It went live today! The ebook bundle of The Prince’s Boy, including volumes one and two, “Sergetten’s Tale,” and a brand new, never-before-seen Jorin/Kenet story (with a side of Sergetten), “Jorin’s New Spell.”
Now folks can get it all in one download, for one price. Thanks again to the fabulous Kanaxa for the new cover!
BUY LINKS:
Amazon | Barnes&Noble | Kobo | Smashwords | iBookstore still to come
WANT JUST THE BONUS STORY?
If you’re a fan of the original web serial or read the previous volumes and all you want is the new bonus story, there’s one easy way to get it. Drop me an email promising to review the new box set on Amazon or Goodreads and I’ll email you back the epub or mobi version of the full box set, your choice! Email: ctan.writer@gmail.com with “Prince’s Boy reviewer” in the subject line.
READ A SAMPLE!
The first ten full chapters are available to read on Circlet.com, with a new chapter appearing every Wednesday. Go dive in: http://www.circlet.com/tag/tpb-serial/
