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Interview with Hedge T. Haiden, Audiobook Narrator

Greeting, book lovers!

Did you know that June is Audiobook Month?

And did you know that over at Deep Desires Press, we have a small and growing collection of audiobooks?

In addition to my young adult audiobook, Gay Love and Other Fairy Tales, which I narrated myself, we have FIVE more all narrated/produced by Hedge T. Haiden.

The process of making my own audiobook was a steep learning curve and it took me forever to get it done. So, understandably, I was impressed by how quickly and smoothly Hedge was able to narrate/produce audiobooks — he definitely knows his stuff.

Given that this is Audiobook Month, I took it as an opportunity to interview Hedge about the process — what he loves about it, what he finds challenging, and what advice he has for those who want to get into audiobook narrating.

That interview is posted over on the Deep Desires Press blog — click here to go and check it out!

Slave to Beauty by Tim Bartholomew

Greetings, book lovers!

Today is New Release Day over at Deep Desires Press — our brand new book is Slave to Beauty: The Complete Trilogy by Tim Bartholomew! This is a sexy, comedic, fast-paced romantic suspense series — and now all bundled in one volume at a dynamite price!

Read on for all the deets!

Slave to Beauty



The Complete Trilogy



Tim Bartholomew

In this fast-paced tale of beauty and many horny beasts, Andrew leaves behind his monk-like existence in cozy England to follow wherever the beautiful Bryony leads him, and all while trying to keep his virtue.

After meeting the heart-stoppingly gorgeous Bryony whilst out jogging, naïve yet irresistible Andrew Billingham fell in love. Quite literally head over heels, in fact. Through their ensuing love-making adventures, Andrew soon realizes Bryony is what’s been missing from his uneventful existence.

When Bryony’s employers send her abroad for six months, their true adventures begin, as Andrew falls prey to two vengeful women, one twenty-five years his senior, the other not exactly his “cup of tea”. Plunged into a nightmare of unseemly passion and intrigue, Andrew yearns all the more for the loving arms of Bryony.

From their exploits at the hands of a conniving German gentleman, to their yacht-bound Aegean struggles with corrupt and sexually rapacious foes at sea, Bryony and Andrew’s adventures take them into ever deeper waters…and ultimately to the salacious world of film in the stifling heat of a Moscow summer where Andrew’s gay inclinations emerge amidst dangerous political unrest.

Andrew is determined to survive unscathed – and without losing the love of his life and the erotic bliss he enjoys with her. How long can a man keep his virtue while dancing with the twin demons of temptation and lust?

Originally published in three parts, Slave to Beauty collects the complete series of Andrew and Bryony’s steamy, ménage adventures. Transporting you through the contemporary vistas of England, Russia, and the Aegean, this is a tender treatment of true romance and a devastating indictment of lust. If you enjoy your erotica with a flare of comedy and suspense, buy it now!

Publisher’s Note: Slave to Beauty collects Body Language, Love Knot, and Casting Couch in a single volume.

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These Loving Lies by Patricia Pellicane

Greetings, book lovers!

Today we’ve got a new book coming out at Deep Desires Press — These Loving Lies by Patricia Pellicane! Read on to check it out!

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These Loving Lies
Patricia Pellicane

He’s out to catch her, but she has no idea who he truly is.

Powerful men don’t take rejection in stride…

…especially not if they want you dead.

Mattie Bryant is running for her life and that of her unborn child. Zachary Turner is the man hired to get her back.

Zach has dealt with pretty little women before, but Mattie is more determined than he expected, and more beautiful. Her vehement dislike of him only deepens his attraction.

Mattie doesn’t know what to make of Zach at first, but as they journey further west it becomes harder to stay away from this man so intent on kissing her.

Will Mattie surrender to his touch before finding out who he is? Will Zach forsake his duties and admit it’s not just him and Mattie’s husband who are after her?

Or will he continue to tell her These Loving Lies?

Get your copy now to find out.

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Campus Call Boy by Romeo Preminger

Morning, book lovers!

Today we’re amping up the sex with a hot new release from Romeo Preminger! Read on to find out all about Campus Call Boy!

Blurb:

Twenty-one-year-old Noah Jeffries has a secret. He’s putting himself through college under the rent boy name Max Wilde. He doesn’t mind the sex, most of the time, and he sure doesn’t mind the money. But when he falls hard for Carlos, a hot student activist, he’s clobbered by a tough decision. Can he give up making big money on a chance for love? Will the guy even want to be with him if he knows his secret?

Meanwhile, being Max Wilde is getting complicated. A high paying client who’s the provost of Noah’s university wants Noah all for himself. There’s danger as the guy gets more obsessive, and now it could spill out and impact Carlos as well.

The first title in Romeo Preminger’s Guilty Pleasures imprint of erotic thrillers.

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Excerpt:

My name is Noah Jeffries. I’m twenty-one years old, a full-time college student, and I pay my tuition at one of the best business schools in the country by having sex with men for money.

I’ve got zero internal conflicts about sleeping with guys for cash. I don’t do drugs. I make Dean’s List every semester. I wasn’t raped by my stepfather or molested by a next-door neighbor. I didn’t have some horrible childhood that left me broken and walking a path toward self-destruction. I wasn’t coerced into selling my ass by some creepy guy who fucked with my head.

How it actually happened was I met this kid Darius my freshman year. He waited tables at the all-night diner where I got a job bussing and washing dishes to pay for my meal plan while I was going to school.

We kind of gravitated toward each other instantly. I think it took all of a second for both of us to read the other one was gay, and I guess we just dug each other’s vibe. I’d grown up in a neighborhood in Philadelphia where I was basically the only white kid on the block, and Darius was just about the only black kid in our very hip, very progressive, and very white college town. The guy was six foot one with a killer face. He looked like he belonged in a hell of a better establishment than that shitty diner, but he never acted like it and didn’t treat me like pond scum because I was working the very shittiest job in that shitty diner. He’s eight years older than me, so he took me under his wing, telling me which of the staff to look out for, which ones were cool, and how to handle obnoxious customers. I sure enjoyed his company a whole lot better than my stuck-up dorm mates who came from boarding schools and legacy families.

The dude was a townie and had never gone to college, but that didn’t matter. He had his own pad in the basement of one of the town’s ancient houses that had been subdivided into overpriced rental apartments, and any time we worked the same shift, we’d inevitably end up back at his place to drink beers, smoke cigarettes, and just do stuff like play Xbox or watch movies. I think we both knew from the get-go we were cut out to be pals, not boyfriends, and that was totally all right. Darius said he had a sugar daddy, which I wasn’t sure I believed, but I figured he was into older guys. For me, Darius was just a little too pretty I guess you could say, but I love him like a brother. Yeah, we’re still good buds.

Anyway, long story short, Darius finally told me one night he was doing this rent boy thing on the side, and I was bowled over and hella curious to know how that worked. He showed me this website run out of the Netherlands where you can post photos and a profile and start making money. He said he was bringing in an extra thou a month through “dates” and probably could be doing better a lot better if he wanted to travel. The closest big city is three hours away, so he was just making cash from his regular, local customers and an occasional john passing through town.

A couple days later, I sat down at my laptop and studied that website. On average, guys made a hundred and twenty bucks per “meet.” I supposed, living in a small town, I’d have to charge on the low-end, but even if I just did five meets a month, I’d be making more money than I took home at my part-time job at the diner. Meanwhile, I was racking up big debt on student loans. My parents were working class folks, and neither had ever been to college. I qualified for the maximum federal financial aid along with a big merit scholarship, but I was still left with half of my tuition to finance along with dorm, books and basic living expenses. If I did ten “meets” a month, I could quit working at the diner and be six grand ahead on an annual basis, which would pay for housing and my meal plan. If I could market myself to charge more like a hundred fifty or two hundred a pop, I could pay some of my tuition out of pocket, cut my loans in half for sophomore year, and start making small monthly payments while they weren’t accruing interest.

That started sounded awfully appealing. And I was hardly opposed to sex. At eighteen years old, I’d already had a lot of experience. I don’t want to freak anybody out, but I was an early bloomer. Always consensual, mind you. I knew what I wanted by the time I popped my first boner back in grade school. My grandparents paid to send me to an all boys Catholic school, and at a sixth-grade overnight retreat, I snuck off to a bathroom stall with this kid, and we jerked and sucked each other off. At thirteen, I had a seventeen-year-old boyfriend down the street who tapped my cooch in the backroom of his father’s hardware store. My ninth-grade Spanish teacher gave me rides home from school in return for letting him suck me off in his car. I could go on and on, but the point is, I was well acquainted with sex, including getting down with guys I wasn’t necessarily that into.

I gave my friend Darius’s website a try for a while, but thinking like an entrepreneur, I figured out some things to make the work more profitable. Fall semester sophomore year, I was taking a course in digital marketing and applied what I learned to building my own website with SEO optimization so I could take control of my brand and build my clientele directly.

That’s when Max Wilde was born.

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About the Author:

[image error]Romeo Preminger is the pen name for an author who likes writing gay romantic smut without losing his day job. He’s married to a great guy and believes in happily-ever-after.

He writes about gay relationships that are hot, emotional and psychological, sometimes dark and dangerous, and always a bit of a mind-fuck. Think Lifetime Movie Network hijacked by Gus Van Sant if he directed gay porn. Or, just give one of his books a try and see for yourself.

Author website: http://romeopreminger.wordpress.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/premingerromeo

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17142955.Romeo_Preminger

I Know Where The Bodies Are Buried by Chris Bedell

Greetings book lovers!

Today’s good read is I Know Where The Bodies Are Buried by Chris Bedell. Chris is young adult fiction writer who’s rapidly building up his publishing credits. Over at my YA company, Deep Hearts YA, we’ve already released Deathly Desires and I’ll See You Again, both by Chris, and we have a third book in the works — and that’s on top of the books he’s released through other publishers! Obviously, this guy knows what he’s doing!

Read on for the good stuff!

Blurb:

17-year-old Carson believes his former “boyfriend,” Billy, didn’t commit suicide by jumping off a cliff and into the ocean. Billy’s sweater and suicide note might’ve been found, yet a body was never discovered.

So, Carson befriends, and “dates” his classmate, Dean, on the possibility that Dean knows something about Billy’s death. Dean and Billy both belonged to the same community service club (Charity Now) where Billy devoted his time to.

Clues soon unravel, though. Like an eyewitness seeing members of Charity Now in the woods near the cliff before Billy’s suicide, a diary entry, proving Billy lied about his father being homophobic, and a hazing incident involving a student’s death—that Billy might or might not have been responsible for. However, Carson doesn’t only have to grapple with Billy’s duplicity. Genuine romantic feelings for Dean emerge. Except Carson will have to finish his sleuthing if he wants closure about Billy’s death. Even if that means choosing between stringing Dean along or being honest with him.

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About the Author:

[image error]Chris Bedell’s previous publishing credits include Thought Catalog, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Literati, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, among others. His debut YA Fantasy novel IN THE NAME OF MAGIC was published by NineStar Press in 2018. Chris’s 2019 novels include his NA Thriller BURNING BRIDGES (BLKDOG Publishing), YA Paranormal Romance DEATHLY DESIRES (DEEP HEARTS YA), and YA Thriller COUSIN DEAREST (BLKDOG Publishing). His other 2020 novels include his YA Thriller I KNOW WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED (BLKDOG Publishing), YA Contemporary I’LL SEE YOU AGAIN (Deep Hearts YA),  YA Thriller BETWEEN LOVE AND MURDER (Between The Lines Publishing), and YA Sci-fi DYING BEFORE LIVING (Deep Hearts YA). Chris also graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2016.

Stay by Ash Knight

Good morning book lovers!

Today I’m super-thrilled to share this book by one of my Twitter besties! It’s Stay by Ash Knight — read on to find out more! (I have this waiting for me on my Kindle app and am dying to read this — I’ve seen nothing but phenomenal reviews so far!)

Blurb:

A quiet coffee shop gives two men who have lost too much a chance at love.

Joe Calloway has been on the run since he was sixteen, homeless and alone. He never lets anyone close. Between his traumatic past and his autism, he isn’t used to people taking the time to understand him.

Even so, when a stranger offers him a way to build a better life for himself, Joe finds the strength to go for it.

Madden Fields is fully devoted to his older sister, her autistic son, and his job as a nurse, but when he meets Joe, his carefully ordered life begins to pick up speed.

As their connection deepens, Madden realizes he’s going to have to hold on tight if he wants to be an anchor strong enough for Joe to stay.

“Stay” is a 88,000 words gay hurt/comfort romance novel.

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About the Author:

Ash Knight is a voracious reader, lover of pancakes, and believes that love is love. Ash is a sucker for a good love story with a happily ever after.

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Team Bottom — NEW RELEASE!

Hi friends!

I have a new book out! And for those of you who follow me for smutty-smut and have been growing tired of all the wholesome young adult books I’ve been writing — this is the smuttiest of smutty smut I’ve written in quite a while! (And since I co-wrote it with Dominic Leblanc, it’s extra kinky!)

Hold onto your crotch and read on!

Blurb:

Andrew, one of three coaches for a college men’s baseball team, gets the short straw and has to buddy up with one of the players when the team goes out of town for a tournament. All of that would be fine except for the fact that he’s bunking with Cole, the cocky, moody, infuriating jock who is also extremely attractive. Plus, Andrew is a closeted gay man and Cole is certainly homophobic. Andrew knows this whole trip will be hell.

But after the team goes out for a night of drinking, Cole comes back to their shared hotel room more than a little buzzed, and he does something that Andrew never thought would happen. Cole kisses him.

When the next morning comes, both men are stewing in guilt and uncertainty. Did that kiss mean something? Or would pursuing it lead to disaster? One thing is for sure, though — Andrew is unable to rid his mind of the image of Cole’s perfect butt and all the punishment and pleasure he wants to inflict upon it.

This forbidden erotic romance between athlete and coach goes from scorching to kinky as both men embrace their roles of dom and sub and learn to trust each other with their secret desires.

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Excerpt:

A rattling interrupted me, resounding through the room. I stared wide-eyed and slack-jawed at the door. Someone was trying to come in. My heart beat heavy and hard and felt like it was lodged in my throat. I quickly shut off my phone and pulled my pants up, zipping them closed right as the door swung open and Cole entered.

He paused in the doorway, wavered, and looked at me. He had such anger and resentment in his eyes. Fuck, like, seriously. Of all the players, why did I get stuck with him?

Cole closed the door behind him, wavered again, then stumbled toward his bed. But instead of collapsing on his mattress, he came around it and stood in front of me. I looked up at him. God, he was drunk — and I wasn’t much better than him.

“Cole?” I asked after he’d been standing there for what felt like minutes, just staring at me, not saying anything.

The look in his eyes was no longer anger and resentment, but I couldn’t figure it out. He didn’t say anything, didn’t respond to me.

Then, before I could even process what was happening, he leaned forward, put his hand behind my head and kissed me. His mouth was soft and warm, tasting like all kinds of alcohol. I didn’t respond at first, but then he kissed me deeper, pressing his tongue into my mouth.

I let out a soft groan and he took that as permission to get closer. He climbed onto the bed with me, straddling my legs. I put my hands behind his head, ran my fingers through his soft hair, and kissed him back. I shouldn’t be doing this, I kept telling myself. But I was too drunk to care.

Cole reached for my crotch, grabbed my hard dick through the jeans, and squeezed. I groaned in pleasure and leaned my head back. He kissed my now-exposed neck, nibbling along the base of it, sending sparks of pleasure through my whole body.

I need to stop this, I told myself. I was starting to sober up, these kisses drawing me out of my drunken stupor. This is wrong.

But it feels so good.

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The Mixtape to My Life by Jake Martinez

Good morning book-lovers!

Today’s hot book is a young adult release from my company, Deep Hearts YA / Deep Desires Press! If you liked my young adult novel, Gay Love and Other Fairy Tales, you are going to LOVE The Mixtape to My Life by Jake Martinez!

Check it out!

Justin Ortega doesn’t just make mixtapes, he lives them.

Justin Ortega might as well be starring in his very own coming-of-age 80s movie. If only he could find his dream boy to pull up in front of his house in a red convertible and sweep him off his feet, already! At seventeen years young, he isn’t quite Mexican enough for his South Texas town; isn’t manly enough for his father; can sometimes be too much of a smart mouth for his mother; and as for the other kids at school—let’s just say he’d be cast as the quiet nerd with a heart of gold…and an ear for music.

The one solace Justin has is his love of 80s hair metal bands, which he listens to on his beloved Sony Walkman. The songs, lyrics, and melody keep him just sane enough to escape the pressures of school and help navigate the hurdles life brings. Especially with the doozy this year is shaping up to be. Not only does he have to try out for a captain position which is rightfully his, but his best friend has found a new girlfriend, leaving Justin to fend for himself in a school where he’s mostly known as simply Coconut.

Enter Dominic Mendoza. Sweet, funny, and a blast from his past, the hunky football player has moved in next door. Justin could never forget how Dominic protected him in the eighth grade, nor the way Dominic made him feel, then…and now.

Except, this isn’t a movie. Confusion, friendship, and love won’t guarantee a happy ending unless Justin can learn to accept himself for who he truly is. Hair bands and all.

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Get My Young Adult Novels for 50% Off!

Over at Deep Hearts YA, the queer young adult publishing company I run, we’re having a big 50% off sale! ALL of our ebooks are half off on Smashwords!

This includes Gay Love and Other Fairy Tales, Gay Love and Other Christmas Magic, and Thunder, all by me, as well as four other fantastic books by amazing authors!

Click here to find out more!

Sale ends (and link expires) on Sunday March 29, so hurry!

I’ll See You Again by Chris Bedell

Good morning, book lovers!

Today’s featured book is I’ll See You Again by Chris Bedell, published by Deep Hearts YA. (Full disclosure: I’m co-owner of Deep Hearts YA.)

Enjoy!

A fling with the person Cyrus hates most offers him a welcome distraction from his mother’s battle with cancer.

It’s the start of his senior year, and Cyrus should be worried about college applications, procrastinating on homework, and staying up past his bedtime. And he does, until his mother’s cancer returns.

To make matters worse, Nico Valentine—the person Cyrus hates most—insists on being his friend. Carefree, flirtatious, and spontaneous, Nico is everything Cyrus’s childhood never allowed him to be. When their English teacher offers Cyrus extra credit to tutor Nico, Cyrus knows he shouldn’t accept. He could use the distraction, though.

A fling soon ensues, and Cyrus realizes they have more in common than he thought. What is more, Nico is the first person who seems to get him and who is there no matter what. But, if Cyrus wants his romance with Nico to turn into something real, he’ll have to do something he’s never done before—be vulnerable with another person.

Adam Silvera’s HISTORY IS ALL YOU LEFT ME meets Rachel Lynn Solomon’s YOU’LL MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE in this tale of heartbreak and second chances.

Content Advisory:

This novel contains discussions and scenes of self-harm and suicide ideation.

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