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interludepress:Congratulations to authors Pene Henson and C.B....

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Congratulations to authors Pene Henson and C.B. Lee, who this morning were both named finalists for Lambda Literary Awards for their novels Into the Blue and Not Your Sidekick!

We’re celebrating by taking 25 percent off all titles by Pene and C.B. at store.interludepress.com through Friday, March 17th! No discount code needed.

Now Available: “Ghosts & Ashes” (Broken Moon II) by F.T. Lukens

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A game of allegiance.

Three months have passed since the events of The Star Host, and Ren is living aboard the Star Stream under the watchful eyes of the Phoenix Corps. Plagued by vivid nightmares that ravage the ship while he sleeps, he struggles to prove he isn’t a threat and fears he has traded one captor for another. His relationship with Asher, who is failing to balance his personal loyalty to Ren with his professional duties to the Corps, fractures.

Adrift without an anchor, Ren must return to his home planet of Erden if he has any chance of reversing his dangerous descent into madness. There, he hopes to search for his missing brother and salvage his relationship with Asher. What he finds is knowledge that puts everyone’s allegiance to the test.

Price: $16.99 print / $6.99 multi-format ebook
Details: Trade paperback, 6"x9"
Pages/Words: 258 // 73,600
ISBN: 978-1-945053-18-4 print // 978-1-945053-31-3 ebook

International: Order the print edition by May 8, 2017 from your favorite book retailer and receive free multi-format eBook by submitting a copy of your receipt to contact@interludepress.com.

Ghosts & ashes is available from the IP Web Store and your favorite book retailers, including: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBookstore, Google, Smashwords, Kobo, Indiebound, and Book Depository.

About the Author

F.T. Lukens is an author of Young Adult fiction who got her start by placing second out of ten thousand entries in a fan community writing contest. A sci-fi enthusiast, F.T. loves Star Trek and Firefly and is a longtime member of her college’s science-fiction club. She holds degrees in Psychology and English Literature and has a love of cheesy television shows, superhero movies, and writing. F.T. lives in North Carolina with her husband, three kids, and three cats.

Her first novel in the Broken Moon series, The Star Host, was published by Duet Books in 2016.

Connect with author F.T. Lukens at authorftlukens.wordpress.com, on Twitter @ftlukens, and on Facebook at facebook.com/ftlukens.

Cover art by C.B. Messer.

"I LOVED this book. This is one of those stories that I can’t wait to tell you I’ve given a 5-star,..."

“I LOVED this book. This is one of those stories that I can’t wait to tell you I’ve given a 5-star, top recommendation rating to because it just needs to be said right up front. Sid and Eddie’s story is beautiful-emotional, heartwarming, sad, sweet and was just a joy to read.”

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Making It Happen book blog review of Beneath the Stars by Lynn Charles

Beneath the Stars is now available from the IP Web Store and other book retailers.

(via interludepress)

Coming in June: “Brush Strokes” by E.S. Karlquist

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Brush Strokes by E.S. Karlquist

Todd Navarro is halfway through college, trying to juggle his art studies with work, and avoid the feud going on between the gallery he works at and the one next door. When his best friend Mela invites him to a frat party, he meets Daniel Berger, who might just be his future. Until he finds out that Daniel has a lot more to do with the future of the gallery than Todd would have ever guessed.

About the Author

E.S. started writing stories as soon as she learned how to string letters together to create words and sentences. One of her first creations was around seven pages, eighty words, and about a tortoise living in a microwave. Since then, her stories have become a little longer, and perhaps slightly more complex. E.S. works for the Swedish government and has a master’s degree in human resources.

Connect with E.S. Karlquist at ESKarlquist.com and on Twitter @ESKarlquist.

Cover design by C.B. Messer.

Find it on Goodreads.

On the Blended Notes Cover

Or: That one time I actually had an idea.

On the cover of Blended Notes, in addition to our handsome protags lookin’ extra snazzy for some reason, there is a car. Not just any car, oh no.

You see, that ridiculously high spoiler there belongs to the 1970 Plymouth Superbird. A car that NASCAR deemed to be both too clunky and too powerful, and average car-driving people felt was too weird. (Too weird for the 70s is a solid commitment to weirdness.) Thus the Superbird was only in production for one year, with about 2,000 models produced, many of them sitting unsold and unwanted on dealer lots. :( Restored Superbirds are something of a cult collector’s item now, and Grady Dawson, bless his big beautiful impulsive heart, decides that the thick of a professional and personal crisis is the perfect time to restore one of them. Grady’s car looks like this, only worse:

In discussions about the cover, IP’s amazing and talented art director wanted to incorporate the Superbird (because symbolism!) and was having trouble fitting it in with the guys. “Why not just include the back end with that absurd spoiler?” I suggested. Y’all, I pretty much never have suggestions. It’s a small moment, but I need it, okay? All credit otherwise goes to CB and my wonderful and talented cover artist Victoria. And so…

Now just what does this weirdo car have to do with Grady or country music or romance or transplanted L.A. stylists still finding their footing in Nashville and in love? Guess you’ll have to pick up the book and find out.

Coming in July:”Blended Notes,” Book Three in Lilah Suzanne’s Spotlight Series

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Blended Notes by Lilah Suzanne

Grady Dawson’s future looks bright. He’s at the top of his country music career, has a close-knit group of friends who have become his Nashville family, and has found solid ground in his personal life as he plans his intimate, private wedding with Nico, his stylist turned lover turned love of his life. It seems Grady has finally left his difficult childhood and tumultuous youth behind. That is, until his past shows up on his doorstep, news of his upcoming nuptials is leaked to the media, and his record company starts issuing demands that challenge his integrity as an artist and as a person. The foundation Grady built his new life on begins to crumble and fast. Can he have his future if he’s haunted by his past? Can he continue making music if it means comprising his convictions? Must he make the ultimate choice between a private life with Nico and the public demands of his career?

About the author:

Lilah Suzanne has been writing actively since the sixth grade, when a literary magazine published her essay about an uncle who lost his life to AIDS. A freelance writer from North Carolina, she spends most of her time behind a computer screen, but on the rare occasion she ventures outside she enjoys museums, libraries, live concerts, and quiet walks in the woods. Lilah is the author of the Interlude Press books Spice, Pivot and Slip, Broken Records and Burning Tracks.

Connect with Lilah Suzanne at lilahsuzanne.com, on Twitter @LilahSuzanne, and on Facebook. 

Cover art by Victoria S. Cover design by C.B. Messer.

Find it on Goodreads. 

Here it is! Book three in the Spotlight series! If you’ve been waiting until the series is complete to read Broken Records and Burning Tracks, why not go ahead and pick them up before the last novel comes out this summer?  

In fact, Broken Records is 20% off at Book Depository right now

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My Goodreads review of Broken Records by Lilah Suzanne

lilyvandersteen:

Broken Records by @lilahsuzanne

Oh wow, this book is so SENSUAL. The descriptions jump off
the page in a way that make the reader smell and taste and hear and feel
everything that happens just as vividly as the characters themselves.
You’re really there with them, and it feels glorious.

Grady is
such a loveable character, and sounds drop-dead gorgeous, so you can’t
fault Nico for wondering sometimes why on earth such a superstar wants
to be with him. But he does, and they’re good together, and good for
each other. Nico gives Grady purpose and focus, and Grady makes Nico
live instead of rush.

I loved this story - heading to Book Two next :-)
       
     
         
     
       
       

My Review of Burning Tracks by Lilah Suzanne

lilyvandersteen:

Burning Tracks by @lilahsuzanne

Oh wow, I raced through this book rather like Gwen lives - at
double speed and diving in headfirst. This was quite the rollercoaster
ride, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading about how Gwen and Flora met and
fell in love, about how Gwen and Grady try out Las Vegas at its most
thrilling and about Gwen finds her true anchor once she stops to think.

Will
there be a third book in this series? I’d really like to see Clementine
find her match too instead of always being the third wheel
everywhere…
       
     
         
     
       
       

Thank you so much, this is wonderful! I’m so glad you enjoyed Broken Records too! Yes, there is a third novel, and as a matter of fact the cover/blurb/release date reveal is coming up soon. I can say that it focuses on Grady and Nico again, but there is more Clementine and she does start to find her own way. Which will hopefully lead to something just for her… 

I don’t think I’m ready to say goodbye to this series just yet.

"I am intrigued by the conversation about whether the “I love you” scene is essential to a romance..."

“I am intrigued by the conversation about whether the “I love you” scene is essential to a romance novel. For me that scene is essential to some stories, stories where admissions of love are hard, stories where people are unsure of that love. It’s enjoyable in all stories, because it requires vulnerability, it’s hard to do, it means something. There’s a stillness and a fragility to an “I love you”. But in fiction where every scene must be essential, is that scene always needed?”

- Pene Henson, author of Storm Season and into the Blue, on the necessity of the “I love you” moment in romantic fiction (via interludepress)