Lilah Suzanne's Blog, page 47
January 31, 2016
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novellaqueen:
I WANT GAY ROMANTIC COMEDIES GOD DAMN IT I AM SO TIRED OF THE ONLY...
I WANT GAY ROMANTIC COMEDIES GOD DAMN IT I AM SO TIRED OF THE ONLY GAY MOVIES BEING DRAMATICALLY SAD BECAUSE THEYRE GAY AND SOMEONE HAS AIDS OR SOMEONES A COWBOY OR SOMEONE DIES GIVE ME YOU’VE GOT MAIL WITH TWO WOMEN GIVE ME SIXTEEN CANDLES WITH TWO BOYS GIVE ME SOMETHING
January 30, 2016
Review: Pivot and Slip by Lilah Suzanne
Pivot and Slip by Lilah Suzanne (August 12, 2015); 174 pages. Available from Interlude Press here.
Although I’ve heard the stories of famous boxers and football players studying ballet in order to improve their nimbleness, there seems no more star-crossed a pair of lovers than Jack Douglas and Felix Montero. While Felix is a boxer, Jack is a former-Olympic-hopeful-swimmer-turned-yoga-instructor. It sounds like a recipe for a sit-com, but this novel is anything but. Instead, it’s a story about kindness, about hurt and healing and how we help each other toward a good place. After a disastrously-humiliating experience in his swimming career, Jack’s gone yoga; Felix was critically injured as a boxer (so much so that boxing again could kill him) and is, perhaps mistakenly, enrolled in jack’s yoga class for seniors.
The two, as different as they may be, are both healing from the most painful loss: one day you’re headed surely down a path, and then the path is, without warning, and in the most painful and public way possible, irrevocably blocked. Though Felix appears to be the one suffering the most when he angrily storms out of Jack’s yoga class, and though Jack takes on the project of helping Felix heal and move on from his loss, it turns out that Felix helps Jack find his way back to what he loves, too.
It’s a novel about healing, and how we can help each other do that, and how even the most put-together people probably need to heal from something. It’s a novel about letting go of the past, the dead parts of ourselves that only weigh us down, and unearthing those parts that were prematurely buried but might still give us life, and how to tell the difference. Perhaps even more importantly, it’s a novel that declares that we don’t have to do that alone (there are so many people that want to help Jack, for instance—aside from Felix, there’s his roommate and his class of yenta-ish elderly yoga students). This is a story about falling in love with another person, but it’s also about how to love yourself, and how to let yourself be loved by other people (lovers and friends and community). Allowing yourself to be vulnerable enough to be cared for by others is, perhaps, the hardest thing of all, and the mountain that these two characters try to climb.
Well gosh this is the most lovely surprise! Thank you so much!
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Coming in Fall 2016:
Certainly, Possibly, You...
Coming in Fall 2016:
Certainly, Possibly, You by Lissa Reed
Sarita Sengupta is in her
last semester of grad school and has finally realized she doesn’t have a career
plan, a girlfriend, or a clear outlook on life. She works as a pastry shop’s
head decorator, but is otherwise drifting without direction until a friend’s party ends with her waking up in surprise next to Maritza Quiñones, a
pretty ballroom dancer whose cheerful charm and laser focus sets Sarita on a
path to making all of the choices she’s been avoiding. The sequel to author Lissa Reed’s 2015 novel Definitely, Maybe, Yours is due out in September, 2016.
About the Author:
Lissa Reed is a writer of fiction, blogs and bawdy Renaissance song parodies. She traces her first interest in becoming a writer to the fourth grade, when her teacher gave her the gift of her first composition book. A former newspaper editor, Reed shifted her focus to romance and literary fiction early in her writing career. She lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Certainly, Possibly, You is the second book in Lissa’s Sucre Coeur series.
Get to know the author on tumblr at @lissareedbooks and on Twitter at @lissareedbooks.
January 23, 2016
The Weather Outside is Frightful
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January 22, 2016
Congratulations, Killian B. Brewer!
Killian’s debut YA novel, The Rules of Ever After, has been nominated for a Teen Choice Book Award by the Children’s Book Council! Voting is open through February 2nd!
"FIVE STARS…I’ve come to love the fabulous storytelling from Ms. Sierra. I hope she continues to..."
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Molly Lolly Book Blog on Jude Sierra’s What It Takes, available now from the IP Web Store, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple’s iBookstore, Smashwords, All Romance eBooks, Book Depository, and an indie bookstore near you.
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January 21, 2016
Now Available to Pre-Order:
Céilí by Moriah Gemel
Coming this St. Patrick’s Day …
The night before is a strange memory,
in the way that drunken memories often are: distorted, as if he might not have
been seeing things the way they really were, as though his perception was
different than it would be now. That makes sense, given the whole alcohol
thing.
What
would he see if he wandered exactly as he wandered last night, ending up at
Céilí? Would he walk in, see beautiful Eldan in his tall, slender paleness, his
black hair and his freckles and his blue, blue, blue eyes? Would he see the
magic Eldan performed, so cool but so unbelievable, even right in front
of his eyes?
Would
he see himself there? That’s what he was told he had found. That’s what
matters.
You’re
Fae, they said. They said a lot. Most of it, Devon remembers. But
most of it is still mixed up and faded even after just one night.
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Summary
The Los Angeles music scene has not been kind to Devon Caelin. He struggles to fit in and has a streak of bad luck the length of the Sunset Strip. One rare rainy night, he drowns his sorrows from bar-to-bar, until he stumbles into an alley club called Céilí. He discovers that it’s home to a small community of mystical people making their way in the human world, and that he found it only because he is Fae himself.
With mentoring from the pub’s proprietor, Eldan—a powerful Fae Lord protecting his kind in the city—Devon unearths his past and discovers his magical abilities. His life appears to be back on track—until a member of the Faerie Court is murdered and the secret of their world is threatened to be revealed.
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Publication Date: March 17, 2016
US/Canada: Pre-order the print edition of Céilí from the IP Web Store and receive the multi-format eBook free with the discount code CEILI*
International: Order the print edition of Céilí by May 17, 2016 from your favorite book retailer and receive free multi-format eBook by submitting a copy of your receipt to contact@interludepress.com.
ISBN: 978-1-941530-65-8 (print) // 978-1-941530-66-5 (Multi-Format eBook)
Pages: 200
Price: $15.99 US print*/ $6.99 US multi-format eBook
*Print editions pre-orders available for US and Canada only. eBook orders available worldwide.
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About the Author
Moriah Gemel developed a dedicated following for her sexually-charged stories over her many years in online fan communities. Her first novel, Load the Dice, was noted for its realistic and positive depiction of a BDSM relationship.
Connect with the author at MoriahGemel.com; and on Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads.
January 20, 2016
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istytehcrawk:
Look at this stuff, isn’t it...
Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat?
Wouldn’t you think my collection’s complete?
Wouldn’t you think I’m the girl
The girl who has everything?
Look at this trove, treasures untold
How many wonders can one cavern hold?
Looking around here you’d think
Sure, she’s got everything.
Or, at least, I do until Speakeasy comes out. :D
January 19, 2016
"41/2 Stars…The entire book has a dream-like quality that flows and ripples and it’s the atmosphere..."
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Joyfully Jay Book Reviews on Lilah Suzanne’s Broken Records
Broken Records is available to order from the IP Webstore and your favorite book retailers.
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reportagebygettyimages:
gillianlaub:
Happy 70th birthday...
Happy 70th birthday Dolly! Photographing you was a true honor. No drama, and so lovely and kind. I will never forget the advice you gave me when I asked what the secret was to a long and lasting marriage like yours. You said, “travel a lot, and not together!” Thank you for being an example of a person who is true to themselves and doesn’t apologize for it! #dollyparton #idolworship #icon #70thbirthday #dollyontheroad
See more of Gillian Laub’s portraiture on the Reportage website.
