Lilah Suzanne's Blog, page 49
December 31, 2015
We’re cutting eBook Prices!
Interlude Press is welcoming in the new year by reducing the price of eBooks!
We’re cutting the suggested retail price of our eBooks by $1, so novels will now be $6.99 and novellas $4.99. The price of our post-publication bundles will also be reduced by $1, so you can add the eBook copy of your book for $3 for a novel and $2 for a novella with your print book purchase.
You’ll still get the most for your money by buying direct from the IP Web Store—the only place to automatically receive your eBooks in multiple formats for your Kindles, Nooks, iPads, laptops and other mobile devices.
Thanks for helping Interlude Press get on its feet and grow in 2015, and here’s to a great 2016 for all our readers!
shelbanuadh:
Christmas Haul, Part III
Awesome, thank you for...
Christmas Haul, Part III
Awesome, thank you for sharing! And the coloring book looks, well, fun and relaxing :D Hope you enjoy them both!
interludepress:
WINTER-SPRING 2016 FROM INTERLUDE...
WINTER-SPRING 2016 FROM INTERLUDE PRESS
January
What It Takes by Jude Sierra (1/14)
February
Sweet by Alysia Constantine (2/4)
Speakeasy by Suzey Ingold (2/18)
March
The Star Host by F.T. Lukens (3/3)*
Ceili by Moriah Gemel (3/17)
April
Black Dust by Lynn Charles (4/7)
The Better to Kiss You With by Michelle Osgood (4/21)
May
Go Your Own Way Sequel by Zane Riley (Title & Cover TBA) (5/5)
In the Present Tense by Carrie Pack (5/19)
June
Title TBA from Kitty Stephens (6/9)
Daniel and Erik’s Super Fab Ultimate Wedding Checklist by K.E. Belledonne (6/23)
* Young Adult title from Duet Books
December 30, 2015
To Grady, From Grady:
a Broken Records extra
(This was originally a guest post on Molly Lolly, a letter from Grady to himself five years ago.)
Dear Grady 5 years ago,
First of all, yes you still have all of your hair. I knew that would be your first question. Second, I’m not gonna tell you how or when but you’re getting ready to be successful beyond all of your wildest dreams. You’re also getting ready to make a lot mistakes because of that success, but I’m not telling you about that either. You have to walk through it to become me, and as hard as it was (will be?) we had to do it. The thing I do want to tell you is that you’re going to meet that person you’ve been waiting for. The one you dream about. The one you think you’ll never find because right now you still can’t believe that anyone will find you worthy of loving or sticking around for. You are worthy. But you’ll learn that the hard way soon enough. For now, on those nights that you find yourself alone in the dark, wondering if that’s where you’ll always be, you should know this: He’s so beautiful. He kisses you like the only thing that exists in the whole world is your mouth on his mouth, and it is. He stays.
Keep your chin up kid,
Future Grady.
December 29, 2015
Broken Records VBT Days 8 & 9
Nearing the end now, just one day left!
Excerpts, giveaways, and Q&A’s at these stops:
December 28, 2015
"Five Stars… Don’t miss this unique, moving, and very special book."
-
Sinfully M/M Book Reviews on Lilah Suzanne’s “Broken Records”
“Anyone who reads my reviews know that I have a soft spot for musicians, composers, dancers, even sports stars. There’s something both fascinating and reassuring about famous, talented, and successful people fighting to overcome the same obstacles the rest of us face. And when the characters are openly gay, middle finger prominently raised to the forces who would keep them down because of whom they love – well that’s the trifecta, isn’t it?
But “Broken Records” is something a bit different. In this unusual, fun, and often surprising novel, the author, Lilah Suzanne, throws the rulebook out.
(via interludepress)
December 27, 2015
"There are authors whose books I auto buy because they are consistently that good. From page one I’m..."
-
Divine Magazine review of “Broken Records” by Lilah Suzanne
Broken Records is available from the IP Web Store and your favorite book retailers.
(via interludepress)
Broken Records VBT Day 6 & 7
Playing catch-up today after a wonderful little holiday break. Tour stops you may have missed:
~An interview with me at Love Bytes
~An interview with Grady, in bed, at Lee Brazil (he will knit you socks! Swoon!)
~A Q&A on Happily Ever Chapter
~A really lovely review and interview at Divine Magazine that was definitely my favorite Christmas present. Better than the miracle bamboo memory foam pillow, even (sorry mom.)
And as a present to yourself, don’t forget to enter the giveaway at each stop!
December 24, 2015
FLASH SALE!
Need a last minute gift? Want to treat yourself to a quiet day of reading your new favorite books? Today only, we’re taking 25 percent off all eBooks at the IP Web Store! store.interludepress.com
Review: Broken Records by Lilah Suzanne
Broken Records
by Lilah Suzanne (December 17, 2015); 280 pages.
Available from Interlude Press here.
Come and listen to a story about a man named Nico
A lonely stylist to the stars, assistant Gwen, and
life oblique, oh
Then one day he was he was working for his pay,
And in through the door walks a country
star named Grady.
Oblique is gay, that is, homosexual, into boys.
Well the first thing you know Nico falls in love,
and how,
Kinfolk said “Nico, go with that
dreamboat now!”
Said “With your boyfriend Grady is the place
you ought to be"
But Grady packed up his bags and lived on some
wheels.
Tour bus, that is. Music tour, lonely nights.
I won’t torture you with another verse.Suffice it to say I was a poet at one point, and still take great pleasure in writing terrifically horrible rhyming poetry. More to the point: my sister used to religiously watch The Beverly Hillbillies, as well as Dolly Parton’s variety show,
and then my college roommate freshman year listened exclusively to top-40
country radio (and she had a radio alarm clock), so I’m fighting back a little
against the fact that, more than 25 years later, I can still sing “Trainwreck
of Emotion.”
However, after reading this novel—which I
did not put down for one entire day—I am now sold. I would listen to Grady Dawson, this novel’s
dreamy, sloe-eyed and honey-voiced love interest, sing pretty much
anything. Including country music.
Broken Records is the story
of Nico Takahashi, son of a barber, from humble beginnings, now a stylist to
the stars, and how his life changes when he meets—and falls for—country music
star Grady Dawson. Grady’s a bad boy
with a love-‘em-and-leave-‘em reputation in the press (his open bisexuality is
no help to that, since the public often interprets this as an “anything that
moves” orientation) who wanders into Nico’s office and asks for style
help. There begins a shaky, entirely
sexy back-and-forth flirtation and eventual romance between Nico and Grady.
This is juxtaposed against the teetering
relationship of his assistant Gwen and her wife (and finally, a lesbian who’s something
other than a sexless mate-for-life cliché), against Nico’s struggles with his
own career decisions and reluctance to submit himself to the public eye (a
consequence of dating a star).
Grady’s band isn’t homophobic. Neither does his audience seem to be, though
he is marketed in a photo with two jeans-shorts-wearing girl groupies on his
lap at one point, even as he’s dating a man. Even Grady’s ex-girlfriend seems ok with his
sexuality. It’s a really lovely world to spend time in. So much of this novel is about public appearance (Nico is a stylist, after all, and Grady is in the press a lot), which wants to speak so directly to the experience of being queer. It does so here in quiet, oblique ways.
The novel moves in directions I didn’t expect
but fully enjoyed. It’s about the fact
that merely feeling something isn’t enough—one has to work, and to do things
actively. It’s about give-and-take,
about the fact that if one loves enough, one should be willing to give up
anything to keep loving. The metaphor of
“falling in love” is pretty weak. Here,
it’s more like “struggling into love,” and that’s what makes it wonderful.
Oh gosh thank you! Such a lovely, thoughtful review that I was not expecting today and really needed.
And I love your song, we should get that recorded asap ;)
