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2016 Rainbow Awards: A Kiss Before Dawn by Laurie Salzler (147-06-15-2016)

A Kiss Before Dawn by Laurie Salzler
Lesbian Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing; 1 edition (April 29, 2016)
Amazon Kindle: A Kiss Before Dawn

Country girl Chris Martel has struggled all her life to form strong, lasting relationships. For Chris, love, compassion, and trust are critical. In their absence, she has turned to her dog and her horse for the emotional fulfillment she craves. Then along comes Mary Jo Cavanaugh.Fresh out of veterinary school, Mary Jo inadvertently antagonizes Chris with her overconfident assumptions about how to care for animals. She comes to learn that Chris’s practical experience provides both a wealth of knowledge and a friendship unlike any she’s ever known.The carefully built walls around Chris’s heart crumble as she acknowledges the unfamiliar feelings evoked by being with Mary Jo. Just as she believes she’s found the happiness that had always eluded her, someone from Chris’s past comes back into her life. Can the love between Chris and Mary Jo survive so they can share a kiss before dawn?

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2016 Rainbow Awards: The House on Fremont Drive by Jere' M. Fishback (146-06-10-2016)

The House on Fremont Drive by Jere' M. Fishback
Gay Contemporary General Fiction
Publisher: Dark Hollows Press, LLC (May 11, 2016)
Amazon Kindle: The House on Fremont Drive

Eighteen year-old Nate Ziegler has problems. A dead boy's ghost dwells in the crawl space above Nate's walk-in closet; the ghost won't leave Nate alone. Nate's cross-country teammate is an astrology freak; he wants to recruit Nate as his disciple. Nate's new boyfriend is an emotional mess; he's a victim of physical and psychological abuse. And Nate's parents don't even know Nate is gay. How will he deal with it all?

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2016 Rainbow Awards: A Seditious Affair by K.J. Charles (145-06-10-2016)

A Seditious Affair (Society of Gentlemen #2) by K.J. Charles
Gay Historical Romance
Publisher: Loveswept (December 15, 2015)
Amazon Kindle: A Seditious Affair (Society of Gentlemen #2)

K. J. Charles turns up the heat in her new Society of Gentlemen novel, as two lovers face off in a sensual duel that challenges their deepest beliefs.

Silas Mason has no illusions about himself. He’s not lovable, or even likable. He’s an overbearing idealist, a Radical bookseller and pamphleteer who lives for revolution . . . and for Wednesday nights. Every week he meets anonymously with the same man, in whom Silas has discovered the ideal meld of intellectual companionship and absolute obedience to his sexual commands. But unbeknownst to Silas, his closest friend is also his greatest enemy, with the power to see him hanged—or spare his life.

A loyal, well-born gentleman official, Dominic Frey is torn apart by his affair with Silas. By the light of day, he cannot fathom the intoxicating lust that drives him to meet with the Radical week after week. In the bedroom, everything else falls away. Their needs match, and they are united by sympathy for each other’s deepest vulnerabilities. But when Silas’s politics earn him a death sentence, desire clashes with duty, and Dominic finds himself doing everything he can to save the man who stole his heart.

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GRL Featured Blog: P.D. Singer

A Writer in Meatspace

Thank you Elisa, for having me as a guest on your blog. I’m getting excited about GayRomLit, and posting here is a first step on the road to Kansas City.
I haven’t been to GayRomLit in a couple of years, because of a bad intersection of luck and vacation time, or lack of it. Note to self, schedule vacation, take vacation, because something like a stray ticket to an event you’d given up on attending could land in your lap. I coulda been there…
When I started publishing, I had absolutely no clue I would eventually travel because of my books, or meet people. My publishing world existed electronically, even moreso because my first three novels didn’t exist in paperback until they’d been around a while. In fact, I didn’t have a paperback to sign on the riverboat in New Orleans, though I can hope folks enjoyed those custom-burned CDs. My, how technology changes—I handed out postcards with download links in Las Vegas at the Romantic Times convention. (I might have a few with me in October, too.)
I came out of fandom, where we hid behind made up names and actually visiting a fandom friend was a weird and dangerous undertaking. They seem so nice online… The best friends I could hope to have came out of those tentative visits. You all know Eden Winters? She’s one such. Meeting in realspace had another shocker: what do we call each other? We’d forget and use our fandom handles.
Remembering what to answer to was an issue at the first GayRomLit, because no one calls me P.D. unless that’s the way they know me best. It sounds funny, and I never imagined answering to the initials when I signed those first contracts. Anyone I didn’t respond to, I’m sorry. I heard you but I didn’t realize you meant me.
So I learned to meet people I knew from a distance, how to answer to my name, and how to remember other people’s names when it’s all a swirl. I have facial recognition issues: it goes with getting lost easily.
Bless name tags. I love name tags. I’m not really staring at your tits. I’ll have to read your name tag to be truly sure who you are for most of the event, and I’ll have it nailed by Sunday, about twenty minutes before one of us has to go to the airport. Then the next year I’ll have to start all over. By the time I see you three years running, I’ll be good by Friday afternoon. However, having missed Chicago and San Diego, I’m back to ground zero with some of you.
But I will be so glad to see you, even if this identifying people business makes me look like an idiot. I’ll be a joyous idiot, staring at your chest and then babbling away with details of previous talks or your books or your reading tastes once I get a good glimpse of your tag.
If it’s the first time we meet, then yay! A new friend, and we’ll talk, and I’ll see you at enough events that you are firmly in my brain by Sunday.
To keep that knowledge green, we’ll have to keep coming back. I can reliably recognize my gracious host, because I’ve had the pleasure of her company several times now.
It’s been a lot of years since that first bookless book signing on a paddleboat, and the paperbacks have gotten higher and more varied. Fire on the Mountain has a gorgeous bronze cover for its pages, and the series has grown. Kurt, Jake and their friends need five books for their stories. Dreamspinner has them all in one big package to fit in your ereader. But I don’t mind signing my name five times.

The Mountains Bundle
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (July 1, 2016)
Amazon Kindle: The Mountains Bundle

The mountains are the best place to find adventure… and romance. In Fire on the Mountain, Jake Landon is looking forward to a summer spent patrolling the mountain with some crusty old mountain man and hiding in the closet—only Old Crusty turns out to be young, hot, and friendly Kurt Carlson. In Snow on the Mountain, Jake and Kurt are working the slopes and trying to navigate a new relationship out in the open. In Fall Down the Mountain, Mark McAvoy falls for chef Allan Tengerdie just as quickly as Allan falls on the slope and breaks his arm. Can Mark and Allan help each other work through their problems together? In Cross the Mountain, Allan decides to give cross-country skiing a try in order to keep up with his ski patrol lover Mark. In Blood on the Mountain, Jake and Kurt are back for another summer of fire patrol in the Rockies, trying to work out their relationship alone, but they quickly stumble onto a dangerous secret. In Return to the Mountain, caddy Gary Richardson hungers for the luxury life his clients have, but his love Seth Morgan is perfectly content with their life as it is. When opportunity knocks, Gary and Seth both have choices that they must make.



Author Bio: P.D. Singer lives in Colorado with her slightly bemused husband, two rowdy teenage boys, and thirty pounds of cats. She’s a big believer in research, first-hand if possible, so the reader can be quite certain Pam has skied down a mountain face-first, been stepped on by rodeo horses, acquired a potato burn or two, and will never, ever, write a novel that includes sky-diving.
When not writing, playing her fiddle, or skiing, she can be found with a book in hand.
Social Media links:
Email: PD.Singer@RockyRidgeBooks.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pd.singer.9
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PD_Singer
Website: http://PDSinger.com
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/pdsinger9/
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2016 Rainbow Awards: A Gentleman's Position by K.J. Charles (144-06-10-2016)

A Gentleman's Position (A Society of Gentlemen Novel) by K.J. Charles
Gay Historical Romance
Publisher: Loveswept (April 5, 2016)
Amazon Kindle: A Gentleman's Position (A Society of Gentlemen Novel)

Power, privilege, and the rigid rules of class leave two hearts yearning for connection in the sizzling new Society of Gentlemen novel from K. J. Charles.

Among his eccentric though strictly principled group of friends, Lord Richard Vane is the confidant on whom everyone depends for advice, moral rectitude, and discreet assistance. Yet when Richard has a problem, he turns to his valet, a fixer of unparalleled genius—and the object of Richard’s deepest desires. If there is one rule a gentleman must follow, it is never to dally with servants. But when David is close enough to touch, the rules of class collide with the basest sort of animal instinct: overpowering lust.

For David Cyprian, burglary and blackmail are as much in a day’s work as bootblacking—anything for the man he’s devoted to. But the one thing he wants for himself is the one thing Richard refuses to give: his heart. With the tension between them growing to be unbearable, David’s seemingly incorruptible master has left him no choice. Putting his finely honed skills of seduction and manipulation to good use, he will convince Richard to forget all about his well-meaning objections and give in to sweet, sinful temptation

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Through the Baltic Looking-Glass by Lara Biyuts (143-06-10-2016)

Through the Baltic Looking-Glass by Lara Biyuts
Gay Historical
Publisher: Lara Biyuts; 2 edition (January 17, 2014)
Amazon Kindle: Through the Baltic Looking-Glass

Steampunk. Edwardian mystery. Set in Europe in 1912, the novel “Through the Baltic Looking-Glass” is written in the form of travel notes by Oscar Maria Graf, observant globe-trotter, younger contemporary of Oscar Wilde. A Stenbock-like figure, by his origin and his dabbling in literature, Oscar Graf is much hotter, more active and pragmatic than Eric Stenbock (1860-1895) whom he was friend with, when he lived in London. The book was previously self-published in a series of nice books. PART 1 “In the Island. Adventures”: The series of his adventures on a fictional island on the Mediterranean Sea seem to come to an end, when he receives a message from his homeland in the fictional Baltic country of Nyomanland. In the message, his cousin asks him to come home, because the cousin’s mother disappeared and something’s wrong at the household. Later, on his way, Oscar hears about one mysterious outlander of the name of Kornelis Aboleo Lord Ravensable von Holstein who travels along with his cousin Adrian Magnhus Lord Wolfhampton von Holsteinwho and who appeared earlier in the winter tale of the novel "Silver Thread Spinner" and then in the novella "A Handful of Blossoms" by Lara Biyuts. The outlanders stay in Brumburg, the main city of Nyomanland. PART 2 “On the Continent. Quest I”, PART 3 “On the Continent. Quest II”, PART 4 “Ghosts, Notes, and Other Evidence”, PART 5 “Liberties with the Dark”, PART 6 “Theatre des Noctambules”, PART 7 “Gay with Streamers”, PART 8 “Darkness to Illuminate”, PART 9 “From the Owl’s Wing to the Bat’s”.

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Groomzilla & Groomzilla Does Vegas by Tere Michaels (142-06-10-2016)

Groomzilla & Groomzilla Does Vegas by Tere Michaels
Gay Romantic Comedy
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (April 1, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1627985026
ISBN-13: 978-1627985024
Amazon: Groomzilla & Groomzilla Does Vegas

"The Groomzilla Collection"

"Groomzilla"

When drama threatens to ruin a romance on a reality show, only a true friend can save a groomzilla s wedding.

Daniel Green is neither a romantic nor a wedding planner, but he s the only person who can manage his childhood friend Ander, an outrageous fashion designer soon to marry a wealthy entertainment lawyer. Distracting Daniel is Owen Grainger, a too-handsome-to-be-true producer whose quiet charm pulls Daniel into his orbit.

When the stress of the show triggers bad behavior from Ander, the coproducer decides it s the key to a ratings bonanza, and he undermines Ander and Rafe s relationship to create more drama. Daniel is determined to protect his friend, but when he falls for Owen, there s much more at stake than ratings.

"Groomzilla Does Vegas"

Daniel Green and Owen Grainger found a happy ending in the middle of chaos. Now, a year later, they are engaged, setting up house, and working on their new production company. What could go wrong? Well, allowing the eccentric but well-meaning Ander to be the wedding planner is possibly Daniel's first mistake. A bachelor weekend in Las Vegas might just make or break Daniel's last nerve."

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Shadows and Light by Cari Z. (141-06-10-2016)

Shadows and Light by Cari Z.
Gay Fantasy
Paperback: 266 pages
Publisher: Pride Publishing (March 11, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1786518740
ISBN-13: 978-1786518743
Amazon: Shadows and Light
Amazon Kindle: Shadows and Light

A fight to the death against his former master turns into a chance for Rafael, an assassin denied the immortality he lived to achieve, to learn the shocking truth about the fate he was spared.

Rafael wanted nothing more than to serve his immortal master, Xian, a High One of Clare, who taught him from an early age how to be an assassin. But after failing the final test, Rafael was turned out into the Lower City, abandoned by the one person he thought he could count on.

Years of hatred and thoughts of revenge have fueled Rafael’s quest for vengeance, but when the time comes to strike at Xian, he hesitates and is taken prisoner. Rafael expects to die, either at Xian’s hand or at the hand of Myrtea, his sadistic mistress.

Instead Xian heals him, spares him a brutal interrogation and tells him the dark truth driving the ruthlessness of the High Ones—the source of their immortality is spent. Soon the city will devolve into chaos as High Ones battle one another and the rebelling denizens of the Lower City for power and resources. Xian wants to spare Rafael that pain, just as he spared him the pain of becoming a High One a decade earlier.

Their only chance for survival is to escape Clare before civil war breaks out. Even if they make it out of the city, though, there’s no guarantee that Xian will live through the agonizing process of becoming human again. The only ones they can rely on are each other…if Rafael can bring himself to once again trust his former master, the only man he’s ever loved.

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Tempest by Cari Z. (140-06-10-2016)

Tempest by Cari Z.
Gay Fantasy Romance
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd. (April 5, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1619234262
ISBN-13: 978-1619234260
Amazon: Tempest
Amazon Kindle: Tempest

Love can change a soul. But can it save one life?

Colm Weathercliff is a simple fisherman with an uncanny-some might say preternatural-knack for his trade. He thought leaving his small village to take his father's ashes to the capital city of Caithmor for a proper burial would be the grandest adventure of his life.

At first, all his hopes seem to be fulfilled. He finds a home where he's accepted without question, the freedom to use his talent to its fullest effect, and love with Nichol, a man with a longing for the sea as powerful as Colm's.

But Caithmor holds as many dangers as it does attractions. Colm's greatest secret turns out to be a dark revelation that gets him and his family shunned-and changes everything he thought he knew about himself.

The truth-about his parentage, his gift, even his physical form-could poison his chance for love. And doom both him and Nichol to a gruesome, inescapable fate.

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2016 Rainbow Awards: Where There's A Will by Cari Z. (139-06-10-2016)

Where There's A Will (Panopolis #3) by Cari Z.
Gay Sci-fi / Futuristic
Series: Panopolis
Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Riptide Publishing (January 18, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1626494061
ISBN-13: 978-1626494060
Amazon: Where There's A Will (Panopolis #3)
Amazon Kindle: Where There's A Will (Panopolis #3)

Being a Hero in Panopolis means living the high life: parties, money, influence, even reality television. And I’m one of the most powerful Heroes in the city. I have plenty of fans, a manager who looks out for me (after himself), and a job that pays the bills. I should be enjoying myself.

Unfortunately, the downside of my superpower means I can’t touch anyone, which tends to puts a damper on things. I probably don’t deserve all those perks anyway, since I’m working in secret with two of Panopolis’s biggest villains to undermine GenCorp—my main sponsor and the company that controls what gets through my force field.

I obviously don’t trust my corporate overseers, but they’ve hired a new scientist who actually seems interested in helping me. Dr. Mansourian might have the answers to all my questions—not to mention a starring role in most of my dreams—but he’s hiding something big. If I let him have what he wants, I might not live to regret it.

Then again, the way things are going in Panopolis these days, I might not live either way.

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