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September 16, 2015
2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Idolatry by Rebecca Cohen
Idolatry (Reagalos Book 2) by Rebecca CohenGay Fantasy Romance
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (September 5, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1627989390
ISBN-13: 978-1627989398
Amazon: Idolatry (Reagalos Book 2)
Amazon Kindle: Idolatry (Reagalos Book 2)
Sequel to Servitude
Reagalos: Book Two
Upon taking the throne as High Lord of Katraman and Liege of Scura, Lornyc Reagalos’s focus on rebuilding one city and reassuring another leaves little time for his husband, Methian. Added to that, he must contend with the unexpected revelation that his grandfather, Romanus, set up his own religion and named an enigmatic figure called The One as its deity. Through some twisted interpretation of the signs left by Romanus, the Cerulean Cult comes to believe Lornyc is their god and invites him to sanctify the Cult as part of its five-hundred-year anniversary.
During the Sanctification Ceremony, the Cult’s holy relic, an orb given to it by Romanus, is split, releasing an entity that tears a hole in the dimensions. The species that guards the dimensions, the Valen, force Lornyc to fix the breach, or they will have him extinguished.
Now as Lornyc faces a race through the different planes of existence to capture the escaped entity, he must rely on his own Valen guardians to help him. With Methian and his family by his side, Lornyc must fight to repair the damage or lose his life.
2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html
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2015 GRL Featured Blog Tour: Tara Lain
Starting from June 1, 2015, I will daily feature authors attending the three conventions I will join, Euro Pride in Munich (July), UK Meet in Bristol (September) and GRL in San Diego (October). Moreover I'm taking part at the 2015 GRL Featured Blog Tour as Featured Blogger.
For the 2015 Featured Blog Tour, today author is Tara Lain:
Love is Love is Love is Love.
"Hi! I’m Tara Lain and I write the Beautiful Boys of Romance. I’ll be a Featured Author at GRL and am getting so excited I’m having trouble focusing on the gazillion thing I have to do before I go. Poppy Dennison asked me what I was wearing to the Luau. Hmmm? Okay, add that to the list!
As we approach this GRL, I think it’s fun to consider how MM romance has blossomed in the years since I attended my first GRL in 2011 – the first GRL there ever was. That get together in New Orleans had a tight camaraderie between people who were damned well going to express their love for a type of romance few people even recognized existed. We were 100 rebels banded together in a beautiful old hotel full of ghosts.
I think about 2012. For me, that was the year my book Fire Balls was published. It was my first bestseller. It hit number one on the Gay Romance Bestseller list and stayed for days. It was in the top 10 for weeks. It was a happy rollercoaster ride for me, still a novice author. BUT, I look back and realize that book barely dropped below 1000 in the Kindle store even though it was the bestselling gay romance.
Today is a whole different story. Gay romances regularly drop into the Top 100 books on Amazon – not on a bestseller list, the whole store! What an accomplishment this is, and what a validation for the universality of the subjects we write about, the talent of the authors who express these ideas, and the passion of the readers who champion them. We go into GRL 2015, not as a fringe subgenre, but as a meaningful variation on the great themes of romance. I think, of course, that gay romance is more accepted because gay people are more accepted, but I also think that gay people are more accepted, in perhaps a small part, because of gay romance.
A few years ago, many of us set as a goal that gay romance would step out of its closet and claim its place as great romance that happens to have same-sex lovers. While we might not be there yet, we’ve made a big leap in four years. Here’s to what the future holds.
My first day at GRL, October 14th, will be the (re) release day of my fairy tale romance, Sinders and Ash. This is the first book in a new series called The Pennymaker Tales. The second book, Driven Snow, will be out Nov 25th. Here’s a nibble from Sinders and Ash.
SINDERS AND ASH by Tara Lain
Available NOW for Pre-Order at Dreamspinner Press -- http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6906
Housekeeper Mark Sintorella (Sinders) works diligently at a resort hotel while designing clothes anonymously, hoping to get into fashion school. Then his carefully planned life is upended with the arrival of Ashford Armitage, son of the fifth richest man in America—and the most beautiful guy Mark has ever seen. Ash must find a wife or he’ll lose his grandfather’s inheritance, and he settles on Bitsy Fanderel. But secretly Ash is gay, and the guy who cleans the fireplaces sets his heart ablaze.
Further stirring the pot is the little elf of a man, Carstairs Pennymaker, who has Mark wearing his own designs and masquerading as a girl to impress the fashion investors in the hotel. When the clock strikes twelve, two beautiful princesses line up for the wedding—but one isn’t a woman. Will the slipper fit? Only Mr. Pennymaker knows for sure.
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About the author: Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around book 29. Her best-selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Paranormal Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. She lives with her soul-mate husband and her soul-mate dog near the sea in California where she sets a lot of her books. Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”!
You can find Tara HERE:
Website: http://www.taralain.com
Blog: http://www.taralain.com/blog
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Twitter: http://twitter.com/taralain
FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/taralain
( GRL Blog Tour Appearance Schedule )
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For the 2015 Featured Blog Tour, today author is Tara Lain: Love is Love is Love is Love.
"Hi! I’m Tara Lain and I write the Beautiful Boys of Romance. I’ll be a Featured Author at GRL and am getting so excited I’m having trouble focusing on the gazillion thing I have to do before I go. Poppy Dennison asked me what I was wearing to the Luau. Hmmm? Okay, add that to the list!
As we approach this GRL, I think it’s fun to consider how MM romance has blossomed in the years since I attended my first GRL in 2011 – the first GRL there ever was. That get together in New Orleans had a tight camaraderie between people who were damned well going to express their love for a type of romance few people even recognized existed. We were 100 rebels banded together in a beautiful old hotel full of ghosts.
I think about 2012. For me, that was the year my book Fire Balls was published. It was my first bestseller. It hit number one on the Gay Romance Bestseller list and stayed for days. It was in the top 10 for weeks. It was a happy rollercoaster ride for me, still a novice author. BUT, I look back and realize that book barely dropped below 1000 in the Kindle store even though it was the bestselling gay romance.
Today is a whole different story. Gay romances regularly drop into the Top 100 books on Amazon – not on a bestseller list, the whole store! What an accomplishment this is, and what a validation for the universality of the subjects we write about, the talent of the authors who express these ideas, and the passion of the readers who champion them. We go into GRL 2015, not as a fringe subgenre, but as a meaningful variation on the great themes of romance. I think, of course, that gay romance is more accepted because gay people are more accepted, but I also think that gay people are more accepted, in perhaps a small part, because of gay romance.
A few years ago, many of us set as a goal that gay romance would step out of its closet and claim its place as great romance that happens to have same-sex lovers. While we might not be there yet, we’ve made a big leap in four years. Here’s to what the future holds.
My first day at GRL, October 14th, will be the (re) release day of my fairy tale romance, Sinders and Ash. This is the first book in a new series called The Pennymaker Tales. The second book, Driven Snow, will be out Nov 25th. Here’s a nibble from Sinders and Ash.
SINDERS AND ASH by Tara Lain Available NOW for Pre-Order at Dreamspinner Press -- http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6906
Housekeeper Mark Sintorella (Sinders) works diligently at a resort hotel while designing clothes anonymously, hoping to get into fashion school. Then his carefully planned life is upended with the arrival of Ashford Armitage, son of the fifth richest man in America—and the most beautiful guy Mark has ever seen. Ash must find a wife or he’ll lose his grandfather’s inheritance, and he settles on Bitsy Fanderel. But secretly Ash is gay, and the guy who cleans the fireplaces sets his heart ablaze.
Further stirring the pot is the little elf of a man, Carstairs Pennymaker, who has Mark wearing his own designs and masquerading as a girl to impress the fashion investors in the hotel. When the clock strikes twelve, two beautiful princesses line up for the wedding—but one isn’t a woman. Will the slipper fit? Only Mr. Pennymaker knows for sure.
( Excerpt: )
About the author: Tara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around book 29. Her best-selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Paranormal Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. She lives with her soul-mate husband and her soul-mate dog near the sea in California where she sets a lot of her books. Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”!
You can find Tara HERE:
Website: http://www.taralain.com
Blog: http://www.taralain.com/blog
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
Twitter: http://twitter.com/taralain
FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/taralain
( GRL Blog Tour Appearance Schedule )
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September 15, 2015
2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Under Glass by Rebecca Cohen
Under Glass by Rebecca CohenGay Sci-Fi / Futuristic
Paperback: 306 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (April 10, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1634760409
ISBN-13: 978-1634760409
Amazon: Under Glass
Amazon Kindle: Under Glass
Creating planets and guarding the stars leaves novice planet builder Kai Faewiva lonely. For members of Kai’s species who are born with an organ called a caerellon, their true love, their Sun or Moon, is identified at birth. But the novices are people who have lost their perfect love, and Kai’s Sun is long dead, killed in an accident when he was five years old. Or so everyone thought.
After recovering from another bout of the unidentified illness he has battled for years, Kai returns to work. But his quiet day at the planetarium is thrown into chaos when scans of Goka Prime, one of the planets in the Sol-Alpha2 system, picks up a life-form that shouldn’t be there. Kai’s Sun, Oliver Gyin, is alive and well, but how he got to be on Goka Prime, no one knows. Now he needs to be brought home.
Ollie has lived most of his life in the City of Harrea, never guessing he is from another planet. Surprised to find a stranger means the world to him, Ollie wrestles with his loyalties and the drive to return with Kai. To leave Goka Prime, he must give up everything and everyone he knows. But twenty years apart means Kai and Ollie face a fight to secure their destined future.
2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html
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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Don’t Be Shy by Jae & Astrid Ohletz
Don’t Be Shy – A collection of erotic lesbian stories by Jae & Astrid OhletzLesbian Anthology / Collection / Erotica
Paperback: 382 pages
Publisher: Ylva Verlag (August 4, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3955333833
ISBN-13: 978-3955333836
Amazon: Don’t Be Shy – A collection of erotic lesbian stories
Sultry, sensual, kinky erotica with a smart, sexy twist: these twenty-five lesbian erotica stories that first appeared in Don't Be Shy Volumes 1 and 2 are now available in one compendium. A woman talks her girlfriend into an arduous mountain hike, only to reveal a naughty al fresco birthday surprise when they reach the peak; a tempestuous opera diva finally makes her longsuffering servant remember why she continues in her mistress's employ; in the shadow of a rocket launch, a bed-and-breakfast owner reaches new heights of sexual satisfaction from a guest she almost turned away; a woman takes a risk with a compelling stranger in a dive bar and is rewarded with an unforgettable night with an experienced dom. Celebrate the pleasures of the female flesh without having to check your mind at the door. Come, don't be shy, take a peek inside-you won't regret it.
2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html
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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: Turning for Home by Caren J. Werlinger
Turning for Home by Caren J. WerlingerLesbian Contemporary General Fiction
Paperback: 366 pages
Publisher: Ylva Verlag e.Kfr. (February 28, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 395533323X
ISBN-13: 978-3955333232
Amazon: Turning for Home
Amazon Kindle: Turning for Home
Like her mother before her, Jules Calhoon couldn't wait to escape her small Ohio town. Unlike her mother, though, Jules couldn't disappear forever. When she's called back for her grandfather's funeral, the visit unleashes a flood of memories and starts her on a lonely-and familiar-path. Her partner, Kelli, feels Jules slipping away but can't figure out how to pull her back. In desperation, she turns to Jules's oldest friend-and her ex-Donna. The problem is, Donna never could figure out why her relationship with Jules ended so long ago, and she never stopped loving Jules. When a lonely, confused teenager reaches out to Jules for help, the past and present are set on a collision course, igniting a chain of events that will leave none of them unscathed.
2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html
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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey
The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea 1) by Fletcher DeLanceyLesbian Sci-Fi / Futuristic
Series: Chronicles of Alsea
Paperback: 398 pages
Publisher: Ylva Verlag (March 5, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3955332535
ISBN-13: 978-3955332532
Amazon: The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea 1)
Amazon Kindle: The Caphenon (Chronicles of Alsea 1)
On a summer night like any other, an emergency call sounds in the quarters of Andira Tal, Lancer of Alsea. The news is shocking: not only is there other intelligent life in the universe, but it’s landing on the planet right now. Tal leads the first responding team and ends up rescuing aliens who have a frightening story to tell. They protected Alsea from a terrible fate—but the reprieve is only temporary. Captain Ekatya Serrado of the Fleet ship Caphenon serves the Protectorate, a confederation of worlds with a common political philosophy. She has just sacrificed her ship to save Alsea, yet political maneuvering may mean she did it all for nothing. Alsea is now a prize to be bought and sold by galactic forces far more powerful than a tiny backwater planet. But Lancer Tal is not one to accept a fate imposed by aliens, and she’ll do whatever it takes to save her world.
2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html
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2015 Rainbow Awards Submission: All the little Moments by G Benson
All the little Moments by G BensonLesbian Contemporary Romance
Paperback: 370 pages
Publisher: Ylva Verlag e.Kfr. (August 12, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3955333418
ISBN-13: 978-3955333416
Amazon: All the little Moments
Amazon Kindle: All the little Moments
A successful anaesthetist, Anna is focused on herself, her career, and her girlfriend. Everything changes abruptly when her brother's and sister-in-law's deaths devastate her and her family. Left responsible for her young niece and nephew, Anna finds herself dumped and alone in Melbourne, a city she doesn't even like. She tries to navigate the shock of looking after two children battling with their grief while managing her own. Filled with self-doubt, Anna feels as if she's making a mess of the entire thing, especially when she collides with a long-legged stranger. Anna barely has time to brush her teeth in the morning, let alone to date a woman-least of all one who has no idea about the two kids under her care. Just when Anna finally starts to feel as if she's getting some control of the situation, the biggest fight begins and Anna really has to step up once and for all.
2015 Rainbow Awards Guidelines: http://www.elisarolle.com/rainbowawards/rainbow_awards_2015.html
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GRL: Jordan Castillo Price
Starting from June 1, 2015, I will daily feature authors attending the three conventions I will join, Euro Pride in Munich (July), UK Meet in Bristol (September) and GRL in San Diego (October).
For the GRL in San Diego, October 15-18, 2015, today author is Jordan Castillo Price: Author and artist Jordan Castillo Price is the owner of JCP Books LLC. Her paranormal thrillers are colored by her time in the midwest, from inner city Chicago, to small town Wisconsin, to liberal Madison.
Jordan is best known as the author of the PsyCop series, an unfolding tale of paranormal mystery and suspense starring Victor Bayne, a gay medium who's plagued by ghostly visitations. Also check out her new series, Mnevermind, where memories are made...one client at a time.
With her education in fine arts and practical experience as a graphic designer, Jordan set out to create high quality ebooks with lavish cover art, quality editing and gripping content. The result is JCP Books, offering stories you'll want to read again and again.
Further Readings:
Charmed and Dangerous: Ten Tales of Gay Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: JCP Books (August 19, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935540793
ISBN-13: 978-1935540793
Amazon: Charmed and Dangerous: Ten Tales of Gay Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy
Amazon Kindle: Charmed and Dangerous: Ten Tales of Gay Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy
Magic takes many forms. From malignant hexes to love charms gone amok, you'll find a vast array of spells and curses, creatures and conjurings in this massive collection-not to mention a steamy dose of man-on-man action. Charmed and Dangerous features all-new stories of gay paranormal romance, supernatural fiction and urban fantasy by ten top m/m paranormal authors.
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For the GRL in San Diego, October 15-18, 2015, today author is Jordan Castillo Price: Author and artist Jordan Castillo Price is the owner of JCP Books LLC. Her paranormal thrillers are colored by her time in the midwest, from inner city Chicago, to small town Wisconsin, to liberal Madison.Jordan is best known as the author of the PsyCop series, an unfolding tale of paranormal mystery and suspense starring Victor Bayne, a gay medium who's plagued by ghostly visitations. Also check out her new series, Mnevermind, where memories are made...one client at a time.
With her education in fine arts and practical experience as a graphic designer, Jordan set out to create high quality ebooks with lavish cover art, quality editing and gripping content. The result is JCP Books, offering stories you'll want to read again and again.
Further Readings:
Charmed and Dangerous: Ten Tales of Gay Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy
Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: JCP Books (August 19, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1935540793
ISBN-13: 978-1935540793
Amazon: Charmed and Dangerous: Ten Tales of Gay Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy
Amazon Kindle: Charmed and Dangerous: Ten Tales of Gay Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy
Magic takes many forms. From malignant hexes to love charms gone amok, you'll find a vast array of spells and curses, creatures and conjurings in this massive collection-not to mention a steamy dose of man-on-man action. Charmed and Dangerous features all-new stories of gay paranormal romance, supernatural fiction and urban fantasy by ten top m/m paranormal authors.
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Byron Roberts & Dennis Merrill
For Byron Roberts (born 1944) of Stockton, the political anniversaries are important markers in history that the longtime civil rights activist won't soon forget.
He had asked his partner since 1968 to marry him before, but Dennis Merrill (born 1945) didn't think it was necessary, since the pair had already entered into a domestic partnership.
When the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, Roberts decided to ask again.
Merrill said yes.
"Byron wanted to exercise his rights," Merrill said.
They married on September 15, 2014, a day they considered to be the anniversary of when they started dating. “He’s made me so happy for almost 47 years,” Roberts said. “We lived a life of marriage of commitment, love and support. Now legally this is going to be available to all other lesbians and gays.”
Source: www.recordnet.com/article/20140626/A_NEWS/406260319
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He had asked his partner since 1968 to marry him before, but Dennis Merrill (born 1945) didn't think it was necessary, since the pair had already entered into a domestic partnership.
When the Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, Roberts decided to ask again.
Merrill said yes.
"Byron wanted to exercise his rights," Merrill said.
They married on September 15, 2014, a day they considered to be the anniversary of when they started dating. “He’s made me so happy for almost 47 years,” Roberts said. “We lived a life of marriage of commitment, love and support. Now legally this is going to be available to all other lesbians and gays.”
Source: www.recordnet.com/article/20140626/A_NEWS/406260319
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Sheree L. Greer (born September 15)
A Milwaukee, Wisconsin native, Sheree L. Greer has been published in Hair Trigger, The Windy City Times, Reservoir, Fictionary, and the Windy City Queer Anthology: Dispatches from the Third Coast. She has performed her work across selected venues in Milwaukee, New York, Miami, Chicago, and Tampa, where she hosts Oral Fixation, the only LGBTQ Open Mic series in Tampa Bay. Ms. Greer received a Union League of Chicago Civic Arts Foundation Award, earned her MFA at Columbia College Chicago, and currently teaches writing and literature at St. Petersburg College. As an Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund grantee and VONA alum, she published a short story collection, Once and Future Lovers. A novel excerpt "Prom Story in Three Parts," received a special mention in Publishers Weekly and appears in Best Lesbian Romance 2012."Oooooh, how business-like, huh?
Now that we know each other, let's get loose. I'm from Milwaukee, yet feel like I really found myself in Chicago. Writing and reading and teaching make my heart smile, and I enjoy all things art, in addition to delicious food, beautiful sights, and a comfortable hammock. I also really, really love hugs."
Let the Lover Be won a 2014 Rainbow Award as Best Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction.
Further Readings:
Let the Lover Be by Sheree L. Greer
Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books (August 19, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1626390770
ISBN-13: 978-1626390775
Amazon: Let the Lover Be
Amazon Kindle: Let the Lover Be
Functional alcoholic Kiana Lewis is looking for a way out. Running away from the memories of her mother’s horrific death and her own dead-end existence, she decides to crash her ex-lover’s New Orleans wedding and put a stop to the whole thing. She arrives in the Big Easy to reclaim her old love, and hopefully, reclaim her own life.
Her plans are disrupted when she meets Genevieve Durand, a seductive and spiritual New Orleans native who challenges Kiana’s skewed sense of resolve and control. Spending time with Genevieve, just like drinking, offers Kiana moments of escape. But unlike the numbing effect of alcohol, the intoxicating Genevieve makes Kiana feel and think about things she’d rather not, like the death of her mother and the destructive ways she uses to cope.
On the brink of losing it all, Kiana must decide if she will reach for the next drink or if she’ll reach beyond herself to finally slay the demons driving her since childhood.
More Rainbow Awards at my website: elisarolle.com , Rainbow Awards/2014
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