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July 21, 2016
New Out in the Open short story!
A new short starring Greg and Ethan from Out in the Open is available now! Just in case your summer wasn’t hot enough, these two guys will bring the heat.
AWeek by the Lake
True story: I made this cover myself. Greg and Ethan from Out in the Open return for a summer trip that will test their relationship like never before.
Fresh from graduation, and a post-graduation romp in the library stacks, Greg is ready to enjoy the summer. But Ethan can’t stop thinking about whether they can do the long...
June 25, 2016
Ebook Sale This Weekend
It’s the perfect time of year to have a book at the ready, whether you’re going to the beach, getting on a plane, or avoiding being social at a BBQ. And you’re in a luck because this weekend, Kobo is running a sale. Ebooks are 50% off.
For shoppers in Kobo’sU.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, ebooks are 50% off from now untilJune27, 2016 at 11:59 PM EST.Just use the promo code 50JUN at checkout.
It’s an amazing deal, and it’s going to be over before you know it.Get caught up w...
June 23, 2016
It’s the Looking trailer!
I adored the show Looking, which had a brief but special 2-season run on HBO a few years ago. Dom’s mustache. House in Virginia. Kevin’s butt. (seriously) It was all wonderful. Most importantly, Lookingshowed gay characters as complex, imperfect individuals. Not stereotypes. Ithad the vibrant, fast-paced dialogue of director Andrew Haigh’s Weekend, another one of my favorites. I like to think that the characters in my Browerton University series would be friends with this gang.
When the show...
June 1, 2016
Win a signed OUT ON A LIMB paperback!
What’s summer without a beach read featuring a hot shirtless guy in sunglasses on the cover?
Amiright? To celebrate the successful launch of Out on a Limb, and the arrival of summer, and your general awesomeness, I am giving away 1 signed paperback of Out on a Limb to one of my blessed Outsiders.
What’s an Outsider, you say? They are members of my mailing list whoare the first to find out about upcoming books, like sneak peeks and exclusive content, as well as sweet giveaways such as this.
T...
April 17, 2016
Out on a Limb Release Day!
It’s here! My second full-length book, the next volume in the Browerton University series, ready for consumption. I am so pumped to share this with you. I loved writing Cameron and Walker. And I love being able to share this stories with you. Enough with the mushy stuff:
Pick up your copy today at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
All Romance Ebooks
Kobo
Smashwords
This book was an emotional rollercoaster. It was up and down and push and pull...
April 12, 2016
Treat Yo Self Day
Today is the light at the end of my tunnel, the pot of gold at the end of my rainbow, the reward after all my hard work. I have a tradition that whenever I finish a draft of a book, I celebrate with a “Treat Yo Self” Day, as epitomize by Tom and Donna from Parks & Recreation.
More than the fame and glory that will come with publishing said book eventually, what gets me through the grueling process of writing a draft is knowing that the day after I finish, I will get topamper myself, doing wh...
April 6, 2016
Out on a Limb + News
Helo Outsiders,
I am in a little bit of a whirlwind with getting ready to release my next book, OUT ON A LIMB, which comes out April 18, 2016. [pause for gasps of excitement and spontaneous applause]
I wanted to drop a quick line to keep you updated. First, behold the cover and the blurb:
No looking back. That’s the motto of college senior Cameron Buckley, whether he’s kicking his latest hookup out of bed or plotting out his future as a hit screenwriter. With only a few weeks until graduation...
January 31, 2016
Dealing with Bad Reviews
TJ Klune wrote an excellent blog poston Love Bytes last week. Apparently, a bunch of readers and reviewers were saying that TJ Klunes hates women because of how some of his characters use the word vagina as a put-down. They tagged him in their reviews so he’d see them. TJclaimed that he himself was not misogynisticand that it was just slang. Butdid he get into a fight with them?
Nope.*
He put it so well, I’m just going to repost his best paragraph:
When an author writes a book, puts said book...
January 28, 2016
Donald Trump Gay Erotica
The billionaire trope is a popular one in gay fiction. As is enemies to lovers. So I guess it shouldn’t be too much of a shocker that someone has written a gay erotica novel about one of the world’s most hated (or loved) billionaires – Donald Trump.
Elijah Daniel got drunk one night and decided to write an erotic short story about The Donald gettin’ it on with a new bellboy at one of his hotels. The bellboy’s “loins trembled” from the “scent of toupee adhesive and spray tan” emanating from th...
September 20, 2015
Why I care about Tom Hardy’s Bisexuality
I shouldn’t. It’s rude of me. It’s none of my business.It doesn’t matter what he does or who he does in his private life. The rampantspeculation over Tom Hardy’s sexuality is a byproduct of our paparazzi culture, where people have no respect for any celebrity privacy.
But…
I care. I can’t help it. I’m sorry, Tom.
You see, Tom Hardy gave frank, refreshing answers in a 2008 interview, regarding his sexuality. He suggested that he had fooled around with guys when he was younger, but it wasn’t hi...
