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Huge Cyber Monday 50% OFF Sale

Did you ever want to read the complete Magic University Series by Cecilia Tan (imagine Harry Potter goes to college to study sex magick)? Catch up on those backlist Trinity Blacio paranormal ménage titles? Or indulge in some pop culture guilty pleasure about Justin Bieber, Lindsay Lohan or El James?
Well, now is the time to grab everything you’ve ever wanted from Riverdale Avenue Books at half price.
The award-winning hybrid publisher is offering its entire catalog at 50% off on Cyber Monday exclusively on its website, riverdaleavebooks.com, and on allromancebooks.com. To get the deal on the RAB website, you must type in the code TGIVING2015.
Said Publisher Lori Perkins, “Cyber Monday is the time to hunt for one-day-a-year sales, and this half price sale on all our books is the best deal of the year. But the best thing is you don’t even have to leave your home.”
“Although I love all our books, if you are unsure of what to buy, I’d recommend Spank Me, Mr. Darcy, In Bed with Gore Vidal and 50 Shades of Gay.” In addition, Perkins mentioned that one of the hottest titles on her list is The Memoirs of a Gigolo series by Livia Ellis, as well as The Bossman series by Renee Rose. “But,” she added, “I am also a sucker for a good anthology and I highly recommend all of ours.

Q & A with Rachel Kenley on the Publication of Her Beastly Stepbrother

How did you come up with the idea for this book?
Lori Perkins and I were talking about how popular the stepbrother trope was becoming for readers. Since I'm a writer who loves to play with fairy tales it seemed like a great combination. For Her Beastly Stepbrother it was a matter of creating a hero who was not beautiful to look at but strong within and a heroine who has always seen the good in him and not cared about the outside package.

What else can we expect from you?
I am doing at least six more stepbrother fairy tale retellings. Next up is a sexy new version of the holiday classic The Nutcracker. I'm also going to be having fun with Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, and The Snow Queen (the basis for the Disney movie Frozen) as well as a few others.

Why do you write about fairy tales and erotic romance?
Each time I revisit a fairy tale I discover something new in the story I want to explore - and something new about myself. Fairy tales shine a light on both our greatest fears and our greatest dreams and hopes. With so much fear and negativity in the news these days, I love the opportunity to be one of the people focused on creating stories about dreams and hopes coming true.

And what is it with Stepbrothers?
I think it's a combination of things - the first is the slightly illicit aspect of the relationship. There's nothing so tempting as that which has been forbidden. Of course there's nothing actually wrong with having a relationship with your stepbrother but it's just a little to the left of acceptable. In addition, I think there is something special about a relationship that started when two people were very young - before thoughts of sex or marriage would ever have entered the picture. The connection is made over a long period of time in many different ways, including important shared experiences. It creates a deep bond, a lasting love that few real-world relationships are able to enjoy.

RAB Teams Up with GKE for First Annual Geeky Kink Anthology

To kick off the fifth annual Geeky Kink Event (GKE) in New Jersey, Riverdale Avenue Books and Jeff Mach, the creator of the event, have joined forces to publish The First Annual Geeky Kink Anthology.

"As a geek of literature, I'm incredibly excited to be part of a project that's going to bring geek and kink together in book form,” said Mach on the eve of the book’s publication. “We've had the pleasure of working with Riverdale Avenue Books at GKE, and I'm really happy to have a chance to work with them in their native medium."

The anthology, which will be published as both an ebook and a trade paperback, features the work of 19 authors with such well-know writers as multiple award-winner Cecilia Tan, and erotica mavens I.G. Frederick and Tamsin Flowers. There are also a number of first-time authors making their publishing debut in the collection.

Said RAB Publisher Lori Perkins, “This anthology is perfect! It has everything a geeky kinky reader could want — from alien anal probing to comic book super heroes and villains, and even such slightly obscure nerdishness as a new take on Jean Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear and Elvin sex. And of course, there are ample references to Doctor Who, Star Trek, Harry Potter and Devo.”
Geeky Kink is a three-day convention held in Northern New Jersey featuring lectures, panels, gaming and cosplay for adults. There is a sister convention held in Rhode Island in every summer.
About Jeff Mach
Jeff Mach is one of the country's leading producers of alternative events. His company is one of very few which create shows both for adult-only audiences and for family audiences. They run The Steampunk World's Fair, the world's largest Steampunk event. (Steampunk is a re-imagining of Victorian ideas and concepts, married to a deep sense of whimsy and creative possibility.) They also run the world's largest indoor Renfaire, the Wicked Winter Renaissance Faire, and The Geeky Kink Event, the first and premier event in the world for geeky, kinky people. http://2015.thegeekykinkevent.com/

Jeff is an award-winning playwright, and author of the seminal Steampunk rock opera "Absinthe Heroes." He's also a musician and songwriter. In his spare time, Jeff runs benefits for nonprofits like Historic Speedwell and the New England-based Warmer Winters.

Why I am in Love with a Zombie Novel - An Outcast State by Scott Smith

You might think it a bit unusual that RAB is publishing a young adult dystopian novel, but there's always a good story behind anything out of the ordinary.

This week's book is AN OUTCAST STATE by Scott Smith, a first novel by an English teacher, who just happened to have won the 2014 Dante Rossetti war or Best Young adult dystopian novel. Now i it in it's way to us?

Scott sent in a short story submission to my second zombie romance story, STILL HUNGRY FOR YOUR LOVE, which I loved. It was both romantic and horrific, perfect for my short story collection. I asked him if he was working on anything else, and, lo and behold, he was and gave me AN OUTCAST STATE, which you will see is also very romantic and pretty gruesome. I told our cover artist to think of it as Zombieland meets The Walking Dead.

I love finding new authors and giving them a start in their careers, and I am so proud to have published both Scott's first piece of fiction in my anthology, and now, is first novel.

This is a very special experience, an one I hope I will do often.

But I think you'll find that this novel is a page-turner of a tale.

An I am especially in fond the last line!

Happy Halloween!

Guest Post from Ryan Field on his New Book in the Fangsters Series

Fangsters Book 2: Gang Bang Fangsters

Here's a new release in the Fangsters series I started working on with the publisher, Riverdale Ave. Books, when they first launched. It's LGBT+ vampire erotic romance and has 70,000 words.

As you can see from the subtitle, there will be sex in the book.

Gay sex.

And plenty of it.

Rough and dirty sometimes...NSFW. Real sex with real men.

With no apologies.

I didn't hold back with this one. Just as I removed the sex scenes from Meadows Are Not Forever because sex scenes didn't work in that book, I added more than a few sex scenes to this Fangsters book because I thought they worked in the book and with the story line.

I'll post links below as they come in, and here's the blurb.

Description

Fangsters - Gang Bang Fangsters (Fangsters) by Ryan Field - Romance>Erotic Romance
In this riveting sequel to Fangsters: Clan of the Jersey Boys, Anton and Digger find themselves in a dangerous situation. After they turn their beloved Leo in haste, his transition doesn't go as planned and he's left with an intense side effect. Leo can't get enough passion, sex, or men. He's an over-sexed gay vampire so completely out of control they consider locking him up in a chained coffin for eternity.

While Anton and Digger search for a solution to Leo's problem, they continue to pursue a peaceful arrangement with the vampire clan in Atlantic City that once tried to kill them. The goal is to avoid a war between the two New Jersey clans, and with the help of a brand new character named Kane who steals Anton's heart the instant he meets him, their goal is to accomplish a temporary agreement.

However, in spite of gay orgies and gang bangs, there doesn't seem to be any hope for hypersexual Leo. And when this new character offers them a choice that could change all of them forever, even Digger can't resist the delicious temptation. Will the threats they face as vampires ruin their chances for a happy ending? But more important, will Anton find the emotional strength to do the right thing for his lovers and his clan?

Here's a link for Allromanceebooks...


Here's the Amazon link...

And this is at the publisher's web site...

RAB to Publish Lost and Found, a Heart-Breaking Tale of Mother/Son Reunion by Gaming Exec

New York, New York (October 9, 2015) – Riverdale Avenue Books will publish Lost and Found, the autobiography of Micky Neilson, in the Spring of 2016, which the publisher describes as The Glass Castle meets Of Dice and Men.
Lost and Found is the harrowing and inspirational autobiography of the successful World of Warcraft contributor and N.Y. Times best-seller Micky Neilson; who was kidnapped by his schizophrenic father as a toddler, spending his earliest years on the run and his teenage years as a foster child. This autobiography chronicles Micky’s experience serving in the first Gulf War, the meteoric rise of Blizzard Entertainment and, most triumphantly, his reuniting with the family that was stolen from him as a child.
"No one who reads my fiction today or plays the video games I've contributed to knows that I was kidnapped at 8 months old, that I grew up with a schizophrenic father, that I didn't attend school until 7th grade, or that I never knew my true identity until I was reunited with my family after 38 years,” said the author. “It's such an honor to finally be able to share my life story."
“As soon as I heard Mickey’s story, I was amazed.’ said Publisher Lori Perkins. “I know that thousands of adopted and foster children are convinced that their parents are still alive or looking for them when everyone else has given up. Micky’s story is an overwhelmingly cathartic experience, with a happy ending that needs to be shared.”
Neilson added, "What I want people to take away from this story -- of me overcoming years of struggle to reunite with my family and achieve success, is this: believe in yourself. Every human being, regardless of circumstance or hardship, can make choices that will lead to a happier, better life. But it all starts with believing in you."
About the Author
Micky Neilson is a two-time New York Times best-selling author whose graphic novels, Ashbringer (#2 on the list) and Pearl of Pandaria (#3) have both been published in six languages, selling especially well in the German, Korean and Brazilian markets. As one of the earliest contributors to Blizzard Entertainment, he has more than two decades’ experiences on the cutting edge of the gaming industry. He is currently working on a graphic novel, Rook, as well as horror novel, The Turning, and a number of film projects.

First Bio of Norman Reedus Published by RAB

Just as the sixth ever-popular season of The Waling Dead is ready to premier, the first biography of the actor Norman Reedus has been published by the innovative hybrid publishing company, Riverdale Avenue Books, written by New York Times best-selling entertainment journalist Marc Shapiro.
“Everyone I know loves Norman Reedus’ Daryl character,” says Publisher Lori Perkins. “And most women I know, and some men, who gladly choose to spend the apocalypse under his alpha protection. In this biography, readers will get to see the real man behind the mythos.”
Although Norman Reedus has been playing the crossbow-wielding zombie hunter for six years now, few viewers know that he was once a very successful and sought after male model, as well as an artist.
“He’s a very interesting character,” said Marc Shapiro, author of the unauthorized biography, “both in the roles he plays and in the life he’s lead.”
This book chronicles his days as a defiant young man in a fractured but ultimately liberating family life, allegations of physical abuse from Reedus himself, to his struggles in the Los Angeles art underground, alcohol problems that saw him in AA and, for a time, homeless, his breakthrough in acting, modeling and the slow, steady and never boring journey through love, fatherhood and his often truly odd professional choices. You’ll discover why Reedus said thanks but no thanks to an offer to play opposite a reigning superstar, how he became Daryl Dixon and how The Walking Dead changed his life.

Call for Short Stories for Geeky Kink Anthology

Riverdale Avenue Books and Geeky Kink have joined together to bring you a collection of awesome Geeky Kinkiness. (if you don't know Jeff Mach and his band of fabulously creative geeky kinksters, please go here, http://2015.thegeekykinkevent.com/)

We're looking for new and/or previously published stories featuring geeky kinkiness. Or kinky geekiness. How does your inner geek get their rocks off? Have you turned that amazing scene where you were Twilight Sparkle giving it to another bound pony right in the Pinkie Pie? Got a hot hunt short story about Boba and Han? Maybe a story set AT the GKE? Send it in!

This will be a Riverdale Avenue Book. We pay 33% royalties on digital and 8% on print which will be split on a pro rata share amongst the authors.

We will publish this book by Nov. 8 ONLINE AND IN PRINT, so the deadline is October 30.

If you also remember or know of any stories that fit under this umbrella, please forward this request to that author.

Stories should be between 1200 and 5000 words. If you have something longer, please email directly.


Send submissions to submissions@riverdaleavebooks.com as a word doc. Title your submission GKE. Please include a brief bio

Christian Reality TV Star Goes to 'Sex University' in Ripped-from-the-Headlines Novella "Christian Mingle"

"Louisa Bacio has some scorching hot lessons to teach at Sex U! Erotica as funny, sharp, and intelligent as we wish all our college classes could've been."

-- Cecilia Tan, author of The Siren and the Sword, the Magic University series

Sometimes you need to experience what’s wrong in order to find out what’s right.

New York, New York (September 30, 2015) – In a ripped-from-the-headlines novella, Riverdale Avenue Books author Louisa Bacio has sent a fictionalized version of the wife of a scandalous Christian Reality TV star to her ‘Sex University,’ where she will explore her options after being publically humiliated by her cheating husband.
As scandal after scandal piles up and her husband’s caught cheating, Jody Druger hides at the last place the non-reality TV shows expect: Sex University.

While fighting through her bedroom inhibitions, Jody learns who she really is and forges plans for an independent future, discovering new pathways toward pleasure in the process, a truly religious experience.

Author and feminist professor Louisa Bacio explained what inspired her to write the story. “We still live in a society with a double standard when it comes to sexuality. Men are forgiven for their indiscretions. Women tend to be either victimized or villainized. Christian Mingle is a fictional erotic account of a woman taking back control of her life.”

The Sex University series, published by Riverdale Avenue Books, features a fictional school in San Francisco where students go to learn about their sexuality. The series opener is Summer School, followed by Physical Education, to be published in October.

About the Author
A Southern California native, Louisa Bacio can’t imagine living far away from the ocean. The multi-published author of erotic romance enjoys writing within all realms – from short stories to full-length novels.

Bacio shares her household with a supportive husband, two daughters growing “too fast,” and a multitude pet craziness: Two dogs, five fish tanks, an aviary, hamsters, rabbits and hermit crabs. In her other life, she teaches college classes in English, journalism and popular culture.

Oct. 2 Publication Party for 25th Anniversary Edition of Bi Any Other Name

Join us on Friday, October 2nd for the publication party for this classic anthology with readings from the text by:

Sheela Lambert, founder of the Bi Writers Association and Editor of Best Bi Short Stories (Circlet Press)

Paul Nocera, Faciliator at BiRequest and noted NYC Naked performance artist

Selina Fyre (and Martin) of Pleasure Salon and sex blogging fame

AJ Walkley – (author of Queer Greer)

Ron Suresha – (author Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions, and editor at Bear Bones Books – Lethe Press)

JR Yusseff – (local blogger and author, Double Consciousness)

Anne Herendeen – (author of Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander)

Alex Gross – out of exile, 80-something, expert on Chinese sexualities..

Darcy Gorka – local budding playwright

People’s Lounge, 163 Allen St., 7:00-9:00 p.m. FREE

As always, we will have our dirty word raffle where viewers can win a digital copy of the book.