Blog Tour: Cozzi Cove, Bouncing Back and In My Heart by Joe Cosentino

The romantic, mysterious, and magical place called Cozzi Cove

COZZI COVE: BOUNCING BACK by Joe Cosentino
Publisher: NineStar Press (March 19, 2016)
Amazon Kindle: Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back

On Cozzi Cove at the New Jersey shore, handsome Cal Cozzi’s seven bungalows are open for summer and love. Mario and Harold are brothers and college students who happen to look alike, but couldn’t be more different: Mario is searching for love, and Harold is searching for lust. Josh and Greg, a wealthy older couple, are matchmakers for their son, Christopher. When it comes to Connor, the maid, packed with muscles and a roving sponge, anything can happen. Opposites attract as wild Tim with the secret past meets shy Mark, and porn star Chuck Caliber connects with Sean, a virgin romance novelist. And what will happen when computer-game designer Arthur has a midnight sea rendezvous with a merman? Even married Cal faces an emotional upheaval when a gay bashing turns into something quite unexpected. What secrets and passions lie in magical Cozzi Cove?

I spent my summers as a kid on the New Jersey shore. One day while walking around town, I found a cove and thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. A cove is formed when softer rocks are worn away by the sun and salty water faster than the harder rocks surrounding them. This creates a gorgeous bay of turquoise water shielded by large rocks in the distance and smaller rocks near the water’s edge. It is amazingly beautiful. Check out the book cover and I’m sure you’ll agree a cove is the perfect setting for my new series, COZZI COVE.
In the series Cozzi Cove is a grouping of bungalows set off on a cove on the New Jersey shore. Cal Cozzi’s grandfather built the bungalows, and Cal’s father rented them to men who shared his son’s gay sexual orientation. Cal, continues that tradition opening the bungalows as a gay resort each summer. Cal, short for Calvin, is thirty years old, tall, and muscular. His Italian and Scottish heritage left him with striking auburn hair and a strong nose. He is honored to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Cal is married to Lance who is twenty-four, short, stocky, African American with dark hair and dark eyes and amazing dimples. As a second grade teacher, Lance is off during the summers, his favorite time of year. This leaves him more time to do what he loves most: being with Cal.
Connor, the college student assisting Cal in running Cozzi Cove, is packed with ginger hair, freckles, huge muscles, and raging hormones. Each resident at Cozzi Cove is a potential new conquest for Connor.
The other regular characters are Tommy, the bald, muscular, tattooed local bar owner who has held a torch for Cal since high school. Carla Mangione, a New Age enthusiast, runs Carla’s Seafood Restaurant and holds a similar torch for Cal’s sister.
Cal’s hysterically funny top-one-percenter sister, Taylor, drops in from Rome, Paris, Wall Street, or Palm Springs at the most unlikely occasions.
On to the guests in book one, COZZI COVE: BOUNCING BACK. After my Bittersweet Dreams novella, An Infatuation (Divine Magazine Readers’ Choice Award 2nd Place for Best MM Romance), was published by Dreamspinner Press, countless readers begged me for more time with one of the minor characters from An Infatuation. So that character and his brother are the first guests at Cozzi Cove. They are two brothers/college students who look alike, but couldn’t be more different. Mario is searching for love, and Harold is searching for lust. There are also a wealthy older couple, Josh and Greg, who play matchmakers for their gorgeous son Christopher. Opposites attract as player Tim meets shy Mark, and porn star Chuck Caliber connects with Sean, a virgin romance novelist. Finally computer game designer Arthur has a midnight sea rendezvous with a merman. Even Cal faces an emotional upheaval when a gay bashing turns into something quite unexpected for him. As these stories unwind throughout the book, you’ll realize nothing is what it seems at the magical place called Cozzi Cove.
The second book, COZZI COVE: MOVING FORWARD, releases from NineStar Press on April 18. So grab your Speedos, suntan lotion, and shades and head to Cozzi Cove. I hope to see you there! I love hearing from readers. Please contact me at: http://www.JoeCosentino.weebly.com.

( Excerpt of COZZI COVE: BOUNCING BACK by Joe Cosentino )

In My Heart - An Infatuation & a Shooting Star by Joe Cosentino
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (March 21, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1634771036
ISBN-13: 978-1634771030
Amazon: In My Heart - An Infatuation & a Shooting Star

AN INFATUATION: With his ten-year high school reunion approaching, Harold wonders whether Mario will be as muscular, sexy, and tantalizing as he remembers. As a teenager, it was love at first sight for Harold while tutoring football star Mario, until homophobia and bullying drove Mario deep into the closet. Now they’re both married men. Mario, a model, is miserable with his producer wife, while Harold, a teacher, is perfectly content with his businessman husband, Stuart. When the two meet again, will the old flame reignite, setting Harold’s comfortable life ablaze? How can Harold be happy with Stuart when he is still infatuated with his Adonis, his first love, Mario? Harold faces this seemingly impossible situation with inimitable wit, tenderness, and humor as he attempts to reconcile the past and the future.

A SHOOTING STAR: On the eve of the best night of his life, winning an Academy Award, Jonathan Bello thinks back to his one great love, David Star. Flipping back the pages of time, Jonathan recalls his handsome, muscular, and charismatic college roommate. Since Jonathan was a freshman and David a senior in the Theatre Department, David took Jonathan under his wing and molded him, not only as an actor but as a lover. With every wonderful new adventure, David left his joyful mark on anyone with whom they came in contact, but Jonathan soon uncovered David’s dark past, leading to a shocking event. Undaunted, Jonathan celebrates the captivating man who will always hold a special place in his heart.

I am incredibly touched by your many messages in praise of my two e-book novellas from Dreamspinner Press, AN INFATUATION and A SHOOTING STAR, including how reading them changed your lives. This is especially important to me since AN INFATUATION is loosely based on my years in high school and my ten-year high school reunion, and A SHOOTING STAR is loosely based on my time as a theatre major in college. Your support and enthusiasm helped AN INFATUATION win Favorite Book Cover and 2nd Place Favorite Romance Novel in Divine Magazine’s Readers’ Poll of 2015, and me win 2nd Place Favorite Author. Now your embracing of these two novellas has caused Dreamspinner Press to publish them together in a paperback under the title IN MY HEART, releasing March 21. I hope you will embrace the paperback anthology in the same way as you did the e-books. Thank you from--in my heart. Hugs. Joe Cosentino

About the Auhtor: Amazon Bestselling author Joe Cosentino wrote Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back (NineStar Press), Drama Queen and Drama Muscle Nicky and Noah mysteries (Lethe Press), An Infatuation, A Shooting Star, A Home for the Holidays, The Naked Prince and Other Tales from Fairyland (Dreamspinner Press), Paper Doll (Whiskey Creek Press) and Porcelain Doll (Wild Rose Press) Jana Lane mysteries, and The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (Eldridge Plays and Musicals). He has appeared in principal acting roles in film, television, and theatre, opposite stars such as Bruce Willis, Rosie O’Donnell, Nathan Lane, Holland Taylor, and Jason Robards. His one-act plays, Infatuation and Neighbor, were performed in New York City. He wrote The Perils of Pauline educational film (Prentice Hall Publishers). Joe is currently Head of the Department/Professor at a college in upstate New York, and is happily married. His upcoming novels are Cozzi Cove: Moving Forward (Nine Star Press), Drama Cruise Nicky and Noah mystery (Lethe Press), and Satin Doll and China Doll Jana Lane mysteries (Wild Rose Press). Joe was voted 2nd Place for Best MM Author of the Year in Divine Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Awards for 2015!

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