Falling in Love with the Passport to a Fling series

Sometimes you just want to curl up with a really good love story.

I was lucky enough to do that this holiday weekend, although I didn't know that was going to be on the agenda.

I had met Adam Carpenter a few years ago and encouraged him to start writing "smut," and he complied, selling his first erotic short story to me when I was the Editorial Director of Ravenous Romance in the Men in Shorts anthology I edited there. From there, he went on to write a few short stories, and then the Desperate Husbands series (which I still love). But, as you all know, I left RR to start Riverdale Avenue Books, and I left a few of Adam's books there as well.

Passport to a Fling started as a short story about three gay friends who have been looking for nookie in all the wrong NY neighborhoods and challenge themselves to find love in Paris, Rome and London, respectively. French Men, Italian Guys and English Lads were published under different titles, after my tenure as editor.

But I reconnected with Adam when I learned that he had sold some books to Ellora's Cave and he told me that he had gotten the rights to this earlier series back. I jumped at the chance to publish them, especially over the long Labor Day weekend when I was hoping that my readers could devour them like the delicious book man candy they are.

So I sat down to edit them fairly rapidly, and just fell in love with Matt, Freddie and Jake. The settings were romantic and the situations were exciting. I was honestly disappointed when the series ended, so I asked Adam to write us a Christmas story, which he will do (mark your calendar).

I hope you'll enjoy these hot m/m erotic romances as much as I did. Or as much as one of my other favorite erotic romance writers, Ryan Field, did:

I love all of Adam Carpenter's work because there's a special quality that draws me into his stories with characters I can relate to on one level and fantasize about on another. [Passport] to a Fling, and the series, always takes me to places that I think we all dream about from time to time. And following the lives of these unforgettable characters is about as good and authentic as it gets nowadays.