Guest Post, Excerpt, and Giveaway: That Rat, Carter Janson by Amy Spector

We’re so pleased to welcome author Amy Spector to TNA today on the tour for her new release from Dreamspinner Press, That Rat, Carter Janson, a new addition to the States of Love collection. Along with her guest post, she’s also sharing a teaser from the book with us, and there’s a giveaway, so be sure to check out those details below.

Welcome, Amy!

Hello, everyone! This is Amy Spector, and I’m excited to be here today on The Novel Approach to tell you a little bit about myself, share an excerpt from my upcoming release from Dreamspinner Press, and offer up a chance to win a copy of That Rat, Carter Janson.

Back in 2014, The Novel Approach was actually the first blog to ever review one of my stories, a short novella I had written for an anthology benefiting The Trevor Project. Since then I’ve written a few more books, and have fallen in love with the process a little more each time.

Part of that process has become bouncing ideas off my husband. He hates that part. He really does. And I sympathize. In college, I once showed up to a boyfriends place only to have a half ream of papers shoved into my hands and asked to read the first draft of his book! Honest to God! The pleasant evening I had envisioned turned into hours and hours of reading a strange fantasy novel I had not asked to read, all while being watched by the person who wrote it!

Maybe that’s the reason I went years and years without reading fantasy? Odd that such a thing only just occurred to me!

No doubt writers can be terrible people to spend time with. Terrible! Still, I make my husband listen to me blather on because, well if I’d had any idea that a few years down the road I’d begin writing, being my sounding board would have been included in our vows.

So, while my husband—who doesn’t shove book manuscripts into my hands because he is too busy shoving his artwork there—doesn’t care for helping me iron out the details, what he does love doing is texting me whenever I’m writing with things he really thinks I need to include in the story. Those things are normally insane pieces of dialogue and cheesy T-shirt slogans. Lots of cheesy T-shirt slogans. In fact, in That Rat, Carter Janson, Carter is wearing one of my husbands “masterpieces”. His word not mine.

I Got Me Timber Shivered at Cap’n Willy’s Blowhole

Yep, now you know who to thank for that piece of genius! And honestly? It feels very Carter to me.

How about you? If you could suggest a cheesy T-shirt slogan for one of your favorite book MCs, who would it be and what would it say? Comment below! All commenters will be entered into a drawing to win a copy of That Rat, Carter Janson!

About the Book

Title: That Rat, Carter Janson (States of Love 35)
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Release Date (Ebook): January 19th, 2018
Genre: Contemporary gay romance
Blurb: Every man has secrets, but some are bigger than others….

Felix Peake escaped a shady past to carve out a successful career as an expert in Mesopotamian art and gain the respect of the Chicago art community. But when an assistant curator—a man Felix could easily see himself falling for—asks him to reauthenticate a cuneiform tablet to avoid a looming scandal, Felix’s carefully constructed life could crumble.

The tablet is a fake, and Felix is intimately familiar with the artist. Master forger Carter Janson—Felix’s ex and first love—disappeared from his life six years before without a word of explanation. Now, to hold his world together, Felix must find the original tablet, steal it back, and replace the forgery—all before the museum exhibit debuts. It’ll mean slipping back into a role Felix wanted to leave behind and risking his promising future. But even then, he can’t do it alone. He’ll have to confront that rat, Carter Janson.

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The Excerpt

“So, how’d it go yesterday?” Hettie asked, and Felix turned from where he was unlocking the gallery’s front door to find her descending the steps. “No, don’t tell me! Let me guess. Blowjob in the bathroom?”

Felix snorted. “Not quite. Ty was there. Apparently, they’re back on.” Not that his presence would have deterred Felix if the option had been on the table. Okay, maybe it would have.

“I can’t say I’m disappointed. You have shitty taste in men.”

“Hey, now.” Felix thought that was uncalled for. “That’s my future husband you’re talking about.”

Hettie gave him her look that said she thought he was an idiot, and Felix grinned. He didn’t think that asking Have you seen him without a shirt? would persuade her to his way of thinking. Though, really, had she? It was a pretty persuasive argument.

Why had he never gone to a wine-and-cheese fundraiser before? They were way more awesome than he’d have ever guessed.

“Actually, Michael needs a piece authenticated for the Oriental.”

“Don’t they have people for that?”

“Apparently not the people he wants.”

Felix held the door open, letting Hettie through before locking it again. They didn’t open for a few more minutes, not that the Hanging Garden was likely to have early-morning foot traffic.

Hettie clicked her tongue and followed him as he made his way to the back of the small gallery room. “So, do you think this is just a prelude to Michael—”

“Fucking me up against a glass case of Babylonian antiquities? Yes.” Felix punched a code into the keypad, and the quiet bleep of the alarm went silent. “Or at least that’s pretty much the thought that got me out of bed this morning.”

About the Author

Amy Spector grew up in the United States surviving on a steady diet of old horror movies, television reruns, and mystery novels.

After years of blogging about comic books, vintage Gothic romance book cover illustrations, and a shameful amount about herself, she decided to try her hand at writing stories. She found it more than a little like talking about herself in third person, and that suited her just fine.

She blames Universal for her love of horror, Edward Gorey for her love of British Drama and writing for awakening the romantic that was probably there all along.

Amy lives in the Midwest with her husband, children, and her cats Bowie and Poe.

Connect with Amy online: Facebook || Twitter || Goodreads || Website/Blog

The Giveaway

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