Exclusive Excerpt and Giveaway: Sound of Silence by Mia Kerick and Raine O’Tierney

Welcome to authors Mia Kerick and Raine O’Tierney, and the blog tour for their new collaboration, Sound of Silence, from Harmony Ink Press! We’re so pleased to share this exclusive excerpt and giveaway with you, so enjoy and then be sure check out the entry details at the end.

About the Book

Title: Sound of Silence
Authors: Mia Kerick and Raine O’Tierney
Release Date: January 23rd 2018
Genre: MM Contemporary Romance, Teen Fiction
Blurb: Renzy Callen exists on the periphery of life, and not just because of the horrific childhood event that robbed him of the ability to speak. Walling himself off from the rest of the world as a means of protection, he occupies his time with art, music, and an obsession with self-help groups—whether he needs them or not. His isolation protects him, and he’s immune to drama and emotional games… or so he believes. Everything changes when he meets Seven and Morning Moreaux-Maddox, the wealthy, jet-setting siblings who move from a life of sophistication in Europe to humdrum Redcliff Hills, Missouri.

Both Seven and his sister are impossibly beautiful and elegant, like the stars in magazines and high-fashion models on the runway. When Renzy is pulled into their push-and-pull of affection and rejection, he realizes there is more to both haunted Morning and cold, diamond-sharp Seven than meets the eye.

The three teens embark on a quest to learn the reason behind Renzy’s selective mutism, and something more than friendship blossoms between Renzy and Seven. It’s during this trip of a lifetime that the three realize the truth they seek might be found in the sound of silence.

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Exclusive Excerpt

Renzy

It’s a long time later. Side A of 25 has been over for a while and I’ve just been lying here, feeling my every nerve ending.

Thinking…Not thinking…Remembering…Not remembering…Floating…Sinking…I don’t feel good.

Usually this stuff mellows me out, but I got too high too fast, and now all I can think about is… that time I peed on myself. Except I can’t remember a lot of it. Not really. The memory pops in and out of my head. When it’s out of my head, I’m calm. I’m quiet. I’m okay. But then it swarms back up, and it sounds like the flapping of birds’ wings, everywhere all around me.

It was dark. Darker than this. No moon. Pitch-black. Hot. And I was really scared.

So scared that, well, obviously I lost my bladder.

I used to be scared all the time, though, so that doesn’t tell me anything about when this would have happened.

Oh, there, it’s going away again…I’m myself. Here. In my bed. Totally alone. Thinking about Seven. Seven, Seven, Seven. Beautiful, arrogant, asshole Seven. I wonder if next time we’ll kiss with tongue.

Please just shut up Ren-Ren!

What the hell? Me? Was that person talking to me? “Shut up” is not something I’ve heard much of in my life. But I can swear that’s what they said, and I swear I heard it aloud. Formless, genderless, coming through that hot darkness—whatever was scaring me, whatever made me piss myself, just screamed at me.

It told me to shut up. Oh fuck, I wish I’d come down.

About the Authors

Mia Kerick is the mother of four exceptional children—a daughter in law school, another in dance school, a third studying at Mia’s alma mater, Boston College, and her lone son still in high school.  She writes LGBTQ romance when not editing National Honor Society essays, offering opinions on college and law school applications, helping to create dance bios, and reviewing English papers. Her husband of twenty-four years has been told by many that he has the patience of Job, but don’t ask Mia about this, as it is a sensitive subject.

Mia focuses her stories on emotional growth in turbulent relationships. As she has a great affinity for the tortured hero, there is, at minimum, one in each book. As a teen, Mia filled spiral-bound notebooks with tales of said tortured heroes (most of whom happened to strongly resemble lead vocalists of 1980s big-hair bands) and stuffed them under her mattress for safekeeping. She is thankful to Dreamspinner Press and Harmony Ink Press for providing alternate places to stash her stories.

Her books have won a Best YA Lesbian Rainbow Award, a Reader Views’ Book by Book Publicity Literary Award, the Jack Eadon Award for Best Book in Contemporary Drama, an Indie Fab Award, and a Royal Dragonfly Award for Cultural Diversity, among other awards.

Mia is a Progressive, a little bit too obsessed by politics, and cheers for each and every victory in the name of human rights. Her only major regret: never having taken typing or computer class in school, destining her to a life consumed with two-fingered pecking and constant prayer to the Gods of Technology.

Contact Mia at miakerick@gmail.com. Visit her website for updates on what is going on in Mia’s world, rants, music, parties, and pictures, and maybe even a little bit of inspiration.

Links: Facebook | Twitter

Raine O’Tierney loves writing about first loves and friendship. She believes the best thing we can do in this life is be kind to one another, and hopes her stories always reflect that. Raine loves encouraging people to write and has been known to repeat the phrase “I believe everyone has a story to tell” endlessly, until she breaks down even the most stubborn non-writer!

Raine lives outside of Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband, fellow M/M author Siôn O’Tierney. When she’s not writing, she’s either playing video games or fighting the good fight for intellectual freedom at her library day job.

Contact her if you’re interested in talking about point-and-click adventure games or about which dachshunds are the best kinds of dachshunds!

Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter

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