Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Will & Patrick’s Happy Ending (Wake Up Married: Episode Six) Authors: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 127 Pages At a Glance: Wheeeeee! Well, that was fun. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Sure, Will and Patrick are in love now, but they weren’t when they got married in Vegas. For Patrick, that’s no... Continue Reading →
Guess what, readers? If you haven't started this serial because you don't like cliffhanger endings and hate waiting for your next fix, the final episode in the Wake Up Married series is on its way soon. And, since it's titled Will and Patrick's Happy Ending, I'm just going to throw this out there: now's as... Continue Reading →
Title: Will & Patrick Meet the Mob (Wake Up Married: Book Five) Authors: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 147 Pages At a Glance: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths have made this such a fun serial to follow—in all its soap opera dramatics and over-the-top antics and in watching our heroes slowly... Continue Reading →
Title: Will & Patrick Fight Their Feelings (Wake Up Married: Episode Four) Authors: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 137 Pages At a Glance: Yep, the denying denierpantses are at it again, and I loved every word of it. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Will and Patrick have embraced adding hot sexy-times to... Continue Reading →
Title: Will and Patrick Do the Holidays (Wake Up Married: Episode Three) Author: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 117 Pages At a Glance: The soap opera fun continues for our bold, beautiful, young, and restless duo. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: A couple’s first holiday season is always a special time. Thanksgiving,... Continue Reading →
Title: Will and Patrick Meet the Family (Wake Up Married: Episode Two) Author: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 117 Pages At a Glance: Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of their lives… and woot! it’s fun. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Meeting the family is challenging for every new... Continue Reading →
Title: Will and Patrick Wake Up Married Author: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 112 Pages At a Glance: Leta Blake and Alice Griffiths are casting, scripting and directing our way through a funny, angsty, and what I think will end up being a touching little romance. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: After... Continue Reading →
Please join us in welcoming authors Leta Blake and Indra Vaughn today on their Vespertine blog tour. They've brought along a little tease from the book for your reading pleasure, and are also giving one lucky reader the chance to win an e-copy of a book from either of their backlists (**EXCLUDES Vespertine**). Just click... Continue Reading →
Title: Verspertine Authors: Leta Blake and Indra Vaughn Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 396 Pages At a Glance: This book blew me away. Reviewed By: Jules Blurb: Can a priest and a rock star obey love's call? Seventeen years ago, Jasper Hendricks and Nicholas Blumfeld's childhood friendship turned into a secret, blissful love affair. They spent... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach welcomes Leta Blake today as she tours the web to chat about Matty Marcus, Rob Lovely, and the newest chapter in their romance, Training Complex. Enjoy Leta's guest post and then be sure to click on the Rafflecopter widget below for the chance to win any e-title from her backlist (**excl. Training... Continue Reading →
Title: Training Complex (Training Season: Book Two) Author: Leta Blake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 345 Pages At a Glance: Training Complex is a beautiful continuation to a story and characters I love. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Buckle up – Matty’s back! Figure skater Matty Marcus didn’t capture Olympic gold, but he won rancher Rob Lovely’s... Continue Reading →
When we first began writing our sexy, gay twists on classic fairy tales, we deeply offended someone on the internet, who ranted that the children’s stories we all grew up reading should remain unsullied. We thought it rather amusing that this person was crusading to retain the purity of fairy tales when the original stories... Continue Reading →
When we first began writing our sexy, gay twists on classic fairy tales, we deeply offended someone on the internet, who ranted that the children’s stories we all grew up reading should remain unsullied. We thought it rather amusing that this person was crusading to retain the purity of fairy tales when the original stories... Continue Reading →
Title: Rise: A Gay Fairy Tale Author: Keira Andrews and Leta Blake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 106 Pages At a Glance: Rise is everything you’d expect a fairy tale to be: magical, mystical, romantic, and it’s well written to boot. Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: What happens when Jack meets a sexy man atop that beanstalk?... Continue Reading →
Title: Smoky Mountain Dreams Author: Leta Blake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 425 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Sometimes holding on means letting go. After giving up on his career as a country singer in Nashville, Christopher Ryder is happy enough performing at the Smoky Mountain Dreams theme park in Tennessee. But while his beloved Gran... Continue Reading →
Jagdschmuck. To my American ears, that word sounds like an awful insult. Can’t you just hear it? “Ugh, she's such a Jagdschmuck!” But the word in German describes the long tradition of setting small hunting trophies such as the teeth, antler, or tusk of certain legally hunted animals into jewelry which is then worn by... Continue Reading →
Cheers, everyone, and many thanks for stopping by to see what's coming up this week. We've got lots of great guests and giveaways, as well as reviews, interviews, and cover reveals in store for you. Here's what we've got on tap in the week ahead. Monday – Mary Calmes is kicking off the week with... Continue Reading →
Cheers, everyone, and many thanks for stopping by to see what's coming up this week. We've got lots of great guests and giveaways, as well as reviews, interviews, and cover reveals in store for you. Here's what we've got on tap in the week ahead. Monday – Mary Calmes is kicking off the week with... Continue Reading →
The opening paragraphs of The River Leith came to me in a rush one afternoon, the voice so sure and confident, the words flowing through my brain like a river, and I hurried to get them down. Some characters and books are like that. They show up and they have a voice and a presence,... Continue Reading →
The opening paragraphs of The River Leith came to me in a rush one afternoon, the voice so sure and confident, the words flowing through my brain like a river, and I hurried to get them down. Some characters and books are like that. They show up and they have a voice and a presence,... Continue Reading →
“I don’t know you. I don’t even know why we’re friends, and I still like you. I like you...” Leith swallowed hard and exhaled a shaky breath, searching for the right word. “Desperately.” – Leta Blake Title: The River Leith Author: Leta Blake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 173 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Memory is... Continue Reading →
“I don’t know you. I don’t even know why we’re friends, and I still like you. I like you...” Leith swallowed hard and exhaled a shaky breath, searching for the right word. “Desperately.” – Leta Blake Title: The River Leith Author: Leta Blake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 173 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Memory is... Continue Reading →
Hi, everyone, I hope you've all had a great week. We’ve got loads of good stuff coming up in the week ahead, including a couple more guest posts to celebrate the Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia and another Countdown to GayRomLit guest visit. Watch for some great articles, interviews, giveaways, and reviews. But first, I... Continue Reading →
Hi, everyone, I hope you've all had a great week. We’ve got loads of good stuff coming up in the week ahead, including a couple more guest posts to celebrate the Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia and another Countdown to GayRomLit guest visit. Watch for some great articles, interviews, giveaways, and reviews. But first, I... Continue Reading →
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