Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Men on the Make: True Gay Sex Confessions Author: Anthology – Edited by Shane Allison Publisher: Cleis Press Pages/Word Count: 232 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Gay award-winning editor Shane Allison brings together a staggeringly sexy set of true stories reflecting gay life today. Men on the Make is as incredibly diverse as the... Continue Reading →
I had a Facebook friend ask me how I go from idea to story. I thought this was the perfect time to break it down. When Totally Bound asked me to write a full-length novel for the new What’s His Passion? imprint, the idea of a MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter came to mind immediately.... Continue Reading →
Title: Tell Me It’s Real Author: TJ Klune Narrator:: Michael Lesley Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 10 Hours, 24 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Do you believe in love at first sight? Paul Auster doesn't. Paul doesn't believe in much at all. He's thirty, slightly overweight, and his best features are his acerbic wit and... Continue Reading →
Title: Tell Me It’s Real Author: TJ Klune Narrator:: Michael Lesley Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 10 Hours, 24 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Do you believe in love at first sight? Paul Auster doesn't. Paul doesn't believe in much at all. He's thirty, slightly overweight, and his best features are his acerbic wit and... Continue Reading →
Title: Hell on Earth (Hellscape: Book Two) Author: Ally Blue Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 262 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Two prisoners. One forgotten planet. A secret that twists justice beyond all recognition. All Sandman wants is to get away from his violent past on Hell’s End, but trouble follows him, leaving him with... Continue Reading →
Title: The Brick Yard Author: Carol Lynne Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 203 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: For Lucky Gunn, the hardest fight of his life happens outside the cage. On the south side of Chicago sits an old gym called The Brick Yard. Ten years ago, on a bitterly cold day, Lucky Gunn... Continue Reading →
Title: Faith & Fidelity (2nd Edition) Series: Faith, Love, and Devotion: Book One Author: Tere Michaels Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Blurb: Reeling from the recent death of his wife, police officer Evan Cerelli looks at his four children and can only see how he fails them. His loving wife was the caretaker and nurturer, and now... Continue Reading →
Title: Faith & Fidelity (2nd Edition) Series: Faith, Love, and Devotion: Book One Author: Tere Michaels Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Blurb: Reeling from the recent death of his wife, police officer Evan Cerelli looks at his four children and can only see how he fails them. His loving wife was the caretaker and nurturer, and now... Continue Reading →
Title: Moving Mountains Author: T.N. Tarrant Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: After Nathan Taylor’s wife fell into a coma, he fought for years to get custody of their son, Christopher, and finally succeeded. Although Nathan loves his wife, Letty, he has never been in love with her—theirs was a... Continue Reading →
Title: King’s Conquest Author: Valentina Heart Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 68 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: The only way for Prince Rin to save his kingdom is to marry a king and bear a child, but will he survive his fate? In a world where two kingdoms are constantly at war, Prince Rin, heir... Continue Reading →
Title: King’s Conquest Author: Valentina Heart Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 68 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: The only way for Prince Rin to save his kingdom is to marry a king and bear a child, but will he survive his fate? In a world where two kingdoms are constantly at war, Prince Rin, heir... Continue Reading →
Title: Guns n’ Boys Author: K.A. Merikan Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 323 Pages Rating: 2 Stars Blurb: --- Love is sour like a Sicilian lemon. --- The Family is always right. The Family doesn’t forget. The Family pays for blood in blood. Domenico Acerbi grew up in the shade of Sicilian lemon trees ready to... Continue Reading →
Title: Guns n’ Boys Author: K.A. Merikan Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 323 Pages Rating: 2 Stars Blurb: --- Love is sour like a Sicilian lemon. --- The Family is always right. The Family doesn’t forget. The Family pays for blood in blood. Domenico Acerbi grew up in the shade of Sicilian lemon trees ready to... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Lynley, welcome to The Novel Approach, it’s great to have you back. Why don’t we start out by having you tell us a little bit about yourself? Lynley: Thanks for having me. It’s an honor to be here. Me? Well, let’s see. I was born and raised in Indiana, but at the age... Continue Reading →
Hi, Everyone! We took a day off yesterday, but we're back again today with Round Three of our Countdown to GRL Virtual Gift Basket Giveaways. Just in case you missed them, you can enter for a chance to win Basket One HERE and Basket Two HERE . Now, here's what's up for grabs in Basket... Continue Reading →
Title: Feline Persuasion Author: Cheyenne Meadows Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 192 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When tiger shifter Cade turns an oily owner of a consultation firm over to the FBI, he finds himself with a hit man on his heels. Chester was in possession of security-breaching national secrets, and even more concerning,... Continue Reading →
Title: Thirst Author: Lisa Worrall Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: A dark killer haunts the streets of Los Angeles, stalking unwilling victims and draining their blood. When the evidence runs dry, Detective Max Bowman quenches his thirst at his local bar hoping for inspiration. Instead, he’s robbed and left... Continue Reading →
Hello everyone. Thank you for having me here at The Novel Approach. I’m T.A. Chase and for those of you who might not know me, I write M/M romance for Totally Bound and various other publishers. My newest release, Walking in the Rain, came out on the 26th. It’s the fifth book in the Rags... Continue Reading →
Hi! I’m Lisa Henry, author of Sweetwater! I’m touring the web talking about my inspiration, my writing process, and giving you a behind-the-scenes look at Sweetwater. And of course there’s a giveaway! To celebrate the release, I’m giving away an ebook from my back catalogue, as well as a $20 Riptide gift voucher. All you... Continue Reading →
Title: The Stonechild Betrothal Author: Katalinya Palokova Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 55 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Estli is a professional bodyguard and fighter for hire who stumbles on a job that looks like easy money: escort a cursed magician named Maurin Stonechild from a remote mountain village to the bustling town of Plains... Continue Reading →
Title: Shattered Heart Author: Nikki McCoy Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 185 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: In a world of devastation and slavery, two men must find the courage to overcome the pain of their pasts and fight for what they believe in–or fall, forever lost, to the ravages of war. Biochemical war has... Continue Reading →
Title: Beneath the Stain: Parts 3 and 4 Author: Amy Lane Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Serial Novel Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: In a town as small as Tyson, CA, everybody knew the four brothers with the four different fathers-- and their penchant for making good music when they weren't getting into trouble. For Mackey... Continue Reading →
Welcome to another place in time...where one can be swept away into lands and eras long forgotten. This collection of short stories was birthed because a sworn "I don't like historicals" reader fell in love with what have become some of her favorite books by most of her favorite writers. Surprisingly, they were all historicals.... Continue Reading →
Greetings, everyone! Day One of our Virtual Gift Basket Giveaway went so well, how about Round Two? We've got another great selection of prizes in Virtual Gift Basket Two today. Here's the list of what's up for grabs: • Lex Chase: A $25 Gift Card to an e-tailer of the winner’s choice • Rhys Ford:... Continue Reading →
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