Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: A Time for Loving Author: Nico Jaye Genre: Historical M/M Romance Publisher: Self-Published Publication Date: October 23, 2014 Word Count: 6,565 Blurb: Jack and Christopher have made it through years of campaigning and the horrors of Waterloo together—side by side by day and, by night, in each other's arms. After the war is over,... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Garrett, thanks so much for being here with us today. Why don’t we start out with you telling us a little bit about yourself? Garrett: Erm, let’s see…I write porn and keep chickens. I have lots of ink and bake my own bread. I’m a kinda hybrid gal, really. :) TNA: How would... Continue Reading →
Title: DMZ Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 28 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Carlo Langlois joined the diplomatic corps to help people, but when his helicopter is shot down in a war torn country, he’s the one who needs assistance. None other than his old secret crush from university, Ky Kinnaird, turns... Continue Reading →
Title: The Last Wolf Author: Sue Brown Publisher: Love Lane Books Pages/Word Count: 162 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: The only good predator is a dead one, as far as Joe Lowther is concerned. That is until the day he shoots a wolf, only to watch the animal turn into a naked Callum Pope. Cal... Continue Reading →
Title: Sarge (F.I.S.T.S.: Book One) Author: Bey Deckard Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 49 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Sometimes it’s just about being in the right place at the right time… with the right person. Sarge is the short story of a burgeoning D/s relationship between two space marines stationed on an alien planet where... Continue Reading →
Q.) Hi, Belinda, and welcome to you. We’re glad to have you here with us today. What do you find most creatively satisfying about writing Alt U/Fantasy/Paranormal/Sci-fi rather than a contemporary romance? A.) I think I fell in love with speculative fiction way back when I was a kid. The first books I read were... Continue Reading →
Gaslamp Fortnight: A Steampunk Book Tour – October 27th – November 7th Authors L.A. Witt, Alexis Hall, and Cornelia Grey come together on a Steampunk book tour to celebrate the releases of Precious Metals, Prosperity, and Circus of the Damned. Join us on adventures through the lawless, untamed, kraken-infested skies! Trek the snowy wilds of... Continue Reading →
Title: All Fired Up (Sin City Uniforms: Book One) Author: Morticia Knight Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 160 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Officer Shawn Everly patrols the Strip and one night, fireman Trent Marshall saves him when danger strikes. But it’s still uncertain whether Trent can save himself from getting his heart broken by... Continue Reading →
Title: Beneath the Stain: Parts Six and Seven Author: Amy Lane Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 350 Pages (Full Series) 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... Continue Reading →
Title: Patchwork Heaven Author: Jaime Samms Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 344 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Singer Coby Kennedy and his drummer twin, Bruce, have a band called Patchwork Heaven. They have been rising steadily up the country music charts, but unfortunately, that rise has attracted unwanted attention. Faced with anonymous letters, sinister gifts,... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Alex, thanks so much for joining us today. Why don’t we start things off by having you tell us a bit about yourself? Alex: This is where I go 'Oh, blimey, what do you want to know?' because I'm socially inept and never know what people expect me to answer to this. How... Continue Reading →
Cowboys and Dandies and Wizards, Oh My Lisa asked me to talk a bit today about the inspirations for Prosperity, particularly in the light of the blurb, which is quite self-consciously pulpy. Prosperity actually has quite a long history of how it got where it is, and so it has quite a lot of random... Continue Reading →
If You Could Pay To Be With Someone, Would You? We fantasize about movie stars, athletes even our neighbors. We don't do anything with them because maybe they're unavailable or we don't deem ourselves worthy but there was a price, and you could pay it to be with them for one evening, would you? There's... Continue Reading →
Title: Prosperity Author: Alexis Hall Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 190 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies! Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about... Continue Reading →
Title: Under the Stars Author: Geoff Laughton Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Pages/Word Count: 180 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Ethan Tanner is an out and proud, fastidious, and fashionable sixteen-year-old vegetarian who likes theater and musicals. This year, it’s his sister’s turn to pick the vacation destination, so he ends up on a dude ranch... Continue Reading →
Knocked Down By Machismo Hello, everyone! Those of you who have read my work already know my stories are mostly inspired by everyday situations. For those of you who have yet to read my work and have absolutely no clue what to expect, I’ll tell you realism is my “thing.” There’s no magic penis that’ll... Continue Reading →
A door opens and two men enter the room. One has inquisitive green eyes and calico hair, an unusual color on Earth, but common on his home planet of Trygos. Taz: My, Reed, why have those two sent us out again? I do not understand. Reed: Time for another book, that's why. *looks at Julie... Continue Reading →
Title: Family Unit Author: Z.A. Maxfield Narrator:: JP Handler Publisher: Self-Published Run Time: 8 hours, 38 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A retired marine, Logan is methodical and conservative. Richard is a liberal pacifist who is pathologically afraid of guns. Yet the minute Logan sets eyes on Richard, his heart turns over like an old... Continue Reading →
Title: When Love Comes to Town Author: Jacob Z. Flores Narrator:: TJ Jamesin Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 7 hours, 32 minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Brody O'Shea isn't looking for much, just a hot guy with a decent job, who is sane and doesn't have kids. The son of a former rock star, Brody... Continue Reading →
Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink. A Charm of Magpies: Book Three With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student who is flying—literally—off the rails, magical law enforcer Stephen Day is under increasing stress. And his relationship with his aristocratic lover, Lord Crane, is... Continue Reading →
It seems that when I’m writing along either in a M/F or a M/M story – yes, I’m a bit all over the boards – I always forget something. Lately, it’s been blow jobs. And I really have to wonder why in the heck am I forgetting those? While it’s not one hundred percent true,... Continue Reading →
Title: Confetti, Cake & Confessions Author: K.C. Wells Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 183 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Tony Porter and Marc Powell had lived in the same house for the past eight years, since their single parents moved in together. When Tony’s mother Marie and Marc’s father Dennis decide to tie the knot at... Continue Reading →
Title: Confetti, Cake & Confessions Author: K.C. Wells Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 183 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Tony Porter and Marc Powell had lived in the same house for the past eight years, since their single parents moved in together. When Tony’s mother Marie and Marc’s father Dennis decide to tie the knot at... Continue Reading →
Title: The Shearing Gun Author: Renae Kaye Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 214 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: At twenty-five, Hank owns a small parcel of land in Australia’s rural southwest where he supplements his income from the property with seasonal shearing. Hank is a “shearing gun”—an ace shearer able to shear large numbers of... Continue Reading →
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