Where Fiction and Reality Meet
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 →
Title: Brute Author: Kim Fielding Narrator:: K.C. Kelly Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 11 Hours, 14 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Brute leads a lonely life in a world where magic is commonplace. He is seven and a half feet of ugly, and of disreputable descent. No one, including Brute, expects him to be more... Continue Reading →
Title: My Haunted Blender’s Gay Love Affair, and Other Twisted Tales Authors: Abigail Roux, Andrea Speed, and Anne Tenino Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 340 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A collection of not-so-chilling tales of love and laughter from three of the genre's masters of pulp. In The Bone Orchard by Abigail Roux –... Continue Reading →
Title: My Haunted Blender’s Gay Love Affair, and Other Twisted Tales Authors: Abigail Roux, Andrea Speed, and Anne Tenino Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 340 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A collection of not-so-chilling tales of love and laughter from three of the genre's masters of pulp. In The Bone Orchard by Abigail Roux –... Continue Reading →
HomoErotiCon, the conference featured in Authors Gone Wild, is a place where anything could happen. This little book, okay it’s a huge book, is filled with fantasy meet-ups where fun is the focus. Authors, readers, publisher, and industry professionals are out to have a good time, and they really are into having a good time.... Continue Reading →
Hello everyone! My name is Sophie Bonaste and I am guest posting today as part of the GRL Blog Tour. But before I begin I want to send a big thanks to Lisa Horan and all of the great bloggers helping to promote all of us authors attending this year’s conference. As I write this,... Continue Reading →
It's been in the planning for weeks, and the time is finally here! With less than three weeks until the official first day of GayRomLit 2014, The Novel Approach and our team of Featured and Supporting Authors have put together Seven Virtual Gift Baskets to give away. Helping us kick things off with Basket One... Continue Reading →
Title: Masks: Ordinary Champions Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Queerteen Press Pages/Word Count: 189 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Book 3 of the Masks series follows Eric’s adventures as a newly-transformed supervillain sidekick. Taking advantage of Eric’s relationship with Peter, the Devil’s Trill uses him for a shield against the superheroes. In the meantime, new villains... Continue Reading →
Title: Sweetwater Author: Lisa Henry Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 240 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Wyoming Territory, 1870. Elijah Carter is afflicted. Most of the townsfolk of South Pass City treat him as a simpleton because he’s deaf, but that’s not his only problem. Something in Elijah runs contrary to nature and to God.... Continue Reading →
I would like to thank The Novel Approach for hosting me today. I'm taking you behind the scenes to the making of Twin Flames with today's topic of "world rules." When I'm writing by the seat of my pants, creating the characters and the world as I go along, I have to very careful. Nowadays,... Continue Reading →
Blurb:Transitions: Book Two Although Addy’s heart and body bear the scars from his life before he was adopted by the Deans, he’s ached for something he thought he would never find. Until he met Benny. He isn’t sure how anyone can care for someone as broken as he is, even though he wants it desperately.... Continue Reading →
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