Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.” ― Elizabeth Strout Title: A Fighting Man (Men of Manhattan: Book Three) Author: Sandrine Gasq-Dion Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 103... Continue Reading →
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Title: Perfect Imperfections Author: Cardeno C. Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Hollywood royalty Jeremy Jameson has lived a sheltered life with music as his sole focus and only friend. Before... Continue Reading →
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut Title: Perfect Imperfections Author: Cardeno C. Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Hollywood royalty Jeremy Jameson has lived a sheltered life with music as his sole focus and only friend. Before... 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 →
Welcome to the Riptide Publishing/Aleksandr Voinov/L. A. Witt blog tour for our thriller, Hostile Ground! Every comment on this blog tour enters you in a drawing for a choice of two eBooks off our backlists (**excluding Hostile Ground) and a $10 Riptide Publishing store credit. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on May 20th, and... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the Riptide Publishing/Aleksandr Voinov/L. A. Witt blog tour for our thriller, Hostile Ground! Every comment on this blog tour enters you in a drawing for a choice of two eBooks off our backlists (**excluding Hostile Ground) and a $10 Riptide Publishing store credit. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on May 20th, and... 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 →
In chapter 17 of Basketball Jones the threats become a lot more lethal and just downright insane, and I have no one in the world to aid me through this crisis! All logical thinking has flown out the window! Intrigued? It's time for Kingett to read Basketball Jones. I still can't function. Why? Because this... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Bey, thanks so much for being here with us today. Why don’t we start with the sharing part of the interview? Would you tell us a few things about yourself: hobbies, interests, odds and ends stuff? Bey: Hmm open-ended questions… those are the ones I’ve never been good at answering. I’m still trying... Continue Reading →
“Remember that you don't owe anyone an apology. You are who you are, you have no choice, and that is beautiful.” ― Emy Storey Title: Parting Shot (AMoT: Book 7) Author: Mary Calmes Narrator:: Tristan James Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours, 2 Minutes Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Life has never been easy for... Continue Reading →
“Remember that you don't owe anyone an apology. You are who you are, you have no choice, and that is beautiful.” ― Emy Storey Title: Parting Shot (AMoT: Book 7) Author: Mary Calmes Narrator:: Tristan James Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours, 2 Minutes Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Life has never been easy for... Continue Reading →
“And someone may overpower one alone, but two together can take a stand against him. And a threefold cord cannot quickly be torn apart.”—Ecclesiastes 4:12 Title: A Threefold Cord Author: Julie Bozza Publisher: Manifold Press Pages/Word Count: 57000 Words Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Grae Edwards and his co–stars Chris Willoughby and Ben Clyde work together... Continue Reading →
“And someone may overpower one alone, but two together can take a stand against him. And a threefold cord cannot quickly be torn apart.”—Ecclesiastes 4:12 Title: A Threefold Cord Author: Julie Bozza Publisher: Manifold Press Pages/Word Count: 57000 Words Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Grae Edwards and his co–stars Chris Willoughby and Ben Clyde work together... Continue Reading →
“To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.” ― W. Somerset Maugham Title: Life After Joe Author: Harper Fox Publisher: Carina Press Pages/Word Count: 94 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: It's not the breaking up that... Continue Reading →
“To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.” ― W. Somerset Maugham Title: Life After Joe Author: Harper Fox Publisher: Carina Press Pages/Word Count: 94 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: It's not the breaking up that... Continue Reading →
I confess. I have a thing for men in uniform. Always have. I ogle smokin’ hot firemen, gape at military hunks in camouflage, and drool over sexy police officers whenever they cross my path. It must be an innate response to all that luscious man-flesh wrapped in a freshly pressed package. But don’t think for... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach is proud to once again be participating in the Hop Against Homophobia and Transphobia today, the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia. The mission of this annual blog tour throughout the LGBT writing community is a fairly simple one: "To spread awareness of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic discrimination by expressing ourselves and... Continue Reading →
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” ― Rumi Title: Bonded Author: Rosalie Tarr Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Pages/Word Count: 166 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Alec Whitehall is old-fashioned—literally. Approaching his 123rd birthday, the steely vampire has nothing better to do with his time... Continue Reading →
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” ― Rumi Title: Bonded Author: Rosalie Tarr Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Pages/Word Count: 166 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Alec Whitehall is old-fashioned—literally. Approaching his 123rd birthday, the steely vampire has nothing better to do with his time... Continue Reading →
“[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people.” ― Karen Armstrong Title: Deep Dish Author: Marc Harshbarger Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 318 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: When teenager Cary Davenport agrees to take his mother’s poodle for a walk late one... Continue Reading →
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