Where Fiction and Reality Meet
The Novel Approach welcomes Cari Z. and Riptide Publishing on the Rules to Live By anthology blog tour. Every comment on this blog tour enters you in a drawing for a $15 credit at Riptide Publishing. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on February 22. Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. entries. So, enjoy what... Continue Reading →
Title: Lights, Camera, Cupid! Author: L.A. Witt, Amy Lane, SE Jakes, Anne Tenino, Z.A. Maxfield Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 226 Pages At a Glance: Instant gratification in five satisfying pieces Reviewed By: Lisa Blurb: Cupid is visiting Bluewater Bay, and he’s leaving chaos in his wake. Nothing’s been the same in this sleepy little... Continue Reading →
Title: Semper Fidelis Author: Anthology Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 213 Pages Reviewed By: Sammy Blurb: ‘Anomaly’ by S.A. McAuley Warning: Untested chemical reactions in process… When Staff Sergeant Galen Welc is handed Temporary Additional Duty orders that move him to the Marine Corps base at Twentynine Palms, he thinks he’s prepared for what’s to... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach is pleased to welcome the Brit Boys: On Boys tour today. The question was posed to the participating authors in the collection: A lot of British authors set their books in the US, are your books normally set in the UK and does it make a difference to your style of writing?... Continue Reading →
Title: What’s His Passion? Author: Anthology Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 367 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Overall Blurb: Explore our contemporary collection of men and their passions. We all have our passions—whether they’re simple pleasures like fine wine and good music, or more ambitious like climbing mountains or jumping out of airplanes. It might even... Continue Reading →
Title: What’s His Passion? Author: Anthology Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 367 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Overall Blurb: Explore our contemporary collection of men and their passions. We all have our passions—whether they’re simple pleasures like fine wine and good music, or more ambitious like climbing mountains or jumping out of airplanes. It might even... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach is happy to have Rob Rosen here today on the Men of the Manor blog tour. I asked Rob to tell us what prompted him to put his own erotic twist on the historical romance genre, and this is what he had to say. As a fan of both Downton Abbey and... Continue Reading →
Titles: Xmas Cake: A Modern Fairy Tale, Coming in from the Cold, and The Bard and His Boyfriend Authors: Raine O’Tierney, Ava Penn, Kathleen Hayes Publisher: Beaten Track Publishing – Boughs of Evergreen Anthology benefitting The Trevor Project Pages/Word Count: 43 Pages/52 Pages/35 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Overall Blurbs: Xmas Cake: Once upon a snowy... Continue Reading →
Title: Blood Embrace Author: Anthology Publisher: Storm Moon Press Pages/Word Count: 133 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Vampires have become the ultimate erotic figure in paranormal literature, but the creatures in "Blood Embrace" are more than just pretty immortals who suck the blood from their victims or companions. This anthology showcases M/M short stories that... Continue Reading →
Title: Ordinary Heroes Author: Drew Zachary Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 65 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: These four tales by Drew Zachary celebrate the everyday hero. Whether it’s a midnight romp in a corn maze under the moonlight at Halloween, or a vet returning to his small hometown years after leaving for the big... Continue Reading →
Holidays, don’t you just love holidays? The warmth, the abundance of food, the traditions, the love. That’s maybe the most important thing—the love. Holidays bring friends and family together,everyone is basking in the warm acceptance, the understanding, the unconditional love. No? No, I dare say that’s not always the case. For Simon in From All... Continue Reading →
Title: First Time for Everything Author: Anthology Publisher: Harmony Ink Press Pages/Word Count: 350 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: There’s nothing like the first time. Whether it’s a first crush, first date, first kiss, or finding tolerance and approval for the first time, for gay, lesbian, bi, and trans teens—or those still exploring and discovering... Continue Reading →
Title: A Taste of Honey Author: Anthology Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 340 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: In the mood to try something sweet? How about a collection of stories about bears and the special men in their lives? Guys don’t have to be in their twenties, perfectly sculpted, and hairless to be hot.... Continue Reading →
Title: Grand Adventure Author: Anthology Narrator:: Various Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 15 Hours, 33 Minutes Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: On September 1, 2011, TJ Klune wrote, "...it's not about the ending, it's about the journey..." in a review of Eric Arvin's Woke Up in a Strange Place. With those words, two men began a... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Book Name: From Chicago With Love Conceived By: Cate Ashwood Authors: More than 80 of the Featured and Supporting Authors of GRL Cover Artist: L.C. Chase Blurb: Writing is a solitary activity, and yet authors would be useless without readers to devour the words they create. GayRomLit brings the two together; a community made up... Continue Reading →
Title: Active Duty Author: Anthology (Edited by Neil Plakcy) Publisher: Cleis Press Pages/Word Count: 224 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: These fierce stories of love on the front lines grab and hold readers’ attention as they travel the world with these soldier on Active Duty. In the wake of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone! First, I want to thank Lisa for having me back again so soon! Second, I want to explain that first thing. Charli Green is my YA pseudonym, but the name Charley Descoteaux is probably more familiar around here. Not everyone does it this way, but I’m keeping my YA separate from my ERom.... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone! First, I want to thank Lisa for having me back again so soon! Second, I want to explain that first thing. Charli Green is my YA pseudonym, but the name Charley Descoteaux is probably more familiar around here. Not everyone does it this way, but I’m keeping my YA separate from my ERom.... Continue Reading →
Title: The Fantasy Collection Author: Kiernan Kelly Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 73 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: This collection features three tales of fantastical lives and impossible love. Suspend your belief, and dive into a trio of stories filled with incredible circumstances, and magical influences. In Mr. Fix-It, a frustrated consumer finds himself the... Continue Reading →
Title: The Fantasy Collection Author: Kiernan Kelly Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 73 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: This collection features three tales of fantastical lives and impossible love. Suspend your belief, and dive into a trio of stories filled with incredible circumstances, and magical influences. In Mr. Fix-It, a frustrated consumer finds himself the... Continue Reading →
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