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, 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 →
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 →
Title: Flight of Magpies Author: KJ Charles Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 212 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink. A Charm of Magpies: Book 3 With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student who is flying - literally -... Continue Reading →
Good morning! Historical m/m is a hard sell to traditional romance readers. Historical fiction has its own set of parameters. It’s judged on historical accuracy as well as the usual romance standards. So you really can’t completely disregard the fact that -- although we all know that there is nothing new to homosexuality-- two men... Continue Reading →
Title: The Lord Won’t Mind Author: Gordon Merrick Publisher: Open Road Media Pages/Word Count: 256 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Charlie Mills always played the role of the good grandson, and his grandmother rewarded him for it handsomely in the form of all the gifts, money, and attention a boy could want. Entering college in... Continue Reading →
Title: The Lord Won’t Mind Author: Gordon Merrick Publisher: Open Road Media Pages/Word Count: 256 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Charlie Mills always played the role of the good grandson, and his grandmother rewarded him for it handsomely in the form of all the gifts, money, and attention a boy could want. Entering college in... Continue Reading →
Title: A Most Personal Property Author: Darrah Glass Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 460 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: In the heat of August 1900, Henry Blackwell—rich, handsome, and painfully shy—anticipates the purchase of his companion slave, that most personal of properties, with equal parts excitement and dread. There are limits to what a gentleman might... Continue Reading →
Title: Bloodline (Whyborne & Griffin: Book Five) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 236 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a... Continue Reading →
Title: Bloodline (Whyborne & Griffin: Book Five) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 236 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a... Continue Reading →
Title: Half a Man Author: Scarlet Blackwell Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 27000 Words Rating: 2.5 Stars Blurb: In a world torn apart by war, solace is hard to find... It is 1919, less than a year after the end of the First World War and a recovering Britain is in the grip of the... Continue Reading →
Title: The Glass-House Murder Author: T. Nielson Publisher: JMS Books Pages/Word Count: 156 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Meet Lord Henry Carlisle: gentleman, wastrel, and mystery-novel lover. When his mother telephones him on a May evening to tell him they've just discovered a body in the glass-house, Hal does what he loves to do: he... Continue Reading →
Title: Sacrificed: Heart Beyond the Spires Author: Bey Deckard Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 380 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Reunited once more, the crew of Baal’s Heart must make the long and treacherous journey south to the towering spires of the Devil’s Isles. The path through the mountain range is fraught with peril; mayhem and... 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 →
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: 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 →
Title: Ransom Author: Lee Rowan Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 276 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: An officer, a gentleman... and a sodomite. The first two earn him honor and respect, the third may cost him his life. David Archer realizes how hopeless his attraction to his fellow midshipman is from the moment a newly-arrived... Continue Reading →
Title: Isle of Illusions Author: A.L. Wilson Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 30000 Words Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: The year is 1954 and this marks 10 rocky years that Cyrus has spent with his human companion, Dr. Lorenz Meissner. The two unlikely lovers, after some heated debate, decide to cross the Mediterranean and go on holiday... Continue Reading →
Knights & Squires Hi, I'm Elin. Many thanks to The Novel Approach for allowing me to post here today in celebration of my new release. A Taste of Copper is a historicalish story with a medievalish setting. The story concerns the troubled relationship between a loyal squire and his master, a grumpy and unappreciative knight,... Continue Reading →
Here’s to staying young our whole life by tapping into our soul’s expression ~ Jill Badonsky I love reading books about characters my age. And, just like Jill’s quote says, I also feel like I can stay young by reading about characters who are younger. First of all, there is the wisdom that comes with... Continue Reading →
Here’s to staying young our whole life by tapping into our soul’s expression ~ Jill Badonsky I love reading books about characters my age. And, just like Jill’s quote says, I also feel like I can stay young by reading about characters who are younger. First of all, there is the wisdom that comes with... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Rachel, thanks so much for being here with us today. Let's begin by having you tell us a little bit about yourself. Rachel: I’m from South Carolina. I live in South Carolina with my son Matt, daughter-in-law Brittany, who does my book covers, and my orange tabby cat Little Hoss. I’m a huge... Continue Reading →
Title: The Knife of Narcissus (Parts One and Two) Author: Carolyne Chand Publisher: dik-dik books Pages/Word Count: 123 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Lucius Sentius, along with most people in the city of Rome, assumes that the debauched days of Nero are behind them now that Rome has settled down under a sober new ruler,... Continue Reading →
Title: The Pillar Author: Kim Fielding Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: During his youth, orphaned thief Faris was flogged at the pillar in the town square and left to die. But a kind old man saved him, gave him a home, and taught him a profession. Now Faris is the herbalist... Continue Reading →
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