Where Fiction and Reality Meet
“The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.” – Minna Thomas Antrim Title: A Rose by Any Other Name Author: Charlie Cochet Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Nights in the roaring city remind bright young things... Continue Reading →
"And there the craftsman sat in the deepening shadows of his workshop, ignoring the candles that burned themselves out till he was finally enveloped by the night, his thin figure bent over his worktable and the little minstrel." -- Hayden Thorne Title: The Glass Minstrel Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Queerteen Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Pages... Continue Reading →
"And there the craftsman sat in the deepening shadows of his workshop, ignoring the candles that burned themselves out till he was finally enveloped by the night, his thin figure bent over his worktable and the little minstrel." -- Hayden Thorne Title: The Glass Minstrel Author: Hayden Thorne Publisher: Queerteen Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Pages... Continue Reading →
G’day everyone! First of all I’d like to thank Lisa Horan for giving me this spot on ‘The Novel Approach’ to talk to you all! (Waves to Lisa!) Thank you! So, first a short bio as requested: I’m an Australian writer and most of my life has been experienced from the saddle or out in... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Geoff, thanks so much for visiting with us at The Novel Approach today. Why don’t we start by having you share a bit about yourself? Geoff: Thanks so much for having me, I always love coming to The Novel Approach. For those who don’t know me, Hi, I’m Geoff. I’m an author and... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Geoff, thanks so much for visiting with us at The Novel Approach today. Why don’t we start by having you share a bit about yourself? Geoff: Thanks so much for having me, I always love coming to The Novel Approach. For those who don’t know me, Hi, I’m Geoff. I’m an author and... Continue Reading →
Ironically enough, even though Somebody to Love is the seventh book in my Montana Romance series, the character of Phineas Bell was one of the first characters in the entire Montana Romance series to pop into my mind. The funny thing about characters is that, as a writer, you don’t sit down and think in... Continue Reading →
Title: Blood & Stone (Venom Valley: Book Three) Author: Hank Edwards Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 229 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Josh Stanton’s mother has been held prisoner by the vampire Balthazar for fifteen years. As Balthazar has turned the residents of Belkin’s Pass into vampires under his control, Josh, his lover Dex,... Continue Reading →
Title: Blood & Stone (Venom Valley: Book Three) Author: Hank Edwards Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 229 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Josh Stanton’s mother has been held prisoner by the vampire Balthazar for fifteen years. As Balthazar has turned the residents of Belkin’s Pass into vampires under his control, Josh, his lover Dex,... Continue Reading →
Title: Sand Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 44 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Andrew Parks has come to Syria to escape potential disgrace in Edwardian England, burying past heartache and scandal among the tombs. Charles Cusiter has travelled here more reluctantly, as chaperone to a friend whose fondness for the opposite sex... Continue Reading →
Title: Sand Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 44 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Andrew Parks has come to Syria to escape potential disgrace in Edwardian England, burying past heartache and scandal among the tombs. Charles Cusiter has travelled here more reluctantly, as chaperone to a friend whose fondness for the opposite sex... Continue Reading →
A Rose by Any Other Name by Charlie Cochet Genre: M/M historical romance, 1920s Length: Novel, 270 pages Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Blurb Nights in the roaring city remind bright young things that life’s too short to take for granted. Tucked away in Times Square hides the Pantheon: a secret cabaret for wealthy gay men. Pretty... Continue Reading →
A Rose by Any Other Name by Charlie Cochet Genre: M/M historical romance, 1920s Length: Novel, 270 pages Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Blurb Nights in the roaring city remind bright young things that life’s too short to take for granted. Tucked away in Times Square hides the Pantheon: a secret cabaret for wealthy gay men. Pretty... Continue Reading →
Title: Bloodline Release Date: October 7, 2014 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 with the mystery of a derelict ship, Whyborne is reluctant to get involved. Until, that is, a brutal... Continue Reading →
Title: Bloodline Release Date: October 7, 2014 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 with the mystery of a derelict ship, Whyborne is reluctant to get involved. Until, that is, a brutal... Continue Reading →
Title: Paragraph 175 Author: Ruby Lis Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 276 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Berlin, 1936. The carefree, hedonistic days of the Weimar Republic have ended, replaced by the conservatism of the Nazi Party. Stricter interpretations of laws such as Paragraph 175 criminalize homosexual activity. For gays, falling in love is punishable by... Continue Reading →
Title: Paragraph 175 Author: Ruby Lis Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 276 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Berlin, 1936. The carefree, hedonistic days of the Weimar Republic have ended, replaced by the conservatism of the Nazi Party. Stricter interpretations of laws such as Paragraph 175 criminalize homosexual activity. For gays, falling in love is punishable by... Continue Reading →
Title: Mending Him Author: Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 243 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: "As his world collapses, love opens his heart." Robbie Grayson has always felt like a bit of an outsider in the Chester family, though he’s related by blood. An orphan taken in at a young... Continue Reading →
Title: Mending Him Author: Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 243 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: "As his world collapses, love opens his heart." Robbie Grayson has always felt like a bit of an outsider in the Chester family, though he’s related by blood. An orphan taken in at a young... Continue Reading →
Title: Darkness at Endersley (The Endersley Papers #2) Author: S.A. Meade Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 175 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Joshua thought he’d left his past behind, but there’s something in the darkness at Endersley. Joshua Endersley is glad to leave a broken engagement and his sordid desires behind in London and claim... Continue Reading →
Title: Darkness at Endersley (The Endersley Papers #2) Author: S.A. Meade Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 175 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Joshua thought he’d left his past behind, but there’s something in the darkness at Endersley. Joshua Endersley is glad to leave a broken engagement and his sordid desires behind in London and claim... Continue Reading →
I don’t usually have a title when I write a book. They tend to come late, if at all. Occasionally a line will strike me as the perfect title but more often I’ll be sat there scrabbling around for anything that has the remotest connection to the book and sounds even vaguely appropriate. My Word... Continue Reading →
I don’t usually have a title when I write a book. They tend to come late, if at all. Occasionally a line will strike me as the perfect title but more often I’ll be sat there scrabbling around for anything that has the remotest connection to the book and sounds even vaguely appropriate. My Word... Continue Reading →
Title: Think of England Author: KJ Charles Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Lie back and think of England... England, 1904. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident. Alone, purposeless and angry, Curtis is determined to discover if he and his comrades... Continue Reading →
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