Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Each year, Riptide Publishing releases a holiday collection in support of an LGBTQ charity. Twenty percent of all proceeds from the Share the Love collection will be donated to the It Gets Better Project. This collection would not be possible without the talent and generosity of its authors, who have brought us the following holiday stories:... Continue Reading →
Title: Hell on Wheels (Bluewater Bay: Book Three) Author: Z.A. Maxfield Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 250 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Nash is the reliable one in the Holly family, the guy everyone counts on to keep things going. His genius twin brother is off at university, so Nash runs the family’s auto repair... Continue Reading →
So good to be back here at the Novel Approach on this stop of my Hell On Wheels Blog Tour. For those following along, my Blog Tour giveaway plan is as follows: 1.) Comment here for the chance to win an ebook. My assistant William will randomly pick a winner for each blog I visit,... Continue Reading →
Each year, Riptide Publishing releases a holiday collection in support of an LGBTQ charity. Royalties from Riptide's 2013 Home for the Holidays charity collection have raised over $14,000 in nine months for the Ali Forney Center, and continue to yield several hundred dollars per month in royalties donations. Our 2014 Share the Love collection will... Continue Reading →
A Quick Q&A With Charlie Q: Where are you from? A: Stoke Newington, in London. Just around the very limit of where you can hear Bow Bells so doubtful if I count as a cockney. (And they were mending them at the time I was born so perhaps nobody of my age truly qualifies.) Q:... Continue Reading →
Title: Precious Metals (Metals: Book Two) Author: L.A. Witt Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 150 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: For Constable Paul Benson of the North-West Mounted Police, monotony is a blessing. As a provision inspector below the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush, he’s seen miserable conditions and gold fever turn civilized... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, L.B., it’s lovely to have you here with us today on your There’s Something About Ari blog tour. Why don’t we start the Q&A off with you telling us a little bit about yourself? L.B.: Well first, I’m happy to be here. Thank you so much for having me. This is a strange... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, L.B., it’s lovely to have you here with us today on your There’s Something About Ari blog tour. Why don’t we start the Q&A off with you telling us a little bit about yourself? L.B.: Well first, I’m happy to be here. Thank you so much for having me. This is a strange... Continue Reading →
Title: There’s Something About Ari Author: L.B. Gregg Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 95 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Buck Ellis’s future seems pretty damn bright. With a full college scholarship in hand, he’s going to ditch Bluewater Bay and pave the way for his kid brother Charlie to do the same. The only fly... Continue Reading →
Title: There’s Something About Ari Author: L.B. Gregg Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 95 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Buck Ellis’s future seems pretty damn bright. With a full college scholarship in hand, he’s going to ditch Bluewater Bay and pave the way for his kid brother Charlie to do the same. The only fly... Continue Reading →
Title: The Circus of the Damned Author: Cornelia Grey Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 274 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Magician Gilbert Blake has spent his entire life conning drunkards in the seediest pubs in the darkest towns, careful to hide the true depths of his power. But when he spends a little too much... Continue Reading →
Welcome to the Riptide Publishing/L. A. Witt blog tour for Starstruck, the first in the multi-author Bluewater Bay series! Every comment on this blog tour enters you in a drawing for a choice of two eBooks off my backlist (*excluding Starstruck*) and a $10 Riptide Publishing store credit. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on... Continue Reading →
Gaslamp Fortnight: A Steampunk Book Tour – October 27th – November 7th Authors L.A. Witt, Alexis Hall, and Cornelia Grey come together on a Steampunk book tour to celebrate the releases of Precious Metals, Prosperity, and The Circus of the Damned. Join us on adventures through the lawless, untamed, kraken-infested skies! Trek the snowy wilds... Continue Reading →
Gaslamp Fortnight: A Steampunk Book Tour – October 27th – November 7th Authors L.A. Witt, Alexis Hall, and Cornelia Grey come together on a Steampunk book tour to celebrate the releases of Precious Metals, Prosperity, and Circus of the Damned. Join us on adventures through the lawless, untamed, kraken-infested skies! Trek the snowy wilds of... Continue Reading →
Cowboys and Dandies and Wizards, Oh My Lisa asked me to talk a bit today about the inspirations for Prosperity, particularly in the light of the blurb, which is quite self-consciously pulpy. Prosperity actually has quite a long history of how it got where it is, and so it has quite a lot of random... Continue Reading →
Title: Prosperity Author: Alexis Hall Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 190 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies! Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about... Continue Reading →
Hello, and welcome to the Billionaire with Benefits Blog Tour! *fanfare, etc* You might have noticed this book took me a while to write . . . or maybe you didn’t notice, but take my word for it, it did. That might be why it ended up longer than it needed it to be. Ultimately... Continue Reading →
Title: Pulling Leather (Pickup Men #3) Author: LC Chase Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 177 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: The toughest ride of his life is all in his head. Bull rider Scott Gillard has a reputation for quick fists and harsh words. What no one knows is where that anger comes from. After... Continue Reading →
Title: A Taste for Poison Series: Memory of Scorpions: Book Three Author: Aleksandr Voinov Pages: 224 Genre: Historical Fantasy, Action/Adventure Blurb: Even a king gets stung when he reaches for a scorpion. After barely surviving an assassination attempt, King Adrastes is a changed man—one who mistrusts even his allies and friends. He readies his empire... 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: 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 →
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 →
Welcome to the Belonging ’Verse re-release blog tour with Aleksandr Voinov and Rachel Haimowitz! We’re very excited to be bringing you edited second editions of our Belonging stories, Anchored and Counterpunch (in the case of Anchored, very edited, with over ten thousand new words and a completely different beginning and ending!), which are finally under... Continue Reading →
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