Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: A Restored Man Series: The Men of Halfway House #3 Author: Jaime Reese Genre: M/M Contemporary Romance Release Date: February 17, 2015 Cole Renzo thinks his greatest challenge is to behave for the remainder of his term at Halfway House. Until he meets his new boss, Ty Calloway, a man who ticks off every... Continue Reading →
Title: Here Comes Trouble Author: A.E. Via Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 296 Pages At a Glance: Starts a bit slow, but picked up and then left me wanting more Blurb: Detectives Mark Ruxsberg and Chris Green are very good at their jobs. Being the enforcers for God and Day's notorious Atlanta PD Narcotics Task Force... Continue Reading →
TNA: Hi, Sid, welcome to The Novel Approach. We’re glad to have you here with us today. Why don’t we start by having you tell us a bit about yourself? Sid: I am Sid Love, a successful blogger, reader, an ex-reviewer, an author of M/M fiction and now, a virtual promotion business owner. As of today, I’ve got... Continue Reading →
And... ACTION! By Whitley Gray Thank you to The Novel Approach for hosting me today. We all hear it, all the time. “Use stronger verbs. Get rid of adverbs.” “But I love my choices of adverbs!” you say. “They add so much!” Do they? Let’s take the classic example: “He walked across the room.” Okay, add... Continue Reading →
Title: Daron’s Guitar Chronicles: Volume Six Author: Cecilia Tan Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 547 Pages At a Glance: Cecilia Tan continues to deliver Blurb: The latest installment of the award-winning web serial about coming out and coming of age in the 1980s. After the tumultuous events at the end of the tour in 1989 leave... Continue Reading →
Title: Daron’s Guitar Chronicles: Volume Six Author: Cecilia Tan Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 547 Pages At a Glance: Cecilia Tan continues to deliver Blurb: The latest installment of the award-winning web serial about coming out and coming of age in the 1980s. After the tumultuous events at the end of the tour in 1989 leave... Continue Reading →
Title: Restless Spirits (Spirits: Book One) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 218 Pages At a Glance: An Instant Favorite Blurb: After losing the family fortune to a fraudulent psychic, inventor Henry Strauss is determined to bring the otherworld under control through the application of science. All he needs is a genuine haunting... 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: Red Dirt Heart 3 Author: N.R. Walker Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 287 Pages At a Glance: I would highly recommend you add this series to your list and give it a chance Blurb: Life for Charlie Sutton has never been better, or busier. With Travis now a permanent fixture of Sutton Station, a permanent... Continue Reading →
An Emotional Read, For Sure I think by now, readers realize that if they pick up a novel by me, Wade Kelly, they are going to have an emotional response. On occasion, readers laugh, but most of the time they cry. I don’t know why all my stories seem to yank on twenty different emotions... Continue Reading →
Title: Holding the Edge Author: Keira Andrews Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 88 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Gay figure skaters keep their relationship secret--and end up on thin ice. Misha Reznikov has an Olympic gold—and a secret lover who just happens to be the silver medalist. Now that their competitive days are over, Misha and... Continue Reading →
We have reached the end of our journey, folks, the final choices for our Top Reads of 2014. In case you've missed the others, check out Sammy's and Tina's selections HERE; Jackie's, Lana's, and Jules' HERE; Lynn's and Chris's HERE; and Kim's and Kathie's HERE. Rena and I are the last to go, and I... Continue Reading →
Hi, I'm so happy to be here! Thanks for having me. I've decided to take this opportunity to talk about Sol's Solstice and why I wrote it. First, I want to share the tagline: Sol finds that light can indeed shine in his world. Sol's Solstice is a contemporary romance, but it is not all... Continue Reading →
Hi, I'm so happy to be here! Thanks for having me. I've decided to take this opportunity to talk about Sol's Solstice and why I wrote it. First, I want to share the tagline: Sol finds that light can indeed shine in his world. Sol's Solstice is a contemporary romance, but it is not all... Continue Reading →
Greetings, everyone! The Best of the Best continues today in our selections for top reads of 2014. Just in case you missed them, Sammy's and Tina's choices can be found HERE, Jackie's, Lana's and Jules' choices can be found HERE, and just like those, we're giving one lucky reader the chance to win e-copies of... Continue Reading →
Hi, everyone, we're back again with the second round of our Best of the Best (be sure to check out Sammy's and Tina's lists HERE), and another chance for you to win e-copies of THREE of the titles selected by Jackie, Lana, and Jules, winner's choice! THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED Good luck! And now, here... Continue Reading →
It's hard to believe we find ourselves at the end of another year. Time flies when your nose is buried in a book, doesn't it? But what and where would The Novel Approach be without our love of reading? Each year at this time, we work hard to compile our lists of favorite books to... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach welcomes author E.S. Skipper today with an exclusive excerpt from his new book Whispers. E.S. is recovering from surgery, and we here at TNA wish him all the best for a speedy recovery. Read on, then be sure to click on the Rafflecopter giveaway below, where you can enter for the chance... Continue Reading →
Title: Waiting for Winter Author: L.B. Gregg Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 47 Pages Rating: A Small Gem Blurb: Some mistakes are worth repeating. Luke always thought he and Winter were the perfect couple—until the day Winter announced he was taking a new job and they were uprooting and headed for Germany. No discussion. No debate.... Continue Reading →
“A cowboy’s heart has room for anything…” My Cowboy Homecoming is the newest release from bestselling m/m romance author Z.A. Maxfield. It’s part of the Cowboy Hearts series, stories of men who love the land where they live and the animals they care for. Stories of men who love men. There’s Speedball Malloy, whose entire... Continue Reading →
TNA: Welcome to The Novel Approach, Nicole, I’m so glad to have you with us today! Why don’t we start off by having you tell us a little bit about yourself? Nicole: Thank you so much for having me! Well I'm a self-published author of the Chance Assassin series, which has me thinking about murder... Continue Reading →
Title: The Consequence of High Caliber (The Mako Shark: Book One) Author: Nicole Castle Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 168 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Miko is a devoted son. An irresponsible brother. A protective friend. An anonymous lover. An assassin, nicknamed the Mako Shark after the sheer violence of his hits. Miko is deadly. And... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach welcomes author A.E. Via today on her Here Comes Trouble blog tour. Enjoy the excerpt she's shared today, then be sure to enter for a chance to win one of THREE e-copies of the book and a $10 E-Gift Card. Good luck! Blurb Here Comes Trouble (Nothing Special: Book Three): Detectives Mark... Continue Reading →
TNA: Greetings, Sibley, thanks very much for being here with us today. Why don’t we start your interview by having you tell us a little bit about yourself? Sibley: Thanks for having me! Well, as far as “Sibley” goes, it’s a pen name for Caddy Rowland. Caddy is my real name, and I write dramatic... Continue Reading →
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