Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Blue Moon II: This Is Reality Author: A.E. Via Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 194 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Pierce aka Strategic Intelligence Specialist, Backhander is back to flush out some of the DEA’s most notorious criminals, and he has one helluva’ team backing him up. The country’s most decorated Navy Seals…the Beastmasters. Pierce... Continue Reading →
Title: Cold Feet Author: Jay Northcote Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 107 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Best friends snowed in together. When the heat rises, will they get cold feet? Getting snowed in at a remote cottage in Wales with someone he’d fancied for ages isn’t exactly how Sam expected to spend Christmas. His feelings... Continue Reading →
As our reluctant hero Ellis is a Yorkshireman at heart, I thought it might be fun to put together a little glossary for our friends across the pond. Remember, Ellis: You never go Full Yorkshire! A Handy Glossary of Yorkshire Terms: Areet – All right. Y’areet there, petal? Aye – Yes. Aye, I did it.... Continue Reading →
As our reluctant hero Ellis is a Yorkshireman at heart, I thought it might be fun to put together a little glossary for our friends across the pond. Remember, Ellis: You never go Full Yorkshire! A Handy Glossary of Yorkshire Terms: Areet – All right. Y’areet there, petal? Aye – Yes. Aye, I did it.... Continue Reading →
The most common question I get, as a writer, is “where do you get your ideas?” I suppose that many writers would say the same thing. In the case of my Christmas story Matches, the inspiration came from two places—the wonderful, yet often poignant, fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the plight of the... Continue Reading →
The Flower Courting Ritual When I wrote The Fifth Son, I wanted to include a courting ritual, but I had no idea what shape that would take. I wanted something different from our traditional exchange of rings. Something different meant Googling... for hours, because it's so easy to sink into the quick sand that's Google.... Continue Reading →
Title: Smoky Mountain Dreams Author: Leta Blake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 425 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Sometimes holding on means letting go. After giving up on his career as a country singer in Nashville, Christopher Ryder is happy enough performing at the Smoky Mountain Dreams theme park in Tennessee. But while his beloved Gran... Continue Reading →
Title: Dilemma Author: Noah Willoughby Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 195 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Though surrounded by people on a daily basis, Chuck is a miserably lonely man, desperately seeking companionship and affection. Not only does his shy personality make him reluctant to approach others, but he also harbors a secret side of himself... Continue Reading →
Jagdschmuck. To my American ears, that word sounds like an awful insult. Can’t you just hear it? “Ugh, she's such a Jagdschmuck!” But the word in German describes the long tradition of setting small hunting trophies such as the teeth, antler, or tusk of certain legally hunted animals into jewelry which is then worn by... Continue Reading →
Title: Matches Author: Rick R. Reed Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 17 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Christmas Eve should be a night filled with magic and love. But for Anderson, down on his luck and homeless in Chicago's frigid chill, it's a fight for survival. Whether he's sleeping on the el, or holed up in... Continue Reading →
Title: Talk About Happy Endings Author: Kol Anderson Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 102 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Five couples try to find love on Christmas and in the process discover themselves. Review: Have you ever made a Christmas Wish? Are you familiar with the saying, "be careful what you wish for?" Well, in this... Continue Reading →
Title: Blue Mountain (Pack Collection: Book One) Author: Cardeno C. Publisher: Self-Publishes Pages/Word Count: 148 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Exiled by his pack as a teen, Omega wolf Simon Moorehead learns to bury his gentle nature in the interest of survival. When a hulking, rough-faced Alpha catches Simon on pack territory, he tries to... Continue Reading →
Title: rock Author: Anyta Sunday Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 256 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Igneous. When Cooper’s parents divorce, he finds himself landed in Week About—one week with his mum and one week with his dad. Only, it’s not just his dad he has to live with. There’s Lila, too: The other woman, the... Continue Reading →
Title: Just a Game Author: A. J. Ridges Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 34 pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: When Bryan reluctantly agrees to let his new neighbor, Ben come over to watch the hockey game, he has no idea that his gay roommate, Tim is home or that Tim has company – male company. While... Continue Reading →
The Novel Approach is happy to welcome author Gregory Jonathan Scott today. Have a look at the excerpt from his new book, Take to the Sky, then check out the great giveaway you can enter via Rafflecopter! Blurb: An angelic romance that’s Powerful, Suspenseful, Sexy, Uniquely Erotic, and Romantic. In a secret Michigan Laboratory, an... Continue Reading →
Title: Every Time I Think of You & Message of Love Author: Jim Provenzano Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 264 Pages/374 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Overall Blurbs: 2012 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Best Gay Romance After an abrupt encounter in a small woods of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Reid Conniff, a shy and studious high school distance... Continue Reading →
Title: Every Time I Think of You & Message of Love Author: Jim Provenzano Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 264 Pages/374 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Overall Blurbs: 2012 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Best Gay Romance After an abrupt encounter in a small woods of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Reid Conniff, a shy and studious high school distance... Continue Reading →
Title: Bad Boy: Naughty at Night Author: Jamie Lake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 64 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Kindergarten teacher by day, sensual masseuse by night, Peter Davidson never thought things would get so tough that he’d need to give out sensual massages in secret in order to make ends meet. But when the... Continue Reading →
Title: Unwrapping Hank Author: Eli Easton Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 138 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Sloane loves a good mystery. He grew up as the son of two psychiatrists, so he finds most people tediously easy to figure out. He finds his way to Pennsylvania State University, longing for a rural experience, and ends... Continue Reading →
Miracle on Mistletoe Lane is an enchanting tale of the magic of Christmas, but when I first conceived the idea of this book, it wasn’t going to be a story about the holiday season. The main characters of Joe Koehler, his son Joey, and Sidney Maier were pretty much well defined when I set out... Continue Reading →
Title: A Time for Loving Author: Nico Jaye Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 26 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars 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, however, will the love shared... Continue Reading →
My new novel Semper Fi is about Marines who go from friends to lovers after WWII. Interestingly enough, the vintage photos I’ve found of gay servicemen from the first half of the 20th century have all been sailors. (Hmm, I guess the Village People were onto something!) Here are a few of the shots that... Continue Reading →
I'm thrilled to reveal the cover for Restless Spirits, the first book in a brand-new paranormal historical series. The Spirits series takes place in the latter part of the 19th century, and features the adventures of a man of science, Henry Strauss, and spiritualist medium, Vincent Night. The series came about because I always wanted... Continue Reading →
I enjoy BDSM stories—like really, really enjoy them. However, more specifically, I enjoy SM/Ds stories. There’s something about the relinquishing of power, particularly when it’s mixed with discomfort, that I find nearly intoxicating. The source of the discomfort/pain is rather irrelevant; it can be as benign and uncomplicated as orgasm denial, or a bit more... Continue Reading →
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