At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. – Thomas Tusser Oh my, but did Christmastime just get a whole lot naughtier? And did the month of December just get a whole lot hotter? I think it did for Mike and Karl, and for me too, thanks to a…
Tag: Small Gems
Small Christmas Gems – Mending Noel by Charlie Cochet
We’re all like broken toys in the repair shop, waiting for that one person to come along and fix us. – Unknown Tim has no idea why Noel hates him. It didn’t start out that way, but the kinder Tim was to Noel, the grinchier Noel was to Tim, until Tim was going out of…
Small Gems – Joy & Pain by Celia Kyle
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. – Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade A little light BDSM works its way into Joy & Pain, a Daddy/sub story of a twenty-two year old ex-ballet dancer, Tevin, who makes his living as a stripper, seducing an audience of men for tips. Zeke…
Small Gems – Joy & Pain by Celia Kyle
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. – Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade A little light BDSM works its way into Joy & Pain, a Daddy/sub story of a twenty-two year old ex-ballet dancer, Tevin, who makes his living as a stripper, seducing an audience of men for tips. Zeke…
Small Gems – The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall by Tam Ames
Wear your heart on your skin in this life. – Sylvia Plath God, I’m a sucker for hot men with tattooed flesh. And stories about hot men with tattooed flesh make my mind wander all over the muscular landscapes of smooth, inked skin. And yes, that makes me shallow, but it also makes me happy,…
Small Gems – The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall by Tam Ames
Wear your heart on your skin in this life. – Sylvia Plath God, I’m a sucker for hot men with tattooed flesh. And stories about hot men with tattooed flesh make my mind wander all over the muscular landscapes of smooth, inked skin. And yes, that makes me shallow, but it also makes me happy,…
Small Gems – The Chevalier Series by Benji Bright
“The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: adventures are to the adventurous.” – Benjamin Disraeli So if you’re feeling particularly adventuresome, Benji Bright is three books into an eight book mini-serial that might be right up your adventure/fantasy alley.
Small Gems – The Chevalier Series by Benji Bright
“The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: adventures are to the adventurous.” – Benjamin Disraeli So if you’re feeling particularly adventuresome, Benji Bright is three books into an eight book mini-serial that might be right up your adventure/fantasy alley.
Two Small Gems From Paul Alan Fahey
“I’m not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself.” – Vivian Stanshall Paul Alan Fahey offers two very different LGBT short stories in Boys Will Be Boys and The View from 16 Podwale Street, but there’s one thing they both have very much in common: they are…
Small Gems – It's Never Too Late For A Little Horror From J.M. Snyder & Clare London
Yes, another October has passed, which means the time to have read these two short horror stories has passed too, so it’s a good thing I’m always in the mood for a good mind-screw of the twisted and ghoulish variety, no matter the time of year. Even though they’re not very long on word count,…
Small Gems – It’s Never Too Late For A Little Horror From J.M. Snyder & Clare London
Yes, another October has passed, which means the time to have read these two short horror stories has passed too, so it’s a good thing I’m always in the mood for a good mind-screw of the twisted and ghoulish variety, no matter the time of year. Even though they’re not very long on word count,…
Jennifer Cierra Would Just Love To Give You FREE Books!
Read on to see how! Hi, Jennifer, and welcome to The Novel Approach! I’m so glad to have you here with me today. Let’s just jump right into things and have you tell us a little bit about yourself before we get to the contest portion of the program. Q. When did you decide that…
Jennifer Cierra Would Just Love To Give You FREE Books!
Read on to see how! Hi, Jennifer, and welcome to The Novel Approach! I’m so glad to have you here with me today. Let’s just jump right into things and have you tell us a little bit about yourself before we get to the contest portion of the program. Q. When did you decide that…
Small Gems – Champagne Bubbly by Jennifer Cierra
“It may have just been a moment to you, but it changed every single one that followed for me.” – (pleasefindthis – Author of the book I Wrote This for You) Sometimes there is a lovely symmetry to all the possible things that can go wrong with the most carefully laid plans, when one of…
Small Gems – Champagne Bubbly by Jennifer Cierra
“It may have just been a moment to you, but it changed every single one that followed for me.” – (pleasefindthis – Author of the book I Wrote This for You) Sometimes there is a lovely symmetry to all the possible things that can go wrong with the most carefully laid plans, when one of…
Small Gems – Portside by Elyan Smith
“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle I knew as soon as I read Elyan Smith’s short story Zones in the UK MAT anthology Lashings of Sauce that he was an author whose work I wanted to know much better. Zones is the touching story of a transgender woman who is trying desperately to find…
Small Gems – Portside by Elyan Smith
“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle I knew as soon as I read Elyan Smith’s short story Zones in the UK MAT anthology Lashings of Sauce that he was an author whose work I wanted to know much better. Zones is the touching story of a transgender woman who is trying desperately to find…
Small Gems – Oscar's Soul by Missy Welsh
“I love him to hell and back and heaven and back…” – Sylvia Plath Oscar’s father sold his first born’s soul to Hell in exchange for unlimited worldly success, which shows a spectacularly selfish and covetous bent on his father’s part; either that or a singularly limited sense of foresight and consequences. Probably all of…
Small Gems – Oscar’s Soul by Missy Welsh
“I love him to hell and back and heaven and back…” – Sylvia Plath Oscar’s father sold his first born’s soul to Hell in exchange for unlimited worldly success, which shows a spectacularly selfish and covetous bent on his father’s part; either that or a singularly limited sense of foresight and consequences. Probably all of…
Small Gems – The War at the End of the World by Heidi Belleau and Violetta Vane
Joseph is a man with a ghostly doppelganger, a Fetch, a soul-collector that is a minion of Death, a shadow that has followed Joseph since he was a boy battling a disease that has now been virtually eradicated from the world. Though Death seems to have marked him as her own, Joseph has escaped her…