Sue Brown - Stolen Dreams Blog Competition

Sue Brown - Stolen Dreams Blog Competition

Welcome to the Sue Brown blog competition... 

I just picked the first question that came to my head and funnily enough it was concerning a certain part of male anatomy!

So my question to Sue was: 'Cut or un-cut?'

Sue's answer is: Hmmm, cut if they're American, uncut if it's a Brit.

ROFL! Love that answer...

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Her new book *Stolen Dreams is out with Silver Publishing and can be bought here.

Blurb:

In a moment of madness, Morgan cheated on his best friend and lover, and Shae walked out without looking back. Five years on, and Morgan has a new life. He is engaged to a tempestuous and passionate Hollywood actor, Jase, and his career as an assistant movie director is thriving.

The last thing Morgan expects is for Shae to walk back into his life. It is clear from the start that he is still deeply attracted to Shae, and that feeling is returned. What is also obvious is that everyone else can see it, including his fiancé.

As Morgan and Shae get to know each other again, they discover the extent that friends meddled in their lives to keep them apart five years previously. Morgan finds that he cannot deny the fact he is still in love with Shae, but he is engaged, and Shae has secrets that he is not prepared to share. Morgan has some hard decisions to make as he struggles not to hurt the men that he cares about.

Saturday essay - New and Old Glitter by Stephanie Beck

Saturday essay - New and Old Glitter by Stephanie Beck

One of my favorite people has a saying about glitter. She calls it ‘the gift that keeps on giving’ and breaks it out every single time we have a craft that just might need a little sparkle. She also says it makes her happy when she sees specks of glitter in the carpet because it reminds her of fun in the past.

Lately I’ve been thinking about how new love can be like glitter. New love sparkles and infiltrates every part of life. Maybe the new honey is out of sight, but everything reminds you of them—like the cute puppy on the toilet paper package or the smiley face on the poster at the gas station. The new love glitter is everywhere!

But what about when the shine starts to dull? Maybe the new love is a decade old. The glitter of new love has been ground into the carpet for a few years. The toilet paper with the puppy on the package is freaking expensive and the posters at the gas station proclaim just how horrid gas prices really are—bye bye sparkle—hello real life.

Love in the way of the everyday life needs not be boring! Oh no, my friends. Everyday love, the kind that lasts decades and ages like a fine wine might not be exciting every single day, but it can be sooo much more than mundane. What you need to do is get yourself a bottle of glitter.

**Warning** I wouldn’t actually throw glitter on your partner. My husband complains that it gets stuck in his beard and is a pain to get out. Glitter

Make your life a little romance novelie. The gambit of what people find romantic and special runs wild, but the unifying piece is that special thought and time is put into making your partner feel special. Like glitter, that special feeling lasts and lasts and it keeps on giving. Be silly, be kind, be spontaneous.

 And don’t just expect your partner to do it. Sometimes opening that glitter bottle is a daunting task when you’ve left it on the shelf for a while. It’s messy and it can take a lot of work. But have you ever looked at a sparkly project and thought it would be better plain?

All the best,

Stephanie Beck

www.stephaniebeck.net


Just One More—Available now in ebook and paper back

Blurb: Two is enough, but three could be everything.

Kit and Adam Jacobs know what their marriage needs—Gavan Karik. He’s the one man they both want and the only one who can make their relationship complete.

Making Gav part of the family comes with a price. Family, infidelity and self-worth issues plague Gav, but Adam and Kit are willing to tackle those issues if Gav is willing to commit.

For every problem they conquer, another one pops up. Not only are the three adults working to meld a broken family into one, they’re also struggling with a blackmailer threatening to out the two men’s sexuality and issues with the kids being mistreated at school. With each battle all three have to decide if the vision each sees for the future can match and if the reward is worth the fight.

Content Warning: Strong language, graphic sex, and explicit incidents of laundry washing within.



Excerpt:

"And the sleeping arrangements?" Gav asked.

Adam knew this question had been weighing on the other man. Gav had played thirds in relationships before. Usually, the third was a plaything, in for pleasure, out for the intimacy.

"You'd be in our room. The 'our' would include you," Adam told him. "I'll steal your t-shirts to wear to bed, and we'll share the task of warming Kit's cold toes every night. We'll have amazing sex when we're all in the mood together. We'll have nearly as amazing sex in pairs if the third is in the mood to watch or sleep. There won't be favorites, but, because we've been together so long, Kit and I might slip up there on occasion. You'll have to be patient with us, Gav."

"And once our open relationship includes you," Kit said, "it turns into a closed one. We don't cheat or lie, and we tell each other if our needs change."

Adam watched to see what Gav's reaction to that big rule would be. It was one he supported wholeheartedly.

"I don't know." Gav didn't look past his hands at either of them as he spoke. "I'll think about it. There's nothing in there I don't think I can do, I just…I need to think."

Buy Link:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Just-One-More-ebook/dp/B005HADHBC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333118274&sr=8-1

Barnes and Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/just-one-more-stephanie-beck/1104596851?ean=9781937325145&itm=3&usri=just+one+more

Saturday Guest Essay - Cherie Noel

Saturday Guest Essay - Cherie Noel

First and foremost, I’d like to thank RJ Scott for giving me the opportunity to join in on the Saturday Essays. Thanks RJ!

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As I sit to write this post, a thousand and one thoughts swirl through my magpie mind. I wonder if my new book will be banned next week, or if it will once again be on the up side of the flippity-floppity dance that PayPal and the third party distributors have been engaged in of late. I wonder about why so many who read and write romance which occurs between two men seem to have such deep-seated antipathy towards women. Especially when most of the readers and writers of this genre are themselves women. And then I remember that I live in a world where a very short time ago women everywhere were considered chattel. I recall that in the language I speak, English (and yes, it is American style, but still, English), the most pejorative slurs refer to women’s body parts.

Oh, yeah.

That’s right.

When I keep those things in mind it no longer comes as a surprise that a genre dedicated to romance between men would seek to strangle the life out of its female characters and make mockery of or gasp in horror at the authors who dare to have strong women in their books. Who have a sister or a mother or a friend of the gay main character have a brain and show it on the page. Even more astonishing are the authors who actually let a woman save the day.


Review: Orion Rising by S.A. Meade

Review: Orion Rising by S.A. Meade



Beautiful, stunning imagery. Hope, fear, rivalry, jealousy and above all love. Recommended read. 4.5/5

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Blurb

Michael and Paul fight to survive in a land frozen by endless winter. Will the ice between them thaw once and for all?

Michael Wright has given up thinking he’s anything more than a number-cruncher. When he’s summoned to verify the outcome of renowned meteorologist, Paul Clarkson’s latest research Michael is happy to escape the drudgery of a grey cubicle at the Met Office.

At Station 17 he finds himself working side by side with a brilliant scientist and charismatic man who stirs a lot more than respect. The attraction is mutual but, after a few snatched hours of passion, internal politics and a vengeful adversary tear them apart.

When Michael returns to Station 17 two years later he discovers that the world isn’t the only thing that’s changed. Paul is forbiddingly distant and the fire that once burned between them has turned to ice. The violence of a deadly storm reignites their relationship - but will the disastrous aftermath of another destroy their love once and for all?

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Wow.


Author Interview - Lynn Kelling

Author Interview - Lynn Kelling

I have know Lynn a good long time now and she has a new book out at Forbidden Fiction. Although I don't write BDSM myself I thought some of my readers may be interested in getting to know Lynn a bit more...

Blurb:

Genre: Contemporary, Romance, BDSM, M/M, 145,000 words

Darrek thinks he is just a straight, hard-working but lonely guy. When he decides to try a session at a private BDSM club, Darrek is unprepared for a life-changing encounter with beautiful, powerful and very male Dominant, Gabriel. Once they cross the line, nothing is off limits and nothing is enough as they crave ever more: more trust, more pleasure, more pain, and more devotion. As Darrek and Gabriel negotiate their relationships with each other and their coworkers, carefully-buried secrets and abusive pasts come to light.

Why I Write BDSM by Lynn Kelling

Growing up, I was a painfully shy Catholic schoolgirl. I figure that makes me either the first or the last person you’d expect to be a prolific writer of gay BDSM romantic fiction. My novel, Deliver Us, is about two troubled souls and covers a plethora of kinks and techniques, including some you may not have heard of. Why do I write BDSM, when there are so many other genres to choose from? Beyond the simple joy in challenging taboos, there are four specific things that inspire me.

Review YA - Light Outside the Closet, Stephanie Hecht

Review YA - Light Outside the Closet, Stephanie Hecht

Being a gay teen is hard enough, but when Christian's strict father is transferred to a different city and Christian has to go to a new school, he discovers how much worse things can get. Fortunately, before he sinks into depression, Christian finds a new group of friends, who are also gay. Christian soon learns that his friends have their own problems, from desperately seeking attention to abusive family members.

This is the first book in an exciting new series that follows the high and lows of Christian and his friends through their senior year as they seek acceptance and love while dealing with hostility and homophobia. Will all of them survive to see graduation... or will they lose somebody along the way?

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I have been looking forward to this book for an awful long time and I have to say I wasn't disappointed. Stephanie Hecht is my guilty pleasure, I adore her EMS guys and her hockey guys and I wondered how her writing would translate into something like a young adult story.

Christian is wonderfully drawn. James makes me scared for him. Taylor... oh Taylor... and Devlin *hugs him hard*.

A perfect YA book and I am so excited there will be more in this series...