Saturday 31 August 2013

BS: That's Different... part 1

This posting is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY.
It contains substantial sexually explicit scenes and graphic language, which may be considered offensive by some readers.

Friday 30 August 2013

Harder than I Thought

This whole publicising myself is a lot harder than I ever thought it would be.
It’s not that I lack the understanding on how to do it. It’s more that I have a problem with not thinking people care about what I have to say.
Which is true, and so completely wrong it’s not funny.
But I’m a no one until my book actually gets published, and until I have a cover, or an idea on when I’m about to be published, then maybe I’d be willing so say you’ll blink twice in my direction. As I am now, I’m nothing but a name and a happy smile on my face because I’ve signed a contract.

It’s not that I don’t understand the whole thing (publicising, that is, I jumping back—that’s me, in the flesh). You get people talking. You do this, you do that. You make friends. You talk to, about, comment, engage.
I get all this. I do. But as a person that has live a life of dumbness, for no better a word, I find that now, even though I’ve risen from that past, and used my own weakness to an advantage in something I couldn’t even imagine I’d be able to do, but, five years ago.
It’s hard, putting myself out there, with my own voice.

Still…

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“Woman are crazy.”
“You say that now, but when you’re older, you’ll just think it.”
                                                                                                           --Bart & Homer, The Simpsons
       

Thursday 29 August 2013

Hadn’t the Pleasure # 67

The books that have been collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it



Fed up with his desk duty in the Imperial Arcane Library, book hunter Colin Bliss accepts a private commission to find The Sword’s Shadow, a legendary and dangerous witches’ grimoire. But to find the book, Colin must travel to the remote Western Isles and solve a centuries’ old murder.

It should be nothing more than an academic exercise, so why is dour — and unreasonably sexy — Magister Septimus Marx doing his best to keep Colin from accepting this mission — even going so far as to seduce Colin on their train journey north?

Septimus is not the only problem. Who is the strange fairy woman that keeps appearing at inconvenient times? And who is working behind the scenes with the sinister adventuress Irania Briggs? And why do Colin’s employers at the Museum of the Literary Occult keep accusing Colin of betraying them?

As Colin digs deeper and deeper into the Long Island’s mysterious past, he begins to understand why Septimus is willing to stop him at any price — but by then, it’s too late to turn back.


The Darkling Thrush
 First published April 2010 by Loose Id
Second edition October 2012 by Josh Lanyon
iBook, 138 pages
Contemporary Mysterious Romance

The letter was addressed to Mr. Colin Bliss.
It sat on my desk, propped against the framed photograph of Anthony and me. This reminded me that, as we were no longer “an item,” I really needed to dispose of that photograph of my chief and me. It was bound to look a trifle like I was sucking up, and I’d already done enough of that in every conceivable form.

Wednesday 28 August 2013

Pimping a Professional #2

This is fully and completely my own work.
I have not been asked by anyone to put in or say anything in this posting
All quote & pics come from author website and/or goodreads

first up, if anyone is taking the title in as anything but fun, please tell me, since I don't want to offend anyone.
 
So, as I thought this up, but didn’t really seem to be thinking all that clearly.
The first of the many things to think about came to a halt with one question: who do I do first?
Well, it made it simple with the fact that I’m a little anal when it comes to the books I own, and I have a file that has them all listed in alphabetical order, so, well, I thought I’d just start there.
And my first name… Derek Adams

Tuesday 27 August 2013

Stuck in Your Head # 62

I’m going to give you the line from the books I’ve read that make my mind crave the rest like chocolate & Coke.



But in not losing, he had begun to realize he had lost. He’d lost his life while taking the lives of others. Not literally. He was physically alive; he ate, he slept, he…existed. Therein lay the problem, as all he did was exist. He was thirty-four and had nothing to show for his life except money in the bank.
page 18, iBook


Hitman’s Creed by Edward Kendrick
(Hitman’s Creed #1)
First Published September 2010 by Silver Publishing
Contemporary Romance


Can a twenty-one year old Criminal Justice student and a thirty-four year old hitman attempt to start a new life, reach a common bond to stop a murderer, and find love, despite their disparate ages and occupations?

Two men:
 Glenn Tanner, a thirty-four year old hitman who wants to disappear and start a new life.
 Joey Fairburn, a twenty-one year old Criminal Justice student, studying to become a police officer.

One problem in common:
 Joey’s father, an escaped killer, has come to the small town where Joey and his mother live and where Glenn has finally settled down. Glenn meets Joey, discovers what is happening, and becomes involved in trying to stop the killer before the man can murder Joey’s mother.

Will these two men, Glenn and Joey, with such disparate ages and backgrounds, be able to find a common bond that will unite them in love? Only time will tell


Series includes

Lessons Learned

Saturday 24 August 2013

Memoirs of this Delusional Writer #30

Starting paragraph
“Fuck,” he pulled back, lifting himself up off Brad, “sorry. Ah, fuck,” he got off the bed “really gotta piss” as he went out the door, leaving a laughing Brad in his bed.

A Werewolf’s Howl (MW) page 40

Friday 23 August 2013

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"Your growing insanity is scaring me"
                                                                    --Marge to Homer, the Simpsons


Thursday 22 August 2013

Hadn’t the Pleasure # 66

The books that have been collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it

 
One, recovering from near deadly injuries; the other, unaware of what he’s been missing in his life. What one man can do, may heal them both.

Charlie Baker is recovering, slowly. Nearly dying tends to make a man reflect on each day. Take into account that his injuries were caused by a premeditated murder attempt, and he certainly isn’t looking for a lover. He is barely welcoming to a friend unable to trust anyone, preferring to hide from the world hours and miles away from the memories.

Gregory Anders hadn’t intended to disturb the man in silent contemplation on the beach, but when his pup, Samson, takes matters out of his hands, he’s forced to at least apologize for his pet’s behavior. There’s no doubt for Gregory that Charlie could use a friend. Clearing the air up front that he isn’t gay helps Charlie to relax, allowing for the cautious beginning of a friendship.

Two men, both alone, for different reasons. What happens when friendship bears more? When support and affection turns into attraction?

Do you take the chance of a lifetime, for the love a lifetime?

 
The Charlie Factor by Diana DeRicci
(Beach Duo #1)
 First published 18th March 2011 by Purple Sword
iBook, 183 pages
Cotemporary Romance


Charlie Baker held the cell phone in his hand, staring at it blankly. He swept his thumb over the picture on the display, waiting for the old hurt to return, but it didn’t. […]

Series includes

Glitter, Doing Love Right, Popping the Question

Wednesday 21 August 2013

eXtasybooks

Hi, I’m Bronwyn Heeley, waiting anxiously for my book to be released, and while I did this, I changed a few things. The url of my blog. Cleaning it up, which basically cut most of my labels. I’ve also gotten myself into the social network (twitter, facebook, tumblr) which isn’t easy for me, since I don’t particularly think I have anything interesting to say.

Not the point and strangely it is.
I’ve decided that I’m going to stop WoW, it’s actually the one that takes the most time, and gets me worked up too much at the beginning of the week. You’d think it would be easy, but it’s annoying, and it’s time consuming, and let’s face it, it’s an excuse that I feel I have to do for some reason.

So, before I decided that I’ll abandon everything that is what my blog is, and focus on my own words and thoughts for your enjoyment I’m going to promote a few of the authors I like to read.
But first, I’m going to start with eXtasybooks. ‘Cause it’s always polite to promote that in which feeds you.


Tuesday 20 August 2013

Stuck in Your Head # 61

I’m going to give you the line from the books I’ve read that make my mind crave the rest like chocolate & Coke.

 

“You guessed.”
“Yeah, it kind of popped into my head that he might be gay when we were making out backstage in between scenes during The Music Man.”
Page 47, iBook

The Boy Next Door by Kate McMurray
First Published 25th January 2011 by Loose id
Contemporary Romance


When Lowell moves back to his hometown to take care of his ailing mother, the last person he expects to see living in the house next door is his childhood friend Jase, grown up now and more attractive than ever. Jase had starred in many of Lowell's teenage fantasies, but Lowell is convinced Jase is straight. And yet, as they rekindle their friendship, it begins to look like Jase might not be so straight after all.

Jase has problems of his own: his troubled ex-wife has allowed him full custody of their daughter on one condition: he never exposes her to his affairs with other men. The arrangement works just fine until he starts falling for Lowell and a whole new world of possibilities opens up for him. But how can he have a relationship with a man and still keep his daughter?

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Male/male sexual practices.

Saturday 17 August 2013

Story Corner #30

This posting is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY.
It contains substantial sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which may be considered offensive by some readers.

Friday 16 August 2013

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Peeing with morning wood is hard...
                                                                           --Walden: Two and a Half Men

Thursday 15 August 2013

Hadn’t the Pleasure #65

The books that have been collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it

 
When Bobby, aka 'Prizm', witnesses the kidnapping of two other street kids and later learns one of them was murdered, he goes to the only man he thinks can help him.

Father Kurt, an Episcopal priest who runs the Harbor, a shelter for homeless kids, gets more than he bargained for when he talks Bobby into going to the police.

While the search is on for the killers, who may also be cops, Bobby and Kurt find themselves attracted to each other. Then a new friend of Bobby's is taken by the murderers and he decides it's time to use the resources at hand, other street kids, to find and to stop the murderers

 
Safe harbor by Edward Kendrick
First published 29 September 2012 by Silver Publishing
iBook, 80 pages
Contemporary Romance 

“Shit.” Bobby, aka, ‘Prizm’, peered over the edge of the roof again then pulled his head back quickly. When he took another cautious look, he thanked his lucky stars he’d decided to sleep on up there tonight, not in one of the doorways.
  Down below him in the alley two kids he vaguely knew were being rousted by a pair of cops […]

Wednesday 14 August 2013

Waiting on Wednesday #62

I’m doing a little dreamspinner plugging in this one, it seems



Matt Dixon, a young firefighter, is the golden child of his family, and he never dreamed that coming out would challenge more than the way his church sees him.

 For years, Matt has led a double life hoping to avoid ridicule. When a self-righteous pastor’s statements provoke him to defend his recently deceased best friend’s honor and subsequently out himself, he suffers the brutal aftermath of his revelation. Everyone in his life, including his family and his new lover, Darian, must deal with the ramifications as Matt struggles to come to terms with guilt, shame, and his very belief in God.

 Darian Weston lost his fiancé when Jamie took his life, and his feelings for Matt added guilt to his burden of grief. Confused and lonely, Darian clings to Matt despite his inner strife. But small-town realities keep intruding, and if Matt and Darian hope to make a life together, they must first take a stand for what they believe in, even if they fear the cost.


Cost Loving by Wade Kelly
 (Unconditional Love #2)
Expected publication 16th August 2013 by Dreamspinner Press
Contemporary Romance
Series includes

When Love is Not Enough,

Tuesday 13 August 2013

Stuck in Your Head # 60

I’m going to give you the line from the books I’ve read that make my mind crave the rest like chocolate & Coke.


“I’m her father.”
“You gave her life; Noah is her father. […] Without him, even if you see her, you have no family.”
Page 62, iBook

Again by Mary Calmes
First Published 13th July 2011 by Dreamspinner Press
Contemporary Romance

Six years ago, Noah Wheeler went to meet his boyfriend, Dante Cerreto, at the airport, and his world ended. Dante was kissing someone else and claimed to be in love. So Noah took his heartbreak-and the sonogram pictures of their surrogate child-and closed the door on the big picture of what he thought his life would be, focusing instead on the piece of the dream he got to keep, being a father.

Now on vacation in Las Vegas, Noah accidentally runs into the Cerreto family, and then the man himself, and learns that not only was he deceived, but Dante was as well. Now Dante wants to make up for lost time, six years' worth, and to do that he needs Noah, the only man he's ever loved, and Grace, the daughter he didn't know he had, to give him a chance at happiness. Dante's going to have to take a crash course in communication and seduction, though. Noah's not going to fall in love just to be broken again.

Saturday 10 August 2013

Memoirs of this Delusional Writer #29

Starting paragraph
“What you do, put a glass up against the wall,” though Kyle was sure he hadn’t, he wasn’t going to give Gene ammo.
     “Something like that,” he quipped [..]
A werewolf’s howl (moonlit wolves #5) chapter 9

Friday 9 August 2013

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"Well excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don't work on!"
                                                                                                       --Homer to Marge
                                                               --the Simpsons: Ice Cream of Margie (with the light blue hair)

Thursday 8 August 2013

Hadn’t the Pleasure # 64

The books that have been collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it

 
Caleb needs a foreman and Jake needs a job that will get him off the rodeo circuit. They're both hiding from their pasts when they discover a shocking attraction...to each other. Can two straight men let go enough to find love?

 
Knowing Caleb by Cameron Dane
(Hawkins Brothers / Quinten, Montana #5)
 First published 30th September 2008 by Loose Id
iBook, 310 pages
Paranormal Mystery Romance

Goddamnit, Calebneeded a good, hard fuck.
He didn’t have a particular preference for what the woman should look like. Hell, he wasn’t picky; he enjoyed them all. As long as they loved the act of fucking just as much as he did, […]

Series Note: Knowing Caleb is affiliated with Demon Moon, Falling: an erotic love story, and ReneCade but can be read as a standalone title.
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, male/male sexual practices, violence.

Series includes
Demon Moon, Falling, ReneCade, Ride, Becoming Three, Quick to the Hunt

Wednesday 7 August 2013

so I googled myself

sad as hell, really, but it was actually to see... actually in the excitement of myself I forgot why I did it. but there was a real reason, one that puts me in a less pathetic light--slightly less, I might add, but less all the same
 
yeah, you don't really care, I know, you probably care less about what I'm about to link up, but all the same, it's fucking awesome!
 
I found that I have (though there isn't anything on it yet--I have no books published yet) a page in both eXtasybooks and smashwords
I'm really, really, excited about this, which is the reason that I'm not tell you. 

Waiting on Wednesday #61


Fearing the backlash of living as a gay man in Foster, Texas, Matt Wallace runs away to California, only to find it isn’t the Promised Land he’d hoped for. Christmas sees Matt returning to Foster, where he bumps into his old flame, high school jock Tyler Parker.

Now that they’re older, it doesn’t take Matt too long to figure out that love at first sight is a very real thing. The only problem is neither Matt nor Tyler seems to know what to do after that. They’re both running from the past—and each other—requiring some reverse engineering to actually spur the relationship past the false start.


Taking Chances by John Goode
 (Tales from Foster High School #)
Expected publication 7th August 2013 by Dreamspinner press
Contemporary YA Romance
Series includes

Maybe With a Chance of Certainty, End of the Beginning, Raise You Glass, To Wish for Impossible Things
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Tuesday 6 August 2013

Stuck in Your Head # 59

I’m going to give you the line from the books I’ve read that make my mind crave the rest like chocolate & Coke.


I instantly realized my mistake. Kissing in public? Kissing in front of Angus and Natalie and for all the world to see? I was already pulling back, trying to make it look like I’d sort of lost balance and weaved forward, when he stopped me—hand on my shoulder—and kissed me.
Page 193, iBook

The Dark Tide by Josh Lanyon
(the Adrien English Mysteries #5)
 First published December 2009 by Loose Id
iBook, 233 pages
Mystery Romance

As if recovering from heart surgery beneath the gaze of his over-protective family wasn’t exasperating enough, someone keeps trying to break into Adrien English’s bookstore. What is this determined midnight intruder searching for?

When a half-century old skeleton tumbles out of the wall in the midst of the renovation of Cloak and Dagger Bookstore renovation, Adrien turns to hot and handsome ex-lover Jake Riordan -- now out-of-the closet and working as a private detective.

Jake is only too happy to have reason to stay in close contact with Adrien, but there are more surprises in Adrien’s past than either one of them expects -- and one of them may prove hazardous to Jake’s own heart


Series includes

Fatal Shadows, Dangerous Thing, the Hell You Say, Death of a Pirate King

Saturday 3 August 2013

Story Corner #29

This posting is for ADULT AUDIENCES ONLY.
It contains substantial sexually explicit scenes and graphic language which may be considered offensive by some readers.

Friday 2 August 2013

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Brain, what are you doing on Meg's pole?
                                                           --Peter Griffin, Family Guy

Thursday 1 August 2013

Hadn’t the Pleasure # 63

The books that have been collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it

This is another resent one, on all counts, but I’m craving for it hard and it’s kinda in the theme of things, where all my others aren’t (or I’m reading—read—before today came up)
 

When dream hunter Dylan Ryve spots a beautiful shapeshifter raising hell in a bar, he knows he wants the wild young man. But Travis Feris is more to Dylan than a few hot minutes outside in the snow; he's the assassin's ticket into the magical town of Arcada. He didn't plan to rescue the kid, but when he found the shifter being attacked, the opportunity to play hero was too good to pass up.

Through the solitude of a long winter night, Dylan walks in Travis's fevered dreams, learning about Arcada and the pack, and showing the shifter the man he'd been so very long ago. When morning comes, both men know their lives will be forever entwined.

From Dylan, Travis learns that he is a strong, valued member of the pack. The dreamwalker sees his own worth reflected back at him in the dark blue eyes of the wolf. Yet when Dylan has the chance to free himself from centuries of enslavement, can he betray the man he has come to love

Note: This book contains explicit sexual situations, graphic language, and material that some readers may find objectionable: BDSM elements, domination/submission


Silver/Steel by Belinda McBride
(Arcada #2)
 First published 4th December 2012 by Loose ID
iBook, 273 pages
Paranormal Romance

Everyone dreams.
Even those who wake without memory of their dreams spend time on the unconscious plane. Some people dream in vivid color and detail, while others amble along, their nocturnal journeys little more than a regurgitation of the prior day’s events—in black and white, no less.

Series includes

Snowfire: Chrysalis, Mad at the Moon, Blacque/Blue