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Crossed Hearts Cover Reveal

Author Name: K. Vale

Book Name: Crossed Hearts Book one in the Hearts and Scars series

Release Date: April 27, 2015

Blurb(s):

Kory Vansant doesn’t deserve to be alive.

As time sucks him dry of energy, sapping the final ounces of strength from his congenitally enlarged heart, he’s forced to end his career as Kory Kent, porn star. Staring down death, he questions his life choices and prays for a miracle. For another chance at life, he vows to change who he is at his core.

His prayers are answered. A perfect heart now beats in his chest, but it comes at a heavy price. The donor is an innocent young man cut down far too prematurely.

And Kory’s blemished history is nowhere near an ideal match.

As his debts skyrocket, Kory can’t help but think his resolve to walk the high road is being tested. After he meets the adorable Will Squire at the gravesite they both visit, he’s doubly damned because there’s no way he can keep up his end of the bargain. What happens when a man breaks a deal with a higher power?

Will often prefers the company of the dead to that of the living. Following a bad breakup, he pours himself into his two jobs—funeral director at his uncle’s mortuary and part-time paramedic. He’s drawn ever closer to Kory, as if fate sticks her fickle hand in and pushes them together like two unlikely puzzle pieces. But sometimes history can’t be buried, and maybe divine intervention isn’t always right. Will discovers everyone is imperfect, no matter how pretty the outer package, and opening one’s heart is never easy, but can be oh so worth the pain.

Pages or Words: 70,000 words

Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance

Excerpt:

The man scratched the scrub on his chin. “Heart recipient,” he said finally. “I’m Kory—umm…Kory Vansant.” Holding out his hand, he took another step. Will’s fingers were swallowed in warm skin and bone.

“Will Squire.” Again, he couldn’t tear his gaze from the tease of scar tissue jutting from the crotch of Kory’s shirt collar. The urge to reach out and trace a finger over the pink relief of healed tissue was strong. Just like I touched Brandon’s incision. The stark difference between the two—one wound marking the end of a life and the other a salvation—was surreal. Will was nothing but an outsider looking in on a miracle, but somehow he felt he’d come around full circle.

“Want me to get naked so you can see the whole thing?”

Will closed his eyes for a moment and then looked up, his face flaming with a mix of embarrassment and immediate, fierce arousal. “I’m sorry. Totally rude.”

Kory smiled good-naturedly. “No worries. It’s a way to reclaim who I am, or was. Or some crap. I’m not just my medical status, like they keep saying at my support group.”

“No. Of course you’re not.”

He laughed loud and deep, and the warmth in Will’s face drifted down his body. “I’ve adopted it as my little icebreaker whenever people stare,” Kory said.

“Well, ice broken.” Will gulped. Hell, ice melted into a rolling boil.

Sales Links:

About the author:

K. Vale writes erotic romance of all stripes, from hot hetero to mouthwatering manlove. Find her MF work published under Kimber Vale. Come for the sex. Stay for the story. Stalk Kimber on Facebook and Twitter @KimberVale, and check her site for updates, new releases, and freebies at http://www.authorkimbervale.com.

Where to find the author:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kimber.vale

Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kimber-Vale/311761975532531?ref=hl

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KimberVale

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kimbervale/

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25150920-crossed-hearts?from_search=true

Publisher: Kimber Vale

Cover Artist: Dana Priebe

Tour Dates & Stops: April 6, 2015

Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents

Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words

Bayou Book Junkie

Love Bytes

My Fiction Nook

Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews

Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings

MM Good Book Reviews

Book Reviews, Rants, and Raves

Rainbow Gold Reviews

Enter to win a copy of Crossed Hearts by adding it to your Goodreads “Want to Read” shelf. Kimber will pick a winner on release day. Follow the link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25150920-crossed-hearts?from_search=true

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MOMENT OF CLARITY Cover Reveal

Thank you so much for agreeing to be part of my double cover reveal for MOMENT OF CLARITY (book 3) and MOMENTS IN TIME (the paperback) on April 3.

Blurb for MOMENT OF CLARITY (Book 3 of the Moments In Time Series)

Spending the summer together on Fire Island brought Collin and Tanner closer than ever, but back in their conservative college town, challenges confront them at every turn.

As they search for their new normal in their old environment, Collin’s brother Sean surprises them with help when they need it most. But when word about their relationship gets out, trouble erupts with friends and family. When Collin’s relationship with Tanner becomes an issue in his brother’s custody battle, and Tanner struggles with his feelings for a heartbroken Wendy, Collin wonders if everyone he cares about would be better off without him in the picture. In order to save them both, Tanner must make it clear to Collin that their love for each other is all that matters.

MOMENTS IN TIME is the paperback version and contains all three novellas (Moment Of Impact, Moment Of Truth and Moment Of Clarity) in once volume.

Both books are available for pre-order at Dreamspinner Press.

They will be available at all major retailers on May 6, 2015

Links:

Moment of Clarity eBook: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6283

Moments in Time Paperback: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6284

These books should be read in order so if anyone hasn’t read books 1 and 2 they should read those first. Moment Of Impact and Moment Of Truth are available at:

DREAMSPINNER PRESS | AMAZON (US) | AMAZON (UK) | AMAZON (AU) | ARe | BN

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Room 1024 Book Blast

Author Name: Racheline Maltese & Erin McRae

Book Name: Room 1024

Release Date: April 8, 2015

Blurb:

When Cameron takes his submissive boyfriend Noah to a gay men’s leather convention in San Francisco, Cam expects to spend the week exploring their relationship and experimenting with non-monogamy. What he doesn’t expect is to run into his own former dom, Lou, in an embarrassingly public reunion.

While Noah is enthusiastic about the opportunity to play with the former international leather title-holder, Cam is more wary. He and Lou have unfinished business. A four-way encounter with Lou and his sub Stephen could be great fun—or it could show Noah that Cameron can never quite be the dom he wants and needs.

As Cameron and Noah work through the uncertainties in their relationship, Noah is offered everything he ever wanted, in a completely different way than he ever expected, leading all four men to discover that sometimes the only way forward is to revisit the past.

Pages or Words: 13,000 words

Categories: BDSM, Contemporary, Erotica, Fiction, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Menage/Poly, Romance

Excerpt:

Between dinner and dessert—which is clearly going to be all about dessert wine because Lou loves a ritual, whether of a meal or of a certain sort of sex—Lou walks his fingers across the table toward Noah, stops just short of touching him, and says, “So what do you like?”

Lou glances at Cameron to make sure it’s all right he’s asked, only after the fact, and Cameron gives a little nod. Among other things, he’s curious how Noah, who agitated for this trip and is constantly saying he wants them to be more a part of the community, will take the reality of it.

Noah glances around and blushes slightly at the impending necessity of mentioning spanking and flogging and CBT in public. Cameron finds it completely endearing. It also reveals, while Lou smirks over them all, just what it takes to turn Stephen into a chatterbox: comparing notes.

Eventually, Lou runs a finger around the rim of his wine glass and says, “Well then, we should all play together tomorrow.”

Sales Links:

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=200&products_id=4373

About the authors:

Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese are authors of the gay romance series Love in Los Angeles, set in the film and television industry—Starling (September 10, 2014), Doves (January 21, 2015), and Phoenix (June 10, 2015)—all from Torquere Press. Their gay romance novella Midsummer (Love’s Labour 1), about a summerstock Shakespeare company, is from Dreamspinner Press (May 2015). They also have a story in Best Gay Romance 2015 from Cleis Press and edited by Felice Picano. Racheline is a NYC-based performer and storyteller; Erin is a writer and blogger based in Washington, D.C. They write stories and scripts about the intersection of private lives, fame, and desire. You can find them on the web at http://www.Avian30.com.

Where to find the authors:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Erin.and.Racheline

Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/Erin.and.Racheline

Erin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/erincmcrae

Racheline’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/racheline_m
Other: Joint Blog: http://Avian30.com

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23129325-room-1024

Publisher: Torquere Press

Cover Artist: BSClay

Tour Dates & Stops: April 3, 2015

Parker Williams, MM Good Book Reviews, Love Bytes, Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents, Inked Rainbow Reads, 3 Chicks After Dark, Molly Lolly, BFD Book Blog, LeAnn’s Book Reviews, Wake Up Your Wild Side, Charley Descoteaux, My Fiction Nook, Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings, Rainbow Gold Reviews, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, Cate Ashwood, Amanda C. Stone, It’s Raining Men, Michael Mandrake, Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews

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The Island Keepers Book Blast

Author Name: Kristopher Quentin

Book Name: The Island Keepers

Release Date: April 1, 2015

Blurb(s):

They could hardly have been less alike.

David is striking, tanned, smooth, charismatic, blond with an ice melting smile,

and possesses an unmistakable gift as a fiction writer, even at twenty-one.

Wyatt looks as plain as paper, short by comparison, white as a ghost, graceless,

a celebrated oil painter. He is single and he is out. David, raised a strict

evangelical fundamentalist, is embarrassed by his own virginity. Both men

are sent to Puffin Island and, within days of their arrival a young woman washes

ashore, frozen and unresponsive after her kayak crashes against the rocks.

David and Wyatt save her life. Days later, Wyatt is charged with rape. While

the authorities investigate, the woman’s nineteen year old identical twin

brothers paddle their way to Puffin to teach Wyatt a lesson. Their goal, to

avenge their sister.

The bond between David and Wyatt increases during island duty, and his heart

struggles with the imbedded childhood dogma and lethally homophobic

parents, propelling him to bond with Wyatt, but, when the inthinkable happens,

Wyatt is once more left alone. Wyatt has no option but to move on because

there is a lot at stake and he turns to the unlikeliest of characters to fill the

void, a person who will teach him an important lesson; that love is all about

choice. By making a decision, Wyatt must sacrifice a need that had been

created by his past with David.

Pages or Words: 108,000 words

Categories: Gay fiction, M/M Romance, New Adult, Romance

Excerpt:

“Wyatt?”

“Yes?”

“ I need to ask you a point blank question.”

“You can always ask, David. You know that.”

“I…I want to…I want know if…fuck this is so hard. Just a sec. I need to breathe.”

I waited a few moments, listening to him breathe deeply.

‘Okay, I’m ready. You still there?”

“Still here. What’s bothering you David?”

“I…I’ve never done this before so please forgive me for botching it up.”

“Talk to me, David.”

“Okay. Okay.” He whispered, and then taking a deep breath, said, “I want to know if you love me. I mean, are you in love with me?”

* * *

Knock me over with a feather.

I’d been staring out the window watching a couple of kittens chasing each other up and down a pair of maples in our yard.

Somehow, I suddenly identified with the chaser.

“I’ll answer that if you promise to answer the same question. Deal?”

I heard a gulp in my ear piece. “Perfect. I’ll answer it first since I asked it,” he said. “You need to know that I love you. I am in love with you. And I’m fucking miserable not having you by my side. I’m even more forlorn knowing you’re dating someone else.” He paused and took a deep breath. “Okay? There, I said it.”

“Do you feel better?”

“That depends on your answer.”

Sales Links:

http://www.cooldudespublishing.com

About the author:

Kristopher Quentin has been writing for decades. He is a businessman
and broadcast journalist by trade, a man up at 3:45 every weekday
morning for a stint on the news desk; a little earlier on weekends to
write fiction in his man cave. An upstate New Yorker by birth, he now
lives in the most rural area of far northern Maine, USA, on 54-acres
of land: wooded, lawns, driveways, and a few buildings including his
four thousand square foot home which he calls the white house; because
it is. His property is home to moose, deer, rabbits, raccoons,
porcupines, fox, weasels, black bears, and one Bard owl.
He loves reading gay romances among other forms of fiction;
non-fiction; and memoirs most of which he considers to be fictional.
Travelling, dining out, boat riding are among his passions; that and
flying his own single engine airplane when he was younger.

Where to find the author:

Goodreads Link:

Publisher: Cool Dudes Publishing

Cover Artist: Louis C. Harris with photography of lighthouse supplied by author

Tour Dates & Stops: April 2, 2015

Parker Williams, Cate Ashwood, Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents, Inked Rainbow Reads, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, Molly Lolly, BFD Book Blog, It’s Raining Men, Michael Mandrake, Andrew Q. Gordon, Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews, Bayou Book Junkie, Divine Magazine, MM Good Book Reviews, Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings, Hearts on Fire, Elin Gregory

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Opposites (book 1, Opposites – The Library, an Opposites novella – book 2, Appearances – The Cellar, an Opposites novella) Book Tour

Author Bio:

A military brat born and raised at Ft. Benning Georgia; Smith is an avid reader, reviewer and writer. She now calls Texas home from her small town on the outskirts of the DFW Metroplex. Most days you can find her curled up with her kindle and a good book alongside a glass of something aged and red or a steaming cup of coffee!

At 42 years young, she’s decided to enter the next phase of her life by adding the title of “author” to her list of accomplishments that includes single mom of three disturbingly outspoken and decidedly different kids, one of which is Autistic. Smith is and outspoken advocate for Autism and equal rights for the LGBTQ community.

Her Opposites series is based outside the normal parameters of social acceptability, examining a ‘what if’… What If to be gay or lesbian were the norm? What if to be straight labeled you as an Opposite and made YOU the Outkast?

Where to find the author:

Author Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/T.M.-Smith/e/B00D8N818E

Author website: www.ttcbooksandmore.com

Author Twitter – https://twitter.com/TTCBooksandmore

GoodReads book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17619257-opposites

GoodReads author: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6997897.T_M_Smith

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTMSmith

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/ttcbooksandmore/

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJjm1BpCFi7kCt_KK_VyReA

Publisher: TTC Publishing

Cover Artist: T.L. Shreffler of Runaway Book Design

Blurb(s):

In the year 2081 our planet survived global warming of an apocalyptic scale. When the dust settled and the water receded Dr. Anthony Smith, one of only a few hundred survivors of GWI, started society anew. Having come to the conclusion that injudicious breeding played a huge role in the destruction of Earth as we knew it in the twenty first century, he worked closely with other survivors to isolate the Dionysus gene. This gene has the ability to manipulate human DNA to ensure that all male children be born gay, and all female children be born lesbians. A new society is born.

In the year 2300 Dr. Smith’s descendants are ushering in the twenty fourth century having maintained control of the government that still rules society. Twins Aiya and Aiyan are preparing to meet their matches and take control of House Gaeland, the current ruling House. But not everything is as it seems.

Love is Love.. it knows no gender and doesn’t conform to restrictions and boundaries. Aiyan has found his soul mate in Kaden, the prince of House Devi that he is matched with and eventually marries. But when the person Aiya falls in love with tests the boundaries put in place after GWI, all hell breaks loose. And in the midst of one secret unraveling, another will emerge. There is a growing anomaly that threatens to destroy over two hundred years of progression. This anomaly is known as Opposites.

*WARNING* Opposites is an Adult Dystopian majorly M/M series that contains explicit sexual content and relationships between gay, lesbian and straight couples.*

Categories: Adult dystopian majorly MM romance. I market as an LGBT romance because I have gay, straight and lesbian couples.

Excerpt:

Standing outside the door to the room Kaden barely occupied, Aiyan placed his hands on either side of him planting him against the wall. He stared at Kaden for several moments before he smiled, and kissed him. Kaden pulled back and shot a warning glare at him.

“You should go.” Kaden whispered breathlessly. “Goodnight Aiyan.”

Aiyan grinned that crooked smile and planted a kiss on his neck and whispered, “Go where, here?” He moved up and nipped Kaden’s ear lobe with his teeth. “Or here?” he asked. Kaden was beginning to slide down the wall as his legs turned to jelly.

Aiyan stood back laughing, his eyes glistened and he smiled. “Goodnight Kaden, I love you.” Placing a quick peck on his lips, he turned to go.

“And I you.” Kaden said and closed the door behind him before sinking to the floor, no longer able to support himself. He ran the tips of his fingers across his still tingling lips, and smiled.

Pages or Words: 199 pages (Opposites)

Interview

Hello everyone, and thank you Parker for such an fun and hopefully entertaining question! Since the basis of the world behind Opposites is an alternate society where as being gay/lesbian is the norm, to be straight is the oddity, I think the most obvious choice for opposites day would make them seem like fish out of water, so to speak.

I suppose Maeve would be straight and Aiya would be a lesbian, so their particular relationship would still play out the same, just with the roles reversed in a way. Raven could be a gun toting, snuff spitting hetero, typical run of the mill Catholic priest that chases skirts and drinks scotch out in the open, but hides his tendencies toward the male persuasion behind closed doors. Oh, damn… did I just say that out loud? My bad! Marcus could be completely boring instead of totally psychotic, and Cillian could pull on the boots of a big ole cuddly bear.

And while I could see the majority of my characters re-written for the typical romance novel, aside from Raven, wouldn’t it just be a total blast to see Ryan and Maya as a married couple. I just snorted so hard, I spit wine on the computer screen. Seriously, would they break the bed, or each other?

As for me, I’m just an outspoken, pig headed, hopeless romantic that lives out her fantasies through her characters. So I suppose the opposite of that would be a shy, introverted, cynical shit? Yeah, no, I’ll let the fantasy peeps sweat their way through opposite day. Me, I’ll just be me!

Tour Dates & Stops:

5-Mar

Velvet Panic

The Hat Party

12-Mar

Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews

Amanda C. Stone

19-Mar

The Fuzzy, Fluffy World of Chris T. Kat

Inked Rainbow Reads

26-Mar

MM Good Book Reviews