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Friday Reading Day - Balancing the Weave

6/2/2023

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It's Friday and it's June! Happy Pride Month! This week, I have a new gay romance from M. W. Lee - Balancing the Weave. The tapestry of the universe is in danger in this one - come have a listen!
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Balancing the Weave
by M.W. Lee

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For Mark, Pride weekend in Yamasee County, South Carolina, means spending the day with friends, flirting with the out-of-town men, finding a romance, drinking too much, and enjoying all of Pride. However, the Fates have arrived to address a hole which appeared in the tapestry representing Mark, his past, and his present, which will direct him to the future.

Throughout the day, the Fates confront Mark with memories both pleasant and painful about his former lover Sammy. Parcae uses her goddess tools to manipulate Mark’s thoughts so he remembers fun dates, fights, issues which make him uncomfortable, and accusations of being needy. Was it Sammy’s neediness that caused Mark to end the relationship? Or was Mark the needy companion? When Sammy once said Mark ain’t needy, what did he mean?
 
Can the goddesses help Mark work through these memories so his self-evaluation can lead to better relationships in the future?
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About M. W. :

M.W. Lee studied English at Limestone University in South Carolina, and DePaul University in Illinois. He has led many lives, as an adjunct professor, data entry clerk, ESA teacher in Saudi Arabia. Currently, he has a new day career as an HIV case manager with the Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center. His personal essay, “The Sea and Debussy” appeared in the on-line journal The Scarlet Leaf Review in October 2021.
 
Lee works during the day and writes at night. “Balancing the Weave” is his first published
novella. He enjoys reading a wide range of fiction; however, space operas, dystopian, and post-apocalyptic fiction are his favorites. He is currently writing a crime novel.
 
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Friday Reading Day - Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator, Part 1

5/19/2023

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Hello, hello! This week, I'm reading to you from some of the stories in the upcoming charity anthology, Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator. This is the first of these posts, and I'll have several of them by the time the anthology launches on September 1!

For this installment, I have 3 excerpts:

Stop Draggin' My Heart Up and Down by Bix Barrow
Saved by the Bell by Kaje Harper
Somewhere Below the Basement by Angel Martinez

(I swear I didn't plan the whole "starts with 'S'" title thing.) Come have a listen!
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Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator
A Charity Anthology 

*Up for preorder now at Amazon, releasing September 1!*

Do you like mechanical devices with personality? Sure, who doesn’t? How about when they hold your life in the palm of their hands? Hmm…less sure now, yes? Don’t worry, you’re gonna love this.
​

At an LGBTQ literary retreat in October of 2022, a group of authors met a particularly cantankerous elevator. Doors slamming open or closed for no apparent reason? Check. Scary noises, also for no apparent reason? Also, check. Were we concerned for our lives? Okay, listen…
​

This cranky elevator figured heavily into conversations for the next few days, many of which included expletives in a dozen languages, but eventually, it became a (somewhat) beloved mascot. Some people actually chose it over the other elevators!

The resulting mayhem is over twenty-five different author takes on the underlying story behind the elevator’s peculiar behavior. Possession? Poltergeists? Personified mechanical objects? Vampires?

All these unique stories come together in one volume: Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator. Join us as we attempt to explain the unexplainable, rationalize the unrationalizable, and give imagination free rein.
​

Proceeds for the sale of this book benefit The Trevor Project, which provides crisis support services to LGBTQ young people. More information can be found about this worthy cause at https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

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Friday Reading Day - May Wedding

5/5/2023

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Happy Friday, all! It's time for me to read to you! And what could be more appropriate for the first Friday in May than May Wedding, the brand new Regency romance novella from our friend, Ellie Thomas. This is #6 in the Twelve Letters series for those of you filling out your book dance card.

We're back with characters we know and love - the wedding of Percy's sister may have given Jo and Daniel ideas... Come have a listen:
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May Wedding
Twelve Letters #6
by Ellie Thomas

JMS Books

Some of the gentlemen who meet weekly for supper at The Golden Lion in London’s St. James’ are preoccupied with the prospect of matrimony.

The Honourable Percy Havilland is at full organisational pelt for his sister’s triumphant society marriage, ably backed by his friends. His frequent stress-induced outbursts are endured by his ever-patient lover, Nathan.

Percy has mixed feelings about the upcoming nuptials, the sorrow at losing one of his precious sisters balanced by the opportunity of exhibiting his exquisite good taste to make this the wedding of the Season.

His friend Jo Everett reacts differently to the wedding, desiring an equivalent opportunity to mark his enduring love for Daniel Walters.

Will Percy manage to survive the wedding without falling out irreparably with Nathan? And might Jo and Daniel discover they have the support of their close circle to celebrate their own special day?

About Ellie:

Ellie Thomas lives by the sea. She comes from a teaching background and goes for long seaside walks where she daydreams about history. She is a voracious reader especially about anything historical. She mainly writes historical gay romance.

Ellie also writes historical erotic romance as L. E. Thomas.
 
Website: https://elliethomasromance.wordpress.com/
 
Facebook reader group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/8308047409266947
 
Twitter: @e_thomas_author
 
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19835510.Ellie_Thomas
 
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/ellie-thomas
 

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Thursday News Bites - Midnight In The Renaissance Elevator (Pre-order Time!)

5/4/2023

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Very excited to bring you info on the charity anthology organized by Miski Harris! Midnight in the Renaissance Elevator will have 27 stories and is up for pre-order now!

​All proceeds go to the Trevor Project. :)

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cover by RJ Peterson (thanks, Ron!)

For a tiny bit of background, the idea for the anthology came out of a shared experience at GRL 2022. The hotel's elevators were mostly polite and well-behaved, but there was one...

The angry elevator.

The haunted elevator.

Instead of closing its doors nicely, this elevator would *SLAM* as if furious with the world and everyone in it. It was disconcerting, to say the least.

So 27 authors have written stories for this anthology in, around, and regarding that elevator, at 5K words or less each. It's quite the list! :D 

The antho is $2.99 during the pre-order period and will go to its normal price of $5.99 on release day. Authors and story titles so far are:

  1. MISKI HARRIS – RIDE WITH THE WRAITH
  2. ADAM J. RIDLEY – THE HUNDRED YEAR CURSE
  3. ALEXIS WOODS
  4. ANGEL MARTINEZ – SOMEWHERE BELOW THE BASEMENT
  5. ARI McKAY
  6. BECK GREY
  7. BELINDA McBRIDE
  8. BIX BARROW
  9. BL MAXWELL
  10. CHARITY PARKERSON – SOMETHING UNHOLY
  11. CJ WARRANT – MIDNIGHT TANGO
  12. DREA ROMAN
  13. DUCKIE MACK
  14. EDEN WINTERS – OUT OF ORDER
  15. GIOVANNA REAVES
  16. JK HOGAN
  17. KAJE HARPER
  18. KATHERINE McINTYRE
  19. KATY MANZ – THE RENAISSANCE INCUBUS
  20. LEE BLAIR
  21. PANDORA PINE – DEATH BECOMES HIM
  22. RL MERRILL
  23. REESE KNIGHTLY
  24. REMI VARLOW
  25. RJ PETERSON – LOVE IS A BUMPY ROAD
  26. TEMPESTE O’RILEY
  27. ZILE ELLIVEN
 
 
No one will be shocked, I think, if I mention mine involves demons. Pick up your copy at Amazon - release date is September 1!
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Thursday News Bites - Galactic D&I Con!

4/27/2023

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It's next week! Galactic D&I (Diversity and Inclusion) will take place at the Philadelphia Convention Center, May 5-7!

Tons of Star Trek folks will be there (like Terry Farrell and Tim Russ and so on), as well as other actors from The Orville, The Expanse, etc. The Gaaays in Space folks who organized the convention have tons of fun things planned.

I'll be in the vendor hall - and it's not a huge crowd of vendors so you should be able to find me easily - at the Mischief Corner Books table. 

​There are day passes and weekend passes available, so come say hi!
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Friday Reading Day - Pinned

4/21/2023

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Hello everyone and welcome to Reading Day! Today, I have an excerpt to read to you from Liz Faraim's brand new novel, Pinned. New novel, new series, thriller/suspense, butch lesbian character, trans character, motorcycles (I am here for all of this)! (There is a giveaway at the end of the post :D ) Come have a listen:
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Pinned
A Randy Cox Novel
by Liz Faraim

“Rowdy” Randy Cox, a woman staring down the barrel of retirement, is a curmudgeonly blue-collar butch lesbian, who has been single for twenty years and is trying to date again.
 
At the end of a long, exhausting shift, Randy finds her supervisor, Bryant, pinned and near death at the warehouse where they work. Upon the news of his death, she battles to find a balance between the joys of an exciting new relationship and the struggles of processing her supervisor’s unexpected passing.
 
The manner of her supervisor’s death leaves Randy unsettled and suspicious as she gets sucked into both a criminal investigation led by the police and an administrative investigation conducted by her employer.
 
As Randy seeks the truth, trust erodes, key friendships are strengthened, and more loss awaits her.

About Liz:

Liz has a full plate between balancing a day job, parenting, writing, and finding some semblance of a social life. In past lives she has been a soldier, a bartender, a shoe salesperson, an assistant museum curator, and even a driving instructor. She focuses her writing on strong, queer, female leads who don’t back down.
 
Liz transplanted to California from New York over thirty years ago. She now lives in the East Bay Area of California and enjoys exploring nature with her wife and son.
 
Author Website: https://www.lizfaraim.com
Author Facebook (Personal): https://www.facebook.com/liz.faraim.9/
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Friday Reading Day - Toward The Marogas Hills

4/7/2023

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Hello, everyone! This Friday's reading day is a special one dedicated to the memory of Darryl Thompson who passed away this Tuesday, husband of this week's author, Jeff Baker. Come have a listen:
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Toward the Marogas Hills
by Jeff Baker

featured in RoM/Mantic Reads, the ezine of free m/m fiction
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Friday Reading Day - The Misfit

3/31/2023

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Happy spring Friday, everyone! The daffodils are out and the world is green! This week, the lovely Ellie Thomas brings us another excerpt from her Regency world, this one bringing us round in a circle in some ways :D This piecefrom The Misfit brings us: a Percy cameo, a rather flustered MC, and shenanery on the horizon! Come have a listen:
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The Misfit
by Ellie Thomas

JMS Books
Amazon

At the start of 1816, Luc Gerrard is summoned home to rural Essex from his sanctuary in the West Indies due to a dangerous downturn in his mother’s health. When she recovers, Luc is determined to pick up his musical employment in London's theatres, concert halls and ballrooms.

He receives support and even friendship from a surprising source, the circle of gentlemen who spirited him away from certain arrest due to his connection with his former lover and Napoleonic plotter, James Beaufort.

Luc juggles his pride and finances while attempting to gain an orchestral position at Drury Lane Theatre for the upcoming spring Season. Bittersweet memories are revived when he inevitably meets his longtime companion and sometime lover, Harry Kent. However, charming, easy-going casual Harry seems changed by Luc’s absence.

Can Luc re-establish his interrupted career with a little help from his new friends? And might he and Harry find a lasting connection?

About Ellie:

Ellie Thomas lives by the sea. She comes from a teaching background and goes for long seaside walks where she daydreams about history. She is a voracious reader especially about anything historical. She mainly writes historical gay romance.

Ellie also writes historical erotic romance as L. E. Thomas.
 
Website: https://elliethomasromance.wordpress.com/
 
Facebook reader group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/8308047409266947
 
Twitter: @e_thomas_author
 
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19835510.Ellie_Thomas
 
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/ellie-thomas

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Friday Reading Day - The Dragon Eater

3/17/2023

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It's Reading Time! :D This week, I get to read to you from J. Scott Coatsworth's brand new sci-fantasy novel,  The Dragon Eater! A thief, a guardsman, and a whole lot of trouble - come have a listen!

*A note from Scott: Order and Get the Prequel Free
I’m giving away the prequel, Tales From Tharassas, with all preorders – it contains The Last Run, The Emp Test, and a brand new short story the Fallen Angel. Just order the book and email me a proof of purchase at scott@jscottcoatsworth.com, and I’ll send you the prequel.
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The Dragon Eater
Tharassas Cycle #1
by J. Scott Coatsworth

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Raven's a thief who just swallowed a dragon. A small one, sure, but now his arms are growing scales, the local wildlife is acting up, and his snarky AI familiar is no help whatsoever.
 
Raven's best friend Aik is a guardsman carrying a torch for the thief. A pickpocket and a guard? Never going to happen. And Aik’s ex-fiancé Silya, an initiate priestess in the midst of a magical crisis, hates Raven with the heat of a thousand suns.
 
This unlikely team must work together to face strange beasts, alien artifacts, and a world-altering threat. If they don’t figure out what to do soon, it might just be the end of everything.
 
Things are about to get messy.
 
​
About Scott:

​Scott lives with his husband Mark in a yellow bungalow in Sacramento. He was indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine. He devoured her library, but as he grew up, he wondered where all the people like him were.
 
He decided that if there weren’t queer characters in his favorite genres, he would remake them to his own ends.
 
A Rainbow Award winning author, he runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, sites that celebrate fiction reflecting queer reality, and is the committee chair for the Indie Authors Committee at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
 
Author Website: https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com
Author Facebook (Personal): https://www.facebook.com/jscottcoatsworth/
Author Facebook (Author Page): https://www.facebook.com/jscottcoatsworthauthor
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Author Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8392709.J_Scott_Coatsworth
Author Mastodon: https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/@jscottcoatsworth
Author Liminal Fiction (LimFic.com): https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/j-scott-coatsworth/
Author QueeRomance Ink: https://www.queeromanceink.com/mbm-book-author/j-scott-coatsworth/
Author Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/J.-Scott-Coatsworth/e/B011AFO4OQ
 

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FRidaY Reading Day - As Fire Rains Down

3/10/2023

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This week I'm very excited because I get to read to you from Toni Griffin's brand new novel, As Fire Rains Down! Eeeeee! Shifters, forest fires, a stranger in the woods...come have a listen! :D
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As Fire Rains Down
by Toni Griffin

Kindle Unlimited

As fire rains down on the forest, Luke finds a hurt but powerful demigod in its wake— the kind of shifter that should only exist in legend.

Forest fires around California have got everyone working overtime. Between Luke's volunteer rescue efforts as the fires rage and his keeping up with regular police duties in his sleepy hometown of Half Moon Bay, he's barely had time to eat, let alone catch some shut-eye. It doesn't help that some out-of-towners have been pressing locals to sell up because they want to turn the little oasis into a hopping tourist destination.

Half Moon Bay is a place of sanctuary for shifters like Luke, with most of the town being descended from one kind or another. It's an open secret among the locals. One they're willing to fight to protect.


But the newest flames cutting a path toward town rage hotter and fiercer than normal forest fires. Something isn't right. Finding an overpowered elk shifter in the forest as it burns down around him causes Luke even more confusion—everyone knows those kinds of shifters exist only in legend. The questions raised keep jumping the firebreaks, especially when a dark presence falls on the town and homes start burning.

This book contains shapeshifters of all kinds, a prophecy nobody wanted, discussions about mental health issues, rude gods with no patience left, and a mate with a history of running from relationships but ultimately learns he's worth loving.
About Toni:

Toni Griffin lives in Darwin, the smallest of Australia's capital cities. Born and raised in the state she's a Territorian through and through. Growing up Toni hated english with a passion (as her editors can probably attest to) and found her strength lies with numbers.

Now, though, she loves escaping to the worlds she creates and hopes to continue to do so for many years to come. She's a single mother of one and works full time. When she's not writing you can just about guarantee that she will be reading one of the many MM authors she loves.

http://www.tonigriffin.net/
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