September 19 - Pride in the Park
Roanoke, Virginia
September 25 - Pride Festival
Durham, North Carolina
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March 31st, 2010 by Amanda Young
Did you miss last week’s releases at Loose Id? Get them now through next Monday for 10% off the cover price. This discount combines with the VIP Club discount if you have one. If you don’t, now’s the time to get one. You can get up to 20% off on week-old releases.
And if you’re strapped for cash but don’t want to wait til next week to get 10% off your fix, this week’s releases will be 5% off on Saturday and Sunday only.
Since my March giveaway was something for the men, I thought it only fair to give away something nice for the women this month.
April’s giveaway is the With Love gift set pictured on the left.
All you need to do to be entered into the drawing is be a member of my low-volume mailing list. Just leave a comment on this post saying you’ve signed up or that you’re already a member and you’ll be entered to win. If you’re not and you’d like to sign up, there’s a gray sign-up box to the left of this post, on the sidebar.
A winner will be chosen at random and announced here on the blog on April 30th. Make sure you check back to see if you’ve won.
Sunday, March 28th is Gay Day at my Yahoo Group. Gay Day is the one day a month when the best authors in GLBT Romance stop by to post excerpts of their new and upcoming releases.
The following authors will be generously offering giveaways you can enter to win:
Ava March – Has generously offered up an e-book from herBacklist
Hi guys! I’ve solidified some plans for a few upcoming appearances and wanted to go ahead and share them with you. There may be a couple more that get added to the list as my plans for the rest of 2010 finish coming together. In the meantime, if any of you are near any of the three locations listed below, make sure you swing by and say hello. Maybe we can catch a drink together or something.
June 18-20, 2010 - CON.TXT in Silver Spring, Maryland
September 19, 2010 - Pride in the Park in Roanoke, Virginia
September 25, 2010 - Pride Festival in Durham, North Carolina
I have good news for those of you who’d like to keep up with my new releases, but aren’t interested in the chatter of a yahoo group. I’ve set up a low-mail newsletter. You can join by filling out the form to the left of this post, located on the sidebar. Or click the link below.
Please welcome Shelley Munro to the blog, author of The Bottom Line. Thank you for agreeing to answer my nosy questions and share them with everyone visiting today.
Q: To begin, please share which genre(s) you write in…
A: LOL. I have a low boredom threshold and like to mix it up. To date, I’ve dabbled in most genres. I’ve written historical, sci-fi, contemporary, paranormal and m/m. My favorites are contemporary and paranormal, but I like to keep my options open. If I can do a mixture of several genres, then all the better. I enjoy genre blending.
Q: How long did you write before you received your first contract for publication?
A: I wrote for six years before receiving my first contract. Although it seemed like a long time when I was living it, I don’t consider any of that time wasted. I learned a lot and enjoyed every moment of the journey, both good and bad.
Q: Out of all the stories you’ve written, which is your favorite?
A: I have a real soft spot for the stories in my Middlemarch Mates series. The series concentrates on a black leopard community who live in the small country town of Middlemarch in the South Island of New Zealand. To date, I’ve written ten stories in this series, so all the characters feel like old friends.
Q: Do you need to be in a specific place or atmosphere before the words flow?
A: No. I can write in my office or in the middle of a busy café. I can write anywhere and at any time. I don’t need silence or a specific time of the day or a have a preferred place to write. I do tend to do my best work during the morning though.
Sam Keller knows he’ll never find the excitement he craves in Middleton, Iowa—not while he’s busting his ass in nursing school and paying rent by slaving away in a pharmacy stockroom. But before his mother died, he promised her he’d grow up to be a good man, so he needs a stable career and a good husband, not a dead-end job and empty sex.
Then Sam meets Mitch Tedsoe, an independent trucker who makes a delivery to a shop across the alley. Innocent flirting quickly leads to an affair, and when Mitch offers to take Sam on a road trip west, Sam jumps at the chance for adventure with his fantasy man… but Mitch also comes with a past. A threesome with the other man in Mitch’s life would have been just another kinky ride, but somewhere between the Mississippi River and the Colorado Rockies, Sam falls in love.
But can a relationship born out of escape and indulgence become something that lasts? Will a fantasy man be willing to settle down into reality, or is the adventure and excitement Sam finds with Mitch just another stop on a delivery man’s journey? For better or for worse, eventually Sam is going to discover the answer, because no matter how far away he travels, eventually all roads lead home.
Stefan Joss just can’t win. Not only does he have to go to Texas in the middle of summer to be the man of honor in his best friend Charlotte’s wedding, but he’s expected to negotiate a million-dollar business deal at the same time. Worst of all, he’s thrown for a loop when he arrives to see the one man Charlotte promised wouldn’t be there: her brother, Rand Holloway.Stefan and Rand have been mortal enemies since the day they met, so Stefan is shocked when a temporary cease-fire sees the usual hostility replaced by instant chemistry. Though leery of the unexpected feelings, Stefan is swayed by a sincere revelation from Rand, and he decides to give Rand a chance.
But their budding romance is threatened when Stefan’s business deal goes wrong: the owner of the last ranch he needs to secure for the company is murdered. Stefan’s in for the surprise of his life as he finds himself in danger as well.
Please welcome Christiane France to the blog, author of FRENCH TWIST. Thank you for agreeing to answer my nosy questions and share them with everyone visiting today.
Q: To begin, please share which genre(s) you write in…
A: Mostly m/m gay contemporary, also m/m/f and m/f/m ménage, also contemporary. I’ve done one m/m gay historical and it sold surprisingly well, bearing in mind historicals are not exactly hot right now.
Q: How long did you write before you received your first contract for publication?
A: Approximately 15 years, before I got my first contract in 1999. Of course, that was back in the days when NY was pretty much the only game in town and epubs in their infancy.
Q: Out of all the stories you’ve written, which is your favorite?
A: The Impossible Dream, I guess. Both men are flawed in some way, Theo has stage fright, and Stef is scared of heights, but they work so well together. Now that they’ve found one another, I can’t imagine either one looking elsewhere
Q: Do you need to be in a specific place or atmosphere before the words flow?
A: No, I just need my Muse to be alert and interested in doing some work instead of lollygagging in bed all day or out shopping for clothes.