Leta Blake

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Just A Reminder. There Is A Thing That Will Make It Worth It. #mystery

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I’m speaking now as a messenger from the other side. I still get angry and sad and pissed off and so forth, but when I think of how, if I’d killed myself, I’d have missed drinking sake with my awesome friends and discovering anime and seeing Ian McKellan as Gandalf and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and making out with a better class of men than I’d previously dated and having J– teach me reverse roundhouse kicks and selling my first book and flooring it past the ocean with the roof open and “Thunder Road” playing …

If all I got from not killing myself was one hour in Kyoto when the autumn leaves were falling, it would have been so, so worth it. — Rachel Manija Brown

 

“where the heck have you been, Amelia?” Making sexy books apparently! #gay #erotica @ACGormley

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What has Amelia Gormley been up to this summer? Apparently being part of this military men box set!

“My story is titled The Houseboy: Initiation, and is nothing short of pure, unadulterated erotica. Seriously. There are a lot of stories where I go for “smut with substance” and there is a lot happening behind the sexytiems. This…is not one of those times. It’s Daddy kink. It’s BDSM. It’s age difference, virginity kink, gangbang, objectification, semi-public sex, exhibitionism, and God only knows what else. In many ways, it’s what Strain would have been without the angst and the fuck-or-die element driving the plot. If that sounds like your cuppa, I’ll be sharing an excerpt in my next post.”

via The summer in review or: “where the heck have you been, Amelia?” | The fiction of Amelia C. Gormley.

Click on through to read more of Amelia’s upcoming books, or click the photo above to go purchase this massive box set! Only 99 cents!

Artemis in the Desert: adventure on two wheels @FlickerJax @AnniePearsonOK

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“It’s the newest book in my mom’s Rain City Comedy of Manners series, Artemis in the Desert. Just in time for beach reading, bed reading, park reading, weekend reading, airport reading, or really any kind of reading there is. Like the other books in the series Nine Volt Heart–likeable rock stars, and The Grrrl of Limberlost–punk rock nerd girl coder it features strong female characters, crazy bad guys and such lush backdrop descriptions that you’ll wish you were there inside the book well except maybe camping in the cold rain in the desert, you won’t wish for that but you’ll really feel it. And like all her other books, even though I’ve already read it a couple times in various stages of completion I’m going to read it again now that i can just enjoy it.”

Find out more about Annie Pearson’s books via not far from the tree part one | Ajax Bell.

StraightNotNarrow: We all have an opinion, here’s mine…: Author Saturday Spotlight: Leta Blake *Interview and Giveaway*

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***Giveaway*** So it’s a reader’s choice so you can choose any Leta Blake ebook to win. Winner will receive an email Friday if they’ve won. I’ll ask you what book, format and what email. I will then let Leta know and she will send it to you. I want to thank Leta Blake, again, for doing this and for letting us play inside her brain for a bit!

via StraightNotNarrow: We all have an opinion, here’s mine…: Author Saturday Spotlight: Leta Blake *Interview and Giveaway*.

 

I’m over at Meredith King’s blog giving away any of my back catalog! Go have a look and participate to win!

 

“I rarely rate a book as highly as this one.” Ron Caron’s Review of The River Leith #mmromance #gay

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“Leith and Zach are flawed, but are easy to love. And you find yourself pulling for them at every step of this page turner. I rarely rate a book as highly as this one.”

via Goodreads | Ron Caron Springvale, ME’s review of The River Leith.

Memory is everything. After an injury in the ring, amateur boxer Leith Wenz wakes to discover his most recent memories are three years out of date. Unmoored and struggling to face his new reality, Leith must cope anew with painful revelations about his family. His brother is there to support him, but it’s the unfamiliar face of Zach, a man introduced as his best friend, that provides the calm he craves. Until Zach’s presence begins to stir up feelings Leith can’t explain. For Zach, being forgotten by his lover is excruciating. He carefully hides the truth from Leith to protect them both from additional pain. His bottled-up turmoil finds release through vlogging, where he confesses his fears and grief to the faceless Internet. But after Leith begins to open up to him, Zach's choices may come back to haunt him. Ultimately, Leith must ask his heart the questions memory can no longer answer.
Memory is everything.
After an injury in the ring, amateur boxer Leith Wenz wakes to discover his most recent memories are three years out of date. Unmoored and struggling to face his new reality, Leith must cope anew with painful revelations about his family. His brother is there to support him, but it’s the unfamiliar face of Zach, a man introduced as his best friend, that provides the calm he craves. Until Zach’s presence begins to stir up feelings Leith can’t explain.
For Zach, being forgotten by his lover is excruciating. He carefully hides the truth from Leith to protect them both from additional pain. His bottled-up turmoil finds release through vlogging, where he confesses his fears and grief to the faceless Internet. But after Leith begins to open up to him, Zach’s choices may come back to haunt him.
Ultimately, Leith must ask his heart the questions memory can no longer answer.

Author Interview/Bog Tour The River Leith by Leta Blake | Zipper Rippers

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Today I’m over at Zipper Rippers! Come on over and check it out! 🙂  Excerpt of interview is below:
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What is your favourite food?

I’m very strange in that I find food a bit boring and find making it even more boring, so my favourite food is basically any food that is made and brought to me by someone else. It’s heavenly to be given something yummy to eat without having lifted a finger to think of it or make it myself.

Are you a morning person or a night owl?

Definitely a night owl, but real life is determined to make me accustomed to waking early. As the years go by, I do dislike sleeping past 9am, since it makes me feel like I’ve wasted the day.

Where do you dream of travelling to and why?

Paris. I have a dream of standing by the Eiffel Tower with my daughter. I can’t say why it’s so important to me but if I die before that happens it will be a bitter pill to swallow.

Do distant places feature in your books?

Sometimes, but I try to write what I can easily imagine in terms of setting since it makes it easier to describe properly.

Read more via Author Interview/Bog Tour The River Leith by Leta Blake | Zipper Rippers.

Guest Post The River Leith

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Today I’m at Editor Charlene’s blog with more from Zach from The River Leith. He’s telling us about himself and Leith, what draws them together, and a bit about the book from his perspective. (It’s also different from the Flash Fiction I posted yesterday.) Go have a look-see and check out what Zach has to say! 🙂

Book Excerpt The River Leith

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Another excerpt from The River Leith is up at The Book Daily. It’s different from the first chapter excerpt that went up the other day , since I excised the prologue. Basically, this excerpt is the prologue, but it lays out the situation and problem of the book. If you’ve been curious about whether this book is right for you, this might help you decide!

Confused About My Anniversary. Sixteen? Twenty-six? Both! #anniversary #life

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So, I’ve been with my husband for over twenty-five years, but we’ve been married sixteen of them.

I get rather confused when discussing this because I tend to value the larger number as the most real of the two, so I’m always telling people we’ve been married for twenty-six years and then people assume we got married when I was fourteen. It’s the South, so it plays nicely into their stereotype. But, nope, we waited until we were out of college to get married.

Anyway, today is our sixteenth wedding anniversary and I would marry him again tomorrow. Because he’s just that great. And cute. And funny. And good. And, well, I love him.

Happy anniversary, husband of mine! Though it will feel more real on November 7th when it’s been twenty-six years!

 

Author Spotlight – Leta Blake | Queer Town Abbey #free #ebook #mmromance

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Today I’m over at Queer Town Abbey helping them celebrate their birthday! In addition to an interview, there’s an opportunity to win The River Leith via Rafflecopter!

A taste of the interview is below:

What does your writing process look like?

My writing process is made up of three prongs: inspiration, work, and dogged determination. It all starts with inspiration, but work is what gets 90% of the book done, and dogged determination is the last 10% needed to keep from throwing myself down in a heap and giving up.

What is your least favorite part of the publishing / writing process?

The part about 2/3 of the way through when I become convinced that this book is not possible, that it will never be done, that I’ve wasted so much time and effort on something that just can’t even possibly ever be finished. That part sucks.

Read more at:  Author Spotlight – Leta Blake | Queer Town Abbey.

Pantsing My Way to the Fun Parts #amwriting

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I’ve reached the part of my next book that is always my favorite. I’ve set it up and spent some time angsting on what to do next, ultimately concluding that I should do what I’ve always done–Pants It!

For those not in the writing community, pantsing isn’t about pulling someone’s pants down and displaying their undies to the world, but about writing by the seat of your pants. Sure, I have a vague idea of where these guys are headed, and several scenes I know I have to hit, but just how they get there is still up for grabs.

Right now I’m at my favorite stage of the game, though. It’s the part where characters, both main and secondary, have started to just take over scenes and shoulder their way through them without any concern for me. They say and do what they want, often surprising me and making me laugh, and even better often showing me very important things about their background and motivations.

It’s my favorite part because the thrill of discovering them can’t be denied, but the terror that maybe I don’t know what I’m doing and the chore of making all the bits fit into a whole hasn’t come up yet. Give me another 40k words and I’ll be biting my nails with stomach churning anxiety and fear that I’ve written something unfinishable and unsalvagable and wasted months of my life.

But for now I’m happy and having fun and hopeful. My favorite part!