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“Leta Blake’s writing sort of leaves me speechless.” Review of Training Season #gay #romance

May 8, 2015 by Leta

“Leta Blake’s writing sort of leaves me speechless. Her story crafting is phenomenal, and I adore her characters. The emotions evoked are raw and real, and if you’re thinking of forging into the world of m/m romance, or are already a fan, I’d highly suggest giving this one or Smoky Mountain Dreams a read.”

via Goodreads | Katrina Passick Lumsden (Charlotte, MI)’s review of Training Season.

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Look out for Training Season’s sequel coming Spring 2015.

Filed Under: books, ebook, ebooks, Gay, LGBT Tagged With: bdsm, figure skater, gay, rancher, ranching, romance, sexy read

“Unbelievably good, and Matty and Rob’s story will stay with me for quite some time.” – Review of Training Season #mmromance #gay #ebook

February 14, 2014 by Leta

“5 Double Toe Loop Golden Glittering stars for this story that has left me an emotional wreck.”

“Unbelievably good, and Matty and Rob’s story will stay with me for quite some time.”

via Goodreads | Bev’s review of Training Season.

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Training Season can be purchased at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, ARe, and Smashwords. And also on iBooks.
Unquestionably talented figure skater Matty Marcus is willing to sacrifice everything for his Olympic dream, but his lack of discipline cost him the gold once before. Now the pressure’s on. He needs a coach who can keep him in line, but top coaches don’t come cheap, and Matty can’t afford to stay in the game no matter how badly he wants to win.
When a lucrative house-sitting gig brings him to rural Montana, Matty does his best to maintain his training regimen. Local residents turn out to be surprisingly tolerant of his flamboyant style, especially handsome young rancher Rob Lovely, who proves to be much more than a cowboy stereotype. Just as Matty requires a firm hand to perform his best on the ice, Rob shows him how strong he can be when he relinquishes control in the bedroom. With new-found self-assurance, he drives himself harder to go straight to the top.
But competition has a timetable, and to achieve his Olympic dream, Matty will have to join his new coach in New York City, leaving Rob behind. Now he must face the ultimate test. Has he truly learned how to win—on and off the ice—during his training season?

Filed Under: books, Reading, Reviews Tagged With: 5 stars, cowboy, ebook, figure skating, gay, gay romance, m/m romance, matty, ranching, reviews, rob, romance, training season

Training Season Out In Paperback! Comment to Get Yer Signed Copy Here! #mmromance

January 27, 2014 by Leta

No foolin’ this time! It’s the real deal!

TRAINING SEASON IS AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!!

Here is a copy sitting on our piano bench! IT IS A REAL BOOK, Y'ALL! I'm giddy! Giddy, I say!
Here is a copy sitting on our piano bench! IT IS A REAL BOOK, Y’ALL! I’m giddy! Giddy, I say!

I got that whole back cover thing fixed right up, so go forth and pick up your copy!

(Though, hey, nothing’s perfect, and apparently it might take a few days for the change to reflect on the Amazon site itself, but any books sold will have the correct blurb!)

AND I’m giving away two signed copies to two folks who comment here on my blog. I’ll use the random number generator thingy from the interwebs to choose from the comments and contact you. Oh, and the end date for signing up for this little drawing will be on February 3rd!

If you’d like to be considered for this giveaway, please leave a comment below!

Thanks to everyone who has read and reviewed and loved on Training Season! You guys, I never imagined this book would be so well loved! THANK YOU! And thank you again! And again! AND AGAIN!

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Training Season can be purchased at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, ARe, and Smashwords. Coming soon to iBooks.

Filed Under: bdsm, books, erotica, Figure Skating, Gay, LGBT, Ranching, Reading Tagged With: back cover problems, cowboy, figure skater, figure skating, fixed problems, free, freebie, gay, gay romance, giveaway, m/m romance, matty marcus, mmromance, paperback, rancher, ranching, rob lovely, romance, training season

Gay Games and Inclusiveness #gaygames9 #lgbt #gay

January 24, 2014 by Leta

Because of all the terrible things happening in Russia right now, I’ve had mixed emotions about the Olympics this year, especially on the heels of releasing Training Season, an erotic romance which features an Olympic athlete. I wanted to find a way to feel like I was making even a small difference and that’s when I read up on the Gay Games and found that they are inclusive in every way, representing the true ideals of the original Olympics. Well, so long as you were male and not a slave and yadda. Never mind, forget my comment about the original Olympics. The Gay Games are much more inclusive than they ever were!

Regardless, I’ve pledged to donate 10% of the first six months of Training Season profits to the Gay Games to support an organization that is truly inclusive and open.

Now, Training Season might not be a read for everyone. It’s a gay erotic romance with some (smokin’ hot) graphic scenes that aren’t for every reader. But, in this post-50 Shades world, many people are looking for material of this nature and if you are, then this might be a book for you. With that reference alone, one should be able to determine if the book is for them or not.If you do purchase any time from now until May the 10% of your purchase price goes to support the Gay Games!

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Training Season can be purchased at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, ARe, and Smashwords. Coming soon to iBooks.

Filed Under: books, Figure Skating, Gay, Gay Rights, How to be a better person, LGBT, Sports Tagged With: cowboy, effeminate gay male, erotic romance, figure skating, gay erotic romance, gay games, gay games 9, post-50 Shades, ranching, training season

Know What the Book is About #writing

January 16, 2014 by Leta

Reading reviews for Training Season has been a bemusing and fascinating experience. There is, of course, no way to please all the people all the time, and what one reader likes another reader hates. It’s wild to watch many people declare a character real, perfect, amazing and say they’ve fallen in love with him, and then to see another person declare that character boring, badly drawn, or unbearable. At this point, the positive outweighs the negative, and I’m hopeful it stays that way, but, as I said, it’s been a wild ride.

Given that Training Season was in, or hovered around the edges of, Amazon’s Top Ten Gay Romances for over two weeks in December, I think that I must have done something right along the way. And one thing that I’ve been mulling over during all of this hoopla is reader expectations and how they seem to play into the reception of the book. Some readers are disappointed that ranching or skating doesn’t take front and center, though most seem fine with how both things are presented. The thing is, I did a ton more research on ranching and skating than reveals itself in the book itself. And there’s a reason for that.

See, the book was never about those things. Sure, I could’ve written a book about the ins and outs of figure skating, with a lot of competitions, and scenes of skating on the ice. I could’ve written a book about ranching, featuring thrilling moments of escaped or wounded cattle, encounters with dangerous wild animals, or life-or-death adventures on the range. Instead, I wrote a book about something else entirely.

I wrote a book about a romance and about a young man’s emotional growth. I suppose some readers who say this book is more of a coming of age novel, might have a point, though the romance being central definitely makes it a romance in my book. But the book was never about the world of figure skating, or the adventures of ranching. It was always about how a person falls in love, makes choices, processes loss and pain, and moves into a stronger, better place in his life.

There were points when I was writing when I felt like I could take the book in another direction, something more sports or more ranch, but when it came down to it, I realized the book I was really writing and stayed true to it. I think that’s part of why this book has been so surprisingly successful in the scheme of things. Not that readers don’t want books about sports or about ranching! But rather, I think readers want a story that it is told true all the way through, and if I’d wavered from the direction the characters originally set out in, I think the book would have been a failure.

Thank you to all the readers out there–every last one!–who have loved or hated it so far. Y’all are the best. Thank you for letting these characters into your life for even just a little while.

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Training Season can be purchased at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, ARe, and Smashwords. Coming soon to iBooks.

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Does Training Season by Leta Blake live up to all it’s crazy hype? Boy Meets Boy Reviews Tells You #mmromance #gay #amreading

January 8, 2014 by Leta

“Does Training Season by Leta Blake live up to all it’s crazy hype? IT SO DOES!”

— Breann, at Boy Meets Boy Reviews

Read more of her glowing review at:  Boy Meets Boy Reviews: Review: Training Season by Leta Blake.

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Training Season can be purchased at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, ARe, and Smashwords. Coming soon to iBooks.

Filed Under: bdsm, books, Figure Skating, Gay, LGBT, Reading, Reblog, Reviews Tagged With: boy meets boy reviews, breann, corn maze, cowboy, figure skating, gay romance, leta blake, m/m romance, matty marcus, mmromance, rancher, ranching, reviews, rob lovely, romance, training season

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