Blog Tour Schedule

December 28 - Emily Wells
December 29 Erin and Racheline
December 30 - Sean Michael
December 31 Charley Descateaox
January 1 - Charlie Cochet
January 2 Chris Kat
January 3 Viktor Alexander

Santa's Little Kinksters: Guest Bloggers

 Today I would like to welcome Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese to the blog! They're here to talk to you about their new release, Evergreen, of the Santa's Little Kinkster's anthology, available now from Torquere Press and on Amazon if you prefer.. Take it away folks!

 

 

As a native New Yorker, being involved in writing a holiday story about Christmas was actually something of a challenge for me.  That’s because there are two New Yorks during the Christmas season. There’s the one that happens in Midtown Manhattan, that involves bright lights, expensive shopping, and often unbearable crowds, and there’s the one that happens in the rest of New York. That other holiday season is smaller, more local, and takes place on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis.  It also tends to be very quiet. 

After all, New York is filled with people who moved here from other places, which means they usually return to those places around the holiday season. For people that grew up here we often say that we like the holidays simply because everyone leaves. The bulk of Evergreen takes place in Brooklyn, just a neighborhood or two away from mine. It’s about what happens when Liam, who grew up in New York and moved to L.A. for work, comes home for the holidays to his family and his childhood friends. Presenting that quiet New York, the one that tourists don’t see and probably wouldn’t find that interesting, in a compelling way was challenging. It’s a very different type of romantic Christmas feeling than the one most readers are familiar with.

But what we hope that readers discover all the beauty of that romance that comes from quiet streets and familiar haunts. From the privacy (as private as one can get in New York, at least) of the backyard of Liam’s parents’ townhouse, to the hush of Liam’s street during a Christmas Eve snowfall, Christmas in this New York is full of moments of unexpected magic. And even in a big, outrageous city like New York, and a busy, complicated life like Liam’s, at its core, romance is about the trust and comfort of home.

 

Blurb:

 

When bisexual polyamorous TV star Liam Campbell returns home to New York City for the holidays he finds out his his best friend (with benefits) Charles Ortwin has recently acquired a serious boyfriend. Thrown by not being the center of everyone's attention, Liam seeks out advice from three of his chosen family: ex-lover and co-star J. Alex Cook, boss and asexual romantic companion Victor Salcido Santillan, and fiancée Carly Amadahy, each of whom are tied up with their own sensual pleasures.

When a holiday party ends in a series of arguments between Charles, the new boyfriend, and Liam, it takes a snowy Christmas, a bit of honest communication, and some delightful sexual agony to put everything back as it should be.

Bio:

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 (Summer 2015), about a summerstock Shakespeare company, is from Dreamspinner Press. 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 at http://Avian30.com.

Social Media Links:

Joint Blog: http://Avian30.com

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

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

Racheline’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/racheline_m

Erin’s Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8323893.Erin_McRae

Racheline’s Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1015335.Racheline_Maltese

Blog Tour?

Many of you may know I'm terribly bad at putting myself forward. Those that know me personally find this hilarious as I'm rather gregarious and forthright in person... Some would say headstrong, blunt, bullish, bitchy even. However, when it comes to actually presenting myself and my work I seem to flounder.

I can talk your ear off in person, and have on occasion near accomplished this, but the initial contact is hard for me.

So, in the spirit of putting myself out there, I'm plotting out a blog tour for A Curse on the Mountain. It'll be my first official one, and I hope to make a full week of it, starting December 28th and ending January 3rd. This will mean a total of SEVEN blogs willing to host me.

I'm planning to give away eight prizes. One for each day and then one grand prize, as it were. Prizes will be things like, back list stories/books, ebooks, perhaps a gift card. The grand prize I know will be a commissioned piece of artwork, naming rights to a character in an upcoming book, a book and a signed book plate or vellum.

I'll try to work out all the wrinkles in the meantime, and if anyone is interested in hosting me, just hit my email!

Otherworld: Guest Speaker Emma Jane

 

Hi, thanks for joining me on my blog tour. My name's Emma Jane and I'm one of the authors of Otherworld.

Archetypal English toff William "Liam" Barnes is in big trouble. He's borrowed money from Irish gangster Davey McGrath with one simple proviso: get the prism from Matthew Luttrell - seducing him if he has to - and bring it back to him. But the prism isn't with Matthew, and Liam makes a decision he can't undo, meaning he's now twenty thousand pounds in debt to a vicious gangster and has no idea where to find the prism.

That is, until he meets stoic Irishman Jim Henvey, the real owner of the prism, who has a cruel demi-goddess of a mother on the warpath for him. Liam and Jim quickly find themselves tied up in each other's messes, and with more than just the mortal world out to get them, is there any way they can find their way out of a battle between dimensions together and still have time to figure out their feelings for each other? Or will they sink deeper into trouble?

Today, I'm going to talk about Cliona AKA Mammy. Cliona is Jim's scary mother. She's loosely 

based on the Goddesses Fand (sea goddess) and Cliodna (queen of the banshees) from Irish mythology. So she's not exactly human. She's charged with collecting the souls of people who have died and bringing them to the otherworld so they can pass over, but she's not a nice person. She used to take Jim to the otherworld when he was a child and leave him there, even though he was terrified, to build up his strength. She uses Jim for her own purposes, he's nothing but a means to an end for her. She's cold and power obsessed.

During the course of the novel, Cliona can only leave the otherworld to collect a soul, and as the source of her power - the prism - has been taken from her, she's trapped in Ireland and unable to come after Jim herself. She sends Mr. McGrath and his heavies instead and, through Liam, they get to Jim.

I've always been interested in mythology and the paranormal. I go on ghost hunts myself and have friends (and family members) who are mediums, so I'm quite inspired by that sort of thing. There will often be paranormal elements in my novels.

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Mr. Barnes raised his eyebrows. "Do go on, James. Tell me why you know better than I do."

"It's not important," James said. "A long story. A long time ago."

"James, you are in my house," Liam's father said wearily. "Indulge me."

James stared at him. Why had he even brought it up? That was the thing about bottling up -- it was meant to stay bottled. Nobody knew, not Marcas, not Stella, certainly not Liam. The twins, well, he had his suspicions.

"My mother, Cliona," he began slowly, "she wasn't well. In the head. She was... cruel without realizing it. She hurt me in a lot of ways. But I couldn't hate her. She wasn't to blame, it was the thing in her head, the voice on her shoulder, the--" He drew in a deep breath, surprised to find his eyes had pricked with tears. He turned away from Mr. Barnes and stared intently at an empty corner of the room. "If you want to speak to your son again, I can help you. But honestly, in my experience -- it only makes things worse."

Otherworld is published by Torquere Press. (link)

You can follow Emma Jane on Twitter: @emizzy. Follow her blog: http://emmy-j.blogspot.co.uk or visit her website: ejtett.weebly.com

Also by Emma Jane:

The Queen's Guard - a short story published in Torquere's Men in Uniform anthology

Compulsion - a short story published in Dreamspinner's Hot off the Press anthology

Shuttered - a novel published by Dreamspinner Press, due for release December 2014

Also by Liz Powell:

Hunted - a novel published by Manifold Press