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Ford is the classical good boy of a wealthy southern family. Third generation doctor, he has always followed the steps his parents have setted for him. But when he is expected to marry a good girl from a wealthy southern family he begins to question some of that steps. Cause almost by accident, he discovers that he is more attracted from men than women.
Told be truth, till almost his late twenties years, he pleases himself with the adoration from other men. Ford is an handsome man, wealthy, a doctor, and he is used to be spoilt first by his family and then by his friends and lovers.
First time he sees Dan, he is impressed by the angel voice of the man singing a Christmas carol. But Dan is a shy man and probably in that moment Ford is not ready for love, and so neither of them make a move. An year after they have the change to meet again and this time Ford finally makes that move. But as always Ford takes the lead and dictats how their relationship should be. Dan, even if shy and average plain jane, is not willing to loose himself in Ford's aurea.
The relationship between them is not simple: even if Ford, step by step, tries to find his way out of the closet, he never claims that Dan is his lover, he uses direct words like "he sleeps with me", but he never one calls him other than my friend. On the other hand Dan comes from a very poor family and he is very stubborn in searching to prove his independence: accept to live with Dan and risk to cancel all his independence's claims is a very hard step. Plus Dan has a critical illness that put at risk their life together: from one part Dan tries to hide the problems his illness affects him, cause it's one more thing that puts him on an inferiority level from Ford, on the other hand Ford, even if conscious and caring of Dan's illness, sometime regrets the boundaries that cause them.
The story travel in two time levels: the main story tell us the journey of Dan and Ford to spend Christmas with Dan's family, and between loving and conformtable family's pictures, we read how Dan and Ford's meet, of all the problems they have to overcome to be together, how always love is never put in question, but that they will succeed. The two time levels converge in one common ending, that could be an happily ever after, and could be not: not all the open issues in their relationship are straightened...
Amazon: Comfort and Joy
Amazon Kindle: Comfort and Joy
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Books (October 16, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1565123964
ISBN-13: 978-1565123960
Jim Grimsley's In the Spotlight post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/343937.html
Mar. 23rd, 2008
Ford is the classical good boy of a wealthy southern family. Third generation doctor, he has always followed the steps his parents have setted for him. But when he is expected to marry a good girl from a wealthy southern family he begins to question some of that steps. Cause almost by accident, he discovers that he is more attracted from men than women.
Told be truth, till almost his late twenties years, he pleases himself with the adoration from other men. Ford is an handsome man, wealthy, a doctor, and he is used to be spoilt first by his family and then by his friends and lovers.
First time he sees Dan, he is impressed by the angel voice of the man singing a Christmas carol. But Dan is a shy man and probably in that moment Ford is not ready for love, and so neither of them make a move. An year after they have the change to meet again and this time Ford finally makes that move. But as always Ford takes the lead and dictats how their relationship should be. Dan, even if shy and average plain jane, is not willing to loose himself in Ford's aurea.
The relationship between them is not simple: even if Ford, step by step, tries to find his way out of the closet, he never claims that Dan is his lover, he uses direct words like "he sleeps with me", but he never one calls him other than my friend. On the other hand Dan comes from a very poor family and he is very stubborn in searching to prove his independence: accept to live with Dan and risk to cancel all his independence's claims is a very hard step. Plus Dan has a critical illness that put at risk their life together: from one part Dan tries to hide the problems his illness affects him, cause it's one more thing that puts him on an inferiority level from Ford, on the other hand Ford, even if conscious and caring of Dan's illness, sometime regrets the boundaries that cause them.
The story travel in two time levels: the main story tell us the journey of Dan and Ford to spend Christmas with Dan's family, and between loving and conformtable family's pictures, we read how Dan and Ford's meet, of all the problems they have to overcome to be together, how always love is never put in question, but that they will succeed. The two time levels converge in one common ending, that could be an happily ever after, and could be not: not all the open issues in their relationship are straightened...
Amazon: Comfort and Joy
Jim Grimsley's In the Spotlight post: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/343937.html
Heather Graham: On Writing and Publishing
Mar. 23rd, 2008 04:19 pm
I just added a new post to the "Chatting with" series on "Rosa is for Romance". Heather Graham: On Writing and Publishing
"I'm often asked for advice, so I'm going to write a page with advice, and to make sure that my advice is taken with a grain a salt, the first piece of advice I have to give is that reading is subjective. I may love something, you may hate it. That's true with any art form, visual, music, movies, and the written word. You must be true to yourself--however, if you have a dozen editors tell you that something is a cliche, trite, or overdone, it probably is, and you need to step back and take a look at your work."
To read more:
http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/16453762/
Heather Graham: On Writing and Publishing
Mar. 23rd, 2008 04:19 pm
I just added a new post to the "Chatting with" series on "Rosa is for Romance". Heather Graham: On Writing and Publishing
"I'm often asked for advice, so I'm going to write a page with advice, and to make sure that my advice is taken with a grain a salt, the first piece of advice I have to give is that reading is subjective. I may love something, you may hate it. That's true with any art form, visual, music, movies, and the written word. You must be true to yourself--however, if you have a dozen editors tell you that something is a cliche, trite, or overdone, it probably is, and you need to step back and take a look at your work."
To read more:
http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/16453762/
Three stories of old vampires and of the young ones they turn for love.Winner Takes All by Laura Baumbach: Malcom Crane is a celtic warrior turned vampire more than a thousand years ago. He is in love with William Pray, but the newly made vampire is still mourning the loss of his beloved wife and has no other desire in life to see his son safe. But he looses a bet with Malcom and then Malcom kills him and since winner takes all, William's son, Hunter, is now in his power. Thinking to kill the son as he has killed the father he tracks down the young man only to find out that he is not the boy to be enthralled by the vampire but exactly the other way. And Hunter has no problem to accept what his father has refused.
Of the three stories, this one is maybe the more erotic, being almost all a long and very sexy seduction scene.
Wolfe's Recluse by Jet Mykles: Matt has seen the death of his lover at hand of a rogue vampire, and now, two years later, he lives like an hermit in his house, and never ever again he has the courage to go out by night. But on his work as software programmer he meets online Wolfe, his boss, and now Wolfe wants to meet for real Matt. Matt is pretty alone and being a natural submissive lover he yearns the strong hand of a man in his life. But he will have to face all his fears to have a chance with Wolfe.
In Wolfe's Recluse the real main character is Matt. Even if he is the submissive partner in the relationship, and also the more weak, almost all the story is about him and his journey to be free to love again and this time forever.
The Gift of the Raven by Angela Fiddler: Luke has turned Cory, but both of them seem to have the idea to belong to another vampire, Luke to Marcus, his master, and Cory to Lathe, the first vampire he has ever met. In a city that seems to be populate only by vampires, the two have to fight for being together, not only with outside forces, but also with their own fears and beliefs.
Angela Fiddler has a very original vision on the M/M romance vampire's world that it's clear in every one of her last production, like in the Master of the Lines series.
The first two stories are almost "classical", with the usual image of the strong vampire who can allure the weak human, using an enthralling supernatural power and also the sex. The third instead shows us very unusual vampires, driven by feelings that weaken them, make the vampire almost like an human.
http://www.mlrpress.com/ShowBook.php?book=BLOOD002
Amazon: Blood Claim
Amazon Kindle: Blood Claim
Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: MLR Press; 1st Edition edition (March 3, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1934531162
ISBN-13: 978-1934531167
Reading List: http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bott
Three stories of old vampires and of the young ones they turn for love.Winner Takes All by Laura Baumbach: Malcom Crane is a celtic warrior turned vampire more than a thousand years ago. He is in love with William Pray, but the newly made vampire is still mourning the loss of his beloved wife and has no other desire in life to see his son safe. But he looses a bet with Malcom and then Malcom kills him and since winner takes all, William's son, Hunter, is now in his power. Thinking to kill the son as he has killed the father he tracks down the young man only to find out that he is not the boy to be enthralled by the vampire but exactly the other way. And Hunter has no problem to accept what his father has refused.
Of the three stories, this one is maybe the more erotic, being almost all a long and very sexy seduction scene.
Wolfe's Recluse by Jet Mykles: Matt has seen the death of his lover at hand of a rogue vampire, and now, two years later, he lives like an hermit in his house, and never ever again he has the courage to go out by night. But on his work as software programmer he meets online Wolfe, his boss, and now Wolfe wants to meet for real Matt. Matt is pretty alone and being a natural submissive lover he yearns the strong hand of a man in his life. But he will have to face all his fears to have a chance with Wolfe.
In Wolfe's Recluse the real main character is Matt. Even if he is the submissive partner in the relationship, and also the more weak, almost all the story is about him and his journey to be free to love again and this time forever.
The Gift of the Raven by Angela Fiddler: Luke has turned Cory, but both of them seem to have the idea to belong to another vampire, Luke to Marcus, his master, and Cory to Lathe, the first vampire he has ever met. In a city that seems to be populate only by vampires, the two have to fight for being together, not only with outside forces, but also with their own fears and beliefs.
Angela Fiddler has a very original vision on the M/M romance vampire's world that it's clear in every one of her last production, like in the Master of the Lines series.
The first two stories are almost "classical", with the usual image of the strong vampire who can allure the weak human, using an enthralling supernatural power and also the sex. The third instead shows us very unusual vampires, driven by feelings that weaken them, make the vampire almost like an human.
http://www.mlrpress.com/ShowBook.php?book=BLOOD002
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Amazon: Blood Claim
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Riding The El At Midnight by Rick R. Reed
Mar. 23rd, 2008 10:28 pm
Uhmm, I'm puzzled... what I have just read? really I don't know and I will try to say you enough to understand and not enough to spoil the story, that it's soo short, less than 25 pages, that it's an hard thing to do.Mark is a whore or a slut... I don't understand if he does what he does for money or pleasure, or both. He is for sure an abuse son, and now he links pain with pleasure, love with rape. He is dressing for his night out, black leather and kinky toys in his backpack, long red hair and silver jewelry in all his body. He is searching the perfect man who will punish him for his wickedness.
Julio is a sadist. He is almost maniacal in preparing himself for the night, tightly dressed and perfect in every details, from the tip of his shoes to the tip of the silver blade he hiddens in his jacket. Handsome half German and half Cuban, he is searching for the perfect man to love and cherish.
When Julio sees Mark, he knows that he has not found the perfect man, instead he has found a filthy whore who deserves to be punish, but he doesn't know that Mark wants exactly that.
Well the setting is almost genial, the tension that builds during both Mark and Julio's waiting for the night it's like a time bomb ready to burst, I really don't find any complaint in the story if not in the end... what will happen next? Maybe my mind is not enought twisted to find the answer alone, and maybe this ending is exactly what this story needs.
http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/RidingTheEl.html
Amazon Kindle: Riding The El At Midnight
Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC (August 19, 2009)
Waiting Reading List: http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bott
Riding The El At Midnight by Rick R. Reed
Mar. 23rd, 2008 10:28 pm
Uhmm, I'm puzzled... what I have just read? really I don't know and I will try to say you enough to understand and not enough to spoil the story, that it's soo short, less than 25 pages, that it's an hard thing to do.Mark is a whore or a slut... I don't understand if he does what he does for money or pleasure, or both. He is for sure an abuse son, and now he links pain with pleasure, love with rape. He is dressing for his night out, black leather and kinky toys in his backpack, long red hair and silver jewelry in all his body. He is searching the perfect man who will punish him for his wickedness.
Julio is a sadist. He is almost maniacal in preparing himself for the night, tightly dressed and perfect in every details, from the tip of his shoes to the tip of the silver blade he hiddens in his jacket. Handsome half German and half Cuban, he is searching for the perfect man to love and cherish.
When Julio sees Mark, he knows that he has not found the perfect man, instead he has found a filthy whore who deserves to be punish, but he doesn't know that Mark wants exactly that.
Well the setting is almost genial, the tension that builds during both Mark and Julio's waiting for the night it's like a time bomb ready to burst, I really don't find any complaint in the story if not in the end... what will happen next? Maybe my mind is not enought twisted to find the answer alone, and maybe this ending is exactly what this story needs.
http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/RidingTheEl.html
Coming soon by Rick R. Reed:
Orientation, May 2008, from Amber Allure
Dead End Street, October 2008, from Amber Allure
Waiting Reading List:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bott