In memory of Celeste De Blasis

Celeste N. De Blasis was born on May 8, 1946 in Santa Monica, California. She grew up at the Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, California located in the high Mojave Desert. She was the daughter Jean De Blasis. Jean De Blasis and Joseph Campbell are the children of author Mrs. Kemper Campbell (Litta Belle Campbell). Celeste De Blasis attended Wellesley College, later transferred to Oregon State University, and in 1968 was graduated from Pomona College where longing to be back home at the ranch had drawn her.

Her final book did not follow her proven historical romance formula. It was a biographical work titled "Graveyard Peaches" about her life at the Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, California. After the publication of this work, Celeste De Blasis battled cancer until her death in 2001. She was cremated and her ashes were spread along her favorite trail at the Kemper Campbell Ranch where she had walked nearly everyday. 

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In memory of Celeste De Blasis

Celeste N. De Blasis was born on May 8, 1946 in Santa Monica, California. She grew up at the Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, California located in the high Mojave Desert. She was the daughter Jean De Blasis. Jean De Blasis and Joseph Campbell are the children of author Mrs. Kemper Campbell (Litta Belle Campbell). Celeste De Blasis attended Wellesley College, later transferred to Oregon State University, and in 1968 was graduated from Pomona College where longing to be back home at the ranch had drawn her.

Her final book did not follow her proven historical romance formula. It was a biographical work titled "Graveyard Peaches" about her life at the Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, California. After the publication of this work, Celeste De Blasis battled cancer until her death in 2001. She was cremated and her ashes were spread along her favorite trail at the Kemper Campbell Ranch where she had walked nearly everyday. 

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The Far Away Years by L.F. Blake

It's 3.30 in the morning and I just finished to cry. No, not worry, I'm not sad, I'm only sapply happy. I read a book that makes me cry like a fountain and I'm happy... and I can't stop yawning.

1977. Danny is a little skinny guy with a good voice but with a lot of emotional issues. He is gay, even if he can't admit it with the world and even with himself. But when he lays eyes on Jeff, he falls in love head over heels. Jeff is a guitarist; really he is not a pretty boy, rather the opposite, but when he plays he is beautiful. At least for Danny. So beautiful that Danny decides to put up a band only to have the chance to be near Jeff. And he remains near him even when Jeff gets married.

But Danny's unrequited love can't be hidden for long and he needs to tell Jeff. And then starts a slowly fall toward hell. Cause even if he would say it neither under torture, Jeff is gay. True he has never considered Danny as a possible lover before the man proposed him. And true, it's not simple for him to accept all this, but Danny is like a drug and Jeff seems to be addictive. While he continues to bring on a marriage with an almost bitch, and procreates three kids, he also continues to return everytime to Danny. Oh, he says to himself it's only lust, it's not love. And he doesn't realize that he is slowly killing Danny. And when he is forced to choose between his career and sons against Danny, he chooses to free himself from his addiction, and while finally he admits with Danny to love him, the same day he leaves him to his lonely fate. But Danny is not so strong as Jeff is thinking, and he is addicted to another type of drug, a real drug that allows him to forget everything and above all himself.

The Far Away Years is a very long and involving book. It deals with the glam rock era and with a period when sex, drugs and rock and roll were still things that didn't kill you, unless you didn't take to much of all of them. And Danny passed all of them, beginning with rock and roll, passing through sex and arriving to drugs, all too much, always putting too much of him in them, never thinking first at him. But for all the book Danny is all the same, he is a nice guy who needs only to be loved. And even if he doesn't say it aloud, he is always asking for love, with all himself.

Who instead goes through a big changing is Jeff. Truth be told, I don't like very much the Jeff of the first part of the book. He is a selfcentered bastard. He can't see how much Danny needs him, and he only thinks to what is good for him. And sincerely if not for a third part intervention, I think he would not opened his eyes. But when he opens that eyes, he makes a very good choice. So good Jeff, you save your image in front of him, still you could do that also before...

The Far Away Years is a romance, but it's not an erotic romance. There is sex, but it's almost chaste, made of things not said rather than graphic details. But sincerely I don't feel the lack of sex, and some images are very tender and romantic.

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Cover Art by Rose Lenoir

The Far Away Years by L.F. Blake

It's 3.30 in the morning and I just finished to cry. No, not worry, I'm not sad, I'm only sapply happy. I read a book that makes me cry like a fountain and I'm happy... and I can't stop yawning.

1977. Danny is a little skinny guy with a good voice but with a lot of emotional issues. He is gay, even if he can't admit it with the world and even with himself. But when he lays eyes on Jeff, he falls in love head over heels. Jeff is a guitarist; really he is not a pretty boy, rather the opposite, but when he plays he is beautiful. At least for Danny. So beautiful that Danny decides to put up a band only to have the chance to be near Jeff. And he remains near him even when Jeff gets married.

But Danny's unrequited love can't be hidden for long and he needs to tell Jeff. And then starts a slowly fall toward hell. Cause even if he would say it neither under torture, Jeff is gay. True he has never considered Danny as a possible lover before the man proposed him. And true, it's not simple for him to accept all this, but Danny is like a drug and Jeff seems to be addictive. While he continues to bring on a marriage with an almost bitch, and procreates three kids, he also continues to return everytime to Danny. Oh, he says to himself it's only lust, it's not love. And he doesn't realize that he is slowly killing Danny. And when he is forced to choose between his career and sons against Danny, he chooses to free himself from his addiction, and while finally he admits with Danny to love him, the same day he leaves him to his lonely fate. But Danny is not so strong as Jeff is thinking, and he is addicted to another type of drug, a real drug that allows him to forget everything and above all himself.

The Far Away Years is a very long and involving book. It deals with the glam rock era and with a period when sex, drugs and rock and roll were still things that didn't kill you, unless you didn't take to much of all of them. And Danny passed all of them, beginning with rock and roll, passing through sex and arriving to drugs, all too much, always putting too much of him in them, never thinking first at him. But for all the book Danny is all the same, he is a nice guy who needs only to be loved. And even if he doesn't say it aloud, he is always asking for love, with all himself.

Who instead goes through a big changing is Jeff. Truth be told, I don't like very much the Jeff of the first part of the book. He is a selfcentered bastard. He can't see how much Danny needs him, and he only thinks to what is good for him. And sincerely if not for a third part intervention, I think he would not opened his eyes. But when he opens that eyes, he makes a very good choice. So good Jeff, you save your image in front of him, still you could do that also before...

The Far Away Years is a romance, but it's not an erotic romance. There is sex, but it's almost chaste, made of things not said rather than graphic details. But sincerely I don't feel the lack of sex, and some images are very tender and romantic.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/zencart/

Amazon Kindle: The Far Away Years

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading+list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Rose Lenoir

Gena Showalter: Men Hotter Than Hell!

I just added a new post to the "Chatting with" series on "Rosa is for Romance".

Gena Showalter: Men Hotter Than Hell!

"I’ve taken the myth of Pandora’s box and completely turned it upside down! I claim the gods entrusted Pandora, the greatest warrior of her time, to guard the box. But a group of immortal warriors, her peers, fought and won it, opened it, and unleashed the horde of demons locked inside. Because of this, the gods punish each warrior to house a demon inside his own body. So the warriors become the box, so to speak. It’s not an easy pairing, either. Maddox, the hero of The Darkest Night (May 08) is the keeper of Violence and because of past actions, he’s been given a second curse: to die every night only to awaken the next morning knowing he has to die again."

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Gena Showalter: Men Hotter Than Hell!

I just added a new post to the "Chatting with" series on "Rosa is for Romance".

Gena Showalter: Men Hotter Than Hell!

"I’ve taken the myth of Pandora’s box and completely turned it upside down! I claim the gods entrusted Pandora, the greatest warrior of her time, to guard the box. But a group of immortal warriors, her peers, fought and won it, opened it, and unleashed the horde of demons locked inside. Because of this, the gods punish each warrior to house a demon inside his own body. So the warriors become the box, so to speak. It’s not an easy pairing, either. Maddox, the hero of The Darkest Night (May 08) is the keeper of Violence and because of past actions, he’s been given a second curse: to die every night only to awaken the next morning knowing he has to die again."

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/16719088/

Thanks to Addison Albright!

thanks to Addison Albright  addisonalbright to add me as a friend. I liked your sip with Torquere and hope to read more in the future. Elisa

Thanks to Addison Albright!

thanks to Addison Albright  addisonalbright to add me as a friend. I liked your sip with Torquere and hope to read more in the future. Elisa

Thanks to Storm Grant, mkjarvis, Dakota Flint, Zoe Nichols and H.B. Kurtzwilde!

Thanks to Strom Grant storm_grant, mkjarvis, Dakota Flint dakotaflint, Zoe Nichols zoenichols and H.B. Kurtzwilde hbkurtzwilde to add me as a friend. I will look forward to your next releases. Elisa

Thanks to Storm Grant, mkjarvis, Dakota Flint, Zoe Nichols and H.B. Kurtzwilde!

Thanks to Strom Grant storm_grant, mkjarvis, Dakota Flint dakotaflint, Zoe Nichols zoenichols and H.B. Kurtzwilde hbkurtzwilde to add me as a friend. I will look forward to your next releases. Elisa

Thanks to Tory Temple!

Thanks to Tory Temple ragingpixie to add me as a friend. I first loved your firefighters, but also your merman was very nice. Elisa

Thanks to Tory Temple!

Thanks to Tory Temple ragingpixie to add me as a friend. I first loved your firefighters, but also your merman was very nice. Elisa