Tongue Thai'd (Men of Phuket) by Sedonia Guillone

Ryu is the son of a yakuza. He was raped when he was 17 years old from the son of the leader of the family and fearing his father's reactions (to be against him and not against the family) he has left his home to go living with Kiku, a man who professes a strange religion, the White Tiger, who feeds human energy through sex. But ten years after the man who has raped him, tries to have him again and he is sent away on Phuket. Nat Phoenix, and ex kick box fighter and now cop, is assigned to protect Ryu, but from the first moment he is enthralled by this young man, small in body, but with a great energy in him.

The romantic plot is very tender: Ryu's need of love and his generosity in giving and sharing his body with Nat (who has his own problems to deal) is very sweet; in spite of all the bad experiences he has had, Ryu is still a young and innocent man, who seems to have no control in his body when that body demands to be satisfy through Nat. And Nat is like an elephant is a crystal shop: he has no idea how to deal with this precious jewel which is Ryu.

The story is long enough to give you a lot to read, but maybe to full deal with all the elements in the story (the yakuza thing, the former career of Nat, the White Tiger disciple...) I'd like the book a little longer. Anyway I have really enjoy the story and also the sex scenes, which are really exciting.

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Paperback: 230 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 17, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590397
ISBN-13: 978-1906590390

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Men of Tokyo: Sudden Bliss (White Tigers 1) by Sedonia Guillone

If you have never had the change to work with a Japanese man, you probably couldn't believe the reason why Koji is literally forced by his boss to take a one week leave from work; Koji is spending 18 hours at work, often crashing on his desktop due to the tiredness, and still he doesn't believe to be doing enough. Koji is the IT engineer for the system network of an hospital, and he is convinced that, if he misses a day, someone will die due to his negligence. Koji developed his obsession since he was a little child with an abusive father; the feeling was enhanced when he fell in love for his stepmother (an unrequited love) and had to see her die for cancer without can do anything. Loving a forbidden woman probably pushed Koji to believe that real love is something forbid, and it is not a mistake if you think that now Koji believes to be gay simply since being in love with a man is again something forbidden, something he can't have.

When his boss forced him to take his vacation, Koji hurriedly decides to book a week in a men's hotel, the White Tiger, a notorious hotel in the gay neighborhood of Tokyo where men go to relax and enjoy a nice massage with a some side fringe benefit. On the inside the White Tiger is a place where lost men search shelter under the protection of Kiku, an ex jakuza enforcer that now professes the philosophy of the White Tiger, the healing power of sex. Naoto is one of those young men who entered the White Tiger after a shocking event in their life; for Naoto was seeing his chinese lover killed by the jakuza in front of their small market. After three years spent in the care of Kiku, and taking care for the hotel guests, Naoto is ready to love again, and Koji is the one he chooses to love. Even if Naoto and Koji have the same age, Koji seems much younger since Koji has never really loved in his life, at least not in a physical way.

The atmosphere of all the novel is really peaceful and slow; you have really the feeling to savor what Naoto professes, to try to relax and enjoy all the small pleasure of life. Truth be told, also Naoto has his own problem, but he has always a serene smile for Koji, and only when he realizes that Koji went beyond being a simple guest, only then Naoto allows himself to search shelter in his arm and not in the welcoming walls of the White Tiger. But also in this development of the story, the author respects a world where convenience and propriety rule, and Naoto is willing to play the role of the side lover for Koji, the one a married man goes to visit once a week. This is not unusual and it doesn't mean that Koji doesn't love Naoto or that Naoto doesn't really believe in their love, it means only that culture and custom are still very instilled in the mind of these men.

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Amazon: White Tigers: Men of Tokyo: Sudden Bliss
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Paperback: 269 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 17, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590400
ISBN-13: 978-1906590406

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Cover Art by Anne Cain

Tongue Thai'd (Men of Phuket) by Sedonia Guillone

Ryu is the son of a yakuza. He was raped when he was 17 years old from the son of the leader of the family and fearing his father's reactions (to be against him and not against the family) he has left his home to go living with Kiku, a man who professes a strange religion, the White Tiger, who feeds human energy through sex. But ten years after the man who has raped him, tries to have him again and he is sent away on Phuket. Nat Phoenix, and ex kick box fighter and now cop, is assigned to protect Ryu, but from the first moment he is enthralled by this young man, small in body, but with a great energy in him.

The romantic plot is very tender: Ryu's need of love and his generosity in giving and sharing his body with Nat (who has his own problems to deal) is very sweet; in spite of all the bad experiences he has had, Ryu is still a young and innocent man, who seems to have no control in his body when that body demands to be satisfy through Nat. And Nat is like an elephant is a crystal shop: he has no idea how to deal with this precious jewel which is Ryu.

The story is long enough to give you a lot to read, but maybe to full deal with all the elements in the story (the yakuza thing, the former career of Nat, the White Tiger disciple...) I'd like the book a little longer. Anyway I have really enjoy the story and also the sex scenes, which are really exciting.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?s=6k5owo321278&strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=167

Amazon: White Tigers: Men of Phuket: Tongue Thai'd
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Paperback: 230 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 17, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590397
ISBN-13: 978-1906590390

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Cover Art by Anne Cain

Men of Tokyo: Sudden Bliss (White Tigers 1) by Sedonia Guillone

If you have never had the change to work with a Japanese man, you probably couldn't believe the reason why Koji is literally forced by his boss to take a one week leave from work; Koji is spending 18 hours at work, often crashing on his desktop due to the tiredness, and still he doesn't believe to be doing enough. Koji is the IT engineer for the system network of an hospital, and he is convinced that, if he misses a day, someone will die due to his negligence. Koji developed his obsession since he was a little child with an abusive father; the feeling was enhanced when he fell in love for his stepmother (an unrequited love) and had to see her die for cancer without can do anything. Loving a forbidden woman probably pushed Koji to believe that real love is something forbid, and it is not a mistake if you think that now Koji believes to be gay simply since being in love with a man is again something forbidden, something he can't have.

When his boss forced him to take his vacation, Koji hurriedly decides to book a week in a men's hotel, the White Tiger, a notorious hotel in the gay neighborhood of Tokyo where men go to relax and enjoy a nice massage with a some side fringe benefit. On the inside the White Tiger is a place where lost men search shelter under the protection of Kiku, an ex jakuza enforcer that now professes the philosophy of the White Tiger, the healing power of sex. Naoto is one of those young men who entered the White Tiger after a shocking event in their life; for Naoto was seeing his chinese lover killed by the jakuza in front of their small market. After three years spent in the care of Kiku, and taking care for the hotel guests, Naoto is ready to love again, and Koji is the one he chooses to love. Even if Naoto and Koji have the same age, Koji seems much younger since Koji has never really loved in his life, at least not in a physical way.

The atmosphere of all the novel is really peaceful and slow; you have really the feeling to savor what Naoto professes, to try to relax and enjoy all the small pleasure of life. Truth be told, also Naoto has his own problem, but he has always a serene smile for Koji, and only when he realizes that Koji went beyond being a simple guest, only then Naoto allows himself to search shelter in his arm and not in the welcoming walls of the White Tiger. But also in this development of the story, the author respects a world where convenience and propriety rule, and Naoto is willing to play the role of the side lover for Koji, the one a married man goes to visit once a week. This is not unusual and it doesn't mean that Koji doesn't love Naoto or that Naoto doesn't really believe in their love, it means only that culture and custom are still very instilled in the mind of these men.

http://www.total-e-bound.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=&P_ID=220

Amazon: White Tigers: Men of Tokyo: Sudden Bliss
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Paperback: 269 pages
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing (July 17, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1906590400
ISBN-13: 978-1906590406

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Cover Art by Anne Cain

Behind the Cover: Alan Pollack

Alan Pollack was born in New Jersey in 1964. He began drawing at an early age. Influenced by artists such as Frazetta, Boris, the Hildebrandts and Michael Whelan, Alan decided that fantasy illustration was to be his career of choice.

After graduating from high school, he studied at several colleges. At the School of Visual Arts in NYC, the illustration team of Martucci and Greisbach convinced Alan to dabble in oils. He was so inspired by his first attempts that he began developing a portfolio of fantasy illustration.

In his early 20's, while living with his parents, Alan worked part time as a silk screener and a photo retoucher while continuing to build his portfolio. In 1991, after much rejection from New York publishers, Alan Pollack was assigned his first cover illustration for Dungeon magazine with TSR.

In 1994, the work became steady and he left his part time job. Alan then found an agent in NYC, but shortly thereafter was offered a job at TSR. He spent the next couple of years surrounded by great artists and continued to hone his skills.

In 1997, Pollack went out on his own once again -- but this time with some experience and much needed skills under his belt. Since then he has worked for most of the RPG companies in the industry as well as Del-Rey, ROC, Tor Books, Baen Books, Upper Deck and Wizards of the Coast.


"Argonaut" book by Stanley Schmidt, 2001, Tor Books - My original idea for this cover was quite different and much more grim. It was not going to be a scene from the book but rather a possible vision of what could be: A woman being injected in the forehead by a giant bug-like alien creature . The art director and editor decided upon a scene from the book which was a little tamer. It turned out to be quite popular amongst my fans and is very different from anything I've ever done before.
©2001 Alan Pollack

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Behind the Cover: Alan Pollack

Alan Pollack was born in New Jersey in 1964. He began drawing at an early age. Influenced by artists such as Frazetta, Boris, the Hildebrandts and Michael Whelan, Alan decided that fantasy illustration was to be his career of choice.

After graduating from high school, he studied at several colleges. At the School of Visual Arts in NYC, the illustration team of Martucci and Greisbach convinced Alan to dabble in oils. He was so inspired by his first attempts that he began developing a portfolio of fantasy illustration.

In his early 20's, while living with his parents, Alan worked part time as a silk screener and a photo retoucher while continuing to build his portfolio. In 1991, after much rejection from New York publishers, Alan Pollack was assigned his first cover illustration for Dungeon magazine with TSR.

In 1994, the work became steady and he left his part time job. Alan then found an agent in NYC, but shortly thereafter was offered a job at TSR. He spent the next couple of years surrounded by great artists and continued to hone his skills.

In 1997, Pollack went out on his own once again -- but this time with some experience and much needed skills under his belt. Since then he has worked for most of the RPG companies in the industry as well as Del-Rey, ROC, Tor Books, Baen Books, Upper Deck and Wizards of the Coast.


"Argonaut" book by Stanley Schmidt, 2001, Tor Books - My original idea for this cover was quite different and much more grim. It was not going to be a scene from the book but rather a possible vision of what could be: A woman being injected in the forehead by a giant bug-like alien creature . The art director and editor decided upon a scene from the book which was a little tamer. It turned out to be quite popular amongst my fans and is very different from anything I've ever done before.
©2001 Alan Pollack

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Mile High (Men in Motion 1) by G.A. Hauser

Owen is a wealthy divorced business man. Every week he travels from Los Angeles to Denver to visit his daughter who lives with her mother. To please the kid, he spends all the weekend sleeping in the couch in the den of his ex wife. Is not a wonderful life, but Owen loves his daughter, and then he has no one at home for him. Actually he haven't never realized for sure why his wife asked for a divorce: he was not an oppressive husband, he left her all the freedom she needed, and if she cheated on him, he didn't want to know, and maybe never mattered much. Owen has always considered himself straight, but he sometime finds himself ogling on some explicit advertisement with a beautiful specimen on it, and he has always had a particular fondness for movies with handsome men in it rather than action. All right Owen is not a macho man, and then he doesn't consider himself the type to attract the type of guy he finds attractive: at almost forty years old, maybe he has resigned to be alone with only his dreams to take him company in the night.

But during one of his flights, he catches eyes with Taylor, a very stud of man, exactly every his desires come true. Taylor is a construction project manager from Denver who travels every week on a construction site on Los Angeles. And also for Taylor, Owen is a dream comes true: Taylor is tired to be alone, to have always to travel around the country and not ever have the chance to settle down with a fine man. A fine man like Owen, shy and gentle, with a steady work and a regular life. And so Taylor seduces Owen on the plane, the very first time they meet, and continues to do so for all the other planes they share in the week after, till the time Owen is hooked and ready to be served on a silver plate to Taylor. They only have to find a place where stay together that is not a plane in air...

As always, G.A. Hauser's characters are outrageous and funny, totally sexually driven and happy to be. Luckily they have also the chance to be, since they are among that very important people who can pursue their dreams, since money and obligations seem not important.

This is almost a two men show, since almost all the book is spent following Taylor and Owen on their travels, and only Owen's daughter and ex wife make some appearances. In particular Owen's ex wife, Jenna, makes a pretty interesting evolution journey, from witch to angel: till when she is the ex wife with all the power in her hands, she is evil like a perfect ex wife should be, but when she realizes that her marriage could have failed not for her fault, but maybe since her husband was searching something she obviously couldn't give him, in that moment she turns in an angel and in the best friend of her ex. Still at first the author was not very gentle with this character, and truth be told, Owen was not behaving like a god daddy should do, having his head more on when he would be again with his lover, than on what he should do with his daughter. But again, G.A. Hauser's characters are not notorious to be the perfect hero from fairy tales...

Amazon: Mile High: Men in Motion Book 1
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Paperback: 190 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (July 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449592538
ISBN-13: 978-1449592530

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Mile High (Men in Motion 1) by G.A. Hauser

Owen is a wealthy divorced business man. Every week he travels from Los Angeles to Denver to visit his daughter who lives with her mother. To please the kid, he spends all the weekend sleeping in the couch in the den of his ex wife. Is not a wonderful life, but Owen loves his daughter, and then he has no one at home for him. Actually he haven't never realized for sure why his wife asked for a divorce: he was not an oppressive husband, he left her all the freedom she needed, and if she cheated on him, he didn't want to know, and maybe never mattered much. Owen has always considered himself straight, but he sometime finds himself ogling on some explicit advertisement with a beautiful specimen on it, and he has always had a particular fondness for movies with handsome men in it rather than action. All right Owen is not a macho man, and then he doesn't consider himself the type to attract the type of guy he finds attractive: at almost forty years old, maybe he has resigned to be alone with only his dreams to take him company in the night.

But during one of his flights, he catches eyes with Taylor, a very stud of man, exactly every his desires come true. Taylor is a construction project manager from Denver who travels every week on a construction site on Los Angeles. And also for Taylor, Owen is a dream comes true: Taylor is tired to be alone, to have always to travel around the country and not ever have the chance to settle down with a fine man. A fine man like Owen, shy and gentle, with a steady work and a regular life. And so Taylor seduces Owen on the plane, the very first time they meet, and continues to do so for all the other planes they share in the week after, till the time Owen is hooked and ready to be served on a silver plate to Taylor. They only have to find a place where stay together that is not a plane in air...

As always, G.A. Hauser's characters are outrageous and funny, totally sexually driven and happy to be. Luckily they have also the chance to be, since they are among that very important people who can pursue their dreams, since money and obligations seem not important.

This is almost a two men show, since almost all the book is spent following Taylor and Owen on their travels, and only Owen's daughter and ex wife make some appearances. In particular Owen's ex wife, Jenna, makes a pretty interesting evolution journey, from witch to angel: till when she is the ex wife with all the power in her hands, she is evil like a perfect ex wife should be, but when she realizes that her marriage could have failed not for her fault, but maybe since her husband was searching something she obviously couldn't give him, in that moment she turns in an angel and in the best friend of her ex. Still at first the author was not very gentle with this character, and truth be told, Owen was not behaving like a god daddy should do, having his head more on when he would be again with his lover, than on what he should do with his daughter. But again, G.A. Hauser's characters are not notorious to be the perfect hero from fairy tales...

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