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Jun. 20th, 2009

Seducing Light by KC Kendricks
Release Date: 06/2009
Publisher: Amber Allure
ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-530-0 (Electronic)
Publisher Link: http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/SeducingLight.html

Blurb: Asher Myles struggled to put his life back together after an identity thief striped him of everything but his talent for capturing light and shadow with a camera lens. With a new job and a new start, Asher’s on his way to Montana—and a meeting with the man he’s fantasized about since he first saw him on the silver screen. Nick Light, actor, director, and Hollywood royalty, doesn’t like paparazzi. When he agrees to have his Montana ranch photographed for a style magazine, the unexpected happens—he falls for the man with the camera. Nick’s secret comes out when he realizes Asher is also gay. If there’s one thing Nick can’t resist, it’s a man with a talent for seducing light...

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Psychic Rebels by Cheryl Dragon
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Publisher: Loose Id
ISBN: 978-1-59632-949-2
Publisher Link: http://www.loose-id.com/prod-Psychic_Rebels-965.aspx

Blurb: On again, off again lovers Colin and Dennis know they are meant to be together, but the world is against them. Dennis, a healer, wants to avoid the paranormal even though he loves a talented psychic. But his psychic loves the chase and wants to save the world daily, and the strain on them is too great. When fate brings them together again, they decide to give it another go. Lust and love are on their side, but evil strikes again. Against her will, Dennis's sister is turned into a werewolf and now they must face the paranormal truths, fears, lusts they have been hiding from. And hope love is enough to forge them into a team.

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Toy Box: Guiche edited by M. Rode, with stories by Lee Benoit, Mychael Black and Jay Lygon
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Publisher: Torquere Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-60370-740-4
ISBN-10: 1-60370-740-9
Publisher Link: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2021

Blurb: Ah, the guiche piercing, that tiny, hidden surprise behind a man's balls. What could be better than three stories that celebrate the guiche? In Reading the River by Jay Lygon, the narrator is working on a boat on the Mississippi. His roommate Billy, or Bear as he privately calls the man, is a tough guy he's more than a little attracted to. When he and Billy finally get together, one of them has a little surprise for the other. Mychael Black gives us After the Show, starting drummer Chaz, who's into body modification. In fact he's just gotten a new tattoo when he meets Devin. With a fancy car and even fancier apartment, Devin is quite the catch. Will he think the same of Chaz, even after he's seen what the drummer has hidden away? And finally, Preston and Paulo are back in Bearing Witness by Lee Benoit. When the duo witness the end of a contract between Tasim and Jesse, Paulo begins to worry about his own place with Preston. Will his contract with Preston eventually go the same way? Preston will need to come up with something special to reassure his lover of his place in Preston's life. His permanent place.

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Nights in Pink Satin by Sharon Maria Bidwell
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Publisher: Changeling Press
ISBN: 978-1-60521-237-1
Publisher Link: http://www.changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=1171

Blurb: Vincent is a vampire of world renown, even if most people believe his story is a fable, but with age comes boredom. Seeking out new silk to line his coffin for his annual Halloween ball, he comes across a bolt of pink fabric. Curiosity leads him to a mistake that is about to change his existence. Martin is a newly turned vampire and a lonely gay man. When he finds an extremely good looking and famous vampire in his humble abode, he's glad of the company even though he's afraid. When a simple mistake leads to explosive passion, what's a vampire to do but look forward to a future of gay nights between sheets of pink satin?

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Trapped by D.J. Manly
Release Date: June 14, 2009
Publisher: eXtasy Books
ISBN: 978-1-55487-311-1
Publisher Link: http://www.extasybooks.net/ebjmsite/index.php?page=shop.product_details&category_id=8&flypage=ebook_flypage&product_id=5831&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=44

Amazon Kindle: Trapped

Blurb: Giovanni is no hit man, but he’s going to have to be if he is going to be able to face his father again. The son of a powerful mobster, his father has determined that its now time for him to take his place in the family. Giovanni is prepared to kill the son of a rival mobster from a room across from his hotel. But what he sees distracts him, and rather than pull the trigger, he finds himself indulging in personal fantasies, fantasies he dares not have. Amador runs his family’s construction company. Vega Construction is legit and it’s about the only business that is. He has done his best to avoid being dragged into his father’s criminal activities and done his best to hide his secret sexual desires. He is not thrilled to find himself on the Biachi hit list or to discover that the man sent to kill him now knows his secret. Giovanni and Amador will have no choice but to come together in an explosive way, both in the bedroom and out, as they desperately try to find a way out of the trap they find themselves ensnared in. Is there a way out, and if there is, will it be together?

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Unicorn Valley (Collection) by Lena Austin
Release Date: June 18, 2009
Publisher: Changeling Press
ISBN: 978-1-59596-897-5
Publisher Link: http://www.changelingpress.com/product.php?&upt=book&ubid=1172

Amazon: Unicorn Valley

Blurb: Lionel, one of the last Unicorn Valley Gryphons, is forced to choose his mate from among other shifters. What he doesn't count on is falling in love with the Werebitch Teema, who has a few needs and demands of her own. Lionel's foster brother Brolly falls for a shape -- and gender -- shifting Immortal, and Shadow, the future Unicorn herd stallion, loves an Elf. As if things couldn't get any stranger, their mercenary Unicorn uncle Jamir is falling in love with both Moontyger and the Dragon Li Chin -- at the same time. Not everyone loves everybody in Unicorn Valley, but they try.

This collection includes the previously released novellas Gryphon's Heart, Stallion's Heart, Healer's Heart, and Moontyger's Quest.

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Spikenard: Freedom to Fly by Winnie Jerome
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Publisher: Torquere Books
ISBN: 978-1-60370-739-8
1-60370-739-5
Publisher Link: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2023

Blurb: Zhong Shi is a young dragon in the early days of China, known for being headstrong and a little vain. His lover, Chen Jing, keeps him out of trouble, and keeps him happy, at least until he and Chen Jing are assigned to meddle in the affairs of humans. When a terrible accident befalls Chen Jing, though, Zhong Shi worries he'll never be happy again. In modern America, Sebastian has boyfriend problems when he meets David. He's definitely attracted, but trying to be true to Luke, who spends more time fighting with Sebastian than loving him. When things start to go horribly wrong, Sebastian finds himself turning to David, looking for the kind of understanding only a soul mate can give. The stories of the two couples begin to intertwine in the way of myth and magic, but will Sebastian and David be able to make things right in time?

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Forbidden Desire by Carolina Valdez
Release Date: June 14, 2009
Publisher: Amber Allure
ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-532-4 (Electronic)
Publisher Link: http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/ForbiddenDesire.html

Blurb: Stan Gordon, M.D., is well aware of the unwritten code forbidding sexual liaisons between a physician and those in his charge, but when he provides intimate care for Brian Storm, a seriously injured police detective, he comes dangerously close to crossing the line. When he does, he’s shocked to find desire is forbidden, not by the code, but by the emotional demons with which Brian wrestles. Tortured while working undercover before they met, Brian knows police policy prevents him from sharing the full story with Stan, yet not revealing the trauma in order to heal his emotional scars threatens to destroy their new and deepening love. If Brian can’t overcome what’s been done to him, will Stan leave him to look for a more responsive man? And will Brian be able to resolve his secret fears that he’ll be unable to function as a cop again?

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Wild Hunt by Willa Okati
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Publisher: Loose Id
ISBN: 978-1-59632-944-7
Publisher Link: http://www.loose-id.com/prod-Wild_Hunt-969.aspx

Blurb: Delaney, a Celtic fusion musician, is a man driven by passion. He's spent his life channeling that passion into creating and playing music, especially love songs and erotic ballads with a driving rock beat. He didn't believe any of it was real until he met Robbie, untamed and handsome, and found himself caught up in the whirlwind of a Wild Hunt. Feral, enticing Robbie captures Delaney's heart, kindles his curiosity, burns him alive with passion, and draws him unwillingly into danger. The bindings and piercings that decorate Robbie's skin are meant to keep him from betraying the secret that could save both their lives and win their freedom from the Wild Hunt. But if the Master of the Hunt has his way, he'll keep the lovers--forever--as his prey. But now that he's a part of it, Delaney's determined to be the hero. He's keeping his man and he'll do what it takes to save him. Even if it means sacrificing everything else.

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SS Mannhunt by William Maltese
Release Date: 06/2009
Publisher: MLR Press
ISBN: 978-1-60820-060-3 (ebook)
Publisher Link: http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=SSMANHNT

Blurb: FATHER. FIEND? SCIENTIST. BUTCHER? PATRIOT. NAZI? Sebastian S. Mann, prominent member of post-WWII U.S. rocket development, has gone missing with other expedition members supposedly caving in South America. Having done so just days before revelations that he may have been responsible for the deaths of over two-hundred thousand gays, Jews, gypsies, and Romanian freedom fighters. Years later, the male heirs of three missing members of Mann's lost expedition meet up in deep Brazilian jungle to explore evidence finally turned up of their fathers' possibly last campsite. Brad Lexly and Kurt Mann, childhood friends and lovers, rekindle their previous passionate relationship but know its success, beyond the isolating jungle environment, depends upon an acceptable explanation for Sebastian Mann's disappearance. More dangerous people than they, though, seek answers, too, and also provide definite possibilities for this expedition ending up just as missing as the one gone before it.

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Somebody Killed His Editor by Josh Lanyon
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-60504-585-6
Publisher Link: http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/somebody-killed-his-editor

Amazon Kindle: Somebody Killed His Editor: Holmes & Moriarity, Book 1

Amazon: Somebody Killed His Editor

Blurb: The road back to bestsellerdom can be deadly. Holmes & Moriarity, Book 1. Thanks to an elderly spinster sleuth and her ingenious cat, Christopher Holmes has enjoyed a celebrated career as a bestselling mystery writer. Until now. Sales are down and his new editor is allergic to geriatric gumshoes. On the advice of his agent, he reinvents his fortyish, frumpy, recently dumped self into the sleek, sexy image of a literary lion, and heads for a Northern California writers conference to try and resurrect his career. A career nearly as dead as the body he stumbles over in the woods. In a weirdly déjà vu replay of one of his own novels, he finds himself stranded in an isolated lodge full of frightened women—and not a lawman in sight. Except for J.X. Moriarity, former cop and bestselling novelist. The man with whom he shared a one-night stand—okay, maybe three—long ago. The man who wants to arrest him for murder. A ruthless, stalking killer, or a hot, handsome ex-lover. Which poses the greater danger? It’s elementary, my dear Holmes!

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Taste Test: K9 edited by Lorna Hinson with stories by Anah Crow and Dianne Fox, Misa Izanaki, and BA Tortuga
Release Date: June 17, 2009
Publisher: Torquere Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-60370-741-1
ISBN-10: 1-60370-741-7
Publisher Link: http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2022

Blurb: Shapeshifters. Who doesn't love 'em, whether it's wolves, wild dogs, or spirit guides? The K9 Taste Test has three great tales about the animal within. In Misa Izanaki's Running Wild, Fen is worried that he's lost Loki forever when he finally finds his lover at the pound. Loki needs more than the city life that Fen is so accustomed to, and Fen needs to find a way to give it to him before it's too late. In Heightened Senses, by Anah Crow and Dianne Fox, Jasper is sure that he shouldn’t feel the way he does about Sampson, his guide and protector. He finds his shapeshifting friend fascinating, and dreams of a deeper relationship, but will he be able to break the rules? Finally, in BA Tortuga's Yard Dog, Alex knows he's in trouble when Brandon gets home from his overnight stint in doggie jail. Can he get what he needs, and let Brandon have a little revenge?

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Look, look what I found: Alyson Books announced the release in March 2010 of Shelter: A Novel, by Calen McCarthy, based on the screenplay by Jonah Markowitz.

Amazon: Shelter: A Novel

Winner of the GLAAD Award as Outstanding Film—Limited Release, the acclaimed motion picture Shelter is now adapted as a novel tie-in to the film

Shelter centers on a young man, Zach, in San Pedro, California, who gives up on his dream of art school in order to provide for his family, consisting of his aging father and his young nephew Cody, whose mother Jeanne has decided her priorities lie elsewhere. When his best friend's brother Shaun returns to town, Zach finds in him a friend and confidante. As Zach becomes increasingly attracted to Shaun, their casual surfing relationship turns into much more, setting off a chain of events forcing Zach to choose between continuing to put others first or fighting for what he wants for himself.

Obviously the book is already in my Wish List and I just received my copy of Mulligans, adaptation from the movie by the same title and author Charlie David, who is also main actor in the movie.

And it's also a nice add to my Listmania From Gay Movie to Gay Novel (and viceversa). If you have other title I forgot to add, please tell me.

When I went in New York City almost 10 years ago, I planned to spend an entire day in Central Park. My friend and I spent the day lookinf for all those places made famous by the movie industry. One of those places is the Bethesda Terrace and Fountain, I believe that the angel of its fountain is one of the most famous angels of the movie imaginery.

by Elisa, Bethesda Terrace & Fountain, New York City, 2000:
http://www.elisarolle.com/travel/2000NewYork.htm

I took this picture since I liked the feeling of how the lines are running from the shadows toward the light and the Angel... it's quite symbolic, isn't it? I then discovered that almost the exact image was in a movie by Francis Ford Coppola (someone told me but I don't remember the movie).

( Bethesda Terrace & Fountain )

I have the idea that there are two Rick R. Reed out there; one that tends toward the horror side when he writes long novels, and one that prefers hot and dirty erotica when he writes short stories. Then I know that he is the same person since, long or short, his characters are always deep, with a background and a future, even if their story lasts only 30 pages.

Josh is a young college student at the end of the '70. At 18 years old he has not enough money to pay for College and so he takes a summer job in a pottery. Nothing fancy or artistic, he basically shifts crates. Josh is also gay but still in the closet, and at the end of the '70 it's not like you can come out and live happily ever after. And so to Josh, the summer is like a torture, being near so many sweaty bodies and not being able to "taste" any of them. He fantasizes about Dale, another young man working there, but he has no the courage to speak to him... Dale is all "straight" man and probably a blue collar worker, so what young Josh, gay and scholar, could have in common with him? To distance them even more, Dale discovers Josh while he is giving head to Kevin, their boss. From that moment on Dale spends the summer avoiding Josh, and Josh is fearing his last day at the pottery, when he will loose Dale and all his summer wet dreams.

Even if short, there is almost a "scary" twist right at the end of the story (and here the "usual" Rick R. Reed comes out again), that actually makes it something more than a simple piece of erotica. I continue to use the word erotica instead of romance, since it's not love that Josh is searching, he is an horny 18 years old guy, and in that moment of his life, he needs more a sex than love. And also the period is right, end of the '70, when the plague of AIDS was not yet fell down on people, and so the only trouble Josh has is to find someone like him.

http://www.amberquill.com/AmberAllure/PotteryPeter.html

Reading List:

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

People magazine in June has an article on the Best Bachelors of the moment and dresses them as "romance" heroes. And look who is one of them? pity it's in a het romance scene, it would have made for a good gay historical romance cover...

Lance Bass, 30, Former 'N Sync band member: My first boyfriend really loved Ibiza - he had studied abroad there, and I just happened to be in Spain. So for his birthday, I sent him a ticket to meet me in Ibiza. It was awesome. It was so fun. I'm a sucker for all that. I'm a hopeless romantic. I love surprising people. I love just flying and showing up on the doorstep when they think I'm gone and setting up flowers and a nice dinner.

( other bachelors )

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Excerpt Day: Seducing Light by KC Kendricks
Excerpt Day: Seducing Light by KC Kendricks
Excerpt Day: Psychic Rebels by Cheryl Dragon
Excerpt Day: Psychic Rebels by Cheryl Dragon
Excerpt Day: Bearing Witness by Lee Benoit
Excerpt Day: Bearing Witness by Lee Benoit
Excerpt Day: Nights in Pink Satin by Sharon Maria Bidwell
Excerpt Day: Nights in Pink Satin by Sharon Maria Bidwell
Excerpt Day: Trapped by D.J. Manly
Excerpt Day: Trapped by D.J. Manly
Excerpt Day: Unicorn Valley (Collection) by Lena Austin
Excerpt Day: Unicorn Valley (Collection) by Lena Austin
Excerpt Day: Freedom to Fly by Winnie Jerome
Excerpt Day: Freedom to Fly by Winnie Jerome
Excerpt Day: Forbidden Desire by Carolina Valdez
Excerpt Day: Forbidden Desire by Carolina Valdez
Excerpt Day: Wild Hunt by Willa Okati
Excerpt Day: Wild Hunt by Willa Okati
Excerpt Day: SS Mannhunt by William Maltese
Excerpt Day: SS Mannhunt by William Maltese
Excerpt Day: Somebody Killed His Editor by Josh Lanyon
Excerpt Day: Somebody Killed His Editor by Josh Lanyon
Excerpt Day: Heightened Senses by Anah Crow & Dianne Fox
Excerpt Day: Heightened Senses by Anah Crow & Dianne Fox
Excerpt Days
Excerpt Days
From Gay Movie to Gay Novel (and viceversa)
From Gay Movie to Gay Novel (and viceversa)
Around the World: Bethesda Terrace & Fountain
Around the World: Bethesda Terrace & Fountain
Pottery Peter by Rick R. Reed
Pottery Peter by Rick R. Reed
Best Bachelors
Best Bachelors

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