The Inside Reader: Jordan Castillo Price

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends - Silas Weir Mitchell

Jordan Castillo Price is probably one of the few authors that is able to sell me a vampire story with a subtle but sweet humor; I'm not a huge fan of the vampire paranormal genre, but if it's a JCP's book, than I have no doubt. Please welcome Jordan as Inside Reader today!

Jordan Castillo Price's Inside Reader List

Because I have the need to sort and categorize, I´ve placed my ten favorite books in three distinct categories: early favorites, writing books, fiction favorites...and one bonus book that doesn´t fit into any of those categories!

Early Favorites

1) Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland - I first read this as a young teen. It´s not a m/m precursor by any stretch of the imagination, although there is twincest. The power of obsession, of losing oneself entirely in another person, is what grabbed me, shook me and wouldn´t let go. I think the theme of obsession is one of my personal favorites, and it comes through in the Channeling Morpheus series.

Publisher: Signet; 5th THUS edition (May 9, 1978)
ISBN-10: 0451080157
ISBN-13: 978-0451080158
Amazon: Twins

2) Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice - Here was another story of obsession, but without the fatalistic edge of Twins. I loved the worldbuilding, I loved the juxtaposition of historic and modern, and of course I loved the pretty boys with pointy teeth in pretty clothes!

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 18, 1997)
Publisher Link: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345409645
ISBN-10: 0345409647
ISBN-13: 978-0345409645
Amazon: Interview With The Vampire

Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.... “Magnificent, compulsively readable." --CHICAGO TRIBUNE

( books from 3 to 10 )

About Jordan Castillo Price: Jordan Castillo Price grew up in Western New York, spent her formative drinking years in inner city Chicago, and is now writing paranormal thrillers from her home in small-town rural Wisconsin.

Have questions about writing erotica? Comments about any of her stories? Just want to say hi? Drop her an email at jordan (at) psycop (dot) com.

Jordan is best known as the author of the PsyCop series, an unfolding tale of paranormal mystery and suspense starring Victor Bayne, a gay medium who's plagued by ghostly visitations. Visit JCPbooks.com to glimpse Chicago beyond the veil.

Hemovore by Jordan Castillo Price
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing (May 4, 2010)
Publisher Link: http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/hemovore
ISBN-10: 1605047082
ISBN-13: 978-1605047089
Amazon: Hemovore

Can art imitate death? Oh no, girlfriend. Don’t even go there…

Ten years ago, the Human Hemovore Virus blazed through the world, and left the few victims who survived unable to eat, allergic to sunlight and craving the taste of blood.

Mark Hansen used to think V-positives were incredibly sexy with their pale, flawless skin and taut, lean bodies. Not anymore. Not since he’s been stuck procuring under-the-counter feline blood for his control-freak boss, Jonathan Varga. Why cat blood? Mark has never dared to ask.

It’s not as if he’s usually at a loss for words. He can dish an insult and follow it with a snap as quick as you can say “Miss Thang”. But one look at Jonathan’s black-as-sin gypsy eyes, and Mark’s objections drain away.

So he endures their strange, endless routine: Jonathan hiding in his studio, painting solid black canvases. Mark hurling insults as he buffs the office to a shine with antiviral wipes and maps out the mysterious “routes” he’s required to drive.

Then a blurb in Art in America unleashes a chain of events neither of them saw coming. As secrets of Jonathan’s past come to light, it becomes clear all his precautions weren’t nearly enough.

The Inside Reader: Jordan Castillo Price

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends - Silas Weir Mitchell

Jordan Castillo Price is probably one of the few authors that is able to sell me a vampire story with a subtle but sweet humor; I'm not a huge fan of the vampire paranormal genre, but if it's a JCP's book, than I have no doubt. Please welcome Jordan as Inside Reader today!

Jordan Castillo Price's Inside Reader List

Because I have the need to sort and categorize, I´ve placed my ten favorite books in three distinct categories: early favorites, writing books, fiction favorites...and one bonus book that doesn´t fit into any of those categories!

Early Favorites

1) Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland - I first read this as a young teen. It´s not a m/m precursor by any stretch of the imagination, although there is twincest. The power of obsession, of losing oneself entirely in another person, is what grabbed me, shook me and wouldn´t let go. I think the theme of obsession is one of my personal favorites, and it comes through in the Channeling Morpheus series.

Publisher: Signet; 5th THUS edition (May 9, 1978)
ISBN-10: 0451080157
ISBN-13: 978-0451080158
Amazon: Twins

2) Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice - Here was another story of obsession, but without the fatalistic edge of Twins. I loved the worldbuilding, I loved the juxtaposition of historic and modern, and of course I loved the pretty boys with pointy teeth in pretty clothes!

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books (March 18, 1997)
Publisher Link: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345409645
ISBN-10: 0345409647
ISBN-13: 978-0345409645
Amazon: Interview With The Vampire

Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force--a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.... “Magnificent, compulsively readable." --CHICAGO TRIBUNE

( books from 3 to 10 )

About Jordan Castillo Price: Jordan Castillo Price grew up in Western New York, spent her formative drinking years in inner city Chicago, and is now writing paranormal thrillers from her home in small-town rural Wisconsin.

Have questions about writing erotica? Comments about any of her stories? Just want to say hi? Drop her an email at jordan (at) psycop (dot) com.

Jordan is best known as the author of the PsyCop series, an unfolding tale of paranormal mystery and suspense starring Victor Bayne, a gay medium who's plagued by ghostly visitations. Visit JCPbooks.com to glimpse Chicago beyond the veil.

Hemovore by Jordan Castillo Price
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Samhain Publishing (May 4, 2010)
Publisher Link: http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/hemovore
ISBN-10: 1605047082
ISBN-13: 978-1605047089
Amazon: Hemovore

Can art imitate death? Oh no, girlfriend. Don’t even go there…

Ten years ago, the Human Hemovore Virus blazed through the world, and left the few victims who survived unable to eat, allergic to sunlight and craving the taste of blood.

Mark Hansen used to think V-positives were incredibly sexy with their pale, flawless skin and taut, lean bodies. Not anymore. Not since he’s been stuck procuring under-the-counter feline blood for his control-freak boss, Jonathan Varga. Why cat blood? Mark has never dared to ask.

It’s not as if he’s usually at a loss for words. He can dish an insult and follow it with a snap as quick as you can say “Miss Thang”. But one look at Jonathan’s black-as-sin gypsy eyes, and Mark’s objections drain away.

So he endures their strange, endless routine: Jonathan hiding in his studio, painting solid black canvases. Mark hurling insults as he buffs the office to a shine with antiviral wipes and maps out the mysterious “routes” he’s required to drive.

Then a blurb in Art in America unleashes a chain of events neither of them saw coming. As secrets of Jonathan’s past come to light, it becomes clear all his precautions weren’t nearly enough.

Best Gay Paranormal / Horror (1° place): Last Chance by Viki Lyn

Last Chance is nerd vs jock college boys themed story mixed with a very light and funny intake on a vampire gothic one. Even if Aric is a little older than Stu, post graduate and under graduate, both of them are basically still young boys with the need to find their real path in life and an independent one from their respective family. On both Aric than Stu’s shoulders weight the expectations of their families and this is greatly conditioning them.

Aric is a Life Sciences student, too pretty for his own good and gay. If not for being cute like an exotic elf (he has Japanese origins), Aric is a classical nerd, with all the prejudices nerds have on jocks: he admires from afar their muscular bodies, but he doesn’t judge them able of rational thinking. And when one of them knock him down with a football ball on his head, it doesn’t help on his idea; but Stu is not your classical jock, he is also a Lit student with a passion for Romantic poets and the firm belief that true love is out there for him, and he has to wait for it. Now, it’s not that Stu is a total virgin, but to a drunken night out, he prefers a little chat in front of a coffee.

Just like that, with these two characters who play to tear down the stereotype on nerds and jocks, the story would be nice, but the author added the spicy of the paranormal element: Aric was bitten by a vampire and now he is slowly turning into one; he is desperately searching for a cure, using his studies to find a serum and in this moment he has not time for love, above all if love has the face of a straight jock who has no experience at all with guys.

On the other hand Stu is not exactly the dumb jock he appears to be: he is from a long line of vampire slayers, and he is trying to deny his heritage; he is not mean enough to kill the bad “vampires”, he seems always to find a reason to justify them. And when he discovers Aric’s problem, instead of considering him one more fledging vampire to kill, he proclaims himself his protector, never mind that Aric is older and more experienced than him, and that after all, Stu is not exactly the most skilled vampire slayer on the game. Lucky for him, his older, and gay, brother Corbin is there to help, since, truth be told, Stu is facing the issue like it was a big game he has to win, not really like a life risking battle.

In all of this, Aric is strongly trying to convince himself that, first he has not to fall for a straight jock who is probably only momentarily bi-curious, and second that he is too dangerous for Stu, not only since he is a vampire, but also since he is gay, and this means ruining Stu’s perspective for a professional future in the NFL. But his mind says one thing and his body does exactly the opposite, fully enjoying debauching the fair headed angel to make him passing to the “dark” side, in more meanings than the most obvious (Aric, by the way, has very long and luscious jet black hair).

Never once I had the feeling that Aric or Stu were really in danger if not of loosing their hearts to love, and so Last Chance is basically a cute and sweet college romance.



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Amazon Kindle: Last Chance

Reading List:

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


Cover Art by Justin James

Best Gay Paranormal / Horror (1° place): Last Chance by Viki Lyn

Last Chance is nerd vs jock college boys themed story mixed with a very light and funny intake on a vampire gothic one. Even if Aric is a little older than Stu, post graduate and under graduate, both of them are basically still young boys with the need to find their real path in life and an independent one from their respective family. On both Aric than Stu’s shoulders weight the expectations of their families and this is greatly conditioning them.

Aric is a Life Sciences student, too pretty for his own good and gay. If not for being cute like an exotic elf (he has Japanese origins), Aric is a classical nerd, with all the prejudices nerds have on jocks: he admires from afar their muscular bodies, but he doesn’t judge them able of rational thinking. And when one of them knock him down with a football ball on his head, it doesn’t help on his idea; but Stu is not your classical jock, he is also a Lit student with a passion for Romantic poets and the firm belief that true love is out there for him, and he has to wait for it. Now, it’s not that Stu is a total virgin, but to a drunken night out, he prefers a little chat in front of a coffee.

Just like that, with these two characters who play to tear down the stereotype on nerds and jocks, the story would be nice, but the author added the spicy of the paranormal element: Aric was bitten by a vampire and now he is slowly turning into one; he is desperately searching for a cure, using his studies to find a serum and in this moment he has not time for love, above all if love has the face of a straight jock who has no experience at all with guys.

On the other hand Stu is not exactly the dumb jock he appears to be: he is from a long line of vampire slayers, and he is trying to deny his heritage; he is not mean enough to kill the bad “vampires”, he seems always to find a reason to justify them. And when he discovers Aric’s problem, instead of considering him one more fledging vampire to kill, he proclaims himself his protector, never mind that Aric is older and more experienced than him, and that after all, Stu is not exactly the most skilled vampire slayer on the game. Lucky for him, his older, and gay, brother Corbin is there to help, since, truth be told, Stu is facing the issue like it was a big game he has to win, not really like a life risking battle.

In all of this, Aric is strongly trying to convince himself that, first he has not to fall for a straight jock who is probably only momentarily bi-curious, and second that he is too dangerous for Stu, not only since he is a vampire, but also since he is gay, and this means ruining Stu’s perspective for a professional future in the NFL. But his mind says one thing and his body does exactly the opposite, fully enjoying debauching the fair headed angel to make him passing to the “dark” side, in more meanings than the most obvious (Aric, by the way, has very long and luscious jet black hair).

Never once I had the feeling that Aric or Stu were really in danger if not of loosing their hearts to love, and so Last Chance is basically a cute and sweet college romance.



http://www.loose-id.com/Last-Chance.aspx

Amazon Kindle: Last Chance

Reading List:

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


Cover Art by Justin James