New Release Blog Tour: Home for the Holidays – Lori Toland

Home For The Holidays (Replacement Guitarist) by Lori Toland
Series: Replacement Guitarist
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2nd edition (November 1, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1493693107
ISBN-13: 978-1493693108
Amazon: Home For The Holidays (Replacement Guitarist)
Amazon Kindle: Home For The Holidays (Replacement Guitarist)

Jason Stockton and Blaze Shinozuka are looking forward to escaping their hectic rock and roll lifestyle for a relaxing holiday. Their plan seems promising, and the passion between them burns hotter than ever as they keep each other warm despite the icy temperatures.

When a surprise Stockton family get-together threatens to reveal what Jason would rather keep hidden, their budding relationship is put to the test and an impromptu trip to Hawaii makes the differences between them more obvious than ever.

Thanks to two chaotic family holidays and a lot of painful secrets, Christmas could end up being more than their new found love can endure.

And *NEW* The Journey Onward…

Getting back from paradise and being alone is exactly what Jason and Blaze need to build their relationship and break down the barriers between them but nothing is ever that simple. Being in LA means back to work for Jason and Blaze gets a sample of what life will be like as Jason’s partner.

Can loving each other be enough to keep them together? Blaze is finding out how much work goes into keeping a relationship alive and in their darkest hour, they will have to stand united as partners to weather a storm that could devastate their future.

About Lori Toland: CEO by day, erotic romance writer by night, Lori Toland lives in Orlando where the summers are hot but the romance between her characters is even hotter. Writing since the tender age of 13, Lori somehow finds time to play video games and watch movies while taking care of her beloved cats and a husband who will forever be her hero.
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The Replacement Guitarist by Lori Toland
Series: Replacement Guitarist
Paperback: 242 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2nd edition edition (October 22, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1492717711
ISBN-13: 978-1492717713
Amazon: The Replacement Guitarist
Amazon Kindle: The Replacement Guitarist

Blaze Shinozuka has two goals: get a job as a guitarist and lose his virginity. At an audition for a famous pop star, he draws the attention of celebrity manager Jason Stockton--and their instant attraction sends his world careening off its axis just as he is thrust into the gritty world of rock 'n' roll.

Straight-laced music manager Jason Stockton is always professional and never dips his pen in the company ink. But there is something about Blaze that leaves him wanting what he shouldn't. The guitarist's exotic beauty and compelling innocence is a temptation Jason can't resist.

After one lie in the national media pushes them apart, Blaze must decide whether he will trust Jason, a man he shouldn't touch, let alone love. The cutthroat, jealous world of rock 'n' roll, has chewed up and spit out the toughest musicians, and Blaze vows he will be the last man standing, even after the music stops.

This gay romance contains very frequent love scenes, drug use and a very angry pop star dead set on coming between two men who will stop at nothing to be together.

This book was previously released and has been edited and revised for the 2nd edition.

David Macaulay (born December 2, 1946)

David Macaulay (born December 2, 1946) is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His most famous works have been graphic, nonfiction children's books about architecture and engineering, some of which have been adapted as public broadcasting hybrid documentaries and animated film dramatizations. For his contribution as a children's illustrator he was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984 and 2002.

Born in Lancashire, England, Macaulay moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey at the age of eleven. He began drawing while in the United States. After graduating from high school in Cumberland, Rhode Island in 1964, he enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), from which he received a bachelor's degree in architecture. He spent his fifth year at RISD in the European Honors Program, studying in Rome, Herculaneum and Pompeii.

Macaulay's books have sold more than two million copies in the U.S., have been translated into a dozen languages, and have been widely praised. TIME said of his work, "What [Macaulay] draws, he draws better than any other pen-and-ink illustrator in the world". His numerous awards include the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Caldecott Medal, won for his book Black and White, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, the Washington Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the Dutch Silver Slate Pencil Award, and the Bradford Washburn Award, presented by the Museum of Science in Boston to an outstanding contributor to science.

In June 2007 the National Building Museum opened a one-year exhibition of his work, "David Macaulay, the Art of Drawing Architecture".

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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Macaulay

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Steve Abbott (December 21, 1943 - December 2, 1992)

Steve Abbott (1943-1992) was a Nebraska-born poet, author, cartoonist and critic of primarily LGBT literature. He was also a highly regarded editor. Abbott edited the Bay Area periodical Poetry Flash for many years and the influential SOUP Magazine. In SOUP, he coined the term "New Narrative" to describe the work of Bay Area writers Robert Gluck and Bruce Boone and, with Boone, he organized the historic Left/Write conference in 1981. He was also a single father and many of his early poems reflected on his relationship with his young daughter. He died of AIDS in San Francisco in 1992.

Steve Abbott was raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he later studied literature at the University of Nebraska. Abbott dabbled in poetry, but eventually he stopped because his university studies did not encourage this. After graduating in 1967, he went to a Benedictine monastery for two years. Abbott then left the monastery, which he found corrupt, and drifted around France with a wealthy English friend.

By 1971, he had married and moved to Atlanta, where he began graduate studies at Emory University. In Atlanta he lived in a commune, had a daughter, and became involved in the civil rights and antiwar movements. With his wife's encouragement, Abbott "came out" and became involved in the gay liberation movement. In 1972, his wife was killed in a car accident. The same year Abbott also lost his first gay lover, who was killed by an AWOL marine.

Abbott started to write again after he and his daughter moved to San Francisco in 1973, where he was introduced to the poetry of Jack Spicer. Spicer's work showed Abbott that poetry was a way to get in touch with his gay identity. Abbott said that it was like being reborn. Poetry was his raison d'etre.


AIDS Quilt

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Because I'm antibody positive, I know I'll be in J.D.'s position myself someday - still alive but fading with little control of body and mind. We all die differently, just as well all live differently. I don't know what it will be like for me but I'm no longer afraid. I still feel angry, frustrated or self-pitying sometimes - often over the most trivial incidents - but when I'm with J.D. these feelings drop away. And I'm filled with such a profound gratitude to be alive, to be Gay and to have the friends I have and have had that I cannot explain it.

Source: Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by Emmanuel S. Nelson

( Steve Abbott, 1988, by Robert Giard )

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More Particular Voices at my website: http://www.elisarolle.com/, My Ramblings/Particular Voices

Rainbow Awards pre-party and 7th anniversary (-1 Day)

November 2013 marks the 7th anniversary since I opened my first journal (and yes, I have an itch, but I will scratch it!), on LJ, and the 5th anniversary of the Rainbow Awards. So, of course I decided for a big bash party. 190 authors, all of them in the 2013 Rainbow Awards, have donated or an ebook, or a print book, and I will use them for a Treasure Hunt. Every day, for all November, I will post 6 excerpts (a random page of the book). No reference to title, or author, or publisher. You have to match it with the book ;-) comment on the blog (do not leave anonymous comments, if you post as anonymous, leave a contact email (comments are screened)), you can comment 1 time for more matchings (you can even try for all 6 books if you like, so 6 chances to win every day). Until the end I will not say which matching is right, so you will have ALL month to try. No limit on how many books you can win, the more you try the better chance you have to win. End of November, among the right matchings, I will draw the winners. So now? let the game start!

Be aware that these previous excerpts: 11 and 23 have not yet been matched, so if you go back there is good chance to win them! if at the end of the treasure hunt they will be still unmatched they will go to the one who matched more books.

The books are (Author - Title - Format of prize):

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Previous Post: reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/3958156.html

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tMf Magazine ISSUE #10 is out now

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For Issue #10, photographer Dylan Rosser presents cover model David as well as a preview of his new collectors book called Loft.

Also featured in the issue: portfolios from photographers Alex Klimov, Jan Griffioen, Rashad Muhammad, Marlen Boro, and Marc Antonio. They also take a peek at the best 2014 nude calendars.

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( For this issue, my contribution was the featured interview with photographer Alex Klimov. An extract from the interview is available on the magazine, while I'm posting the full interview here: )