BOOK NAME: Finding Love: Box Set of M/M Stories That Celebrate Pride
AUTHOR NAMES:
Jamie Lynn Miller, T.K. Paige, M. LeAnne Phoenix, Carly Rose, D.C. Williams
PUBLICATION
DATES: June 8, 2015 – September 30, 2015
LENGTH: 280 pages
GENRES INCLUDE: Gay (M/M), Romance, Contemporary, New Adult, Fantasy
COVER ARTIST: Dakota Trace
RAFFLECOPTER: June 12th – June 30th
BLOG TOUR PAGE:
http://carlysbookreviews.blogspot.com/2015/06/finding-love.html
5 Authors - 5 Stories - 1 Charity
Available for purchase through September 2015, Finding Love is a limited edition box set of brand new, full length, stand-alone M/M romance stories that share the theme of celebrating pride.
The authors banded together with the goal of raising funds for The Trevor Project and the proceeds are being donated to help support their efforts to provide life-saving and life-affirming services to LGBTQ youth.
Available for purchase through September 2015, Finding Love is a limited edition box set of brand new, full length, stand-alone M/M romance stories that share the theme of celebrating pride.
The authors banded together with the goal of raising funds for The Trevor Project and the proceeds are being donated to help support their efforts to provide life-saving and life-affirming services to LGBTQ youth.
His Fragile Heart by Jamie Lynn Miller
Do you believe in the power of love, even after death? After losing his lover in a car accident two years ago, actor Nathan Marshall wasn't interested in another relationship. Until he meets waiter Justin Kowalski. Something about him seems so familiar that Nathan is instantly drawn to the younger man. Surprised at his capacity to love again, his relationship with Justin blossoms. But then an unbelievable truth is revealed - one that could break both their hearts for good.
Through New Eyes by T.K. Paige
Roommates Jed and Doyle have been best friends since meeting in college. Now that they've graduated and are starting new jobs they have no intentions of letting that change anything. Doyle is everything Jed isn't, smart, cute and active at the LGTB center. Jed has always looked out for his friend and been there for him. They have plans and an amazing relationship, everything planned out to the smallest degree. Any changes could make it all go off the rails. So why can't Jed get over how annoying he finds Doyle's ex turned friend, who seems to be around way too often? Why can't he stop noticing Doyle in new ways? If Jed doesn't take a risk, he could miss what's been there all along.
Iridescent (An Angels All Fire Series Short) by M. LeAnne Phoenix
Best friends, trusted confidants, partners in crime— call it what you like, Phai and Jen have been two halves of a whole ever since they met just over five years ago. The trouble is, that while Phai is falling more in love with his best friend every day, Jensen Whitfield seems content to call him brother. Hephaistion Amyntoros has faced many challenges during his long, long life, but the idea of confessing his heart’s desire to Jen and discovering that he doesn’t feel the same, terrifies him... but what happens if he does share his feelings? When the whole of Phai's past rages into blistering life, ready to consume the very sun, Phai must focus on getting them out alive. Will they emerge from the fire intact or will the love in his life burn like a supernova once more?
Unexpectedly Lucky (The Bradford Boys, Book 1) by Carly Rose
Lincoln and Ryan have been best friends since the fifth grade. Their friendship has always been effortless, but a single night of passion threatens to change everything. Will the emotional fallout drive them apart or will they be lucky enough to find love unexpectedly?
What the Heart Wants by D.C. Williams
Will has just graduated from high school and is struggling with coming out. A surreptitious visit to NYC Pride brings Kev into his life. Will is immediately attracted to Kev, but they're separated by a huge age difference, and Will is still coming to terms with himself. Their friendship grows over the course of a year, but can it become more?
Excerpt from Through New Eyes by T.K. Paige:
I was about to bang my head on my steering wheel, hoping that it would knock me out so I could rid of my headache. But I had another idea. Pulling out my phone I swiped twice then listened as it rang.
Doyle’s voice came over the line, “Hello.”
“Hey, have you started anything for dinner
yet?”
“No, I’m not home. I thought you’d be home by
now.” There was a slight pause before he continued, “Oh wait, was this the
night you had a date? Why are calling me then?” I heard him say something else,
not clearly enough to understand it, but enough to know his day hadn’t gone
much better than mine.
“Hey, you okay, Doyle?” My stress forgotten.
“Huh? Oh, yes, I’m fine.” He sighed.
Nope, that bullshit wasn’t flying. “No, you don’t
sound like it. I didn’t understand the last thing you said. What’s wrong?”
“Oh that. Sorry, wasn’t talking to you,” Doyle
squeaked.
Uh huh. Still wasn’t buying it. “Who were you
talking to then?”
“Umm, Cam, I was talking to Cam. I went over
to the rainbow room after work.”
The rainbow room was what he called the LGBT
Alliance headquarters by Oklahoma University, our old campus. I chuckled to
myself, the room looked like a Crayola factory blew up in there. “Why did you
go back there?” I never understood why he was so into that. I mean I got why he
cared about what they did, but not why he spent so much of his free time there.
I wasn’t that much of a joiner. After a ten hour work day, all of my desire for
social interactions had been stomped into oblivion. It hadn’t been any better
when I’d been in college either.
In my free time I wanted a beer, pizza and a
movie while parking my ass on my own couch.
Well, I did like to go cruise a club for a
blowjob or maybe a more intense hook up if I hadn’t met anyone recently. But
it’d been weeks, no make that almost two months since I’d had anything around
my dick except for my own hand. No wonder I was going stir crazy.
“Because I like hanging out with Cam and the
others,” Doyle said dryly.
“Cam’s an asshole. I don’t understand what you
see in him.” I meant it, too. I’d never liked that guy. He’d treated Doyle like
crap while they were together.
“It’s my thick nine inches of cock, asshole!”
Cam’s voice came snarling through my phone.
I rolled my eyes at the sound. I’d seen him
naked. Accidently, because I did have standards on who I ogled—some anyway. The
only way Cam would measure at nine would be if he taped a dildo to his pencil
stick. “Am I on speaker, Doyle?”
“Whoops?” Doyle apologized. “I’m trying to fix
whatever somebody did to fuck up one of the computers here.” He paused, then
asked suspiciously, “You weren’t over here standing near it, were you?”
Founded in
1998 by the creators of the Academy Award®-winning short film TREVOR, The Trevor Project is the leading
national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention
services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young
people ages 13-24.
The
life-saving, life-affirming work of The Trevor Project springs from the
powerful intersection of storytelling on stage and film.
In 1994,
producers Randy Stone and Peggy Rajski saw writer/performer James Lecesne bring
to life Trevor, a character he created as part of his award-winning one-man
show WORD OF MOUTH. Convinced Trevor's
story would make a wonderful short film, Stone and Rajski invited Lecesne to
adapt it into a screenplay. Rajski
directed the movie and TREVOR went on to win many prestigious awards including
the Academy Award® for Best Live Action Short Film.
The Oscar-winning
film eventually launched a national movement. When producer Randy Stone secured
an airing on HBO with Ellen DeGeneres hosting, director/producer Peggy Rajski
discovered there was no real place for young people like Trevor to turn when
facing challenges similar to his. She quickly recruited mental health experts
and figured out how to build the infrastructure necessary for a nationwide
24-hour crisis line, and writer James Lecesne secured the funds to start it. On
the night their funny and moving coming-of-age story premiered on HBO in 1998,
these visionary filmmakers launched the Trevor Lifeline, the first national
crisis intervention and suicide prevention lifeline for lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender and questioning youth.
Since then,
hundreds of thousands of young people in crisis have reached out to The Trevor
Project’s multiple in-person and online life-saving, life-affirming
resources--Trevor Lifeline, TrevorChat, TrevorSpace and Trevor Education
Workshops.
The Trevor
Project is the premier organization providing crisis intervention and suicide
prevention services to LGBTQ teens and young adults.
Watch ‘Trevor’ on YouTube
(20 minutes)
AUTHOR
PROFILES:
Jamie Lynn Miller has been writing
fiction since childhood and decided to take the plunge and go pro in 2008,
finding to her amazement that people truly enjoyed her love stories. She’s a
romantic at heart, and her tales reflect the desire we all have to find “the
one,” persevering through trials and heartache for that happy ending.
Jamie has a
degree in fine arts and has spent the last twenty years working as a graphic
designer, though she’d much rather be writing. She was born in Chicago and
still lives there today with her husband and their two furry, four-footed
children, er… cats.
If she’s not
brainstorming story ideas, you can find Jamie at a sci-fi convention, in front
of a furnace doing glass blowing, or on a mat twisted into a yoga pose.
T.K. Paige picked up her first book to
read around the age of four and hasn't stopped since. She discovered the M/M
genre in August of 2012 and an addict was hooked.
If you see
her and she is not reading, then she is thinking about the books that live in
her head. It doesn't matter what else she is doing, it is guaranteed half her
brain has a plot running through it.
A stay at
home mom for more years than she would like to think about, she is lucky enough
to be married to a wonderful guy who encouraged her to write throughout their
years together.
Then when
she finally did it and she told him what she was writing, he turned only
slightly green and asked “Do I have to read it?” Apparently, he had dreams of
her being the next Urban Fantasy sensation with her taste in movies.
M. LeAnne Phoenix would tell you that
the worst time of her life was the two years that she attempted to take off
from writing. If you asked her to explain exactly why she did such a thing, you
would most likely get the mad attempt to arch an eyebrow like her dad and then
a shake of the head as she told you it was unlucky to speak of such things.
Suffice it to say, it will never happen again!
Born and
raised in Fort Worth, Texas in the mid-1970's, Ms. Phoenix was young and wild
(and even free!) during the crazy wondrous decade known as the 1980's and the
even crazier but now grungy decade of the 1990's. Music is second only to the
muses that live and breathe to fill her mind with beautiful men, and music
always helps them to tell their stories. She is never without her iPod or her
computer no matter where she goes, although, she does like to hike and take
pictures of the sky and the moon, and even the occasional shot of the sun
through the branches of a tree.
An avid cat
lover, Ms. Phoenix has been owned by many throughout her life, though her
current owner is one Lily-Rose, who really would like for her to step away from
the keyboard and pay her some attention! After all, hasn't she earned it?
Carly Rose was named after her
grandmother, an accomplished poet, and a character her mom met in a romance
novel while awaiting her birth, I guess you could say that writing has always
been in her blood.
As a child her parents used to threaten to take away her books and make her play outside when she wasn't getting her chores done. Now she’s all grown up and her roles as wife, mother of two, and part-time nurse keep her hopping. As a blogger, book reviewer, freelance editor, and author, she still manage to spend time each day with her nose in a book.
As a child her parents used to threaten to take away her books and make her play outside when she wasn't getting her chores done. Now she’s all grown up and her roles as wife, mother of two, and part-time nurse keep her hopping. As a blogger, book reviewer, freelance editor, and author, she still manage to spend time each day with her nose in a book.
She’s a
student of life who’s always looking for new opportunities to learn and
discovered early on that the love of family, friends and a positive
attitude are all you really need. A free spirited motorcycle enthusiast who
loves butterflies, dancing in the rain, and believes that everything is better
in purple, she love to hear from reader so stop by and say "hi"
anytime!
D.C. Williams is a funny little middle
aged woman who mostly lives in Pennsylvania and writes romance novels you
wouldn't expect.
