Author Name: Kim Fielding
Book Name: Rattlesnake
Release
Date: August 31, 2015
Blurb:
A drifter since his
teens, Jimmy Dorsett has no home and no hope. What he does have is a duffel
bag, a lot of stories, and a junker car. Then one cold desert night he picks up
a hitchhiker and ends up with something more: a letter from a dying man to the
son he hasn’t seen in years.
On a quest to deliver the
letter, Jimmy travels to Rattlesnake, a small town nestled in the foothills of
the California Sierras. The centerpiece of the town is the Rattlesnake Inn,
where the bartender is handsome former cowboy Shane Little. Sparks fly, and
when Jimmy’s car gives up the ghost, Shane gets him a job as handyman at the
inn.
Both within the community
of Rattlesnake and in Shane’s arms, Jimmy finds an unaccustomed peace. But it
can’t be a lasting thing. The open road continues to call, and surely Shane—a
strong, proud man with a painful past and a difficult present—deserves better
than a lying vagabond who can’t stay put for long.
Pages or Words: Approximately 80,000
words
Categories: Contemporary, M/M Romance,
Romance, Western/Cowboy
Excerpt:
Their
waitress appeared beside the table. “Anything else?” she asked Jimmy.
He
didn’t want to go just yet. But his belly was full, and any further
conversation with Shane was probably going to frustrate him. Already Jimmy
wanted to reach across the table and touch Shane’s hair, maybe run a finger
across his scars. “Just the check. Thanks.”
“Mine
too,” Shane said, but his thoughts were clearly elsewhere. As soon as she took
their plates away, he leaned forward. “You don’t have to go, do you? I mean, you’re not, um, on the run from the
law, are you?”
That
made Jimmy laugh. “I’ve done some stupid shit, but never bad enough to make me
a fugitive.”
“If
I Google you, I won’t find you on the Ten Most Wanted list?”
“Afraid
not.”
“So.”
Shane traced his finger through a bit of spilled sugar on the tabletop,
worrying at his lip and not meeting Jimmy’s gaze. He finally looked up again.
“So you could stick around here for a while. If you had a place to stay and a
job.”
God damn it! You don’t hope. You don’t want. That only leads to destruction.
But Jimmy felt himself nod. “I could. For a short time.”
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About the
author:
Kim Fielding is the bestselling author of numerous
m/m romance novels, novellas, and short stories. Like Kim herself, her work is
eclectic, spanning genres such as contemporary, fantasy, paranormal, and
historical. Her stories are set in alternate worlds, in 15th century Bosnia, in
modern-day Oregon. Her heroes are hipster architect werewolves, housekeepers,
maimed giants, and conflicted graduate students. They’re usually flawed, they
often encounter terrible obstacles, but they always find love.
After having migrated back and forth across the
western two-thirds of the United States, Kim calls the boring part of
California home. She lives there with her husband, her two daughters, and her
day job as a university professor, but escapes as often as possible via car,
train, plane, or boat. This may explain why her characters often seem to be in
transit as well. She dreams of traveling and writing full-time.
Where to find the author:
Twitter: @KFieldingWrites
Blog: www.kfieldingwrites.com
Goodreads
Link:
Goodreads Author link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4105707.Kim_Fielding
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
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Today I’m very lucky to be
interviewing Kim Fielding, author of Rattlesnake.
Hi Kim, thank you for agreeing to this interview! Tell us a little
about yourself, your background, and your current book.
~Character
interview with Shane Little~
What
do you find attractive in a man?
I like a guy
with substance, you know? Flashy doesn’t impress me. I want a guy who I can
have a real talk with, one who doesn’t mind spending some time sitting
somewhere quiet and watching a river flow. Don’t want someone who dresses fancy
or treats me like I’m damaged, just because I got banged up some.
The physical
stuff? Not as important. ’Cause when you get to know someone really well, when
you take the time to really look at
him, that’s when you notice that his brown eyes are the exact color of madrone
bark, and his hair’s real soft, and he always treats people politely, even when
they’re not being nice to him.
Okay, and I’ve
also got a weakness for a nice ass. You should see Jimmy in a pair of chaps and
nothing else.
The
first thing that went through your head when you saw Jimmy?
Well, I thought
he was pretty nice-looking, ’cause he is. But mostly I thought he was
interesting. He came into my bar at the Rattlesnake Inn and sat down on a
stool. I could tell he had some rough living in him—he was carrying this
beat-up old duffel bag. And then he just sat there, sipping coffee, acting like
he really wanted to listen to my stories about the inn’s history. Looking like
he had a whole lot of stories of his own.
I like it here
in Rattlesnake, but before Jimmy I never had much interesting in my life. He drew me right on in.
Do
you think you’ll insist the author visits you again?
I don’t know about
that. But I can tell you something—this town ain’t big, but it’s full of tales.
Over 150 years’ worth of ’em. I dunno whether Kim’s gonna want to write about
me and Jimmy again, but if she comes back here, I’m gonna have a lot to tell
her about other folks. Like for instance, back in Gold Rush days there was this
one fella who came out here from New York to be a miner. He never did strike
gold, but he met this other guy, a land surveyor, and… and I’ll save that one
for Kim.
Before
you met Jimmy, what was your ideal man?
There was Jesse,
but… that was a long time ago. I gotta tell you, the pickings are kind of slim
here. It’s a small town. I guess what I was looking for was a guy who doesn’t
want to save me or fix me or whatever. Don’t want to be anyone’s project, and I
already got a bunch of relatives who fuss over me way too much. My ideal man is
strong and honest and not afraid of hard work.
But he’s not too perfect either. I’d really like it if he relied on me
some of the time.
You’re
going out for dinner. What’s your favorite food?
Since I work
nights at the Inn, I usually just eat a sandwich or something else quick for
dinner. My big meal of the day—my favorite meal—is breakfast. And that means
Mae’s Café, just across the street from the Inn. My favorite is French toast
with Mae’s homemade blueberry topping. I have that every Friday. Wednesdays are
kinda depressing, though, because that means it’s healthy oatmeal day.
