Author Name: Brad Vance
Book Name: Would I Lie To You?
Series: The Game Players
Book: One
Release
Date: April 24, 2015
Blurb(s):
Software
billionaire Marc Julian’s orderly life is shattered one night by a
cyber-intrusion into his company’s servers. He’s always surrounded himself with
the best people, but finding the culprit behind this might require a real
expert...and sometimes it takes a thief to catch a thief.
Jesse Winchester
and his team of “grey hat” hackers are suddenly available to Marc. Marc doesn’t
know if he should trust Jesse with the keys to his company’s kingdom. After
all, Jesse’s a convicted felon, sent to prison for violating the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act. A felon sentenced to thirty-five years in prison, who
mysteriously served only three years before being released…
Marc’s first
company, his whole life, was shattered because he trusted the wrong person.
This time there’s even more at stake, but few other options. Especially when
his evil enemies, the billionaire industrialist Krom brothers, are revealed to
be the source of the intrusion.
Is Jesse there
to help Marc, or does he have his own history with the Kroms, his own score to
settle? As Jesse and Marc spend more time together, their growing intimacy is
at war with their need to win their respective battles. Soon the game they
start to play with each other, against each other, becomes more exciting, more
exquisitely frustrating…and more dangerous.
Pages or Words: 289 pages
Categories: BDSM, Crime Fiction, M/M
Romance, Thriller, Cybercrime
Excerpt:
He’d made a mistake with Marc. He’d thought they could play a game together,
to pass the time, let off steam, release stress. Marc was smart enough to know that that’s all
it was.
Right?
But the look on his face, when Jesse said goodbye…
The shock. The disappointment. The…
Say it. The
hurt. That was when Jesse knew that for
Marc, it had been more.
That was when Jesse knew that it had been more for
him, too.
About the
author:
Brad Vance writes gay romance, erotica and
paranormal stories and novels, including the breakout hits "A Little Too
Broken" and "Have a Little Faith in Me."
Where to find the author:
Publisher: Brad Vance
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And now for the interview!!!
How do you develop your plot and
characters? What comes first, the plot
or characters?
It really varies. For “A
Little Too Broken,” I was rolling my eyes at the New Adult genre, which had
just hit its stride, all the “young beautiful and broken can they love again”
tropes. I thought, what if there were
two people who were literally broken, who couldn’t just fix each other and
all’s magically well at the end of the book?
Suddenly I had these two guys in my head, a vet who’d lost his legs in
Afghanistan and a guy who was HIV+. Now
that would meet a definition of “broken”!
And all of a sudden, there they were, Tom and Jamie, demanding a
novel.
In other cases, it can just be a
picture. I found the cover model for “Would
I Lie to You?” on a stock site, and fell in love (check out the cover and
you’ll agree, I’m sure). Who is this guy?
I asked as I looked at the picture. And
he was just such a charming criminal type that Jesse started to develop from
that picture.
Are you working on anything at the present
you would like to tell us about?
Two sequels to “Would I Lie to You?” – one a
standalone book about Ryan the Escort, who just demanded one, he was so
interesting to me (and the fans!). And
then the next Marc and Jesse adventure.
And I have one in the queue about “Officer Joe,” a good cop in a small
California college town, and his adversarial/romantic dynamic with a San
Francisco reporter. So there’s plenty in
the pipeline!
How do you do research for your books?
I’ll read a lot of books, definitely. For “Lie,” which has a lot of plot related to
computer hacking, I read “Countdown
to Zero Day,” a book about Stuxnet, the computer virus that the Americans
and/or Israelis created to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program. There’s actually an action scene scene in my
book that a reviewer called “hinky,” because it sounds so unbelievable, but I
took it straight from that book! I read
a lot of books about Special Forces for my “Sam
and Derek” series, and an absolute ton of material for the “Colum’s
Viking Captivity” series – but, you know, SF guys and Vikings are cool and
exciting, so that’s not hard work!
Are you a plotter or a pantser?
Definitely a plotter, now. I pantsed it when I was just writing short
erotica because, well, we all know how those end! Once I got into novels I realized that wasn’t
going to work out for me. The novels
change direction quite often once you get going, the characters reveal
themselves and their motivations and it alters the plan, but as long as there
is a plan, I don’t lose control of the material.
What is something you'd like to accomplish
in your writing career next year?
TO RULE THE GALAXY! I’ve been lucky that this year, I was able to
quit my day job to write full time.
Right now my long term goal is basically, to never ever have to take
another day job again.
If you
were on the staff to have a book adapted to movie, what would you pick?
I just finished “Common Ground,” a
nonfiction book about the forced busing controversy in Boston in the 1970s,
when they tried to integrate the schools through busing kids across town to new
schools. It really reads like a
sprawling novel; it would make a fantastic miniseries on HBO. It’s got the poor white families, the poor
black families, the newspaper editors, the judges, the white middle class
gentrifiers…it’s like The Wire, it’s such a vast canvas. I’m astonished nobody has done it yet.
How do you personally distinguish between
pornography, erotica, and erotic romance?
Well, porn is visual. Real people having real sex in front of a
camera. Erotica is verbal, it’s words on
paper. For me the difference between
erotica and erotic romance is that in pure erotica, sex drives the plot, if
there is any. You know, ding dong, it’s
the pizza boy! In erotic romance, the
plot is what you’re really reading for, and the hot sexin’ is a result of the
character’s development, the events in the plot. The hot sexin’ should be a bonus, if an
erotic romance doesn’t stand up as a novel w/o the sex, then it’s straight
erotica.
What are the biggest public misconceptions
about erotic romance?
That it’s all trash, that its readers are
simpletons who can’t read Booker Prize books, that all the writers are hacks
who can’t write anything else. A lot of literary types look down their noses on
it because it’s so very vulgar, darling, to read a book for its plot. It’s very
elitist – people who write novels with plot are low common tradesmen, while the
gentlemen craft lovely sentences and luminous prose with little regard for
“entertainment.” There was someone recently on Slate magazine who condemned
the idea of adults reading Young Adult fiction. Why, they should be reading postmodern novels
with ambiguous endings, and let go of their childish longing for happy
endings! So it’s not just romance that
the elites rail against – it’s any book that makes you feel good when you get
to the end.
What advice would you give an author who
wants to write erotica?
Well, you need a very dirty mind J If you’re someone
who’s squeamish about kinky sex, about pushing boundaries, about polymorphous
perversity in general, don’t do it. I’d
also say that, if you do have a dirty mind, write as much as possible to your own
kinks. Don’t chase a trend down the
street if it doesn’t turn you on.
Readers will know that it’s not doing it for you, and it won’t do it for
them either.
And now for the review!
5 stars!
5 stars!
Whoa, get ready for some major twists and turns lol! They’ll
make your head spin, but by God you’ll love every minute of it. Very rarely
have I read a book where the attraction between the two main characters (Marc
and Jesse) affects me so deeply. You can’t
help but pull for them.
Marc Julian owns a software company which has made him filthy
rich lol. The man is very involved in his company too. The team he’s built has
earned his trusts and respect.
Jesse Winchester is an ex con who was sent to jail for
hacking. And he’s out with only serving a tenth of his time. Hmmmm… lol. Oh,
and he’s a computer genius. Marc and Jesse meet when Jesse is brought into
Marc’s inner circle to help solve his current issues. And they are some serious
issues. So of course Marc wants to know how Jesse’s out with so little time
served.
Each man has have things happen in the past that… well,
makes them very hesitate to get involved. Once you get burned it’s hard to
trust again. It’s hard to move on and let things go. But some things are worth
taking that chance on.
And when these two connect sexually… the pages smoke lol. I
hope to read more on these two.
