Sunday, July 28, 2019
Sunday's Short Stack: Something Stinks at the Spa by Jordan Castillo Price
Mineral spas are so calm and relaxing...unless they smell like a derrière at a bean-lover's convention, that is!
Dixon and Yuri have a hot tip that Uncle Fonzo is taking the waters at Spring Falls Hot Spring Spa. Not only is the spring stinky enough to make your eyes water—but the foul odor reaches peak level just as the resort is gearing up for a visit from an important critic that will make or break its reputation.
Normally, this wouldn't be Dixon’s problem...except it appears that a piece of his uncle's Spellcraft might be responsible. He can't be entirely sure, though, since that particular slip of paper managed to go through the shredder.
Dixon and Yuri pitch in to help the spa's owner appease a jilted bride, an obnoxious businessman, and the world's most boring critic while they scramble to reconstruct the shredded Spellcraft. Can they fix the wonky spell before it does any permanent damage? Or will all their efforts at saving the spa end up swirling down the drain?
The ABCs of Spellcraft is a series filled with bad jokes and good magic, where MM Romance meets Paranormal Cozy. A perky hero, a brooding love interest, and delightfully twisty-turny stories that never end up quite where you'd expect. The books are best read in order, so be sure to start at the beginning with Quill Me Now.
Honestly I didn't think the author could make the adventures, or should I say misadventures, of Dixon and Yuri any more fun and zany than they were in Trouble in Taco Town. Boy was I wrong!
We see Dixon and Yuri continue their quest to find Dixon's Uncle Fonzo and this time they find themselves in a not-so-sweet spa in this entry so aptly titled, Something Stinks at the Spa. I won't go into details because it really is an adventure you need to experience to grasp the full effect of what these boys face. What started out as a find-the-lost-relative quest has become multiple stops on the find-him-and-clean-up-his-mess map. Trust me what the boys find themselves in may be one zany spell after another but it will grab you and not let go till they discover the next clue to Uncle Fonzo's trail.
As for the romance part of this series, well Dixon and Yuri really shouldn't mesh but they do and perhaps their relationship isn't growing by leaps and bounds from one entry to the next, it is deepening. I don't think anyone who has been reading this series doubts the connection between the two and even when their love story takes a backseat to fixing Fonzo's spells, it is still there and getting stronger with each page.
They say comedy is the hardest thing to write and I can certainly see how that can be true well, Jordan Castillo Price has not only written a novella series that is ripe with adventure and romance but is chock full of humor. I for one can't wait to see where Uncle Fonzo's spells lead Dixon and Yuri next.
So much goodness packed into so few pages that make The ABCs of Spellcraft a must read but it is most definitely a series that needs to be read in order. I realize that a short story series that has an ongoing plot isn't for everyone or that some might think the author should put them into one book instead of "spread out in small increments", perhaps some authors should. HOWEVER, for me these kinds of short story connected series bring to the table a bit of nostalgia for the old movie serials of the 30s and 40s that got the population through the Great Depression and World War 2. For that feeling of nostalgia(to be honest they were way before my time but my parents collect them on DVD/Blu-Ray so I've watched & enjoyed the simplicity of the genre) alone I salute Jordan Castillo Price for telling Dixon and Yuri's journey in this manner.
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Author Bio:Author and artist Jordan Castillo Price is the owner of JCP Books LLC. Her paranormal thrillers are colored by her time in the midwest, from inner city Chicago, to small town Wisconsin, to liberal Madison.
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. Also check out her new series, Mnevermind, where memories are made...one client at a time.
With her education in fine arts and practical experience as a graphic designer, Jordan set out to create high quality ebooks with lavish cover art, quality editing and gripping content. The result is JCP Books, offering stories you'll want to read again and again.
EMAILS: jordan@psycop.com
jcp.heat@gmail.com
Something Stinks at the Spa #3
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Quill Me Now #1
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All that Glitters #1.5
Trouble in Taco Town #2
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Blog Tour: Intoxicating by Onley James
Title: Intoxicating
Author: Onley James
Series: Elite Protection Services #1
Genre: M/M Romance, May/December, Daddy Kink, BDSM
Release Date: July 8, 2019
Lincoln Hudson has just been handed the easiest job in the world. Babysit the spoiled son of a conservative senator, keep him out of trouble, and receive a six-figure paycheck, a paycheck he desperately needs. Wyatt’s father claims he needs Linc’s firm hand and discipline. One look at him and Linc agrees. Wyatt needs discipline.
Being the closeted gay son of a family values senator has left Wyatt Edgeworth with a reckless streak and a love of partying that just cost him eight months of his life and might cost his father his re-election. So now he has a babysitter. A very sexy babysitter.
When Wyatt drunkenly tells Linc he’d make an excellent Daddy, they reach an understanding. Wyatt gets a Daddy and Linc gets a paycheck, then they go their separate ways. For this to work, discretion is key, but with a reporter dogging Wyatt’s every move, that might prove impossible.
Staying together was never an option, but with each passing day, their feelings only grow. Will they risk it all for what’s supposed to be a harmless fling?
Intoxicating is the first book in the Elite Protection Services Series and contains age-gap, Daddy-kink and BDSM elements complete with a HEA and no cliffhangers. Warning: This book contains scenes which may trigger some people including, self-harm, suicide attempt, past and present physical abuse and implied past sexual violence.
He had a right to pout, he assured himself. His balls ached and his cock was hard enough to break a window yet some stupid part of him was still desperate to please his Daddy. If Linc wanted to punish him, Wyatt couldn’t stop him, but that didn’t mean he had to be happy about it.
He was the opposite of happy and it was his right to behave accordingly.
He side-stepped Linc, hitting him with the most frigid look he could muster. “Fine, then I’ll just go take a cold shower… Linc.”
Using Linc’s name was petty, but it gave him a small measure of satisfaction as he sauntered past. Linc caught him by the upper arm, his other hand swatting Wyatt’s backside twice. He bit his lip to keep from moaning, even as his cock leaked, betraying him. Linc spun him back around. “If you need to shower, you can shower with me so I can keep an eye on you. I won’t have you getting yourself off all alone in there.”
“I wouldn’t,” Wyatt fumed.
Linc snickered. “Oh, you would. Instead, I think you should get on your knees and blow me.”
Wyatt glowered at him. “Oh, do you?”
Linc smirked. “Mm hmm. Right now.”
Wyatt cocked his head to the side, lips pursed. “No.”
“Are you disobeying me again?” Linc questioned, threading a hand in Wyatt’s hair, forcing his head back.
Why did he like this so much? “I’m already being punished. What does it matter?”
Linc grinned, stepping into Wyatt’s space, pressing kisses into his throat and along his jaw. “Do you think I can’t make it worse? I could bend you over this bed and spank your bottom until its raw, jerk myself off while I tell you all the things I would’ve done to you if you’d just behaved, put your cock in a cage, make sure you don’t come again for a week, maybe more. Is that what you want? Me, using you for only my benefit? That doesn’t sound like much fun for you?”
He was the opposite of happy and it was his right to behave accordingly.He side-stepped Linc, hitting him with the most frigid look he could muster. “Fine, then I’ll just go take a cold shower… Linc.”
Using Linc’s name was petty, but it gave him a small measure of satisfaction as he sauntered past. Linc caught him by the upper arm, his other hand swatting Wyatt’s backside twice. He bit his lip to keep from moaning, even as his cock leaked, betraying him. Linc spun him back around. “If you need to shower, you can shower with me so I can keep an eye on you. I won’t have you getting yourself off all alone in there.”
“I wouldn’t,” Wyatt fumed.Linc snickered. “Oh, you would. Instead, I think you should get on your knees and blow me.”
Wyatt glowered at him. “Oh, do you?”
Linc smirked. “Mm hmm. Right now.”
Wyatt cocked his head to the side, lips pursed. “No.”
“Are you disobeying me again?” Linc questioned, threading a hand in Wyatt’s hair, forcing his head back.
Linc grinned, stepping into Wyatt’s space, pressing kisses into his throat and along his jaw. “Do you think I can’t make it worse? I could bend you over this bed and spank your bottom until its raw, jerk myself off while I tell you all the things I would’ve done to you if you’d just behaved, put your cock in a cage, make sure you don’t come again for a week, maybe more. Is that what you want? Me, using you for only my benefit? That doesn’t sound like much fun for you?”
What is the biggest influence/interest that brought you to this genre?
I have written YA books with many LGBTQ characters, but my jump into m/m romance started with Teen Wolf and Supernatural fanfiction. When I wanted more detailed stories, I started reading original stories by Sloane Kennedy, Lucy Lennox, Kyleen Neuhold and Lynn Van Dorn which eventually led to me wanting to write my own stories that weren’t confined to the PG-13 romances of my YA books.
When writing a book, what is your favorite part of the creative process(outline, plot, character names, editing, etc)?
I don’t outline, ever. It’s a problem. I think my favorite part of the process is where the story just clicks and everything starts to come together and I get in the zone where I’m like, yes, this is exactly how it’s supposed to go. But I do LOVE naming my characters.
When reading a book, what genre do you find most interesting/intriguing?
Ack. That’s like asking which of my children I love the most. I obviously love m/m romance, but I am also obsessed with thrillers, suspense and YA books.
If you could co-author with any author, past or present, who would you choose?
I’d love to co-author a book with Lynn Van Dorn or Kyleen Neuhold, though I’m such a control freak, I’d probably drive them crazy.
Have you always wanted to write or did it come to you "later in life"?
I’ve been writing my whole life. My parents told me from the time I was little I was meant to be a writer but my crippling anxiety kept me from publishing a book until I was almost forty years old. I don’t recommend waiting that long. Just do it.
I have written YA books with many LGBTQ characters, but my jump into m/m romance started with Teen Wolf and Supernatural fanfiction. When I wanted more detailed stories, I started reading original stories by Sloane Kennedy, Lucy Lennox, Kyleen Neuhold and Lynn Van Dorn which eventually led to me wanting to write my own stories that weren’t confined to the PG-13 romances of my YA books.
When writing a book, what is your favorite part of the creative process(outline, plot, character names, editing, etc)?
I don’t outline, ever. It’s a problem. I think my favorite part of the process is where the story just clicks and everything starts to come together and I get in the zone where I’m like, yes, this is exactly how it’s supposed to go. But I do LOVE naming my characters.
When reading a book, what genre do you find most interesting/intriguing?
Ack. That’s like asking which of my children I love the most. I obviously love m/m romance, but I am also obsessed with thrillers, suspense and YA books.
If you could co-author with any author, past or present, who would you choose?
I’d love to co-author a book with Lynn Van Dorn or Kyleen Neuhold, though I’m such a control freak, I’d probably drive them crazy.
Have you always wanted to write or did it come to you "later in life"?
I’ve been writing my whole life. My parents told me from the time I was little I was meant to be a writer but my crippling anxiety kept me from publishing a book until I was almost forty years old. I don’t recommend waiting that long. Just do it.
Onley James is the pen name of YA author, Martina McAtee, who lives in Florida with her daughter, her daughter-in-law, and a menagerie of animals, both good and evil. When she’s not writing m/m romance or supernatural LGBT young adult books, she’s running 7 Sisters Publishing and attempting to maintain both her sanity and her full-time job as an RN.
When not at work you can find her mainlining Starbucks refreshers, whining about how much she has to do and avoiding the things she has to do by binge-watching unhealthy amounts of television in one sitting. She loves ghost stories, true crime documentaries, obsessively scrolling social media and writing kinky, snarky books about men who fall in love with other men.
🎧Audiobook Tour🎧: Burn by Morgan Brice
Title: Burn
Author: Morgan Brice
Series: Witchbane #1.5
Genre: M/M Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Narrator: Kale Williams
Audiobook Release Date: April 16, 2019
ebook Release Date: September 26, 2018
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Seth and Evan are in love, and on the run, trying to stop a cycle of ritual murders. Is their bond strong enough to stop the killers and survive to make a future together?
One hundred years ago, a sheriff's posse killed dark warlock Rhyfel Gremory, but his witch-disciples escaped, and their magic made them nearly immortal. To keep their power, each year one of the witch-disciples kills a descendant of one of the men in the posse, a 12-year cycle that has cost dozens of lives, including that of Seth Tanner's brother, Jesse.
Seth uncovers a cycle of ritual murders that feed the witch-disciples' power, and he saves Evan Malone, one of the warlock's potential victims. Neither Seth nor Evan expected to fall in love, but when the dust settles, they find themselves on the run and on the road together, heading toward Pittsburgh, on the trail of the next killer.
Seth wonders whether Evan will come to regret his choice to stay together, now that he's living the reality of Seth's nomadic life and the risks that come with it. He wants Evan to stay, but he's afraid that Evan would be better off without him, living a normal life. Evan's whole world has been upended, but there's one thing he's sure of, his love for Seth. Evan worries that he's a liability, not yet able to hold his own in Seth's rough-and-tumble world, but determined to do whatever necessary to have Seth's back. On the way to face the next warlock, supernatural threats abound, forcing them to learn to fight as a team.
Morgan Brice is the romance pen name of bestselling author Gail Z. Martin. Morgan writes urban fantasy male/male paranormal romance, with plenty of action, adventure and supernatural thrills to go with the happily ever after. Gail writes epic fantasy and urban fantasy, and together with co-author hubby Larry N. Martin, steampunk and comedic horror, all of which have less romance, more explosions. Characters from her Gail books make frequent appearances in secondary roles in her Morgan books, and vice versa.
On the rare occasions Morgan isn’t writing, she’s either reading, cooking, or spoiling two very pampered dogs.
Other books include Witchbane, Burn, Dark Rivers, and Badlands. Watch for more in these series, plus new series coming soon!
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Burn #1.5
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Witchbane #1
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Dark Rivers #2
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