http://heartsonfirereviews.com/giveaway-a-m-hawke-the-cyborg-he-brought-home/
Hearts on Fire Reviews is offering a giveaway of my gay male erotic story, The Cyborg He Brought Home (written under my other pen name, A.M. Hawke.) If you're interested, you can enter at the link above!
Monday, October 24, 2016
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Read an excerpt from The Cyborg He Brought Home on the LT3 Press site!
Some time back I posted about my gay male erotic story, The Cyborg He Brought Home (written under the pen name A. M. Hawke), available for preorder at the Less Than Three press web site:
https://lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?main_page=product_bookx_info&cPath=92&products_id=1210
An excerpt is now available on the site. You can read it here:
https://www.lessthanthreepress.com/excerpt-the-cyborg-he-brought-home/
Thursday, September 1, 2016
Canines
Canines, the queer vampire-themed anthology from Supposed Crimes, was released today. I have a gay male erotic story in it (written under the pen name A. M. Hawke.)
A vampire fanboy manages to summon one of the creatures of the night he's so obsessed with -- and discovers "his" vampire is not at all what he expected.
You can get it at the Supposed Crimes site here: https://supposedcrimes.com/…/canines-a-supposed-crimes-anthology
Or from Smashwords here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/661792
The anthology is FREE for readers, so if you like stories about gay and lesbian vampires, you have no excuse not to download it. ;-)
The Cyborg He Brought Home is available for preorder!
My gay male erotic story, The Cyborg He Brought Home (written under the pen name A. M. Hawke) is available for preorder at the Less Than Three press web site. It features a transgender main character.
https://lessthanthreepress.com/books/index.php?main_page=product_bookx_info&cPath=92&products_id=1210
Jake is bored of life in Greentree, a settlement of wizards who eschew technology and channel their magic through tattoos. Then a visitor arrives: Cory, a cyborg with coppery hair and metallic hands. Jake is fascinated by Cory's metal parts, curious what it would feel like to touch them. But the others in Greentree aren't so sure about a visitor they consider unnatural...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Review of Laydin Michaels' novel Bitter Root
Laydin Michaels has a knack for creating interestingly creepy villains, and characters whose lives their actions affect profoundly.
In her first novel, Forsaken, the villain’s companion was a young child who the two protagonists fought to get away from him and to protect. In Bitter Root, it’s one of the main characters, Adi Bergeron, whose life is shaped by the abusive stepfather she escaped.
The two novels are very different in some ways. Forsaken is a police procedural, where one of the protagonists is chasing a serial killer while falling for one of his victim’s friends. Bitter Root is a story about a curious reporter, Griffith McNaulty, who becomes interested in Adi’s past when assigned to write an article about the restaurant where Adi now works as a cook.
But to me, the novels had plenty in common. Griffith isn’t an up and coming state trooper, but she is uncovering a mystery. Adi isn’t a child, but she struggles to live with the fear she still has of her stepfather and build a new life without him. Bitter Root isn’t set in rural Texas, instead in the Louisiana bayou.
But just as in Forsaken, the setting is vivid, unique, and central to the characters and plot. Although I’ve never been to either place, the novels made me feel like I was there, immersed in the culture and invested in the people.
The pacing of the romance is much better this time around. In Forsaken, the suspenseful parts of the story took over in some places, overshadowing the budding romance. In this novel, since Griffith is trying to uncover Adi’s secrets, there’s a natural flow between Griffith’s curiosity about who Adi is and her budding romantic interest. Adi’s stepfather’s shadow over her new life works very well as a source of tension -- on the one hand, she has a deep need for Griffin’s comfort and companionship, and on the other, feels understandable terror that Griffin’s nosiness will doom them both.
I also liked that in this novel, Adi herself is the one hiding from the villain. I loved the child in Forsaken and her relationship with the protagonists, but in Bitter Root, the looming prospect of a confrontation between Adi and her abuser felt more immediate and intense, because it directly affected one of the characters in whose head we see the events.
I enjoyed Forsaken and was looking forward to this novel as well. It was worth the wait. While it's different from Forsaken in several ways, I would definitely recommend it.
In her first novel, Forsaken, the villain’s companion was a young child who the two protagonists fought to get away from him and to protect. In Bitter Root, it’s one of the main characters, Adi Bergeron, whose life is shaped by the abusive stepfather she escaped.
The two novels are very different in some ways. Forsaken is a police procedural, where one of the protagonists is chasing a serial killer while falling for one of his victim’s friends. Bitter Root is a story about a curious reporter, Griffith McNaulty, who becomes interested in Adi’s past when assigned to write an article about the restaurant where Adi now works as a cook.
But to me, the novels had plenty in common. Griffith isn’t an up and coming state trooper, but she is uncovering a mystery. Adi isn’t a child, but she struggles to live with the fear she still has of her stepfather and build a new life without him. Bitter Root isn’t set in rural Texas, instead in the Louisiana bayou.
But just as in Forsaken, the setting is vivid, unique, and central to the characters and plot. Although I’ve never been to either place, the novels made me feel like I was there, immersed in the culture and invested in the people.
The pacing of the romance is much better this time around. In Forsaken, the suspenseful parts of the story took over in some places, overshadowing the budding romance. In this novel, since Griffith is trying to uncover Adi’s secrets, there’s a natural flow between Griffith’s curiosity about who Adi is and her budding romantic interest. Adi’s stepfather’s shadow over her new life works very well as a source of tension -- on the one hand, she has a deep need for Griffin’s comfort and companionship, and on the other, feels understandable terror that Griffin’s nosiness will doom them both.
I also liked that in this novel, Adi herself is the one hiding from the villain. I loved the child in Forsaken and her relationship with the protagonists, but in Bitter Root, the looming prospect of a confrontation between Adi and her abuser felt more immediate and intense, because it directly affected one of the characters in whose head we see the events.
I enjoyed Forsaken and was looking forward to this novel as well. It was worth the wait. While it's different from Forsaken in several ways, I would definitely recommend it.
Monday, August 1, 2016
Friday, July 1, 2016
Reading
For those of you attending the Golden Crown Literary Society conference next week, I'll be reading from my upcoming novel, Steel and Promise, at 8:30 in the morning on Friday the 8th in the Arbors. Hope to see you there!
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