Sloan Parker

Just wanted to let you all know that I’ve added an excerpt and sample chapters of More (an m/m/m erotic romance) to my website. More is coming to Loose Id later this month. I hope you like it!

MORE by Sloan Parker
Genre: Gay Contemporary Erotic Romance (M/M/M)
Publisher: Loose Id
Cover Artist: April Martinez
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Purchase at Loose Id

Read an Excerpt of More

A huge thanks to fellow Loose Id author Ethan Day for opening up his yahoo group to other authors of GLBT Romances at his monthly Gay Day event. This month I’ll be posting an excerpt from More. Hope to see you there!

Here are the details from Ethan…

Sunday, February 28th is Gay Day at my Yahoo Group.  Gay Day is the one day a month when the best authors in GLBT Romance stop by to post excerpts of their new and upcoming releases.

The following authors will be generously offering giveaways you can enter to win:

Z.A. Maxfield  is offering up winners choice of an e-book from her backlist

AKM Miles – Too Keen

Willa Okati – Tomcat Jones

M. Jules Aedin – Can’t Hurry Love – 2 copies are up for grabs!!

A.J. Llewellyn – Wanted

Ethan Day – an autographed Print copy of Dreaming of You

Kate McMurray – In Hot Pursuit

Trina Lane – Taking the Chance

J.R. Patrick – Only Yours

S.J. Frost – Midnight Dalliance

Jambrea Jo Jones – Stealing My Heart

Sophia Titheniel – King of Damon’s

Charlie Cochrane – an autographed Print copy of Past Shadows

The amazing Authors below will be popping in and out to chat & post excerpts from their latest books:

Lynn Lorenz – Baymore’s Heir & Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Carol Lynne – Ice Water in Hell

Z.A. Maxfield – Family Unit

Lex Valentine – Where There’s Smoke

Nix Winter – Kai Stubborn

P.A. Brown – L.A. Bytes

Sloan Parker – More

M. Jules Aedin – Windows In Time

T.C. Blue – A Game of Chances

Kimberly Gardner – Bound to Please

Andrew Gray – Love Means No Boundaries

Adrianne Brennan – My Big Fat Greek Pagan Lesbian Wedding

A.J. Llewellyn – Fawnskinw/ DJ Manly & Stephani Hecht Stealing My Heart the Anti-piracy Antho

The day will begin from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. CST in the Ethan Day Yahoo Group where we’ll be posting excerpts, running contests for free books, and chatting about all the new and upcoming releases from your favorite authors.

I hope everyone will stop by to catch up with your favorite authors and join in all the fun!

Thanks to the talented April Martinez, More has a cover, and it’s gorgeous. Thanks, April and Loose Id!

Cover artist: April Martinez
Coming March 23, 2010 to Loose Id: http://www.loose-id.com/More.aspx

I’ll be adding an excerpt to my website this weekend.

Once a week, I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else) that I’ve seen or read about recently. So here is this week’s For the Love of …

I’m loving this article about a library book returned sixty some years after it was taken off a shelf without being checked out. Talk about guilt and undoing past transgressions!

The 707-page biography of Napoleon Bonaparte was “stolen” 1n 1949 from a library in Toledo, Ohio.

Jump to the present. The patron wrote a letter stating, “Carrying guilt for 60 years is a terrible thing,” and mailed the note along with the book from California to Ohio. The patron also said, “I removed this book from your stacks in 1949 and did not check it out. I apologize. It’s an excellent book and in good condition.” — Quoted from: ToledoBlade.com

I think this is kinda cool. Granted, the person returned the book anonymously, but really, it’s a rare person who would return it at all. Most people would have tossed it out years ago. It’s not like late fees were stacking up anywhere. The library didn’t even know who had it. You have to respect someone who tries to fix their mistakes as best as they can. Especially sixty years later.

So what’s the longest you’ve ever had a library book? And did you return it?

Mine was probably over a year. And yes, I returned it. My mom was the librarian, so…no late fees! Yay!

Hope you have a great day!

Sloan Parker
New free fiction available at:
www.sloanparker.com

Once a week, I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else) that I’ve seen or read about recently. So here is this week’s For the love of …

This week, I loved this article What’s Hot in Romance? E-books, Baby! by Lori James, the COO of All Romance Ebooks, LLC. It talks about the trends in romance ebooks.

Here’s some of what she had to say…

“Romance is also about werewolves falling in love with girls. Sometimes it’s about two or more boys falling in love with a girl. It’s even about boys falling in love with boys. Formulaic is out. Edgy is in.”

“In 2009 we saw a 22% decline in straight contemporary. What were the niche sub-genres in which we saw a significant increase? Rubenesque (i.e. stories that feature women with curves), Paranormal, Werewolves and Gay Fiction—and the hotter the better. At least in terms of sales.”

I also believe we are seeing more acceptance of all kinds of love stories, and I like that. I like that, as a reader and a writer, my favorite types of books are doing well. I like that ebooks are selling well. I like to hear that more and more people are reading, and I think the convenience of having tons of books at your fingertips wherever you are (waiting at the doctor’s office, riding on the bus, waiting for your kid’s practice to end), means that people have more time to read during their busy schedules. No more lugging around a print book or being stuck without something to read because you finished the one book you had tucked in your purse. My PDA has hundreds of books loaded on it. Call it an addiction, but I love the hours of reading that affords me, the choices that offers me.

I still love print books, and I still buy my favorite books in print if I can. But I also love the convenience of buying ebooks. I love that in a matter of a couple clicks of the mouse, I have a new love story to read.

So do you read ebooks? What genres do you read? Comment or send me an email. I’d love to hear about your reading habits.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sloan Parker
New free fiction available at:
www.sloanparker.com

Once a week, I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else) that I’ve seen or read about recently. So here is this week’s For the love of …

Today I’m loving Gus and Waldo, two gay penguins in a monogamous relationship. They are silly but cute enough to make me smile.

If you haven’t seen them before, check out their site at: www.gusandwaldo.com. They have books, T-shirts, and a video on YouTube that is adorable with a sexy way to deal with spiders. I haven’t read the books (just seen the previews on their site), but the YouTube video is fun.

So has anyone out there read the books? Have you seen Gus and Waldo before? Comment or send me an email. I’d love to know what you think.

Thanks for stopping!

Sloan Parker
New free fiction available at:
www.sloanparker.com

Once a week, I post about something I’m loving (tv, movies, books, art, photos, romances, authors, or anything else) that I’ve seen or read about recently. So here’s this week’s For the love of …

I purchased some new books this week and was reminded again how much I love using Book Collector by Collectorz.com. It’s an “automatic book database software for Windows, Mac OS X & iPhone.”

I’ve had this program for quite a few months now. I use it to keep track of the books I own, those I’ve read from the library, those I’ve purchased but have yet to read, and those I wish to buy. It connects with an on-line book database so you can easily add books to your personal database (including a description, cover, subjects, and more) using the book title, author, or ISBN number. You can also manually enter books. Many of the ebooks I buy are not in the database, but it really doesn’t take much time to add those either.

I love being able to create filters and quickly see which books I have on my TBR list for a specific genre. Let’s say I feel like reading a gay mystery romance. A couple clicks and I have all the books listed that I’ve purchased. I can check out the covers, read the synopsis, click to any reviews I’ve noted, and more. It’s fun to interact with my books this way.

You can also add ratings and purchase information, search and sort, export the data, print a book list, and view your book data on your iPhone.

Here’s a screenshot from Collectorz.com. There are many ways to customize the screens so you can optimize it for how you like to view your books.

Watch a demo video: http://www.collectorz.com/book/
View more screenshots: http://www.collectorz.com/book/features.php

Does anyone else use Book Collector? Or any other program to manage your book collection? I’d love to hear what you use and what you like about it. Comment or send me an email.

Thanks for stopping!
Sloan Parker