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BREATHE now available at Loose Id

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I’m thrilled to announce that my second release, BREATHE, is now available for purchase at Loose Id. I would like to extend a huge thanks to everyone who worked on this book, with special thanks to my critique partner, Connie, and my editor, Antonia, for all their help, as well as the cover artist, Valerie Tibbs, for the wonderful cover.

I hope anyone who picks up a copy enjoys Lincoln and Jay’s story! I had a wonderful time writing it.

BREATHE
Length: Novel Plus, 234 pages (in PDF)
Genre: LGBT Romantic Suspense (m/m)
Publisher: Loose Id
Cover Artist: Valerie Tibbs
Format: ebook
ISBN: 978-1-60737-890-7

Available at


Blurb

Lincoln McCaw lost everything — his home, his job, his partner — after he caused a fatal accident. A year later, he’s drowning the guilt and despair in whiskey, but he needs to move on. His sister and her kids are counting on him. Then he meets a man who ignites a passion Lincoln thought he’d never find. Too bad one night is all they can have together. Now he needs to figure out how to turn away from the only person who makes him feel alive…before whoever is sending him threats decides Lincoln needs to suffer more than he already has.

Jay Miller is surrounded by grief and misery until he finally gives in to all those years of sexual fantasies about being with another guy. Realizing he’s ended up in the arms of the man who caused his wife’s accident, he tries to pull away. But how can he give up a friendship he needs more than anything — a friendship and a love that could save him? He may not have time to make the choice before someone else destroys it all.

Excerpts

Read the first two chapters (PDF)
Read another excerpt (web page)

Cover for Breathe

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Breathe has a cover. The artist is Valerie Tibbs, and I think she did an amazing job representing the story. Thanks, Valerie!

Coming November 16, 2010 to Loose Id

Draft Blurb

Lincoln McCaw lost everything–his home, his job, his partner–after he caused a fatal accident. A year later, he’s drowning the guilt and despair in whiskey, but he needs to move on. His sister and her kids are counting on him. Then he meets a man who ignites a passion Lincoln thought he’d never find. Too bad one night is all they can have together. Now he needs to figure out how to turn away from the only person who makes him feel alive…before whoever is sending him threats decides Lincoln needs to suffer more than he already has.

Jay Miller is surrounded by grief and misery until he finally gives in to all those years of sexual fantasies about being with another guy. Realizing he’s ended up in the arms of the man who caused his wife’s accident, he tries to pull away. But can he give up a friendship he needs more than anything–a friendship and a love that could save him? Or will someone else destroy it all?

It’s also been added it to Goodreads if you’re interested in adding it to your bookshelf:

Quote I Love: Catching Balls

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For my quote of the week, I thought I’d share an occasional quote from works by other authors of gay romances.

To start us off, here’s a great line from As You Are by Ethan Day. It’s Julian’s reaction when asked to play a little touch football with his roommate (and the man he wants more than friendship with), Danny.

“Images from the two weeks of high school phys ed I’d suffered through flashed before my eyes. Luckily, thanks to Mom and the very cooperative family doctor, the torture of PE hadn’t lasted any longer. It always baffled me that as much as I loved to suck balls, I sure as fuck couldn’t seem to catch one.”

From As You Are by Ethan Day

You can check out this title and all of Ethan Day’s work at his website.

Sloan

The growing acceptance of ebooks

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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

Video I love: Help! I can’t open this newfangled “book”

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Once a week, I post a video I’ve seen recently that I’m loving. So here’s this week’s Video I love …

It’s a sketch of a monk who tries to read a book (as opposed to a scroll) when books were first introduced.

Enjoy!

Note: This video has English subtitles.
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I love this video for several reasons:

  1. I love books.
  2. I needed a laugh when I first saw this. And this one had me busting up.
  3. I worked in an IT department for 10 years. I answered quite a lot of help desk calls and usually ended up having to go out to the person’s desk. The mannerisms in this video are spot on! And the bit at the end when the book is flipped the wrong way was perfect. (A tangent: My favorite story from work was when a woman who usually called me once a week left me a voice mail. We had the same first name and when she left her message, she said, “Hi. This is …” only she gave my full name instead of hers. It seems she was that frustrated by her computer, she had lost all knowledge, including her own name.  She never did catch her mistake, so at least she didn’t have to feel bad about that).

This video does make me wonder what it will be like when my parents try to read an ebook for the first time  (although they are pretty tech savvy as compared to some, so I guess we’ll see. My brother will probably be worse. He still needs his kids to boot up the PC when he wants to play solitaire).

Was it good for you too? Comment or send me an email. I’d love to hear from you.

Sloan Parker