Lillian Francis's Blog, page 21
June 23, 2022
Read Around the Rainbow - Do you write about where you live?
I'm a member of Read around the Rainbow, a rag tag collection of authors who are part of or who write about all letters of the LGBTQ+ rainbow. Each month we'll be posing a question or subject up for discussion. This month the question posed is 'Do you set your books in the place you live (or have lived) in?'
My answer is, as always, suitably vague. Sometimes, but only in the broadest terms, or not at all. Helpful, yes? No, not at all. I don't blame you if your response is "Whatever do you mean?"...
June 21, 2022
Release Blitz - Caught Off Guard by Beth Laycock
RELEASE BLITZ
Book Title: Caught Off Guard
Author: Beth Laycock
Publisher: Rainbow Romance Press
Cover Artist: Free to be creative
Release Date: June 15, 2022
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance, Military Romance
Tropes: Forced proximity, friends to lovers, brat MC
Themes: Hurt/comfort
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: approx 40 000 words
It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.
Buy Links - Available in Kindle Unlimited
He’d risk his life t...
Release Blitz with ARC Reviews - Caught Off Guard by Beth Laycock
RELEASE BLITZ
Book Title: Caught Off Guard
Author: Beth Laycock
Publisher: Rainbow Romance Press
Cover Artist: Free to be creative
Release Date: June 15, 2022
Genre: Contemporary M/M Romance, Military Romance
Tropes: Forced proximity, friends to lovers, brat MC
Themes: Hurt/comfort
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: approx 40 000 words
It is a standalone story and does not end on a cliffhanger.
Buy Links - Available in Kindle Unlimited
He’d risk his life t...
June 15, 2022
Blog Tour - I Am Not Your Chosen One by Evelyn Benvie
BLOG TOUR
Book Title: I Am Not Your Chosen One
Author: Evelyn Benvie
Publisher: Mischief Corner Books
Cover Artist: Natasha Snow
Release Date: June 14, 2022
Genres: High Fantasy Humor, M/M Romance, Demisexual romance
Tropes: Refusal of the Call, Slow Burn Romance
Themes: Found family, self-acceptance, finding home
Heat Rating: 1 flame
Length: 102 000 words
It is the first book in a new series and does not end on a cliffhanger.
Buy Links - Available for Pre-Order
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June 5, 2022
Release Blitz with ARC Review - Blue Moon Rising (Moonlight Prophecies Book 2) by Amanda Meuwissen
RELEASE BLITZ
Book Title: Blue Moon Rising (Moonlight Prophecies Book 2)
Author: Amanda Meuwissen
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Kris Norris
Release Date: May 24, 2022
Genre: Shifter Paranormal M/M Romance
Tropes: Alpha with non-Alpha shifter (not A/B/O), reluctant hero, rebound relationship
Themes: Destiny, starting over, prejudice
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 76 000 words
This is book 2 in the Moonlight Prophecies series.
Buy Links
May 26, 2022
Blog Tour - No Surrender: Badlands Book 5 - A MM Psychic Detective Romance Adventure by Morgan Brice
BLOG TOUR
Book Title: No Surrender: Badlands Book 5 - An MM Psychic Detective Romance Adventure
Author: Morgan Brice
Publisher: Darkwind Press
Cover Artist: Natania Barron
Release Date: April 22, 2022
Genres: Urban fantasy MM paranormal romance, psychic detective
Tropes: Hurt/comfort, established relationship, evolving relationship, learning to trust, grumpy-sunshine, cold case, ghosts helping/interfering, lots of magic, wedding planning
Themes: Found family, loyalty, not keeping secrets, dea...
May 15, 2022
Audiobook Release Blitz & Review - Blink—MM Supernatural Suspense (Treasure Trail, Book 2) by Morgan Brice
AUDIOBOOK TOUR
Book Title: Blink—MM Supernatural Suspense (Treasure Trail, Book 2)
Author: Morgan Brice
Narrator: John Solo
Publisher: Darkwind Press
Cover Artist: Lou Harper
Audiobook Release Date: April 19, 2022
Genres: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy M/M Romance, action/adventure, romantic suspense
Tropes: Second chance love, hurt/comfort, true soulmates, psychic, medium, witches, ghosts, haunted theater, Mafia, mobsters, ex-cop, ex-Interpol, resort town, starting over
Themes: Learning to trust, t...
May 9, 2022
Release Blitz with ARC Review - Over the Emerald Valley: MM Paranormal Fantasy Romance by Lee Colgin
RELEASE BLITZ
Book Title: Over the Emerald Valley: MM Paranormal Fantasy Romance
Author and Publisher: Lee Colgin
Cover Artist: Natasha Snow
Release Date: April 28, 2022
Genre: MM Paranormal/Fantasy Romance
Tropes: Forced Proximity, Sex-worker, Only One Bed
Themes: Things are never black and white, they’re usually grey
Heat Rating: 4 flames
Length: 61 000 words/ 250 pages
It is a standalone story within a series that you don’t need to read at all to understand this book.
It does not end ...
May 7, 2022
Release Announcement: World Naked Gardening Day Gay Romance Novellas
Welcome to World Naked Gardening Day!
The World Naked Gardening Day stories are a collaboration between Holly Day, Nell Iris, A. L. Lester, K. L. Noone and Amy Spector. They comprise five MM romance novellas between sixteen and twenty thousand words, featuring being naked in a garden somehow, somewhere, to mark World Naked Gardening Day on 7th May 2022!
Release Date: 7th May 2022
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Ofelia Grand (who also writes as Holly), Nell Iris and A. L. Lester write together in the early...
May 4, 2022
Release Blitz - Tom’s Type (Love at the Haven book 8) by Stella Shaw
Book Title* Tom’s Type, Love at the Haven book 8
Book Author* Stella Shaw
Publisher* self-published
Length* 62k words
Release date* 4 May 2022
Subgenres* Contemporary, MM, rent boy romance
Other* Available at all online bookstores
BUY LINK* books2read.com/tomstypehaven8
Book Blurb*
It was never just about the bedroom.
Life as an escort is Tom’s kind of fun. His ambitions are simple: to enjoy himself, speak his mind, and finance his eccentric fashion habit. He’s never found romance, security, or trust fro...
