 Series: Men of Falcon Pointe Book: Two Excerpt: “Can I ask you something?” “Sure.” “I know you say you’re straight. Ever wondered if you weren’t?” The moment the words were out of his mouth, he wished he could bite them back. “No. That came out wrong. What I meant was—” David lifted a hand to forestall whatever he was going to say. Which was a good thing because Bastien had no idea what was about to pour out of his mouth. “I don’t think anyone is completely het or homosexual. Kinsey made a scale to place someone as to their sexual preference. Of course that was before more genders became acceptable. The chart’s divided into seven possibilities—everything from completely straight to completely gay. It’s my personal belief that we all slide along the scale. At different times in our lives, we may move one or two spots to the left or right. Some have been known to slide from one side to the other.” He shrugged. “In college I was a lot more experimental than I am today. I’ve been with men as well as women. For me it has more to do with the person than the sex they are.” “What do you mean?” “Some call it pansexual. But I don’t use the term because people tend to think of it as bisexual. And it’s not.” He paused a moment to take a drink of water. “For me… my sex drive is tied more to the person than their sex. Sure. I notice if the person is male or female or queer, but it’s the person inside who jogs my interest. Intelligence turns me on. I’ll admit I’ve dated women exclusively since I graduated law school, and I was engaged to a wonderful woman for several years. But that had more to do with the fact I did not want my sexuality to affect any job offers I might get. Being intersex and finding a partner who I find exciting both mentally and physically is a challenge. Because at some point, I have to explain that my body is a bit different.” “You’ve been rejected.” It was as clear as day. “Yep. Women who were horrified I had a vagina and men who were disgusted at the same thing.” David shook his head and grinned ruefully. “Strange, huh? That the side that bothers both sexes is the female part?” “That seems kind of stupid,” Bastien said. “I mean, if you care for someone, why should that extra be a problem?” Of course until a couple nights before, he had never found himself attracted to anything having to do with the female body. Until he imagined it right next to a dick. Purchase Meet the AuthorThianna Durston is a writer by day and supernova by night. Or at least that’s what the faeries tell her. And who is she to deny those pesky *cough* lovely little creatures? She lives in the Pacific Northwest, though her heart belongs elsewhere. In the meantime, until she can return to the place she calls home, she happily lives in a city that still thinks it’s a small town. Thankfully, it has given her muse lots of amusing places to start a story.  Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Cover Artist: Catt Ford Where to find Thianna DurstonTour Dates & Stops: Parker Williams, The Hat Party, BFD Book Blog, Bonkers About Books, Boys on the Brink Reviews, Divine Magazine, Bayou Book Junkie, Jessie G. Books, My Fiction Nook, Open Skye Book Reviews, Happily Ever Chapter, A.M. Leibowitz, Full Moon Dreaming, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, Unquietly Me, Book Lovers 4Ever, Wicked Faerie's Tales and Reviews, MM Good Book Reviews, Andrew Q. Gordon, Alpha Book Club, Nephy Hart, Havan Fellows, Mikky's World of Books, Inked Rainbow Reads, Molly Lolly, Let's Get Ready To Romance, Emotion In Motion, Velvet Panic   Series: The Minnow Saint James Metaphysical Adventures Book: One Release Date: January 22, 2016 My Patients By Minnow Saint James, PH.D. National Board Certified Fellow of Clinical Hypnosis, in Public Service Mine is the business of Going and Coming, co-incidentally that is also the name of the new novel by Christopher Stone. Quite simply, I go to the past, or even the future, life of my patient, coming back with the other life root of their present-day challenge. Recently Past Life Regression Therapy, the official publication of the Institute for Mental Health Through Past Life Regression Therapy, asked me about the type of patient who turned to past life regression therapy in general, and to me, in particular. Here’s what I told them: “I cannot speak for the many other fine past life regression therapists. I can only speak for my own professional experience. “Most of the people who turn to me for past life regression therapy do so out of desperation. They’ve already spent energy, money, and time, trying to heal their life’s greatest challenges traditionally: through ministers and other counselors, physicians, psychiatrists, and so forth. “So, in many cases, those in need of healing come to me only after all forms of traditional therapies have failed. How many times I’ve heard this during my initial consultation with a new patient: ‘Dr. Saint James, you are my last, best hope.’ “I understand that many new patients come to me against the wishes of their spouse, family, and/or friends who believe that in seeking past life regression therapy, their loved one has really gone beyond the valley of the dolls. “That’s because, even now, in the sixteenth year of the twenty-first century, many people equate my therapy as no more effective than the New Age practices of wearing crystals, or wearing so-called healing magnets in one’s shoes. You could rightly say that I’ve spent my adult life defending the effectiveness and validity of my work: First as a traditional hypnotic regression therapist, and now as a past life regression therapist. “I’m betting you won’t be surprised to learn that the number of people who question the validity of my therapy quadrupled after I transitioned from hypnotic regression therapy to past life regression. Not long ago one particularly outspoken member of the press labeled all past life regression therapy ‘Nothing more than hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo.’ In addition to the patients who come to me as their court of last resort, many others are curiosity seekers, or fans of my international bestseller, In a Past Life, I…. My five hundred dollar an hour fee, of itself, weeds out most of the curiosity seekers. Most commonly each session lasts between ninety minutes and three hours. For the simply curious who don’t blink when they learn my fee, I have a New Patient Questionnaire that, among other things, separates the frivolous from the serious. And then there’s the Initial New Patient Consultation. If, during that visit, I determine that the would-be patient is little more than a curiosity seeker, then I refuse to book an appointment for past life regression. I must be highly selective about new patients. The nature of my work dictates that I can only work with two patients per day, one in the morning, and the second after lunch. Even so, I have a four-month waiting list for new patients. “As for the nature of the problems that bring people my way let me say they are highly diverse, different as night and day. One morning, I may be working with someone who has an irrational fear of the darkness, and that very afternoon’s patient may be a someone who flatly refuses to have a minor surgical procedure because she fears that she will die in the process. Last week, I had a male client who needed to learn why ‘nature called’ whenever he became sexually aroused with a partner. “Under hypnosis, patients have revisited past, and sometimes future, lives to discover why they get blue when it rains, why they believe themselves unworthy of love, or even why their flesh crawls whenever they see a bird.”  Excerpt: Who am I? My name is Dr. Minnow Saint James. My family and friends call me Minn. To everyone else, I am Dr. Saint James. I was born and raised in Beverly Hills, California, amid swimming pools, movie stars, and private schools. My parents are Sheila and Russell Saint James. Father owns and operates Saint James Cadillac, six highly successful Cadillac dealerships in the San Fernando Valley. Mother, known simply as She to one and all, is Lady Bountiful to Beverly Hills at large, conceiving and coordinating many of its most prestigious charity events. Want someone to coax an antisocial celebrity into hosting a Republican fundraiser? Mother is your go-to gal. A youthful forty, I now live and work in Hermosa Beach, California, one of Los Angeles County’s loveliest South Bay beach cities. Minnow, now there’s a moniker you don’t hear every day. That is, unless you happen to be me. Jokes about my first name haunted my school years. But these days, when people speak of Dr. Minnow Saint James, there’s no mention of his quirky first name. They talk about my professional achievements: You see, nowadays, I have a wildly successful practice as America’s leading Past Life Regression therapist, and I’m also the founder of the Institute for Mental Health Through Past Life Regression Therapy, -now an international organization - with my friend and former professor, Dr. Adrian Finkelstein, as the Institute’s CEO. But what exactly is a Past Life Regression therapist? I am in the business of going and coming – that is, going into my patients’ past, and sometimes future, lives through hypnotic regression, and coming back with the other life origins of their present life challenges. My work is cutting edge and evolutionary. Let me put it this way: medical marvels such as artificial limbs, Titanium plates and other metal joints, and pacemakers, have already transformed humans from biological organisms into creatures that are biological and technological hybrids. Similarly the science of psychology, will soon come to understand the necessity of treating the individual’s entire mental gestalt - including what we think of as past, and even future, lives - in order for the person to achieve mental health. In my practice, I’ve been treating that entire gestalt for the past seven years. I’m the future of good mental health; science’s better way and brighter tomorrow. But to Psychology Today, and to most of the mental health community, the jury is still out on past life regression therapy, and so they claim my work is not science based. Nonetheless my success rate, in excess of eighty-five percent, not only speaks for itself; it is the envy of the “scientifically sound” therapies. My services are sought out by people from all walks of life, and from all over the world. My private practice has a six-month waiting list. Quite simply, while Mother is the go-to woman for Charitable Beverly Hills, I’m the guy ya gonna call when you believe the challenges of your current life may be rooted in a past, or future, one. Often my therapy represents the last, best hope of patients who have tried and failed to achieve mental health through traditional treatments. The profession has many perks. For one, it is much easier dealing with other people’s issues than with your own. I have a good excuse, if not a good reason, for leaving my own challenges and shortcomings unexamined. That is how I’m able to avoid pesky questions. Questions such as: Why, at forty-years-old, am I without a spouse, a boyfriend, or even the steady hook-up? I like to think the lack of romance in my life, and the absence of booty in my bed, are products of the spiritualization of my thought, gained in the eight years since my personal transformations. That is what I like to think. The truth may vary.  Meet the author: Born in Bronx, New York, and raised in Fresno, California, Christopher Stone’s early years were dominated by school, watching television and motion pictures, bicycling, skating, and reading avidly. Summers were spent swimming, and doing whatever it took to survive the oppressive San Joaquin Valley heat. But he also remembers fondly the yearly summer trips to New York, to visit family and friends – and to see Broadway shows. Christopher left Fresno, for Hollywood, California, during his college years after being accepted into the Writers Guild of America’s Open Door Program, a two-year, scholarship, training ground for aspiring screen and television writers. As it happened, rather than a teleplay or screenwriting gig, his first professional writing job was in journalism – as the Los Angeles Editor for Stage Door, at that time, Canada’s equivalent of the U.S. entertainment trade weekly, Variety. Christopher would later use his Writers Guild of America training to co-author and sell the original screenplay, The Living Legend, with Jon Mercedes III, to the Erin Organization, and later, and also with Mercedes, to write two seasons of The Party Game, a Canadian TV game show. As a young freelance entertainment journalist, he contributed to many Los Angeles-based publications, among them The Advocate, for which he wrote a breezy film column, “Reeling ‘Round,” and the Los Angeles Free Press. During this time, he became a member of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. Christopher dipped his toes into the world of motion picture advertising and publicity, as assistant to the West Coast Director of Advertising and Publicity for Cinerama Releasing Corporation, in Beverly Hills. At the same time, he also did special advertising and publicity projects for 20th Century-Fox. Christopher went on to become an Account Executive for David Wallace & Company, a public relations firm specializing in entertainment accounts – and located on West Hollywood’s legendary Sunset Strip. Returning to his first love, writing, Christopher became a full time freelance contributor to national consumer publications including Us, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, McCall’s, In Cinema, and The National Enquirer, among others. Many of his stories were syndicated worldwide by the New York Times Syndication Corp. Another important area of endeavor for Christopher Stone was Re-Creating Your Self. A Blueprint for Personal Change that he first developed for himself, the journalist went on to teach the principles and processes of Re-Creating Your Self to others – first, in private sessions, later, in workshops and seminars, and, finally, for California State University Extended Education. Eventually, one of his students suggested he write a book version. Re-Creating Your Self was first published in hardcover by Metamorphous Press, and subsequently published in a trade paperback edition by Hay House. It has since been published in Spanish, Swedish and Hebrew language editions. When not writing, Christopher used his longtime interest in, and study of, metaphysics, to teach meditation and psychic development classes – first in Beverly Hills, then later, in Manhattan Beach. He went on to co-author, with Mary Sheldon, four novellas for a Japanese educational publisher, and then, also with Mary Sheldon, the highly successful The Meditation Journal trilogy of hardcover books. Subsequently, he returned to journalism, this time, contributing hundreds of print and online entertainment features, columns and reviews to magazines and websites. For eight years, Christopher was the Box-office Columnist for MatchFlick.com, a popular online motion picture site. In his private life, Christopher Stone met David M. Stoebner on May 17, 1994, and they have been together ever since. In 2008, they were married in Los Angeles. They share a home with their three pets in Coastal Los Angeles County. In 2013, Christopher’s pet project has been transforming their rarely used kitchen table area into a killer, retro 1950s Diner Nook, complete with a 1952 Seeburg Table Top jukebox, a neon diner sign, and a malt machine. Christopher’s first novel, Frame of Reference was e and print published, in fall 2012, by MLR Press. A short story, Sweet Homo Alabama was published by MLR Press, December 19, 2012. Stone spent much of 2013 writing Frame of Reference 2: The Dark Side of Stardom, a sequel novel to Frame of Reference, as well as, Abracadabra, and a short story, published at Halloween. But the indefatigable scribe also found time to contribute weekly reviews, columns and interviews to Queer Town Abbey. On December 11, 2015, Christopher will introduce readers to the Past Life Regression therapist, Dr. Minnow Saint James, the subject of his new series, The Minnow Saint James Metaphysical Adventures, in the Christmas short story, Shaking the Holiday Blues Away, MLR Press. Going and Coming: The Minnow Saint James Metaphysical Adventures, Book 1, will be released by MLR Press, January 22, 2016. Where to find the author: Website Link: http://christopherstonebooks.com Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com Twitter Link: https://twitter.com/bigboxoffice Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/12208025-christopher-stone Tour Dates & Stops: 22-Jan: Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, Love Bytes, BFD Book Blog 26-Jan: Molly Lolly, The Novel Approach 28-Jan: MM Good Book Reviews, Happily Ever Chapter 2-Feb: Elisa - My Reviews and Ramblings, Hearts on Fire, Divine Magazine 4-Feb: Velvet Panic, Prism Book Alliance 9-Feb: A.M. Leibowitz, My Fiction Nook 11-Feb: Lee Brazil, Inked Rainbow Reads, Bayou Book Junkie 16-Feb: Book Lovers 4Ever, Havan Fellows, Emotion In Motion  
Categories: M/M Romance, Ménage/Poly, Paranormal, Shifters (wolves) Sirius Wolves Book: Four Best read as a series.
Today I’m interviewing Victoria Sue author of The Promise
Hi, tell us a little about your current book. The Promise is the fourth in the Sirius Wolves series. This starts a new group of guys, and is the first to feature a human as one of the main characters. The legend of Sirius goes that when mankind is at its most desperate, the goddess Sirius creates four werewolves to battle evil and bring peace to the planet both species call home – Earth. They have already battled humans wanting to put them in internment camps, and have successfully integrated werewolves into the military. This is about a fight with a group of terrorists that want to undo all that. Can you pick two characters and tell us a little more about them? Kellan is one of the original characters in the first book. He grew up in a very closeted pack that didn’t allow any human interaction. He was taught from an early age that being gay was a sin, and the root of all things evil. The first few books deal with Kellan fighting his own feelings and realizing he is gay himself. He makes an awful lot of mistakes and is wrongly blamed and ostracized by the pack. He is desperately unhappy, and is in love with someone he feels could never love him back. Marcus is a war veteran. He lost both his legs when his Humvee rolled over an IED. He becomes involved in helping werewolves to become integrated into the US military and afterwards stays to help the pack. The werewolves can out run and out fight anything on two legs. He doesn’t think for one minute any of them could be interested in him, especially after his human boyfriend couldn’t stand being with “a cripple.” Marcus has to learn to trust, and maybe learn to love.  Publisher: Dark Hollows Press Cover Artist: 3 Rusted Spoons
Excerpt:
Marcus inhaled appreciatively as he eventually made it to the top of the steps. He loved Aden’s pack house. The upstairs floor was Aden’s and his mates’ living quarters. He was incredibly lucky to be here, and one of the only humans who had been trusted to live with werewolves. Not just any werewolves, thought Marcus with a grin at his own joke. Blaze, Conner, and Darric were the Supreme Alpha triad who had been blessed by the goddess Sirius when they were born over seven hundred years ago. Marcus grinned to himself — didn’t that just roll off the tongue! It was one of those things that even when he’d seen it with his own eyes — first with his buddy in the army, and then here — it was still a truly fucking incredible thing. Werewolves. Thinking of every film in the movies, none of them came even close to how amazing it was, and how goddam lucky he was to be here. It had only been because of his dad’s friend, Bud Mason, that he’d gotten this gig in the first place. Marcus was a newly washed up Marine with two bum legs. Career finished. Then Bud — Senator Mason — had called him. He knew Marcus was aware of werewolves. Marcus and his unit had been out on patrol, eyes on a swivel as always, but it had been quiet for days. Craig was scouting up front where he liked to be and a sniper had taken him out first. Marcus had thought he was done for, until the most incredible thing Marcus had ever seen happened in front of his eyes. Craig shifted into a wolf as he lay on the ground. Marcus had kept his cool, and even though the firefight grew up in earnest, and had pulled Craig to safety. Craig had later explained everything — how werewolves were known about by the government, but not in the main by the general public; that he had shifted because when injured it’s a natural thing for wolf shifters to heal themselves. Marcus had been enthralled. Unfortunately, Craig had been sent home by panicked generals who didn’t realize it wasn’t Craig’s training so much as his incredibly strong shifter sense of smell that was locating the landmines and keeping their asses safe. The next day after Craig had gone, their Humvee rolled straight over one. Three Marines lost their lives and Marcus lost his legs. The left one above the knee and the right below. A few of the wolves glanced up smiling as Marcus limped into the café area at the front of the pack house. Friendly guys, and girls. Lilly greeted him. “Morning, Alpha.” Marcus had wanted to die of embarrassment when she’d first called him that. Apart from the obvious fact he was a human, he was pretty sure it was against some wolf protocol or something. In fact, Ricoh was standing with Aden one of the first times last year when Lilly had called him that, and he’d seen the shock on Ricoh’s face. Aden though had explained Lilly meant it as a mark of respect as Marcus had ended up being one of their biggest supporters, and Blaze certainly didn’t mind. Marcus supposed if it didn’t offend their Supreme Alpha, he didn’t need to get all bent out of shape about it. PurchaseMeet Victoria Sue
Victoria Sue has loved books for as long as she can remember. Books were always what pocket money went on and what usually Father Christmas brought. When she ran out of her kids' adventure stories, she would go raid her mom's. By the age of eight she was devouring classics like Little Women, and fell in love with love stories.
She especially loves writing gay romance because as far as she’s concerned the only thing better than one hot guy, is two of them.
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8-Feb Up All Night, Read All Day, Jessie G. Books, Louise Lyons, Havan Fellows, Love Bytes 9-Feb The Blogger Girls, A.M. Leibowitz, Inked Rainbow Reads, Wake Up Your Wild Side, Emotion in Motion, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words 10-Feb Happily Ever Chapter, Kirsty Loves Books, Wicked Faerie's Tales and Reviews, Let's Get Ready To Romance, Open Skye Book Reviews, BFD Book Blog 11-Feb Bayou Book Junkie, MM Good Book Reviews, Velvet Panic, Mikky's World of Books, Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents, Divine Magazine 12-Feb Full Moon Dreaming, Book Lovers 4Ever, Molly Lolly, Elisa - My Reviews and Ramblings, Butterfly-O-Meter, My Fiction Nook, Cheekypee Reads and Reviews 
I was very pleased to have an interview in The Big Thrill magazine recently.
Here is the link: http://www.thebigthrill.org/2016/01/gone-away-by-elizabeth-noble/ |
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