Spotlight & Giveaway - The Wrong Woman by Cass Lennox

About The Wrong Woman: 

As an independent filmmaker, Katie Cherry is used to difficult shoots—but a band’s music video in a tiny lesbian bar is proving worse than most. Stress-busting, expectation-free sex with Zay, the calm, gorgeous bartender, seems just the ticket. But then she and Zay discover the band’s lead singer beaten into a coma in the bar bathroom. They need an alibi, but playing girlfriends is a role Katie’s never excelled at, so she can't see this ending well. 

Zay Fayed-Smith is finally getting her life back together after her junkie ex broke it apart. She’s working part-time while pursuing her dream of being a lawyer, and definitely keeping things chill on the girls front. Of course, that’s when a crime happens in her bar and her ex shows up wanting to try again. “Dating” Katie seems like the best way for Zay to keep her head down and teach her ex a lesson. 

Except pretty soon, the charade begins to feel less and less like acting. And when the attacker turns his attentions toward Katie, they have to cut through the lies to discover what’s real. 

Now available from Riptide Publishing and Amazon.

Excerpt & Giveaway - Bend by Nancy Hedin

About Bend: 

Lorraine Tyler is the only queer person in Bend, Minnesota. Or at least that’s what it feels like when the local church preaches so sternly against homosexuality. Which is why she’s fighting so hard to win the McGerber scholarship—her ticket out of Bend—even though her biggest competition is her twin sister, Becky. And even though she’s got no real hope—not with the scholarship’s morality clause and that one time she kissed the preacher’s daughter.  

Everything changes when a new girl comes to town. Charity is mysterious, passionate, and—to Lorraine’s delighted surprise—queer too. Now Lorraine may have a chance at freedom and real love. 

But then Becky disappears, and Lorraine uncovers an old, painful secret that could tear the family apart. They need each other more than ever now, and somehow it’s Lorraine—the sinner, the black sheep—who holds the power to bring them together. But only if she herself can learn to bend. 

Now available from Riptide Publishing and Amazon.

Spotlight & Giveaway - Don't Fee The Trolls by Erica Kudisch

Hey nerds! Erica Kudisch here promoting my novel DON'T FEED THE TROLLS, a genderqueer romp through internet drama. And if you keep up with the blog tour and its bonus DLC, there's a $50 prize package achievement for you to unlock. Have fun! 

About Don’t Feed the Trolls: 

Gaming while female is enough to incur the wrath of the dude-bros, and they’ve come for me. Instead of fighting back, I’ve created an alternate account. Male name, male pronouns. And I’ve met this girl. I’ve always liked girls, and Laura’s adorable and smart and never gives up, and she likes me back. Or rather, she likes the man I’m pretending to be. But I can’t tell her I’m a woman without the mob coming after her too. 

And besides: I might not be a woman, not really. 

The truth is, I don’t know what I am anymore. I’ve spent my whole life being told how I’m supposed to act and what I’m supposed to be, but none of it feels right. And my lie is starting to feel truer than anything I’ve ever been. 

There’s a convention coming up, but the closer it gets, the more I have to choose: lie or fight. But if I don’t stand my ground as a girl, am I letting the haters win? 

Then again, those aren’t the only two ways to live.

Available from Riptide Publishing and Amazon.  

Video Post & Giveaway - As La Vista Turns (Queers of La Vista Book 5) by Kris Ripper

Hi, I'm Kris and welcome to the blog tour for As La Vista Turns, book five in my awesome queer soap opera! Enjoy the blog tour!

About As La Vista Turns: 

Zane Jaffe has almost lost track of what conception cycle she’s in. (That’s a lie: this is cycle thirteen.) She’s fake-dating her pal Mildred to get her best friend off her back, but judging by how hot it was when they accidentally kissed, her feelings might be somewhat less platonic than she’d thought. 

And she’s decided that healing the fractured local queer community can only be accomplished through a party. Or maybe it’s actually a wake. Whatever it is, it’ll take place at Club Fred’s, and there will be alcohol. 

Trying to conceive is an unholy rollercoaster of emotions, and Mildred won’t let them kiss again until Zane figures out how she feels. Between the wake (exhausting as hell, and that’s just the fun stuff), the constant up-down cycle of trying to get pregnant, and saving the world in the meantime, Zane has no idea. Fall in love with Mildred isn’t on her list, but maybe it’s time to let go of that rigid future she’s been working toward, and instead embrace the accidents that can lead to something better.

As La Vista Turns is available from RiptidePublishing and Amazon.

Excerpt & Giveaway - Making Love by Aidan Wayne

Hey everyone, Aidan Wayne here! Wanted to welcome you to the blogtour for my latest release, Making Love. Throughout the week I will be sharing behind-the-scenes information about Making Love, and the inspiration behind it. Please feel free to participate in and comment on the tour. By doing so, you also get the chance to receive a $15 Riptide gift card! 

About Making Love: 

Carla the cupid is an excellent shot, but her chemistry is so bad that most of her matches don’t last. Her dream is to shoot a True Love pair, but until her scores improve, she’s relegated to the Puppy Love division of Aphrodite Agency. 

Leeta, a succubus, is looking for a True Love match. Which is highly unusual, as most succubi are aromantic. But Aphrodite Agency—her only hope—turns her away because the receptionist can’t believe she’s not just looking for an easy meal. 

Carla agrees to take Leeta’s case on freelance. She figures it’s a win-win: Carla gets to put a succubus’s True Love match on her résumé, and Leeta gets to find her True Love! Except as Carla tries to find a match for Leeta, she finds herself maybe . . . relieved when the matches don’t end well. And Leeta seems to be getting pickier and pickier. Things will never work out until Carla learns enough about chemistry to figure out who’s truly best for Leeta, and until Leeta can admit what—or who—she truly wants. 

Now available from: Riptide and Amazon 

 

Guest Post & Giveaway - Take Me Home by Lorelie Brown

Take Me Home

By Lorelie Brown

There’s a saying that’s turned up as a Lifehack and as a Reddit Shower Thought lately: Find one hobby to make you money, one to be creative and one to keep you in shape. I’d heard it before though, way back when. I was in the Army, almost done with my four year tour, and a crotchety Sergeant First Class gave me that piece of advice as what to do with my life when once I was out of the Army.  

Ah-hah, I thought. I’m totally on top of this one. Writing romance novels will both make me money and be creative!  

Ehh…not so much, it turns out.  

I do make money off writing romance novels. (For a little while, I was making enough to quit my day job. I hope to get back there once again.) It turns out that making money off a hobby changes it – or it did for me, at least. I started thinking about writing as a business. I started thinking about the market. It broke me for a while – I suffered from a pretty wicked case of writer’s block. Getting my day job is part of what was able to get me through that block, taking the pressure off so that it wasn’t my only way of making money. I felt free enough to write absolutely anything I wanted, and I spent that freedom writing a couple lesbian romances.  

I’ve always loved swimming, though that’s sometimes a little hard to make happen logistically. Over the past couple years, I’ve learned to love running. (Turns out it’s way easier when you’re not also a smoker!) So I’m covered in terms of keeping in shape, if only I could stop eating such yummy, yummy food. Halo Top ice cream may help me out with that though –it’s only 240 calories for the entire pint. I lurve it.  

The intermingling of writing and money left me needing a new hobby for creativity though. Somewhere along the way, I picked up planners and washi tape and stationery. It’s a thing. Honestly, I’m not really sure when I picked it up. It all started so innocently, with a planner to keep track of my fitness efforts. Then I bought a couple rolls of colored tape to decorate a page or two. Then I needed a new, cuter planner. Then I needed some stickers.  

I now have a hat box full of washi tape and stickers.  

Have I mentioned that I also knit? I have a cabinet full of yarn.  

So maybe my “creative” habit is more about buying pretty colored things?  

Anyway, you should buy Take Me Home so that I can buy more wine and washi tape, and so I can keep writing romance novels. It’s about a woman who takes a pink-haired tattoo artist home to her family’s Thanksgiving dinner so she can annoy one of her aunts. And then there’s mashed potatoes and a little pot and they steal a dog. So obviously it’s meant to be True Love, right? Right. You wanna read it.   

About Take Me Home: 

Thanksgiving arrives in one week and one day. Feeling hemmed in by parental expectations? Are they disappointed by your sapphic proclivities? I can help! The only pay I want is the holiday meal! 

I didn’t know what I was looking for until I saw her Craigslist ad. 

I love my family. I’m lucky to have them—well, most of them. But my aunt? I’m so tired of her giving my mom crap because I happen to be a lesbian. So one pink-haired tattoo artist pretending to be my girlfriend will annoy my Christian fundamentalist aunt right back and make my Thanksgiving perfect. 

Only . . . Brooke turns out to be cuter and more complicated than I expected. And before you can say “yorkiepoo,” we kiss . . . and abduct a dog together. I want to keep them both—but Brooke isn’t the kind to be kept. Lucky for me, I’m the kind to chase what I want. 

AMAZON

Excerpt & Giveaway - The Butch and the Beautiful (Queers of La Vista) by Kris Ripper

Hi, I'm Kris and welcome to the blog tour for The Butch and the Beautiful, book two in my awesome queer soap opera! Enjoy the blog tour!

 

About The Butch and the Beautiful: 

Jaq Cummings is a high school teacher who really wants a committed relationship—as long as it doesn’t keep her out late on school nights or interrupt Sunday mass with her dad. She is absolutely not about to fall for the hot-mess divorcée she hooks up with even if said hot mess pushes all her buttons. Jaq’s white knight days are over. 

But one hookup with Hannah becomes two, then coffee, then more incredibly hot sex. And unlike most of Jaq’s exes, Hannah’s not looking for someone to come on strong. In fact, Hannah comes on plenty strong enough for both of them. But she’s just out of a disastrous marriage, she’s in the process of moving across the state, and Jaq can’t take a chance on yet another relationship where she defaults to being a caregiver instead of a partner. 

Just when Jaq decides her relationship with Hannah is far too precarious, a crisis with a student reminds her of her priorities and makes it clear that sometimes, you have to take big risks to get what you really want. 

AMAZON

Guest Post w/Giveaway - The Scorpion's Empress by Yoshiyuki Ly

 The Scorpion’s Empress

by Yoshiyuki Ly

GENRE: Erotic Romance

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BLURB:

After years of serving a corrupt government, Ser Videl, an idealistic paladin, learns that her younger sister is tangled in a dark scheme against Raj Mangala, the compassionate yet troubled Empress of the city's oppressed lowtown; the two women meet and are deeply drawn to one another, finding a shared sanctuary in their violently-divided city. The Scorpion's Empress is intimately written through the eyes of both twenty-seven year old women.

Videl's loving devotion is just what Raj craves, but Raj is wary of letting her guard down while protecting her throne. Determined to prove her worth, Videl chases after Raj and works to unravel the mystery of the plots against the Empress. Raj wants Videl to serve her emotional and sexual needs, and the two explore a meaningful relationship of dominance and submission that delves fully into their deepest wants. When the conspiracy against Raj comes to a head, Videl's loyalties are tested when she is forced to choose between her past and her Empress.

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Excerpt & Giveaway - Far From Home by Lorelie Brown

Far From Home

by Lorelie Brown

About Far From Home: 

My name is Rachel. I’m straight . . . I think. I also have a mountain of student loans and a smart mouth. I wasn’t serious when I told Pari Sadashiv I’d marry her. It was only party banter! Except Pari needs a green card, and she’s willing to give me a breather from drowning in debt. 

My off-the-cuff idea might not be so terrible. We get along as friends. She’s really romantically cautious, which I find heartbreaking. She deserves someone to laugh with. She’s kind. And calm. And gorgeous. A couple of years with her actually sounds pretty good. If some of Pari’s kindness and calm rubs off on me, that’d be a bonus, because I’m a mess—anorexia is not a pretty word—and my little ways of keeping control of myself, of the world, aren’t working anymore. 

And if I slip up, Pari will see my cracks. Then I’ll crack. Which means I gotta get out, quick, before I fall in love with my wife. 

AMAZON

Spotlight & Giveaway - Top To Bottom (An Escape Story) by Delphine Dryden

Top To Bottom
by Delphine Dryden

About Top to Bottom: 

Drusilla Stasevich wants to leave the past behind and start the next chapter of her life. Returning to her hometown to open her dream kink club, Escape, seems like the perfect solution. But it can be tricky making dreams come true—especially when the person you want to share them with isn't around anymore. 

Amie Templeton is no stranger to tough times. She’s learned to make it on her own, and doesn’t do relationships outside the kink world. When her ex Dru moves back to town, old feelings surface. But that’s fine, right, since Dru has just opened the hottest new kink club in town? 

Dru and Amie want to get the distracting spark between them out of their systems. Instead, their intense play sessions fan that spark into a flame. As if Dru didn’t have enough on her plate, an anonymous saboteur threatens to push her new club out of business. It will take the help of everybody at Escape to set things right again, and a lot of trust for Dru and Amie to start working toward a new life together.

AMAZON

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About Del Dryden: 

Delphine Dryden  probably should have gone ahead and  become an English professor like she planned. Instead, she took a detour through law school, another detour through the wonderful world of working in special education, and took an extra fifteen years to end up where she belonged: writing kinky romances. 

Del's writing has earned an Award of Excellence and Reviewers’ Choice Award from Romantic Times Book Reviews, an EPIC Award, and a Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence.  When not writing or editing, she can be found binge-watching television shows with her girlfriend, playing tabletop games, and tweeting to excess. 

Connect with Delphine:

·         Website: www.delphinedryden.com

·         Twitter: twitter.com/deldryden

·         Facebook: www.facebook.com/DelphineDryden

·         Tumblr: deldryden.tumblr.com/

·         Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/deldryden/

·         Instagram: instagram.com/deldryden/ 

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Giveaway: 

To celebrate the release of Top to Bottom, one lucky person will win an ebook package of Dom Around the Corner and The Unicorn, plus a $5 Amazon gift certificate.

Leave a comment with your contact info to enter the contest.

Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on July 23, 2016.

Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. entries. T

hanks for following the tour, and don’t forget to leave your contact info.

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For the duration of the tour, Del is also giving away paperback copies of her steampunk books Scarlet Devices and Gilded Lily. Contact her via her website’s contact page, put your favorite mythical beast in the subject line and your name and address in the body. Limit to 20 people total, or until the tour ends.

Excerpt - For Good (An Out in Portland Novel) by Karelia Stetz-Waters

FOR GOOD

An Out in Portland Novel

Karelia Stetz-Waters

Releasing July 5th, 2016

Forever Yours

For Kristen Brock, Tristess County, Oregon, is just a stepping stone. She doesn't fit in to the small town community, but that doesn't bother her; she's not here to make friends. A few years as district attorney will look good on her resume, and then she'll be able to get any job she wants in a big city law firm. But then she meets Marydale Rae, who inspires feelings Kristen never imagined . . .

Marydale didn't intend to hide her past from Kristen, but the prospect of a friend who doesn't know she spent time in prison is too tempting to pass up. Add in the kiss they shared, and Marydale never wants Kristen to know the truth. But in a town like Tristess, secrets are impossible to keep. Being together puts both Kristen's job and Marydale's parole in jeopardy. But is a chance at forever worth the risk?

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