Hello, everyone! This is Quinn Anderson, author of the Murmur Inc.
series, and I’m here to share some inside information aboutAction,
coming out June 5th.
Stay tuned to get an inside look at what filming porn is
really like, hear fun facts about this novel, and find out what’s next for the
Murmur Inc. series.
Leave comments on the tour posts for a chance to win a $10
Riptide Publishing gift card!
About Action:
Pete Griflow is the last person anyone would suspect of
being a porn star. He’s quiet, gawky, and can’t even talk to guys without
turning red. But on camera, he’s a different person. In the porn world, he’s
Jaden Prime, a coquettish power bottom who’s been tantalizing fans for over a
year now.
Pete is in a rut, though, and he knows it. And what’s
worse, his boss knows it. If he can’t reignite his passion for the biz, he’s
going to have trouble paying his none-too-cheap college tuition.
When Pete is given the opportunity to star in a huge
summer production, sparks fly between him and his costar, Kyle Darko. Kyle is
Pete’s opposite: he’s daring, achingly sexy, and in love with the sex industry.
Their chemistry is palpable on and off screen, but dating on a porn set is
tricky. Even pros struggle to separate fantasy from reality, especially with a
script dictating their seduction. But what’s building between them can’t be
ignored, and it’s so much more than getting some “action.”
Hello, and welcome to the blog tour for Heels Over Head, my new sports romance where
Olympic diving hopefuls battle it out on the platform... while discovering
friendship, family, and love along the way. I hope you enjoy reading Jeremy and
Brandon's romance as much as I enjoyed writing it!
I'll be stopping on several blogs throughout the week,
so I hope you'll follow along and join in the discussion. Plus, don't forget to
leave a comment at the end of the post... you'll be entered to win an Amazon
gift card!
About Heels Over Head:
Jeremy Reeve is one of the best divers in the world, and
he’s worked hard to get where he is. He intends to keep pushing himself with
one very clear goal in mind: winning gold at the summer Olympics in two years.
That medal might be the only way to earn his father’s respect as an athlete.
Brandon Evans is everything Jeremy isn’t: carefree,
outgoing, and openly gay. With his bright-blue eyes and dramatic tattoos, he’s
a temptation that Jeremy refuses to acknowledge. But Jeremy can’t ignore how
talented Brandon is—or that Brandon has no interest in using his diving skills
to compete.
They’re opposites who are forced to work together as
teammates, but Jeremy’s fear of his own sexuality and Brandon’s disinterest in
anything “not fun” may end their partnership before it begins. Until a single
moment changes everything, and they help each other discover that “team” can
also mean family and love.
Three weeks after solving his old boyfriend’s murder,
bounty hunter Derwin Bryant is trying to let go of the past and embrace his new
life with Elliot Leed, a former rentboy and fellow Oddity. Elliot, meanwhile,
is trying to adjust to working at Bob’s Bail Bonds and having a real
relationship despite his strange power of Object Reading. Hanging over the
couple is the fear that Roy Yoshiro, notorious gang lord, will make good on his
threats to claim Elliot. If that happens, not even Derwin’s superhuman strength
will be enough to protect the man he loves.
Their concerns are overshadowed when Derwin’s friend
asks for help finding her missing son. It’s not long before the case takes
Derwin and Elliot back to the crime-ridden underbelly of the city and straight into
Yoshiro’s clutches. Two gangs are vying for power, and Derwin and Elliot get
caught in the middle of their very public fight.
Derwin and Elliot must find a way to thwart both gangs’
plans and escape alive. This time, one misstep could spell disaster for all the
inhabitants of Nis.
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.
Tabloid scandals have driven TV
star Ryan Hertzog to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, where he’s hiding out doing
summer stock at his cousin’s seaside theater. When a hookup with local handyman
Trey Donovan results in Ryan being photographed butt naked, he vows to keep his
pants on and his hands off Trey.How was
he supposed to know Trey would turn out to be the summer stock set builder?
Trey isn’t looking for a
relationship; he’s still recovering from the emotional fallout of an abusive
marriage. But Ryan’s laughter draws him in again and again, and he’s not about
to say no to fooling around.
As the summer heats up, the
paparazzi catch Ryan in increasingly compromising situations. Ryan might be too
much drama for a summer fling—and Trey might be just an intermission from
Ryan’s Hollywood life. But if they take their cues from Shakespeare, all’s well
that ends well.
Hello and welcome to the blog
tour for Forest of Thorns and Claws!This M/M
shifter (weretiger) romance is a standalone novel set in the rainforests of
Indonesia. The book features a lonely veterinarian and wildlife conservationist
from the UK, Dr. Donovan McGinnis, who meets a man from the local Sumatran
village, Kersen, after rescuing a snared tigress. I hope you'll read on to
learn more about Donovan and Kersen’s adventures.
Also, remember to leave a comment
on this post... one lucky winner will get a $15 Riptide gift card!
About Forest of Thorns and Claws:
Donovan McGinnis, a
veterinarian and conservationist at a research center in Sumatra, is fighting
to save the rainforest from poachers and politicians alike. One day he
discovers a tigress trapped by a snare, and while treating her injuries, she
bites him. He becomes ill with strange symptoms that leave him feverish and
dreaming of the jungle and blood.
Kersen and his
family are part of the Siluman harimau,
a clan of tiger shifters hidden away in a secret village near the rainforest.
When Kersen’s sister is caught, he knows he must free her before she infects
someone with their magic and reveals their secret.
But Donovan has
already been turned, and only time will tell if he can control the tiger
within. Kersen must help him, but will the fierce attraction between the pair
bring ruin to them all? With the rainforest under threat from outside forces,
they may be doomed anyway, unless Kersen and Donovan can find a way to defeat
the danger from inside and out.
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.
Hello, my name is Christine d’Abo and I’m
so happy to be here today.
I’m a firm believer that the good friends
are the family members that we get to choose. The get us on a level that
sometimes our biological family doesn’t. When I came up with the idea of
Ringside Gym and the men who were involved with it, I wanted to make sure that
their relationships reflected that feeling.
Max would be the “middle” child of the
trio of heroes. He’s my peacemaker, the one who wants to make sure everyone and
everything is okay. But Max has a problem – he doesn’t know what to do when
he’s not needed. Zack no longer needs him now that he has Noland in his life,
and their other friend Eli has been MIA due to his MMA career. Max’s life
begins to drift and he questions not only what he wants, but also who he wants
in it.
When Grady Barnes shows up on the scene,
Max is equal parts intrigued and annoyed. Here is a man who seems to have it
all, but is seemingly at the whim of his father.When Grady asks Max for help, he takes a leap
of faith and agrees. What Max doesn’t anticipate is how quickly Grady will work
his way into his heart.
All Max needs to do is find a way to
prevent Grady from being forced into a marriage he doesn’t want, while not
giving in to his impulse to sweep Grady into his arm.
Simple, right?
You can visit Christine at her websitewww.christinedabo.com, and chat with her onFacebook andTwitter. Want to keep up with Christine’s
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About Faking It:
Max Tremblay should be happy. His
nightclub, Frantic, is one of the most popular gay clubs in Toronto, and his
childhood refuge, Ringside Gym, is well on the way to reopening. But when he
finds yet another drunk in the alley beside the bar, Max isn’t sure this is the
life he truly wants.
Grady Barnes has it all. He’s rich,
famous, and wants for nothing. Well, nothing but a good relationship with his
father. When he discovers that his father is going to force him into an
arranged marriage, Grady has had enough. He tracks down Max, the man who got
him to safety after a night of overindulgence, and makes him a proposal:
pretend to be his fiancé for two weeks and he’ll invest in Ringside Gym.
When the pair travel to Vancouver to
attend a family wedding, the flames of their mutual attraction ignite, and they
discover that the only difference between pretend and reality is how well they
can fake it.
Ashton
Townsend is the most famous celebutante of Manhattan’s glitterati. The black
sheep of his wealthy family, he’s known for his club appearances, Instagram
account, and sex tape. Most people can’t imagine him wanting for anything, but
Ashton yearns for friendship, respect, and the love of his best friend—amateur
boxer Valdrin Leka.
Val’s
relationship with Ashton is complicated. As the son of Ashton’s beloved nanny,
Val has always bounced between resenting Ashton and regarding him as his best
friend. And then there’s the sexual attraction between them that Val tries so
hard to ignore.
When Ashton
flees his glitzy lifestyle, he finds refuge with Val in the Bronx. Between
Val’s training for an upcoming fight and dodging paparazzi, they succumb to
their need for each other. But before they can figure out what it all means—and
what they want to do about it—the world drags them out of their haven,
revealing a secret Val has kept for years. Now, Ashton has to decide whether to
once again envelop himself in his party-boy persona, or to trust in the only
man who’s ever seen the real him.
Hello, reader friends! I'm Joanna Chambers and this is
the blog tour for A Gathering Storm,
my new Cornwall-set historical romance. I'll be sharing thoughts
on my experience of writing about eccentric Victorian scientists,
pragmatic Romany land stewards and unscrupulous
mediums - come and comment to win a copy of the book and a
$25 Riptide gift card!
A Gathering
Storm
By Joanna Chambers
About A Gathering Storm:
When
grief-stricken scientist Sir Edward Fitzwilliam provokes public scorn by
defending a sham spiritualist, he’s forced to retreat to Porthkennack to lick
his wounds. Ward’s reputation is in tatters, but he’s determined to continue
the work he began after the death of his beloved brother.
In
Porthkennack, Ward meets Nicholas Hearn, land steward to the Roscarrock family.
Ward becomes convinced that Nick, whose Romany mother was reportedly
clairvoyant, is the perfect man to assist with his work. But Nick—who has
reason to distrust the whims of wealthy men—is loath to agree. Until Fate steps
in to lend a hand.
Despite Nick’s
misgivings, he discovers that Ward is not the high-handed aristocrat he first
thought. And when passion ignites between them, Nick learns there’s much more
to love than the rushed, clandestine encounters he’s used to. Nevertheless,
Nick’s sure that wealthy, educated Ward will never see him as an equal.
A storm is
gathering, but with Nick’s self-doubts and Ward’s growing obsession, the
fragile bond between the two men may not be strong enough to withstand it.
Hi, I’m JL Merrow, and I’m delighted to be here today
as part of the blog tour to celebrate the release of Wake Up Call, the first of my contemporary MM romances in Riptide’s multi-author Porthkennack series.
Wake Up Call
By JL Merrow
About Wake Up Call:
South London
mechanic Devan Thompson has gone to Porthkennack to track down someone he’s
been waiting all his life to know. But Dev’s distracted from his quest by Kyle,
a broodingly handsome local of only a few months, who’s already got a
reputation as an alcoholic because of his strange behaviour—including a habit
of collapsing in the street.
Kyle Anthony
fled to Porthkennack to escape from the ruins of his life. Still raging against
his diagnosis of narcolepsy—a condition that’s cost him his job as a barrister,
his lover, and all chance of normality—the last thing he wants is another
relationship that’s doomed to fail. But Dev’s easy-going acceptance and
adaptability, not to mention his good looks, have Kyle breaking all his
self-imposed rules.
When disaster
strikes Dev’s adored little sister, Kyle steps up to the plate, and Dev sees a
side of his lover he wasn’t prepared for: competent, professional—and way out
of Dev’s league. With one man determined that they don’t have a future, and the
other fearing it, life after Porthkennack is starting to look bleak for both of
them.
Hello
everyone! I'm Francis Gideon and I'm touring for my new release Hopeless
Romantic, a trans rom-com of sorts. Follow along this week as I talk about all
thinks romantic comedy, trans identity, and being pretty in pink! I'm looking
forward to sharing some serious 1980s nostalgia; be sure to comment with your
own bit of nostalgia for a $10 giveaway for Riptide publishing.
Pretty in Pink
As
I stated in an earlier post for the blog tour, I absolutely love
rom-coms--hence the title of the book! Hopeless
Romantic acted as my chance to write a work packed with cheesy moments
alongside 1980s retro nostalgia and pop culture references and package it with
a queer bow. Nick and Katie are some of the cheesiest characters I've written,
but they're also highly aware that they're cheesy (which really, I find makes
all the difference). Early on in their relationship, they get into a playful
fight about what rom-com is the best. I've written a post on my relationship to
Lloyd Dobbler, but another romantic comedy deserves its spot in this tour: Pretty In Pink.
I
can't even say the name for it without getting the title song in my head. The
soundtrack for the movie is one of the best ever written, and so much of it has
to do with how the song emphasizes the film's narrative arc. And I nearly named
my book Pretty In Pink instead of Hopeless Romantic because I love the
song, the film, and the gendered implications of the name. But I didn't, and
mostly that's because my partner, who is the inspiration for Nick, is a huge fan
of the Romantic poets, and well, the pun was too good to pass up.
But
back to Pretty in Pink. As a phrase,
I felt as if it described Katie so well. Katie is a trans woman, and
effectively has had to renegotiate her identity and her gender expression when
she transitioned. Most of that major decision making is done by the time she
gets together with Nick, but there are still hints of that process. She still
sees doctors for hormones and she still struggles with some official ID, but
people in her workplace accept her and so do her classmates/friends. Being
'pretty' is more than just looks--its acceptance by her friends and family. And
being 'pink' means that she can be who she wants and express her gender however
she wants--whether that is in a super feminine pink dress that she wears on one
date with Nick, or in jeans and t-shirts for her favourite bands, which she
does a lot more.
For
my own trans identity, pink has been a difficult colour. I was assigned female
at birth, but eventually transitioned socially as a trans person, settling on a
nonbinary identity. I used to hate pink because it meant being a woman,
something I didn't want but didn't know why growing up. When I settled on my
identity as nonbinary and came out, I was afraid of pink because of what it
could signal to everyone else. So being 'pretty in pink' for me has meant
finding out that I like pink, because it's nice, and wearing it without fear,
because I can adorn myself however I want. And why should I be afraid of being
pretty when the word 'pretty' itself doesn't have to have a gender associated
with it.
So
I feel like the only fitting way to end this post, and this blog tour, is to
post the music video that encapsulates so much of what I wanted to say. And
let's face it--the song is also in my head right now anyway.
Thank
you all for reading!
About Hopeless Romantic:
Nick Fraser is a true romantic. He wants the guy instead of the girl,
but other than that, he wants everything his favorite rom-coms depict: the
courtship, the passionate first kiss, the fairy-tale wedding. But after
breaking up with the love of his life, Nick wonders if anything fairy-tale will
ever happen for him.
Then he meets Katie, who’s just like a rom-com heroine. She’s sharp,
funny, sweet, and as into music and punk culture as Nick is. What’s more, he’s
incredibly attracted to her—even though she’s a woman. Nick has never
considered that he might be bisexual, but his feelings for Katie are definitely
real.
When Katie reveals that she’s transgender, Nick starts to see how much
he doesn’t understand about the world, queer identity, and himself. He is
hopelessly in love with Katie, but this isn’t a fairy tale, and Nick’s friends
and family may not accept his new relationship. If he wants it all, he has to
have the courage to make his fantasy a reality.
Francis Gideon is a nonbinary writer who dabbles in romance, mystery,
fantasy, historical, and paranormal genres. Francis credits music, along with
being an only child to a single mother, as why they write so much now. Long
nights at home were either spent memorizing lyrics to pop-punk bands or reading
voraciously. Add a couple of formative experiences in university, a network of
weird artist friends, and after years of writing stories Francis never showed
to anyone, they now have books to their name.
After receiving an MA in English literature, Francis wanted to do
something a bit more fun. They soon found the LGBTQ romance community and fell
in love on the spot. Since then, Francis has attempted to balance writing
romances with as many different types of couples as possible while also
attending school for their PhD. When not writing fiction or teaching university
classes, Francis works on scholarly articles on everything from character
deaths in the TV show Hannibal, the online archive of Canadian poet and artist
P.K. Page, and transgender representation on YouTube. Francis is a middle name,
used to keep students from Googling their teacher and asking far too many
questions.
Francis lives in Canada with their partner, Travis, where they often
spend nights disagreeing about what TV show to watch and making bad puns
whenever possible. Travis receives dedications in Francis's novels because he
tolerates Francis's long hours and listens to random story ideas late into the
night. Francis also might be a bit of a hopeless romantic—as if you didn't
already guess.
Welcome to the
For a Good
Time, CallBlog Tour! We’re delighted
to have you stop by, so please, make yourself comfortable. Can we offer you a
virtual beverage?
As part of
this blog tour, Anne and E.J. are giving away a $50 Riptide Publishing Gift Certificate
to one lucky winner!
*confetti*
To enter the giveaway, please comment on any
official tour post with your name and contact info before midnight (EDT), April
15th.
Good luck, and enjoy the tour!
About For a Good Time, Call…:
Thirty-seven-year-old
Nate Albano’s second relationship ever ended three years ago, and since he’s
grace—gray asexual—he doesn’t anticipate beating the odds to find a third.
Still, he’s got his dog, his hobbies, and his job as a special effects
technician on Wolf’s Landing, so he can’t complain—much.
Seth Larson,
umpteenth generation Bluewater Bay, is the quintessential good-time guy,
content with tending bar and being his grandmother’s handyman. The night they
meet, Seth’s looking for some recreational sex to escape family drama. But for
Nate, romantic attraction comes before sexual attraction, so while Seth thinks
they’re hooking up, Nate just wants to talk . . . genealogy?
Dude.
Seriously?
So they
declare a “just friends” truce. Then Seth asks for Nate’s help investigating a
sinister Larson family secret, and their feelings start edging way beyond
platonic. But Nate may want more than Seth can give him, and Seth may not be
able to leave his good-time image behind. Unless they can find a way to
merge carefree with commitment, they could miss
out on true love—the best time of all.
Hey nerds! Erica Kudisch here
promoting my novelDON'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.
If you ever want to get a group of writers talking,
ask them which are plotters and which are pantsers. You’ll get a group who
insists that the only proper way to write a novel is to meticulously plan it
out beforehand, you’ll get a group who says that planning takes all the life
out of the process and creates wooden, formulaic stories, and, hopefully, you’ll
get a group who says that it’s a false dichotomy and really more of a spectrum
with very few writers being pure plotters or pure pantsers.
I’m generally a member of that third group who say
there’s a continuum, but if I’m honest I have to admit that my own spot on the
continuum is well toward the “pantsers” end. I keep trying to be a plotter, but my outlines never work out. Too many of
the ideas I like best just come to me without having a place in the outline and
I decide I’d rather stick with the new idea than with the outline.
Which brings us to character names. There have been
times when I’ve had to think about names and really hunt for them, but in
general, they just come to me. I think the name for Jericho Crewe came to me
before he was even a fully-formed character. And when I had a character read
his name with only an initial and realized that it sounds like the name of the
store, I made his nickname be Jay just so people could call him Jay Crewe and I
could snicker to myself.
For a while I wanted to call the series The Walls of Jericho but it felt like it
was trying a bit too hard, and/or would make people think I was writing Bible
fanfic.
The name Wade Granger just came to me, too. I think
“Granger” may have come from my memories of Huck
Finn, with the feuding Grangerfords and Shepherdsons. That’s a bit remote,
obviously, but every time I ask myself “where’d that name come from” I think of
Huck Finn, so… maybe. And I can
definitely see the Grangers as the sort of family that would have a long-running
and bloody feud with another family for no clear reason.
What a completely unsatisfying explanation for an
aspect of my story. Yikes. But it’s all I’ve got.
Do you guys think names are important to characters?
Can you think of any characters who have the perfect names for who they are or,
conversely, and characters whose names just don’t seem to fit?
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About Home Fires:
Trouble comes
to Mosely, Montana, from the outside world. When the residents of Mosely are
left on their own, they can make things work. Sure, there’s always been a
militia operating up in the hills, but they were small-scale—just survivalists
doing their thing—until organizers came in from out of state. Now Jericho Crewe
and the rest of the sheriff’s department are facing down a heavily armed band
of fanatics, and the feds are busy elsewhere.
The odds are
hopeless, but Jericho swore an oath to serve and protect the citizens of
Mosely. He won’t walk away from that, even if Wade Granger’s begging him to run
away somewhere and finally be together the way they always should have been.
But this time,
it’s Jericho who refuses to leave Mosely, even if staying kills him.
Wallachian
nobleman Radu is recently arrived in Bucharest with his vampire parents.
Welcomed as an eligible bachelor, he’s introduced to the enchantress Ecaterina,
whose salon is Bucharest’s centre of magical expertise.
But when
Ecaterina’s brother dies of a mysterious new plague, it’s clear to Radu that
his parents have not been idle. Soon Bucharest is in the grip of an undead
epidemic—a less than ideal time for Ottoman Sultan Mahmud, Wallachia’s
overlord, to call Bucharest’s nobility to assemble their armies in Istanbul for
a holy war against Britain.
The
Wallachians have long resented their Ottoman overlords, so Radu seizes the
chance to eliminate them while also ridding Bucharest of the undead: he leads
an army of vampires to Istanbul and sets them to feed on the Turks.
As Radu’s
demons gut the city of Istanbul, their plans become horribly clear. This is
only the start. With the Ottoman armies under their control, the undead are
poised to suck the life out of the whole world. Radu, his lover Frank, and
Ecaterina are appalled at what they’ve unleashed. But they may be too late to
stop it.
About Action: 
