#gayromance | EM Lynley / Gay Romance http://emlynley.com Love Spans the Rainbow Sat, 09 Sep 2017 19:51:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.12 99c Weekend Reads featuring 3 of my novels @dreamspinners #mmromance http://emlynley.com/99c-dreamspinners-mmromance/ http://emlynley.com/99c-dreamspinners-mmromance/#respond Sat, 20 Jun 2015 20:55:56 +0000 http://www.emlynley.com/?p=5983

As part of Dreamspinner's DreamReaders program, three of my best-selling novels are just 99 cents through June 21 at Dreamspinner Press!]]>


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As part of Dreamspinner’s DreamReaders program, three of my best-selling novels are just 99 cents all weekend long at Dreamspinner Press!

Until midnight EDT Sunday, June 21, 2015

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British actor Wesley Tremayne thinks he’s close to hitting the big time—a film career—with his role as a hunky explorer on a popular American TV show. Success should be just around the corner, as long as he keeps his sexual orientation a secret. Wes’s best friend and beard, Julia Compton, forms the other half of a glamorous Hollywood couple that’s merely a façade.

Evan Taylor left his acting career behind five years ago without looking back. He’s always been more comfortable around horses than people—especially Hollywood types. His new life training racehorses is a dream come true, but increasing financial problems and an abusive boyfriend have him doubting himself and his choices.

Then Wes and his friends buy a third-rate racehorse—partially for publicity—and send him to Evan’s stable. Wes’s friendship with Evan soon develops into an overpowering attraction he can’t act on. He’s never met a man like Evan, but if there’s any chance for a future together, Wes must choose between a career he loves and the man he adores.

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Daniel “Deke” Kane is a broken man, facing the end of his career in the FBI. He’s on desk duty after a botched drug raid left the suspects and two children dead. He’s got one chance to prove himself, or the only thing he’ll be investigating is the Help Wanted ads.

Ryan Griffiths has been on the run for ten years. Forced onto the streets when his father kicked him out, Ryan earns his living in other men’s beds. Finding his john dead in a hotel room drives him under the radar until a favorite client gives him a chance at a safe, clean life. But Ryan’s relatively stable new world shatters when Deke Kane catches up with him.

When Deke’s tasked to take down a drug dealer with terrorist ties and a taste for the dark side of BDSM, his only chance to get close is the suspect’s interest in Ryan, and he convinces Ryan to become a confidential informant. In return, Deke offers Ryan immunity from his past. As Ryan falls under the drug lord’s domination, Deke finds himself falling for Ryan.

Now Deke has to choose between Ryan’s safety and his own future.

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Of all the tiny towns, in all the world, he walks into mine.

Texas native Kieran Quinn has hit the big time, working in Manhattan as a columnist for Gloss, a national literary magazine. He’s well-known for his snarky, sardonic columns, but deep down he’s more interested in exploring what makes people tick than his editor would like. He keeps his desire to find his own Mr. Right hidden under a sexy, carefree persona that favors champagne and underwear models of the male variety.

Jaxon Lang loves being the high school principal in tiny Buckwheat Springs, Texas after relocating from Austin to pursue his relationship with Danetta Archer, despite her reputation for leaving grooms at the altar. So far, he’s avoided examining the questions he has about himself, certain that marriage will put them to rest. Then Kieran arrives in town. Kieran’s charm and unique attitudes about sex and attraction soon challenge Jaxon’s concept of what—and who—he wants.

While covering the latest wedding of a real-life “runaway bride,” Kieran falls hard for the gorgeous—and supposedly straight—groom, Jaxon Lang, despite that ridiculous X. Then Kieran discovers the bride’s hiding a shocking secret.

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Throw Back Thursday Kind of Isn’t: Sex, Lies & Wedding Bells 2nd edition #mmromance http://emlynley.com/thursday-wedding-mmromance/ http://emlynley.com/thursday-wedding-mmromance/#respond Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:00:08 +0000 http://www.emlynley.com/blog/?p=4112

The gorgeous cover on the new edition! Thank you, Paul RichmondThe year is 2009… Sex, Lies & Wedding Bells was my first published novel. It came out in February of 2009. I had just gotten laid off from my job as a wine buyer for a large retail chain, and having this book start selling was really important validation for me.]]>

 

The gorgeous cover on the new edition! Thank you, Paul Richmond

USA Today Love and Lust Recommendation

read this highly recommended re-issue of a tale with classic elements that turn a predictable story on its head.” – Becky Condit/USA Today

The year is 2009…

Sex, Lies & Wedding Bells was my first published novel. It came out in February of that year. I had just gotten laid off from my job as a wine buyer for a large retail chain, and having this book start selling was really important validation for me.

If you’ve ever been part of a big layoff (1/3 of our company) you know how demoralizing that can be. They say “it’s not you…” but it is, or they would have kept you. About half of my department got laid off, the rest had been there over 10 years, but it still felt really personal.

Honestly, if it wasn’t for writing and the wonderful response I got to Sex, Lies & Wedding Bells, I would have been even more depressed.

It’s the great readers and other wonderful authors who helped me through a really tough time and helped me realize I had a way to make a living (thanks to some severance and unemployment). It was pretty meager, but it was something.

First novels are usually imperfect. Often there’s a good story, but the author isn’t skilled at the mechanics of writing. Other writers are excellent with words, but their story isn’t great. It’s probably a right-brain/left-brain thing. I was probably somewhere in the middle.

So, Sex, Lies & Wedding Bells wasn’t all it could have been, or all it should be.

Fast-forward to 2014. I asked Elizabeth North of Dreamspinner if she was interested in taking a rewritten second edition of this book, and thankfully she did!

It was such a pleasure to revisit the characters in this book—Kieran and Jaxon, the town of Buckwheat Springs and its colorful inhabitants and build on the chemistry the characters (and the book) had.

If you’ve already read the first edition, please give the new version a try. There’s a lot of new scenes, more backstory and Jaxon POV scenes, and even more chemistry and banter between Jaxon and Kieran.

And you could have knocked me other with a feather boa when I found it was a USA Today recommendation, this time around.

If you’ve read both versions, please leave a comment and let me know what you think of the new one.

Pick up your own copy of the new and very  much improved edition:

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