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Word Count Goal: 10,000
Current Word Count: 11,585
I finished chapter five!!! Honestly I’m living for the progress I’m making.
Also, I guess since it’s the last day of September, I should talk about what I’ll be doing next month. I’m going to shoot for at least 15,000 words in Secret Santa, and I’m also going to try doing one of those short stories every day challenges for October, so we’ll see how that goes.
September Word Count Goal: 10,000
Current Word Count: 10,118
So, chapter four is done and my word count goal has been met! Yay!
Anyway, this chapter had a sleepy cuddlefest, so needless to say it’s cute as hell!
Yeah that’s right, ya’ll get more excerpts of Secret Santa! Thank @ekinsellaauthor (who I love, seriously, she’s great and her WIP is the cutest shit on this planet omg seriously I can’t say that enough!!!) who tagged me!
My words were sweet, deep, and blue.
Sweet
Excerpt from Chapter One
“How the hell could he hurt me, or any of us for that matter? He’s in two of my classes, and is super nice to everyone.” Lyon looked more done than angry.
At this, Derek laughed. “He seduces guys, most of the ones I’ve talked to that have been with him don’t even like guys that way. Maybe he likes you, if you think he’s sweet.”
“Lyon, honey, you’re too good for someone like him,” Valeri said. I felt Gavin nudge my side, so I reached for Lyon.
Deep
Excerpt from Chapter Four
“Hey, so one of my friends works in the food court at the shopping center,” Krystal began. I raised a brow. “And she said that she saw you with Olmond Joy there on Saturday.” I bit the inside of my cheek, thinking of how to respond. “You two aren’t… Like, a thing, right?”
“I was just helping him with an assignment, nothing too deep,” I said. Krystal nodded.
“Well still, I worry you’re too kind for your own good, you and Lyon. Olmond will mess you both up if you get too close to him.”
“We’ll be alright, we’re all adults,” I said with a forced smile. Would she please drop it?
“He knows how to take advantage of people, he makes you think he’s sweet to get in your pants.”
“Krystal, no one is getting in my pants for a long time,” I sighed. “Besides, I’m more a believer that someone is genuine until they prove me wrong.” Krystal’s mouth formed a thin line, but she stayed quiet after that.
Blue
Excerpt from Chapter One
“This if off topic, but my dog is being dumb and you might get a laugh out of this:” I tapped on the attachment he sent me, only to watch a familiar massive ball of black fur to roll back and forth on his back, panting and barking. I started giggling at the video, watching it loop a couple of times before closing it.
“He’s cute! That did make me laugh,” I said.
“Blue never fails to make me laugh either,” he said.
“His name is Blue???”
“Yeah, it confuses people, so I named him Blue,” Olmond explained. “Besides, the name the shelter gave him was dumb. Seriously, who names a dog Leonard? X(“
“I don’t know, but that sounds dumb,” I agreed. After I was sure the Androgel dried down, I sent everyone a text saying I was heading to bed, and plugging in my phone before wrapping myself up in my sheets and closing my eyes, trying to imagine the best way for the Winter Festival to play out for me before I fell asleep.
I’m tagging @sapphicauthor,@squirrel-princess,@dancingdarklingwrites, and @solomonrobert. Your words are sleep, just, and the.
Word Count: 7,406
Word Count Goal: 10,000
So I’ve finished chapter three! I’m really happy to be making so much progress. Lately I’ve been having more depressive moods but the fact I’m making so much progress is definitely a positive in my life. Also, if anyone’s curious, college is going well too!
The always spectacular @ekinsellaauthor tagged me for this, thank you!!!
Rules: Create a top 5 list for your MCs: top 5 things they like, favorite songs, powers, whatever.
Noel Blanche: Top 5 Favorite Things (In no particular order)
- A good movie
- His friends
- His car
- His family
- Catholic Youth Ministry
Olmond Joy: Top 5 Quotes
- “I fucking hate her, but the bitch is funny.”
- “Was I really holding your hand this entire time?”
- “Krystal’s a bitch like grass is green and I’m gay.”
- “Of course he’ll think you’re cute! Even without my amazing makeup, you’re cute as a button!”
- “The secret to life may not be in this video game, but I’m going to spend enough time on it that the secret might as well be in the end credits.”
Send me one of my OCs and their LI along with a number to my askbox, and I’ll answer the question!
For the couple:
1. What drew your character to their LI and vice versa?
2. What was the first moment that they knew they were in love with their LI?
3. When they are having a fight, what is it about and how do they deal with it?
4. Their favorite physical feature on each other?
5. How do they comfort each other when they are sad?
6. Who is the big spoon?
7. Favorite date activity?
8. What are their most prominent memories of each other?
9. How open are they with their feelings?
10. Do they have pet names for each other?
11. Do they have any inside jokes?
12. Do they have similar goals? If they clash, how do they deal?
13. How do they react at being away from each other?
14. Is their anything they associate with each other?
15. Does their view of themselves differ from their partner’s view?
16. Jealous at all?
17. Their ways of expressing their love.
18. Is their any way they disappoint each other?
19. Describe how they communicate
20. Did either person change at all, to be with their partner?
For the creator
21. Personally, do you think they are a good couple?
22. From the outside looking in, what is their dynamic like?
23. Did you tailor your OC for the other in the romance?
24. Is their any moment that happens between them that you know happens and just makes you melt?
25. Share any headcanons about their relationship.
26. How important is the romance in your OC’s overall story?
27. What makes you excited about their relationship?
28. Is their any similarities to your OC and LI’s relationship to one you have had IRL?
29. What are your favorite moments that happen between them?
30. How does their love change as they get older?
31. Share anything you would like about the couple!
Omg please send me some asks for this, I beg you!!!
@gloriawriting tagged me and I need a bit of positivity right now, so here we go!
Rules: List five things that make you happy, and tag 10 people to do the same.
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Honestly who isn’t gay for Sidon?)
- Cuddling
- A bangin song, i.e. thisandthis (Jonathon Young has been my guy for the past few months, his covers are amazing!!!)
- Outer space
- Writing my current WIP! (It’s so gay and cute, these boys make me so happy!!!)
Tagging:@sapphicauthor@squirrel-princess@dancingdarklingwrites@avi-burton-writing@priyaele@ekinsellaauthor@danafaithwriting@solomonrobert and@kira-desomma
I’m participating in #LGBTQWip on Twitter, so if you want to hear a bit about my current WIP, feel free to follow me on Twitter!!! My handle’s @writethegalaxy.
(Also, I’ll be doing a master post on tumblr at the end of the month with all the prompts and what my responses were, so if you don’t have a twitter, don’t worry!)
August Word Court Goal: 10,000
Current Word Count: 5,095
I’ve finished chapter two! Also, I’m now in college, which is so exciting, and while I don’t have as much free time as I used to, I have a schedule again, which makes me much more confident in my ability to get shit done, so yay!
August Word Court Goal: 10,000
Current Word Count: 2,897
I’ve been adding details to my outline as I write, and I’ve finished chapter one. My little mini goal inside my goal (goalception?) is to finish chapter two before I move into college in literally a week.
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You only die once. Unless you’re Rami.
He’s done that a couple times too many, and the last one really didn’t stick.
Rami has been a vampire for a little more than a year, and things aren’t great. They aren’t really anything. Rami’s existence is solitary. Empty. Unfulfilled. And he can’t be sure why, or how to fix it, because no one has explained to him how to be a vampire. His brief stint at a facility or people–well, former people–like him resulted in Rami biting and nearly killing his caretaker, Sage. His time there, in his memory, is nothing but a stretch of terror, hunger, confusion, and violence.
Then on Halloween, the one night of the year Rami doesn’t have to worry so much about hiding who–well, what–he is, he stumbles into a little shop and there he is. Sage. Who doesn’t remember Rami at all, so everything should be fine. Except Sage is a witch who knows about secret, magical doors to secret, magical raves full of things that go bump in the night and the humans who want to be near them. Sage’s memory isn’t quite as wiped as everyone thought. His free will isnt quite his own. He also isn’t as delicate as he seems. And he’s not interested in staying away from Rami.
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Sometimes a vampire falls in love with his human best friend. Sometimes they go to a karaoke bar and the vampire pines about it. It happens.
A vampire from the wrong side of town. A monster hunter with a golden voice. A man-eater on the loose.
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The ongoing misadventures of a vampire, a monster hunter, and their unlikely paranormal romance.
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Vampire/human romance
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On the night of an eclipse, four demigods stand far below the marrow of their cathedral in the dark, marking the points on a compass.
Their gods stand each to their left. Below them, carved into the secret bones of Sacrum, is a diagram. Holy scripts etch into curving, curling twists and circles, angles intersecting and branching out to form something akin to a heart or an eight-spoked wheel made of sacred rituals. The deities stand naked, the still air shuddering around them with power. The floor beneath them begins to grow pale with divinity, and begins to light the chamber.
It is as though a step-well has been inverted, as though a hollowed-out ziggurat or pyramid had been placed here, at the heart of the city and deep below it. The floor is bone—not Palestone, but true bone, thrumming with the remnants of grace. The cistern itself is slick, black obsidian. The light does not illuminate the full height of the ritual chamber, but the shadow of a being can be seen in the shape of formless darkness against empty shadowed air, at the absolute zenith. It sits cross-legged and inverted, and its hands raise up above its head, palms cupped towards the floor below.
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It’s June, which means I’m addressing beta reader feedback for A Rival Most Vial! Shout-out to my beta readers- your feedback was so, so helpful!
(still looking for sensitivity readers for Dawn and Ambrose- I thought I had a few leads, but they haven’t responded, unfortunately)
anyway, to celebrate, here’s a snippet from draft 2!
293 words, no tw/cw.
“Still need some dried lavender?” Grim grunted from outside the door. Eli looked up and wiped his hands on his apron.
“Yes! Should only need two ounces, if you’re willing…” He took the bottle from the orc, tossed a pinch of lavender on the scale. Deemed it good enough, handed the bottle back. As he moved, he caught a glimpse of the Griffin’s Claw past Grim’s shoulder. Quiet as ever, no lights flickering in the second-level flat. “Hey, while you’re here…does Ambrose usually do that?”
“Do what?” Grim pocketed the bottle.
“Hole himself up in his shop,” Eli said. “You see, I might have offended him the other night—”
Grim laughed at that—a barking sound that made Eli jump in surprise. “Valenz, the very idea of a networking night offends him.” They waved a jeweled hand. “The man’s probably just brewing something.”
The way Grim said it didn’t inspire any relief in Eli, and when Ambrose emerged a day later to set up his new window display, Eli saw his instincts had been right.
“Hey.” An elven adventurer by the healing potions nudged his friend and jerked his head over towards the Griffin’s Claw. “You see what that place has got?”
His friend, strapped all over with knives, shrugged. “No.”
“Psychic resistance potions.”
“What level?”
“Eight.”
Eli’s stomach flipped, and the knife friend nearly dropped the vial he was inspecting. “No.”
“Yes.”
“But if we get that cairn cat license—”
“I know, man. Looks like he only has a few bottles left. You wanna head over?”
And off they went, hurrying over to the Griffin’s Claw to ogle over the turquoise potions sparkling in the window.
Eli could feel the red ink in his ledger burning a hole through the shelf.
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Chapter 7 Excerpt
“I’ll take the couch tonight. You can take my bed,” I say as I close the door to the spare room and shove a towel down at the bottom, to keep the cold air out.
“Absolutely not. I’ll take the couch.”
I’m pretty tired of fighting him on this shit. It’s my house. I turn to him and drop my palms down onto his shoulders. His eyes go wide.
“Beckett, just take the fucking bed and quit arguing with me.”
He tries glaring at me, but dissolves almost immediately into snorting laughter. “Okay, okay, fine.”
I grab my pillow and settle down. This couch is about a hundred years old and lumpy in odd places. I’m glad Beckett’s not sleeping on it again. Two nights in a row on this thing would be torture.
“You’ll want to leave the door cracked, otherwise it gets pretty cold in there,” I advise.
The firelight is getting dim, but I can still see Beckett lingering in the doorway. He looks inside my room at the bed, then back at me.
Then he says, with a casual shrug, “Just come sleep in here with me.”
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Another queer historical romance writer who always does his research! Sebastian Nothwell has three main historical romance books: Mr. Warren’s ProfessionandHold Fast are both m/m rich-poor, opposites attract romances; and The Haunting of Heatherhurst Hall is an f/f gothic romance between a heartbroken heiress and the sister of her husband (don’t worry; it’s not really cheating since the married couple aren’t actually romantically involved).
I love Nothwell’s books because they’re long, immersive, historically-sound, fun, and soap-opera dramatic. There are tons of loveable side characters, epic family feuds, hilarious dialogue, and a focus on working-class or middle-class heroes (when most books just feature nobility).
My favorite so far is Hold Fast but all are good and highly recommended.
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Mr Warren’s Profession is a gay Victorian cross-class romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Sunday Snippet from my gay Victorian romance, Mr Warren’s Profession!
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“Terribly sorry about all this subterfuge, sir,” said Charles as he led a bewildered Aubrey up the stair.
“Quite all right,” Aubrey replied automatically. He waited for Charles to elaborate further, but Charles said nothing as he blazed a winding trial up the stair and down dark halls to one particular door amongst a half-dozen identical ones.
“In here, sir,” said Charles, holding it open for Aubrey.
It was a bedroom. Clearly Aubrey’s reputation had preceded him.
“If you would remove your jacket, sir,” Charles continued, doing nothing to change Aubrey’s assessment of the situation.
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Mr Warren’s Profession is a gay Victorian cross-class romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Thanks to Shu for this heartwarming reviewofOak King Holly King!
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This was just the kind of book I was looking for! The couple is adorable, and while they get together relatively quickly, it gives the book plenty of time to explore them once they’re in their relationship and how much they both trust and respect each other. One conflict comes up later in the book and the two of them begin a classic fight but where one starts talking about a dramatic sacrifice, the other isn’t letting them get away with it and they actually start working together before the chapter is up - and no one goes against the other’s back or some other stupid forced plotline! They have communication and they respect the other’s culture throughout their whole relationship as they learn more and more about each other’s lives.
Because the book is set in the mid 1800s, it creates a story introducing both England and the fey world as foreign to the reader so that you can explore both worlds from each character’s standpoint. Even though Shrike has been to the human world before, he hasn’t actually been there for a few centuries, so Victorian England is completely new to him as well. It does a good job of describing the harsh life of a gay character set in the time period while not beating you over the head with it, making you feel hope for Wren rather than despair that nothing’s going to be able to instantly change the world. They even added in some trans rep in a plot about how Victorian women could be treated as well.
[…] Overall an enchanting and relaxing love story wrapped up in a pretty straightforward plot that was executed brilliantly with tons of depth and plenty of time to expand upon the characters, letting them walk through the story on their own rather than having the plot drag them head-first into one stressful plot after the other. And isn’t that just the whole point of the tale - being given a destiny you reject and choosing to walk your own path around it?
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Oak King Holly King is a gay Victorian fae romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Thanks to sweets for this short’n’sweet reviewofOak King Holly King!
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Fantastic. An especially great read if you are a man that lies with men
I loved this book. I was very invested in the world and characters the author created. It deserves far more praise and attention. Please give it a read!
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Oak King Holly King is a gay Victorian fae romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Sunday Snippet from my gay Victorian cross-class romance, Mr Warren’s Profession!
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Mr Althorp nodded smartly, satisfied. “You’re quite welcome, Aubrey. That is, if I may call you Aubrey?”
Aubrey gave a start at the first utterance of his Christian name. In Mr Althorp’s aristocratic accent, it carried echoes of Aubrey’s fantasies. But a twinge of bitterness followed. Of course Mr Althorp might presume to call him Aubrey. It was Mr Althorp’s right as his employer and social superior. He could call him anything he liked—clerk, boy, you there, and a half-dozen ruder terms—and Aubrey would be obliged to answer.
By the second time Mr Althorp said his name, Aubrey had recovered his composure enough to respond with minimal venom. “As it suits you, sir.”
“Lindsey,” said Mr Althorp.
Aubrey allowed himself a confused frown. “Beg pardon, sir?”
“You must call me Lindsey. That is, if I’m to call you Aubrey. It’s only fair.”
It took a concentrated effort on Aubrey’s part to keep his jaw from dropping open. Words failed him. He could only stare.
Mr Althorp, meanwhile, seemed blissfully unaware he’d said anything out of the ordinary. He maintained his placid smile as Aubrey stared in silence, his mind chugging along like an overworked engine to try and to understand what the deuce was happening. His heart beat faster, his pulse reverberating through the calling card case in his pocket.
“Very well,” said Aubrey. Then he added, “Lindsey.”
Lindsey’s smile broadened into a grin.
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Mr Warren’s Profession is a gay Victorian cross-class romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Thanks to Caz for this delightful reviewofMr Warren’s Profession!
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For the Tales of Old prompt, I went for the obvious and picked up an historical romance I’ve been meaning to read for ages. Mr. Warren’s Profession is set at the end of the nineteenth century and is as much about the difficulties of two people from very different ends of the social spectrum being together as it is about the problems inherent in a relationship between two men at that time. It’s well written – despite a few Americanisms – and obviously well-researched, the wealth of background detail carefully integrated into the story in order to create a wonderfully strong sense of time and place.
Aubrey Warren works as a clerk at a textile mill in Manchester. He’s very good at his job, extremely diligent and hard-working – and used to doing the work of two since the other office clerk is lazy and only has the job because of his family connections. But Aubrey is at least content – and doesn’t expect happiness. He’s come from nothing – he was brought up in the workhouse – to a responsible position that provides him with income enough to live decently, if not well, and has dreams of one day becoming an engineer. His quiet and unassuming life is suddenly blown apart by the appearance of Lindsey Althorp, the son of a baronet, who has won the mill in a card game, and who actually takes an interest in the place, much to Aubrey’s surprise.
Lindsey had no idea of becoming involved in the business of the mill, but that changes the moment he lays eyes on the beautiful, dark-eyed clerk sitting at a desk in the office and is immediately smitten. It’s a defining moment for Lindsey; for the first time in his life, he feels a true and strong desire for another person, and like a bolt from the blue, it crystallises the truth – that he is, and always has been, attracted to men. He’s well aware that’s something that must be hidden, but in the first flush of infatuation, in his overwhelming desire to see and spend time with Aubrey, Lindsey behaves less than discreetly – requesting several tours of the factory and anything else he can think of that will put him into Aubrey’s company.
While Aubrey is every bit as attracted to Lindsey as Lindsey is to him, he tries hard to distance himself, and it’s easy to understand why. He knows full well that Lindsey’s marked attention to him could have serious repercussions and knows how easy it would be for him to lose even the little he has should anyone suspect where his interest lies. The precariousness of his situation as someone of lower social standing, without family or other support system is well articulated and well-contrasted with Lindsey’s; a relationship with another man would be risky for both of them, but Lindsey has the ‘safety net’ of family, wealth and title that Aubrey does not. But Lindsey’s warmth, enthusiasm and sheer joy in their connection are hard to resist; it’s been a long time since he’s allowed himself to feel just about anything – and before long, Aubrey can’t find it in him to deny himself the happiness he longs for.
[…] Mr. Warren’s Profession is an enjoyable historical romance filled with interesting period detail, and Aubrey and Lindsey are a likeable couple who are easy to root for. I really enjoyed their growth as characters and as a couple, together with the story’s focus on their deepening emotional connection and how they surmount the obstacles on their path to happiness. If you’ve enjoyed books by KJ Charles and Joanna Chambers, I’d definitely suggest giving this one a try.
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Mr Warren’s Profession is a gay Victorian cross-class romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Sunday Snippet from my gay Victorian cross-class romance, Mr Warren’s Profession!
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Lindsey stared.
Mr Warren, appearing scarcely older than Lindsey himself, stood a good head shorter. His heart-shaped face held a small, sharp nose, Cupid’s-bow lips, and a spellbinding pair of large, dark, half-lidded eyes. He wore a black wool suit, which offset the china white of his skin as much as it matched the ebony gleam of his hair, combed back to reveal a high, intelligent forehead.
“Sir,” said Mr Warren in a tone as mechanical as their surroundings. He gave Lindsey a clockwork-sharp nod.
Lindsey hardly heard him, though his hind-brain noted the gesture and may have responded in kind. Alternatively, he might have continued staring at Mr Warren with parted lips and furrowed brow. He couldn’t say for certain.
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Mr Warren’s Profession is a gay Victorian cross-class romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Thanks to woze @nymphelineforthis delightful reviewofOak King Holly King!
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** spoiler alert ** I love so many things about this author’s writing: their attention to historic detail, the way readers get to revel in characters’ desires and thought processes, their world-building. And all of those elements are here (ESPECIALLY the world-building)… but what I wasn’t expecting out of this book was the whole-hearted embrace of all the different stages of falling in love. This book doesn’t follow the stereotypical beats of a romance novel; the focus is not on the burn of yearning and misunderstanding, but of the triumph of “us against the world.” The lovers–and, by extension, we–are allowed to be happy, in so many different ways. There is struggle, there is hate–but always, always we fight together. And there are so many different reclamations of identity throughout this story that give true meaning and vindication to the struggles. I wish more novels took this approach.
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Oak King Holly King is a gay Victorian fae romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Thanks to TurtleMaster for this short’n’sweet reviewofOak King Holly King!
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Please read this book. I loved every single character. It made me smile, cry and rejoice. Best book I’ve read all year.
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Oak King Holly King is a gay Victorian fae romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Sunday Snippet from my gay Victorian cross-class romance, Mr Warren’s Profession!
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“I would be delighted,” said Lindsey, “if you would do me the honour of accompanying me to the theatre.”
Aubrey felt a slight pressure on his thigh. He glanced down to find Lindsey’s hand upon it.
He buried his initial reaction of wild, inappropriate glee deep down where Lindsey would never see it. Yet while he could hide his joy from the outside world, he couldn’t escape it within the confines of his own mind. His imagination presented a whirlwind of vignettes—Lindsey’s fingers brushing the arm of his jacket as they walked to the theatre; once inside, Aubrey taking advantage of the darkness to rest his hand in Lindsey’s lap; he and Lindsey sharing a cab home after the show, Lindsey undoing the buttons of his waistcoat, Lindsey’s mouth on his throat, Lindsey straddling him, Lindsey—
At present, Lindsey’s hand remained on his thigh. Aubrey reined in his fantasies, lest Lindsey encounter more than he’d expected there.
Or perhaps precisely what he’d expected.
Aubrey swallowed hard. Regardless of his tempting offer, Lindsey remained Aubrey’s superior. If Lindsey tired of his companionship, Aubrey would be tossed back in the gutter. The alternate possibility, that Aubrey’s own interest would wane, and Lindsey would demand continued affection as a condition of his employment, didn’t sound any more appealing. And if by some miracle a third path appeared, as the stupider parts of Aubrey’s brain hoped, wherein he and Lindsey remained inseparable in mutual bliss until the end of their days, Aubrey couldn’t conceive of a world in which he became anything more than Lindsey’s pet clerk, a filthy little secret. No. He’d moved on from that role long ago. He had no intention of returning to it now.
Then again, considering all he’d accepted from Lindsey, it looked as if he’d returned to it already.
Realising this uncomfortable truth left Aubrey with only one respectable option. He took a deep breath, gathering courage along with air, and spoke.
“Mr Althorp, I am not entirely comfortable with the position of your hand.”
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Mr Warren’s Profession is a gay Victorian cross-class romance, available now wherever fine books are found!
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Thanks to Caitlin for this short’n’sweet reviewofOak King Holly King!
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I loved every word. A true fairy tale, the sweetest romance woven through a story that spans two worlds.
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Thanks to SNik for this heartwarming reviewofOak King Holly King!
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Paranormal fantasy adventure. Wren works as a clerk in Victorian London when he is approached for help by the Butcher of Blackthorn and is drawn into the fae realm to aid Butcher in surviving his duty as the Oak King. Beautifully descriptive world immersion as Wren travels back and forth from London to the fae realm, spending time with Butcher, both men learning about each other’s lives and introducing Wren to a whole world of people and places he only ever imagined from stories. I especially appreciated Wren’s easy ability to accept all the new experiences with the fae, and especially Butcher’s steady affection and attraction to Wren. A love story with adventure and surprises, and a large and interesting secondary cast of characters. Honestly, I could have kept reading more and more about the fae realm and the constancy, commitment and caring between Butcher and Wren. 4.25.
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Thanks to arthur for this delightful reviewofOak King Holly King!
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hey! suprisingly good! i havent read a huge amount of fae romances bc i know they can sometimes be a bit. iffy. but this was fun.
i liked the world building of the fae relm and i loved Shrike so much. he is such an unintentionally funny character, really well written and just out of the ordinary enough that mortal people think hes like a bit weird, but not so much hes like a complete freak. helped by the fact he is so solemn and serious. i love him.
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Thanks to Linda for this short’n’sweet reviewofOak King Holly King!
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Well done indeed , a most enjoyable read.
Thank you very much, I throughly enjoyed this book. More Please.
Linda
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Thanks to Taran for this heartwarming reviewofOak King Holly King!
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What a remarkable book. I devoured it in the span of 3 days, only interrupted by having to work.
All I have ever wanted was queer fantasy. This book was so fun to read. I enjoyed that it took itself serious and it was equally enjoyable to read. The authors writing style is very captivating.
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Thanks to Mr Toad for this thoughtful reviewofOak King Holly King!
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Though at times the story seemed to go on longer than expected with its endless daily commutes, it was worth the few sections that required patience. The world building was fascinating. The mysteries within the year long story were compelling and the journey to solve each of them were engaging. The ending had a solid payoff. In the grand scheme of things it was a worthwhile read that was both intriguing and imaginative.
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Sunday snippet from my gay Victorian fae romance, Oak King Holly King!
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Yet the second door proved not so unlocked as the first. Wren swore a blistering oath. He began patting down his coat, waistcoat, and trousers alike. These efforts produced a button-hook, but this didn’t satisfy him.
“Have you anything like a hairpin?” he asked Shrike. “Something long and thin, like a needle or—”
Shrike dipped his hand into his cloak pocket and produced a silver awl.
Wren raised an eyebrow. “That’ll do.”
Shrike dropped the awl into Wren’s outstretched palm. Wren crouched before the lock.
“I required the contents of my father’s wine-cellar to survive the holidays at home during my university years,” Wren explained as he probed the mechanism with button-hook and awl. “Neither he nor his butler felt inclined to furnish me with the key.”
Shrike, to whom it had not occurred to demand an explanation for such fortuitous skill in night-work, cocked his head as he watched Wren’s progress against the lock.
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