Giveaway & Guest post - 'Damned If You Do' Virtual Book Tour

Hi there! I’m Sarah Frantz, and author JL Merrow has been kind enough to let me join her on the virtual book tour for her latest paranormal romance series Damned If You Do. I’ve decided to share a little bit about why we at Riptide are so excited to release this great collection, and how it all came to be. I’ve also come bearing gifts—one lucky commenter will walk away with $10 to spend at Riptide Publishing! Share your thoughts below by midnight on Friday, June 28th to enter.

Last year, Aleks Voinov, one of the co-owners of Riptide, came back from the UK GLBT Meetup with the news that JL Merrow might want to publish with us. I immediately said I’d knife fight anyone for the

Review Trick of Time by J.L. Merrow

J.L. Merrow

Trick of Time

Carina Press, January 28, 2013 | 27,000 words

Author’s website | Goodreads | Buy book here

Backblurb:
A lover from another time

When Ted Ennis steps out the doors of the Criterion Theatre for a cigarette and finds himself in Victorian London, he begins to doubt his sanity. At first he thinks it's all a film set, and is sure that the strikingly handsome young man leaning against a lamppost must be the leading man…
What starts as a sordid transaction with a beautiful rent boy quickly turns into something much deeper, drawing him back again and again as he gets to know Jem and craves meaningful encounters with him.

Joint Review: Lashings of Sauce Anthology

UK MAT

Lashings of Sauce

JMS Books, July 22, 2012

Goodreads | Buy book here

Backblurb:
We Brits love our sauce, whether it's what we lash on our food, read on our seaside postcards, or write in our stories. Come and enjoy a buffet of tasty LGBTQ treats!
From marriages to reunions, via practical jokes and football matches, to weresloths and possibly the oddest Tarts and Vicars party in the world, join us as we celebrate the UK Meet in the best way we know: telling the story.

November releases I look forward to & List of current giveaways at RDB

While October has been a hot mess of fun and excitement, November is probably going to be a lot more quiet, cold and normal. For me, this hopefully means back to reading, reviewing and blogging. Finally! Those are the things I love doing the most and for which I had little to no time at all, the past few months (okay, more like the past half year). Especially reviewing is something I haven’t done in ages and I’m itching now to start doing that again.

A dear friend mockingly called me the ‘queen of guest reviews’ and she’s probably right, I definitely need to write some reviews myself again. This doesn’t mean there’s no room for guest reviews anymore of course. Au contraire! I continue posting Sharon’s and Lis’s reviews with the greatest pleasure and gratitude, although I think it isn’t fair nor accurate to call them ‘guest reviews’ any longer. *g*

Anyway, I hope to read and review a lot of books the coming months and here’s a few of the November releases I definitely look forward to.

	Wrangled and Tangled (Blacktop Cowboys #3) by Lorelei James Release Date: November 1 New in the Blacktop Cowboy series. Janie Fitzhugh and Abe Lawson have long been divorced and living apart. Now she's back in town, a changed woman-making cattleman Abe want to wrangle an invitation t...more
	Wight Mischief by J.L. Merrow Release Date: November 8 A stranger could light up his world...or drive him deeper into darkness. Will Golding needs a break from his usual routine, and he’s been looking forward to a holiday helping Baz, his friend-with-bene...more
	It's Not Shakespeare by Amy Lane Release Date: November 9 College professor James Richards is in a rut and feeling his age. He moved to northern California to escape heartbreak and humiliation, but so far the only good thing to happen to him has been his Bos...more
	A Chip in His Shoulder by L.A. Witt Release Date: November 14 “Contract killer” is a fitting job for a vampire, and it suits Liam just fine. Cast down from the wealth and status of the Sky for taking a human lover, Liam lurks in the poor and pollution-choked Gut...more
	Marathon Cowboys by Sarah Black Release Date: November 14 Jesse Clayton loves painting, his cowboy grandfather, and his life as an artist with a wild abandon that leaves scorch marks on everything he touches. Budding Navajo cartoonist Lorenzo Maryboy is a ha...more
	The Closer You Get (Distance Between Us #2) by L.A. Witt Release Date: November 15 The virgin isn’t the only one with something to lose... Self-described manwhore Kieran Frost is loving the single life. Two years after moving to Seattle, he still has his friends with benefits, Rhett...more
	Russell's Reversal (Lost Shifters, #14) by Stephani Hecht Release Date: November 15 Russell has always liked his men the same way he likes his sex: fast, hard, and without any emotional attachments. As leader of not only a pack of rogue Wolf shifters but also of almost every illegal ...more
	Texas Winter (Texas #2) by RJ Scott Release Date: November 19 Sequel to The Heart Of Texas... Riley’s past comes back to haunt him both professionally and personally. His dead brother left more than just bitter memories for Riley to deal wi...more
	Written Request by Kim Dare (Pushing the Envelope #3) Release Date: November 20 Some requests are easier to put down on paper than they are to say out loud to someone face to face. Especially if the man asking for something is someone like Scott—who can barely speak to Joe withou...more
	Honored Vow (Change of Heart #3) by Mary Calmes Release Date: November 21 Jin Rayne is still growing into his frightening new powers as a nekhene cat and his place as reah of Logan Church’s tribe when he learns that a sepat, an honor challenge, has been called. Logan, who h...more
	Touching Wood by Kim Dare Release Date: November 23 It’s been quite a while since Ross and his master, Harry, have had time to go down into their basement play room and have some fun together. That’s about to change. Everyone knows that t...more
	More Than Enough (More #2) by Shawn Lane Release Date: November 27 College freshman, Bart Smith, struggles with the day to day life of trying to keep his minor sister out of the range of their abusive father. He dreams of getting them both away once she turns eightee...more

Current Giveaways
Don’t forget to check out the current giveaways at Rarely Dusty Books. They all run until the end of this week. I’ll announce the winners on Sunday the 6th so be sure to leave your comments before then. Here are the links to the giveaway posts:

Guest post by Aleksandr Voinov: M/M in 2012 and beyond
Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win any backlist book of choice by Aleksandr Voinov (excluding Counterpunch and Dark Soul 1)!

Damon Suede's GayRomLit: A million magical moments
Leave a comment on this post for a chance at the First Wave Winner’s Choice --> Pick any one backlist book from Rachel Haimowitz, Aleksandr Voinov, L.A. Witt, Brita Addams, or Cat Grant (“Frontlist” books, i.e. Riptide releases and newest non-Riptide release, are excluded, as are the Courtland Chronicles).

Brita Addams’ GayRomLit Retreat Recollections
Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win any backlist book of choice by Brita Addams!

Bryl Tyne’s GayRomLit: Reflection of a con virgin
Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win your choice of Bryl Tyne’s Pull, At Day’s End, Beneath Me, Rite of Passage, Behind Blue Eyes, Tough Guy, Best Unspoken, Coin Operated Boy, Trey #3, The Secret Ingredient, and the Zagzagel Diaries!

Cat Grant’s GayRomLit: Do You Know What It Means to Visit New Orleans…
Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win your choice of Cat Grant’s Allegro Vivace, Sonata Appassionata, The First Real Thing (Icon Men #1), Appearing Nightly (Icon Men #2), A Fool for You (Icon Men #3), or Entangled Trio!

Rachel Haimowitz' Love Letter to GayRomLit

Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win any backlist book of choice (excluding Crescendo) by Rachel Haimowitz!

Good luck!

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