A – Z |Tentacles With Benefits

June 17, 2020June 17, 2020 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ 9 Comments

So…there was this giveaway a while back… LOL. Tentacles, they’re not really my thing, I mean I grew up by the sea so I’ve done a whole lot of bathing throughout the years, but I freak out as soon as something touches me in the water. Should it turn out to be a tentacle, I’d died. Right there. On the spot.

But, the great things with books it that you can experience things in your mind without having to endanger your body, so when a link to a tentacle giveaway showed up in my feed on Facebook, I clicked it. I needed a T for my Title Challenge, why not make that T Tentacles with Benefits by Connor Crowe? And the cover looked fun! LOL

This is a 35 pages long story. Evan is getting a new job, working the night shift at the local aquarium. His boss is creepy, but Evan needs the money, so he ignores it. The first shift does not turn out the way he’d expected…

There are some unanswered questions here, maybe there’ll be a sequel later on giving us the answers, but the story serves its purpose. It’s a quick tentacle read filled with suckers and self-lubricating appendages – what can possibly go wrong?

Tentacles with Benefits A man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, even if that means taking a night watchman position at the local aquarium to pay the bills. Soon, Evan learns that the job comes with some very unique “benefits”…

A-Z Title Challenge 2020

A – All I See

B – Bearly Dating

C – Champagne Kisses

D – The Dark Horse

E – Everybody in the Place

G – A Gentle Shove of Human Kindness

H – Howl

I – I Will Meet You at Asphodel’s Pit

K – Killer Cassava!

L – Landslide

O – Out For Delivery

P – Purrfect Harmony

Q – Quill Me Now

S – Set Up

T – Tentacles with Benefits

W – Words

X – Xavier

I started a Pinterest board for M/M books sorted by title, if you need help finding a title on a certain letter.

Up North | Crazy Joe

June 12, 2020June 3, 2020 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ Leave a comment

Next week, Crazy Joe will be released, so I thought we’d have us a little peek at Jonas and Abe.

I wrote this, quite quickly and carelessly. I’d been working on Black Bird for what felt like forever, and I just wanted to finish something – fast and painlessly. Write what you know, they say, so I made the characters teachers, and I wrote. I wrote, manically, and when I was done, I sent it to my beta readers.

They liked it, a lot, but... maybe it could be a little longer, maybe there could be a little more depth. At first, I wasn’t keen on doing the job needed to be done, but I didn’t want to publish it either if it didn’t feel complete. So I took a few days off, and then I dove back in.

I’m so glad I listened to my girls, and actually did the work, instead of just hurrying to get something completed.

Crazy Joe is a story about how a run-in with your past can upset your present, how maybe old crushes never die, and how to move past some of your regrets. It’s a 17k, contemporary, M/M romance and the main characters are Abe Cooper and Jonas Raghnall.

You can pre-order Crazy Joe at JMS-Books and get 20% off.

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Abe Cooper is starting over. For fifteen years he’s lived the life that was expected of him, but not anymore. He’s packed up his things, bought himself a cabin in Northfield, and managed to secure a job at the local high school teaching gym and coaching the football team. But his new beginning didn’t include running into Crazy Joe on his first trip to the grocery store.

Jonas Raghnall has everything he needs—good friends and a job he loves. He’s worked hard to get over what happened sixteen years ago, but one run-in with his past and all the memories come flooding back. Seeing Abe Cooper, The Abe Cooper, sets everything out of balance.

Abe had pictured a fresh start with no ties to his past, but now that Jonas is there, he wants nothing more than to be close to the man who had butterflies filling his belly when he was in high school. Jonas doesn’t want to come face to face with his past, but if he sees Abe every day, it’s not really meeting up with your past, is it? It’s more like a date with your future.

A – Z | Killer Cassava!

June 9, 2020June 2, 2020 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ 10 Comments

I went hunting for a K on Amazon and came back with Killer Cassava!: A One-Hour Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Short Read (Gluten-Free Gay Mystery Book 1) by Joss Clark.

Ever since Corona hit, I’ve had a hard time reading. I’ve written some, but reading just doesn’t hold my attention, so I figured something short would be good. I found this among the one-hour reads on Amazon, and being gluten intolerant the title caught my attention.

This is a quick, funny read and every chapter ends with a recipe – gluten-free, of course! I would’ve wanted to know a bit more about the characters. Since I didn’t ‘know’ them, there was no way I could figure out who the murderer was, couldn’t even guess, and I do like to be able to at least guess.

And while it’s cute to have a guy talking to his cat, I kept wondering what the health authorities would have to say about Gregory bringing his cat into his bakery kitchen.

If you’re looking for romance, this isn’t it. It’s a cosy mystery, a story about a baker and his cat, and at one point he gazes longingly into the eyes of a police officer LOL. But, it was interesting enough to hold my attention. I mean, who doesn’t like murders??

books2read.com/KillerCassava

Killer Cassava! Gluten-Free Gay Mysteries

Gluten-Free Is Healthier, Right? Well, Sometimes It’s Lethal!

When Gregory sets up a gluten-free support group, he soon learns that some things are even more dangerous than bread and pasta.

Murder, for example.

Killer Cassava! is the first book in a promising new cozy mysteries series that follows the adventures of Gregory, a baker, gluten-free and celiac disease activist, and amateur sleuth. When a member of his gluten-free support group gets mysteriously poisoned, Gregory knows it’s time to act…