Cover Reveal | #PictaBook

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I feel like there are a lot of cover reveals these days, but can you guess what appeared in my inbox this morning? You guessed it! A cover! LOL

#Pictabook will be released on February 20th, and I told my Facebook group earlier today that it’s my favourite of all the stories I wrote in 2020. It is.

Phoenix and Jules are very dear to me – Jules in particular since he’s a kindred spirit LOL.

#Pictabook is part of an in-house call from JMS Books called #Love where all stories are about finding love online.

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The characters in the #Love stories can communicate with their partners on an existing platform or we could choose to make one up. I made one up. Think Goodreads, but without reviews. On PictaBook, people review their book with an image and hashtags – no text.

Pictabook logoI wrote a post back in October when I signed the contract, where you get a peek of how it works.

Are you ready to see the cover? I think it’s cute, and the colours almost match the PictaBook logo – almost LOL

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Jules Rose leads a quiet life working as a librarian. He’s happy to spend his spare time reading books and talking to his homicidal cat. What more could he wish for? But when his cozy Friday night is shattered by a friend request on his book community app, politeness gives him little choice but to accept. Jules doesn’t want to talk to anyone, but he can’t be rude. Besides, if he had to talk about something, books is the topic he’d pick.

Phoenix Ford is dyslexic and avoids everything that has to do with the written word, but when the colleague he’s trying to impress calls him stupid, he decides to convince the other man, he’s mistaken. All he needs is the right book to make him look smart, a perfect balance between intelligent and short. And who better to ask for help than a guy who loves books so much, he labeled one boner-worthy on a book app?

When Jules finds out Phoenix never has read a book from start to finish, he’s on a mission. He will find the right book, the book that will make Phoenix fall in love—with reading. Phoenix’s plan might have been to listen to the book Jules picked for him to impress his colleague, but that was before he got to know him. Talking about books is a sure way to Jules’ heart, but is it enough for him to agree to go on a date?

Cover Reveal | Be Still, My Heart

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Today, we have Holly Day here, and the funny thing is Holly has release day today, but that’s not the books she’ll be talking about. She’s here to show off the cover of her next release.


Thank you for having me here today, Ofelia. I’ll be back next week to talk about Hop Hop, Carrot Top that’s released today, but right now I wanted to focus on Be Still, My Heart.

I actually wrote Be Still, My Heart before I wrote Hop Hop, Carrot Top, but it’s a Valentine story, so February seemed the right month to release it.

I had a great time writing it, and when I got the cover I was so pleased – it matched that of Hop Hop, Carrot Top perfectly! Not that they are a series, I don’t plan to write any series.

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Be Still, My Heart is about Dimitri Petrov who works at the front desk at his sister’s dating agency – not because he wants to. All he wants it to stay at home and not see a living soul, but his sister won’t allow it.

And then we have Elian Hubert, an eccentric literary professor who at the last minute realises he needs a date for the Valentine dinner he’s going to. He completely misunderstands what it is the dating agency does, and ask Dimitri if he can rent a date for the evening. I love them both LOL.

Okay, are you ready to see the cover? *drum roll*

Here it is! Isn’t it pretty?

If you want to read an excerpt, visit my site.

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Blurb:

Four years ago, Dimitri Petrov had his leg blown off by a landmine while in military service. Suffering from PTSD, he doesn’t do crowds, and he doesn’t do people. If he had his way, he’d never leave his house at all. Dimitri’s sister, Irina, runs a dating agency, and despite that it would be better for business if they had a pretty woman working the front desk, Irina insists Dimitri’s the man for the job.

In a whirlwind of pink shirts, flapping hands, and outrageous flirting enters Elian Hubert. Elian needs a date. Invited to speak on love through time in fiction at a Valentine dinner, there is no way he’s showing up alone. When Dimitri tells him The Single Pursuit is unable to help on such short notice, Elian suggests Dimitri be his date.

Dimitri doesn’t do dates, and he doesn’t do dinners, but Elian’s made him happier in the last few minutes than anyone’s been able to do in years. He might not do Valentine’s, and he might not do gatherings, but maybe he can do Elian… a favor and accompany him to his presentation? If things go too badly, he can always hide behind a curtain and pretend he’s somewhere else.

About Holly:

According to Holly Day, no day should go by uncelebrated and all of them deserves a story. If she’ll have the time to write them remains to be seen. She lives in rural Sweden with a husband, four children, more pets than most, and wouldn’t last a day without coffee. 

Holly gets up at the crack of dawn most days of the week to write gay romance stories. She believes in equality in fiction and in real life. Diversity matters. Representation matters. Visibility matters. We can change the world one story at the time. 

Connect with Holly @ https://lnk.bio/xpae or visit her website @ hollydaywrites.wordpress.com 

LimFic and Queer Romance Ink

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I ended 2020 by signing up for LimFic.com (Liminal Fiction). I had decided not to, but then the lovely A.L. Lester was talking about it, so I thought why not. LimFic is like Queer Romance Ink, but for speculative fiction.

QRI, if you’re not familiar with them, is a site where authors list their books. If you subscribe to their newsletter, they’ll tell you about new releases, when there is a sale, and other things going on. Liminal does the same thing, but there all books are speculative fiction – paranormal, fantasy, sci-fi and horror.

The other day, I got around to list my books, and I realised something. I was scrolling through my paranormal and sci-fi stories, deciding which ones to add, and…

You think you know what you’re writing – at least most of the time LOL – but listing my books had me realising something.

  • It Doesn’t Translate – Fated Mated + Interspecies
  • Black Bird – Fated Mates + Interspecies
  • Soul Eater – Fated Mates + Interspecies
  • Mind Scrambler – Fated Mates + Interspecies
  • Elevator Pitch – Interspecies

Of the five stories I listed, four were fated mates and all of them interspecies! How come I didn’t know that that’s the kind of stories I write?? LOL

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On Queer Romance Ink you find queer books – all subgenres. You find my QRI profile here, and my LimFic profile here, if you want to check them out.