Read an Ebook Week Sale

March 4, 2020 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ Leave a comment

Right now, Smashwords is having their Read an Ebook Week Sale!

books Last I checked, there were more than 55.000 discounted books. Cool, ey? And while I can’t see how many of those that are LGBT, I through the offering was pretty good. (Just click ‘Read an Ebook Week Sale’ on the front page, and then scroll down to ‘Gay & Lesbian Fiction’ on the right side, and you’ll see all the books)

I’m terrible when it comes to sales. Either I buy loads of books that I then leave in my online library and forget I own or I tell myself that I’ll buy the books I want later. Then the next day I tell myself the same thing, and before you know it, the sale is over. But, when that happens, I at least don’t buy books only to forget about them.

I have a few stories in the sale, and they’ll stay in till March 7 when the sale ends.

Turning Wood – down to 2.24$
Pine Tree Mary – down to 2.99$
Legendary Loves Volume 1 – down to 3.00$
Nine Stones – down to 2.99$
Jaeger’s Lost and Found – down to 2.99$
It Doesn’t Translate – down to 2.24$
The Maddest of Men (ItKS book 1) – down to 2.24$
The Lords of Lettuce (ItKS book 2) – down to 2.24$

Happy reading!

A Gentle Shove of Human Kindness by Amy Lane

February 29, 2020February 1, 2020 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ 19 Comments

It’s been a long time since I read Amy Lane. I used to read her a lot, and she’s written some of my favourite books, so I don’t really know why I stopped – not a conscious decision. On today’s menu, we have A Gentle Shove of Human Kindness, and I admit I picked simply because the blurb said Gabriel would be on a seat at Starbucks. Don’t judge how I get my coffee kicks!

Gabriel is an angel who has forgotten why he should bother to save humans so he’s sent to Starbucks to observe and remember why, despite all the shitty things humans do, they’re worth protecting.

Usually, when I read Amy Lane I end up crying. This wasn’t that kind of story. We’re seeing the world through Gabriel as he watches Jamie, a barista with a bright smile, and the shy Ernie, slowly work up to set a time for a date with a bit of angelic interference. It’s sweet, but not much is happening.

Angels? Have you read many books with angels? I have to admit I haven’t read many at all – The Guild Hunter Series, of course, and some occasional other, but they’ve mostly been M/F books. The only M/M books I can think of at the top of my head is Into This River I Drown by T.J. Klune which had me crying buckets.

If you’re up for some angels with your coffee, this is an 18-pages freebie you can get through Amy Lane’s Prolific Works Page.

A Gentle Shove of Human Kindness This short story was originally published in the Dreamspinner Press Anthology ‘Grand Adventures’

Witness the Angel Gabriel.

a.k.a. “Heaven’s biggest prick”

Gabriel has been accused of the crime of hubris–and his sentence is to remember why angels protected humans in the first place. A permanent seat at Starbucks might be Gabriel’s idea of hell, but it’s there that he meets the irrepressible Jamie and wounded Ernie, and realizes that the human race might be worth saving after all.

It just needs a gentle shove of human kindness

Pipe Dreams by J.M. Snyder

February 21, 2020February 1, 2020 ~ Ofelia Gränd ~ 3 Comments

You know the fantasies people have (and porn lives off) about a hot handyman showing up at your doorstep? In Pipe Dreams by J.M. Snyder that handyman is a plumber LOL.

Paul Jacoby wakes up one morning to a clogged sink and a message his roommate leaves on the answering machine that the sink is blocked because Paul had been right, they didn’t have a garbage disposal.

I have to cut in here – I thought garbage disposals only existed in American horror movies and the occasional drama where the wife drops her wedding ring into those flesh-chopping knives hiding at the bottom of the sink. But, now I’ve googled and became a little wiser. It’s common in the U.S. but not in the rest of the world.

Okay, back to the story before you think Pipe Dreams is a horror story – it’s not! It’s a fun little tale about Paul opening the door for the plumber and come face to face with Ethan Randolph, his high school crush.

He then proceeds to help Ethan find his…ratchet.

Whatever you picture this story to be, you’re probably right LOL. It’s short, it’s fun, it’s hot. It’s just below 3k long, so even if you only have half a cup of coffee at hand, you’ll have time to read it.

books2read.com/PipeDreams

Pipe Dreams When Paul Jacoby opens the door to plumber Ethan Randolph, Paul’s memories and libido are instantly reawakened. Paul lusted after the captain of the basketball team in high school, but he was too shy to do anything about his attraction to Ethan back then.

Can he pluck up the courage this time to make his yearnings for the hunky Ethan a reality, or will his pipes — as well as his dreams — remain blocked?

Note: This story appears in the author’s anthology, Flashed!