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Reaching and Rewarding Queer Romance Readers

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Today we have a guest post from D.J. Jamison, one of the members of a new queer romance facebook group: Readers love freebies, and authors love reaching more readers. It’s a formula that you see all over — from blog tours to holiday giveaways to special events to celebrate book releases. The Queer Romance Freebie Fan Club takes that concept and gives it a regular home on Facebook. I’m one of 12 m/m romance authors who came together to create the group. It’s different from other m/m romance interest groups in that it’s not an open promo group. We created it specifically to connect with readers and to reward them … Read more

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Our Favorite Reads of the Week ~ Boy Meets Boy Reviews

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  Hey y’all!  We’re Boy Meets Boy Reviews, nice to meet ya!  Each Saturday, we’ll be sharing our favorite reads from the week.   So, without further ado…   Loose Cannon (The Woodbury Boys, #1) by Sidney Bell   Gripping Sidney Bell is a new to me author and-spoiler alert-I’m impressed with her writerly skills. Within the first few pages I began to feel the first tingles of that romancelandia magic spell being woven that I love so much. Loose Cannon is the first in The Woodbury Boys series and Church’s story. I’m not sure how many books are planned but his two friends from Woodbury Residential Center are Tobias and … Read more

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SERIES SPOTLIGHT: A Triad in Three Acts by Blaine D. Arden

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Author Name: Blaine D. Arden Book Name: A Triad in Three Acts Series: The Complete Forester Trilogy Page/Word Count: 95K words, 309 pages Categories: Fantasy/Paranormal/Sci-Fi, Gay Romance, Menage/Poly Romance, Mystery & Suspense Release Date: August 15, 2016 Cover: Simoné Buy Links: Blurb: “Your Path is muddy, Kelnaht, but don’t think avoiding the puddles will make it easier to travel.” Kelnaht, a cloud elf, is a truth seeker caught between love and faith, when a murder reveals an illicit affair between two tree elves he desires more than he can admit. Kelnaht’s former lover Ianys once betrayed him, and the shunned forester Taruif is not allowed to talk to anyone but … Read more

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SITE UPDATE: Next Up… Filtering

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Hey all, Time for the weekly check-in. 🙂 The site continues to grow – we just hit 270 authors, and are shooting toward 1,200 books in the directory. We’re also working on our ad campaign – we’ve started running regular Facebook ads, and are reaching out to various cons in the US and abroad to secure sponsorships and ads to get the word out. And site traffic will reach a new high this month, close to 7,700 unique visitors. We’re partnering with a number of review blogs to bring you great blog content, too. Filtering is the next big feature we’re looking to add on the site. It’s a bit … Read more

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How can readers help authors succeed?

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I’ve got three suggestions for you, and only one of them costs any money. Buy the book if you can afford it. Borrow it if you can’t. Did you to know that where and when you buy books is really important? Authors usually are paid a percentage of net sales, so the more the publisher gets, the more goes to the author. In general, publishers make the most from sales through their own website. Also, most publishers offer a discount or other incentives to pre-order the book, so you can save money. Clearly, that’s often the best way to buy the book. But there are other factors to consider. For … Read more

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DUELING REVIEWS: Incoming by A.E. Wasp

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Author Name: A.E. Wasp Book Name: Incoming Series: Veterans Affairs, Book #1 Page/Word Count: 261 pages, 66K words Categories: Contemporary Romance, Gay Romance Release Date: November 25, 2016 Publisher: Self-Published Cover: Jay Aheer Buy Links:   Blurb: What Dmitri Wellington wants is out – out of debt, out of his rundown farmhouse, and out of Red Deer, Colorado. Salvation beckons in the form of a job opportunity in California. What newly-discharged army veteran Troy Johnson wants is simply to lay down – lay down his weapon, lay down some roots, and lay down the memories that haunt him. Red Deer sounds like the perfect place to do it. Sparks fly … Read more

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Where We Are, and Where We’re Going

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Hey all, Time for the weekly check-in. 🙂 The site continues to grow – we just hit 250 authors, and will soon have 1,100 books in the directory. Last week, we updated to version four of the library plugin we use as our site foundation. There were a few small bugs with the upgrade, but in the end it resulted in a great speed bump on the site, We made a few more tweaks that helped as well, including adding pagination to the book pages, so you don’t have to load hundreds of books at a time. All of this means the site is now running much faster than it … Read more

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BOOK BLAST: A Single Heartbeat by Morgan Elektra

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Author Name: Morgan Elektra Book Name: A Single Heartbeat Page/Word Count: 46 pages, 14K words Categories: Bisexual Romance, Contemporary Romance, Erotica, Fantasy/Paranormal/Sci-Fi, Gay Romance Release Date: December 29, 2016 Publisher: MLR Press Cover:Lex Valentine Buy Links: Blurb: Nature made them adversaries, but one glance ignites a lust stronger than the need for blood. After 200 years, the nightlife has lost its allure for Reese. A leader among his kind, owner of a nightclub that serves as a banquet of nubile flesh and hot blood, he is bored out of his mind. His heart hasn’t stirred in over a century. Born to a line of vampire hunters, Will ventures out every … Read more