Guest Author – Rory Ni Coileain: Blowing Smoke Blog Tour With Giveaway

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Jul 21, 2015

Guest Author – Rory Ni Coileain: Blowing Smoke Blog Tour With Giveaway

Today please welcome Rory Ni Coileain, author of BLOWING SMOKE. Rory and I passed each other several times this past weekend at Rainbow Con, but we never got to chat during the busy weekend. But she did agree to answer some questions and she is having a giveaway, so please read through to the end. So with that:

Guest Author, Rory Ni Coileain:

Hi, Rory, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.

Why do you write?

Um…. Because I can’t not write? *laughing* There are actually a couple of answers to that question. One is that as surprised as I was when my first story got accepted for publication, I’m starting to get used to the fact that hey, I’m an author. I’m what I’ve wanted to be ever since I can remember. But one thing about being an author is that you kind of have to keep writing, otherwise you used to be an author. And the other answer is that I enjoy opening doors. Getting readers of fantasy, or of het romance, to give m/m romance a try. I can’t change the whole world, can’t get rid of prejudice entirely, but I can make my little corner of it a better place to be, hopefully open a few eyes.

Which of your books was the most difficult to write?

The most recent one. *laughs* Seriously, it always feels like I’m doing a forty-mile forced march with a hundred-pound backpack when I’m working on a new book. Then I get to the end, and look back, and it all flows so nicely. And I say “Whoa, when did all this happen?”

Give us an insight into your main character. What does he do that is so special?

Lasair Faol is the Master of the Fade-hounds for the Royal court of the Demesne of Fire in the Fae Realm. He works with, raises, lives with these amazing animals, they’re like Irish wolfhounds on steroids. They grow to the size of deer, the pack alphas are the size of draught horses – carnivorous draught horses – and Lasair has an incredible rapport with them. Other Fae, and humans, well, not so much. He has issues.

How much research do you do for your books?

If I weren’t past the age of childbearing, I’d probably have a second child named Google Maps Street View, I love it that much. And I think I’m going to celebrate BLOWING SMOKE’s release by going out and doing some more research for Josh LaFontaine’s tattoo studio, Raging Art-On. I’m thinking something nice on my left ankle.

Who designs your covers?

The covers for this edition of the SoulShares were all done by Insatiable Designs. And I am so thrilled, I can’t tell you. I love them!

Blurb:

Lasair Faol, Master of the Fade-Hounds to the Royal court of the Demesne of Fire in the Fae Realm, has been exiled to the human world by the Princess Consort for failing to catch her son’s kidnapper. Bryce Newhouse, Greenwich Village investment banker, is universally loathed by all who know him. Generally, he’s perfectly cool with that, but he discovers what he’s been missing—literally—when he finds Lasair chained in his basement.

Bryce was supposed to receive half of Lasair’s soul at his birth, but thanks to the Fae of Purgatory, the Pattern—portal between the worlds—has been damaged, and Bryce’s soul arrived thirty-one years too late. Now the exiled Fae is the shunned human’s only hope of healing his broken past. And with the fate of two worlds riding on that healing, Lasair is going to have to overcome both his race’s innate mistrust of genuine emotion and his own very unFae awkwardness, to have any chance of reaching Bryce’s impenetrable heart.

Blowing Smoke; Book Five of the SoulShares Series.

(Series should be read in order.)

Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books

Cover Artist: Insatiable Designs

Release Date: July 15, 2015

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Excerpt:

Bryce straightened, stepping out of his trousers and nudging them aside with a foot. He blushed faintly, smiling a little, when he saw how intensely Lasair was watching him.

“I want more of that smile,” Lasair murmured, letting his leggings fall and drawing Bryce close.

“You’re looking at my smile?”

“You sound surprised.” Lasair captured both of their cocks in a curled hand and started a gentle pumping; the strange delight rippled through him, and he felt Bryce shudder with it at the same time.

“Most men would be looking somewhere else, under the circumstances.” Bryce’s blush deepened.

Their loss and I plan to eventually warred with one another, and in the end Lasair said neither; he simply took Bryce’s mouth again, urging him back toward the chair and following him down. He slid one hand down the underside of Bryce’s thigh, urging his leg up. Surely the human was limber enough to hook a leg over Lasair’s shoulder—

“Wait, wait, hold on.” Bryce stiffened, forcing Lasair back. “I don’t bareback on a first date, I don’t care what world you think you’re from.”

“You don’t… what?” Lasair blinked, frowned. How did horses suddenly get involved?

“No sex without a condom.” Apparently Lasair’s blank look was finally registering with Bryce. “Jesus. Are you going to tell me you don’t know what a condom is?”

“I don’t think I need to, since you’ve obviously already figured that out.”

Bryce’s mouth opened, closed; he shook his head, as if he had something else he wanted to say but was thinking better of it, and hooked his trousers with a bare foot.

Lasair’s brows arched as the human’s quick search through his trouser pockets yielded a small circle in a thin square wrapping. “I’m anxious to discover what that has to do with either horses or sex toys.”

“Horses?” Now it was Bryce’s turn to stare blankly.

Lasair took the little package away from Bryce and held it between thumb and forefinger, studying it. “You were the one who mentioned barebacking. I’d be glad to saddle you if you want, it wouldn’t be the first time, but I don’t see how you’d use this thing to—“

Bryce’s sudden laughter warmed Lasair all the way to his suddenly curled toes, flooding him with the joy he’d sought even as it brought his arousal back to its peak.

“You are fucking priceless, Rapunzel.” There was no hint of sarcasm in Bryce’s voice, no scorn, only laughter, and his smile was every bit as breathtaking as Lasair had imagined. Something had opened in the human, some barrier lowered. “Here, let me. Watch and learn.”

About the author:

Rory Ni Coileain has been writing almost as long as she’s been reading, and reading almost as long as she’s been talking. She majored in creative writing in college, back when Respectable Colleges didn’t offer such a major, so she designed it herself—being careful to ensure that she never had to take a class before nine in the morning or take a Hemingway survey course.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa at the age of nineteen, sent off her first short story to an anthology being assembled by an author she idolized, received the kind of rejection letter that fuels decades of therapy, and found other things to do for the next thirty years or so, including nightclub singing, working as a volunteer lawyer for Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and studying ballet in New York City, until her stories grabbed her by the shirt collar and announced they were back.

Now she’s a legal editor, a soprano in her church choir and the St. Mark’s Cathedral Choral Society (unless they’re singing Mozart, because she’s decided that Mozart didn’t like sopranos very much), the mother of a teenaged son, Brony, and budding film-maker (all wrapped up in one amazing offspring), and amanuensis to a host of Fae, Gille Dubh, and shapeshifters who are all anxious to tell their stories, and some of whom aren’t very good at waiting their turns.

Where to find the author:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rory.nicoileain

Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/Soulshares

Twitter: @RoryNi

Blog: www.rorynicoileain.com