I took ‘lil q to lunch Saturday with some people who read and write M/M fiction. It was organized by the Metro DC Area Romance Readers group.  As you can see, she had a good time.  The weather was beautiful and she got to see up close one of her new favorite things – boats. (She’s so not getting one btw).  Since weekends are when I spend most of my time with ‘lil q this was a perfect setting – nice people, nice location, nice weather. (And lots of boats for her to point out to me.) Thanks to Susan for reserving the space and Julie for inviting us.

Purpose: By Andrew Q. Gordon – Release Date 6-21-13 In less than two week, Purpose will be released. As I mentioned when I first announced the date – I’m going to try a few different things. One of them is to post three ‘prequel’ short stories in place of excerpts. Two will be in the year to eighteen months after the Purpose finds Will. The third is about twenty-five years years at the first two and about fifteen before chapter 1 begins. These will expand on past events mentioned in the book. In addition to the these backstories, I’ll be giving away an eBook copy with each Pre-Release guest blog post. Each contest will last three days and will ask readers …

M.A. Church is my guest today serving up an excerpt from her new book – The Yellow Rope. The Yellow Rope Blurb: A cranky submissive… Luke Walker is tired. He spends long hours between his job as a teacher assistant at an elementary school and helping out his family at their restaurant. Coupled with the fact that his degree is going to waste, he’s discouraged and fatigued by too much work and endless southern heat, and not enough time spent with his live-in partner. An understanding Dom… Gage Holt has been on both sides of the fence. He believes that in order to be a good Dom, one has to understand being a sub. Unfortunately, he’s had some bad experiences …

The tackle from behind sent Blake tumbling toward the pitch. Even before he got to his feet, he knew who’d done it. “What the fuck was that, Matt?” Darryl stood inches from Matt. “Are you trying to take out our starting mid? “What?” Matt glared at Blake over Darryl’s shoulder. “He’s hiding behind you now?” “Fuck you, Hopkins.” Blake tried to lunge at his teammate, but a pair of hands pulled him back. “What the fuck’s going on?” Jason screamed inches from Blake’s ear.

Lizzy Baldwin from mylittlebookblog posted the original Ten Facts About My Love of Books– on Friday.  I told her she should collect the different ideas from people who follow her and did their own list. She thought it was a good idea, but then said I should do it to since it was my idea.  Yeah, me and my great ideas. But I did say I’d do it, so here goes. 1. My favorite genre is fantasy. 

Seems like a lifetime ago I signed the contract to have Purpose published, but I finally have a date and a cover. I’m still working out what I’m going to do regarding the release promotions, but I’m planning to try something a bit different.  In writing the book, I had some definite ideas about Will’s past. Things he did, events, milestones.  I don’t like flashbacks very much and to be honest they didn’t really fit anywhere as I was writing the book.  But they would still add depth and context to the story. So I’m going to be releasing some as part of the promotion and I’ll post them on my site as well as on various blog hops.  So check back …

The Last Grand Master is in its first ‘contest’ if you’ve read it and liked it please think about voting for it. Thanks

Am a guest on Sid Love’s blog today as part of his Giveaway Drive. While I’d like to say they saved the best for last, that would be a huge stretch given the other really talented authors who participated in the Drive. If you get a chance, check it out, answer the question and enter the giveaway. Also take a moment to read what the other authors who participated are doing. – AQG

Today – April 19, 2013, GLSEN sponsored a Day of Silence to bring attention to bullying among LGBTQ kids.  In an effort to help GLSEN raise awareness Dreamspinner Press encouraged it’s authors to write short ficlets using characters from their books participating in the Day of Silence.  Anyta and I submitted one for our book (Un)masked. In addition, Dreamspinner Press is donating 20% of all sales today to GLSEN.  So if you have a notion to buy any of my books or any others offered by Dreamspinner Press – today is a great day to do it as you will be helping GLSEN and its efforts to end bullying of LGBTQ teens.

“So how are you going to get here?” Blake really didn’t care that much except that he wanted to be sure Ethan had a ride before he hung up. Not that he wanted to go, but they’d been talking for a while now and he needed to meet his teammates for dinner “Keep your shorts on–no wait, take them off so you’ll be naked when I get there.”