Author of Contemporary Gay Romance
Day 4 of the Cold Book Tour and we’re over at the Purple Rose Tea House getting a little serious with a talk about incarcerated LGBT youth. Did you know LGBT youth have a pipeline right into the prison system built especially for them? Cold is a fictional story about two men in prison, but the reality, which you’ll see in this post is much, much different for lgbt youth. (Trigger Warning)
Day 3 of the Blog Hop and over at LeAnn’s Book Reviews they dug deep into Cold and started asking questions about who, what, why, where and when. If you like back-story that never made it into the finished book, this is the post for you.
Don’t forget to leave a comment for the giveaway!
Day two of the tour and we’re over at Smoocher’s Voice. Carrie-Ann was kind enough to bring in a few ringers to help interview (interrogate) me about the new gay romance, Cold. 🙂
Don’t forget to leave a comment for the giveaway!
To celebrate the release of Cold we have a blog hop going on this week that’s a little different from your average online book tour. I have carefully selected our tours stops and worked with each blog owner to give you more character information, more back story, and a chance to win a FREE copy of Cold on every blog. Some of the posts may raise more questions. Some of the posts will give you hints about what’s coming next. And, for those of you who have already fallen for Lem… Well, you definitely won’t want to miss this event.
I’ll be blogging every day during this book tour so you don’t miss a single post, or a chance to win.
(Links will become active as the posts go live.)
May 21st – Smoocher’s Voice – Author Interview (Giveaway)
May 22nd – LeAnn’s Reviews – In-depth Back-story Questions (Giveaway)
May 23rd – Purple Rose Tea House – LGBT Youth in Prison (tie-in post)
May 24th – Attention Is Arbitrary – Character Interview w/ Lem (Giveaway)
As a special bonus, you can find an interview with me today over at
The Novel Approach.
International Day Against Homophobia and TransphobiaWelcome, today is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, and to celebrate hundreds of authors, publishers, and individuals have an extraordinary blog hop going on. There are prizes, information, and many personal stories about what homophobia is and what it does. All of this is a concerted effort to bring awareness to the plague of homophobia and hopefully, to one day bring it to an end. You will find links at the bottom of this post to direct you to other posts from blogs around the world. Enjoy, and help us spread the word. Don’t forget to leave a comment for a chance to win an e-book copy of my JUST released new gay romance novel, Cold.
I remember a young man I was dating from a conservative Christian family who lived in a small town in Alabama. Both his mother and sister knew he was gay. They loved him dearly but… [Read more…] about Hop Against Homophobia
Cold is finally here.Yes, we’re a little early. But allow me to introduce you to Lem and Anderson, two completely different men who have been thrust together in an environment from which they cannot escape.
To celebrate we will be having a blog hop starting next week with character insights, behind the scenes information, and hints about what’s coming up in book 2. (YES, there’s another book coming.) And throughout the month of May I’ll be posting around the internet with a few more tidbits for you to consider.
You can now download Cold from Amazon, AllRomanceEbooks, Smashwords and Kobo. iTunes and B&N will be available soon.
AND don’t forget, we have a GIVEAWAY going on right now over at Joyfully Jay.
(Links will become active as the posts go live.)
May 20th – It starts here on BrandonShire.com
May 21st – Smoocher’s Voice – Author Interview (Giveaway)
May 22nd – LeAnn’s Reviews – In-depth Back-story Questions (Giveaway)
May 23rd – Purple Rose Tea House – LGBT Youth in Prison (tie-in post) (Giveaway)
May 24th – Attention Is Arbitrary – Character Interview w/ Lem (Giveaway)
Today over at Joyfully Jay Reviews there is an exclusive excerpt of Cold.
Leave a comment to win a FREE e-book 
On Friday you’ll have another chance top win a FREE copy during the
Welcome friend and fellow author, Deanna DiLorenzo, to the blog with this special guest post about writing lesbian fiction.
When I first wrote my novel, Tell Me, I knew it took some risks. There is a certain formula that’s followed in lesbian fiction and it goes something like this:
My numbers may be off a little but anyone who has read enough lesbian fiction knows this is the basic formula we’ve come to expect, whether we actively seek it out or not.
But what happens when someone shakes up the formula a little? What happens when characters don’t fall into line and do what’s expected of them? Well, that’s when you end up with a book like Tell Me. [Read more…] about Taking Risks in Lesbian Fiction
As a young boy, my brother and I would play super heroes. I’d be the Flash, he’d be Batman. We’d save the world with our combined imaginations. That imagination also helped me write stories from a very young age. I had all but forgotten about it until I recently discovered some old writing from my preteen and teen years.
I also kept diaries. I lost those, however, to a “gay purging” fire after my first coming out at the age of seventeen, a few months before I headed west, to America, as an exchange student. There, encouraged by my English teacher, I took up writing again, a journal filled with teen angst and stories about saving the world, centaurs and other mythical creatures.
In 1991, inspired by hopeless love (he was straight), I wrote poetry and published my first book “Moments.” After that, it would take me nine years before I’d write again, and by that time I had gone nonfiction, publishing a book on e-learning in Swedish and in 2010, a management book, “Common Sense” in English. Oddly, majoring in literature had turned me away from reading and writing fiction, and traveling the globe on business for many years, didn’t help either. [Read more…] about Playing Superhero by LGBT Author Hans Hirschi
This is a national campaign designed to raise awareness and funds for local and national LGBT Organizations. As you know, here around the Shire we raise funds by donating 10% of the proceeds from our books to two organizations that work tirelessly to get homeless LGBT youth off the streets.
Both of these organizations are taking part in today’s event and you can donate to them at the links below. I would like to particularly emphasize that you take note of the Lost-n-Found page. On the right they have a donation list and it tells you exactly what just a few dollars can do and how much it can mean to a homeless kid.
Both organizations work toward the same goal, if you can, please give equally.
GLBT Advocacy & Youth and Lost-n-Found