An Acquired Taste
Hi everyone. Thank you so much to Michael for inviting me
today. I’m celebrating the release of my new MM contemporary novella, Hearts
and Flour. In this quirky story,
a raw-food, vegan health food fanatic falls in love with a cupcake baker. A
cross-dressing cupcake baker.
I loved writing this story because I am an only slightly
reformed health-food crazy myself. At a young age, someone told me I’d feel
better if I didn’t eat beef and pork. I tried it, liked it, and that was thirty
years ago. In the intervening years, I’ve been totally vegan for long periods
of time, ate only raw food for big expanses, have done juice fasts and
watermelon cleanses. I own an infrared sauna, use a nutritionist/chiropractor
as my first line of health defense, and still walk a mile and a half several
mornings a week to get green juice and wheat grass for breakfast.
So I totally relate to my character, Micah Truveen, in Hearts
and Flour. Micah owns a health food restaurant and takeout and teaches
classes in raw food preparation. He’s passionate on the subject of living
enzymes and giving your body what it needs to recreate healthy cells. Then he
meets a guy who represents everything he thinks he hates -- white flour and
sugar! -- but he can’t help loving him. And just as Quentin, the baker, learns
to value Micah’s healthy perspective, Micah has to learn to compromise and
enjoy his life.
Have you ever tried wheat grass juice? It tastes and smells
like you’re chewing the lawn! You can buy it dried and in tablets, but real
aficionados espouse its value when consumed freshly juiced. Wild claims are
made for its benefits, but at the very least it has the action-packed vitamins
and minerals of any dark green vegetable.
If you’re ever somewhere you can try it, chug down an ounce. You’ll find
it’s an acquired taste! LOL.
Excerpt ADULT: HEARTS
AND FLOUR by Tara Lain; MM Contemporary; The Vegan and the Cupcake Baker
To Micah Truveen, raw, vegan food is his religion. So
when his devoted customers show up with white flour cupcakes, Micah could kill.
Then Micah comes home to find his boyfriend, Dharamaram, in bed with someone
else. He throws the rat out and agrees to go to his friend’s orgiastic
anti-Valentines party where he meets a gorgeous cross-dressing guy who gives
him a night to remember.
Southerner Quentin Darby wishes he could stop wearing
women’s clothes. He so wants to live up to his grandmother’s glowing opinion of
him, he’s never even told her he’s gay. And now there’s Micah who makes him
wish he could just be who he is. But Micah finds out that Quentin is the baker
responsible for the plague of cupcakes afflicting the community! And Dharmaram
adds a little blackmail to the mix. Can two hearts rise above the flour?
He
tightened his grip on Queen and pulled him to the hallway. The hall made a turn,
and Micah bumped into a guy leaning against the wall while another guy deep throated
his cock. Transfixed, he stared at the cock disappearing into that wet mouth
and then reappearing all shiny and dripping. Both men moaned and mewled as they
worked. Micah’s balls tightened and black dots floated in front of his eyes. It
felt like he was getting the blowjob. Could a human be this turned on and survive?
He
looked at Queen who stared just as fixedly with a little smile on his lips. His
blue eyes flicked up to Micah’s. “Do you like that?”
“Hell
yes.”
“My,
so do I. Want me to blow you?”
Keeerap.
In twenty-six years of being gay, he’d never gotten such a direct invitation.
“Yes.”
Queen
smiled like he’d just asked Micah to a garden party. He pulled on Micah’s hand,
skirted past the very involved couple, and peeked into the first bedroom they
came to.
“Unh,
unh, unh. Oh baby.”
Queen
looked up and smiled. “No privacy there.”
The
next bedroom door was closed and locked. They looked into the third and found
six guys on a king-size bed all sucking on each other. Micah trembled. If he
stuck his hands in his pants and jerked off nobody would even care. Except maybe
Queen.
The
beautiful guy stepped in front of Micah and pushed him against a closed door at
the end of the hall. “This place is busier than a billy goat’s ass in a pepper
patch. Looks like we don’t get privacy, sugah.” Queen dropped to his knees,
ripped down the zipper in Micah’s jeans, and had his throbbing, straining cock
out of its hidey-hole and into his mouth on the count of three.
“Holy
shit!”
“Ummmm.”
Queen sucked like a pool cleaner. Oh. My. God. No way Micah could last more
than a second. Never, never had he received head like this. Those red-painted
lips left pink stains on his cock as it slipped in and out of Queen’s mouth.
His tongue caressed the head and tickled the frenum as those lips did a vacuum
move on Micah’s shaft. Oh God, never let
it stop.
But
no. He didn’t want to come like this. He knew what he’d been missing and, damn,
he wanted it. He ran his hands through Queen’s silky hair. “Wait. Wait. Can I
fuck you? I’ve got condoms and lube.”
Queen’s
blue eyes looked up. He popped Micah’s cock from that fantastic mouth. “Most gentlemen
seem to prefer oral.”
“Yeah,
well I’d really love to fuck you if you’re into it. Otherwise, suck me and then
I’ll suck you.”
Queen
stood up, smoothing the red dress over a very prominent bulge. “You certain?”
Jeez.
Why did he want to explain? Micah pressed both hands to either side of Queen’s
beautiful face. “I don’t know if you care, but I’m not promiscuous. I’ve been
with one guy for a year and before that was a long dry spell. I just came to
this party because he cheated on me and we split. I was pissed off and wanted
to do something stupid. But the idea of fucking you is about the sexiest, most
incredible thing I’ve ever thought of. If you’ll have me.”
Queen
smiled. “And you’re about the sweetest thing I ever did see. In case you care, I’ve never been to one of
Yancy’s parties before. I’m new in town and mostly just wanted to wear my dress
somewhere safe. But I think getting fucked by you, darlin’, would be the best
thing ever.”
E-mail:
tara@taralain.com
Website: http://www.taralain.com
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Would you like to join our I Love Hearts and Flour Party? Grand Prize? A
Beautiful Cupcake Soap and Cherry Vanilla Sugar Scrub! Second Prize? A $5
Amazon GC . (Plus, there’s a book drawing--see below) Here’s what you do!
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Promo Hearts and Flour and/or Tara
Lain in some way. Tweet it, Post it on FB, Pin it, email to friends, Like the Amazon
Page, Post it on Google Plus, Share in a Goodreads group, add it to Shelfari,
etc. Be creative!
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Then put a comment below
saying what you did (with your email so I can find you!).
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You can enter AGAIN at Beautiful Boys Books -- if
you do another promo
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And there’s a special drawing
for a backlist book too if you post on your blog or review the book.
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Come to Beautiful Boys Books for all
the rules if you want. First, do your promo and post your comment below with
your email.
Tara Lain’s first erotic romance novel was published in
January of 2011. She’s now on book 17. Her best-selling novels have garnered
awards for Best Series of 2011, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Ménage, Best
LGBT Romance and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards.
In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm, and she carries
her promotional instincts into her writing career as well. She lives with her
soul-mate husband in Laguna Beach, California, a pretty seaside town where she
sets a lot of her books. Passionate
about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it
will say “Yes”!
5 comments:
Thank you for this post! I love Tara's work.
For the contest, I posted the link to Hearts and Flour at Amazon on my google plus page here:
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AquarianDancer at gmail dot com
Hi Karin-- Thank you so much! : )
I've been trying to eat healthier myself... heh, but I simply have to admit. I'm a meat girl. (not to mention junk food girl) But I do try to eat all the greens and in between's. It's only recently that I started eating a salad a day so... I just hope it sticks and with a little more exercise I can get the healthy bit to show results. lol...
Enjoyed the post! I'm sure I'll love reading the book! xD
Judi
arella3173_loveless@yahoo(dot)com
Hi Judi-- Yep, we have to try to eat well withing the context of what we enjoy and what gives us joy. My hero in Hearts and Flour finds that out too. : )
I like your FB page and I'm a fan and friend of yours on Goodreads.
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