Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Welcome back Tara Lain! CONTEST

Greetings readers! Please welcome my good friend and awesome author, Tara Lain with a promo and a contest!


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

Available at Amazon  ARe

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.”

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 Would you like to win in the I Love Hearts and Flour Blog Tour?



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!
·         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!
·         Then put a comment below saying what you did (with your email so I can find you!).
·        You can enter AGAIN at Beautiful Boys Books -- if you do another promo
·         And there’s a special drawing for a backlist book too if you post on your blog or review the book.
·          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:

AquarianDancer said...

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:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/107170144184658959582/posts/FLMLgeEzatA

AquarianDancer at gmail dot com

Tara Lain said...

Hi Karin-- Thank you so much! : )

Loveless3173 said...

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

Tara Lain said...

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. : )

Emily said...

I like your FB page and I'm a fan and friend of yours on Goodreads.