Backstage Boys: MMM Menage

If you're looking for a tender and HOT gay romance this weekend, here it is!

Backstage Boys was previously published as Behind the Scenes, but the cover I'd made for that book needed an overhaul (boy, did it ever!) and so I figured I'd rename it to in preparation for Excessica Publishing's new release of the book.

It's available now, so grab a copy of Backstage Boys today!

Backstage Boys

by G.R. Richards

When theatrical designer Brandon takes sewing whiz Matheus under his wing, the attraction is instantaneous. From their very first kiss, Matheus knows this relationship will get serious. After two years of working and living together as a married couple, Brandon is offered a too-good-to-be-true job designing for a summer festival. Matheus intends to go with him until he's offered Brandon's old job at the Studio theatre.

The marriage goes long-distance.

Just when Matheus misses his husband most, a flirtatious new assistant lands in his lap. Though he's tantalized, Matheus refuses cute Carver's advances. He takes his marriage vows seriously. But when Carver suggests "introducing a third into the relationship," Matheus weakens. Can true love be shared three ways?

EXCERPT

When I first set foot inside the hole-in-the-wall backspace called Studio Theatre, it was well after hours. During the day, the actors rehearsed. Early evening was the terrain of the sound and lighting designers. Brandon, the company’s multi-purpose design talent, usually took possession of the space around eight. Apparently, designers were relegated to working late into the night.

Brandon left the door propped open for me. When I crept inside on these big elephant trotters, I spotted him for the first time. The paint fumes hit me like reeking cloud of noxious gas as glorious Pink Martini played on a small stereo. Brandon stood on the stage, running a paint roller up and down the only unfinished wall. With outdated furniture in shades of harvest gold, his set looked like Archie Bunker’s living room.

“What play are we doing?” I asked, creeping from the raised audience down to the ground-level stage.

Brandon must have jumped three feet in the air before spinning on his heels, paint roller in hand.

You’d have laughed if you saw how he was dressed. He looked like an old-timey train conductor in his ridiculous denim coveralls, striped cap, and red bandana. All the same, my heart palpitated at the sight of his diminutive features and the dark stubble ensnaring his mouth like a soon-to-be-goatee. I’d never outgrown my baby fat, but Brandon stood tall and thin of frame.

He was my perfect complement.

I knew that from the start.

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We Men Will Play: Taboo M/M Erotica

I've got a new release for My Sexy Saturday. Ready for it? It's pretty taboo...

We Men Will Play is the story of Duncan and his barrel-chested, mustachioed stepdad, Ron. I advise you to let Nick Offerman narrate this tale to you. At least in your head. If you happen to know him, you might ask for a bedtime story?

Duncan and Ron can't wait for the rest of the family to get out of the damn house so they can go at each other. Stepfather and stepson, bear and twink. It's a great combination. This story is also very funny. So if you like comedy and illicit sex, this one's for you.

We Men Will Play by G.R. Richards

“Don’t,” Duncan said, trying to gather the strength to brush his stepfather’s wilful hands away. “Don’t, Ron. She’ll come back any minute.”

“No she won’t.” Hot breath, harsh hair. Ron burned his exposed skin. “Come on. We’ve been waiting for this.”

“Waiting…”

“Forever,” Ron said, pawing at Duncan’s board shorts.

“Not forever. Only since the last time they went away.” It sure felt like forever. “But you know what my mom’s like. She always forgets one thing and then she has to come back.”

“You worry too much,” Ron said, pulling down Duncan’s shorts.

The warm summer breeze coming through the kitchen door only strengthened Duncan’s wood. It felt weird to be naked in the kitchen, at least from the waist down, but Ron was such a commanding presence. Duncan would go along with whatever his stepdad wanted, even when he knew it was wrong.

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Happy Release Day to The Straight Roommate!

I wrote a book! A NEW book! Did I mention it's NEW? And it's a BOOK?

Yes, The Straight Roommate is both those things--new, and a book--and it's now available from our friends at Excessica Publishing!

If you love a gay erotic romance with heart, you're sure to enjoy this Valentine's Day book about a divorced country boy who moves to the big city to be closer to his young daughter.

Now, I'm not a fan of books that demonize ex-wives and I didn't want to write mine that way. That said, our country mouse Danny doesn't have the greatest relationship with his ex at the start of the book. She's blocking access to their daughter at every turn, and he's mondo frustrated, man! But when he discovers what's really going on in the background, his whole world changes in a night.

Oh yeah, and Danny lives with gay porn models. He's, you know, "The Straight Roommate"... or is he?

You knew that was coming.

When Danny the not-so-gay divorcé moves in with male models Miku and Sean, he quickly becomes known as The Straight Roommate. His ex-wife, Nanette, would be the first to tell you he isn’t as straight as he seems.

What happens when Sean and Miku’s fans beg them to catch Danny on camera with the infamous French Canadian straight-guy-deflowerer Guy DeFleur? Danny gets a look at Guy’s body...of work...and he’s seriously tempted. Nanette has a new man in her life. Maybe Danny should move on, too.

When the roommates schedule Danny’s date with destiny the same day as his daddy/daughter Valentine’s Day dinner, it’s a no-brainer. Danny only moved to the city to be closer to his little girl, Laura. Family comes first.

When Laura has a lot to say about her mother’s new boyfriend, Danny sees cause for concern. The only way the roommates will ever get their video made is by helping Danny save Nanette... before it’s too late!

A gay romance novel.

Get your digital copy or get it in print. The choice is yours!

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A Gay Holiday Box Set

This is a very special My Sexy Saturday, not only because it's so close to Christmas, but because today is the day you can snag my new box set, A Gay Holiday Box Set: Six Christmas and New Year’s Sexy Romance Shorts absolutely FREE at Amazon!

My Sexy Saturday features 7 words, 7 sentences or 7 paragraphs from a book or story. The following 7 sentences come from my story "On Top of the World" which you can read (free today!) in the new A Gay Holiday Box Set:

Brett snuck up the stairs, clutching the handrail, panting with exertion. It wasn’t often he climbed a dozen flights of stairs. When he rounded the bend toward the top of the building, something shifted, and Brett’s muscles locked. It was bigger than a breadbox.

It was the man in the red suit, sitting on the floor at the top of the stairs, reading a tattered BA Tortuga paperback.

“Holy Fuck!” Brett hollered, gripping the handrail. “Santa?”

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Mace Was Here: A Gay Zombie Romance Short

My old website has been shut down by the host, but luckily I've been able to salvage this blog post that's so near and dear to my heart. I wrote it last October, when my zombie romance was first released by Torquere Press. My contract is up, so I republished it myself. It's now available exclusively from Amazon.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. I want to share this story with you--the story behind the story. Here it is:

My zombie story “Mace Was Here” is dedicated to a woman I work with. Her name isn’t really Gloria, but that’s what we’ll call her, to protect the innocent.

It was probably two years ago that Gloria’s father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The family didn’t know what to think, because his symptoms were atypical. Or maybe “atypical” isn’t the right word. Maybe we just don’t hear about cases like his as often as we hear about…

Well, take my ex’s parents, for example. His father’s Alzheimer’s progressed rapidly, from mild forgetfulness to a full-blown case of not recognizing his three children. After his father died, his mother carved her own lonely path through Alzheimer’s. Hers was a quick progression, as well. Quiet and lost.

Gloria’s dad was a horse of a different color. He was lost, but not quiet. All his life he’d been a calm and friendly man. Suddenly, in his older years, he grew quarrelsome, consumed by rage, and then downright violent. He started hitting his wife. She was frightened and baffled, because this was not the man she’d married almost sixty years ago.

The family had no idea Alzheimer’s could play out like this. Gloria’s father was hospitalized after injuring himself. In hospital, he had to be restrained after attacking a nurse.

A social worker became involved, but Gloria’s mother lost hope fast. What could she do? She couldn’t lock him away—he was her husband, for Christ’s sake. But she couldn’t live with a man who posed such her such imminent physical danger.

Ultimately, the family got him into a long-term care facility, which seemed to be the best option. It didn’t take long for the violent symptoms of his disease to surface again, and the family was asked to find him a more suitable residence. He died before arrangements could be made.

Gloria’s parents provided the inspiration for “Mace Was Here.” That probably sounds weird or perhaps even insensitive, but every time I reflected on their ordeal, I thought about zombies. Gloria’s father was a person, not a monster, and yet the people who knew him only as a violent patient probably didn’t get much glimpse at his humanity.

In my story, Nathan can’t let go of his zombified boyfriend. He can’t hand Mace over to a system that will see him solely as his disease. He doesn’t trust anyone but himself to look at the love of his life and remember that, although there isn’t much evidence of the man he used to be, “Mace Was Here.”

As for Gloria, days after her father’s death, her mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Gloria's mother died fewer than fourteen days after her husband.

Sometimes the true stories are the most heartrending.

On that note, don't you want to run right out and buy a zombie romance? If you answered yes, and you want to find out how a sad story like this can translate into paranormal fiction, you can purchase a copy of my story "Mace Was Here" from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJJOI64 or Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00PJJOI64

New Cover for Banging the Sticky Summer Caged Boy Band!

Sticky Summer Shorts, Caged and Contused, Banging the Boy Band Gay Erotica Box Set

Three gay erotica anthologies in one box set! Sixteen explicit stories of guys getting off!

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