I'm
very excited to announce the first annual WORDS OF PRIDE Giveaway! In honor of international Pride month, WoP focuses on LGBT fiction, presented in a powerful and proud way to readers who love them. Beginning from June 14th you can enter to win a book of choice from below. On the 28th we will draw not one, not two, but MULTIPLE winners! That's right!
And not only that, but the first drawn name will also win a $10 Amazon gift card!
So let's break that down.
What is this?
Words of Pride is an ebook and paperback giveaway focusing on LGBT centric titles. These titles feature lesbian, gay, trans*, bi, and even pansexual characters, in stories that may feature their sexuality/gender identity or simply highlight it. The point is that LGBT characters exist in fiction too, even though they can be difficult to find. WoP celebrates Pride month by introducing you to some of the best LGBT titles today.
What are the prizes?
Authors have donated either ebook or paperback (or both) titles. The first winner will also receive a $10 Amazon gift card to use as they wish.
How many winners will there be?
There will be at least one winner for every copy available. If your name is drawn, you will have 24 hours to claim a prize that is still available. At the moment there are 25 prizes so that means there will be at least 25 big winners!
That is to say, if your name is drawn, you get to select a title/bundle of your choosing. I will email you a list of remaining titles to choose from and you must get back to me within 24 hours which one you want, or you forfeit your prize and I'll move on to the next winner.
Who can enter?
Because many of the titles are erotic in nature, we're afraid we have to limit entrants to
adults of 18+ years of age. Neither this blog nor the authors involved are responsible for you lying about age. (Please don't lie about your age!)
Otherwise, any adult can enter! The paperbacks, however, will only be mailed to US addresses.
THIS IS SO AWESOME! HOW DO I ENTER?
Take thee to Rafflecopter!
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Rafflecopter will select the winners on the 28th.
Please not that by inputting your email address you are verifying that you will receive an email from me if you are a winner. You may also receive an email from the author of the book you've chosen in order to receive your prize. We will not, by any means, spam you.
I can barely contain myself!! What books are available?
All of the books available in the giveaway are listed below! Click on the cover to be taken to the book's Amazon page where you can sample it and read reviews.
Title: "Daisuki." (Ren'Ai Rensai, #1)
Author: Hildred Billings
Format: SIGNED Paperback (US Only.)
Genre: Erotic Romance
Type: Lesbian
Notes: None.
Blurb:
Aiko and Reina have been together for almost 20 years, yet one thing
remains unsaid between them: "Daisuki," or, "I love you." As they
approach their anniversary, their relationship comes to an impasse as
Aiko the Japanese housewife begins demanding "I love you" with a side of
marriage and romance.
But Reina doesn't understand complex
concepts like "love" or other heavy emotions. She's spent years
supporting her girlfriend via a soul-sucking salary job and tending to
their mutual needs in the bedroom. Isn't that sufficient? In a culture
demanding Reina choose between the "feminine" and the "masculine"
worlds, it's bad enough she's trying to find her role without Aiko
adding extra pressure.
Some words need not saying, but "I love
you" is about to destroy a relationship already surviving strange
side-lovers and even stranger exploits.
Title: "Daisuki." "Hatsukoi." and "Seikou." (Ren'Ai Rensai)
Author: Hildred Billings
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotic Romance
Type: Lesbian
Notes: This is a collection featuring the first three books in the series.
Blurb: Please see Amazon link.
Title: Measure of Devotion and Measure of Strength
Author: Ceathes Faron
Format: SIGNED Paperbacks (US Only) AND Ebooks (Two Winners)
Genre: Fantasy Love Story
Type: Gay
Notes: THESE BOOKS WILL BE AWARDED TOGETHER, whether in Ebook or paperback format. Yes, you can get both books at once! Also, Book 1 is available for FREE on Amazon!
Blurb:
Jason Wadsworth is finally headed to university. Leaving behind his
father's cattle ranch in favor of the posh, gaslit streets of Perdana,
Jason is determined to climb the social ladder and forget his country
roots. If only his father had gifted him with a more upscale slave.
Kale's
been a country slave his whole life. All he wants is to keep his head
down and live as comfortable an existence as possible. Unfortunately,
his dramatic master despises him and makes life difficult at every turn.
Humbled
by his first breakup, Jason grows to appreciate his ever-faithful slave
and soon discovers that Kale is everything he's ever wanted. Now he
needs to prove to Kale that his love is genuine.
Kale, meanwhile,
tries to convince himself that he simply feels the devotion of a slave
to his master, but his actions prove what his mind is unwilling to
accept: he's falling in love. When Jason's future happiness is in
jeopardy, Kale sets himself on a course to make Jason's dreams come
true, even if it means facing up to the fact that, for the first time in
his life, he loves someone else more than he loves himself.
Title: The Devil's Concubine (The Devil of Ponong, #1)
Author: Jill Braden
Format: Paperback (US Only) AND Ebook (Two Winners)
Genre: Fantasy Espionage
Type: Bisexual, Gender fluidity
Notes: None
Blurb:
QuiTai, ruthless concubine of Levapur’s mysterious crime lord, the
Devil, receives an unexpected invitation to cocktails with disgraced
Thampurian Kyam Zul. She doesn’t trust Kyam enough to drink anything he
pours, and won’t help him no matter how hard he begs – or threatens. But
when QuiTai’s ex-lover is murdered, Kyam is the only one who knows the
name of the killer, and he won’t tell QuiTai unless she helps him first.
The torpid back alleyways of Levapur’s tropical colony hide
more than lovers. There are things with claws, beings with venomous
fangs, and spies lurking in the jungle. Most of them want to keep their
secrets. One wants QuiTai dead.
Title: The Lure Of Dangerous Women
Author: Shanna Germain
Format: Paperback (US Only) AND Ebook (Two Winners)
Genre: Short Story Collection
Type: Lesbian
Notes: This is a short story collection featuring three stories centered around lesbians. The rest are about heterosexual relationships.
Blurb:
Dangerous women aren’t always the ones who carry guns
and take down the bad guys. Sometimes, the most dangerous women are the
ones we don’t even notice -- the sultry siren crooning in a smoky bar,
the innocent young girl twirling in her summer dress, the soft-shoed
nurse who helps the comatose.
In this collection, award-winning author Shanna Germain
gathers seven of her darkest, lushest fantasy and horror stories about
strong, smart women who know that danger is a matter of scale -- and of
which side you happen to be standing on.
Title: Bonds of Hate (The Invisible Chains, #1)
Author: Andrew Ashling
Format: Ebook
Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy
Type: Gay
Notes: None.
Blurb:
While the kingdom of
Ximerion is threatened at its southern border by a major power, the high king sends his two youngest sons, the half brothers
Anaxantis and
Ehandar,
as Lord Governors to the Northern Marches where minor raids by wild
barbarians are expected. Under the guidance of an old and trusted
general, the king hopes to keep the young princes far from the major
conflict in the south, while at the same time providing them with a
valuable learning experience. The estranged half brothers are rivals,
but soon they feel attracted to each other. As if this was not enough of
a complication, they begin to suspect that they were set up by their
own father. The result is a fierce struggle for power where the lines
between hate and love become almost indistinguishable and where nothing
is what it seems.
Title: Goodbye Blue Sky and Come Together (The Helicon Muses, #2 and #3)
Author: V. J. Chambers
Format: Ebook
Genre: YA Fantasy
Type: Bisexual, Androgyne
Notes: These books come together as a bundle.
Book 1 is available free at Amazon here.
Blurb:
If Hogwarts were more like Woodstock, and Voldemort was your childhood sweetheart turned abusive boyfriend...
Nora
Sparrow wants to feel safe now that her crazed ex-boyfriend Owen has
been exiled from Helicon, the land of the muses. She wants nothing more
than to sculpt, dance, and play, the way a muse should. But her fear of
Owen casts a shadow over everything. She can't even commit to a
relationship, because she fears being smothered and controlled.
Everyone
else thinks the threatening message in the snow was a joke. They think
Nora's anxious mind conjured up the bouquet of dead flowers in her tent.
But Nora knows that Owen is still after her. Nothing will stand in the
way of his obsessive desire to possess her.
Not even exile.
Title: Chasing Shadows (Unmaking)
Author: Morgan Bauman
Format: Ebook
Genre: Fantasy
Type: Lesbian
Notes: None
Blurb:
Two women meet after the world's end. Both are missing memories, but
they hold fast to what they know and seek out Oases: polycarbonate
bubbles housing the few survivors of the Last War. As they strike out
into the ruined wasteland, time, space, and reality itself unravel at
the seams.
Title: Gastien: The Cost Of The Dream (The Gastien Series, #1)
Author: Caddy Rowland
Format: Ebook
Genre: Historical Fiction / Family Saga
Type: Gay, Lesbian (In later installments)
Notes: Gay characters do take center stage in the later books, but since
this is a series the author is offering the first book with minor gay characters
because the story is best told from the beginning. The final book very
much ties in with the first.
Blurb:
When young Gastien Beauchamp flees the farm for Paris, the late
nineteenth century bohemian era is in full swing. Color has always
called to him, beseeching him to capture it on canvas and show people a
new way of seeing things. His father belittled his dream of being an
artist and tried to beat him into giving it up. The dream wouldn’t die,
but Gastien would have had he not left.
He also yearns to become a
great lover. After the years of anguish he has endured at the hand of
his father, it would be heaven to feel pleasure instead of pain.
However,
the city of Paris has a ruthless agenda. Unless a man has money and
connections, Paris unfeelingly crushes dreams and destroys souls. With
neither of the required assets, Gastien faces living in alleys, digging
in trash bins for food, and sleeping where a man is often killed for his
threadbare blanket.
Left with only his dreams, Gastien
stubbornly pushes on. He vows that absolutely nothing will stop him, not
yet realizing what keeping that vow might mean. Sometimes the
“impossible” is possible – but the cost can be extremely high.
This
historical fiction novel is book 1 of a 5 book drama/family saga for
adults (The Gastien Series). Each book can stand on its own, but is most
compelling read in order.
Title: The Crook And Flail (The She-King, #2)
Author: L. M. Ironside
Format: Ebook
Genre: Historical Fiction
Type: Bisexual, Trans* Themes
Notes: Although this is the second book in a series, it is a stand-alone and can be read on its own. The author is willing to throw in book 1 as well.
Blurb:
Hatshepsut
longs for power, but she is constrained by her commitment to maat – the
sacred order of righteousness, the way things must be. Her mother
claims Hatshepsut is destined for Egypt's throne – not as the king's
chief wife, but as the king herself, despite her female body. But a
woman on the throne defies maat, and even Hatshepsut is not so bold as
to risk the safety of the Two Lands for her own ends.
As God's
Wife of Amun, she believes she has found the perfect balance of power
and maat, and has reconciled herself to contentment with her station.
But even that peace is threatened when the powerful men of Egypt plot to
replace her. They see her as nothing but a young woman, easily used
for their own ends and discarded. But she is the son of the god Amun,
and neither her strength nor her will can be so easily discounted.
As
the machinations of politics drive her into the hands of enemies and
the arms of lovers, onto the battlefield and into the childbed, she
comes face to face with maat itself – and must decide at last whether to
surrender her birthright to a man, or to take up the crook and flail of
the Pharaoh, and claim for herself the throne of the king.
Title: Heteroflexibility
Author: Mary Beth Daniels
Format: Ebook
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Type: Lesbian (General gay marriage themes)
Notes: None
Blurb:
Wise-cracking wedding photographer Zest Renald has just been served
divorce papers when she agrees to accompany a lesbian softball team
during their elopement to California. She's doesn't know anything about
gay marriage, and her only exposure to lesbian culture is an addiction
to the talk show Ellen. But with her assets frozen and her husband
claiming their house for the Other Woman's Love Child, she needs the
job.
Zest's gaffes and notoriously bad gaydar endear her to the
brides, as well as Bradford, the beautiful male stylist who travels with
them. Just when Zest is figuring out how to manage her attraction to
the unattainable "safe" man, they arrive in California amidst the worst
anti-gay protests San Diego has ever seen.
When the minister the
women hired turns out to be a Prop 8 zealot hell-bent on preventing the
wedding, Zest and the brides are chased across the city in a hilarious
yet poignant attempt to foil the protesters and tie the white knot.
Title: Taboo: Fire & Desire
Author: Evan J. Xavier
Format: Ebook
Genre: New Adult
Type: Gay
Notes: None
Blurb:
Justice Phoenix is the resident college playboy in a conservative
southern college town. He has money and he has the looks, but what he
truly craves is forbidden.
Title: Claire & Nicole: The Complete Collection (SapphiConnection)
Author: Taryn Taylor
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotic Romance
Type: Lesbian
Notes: This is comprised of all five parts in the series. It starts off as erotica but becomes romantic later on.
Blurb:
It's been five years since Claire last enjoyed the pleasures of another
woman. Those years have left her confidence to rust and her dating life
to simmer into a non-existent entity. Thus she didn't let her hopes get
too high when she logged onto the SapphiConnection, a website and mobile
service dedicated to lesbian hookups.
She quickly meets Nicole, a
feisty blonde who thinks she can finally give Claire what she needs.
Will their rendezvous in a hotel finally satisfy the burning desire
Claire's felt for years? God, she hopes so.
Title: Teaching Dallas
Author: Gem Frost
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotic Romance
Type: Gay
Notes: None
Blurb:
Adrian Matthews is a newly-minted assistant professor, and he knows it's
wrong to get involved with Dallas Palmer, a student at the university
where he teaches. But the happy, exuberant Dallas is like a ray of
sunshine in his shadowed life, and somehow he can't help reaching out
for the younger man's warmth...
Title: Hook, Line, and Garter
Author: Rachael James
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotic Romance
Type: Cross Dressing
Notes: None
Blurb:
After a brutal attack, Kate Logan thought she could never trust another
man again, until she met Sam Montgomery. Sam was like no one she had
ever known before—beautiful, vivacious, and bold. In Sam, Kate found all
she would ever need, want, or desire in a man, until she learned that
the only thing worse than falling in love with her best friend was
knowing nothing would ever come from it.
Sam Montgomery, a
successful photographer and an occasional cross-dresser (yes,
cross-dresser) lived his life out loud. He said what he wanted, dressed
how he wanted, and did who he wanted. From the first time he laid his
eyes on Kate, he knew he had to have her. Unfortunately, the only piece
of her heart she was ready to give came tattooed with a ‘friends only’
stamp. He was willing to compromise his desires, but he never imagined
he would fall head over heels in love with her.
The hot temperatures
weren’t the only thing blazing in Austin, Texas. After one steamy night
together, Kate and Sam decided it was time to redefine their friendship.
When Kate finally opens herself to all that they could share together,
Sam couldn’t have been happier—until he realizes that perhaps the only
way to cast away all of Kate’s inner demons was to walk away forever.
Title: HAWKE
Author: Taylor James
Format: Ebook
Genre: Romance / Sports
Type: Lesbian
Notes: None
Blurb:
Jaden Hawke is a young professional softball player who has just been
signed by the Dallas Metros team. She graduated from Michigan where she
led her team to two straight US Championships. She pitched for the USA
Olympic team where they took the gold medal. While at the Olympics in
Japan she met and became romantically involved with Senator Paxton’s
daughter, Kendall. Jaden is hired by the Dallas Metros professional team
because of Coach Georgia Tate’s support, even though her affair with
Kendall Paxton is well known across the country. Jaden still has
violent nightmares about the night when she had to rescue Kendall from
drug dealers and while on a team trip to that city she ends up having
one. The team photographer and Web site administrator, Sloane Ellison,
witnesses the nightmare and it’s aftermath and helps Jaden deal with it,
from holding her while she’s sick to holding her while she sleeps.
They are falling fast for each other. The night they play in Portland
the police come to the locker room and take Jaden to the police station
for questioning. Kendall Paxton was murdered the previous night while
the team was in Los Angeles. Sloane stays behind to arrange bail and a
lawyer for her and to lend much needed support. The team questions the
advisability of releasing Jaden from her contract due to the conduct
clause. Meanwhile, the police in California are working the murder case
but the evidence doesn’t add up. Is someone trying to frame her for
the crime or was she simply very good at misdirection? Who would know
more about Kendall Paxton and her habits than Jaden Hawke? The more
personal question is can Jaden and Sloane begin a relationship under
such stressful times? And will it survive if Jaden is convicted of
murder?
Title: The Scepter of Namiss (The Books of Braenyn, #1)
Author: John Grover
Format: Ebook
Genre: Fantasy
Type: Gay
Notes: None
Blurb:
Meet Braenyn, elf, thief, magic-user. He lives a rogue's life with his
lover, the shape-shifter, Tarrow. Together they try to survive and
better their situation in a mad world filled with warlords, cut-throats,
supernatural horrors, trows, gibbelins and ogres.
Following his
own path, Braenyn undertakes dangerous quests and missions seeking
wealth and treasure each time taking bigger risks. When he gets wind of
the fabled scepter of King Namiss, he sets out on a search that will
change everything.
Braenyn's resolve is about to be tested and
his world shattered when he gets more than a priceless artifact studded
with precious gemstones.
Secrets that should have remained buried rise up to haunt the elf forever.
Join
the continuing adventures of Braenyn the elf thief and a world filled
with magic, mystery, and adventure in the tradition of
dungeons and dragons and the pulp fiction of old.
Title: Outlaw Love
Author: Cora Buhlert
Format: Ebook
Genre: Western Short Story
Type: Lesbian
Notes: None
Blurb:
Once Lola Laverne was the toast of Europe, singer, dancer and mistress
to kings and millionaires. But those days are long over, and now Lola is
rotting in a cell in Silver Dollar City, a mining town in the Old West,
sentenced to hang for killing the man who tried to rape her. Men have
always been Lola's downfall. But could this really be the end for Lola?
Will she perform her last dance at the end of the hangman's rope or does
fate have other ideas for Lola? And will she finally realize the true
nature of her desires?
Title: Rough Trade
Author: Alix Nowara
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotic Romance Short Story
Type: Gay
Notes: This title features a long-term couple roleplaying.
Blurb:
The hooker looks like rough trade, but Detective Derrick McKane is used
to dealing with tough guys. He just knows how to deal with hot piece of
ass like that and how to put him into his place.
And he enjoys doing it. But Bran, the hooker, has a surprise or two up his sleeve.
Title: Lessons For Laura
Author: Mia Savage
Format: SIGNED Paperback (US Only) AND Ebook (Two Winners)
Genre: Erotic Romance (BDSM)
Type: Lesbian
Notes: None
Blurb:
Laura senses how satisfying it could be to give up control to her
dominant lover--to truly belong to her. Before she can, however, she
must learn to break through the barriers that hold her back: fear,
shame, pride, and most of all, her own stubbornness. Laura is not an
"easy submissive," but the new woman in her life has some special plans
to train her. Each erotic lesson brings Laura closer to her lover, her
submission, and her true self.
Title: Unresolved Daddy Issues: The Complete Series
Author: Nathan J Morissey
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotic Romance
Type: Gay
Notes: None
Blurb:
Rising movie star Jett Coretti has everything going for him: a hot
career, a huge mansion and a cute older boyfriend Chad. But Chad is
keeping a secret that could potentially destroy their relationship.
Meanwhile, Jett’s best friend Sam is having an affair with a married
Vegas hotel mogul, but when he doesn’t get a commitment from him,
blackmail and extortion become the name of the game. At the same time,
Jett’s brother, rock star Scott Coretti could have any girl he wants,
but why is he drawn to his backup dancer, the Asian muscle god Braden?
Throw in a crazy starstruck stalker who wants to marry Jett and the story climaxes with exciting confrontational action.
Unresolved
Daddy Issues contains all the intrigue, sex, secrets, scandals and
drama of the gay equivalent of a Jackie Collins novel.
Title: Best Friends Forever
Author: Ellen Dominick
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotica
Type: Lesbian (First Time)
Notes: Short story
Blurb:
High-school seniors Bella and Sasha are just one month away from
graduation. They are spending their last moments together hanging out as
usual, but a risqué school project has them doing things they've never
done before. It gets hot and steamy, but will their be able to get their
hands and mouths off of each other before Sasha's parents find out?
Title: Dripping Wet
Author: Dean Sage
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotic Romance
Type: Gay
Notes: None
Blurb:
Enzo's lucky to have gotten his swimming scholarship, even if the
University has certain athletic 'traditions.' Like all athletes compete
in the nude. When, after the best race of his life, Enzo's team mate and
roommate, Nick, mistakenly attacks him, Enzo finds himself busted and
broken, wondering if he'll ever swim again. As punishment, Coach forces
Nick to care for Enzo, where they both discover a new affection for each
other. When Nick leaves for break, and Enzo enters a painful physical
therapy regiment with his increasingly enticing Coach, this burgeoning
attraction is put to a test it may not survive.
Title: Seducing the Cheerleader Captain
Author: Anne Eton
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotic Romance
Type: Lesbian
Notes: Short story
Blurb:
Jodie has wanted beautiful, blonde, All-American Rebecca ever since they
were both freshmen at
Linville High. Unfortunately, Rebecca doesn’t even know Jodie exists.
But at a house party on graduation eve, Rebecca is tipsy, and resentful
that her boyfriend’s away. Jodie uses all her wiles to try to get
Rebecca upstairs… and into a bedroom.
Title: Scratch
Author: Dean Sage
Format: Ebook
Genre: Erotic Romance
Type: Gay
Notes: None
Blurb:
Dean is a moderately successful Romance writer and erotic model, almost
earning enough money to keep him off the street. But when an opportunity
to be a live-in caretaker for a young girl with unique needs arrives,
he can't pass it up. He soon finds himself developing an unhealthy
obsession with her father, a successful business man with his own dark
past that soon starts to intrude on what is already a complex
relationship. Dean discovers there is more to this loving father than he
first imagined, but the secrets he keeps may end up destroying them
both.
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