Thanks, Jade, for hosting the Took My Breath Away Book Blog Tour today!
It’s Day 3 of the Took My Breath Away Book Blog Tour and I’m excited to be over on Jade Crystal’s blog. If you miss any days of the book blog tour, you can find links to them here.
I’ve been asked many times why I write M/M erotic romance. When I’m feeling flippant, or talking to someone who doesn’t look like they really want to know, I say something to the tune of “I love men and what’s better than writing about two writhing, hot male bodies?”
When I’m not feeling so flippant, there is a reason. I love writing stories about two strong characters who find love with one another, no matter what other people say. And I find that with an M/M romance, it is much easier to write that than with an M/F, where as much as I try not to, I tend to make the female character quieter and more submissive.
And, as to why I don’t write F/F? *cough* Shall I mention again about the two writhing hot male bodies? Seriously, writing F/F is just not my thing. I have written a couple F/F erotic stories, but the books I write have to do something for me, both in loving the characters and the relationship. So far? Writing an F/F storyline has not done that and I don’t see it happening any time soon.
Now, don’t think I could leave you without a little Took My Breath Away excerpt. In this snippet, Christian has to speak to his homophobic brother.
“What are you really doing here, Brian? Just say it and go.”
It took a few minutes before his brother stood up, looking everywhere but at Christian. “I just don’t get it, Chris. I’m trying, but I don’t understand why you are still interested in Logan. I thought…”
Shaking his head, Christian knew exactly what his brother thought. “Yeah, I know. You thought that once I had been through therapy and had my breakthroughs that I would get over him. I told you, Brian, I love Logan. He means the world to me. Get used to it. I’m happy. Can’t you at least be happy for that?”
Book Description:
Took My Breath Away
Sequel to As Natural As Breathing
Length: Novel
Genre: Gay Spanking Romance
Series: All They Ever Needed
Sometimes taking control is what you need to do and sometimes the best thing you can do is give that control up.
In the summer between Logan’s junior and senior years of college, these two will find out more about each other and themselves than they imagined.
While unhappy to be missing four weeks of Christian’s company, Logan is thrilled to spend a month with his father’s relatives in New York. A naturally gregarious individual, he is used to winning people over and getting things right. Unfortunately, the Mannettes are not what he expects and for the first time in his life, he finds himself seriously doubting who he is.
Christian has regained some of his old self-esteem and is taking on new challenges. Besides growing in the relationship he has with Logan, he takes the time his boyfriend is away to learn more about domestic discipline. He learns a little online but it is actually Gregory, Logan’s father, where he gains most of his information. Including the fact that his natural strength puts him in a leadership position he isn’t expecting.
When Logan returns to a strong, self-assured Christian, it is with complete relief. As discussions turn to domestic discipline and they realize their true roles within their current and future relationship, both of them are able to let their inhibitions go and together their connection grows surprising Logan to an epiphany.
You can find Took My Breath Away here.
Thianna D
For Thianna D, reading and writing are as important as breathing and far more important than math or science. A storyteller from the time she could speak, she was always making up characters as a kid. As a teenager that turned to sci-fi and fantasy, as an adult to romance. It wasn’t until her fourth decade that she began writing erotic scenes within her stories.
Writing M/M came naturally to her; she wrote her first tale before ever having read one. “There is something about the amazing dynamic between two strong men falling in love and defeating anything thrown at them.” While she had written several BDSM stories involving men, As Natural As Breathing was the first full-length novel involving domestic discipline. In Took My Breath Away, its sequel, Logan and Christian further their relationship in very defining ways.
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