Reach for the Moon available for purchase

Reach For the Moon is now available for purchase in your format of choice at All Romance Ebooks and at Amazon.com, and it will be at an 80% discount through Friday June 14. This means that instead of its regular price of $4.99, you can get it for $1.00.

You can find it at All Romance Ebooks and Amazon.com.

And here we go again with the book blurb: Christmas vacation 1984 is far from festive at the house of eighteen year-old Alejo Sandoval. His parents teeter on the verge of divorce. His final semester of high school looms ahead. He has just found out that his trickster cousin Martin has vanished, leaving no traces behind. And he keeps a secret that could destroy his place within his religious Hispanic world—he and his best friend Bobby Gallegos are lovers.

Independent and exasperating, Bobby is the love of his life. There is no one Alejo would rather have at his side when his mother and aunt send him on a road trip to unravel his cousin’s mysterious disappearance. But what starts as an excuse to get out of Albuquerque and enjoy a romantic road trip soon takes on serious overtones. Martin might have endangered his life by coming out as gay.

Their short fact-finding mission turns into a quest for Martin’s whereabouts through the secretive small towns of New Mexico. Stress and speculation have set Alejo’s eccentric relatives against each other, and Alejo and Bobby are about to walk into the crossfire.

Note: REACH FOR THE MOON is listed as a prequel to FALL INTO THE SUN, but only in the sense of having the same characters at a younger age. Think of FALL INTO THE SUN as what might have occurred on an alternate timeline. Meanwhile, REACH FOR THE MOON is what really happened on the main timeline. The events of REACH FOR THE MOON do not fit into the backstory of FALL INTO THE SUN. Approximate length is 90K words.

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Reach For the Moon

Reach For the Moon
Contemporary gay romance
Cover Art by Jordan Castillo Price
Wordcount: 90,000 words
Published: June 2013
(RELEASE DATE - June 10)
Price: $ 4.99

Book Blurb: Christmas vacation 1984 is far from festive at the house of eighteen year-old Alejo Sandoval. His parents teeter on the verge of divorce. His final semester of high school looms ahead. He has just found out that his trickster cousin Martin has vanished, leaving no traces behind. And he keeps a secret that could destroy his place within his religious Hispanic world—he and his best friend Bobby Gallegos are lovers.

Independent and exasperating, Bobby is the love of his life. There is no one Alejo would rather have at his side when his mother and aunt send him on a road trip to unravel his cousin’s mysterious disappearance. But what starts as an excuse to get out of Albuquerque and enjoy a romantic road trip soon takes on serious overtones. Martin might have endangered his life by coming out as gay.

Their short fact-finding mission turns into a quest for Martin’s whereabouts through the secretive small towns of New Mexico. Stress and speculation have set Alejo’s eccentric relatives against each other, and Alejo and Bobby are about to walk into the crossfire.

Note: REACH FOR THE MOON is listed as a prequel to FALL INTO THE SUN, but only in the sense of having the same characters at a younger age. Think of FALL INTO THE SUN as what might have occurred on an alternate timeline. Meanwhile, REACH FOR THE MOON is what really happened on the main timeline. The events of REACH FOR THE MOON do not fit into the backstory of FALL INTO THE SUN.

Buy links coming soon.
Buy at Amazon.com
Buy at All Romance Ebooks in your ebook format of choice.

Add it to your shelf on Goodreads.com.
Read an EXCERPT of the first 10 pages at Goodreads.com

Reviews coming soon.

Official release date for Reach For the Moon

Finally, an official release date: Monday June 10, 2013. Here is the blurb:

Christmas vacation 1984 is far from festive at the house of eighteen year-old Alejo Sandoval. His parents teeter on the verge of divorce. His final semester of high school looms ahead. He has just found out that his trickster cousin Martin has vanished, leaving no traces behind. And he keeps a secret that could destroy his place within his religious Hispanic world—he and his best friend Bobby Gallegos are lovers.

Independent and exasperating, Bobby is the love of his life. There is no one Alejo would rather have at his side when his mother and aunt send him on a road trip to unravel his cousin’s mysterious disappearance. But what starts as an excuse to get out of Albuquerque and enjoy a romantic road trip soon takes on serious overtones. Martin might have endangered his life by coming out as gay.

Their short fact-finding mission turns into a quest for Martin’s whereabouts through the secretive small towns of New Mexico. Stress and speculation have set Alejo’s eccentric relatives against each other, and Alejo and Bobby are about to walk into the crossfire.

Note: REACH FOR THE MOON is listed as a prequel to FALL INTO THE SUN, but only in the sense of having the same characters at a younger age. Think of FALL INTO THE SUN as what might have occurred on an alternate timeline. Meanwhile, REACH FOR THE MOON is what really happened on the main timeline. The events of REACH FOR THE MOON do not fit into the backstory of FALL INTO THE SUN.

I have a list of readers who have won copies of this book from giveaways last year, and I will send you the copies a few days before June 10. Thank you very much for your patience! If anyone would like an advance review copy, please email me at veekay2000 [at] gmail [dot] com. Meanwhile, you can add the book to your Goodreads shelf here.

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Links:

• My fiction list at Goodreads.com..
• My upcoming fiction.
• My published fiction.
• My how-to-write articles.
• As always, thank you for reading!

This is Yours

This is Yours (Alejo and Bobby series, # 1.5)
Contemporary gay romance
Cover Art by Val Kovalin
Wordcount: 11,000 words
Published September 2012
Price: Free $ 0.00
Sex scenes: none

Book Blurb:
Alejandro Sandoval + Roberto Gallegos = love forever. Alejo looks back to one night in June 1980, when he and Bobby were fourteen years old. Only days before, they realized their attraction to each other. But now, Alejo’s dad has invited over his buddies to watch the most anticipated boxing match of the year. Anything could happen during the fight. And anything could happen to Alejo and Bobby as they struggle to keep their newfound love secret while soaking up the macho atmosphere of Mr. Sandoval’s Fight Night. It is a night of love and revelations for Alejo and Bobby.

New Cover Art for Reach For the Moon

Reach for the Moon is the prequel to Fall Into the Sun, and I'm writing it right now.

It features Bobby and Alejo at age 18, taking a road trip across New Mexico in December between their last two semesters of high school. Once again I'm lucky enough to have gorgeous cover art by Jordan Castillo Price.

See how she made the two cover arts and fonts similar (to reflect that both books belong to the same two-book series), but still very different with the colors.

I love the bright colors of Fall Into the Sun, but I love the stark, wintry hazy tones of Reach for the Moon even more. New Mexico really does look like this in the winter.

The greenish white luminosity of the Reach for the Moon cover is just lovely. In the Fall Into the Sun cover, the close-up face is Alejo, but in the Reach for the Moon cover, Jordan is thinking this is Bobby, and I agree. I'm already starting to see him that way!

(I'll have a more complete blurb for Reach for the Moon very soon, but you can add it to your Goodreads shelf here: Reach for the Moon).


Copyright © Obsidian Bookshelf. I don't allow my content to be copied and reposted in full. You may use an excerpt (a few sentences) with a return link, but not the entire post.
Links:

• My fiction list at Goodreads.com..
• My upcoming fiction.
• My published fiction.
• My how-to-write articles.
• As always, thank you for reading!

Fall Into the Sun now available for purchase

Fall Into the Sun is now available for purchase at both Amazon.com for Kindle and All Romance Ebooks in PDF, EPUB, and PRC, at $2.99 for 41,000 words of contemporary gay romance.

However, there is still time for you to win one of five copies by leaving a comment expressing interest at Chris's blog Stumbling Over Chaos.

(And you can also add the book to your TBR shelf on Goodreads.com).

Fall Into the Sun

Fall Into the Sun
Contemporary gay romance
Cover Art by Jordan Castillo Price
Wordcount: 41,000 words
Published January 2012
Price: $2.99

Book Blurb:
They should have spent the past 22 years together, but life took some unexpected turns for Bobby Gallegos and Alejo Sandoval. Heartbreak and rejection can harden the hearts of two passionate, stubborn men. One, deeply devout, wanted to attend college. One, who perfected a tough act to deceive his brothers, might have followed his dad to prison. Now, at 40 years old, they maintain a long-distance relationship as sex buddies, who don't quite trust each other.

Their lives have sharply diverged. One is now divorced with two teenagers, who bring him joy and despair. One has just had a near-death experience on the job. When Bobby returns to Albuquerque, he will use sex, persuasion, and memories of their shared past to try to convince Alejo to take a chance on him and reach for the future together that they were meant to share.

Buy at Amazon.com (USA), Amazon.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, and Amazon.es.
Buy at All Romance Ebooks in your ebook format of choice.

Add it to your shelf on Goodreads.com.

Read an EXCERPT of the first 2000 words at the All Romance Ebooks product page. (Scroll down past the book blurb.)

Reviews:

"It's a beautiful book. It's sweet, but surely is not sugary sweet. Sometimes, it's heart wrenching, but it's never really too angsty[...]"
From Arthur Bedwyr at Goodreads.com 5 stars out of 5 stars.

"I found Fall Into The Sun a well-thought-out tale about coming to realize what counts in life, and a romantic, emotional and very enjoyable read. Recommended."
From Feliz Faber at Goodreads.com, 5 stars out of 5 stars

Here is an excerpt from Fall Into the Sun

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