Blurbs:
Calling
His Bluff by BA Tortuga
After his twin dies in battle, it’s Patrick
Daniels’ duty to marry his brother’s fiancée. Too bad he can’t make himself do
it, and in his distress, he manifests a psychic talent that’s stronger than the
tornadoes in his native East Texas. Then a mysterious man from a place called
Club Raven steps in and sweeps Patrick off to the booming East Coast city of
Baltimore.
Club Raven veteran Remy Blanchard sees Patrick and
knows, even though Patrick is very ill, that this is the challenge he’s been
waiting for. He nurses Patrick back to health, and begins to teach Patrick to
control his talent. His methods might be unconventional, and Patrick might be
new to the kinds of sexual games Remy knows best, but the two of them find
something in each other that might be just as magical as the gentleman’s club
where they meet.
Happy
Medium by Julia Talbot
Andrew is out to debunk Max as a medium, not make
love to him...
Max Bellame is working his way through 1870s
Baltimore as a medium, even if he knows nothing about spirits. He uses the
power of his mind to move objects, convincing his clients he's the real thing.
Andrew Meechum works for Club Raven, a gentleman's
club that doubles as a paranormal research facility. He sets out to debunk Max,
only to be fascinated by the man. Can Andrew convince Max to take a chance on
love, and to find his true calling as a medium, or will their personal demons
force them apart?
Wishful
Thinking by Kiernan Kelly
Tony Brazzio, co-owner of Club Raven, Baltimore's
premiere men's club in 1875, has a pocketful of cash and a chip on his
shoulder. He’s out to prove to his co-owners -- and himself -- that he’s not a
fluke, that anyone can be successful give the opportunity, no matter how poor
his beginnings.
Bull O’Brian and Dandy Gilroy are two hoodlums
from the rough streets of New York’s Five Points. They’re pickpockets by trade,
and both possess psychic talents that make them two of the best. When Tony
offers to bring them to Baltimore and give them the chance at a life of riches
in polite society, they jump at the chance, if only to steal the members of
Club Raven blind.
The best of plans rarely work the way they’re
intended, and things swiftly go from bad to worse for Dandy and Bull. There’s
murder afoot and a detective on their trail, and not even copious amounts of
hot, sweaty sex can ease their fear or guilt.
As for Tony, he’s faced with admitting his
experiment is a failure, something he’s loathe to do. It’ll take a great deal
of persuasion, a little luck, and a lot of lube to make sure his plans for
Dandy and Bull become more than just wishful thinking.
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Hey, y’all!
I’m Julia Talbot, and I write glbtq romance. I’m
here to talk about my book Happy Medium, which is the first book in the Club
Raven universe, a shared, historical AU. My partners in crime, BA Tortuga and
Kiernan Kelly have also written novels in the universe, and I love them all!
Happy Medium is about Max, who’s a small time con
artist in 1870s Baltimore. He’s using a talent for telekinesis to pretend to be
a medium, or someone who communicates with spirits. Andrew, who is a member of
Club Raven, a gentleman’s club which doubles as a paranormal hub in the city,
sets out to debunk Andrew, and sexy hijinks ensue.
I love the spiritualist movement. I’ve read
probably a hundred books about it, and that was one of the things that inspired
Club Raven in general. Spiritualism is based on the idea that the spirits can
communicate with the living, and that the spirits could move on to an advanced
state of enlightenment on their plane. The movement is actually American in
origin, starting in upstate New York, and Club Raven is set when it would have trickled
down into Baltimore, as well as crossed the ocean to England and France.
Now, I have to admit, what intrigues me most about
spiritualism is the idea that a medium, or spirit talker, is necessary to
communicate with the dead. By all accounts, some people were born to the
talent, but anyone could be a medium with enough practice and study. This idea
lends itself to all sorts of people taking advantage of family members
desperate to talk to dead relatives, especially in the time just after the
civil war in America. Charlatans were everywhere, and therefore, so were
debunkers. That’s my favorite part. Paranormal investigators like Arthur Conan
Doyle.
When I was a teenager I wanted to go to Duke
University and be in their paranormal program. I even got accepted to Duke, but
couldn’t go. I have an EVP detector on my phone. I adore ghost hunter shows.
When it came time to write Happy Medium, I wanted
Max to be a fake, but I wanted to give even that a wee twist. I hope I’ve
intrigued you enough to go try it!
XXOO
Julia Talbot
Meet
the Authors:
BA Tortuga
Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy's Girl,
BA Tortuga spends her days with her basset hounds, getting tattooed, texting
her sisters, and eating Mexican food. When she's not doing that, she's writing.
She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting, and surfing Pinterest in the
name of research. BA's personal saviors include her wife, Julia Talbot, her
best friend, Sean Michael, and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee.
Having written everything from fist-fighting
rednecks to hard-core cowboys to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the
stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast Texas, but has heard the
call of the high desert and lives in the Sandias. With books ranging from
hard-hitting GLBT romance, to fiery menages, to the most traditional of love
stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.
You can find out more about her by following her
online.
Julia
Talbot
Julia Talbot lives in the great Southwest, where
there is hot and cold running rodeo, cowboys, and everything from meat and
potatoes to the best Tex-Mex. A full time author, Julia has been published by
Samhain Publishing, Dreamspinner Press and Changeling Press. She believes in
stories that leave a mark, and that everyone deserves a happy ending, so she
writes about love without limits, where boys love boys, girls love girls, and
boys and girls get together to get wild, especially when her crazy paranormal
characters are involved.
You can find out more about her by following her
online.
Kiernan
Kelly
Kiernan's award-winning stories of gay romance
envelop diverse themes, varying from paranormal, to fantasy, and science
fiction to contemporary romance. She has over eighty titles in ebook and print,
published through a variety of houses. Her horror short story release,
"Cletus," appears in the Coscom Publishing's book “Bits of the Dead.”
Kiernan also writes young adult GLBT fiction under
her Dakota Chase pen name. As Dakota, she currently has three novels and
several shorter works available in print and ebook. Mad About the Hatter, her
YA gay romance, is a finalist for the American Library Association book list
for 2017.
You can find out more about her by following her
online.
