Weekend Update From Melbourne!
Oct 04, 2025 5:06 pm
Hi everyone! This weekend I'm helping NR Walker with her table at RARE. I had originally planned to attend RARE as an author but then decided against it, and I really do like helping my friend!
We drove from Brisbane to Tamsworth a few days ago and saw glow worm caves, a sky walk in a rain forest, and whales just off shore by a lighthouse. We also saw a crow eating a huntsman spider we thought was dead but was not LOL. It's been lots of fun and we've had lots of new adventures.
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Cookie
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When Ryan Stone’s aunt asks for help with her bookstore, he leaves the city and moves to the small town of Grace, at least temporarily. He’s so busy cleaning and restocking the store he almost doesn’t notice the handsome mechanic that always seems to show up at the park at the same time he has his lunch.
Every day for the past few weeks, Charlie Castle has been going to the park across the street from the auto shop, hoping for a chance to meet the new guy from the bookstore with the shock of red hair and a penchant for pink sugar cookies.
Ryan wasn’t looking for love when he met Charlie, but meeting Charlie might just give him everything he never knew he needed. MM Small Town Romance, Opposites Attract, Found Family
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Link and Andy grew up in the small town of Occident in northern California. Most of their circle of friends stayed there after graduation, but Andy moved away to go to college and later to pursue a career. Andy thought he had the perfect life but didn’t count on missing the small town and the group of friends he grew up with.
This is a collection of stories of Andy and Link and their friends and relatives as they navigate love and friendships in their small northern California town. Small Town City Collection is a MM small town, friends to lovers romance.
Includes:
Remember When
A Night To Remember (Short Story)
Try To Forget
Try to Remember (Holiday Short Story)
One Last Chance
Remember Always
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Anchor Grey
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Devon Grimes got his big break by filling in on drums for his uncle Glen in his band Blinding Light. Being in his own band Anchor Grey with his new boyfriend Johnny was like a dream come true. Until reality came knocking.
Johnny Brown has made every attempt to hold his band together, but nothing seems to work for long. He hopes Devon can be the glue that holds them together this time. But being in a relationship with the drummer is both amazing and frustrating.
Devon and Johnny both share a love of music and a need to play in a successful band, so the chance to tour with Blinding Light is too good to be true. But life on the road isn’t easy on a band or a relationship, and navigating both can be tricky. The road to Rocktoberfest is a minefield loaded with obstacles neither of them expect and will test their resolve to stay together or go it alone.
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Ben and his new mate, Leon, left the safety of Alaska so Leon could learn to live with humans and gain more control over his lust for blood. They arrive in Eureka and stay with Ben’s friends Lucas and Brennan, another mated vampire couple. They plan to slowly expose Leon to humans and let him adjust to the constant need that haunts him.
Lucas has always avoided contact with The Twelve. That changes when Brennan is taken by a group of vampires intent on destroying one mate while capturing the other. After waiting several human lifetimes to find his mate, Lucas won’t sit back and lose Brennan. They’re all forced to seek out The Twelve, the ancient vampires who rule over all others.
When they reach the hidden fortress of the Consortium, they soon realize there’s more going on than they ever could have imagined. They’re forced to become the hunters through an unfamiliar landscape where not only are they the predators, but quite possibly the prey. #vampire, #fated mates #Gay paranormal romance
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Lance and Billie met and fell in love over their mutual love of food and their drive to have a successful business in the small town of Stoney Brook Maine. Both are driven to succeed, but now it’s time for a vacation, a real vacation.
Billie plans a trip to Dublin, Ireland to explore Lance’s Irish roots, he takes a little convincing. But when Billie tells him they’ll be spending time with an uncle who also runs a small café, it’s more than Lance can resist.
They spend their days trying new foods, exploring ancient wonders, and meeting more new relatives than either of them could have imagined. And at an ancient castle, Lance discovers that everything he needs is right in front of him.
What starts as a vacation ends up being life changing, and something Lance and Billie will never forget.
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The Road to Rocktoberfest 2025
More Than Scars
Coming 10/27/2025
From Authors TL Travis & Layla Dorine
https://books2read.com/MoreThanScars
Series page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F855LRDY
Music was Bowie’s everything. From the moment his father placed a guitar in his hands until a motorcycle wreck nearly stole his ability to play,
When his backstabbing bandmates cast him out rather than wait for him to heal, they left him drifting with bitterness and scars. Now, he plays in the shadows, a lost star who never had the chance to shine.
Freshly hired to the Masterson Management family to manage their latest band endeavor, Imminent Danger. Though he feared what this may do to his employment he couldn’t walk away. Everything about Bowie called to him on levels he couldn’t fathom. The haunting look in Bowie’s eyes awoke a calling deep inside Pressley Darren. The urge to nurture and protect, to keep him safe from the harsh, cruel world.
Will the broken guitarist open up to Pressley and thus thrust himself into the limelight where he belongs? Or will he succumb to the darkness inside and continue to hide away from the rest of the world.
The boys are back in the multi-author Road to Rocktoberfest 2025 series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but why not read them all and see if some of your past favorites poke their heads in. Err…voices. Hot rockstars, stolen kisses, drywall repairs and the men who drive them over the edge. What more could you ask for? Kick back, load up your ereaders and enjoy the men of Rocktoberfest!
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The Road to Rocktoberfest 2025
Accidental Fire
Coming 10/13/2025
https://books2read.com/AccidentalFire-RTR2025
Series page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F855LRDY
Who’s gonna catch River when he runs amok? Maybe a burly truck driver who wants nothing to do with a young, wild, hard-headed rockstar?
River Ashe, lead guitarist for Accidental Fire, seems to run into trouble when his band is on the road without his famous father, Regal Ashe, or his brother, Skyler, who has returned to West Peoria, choosing the small-town life with his former football player husband, Sandy. Without Skyler around to be his conscience, River succumbs to the pitfalls of being twenty-one with no one to stop him from stumbling into trouble.
Christopher “Kit” Hansen, an over-the-road truck driver, is requested to be the equipment transport operator for Accidental Fire. Kit isn’t thrilled with the idea of signing on with a baby rock band on their first major tour. When the head of the band’s record label contacts him personally and asks for a favor—and adds a sweetener to the deal if Kit will quasi-babysit the band—Kit decides the headaches might be worth the drama.
But Kit doesn’t expect a brown-haired, blue-eyed gorgeous guitar player to steal his heart on this rock-and-roll odyssey. Will River’s youthful exuberance for performing in front of a live audience and his unending curiosity to experience everything that gets him into trouble be more drama than Kit is willing to tolerate? Will Kit’s strict rules provide the boundaries River’s seeking, or will River run in the opposite direction?
The boys are back in the multi-author Road to Rocktoberfest 2025 series. Each book can be read as a standalone, but why not read them all and see if some of your past favorites poke their heads—err…voices—in. Hot rockstars, stolen kisses, drywall repairs, and the men who drive them over the edge. What more could you ask for? Kick back, load up your e-readers, and enjoy the men of Rocktoberfest!
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Vixen
A Mated at the North Pole Series book
From Author Wendy Rathbone
https://books2read.com/WRVixen
Series page: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CJR911J5
An all-star flying reindeer shifter. A shy but clever elf. One is overworked, the other excited to take on his new first job.
Coco:
This is the story of how I got stranded in a snowstorm at my boss’s house. And never left. (Did I mention my boss is a flying reindeer?)
Vixen:
This is the story of how I reluctantly went on a mandatory vacation and lied to Santa, all of which brought me the greatest love of my life.
Falling in love is not on their agenda, but love strikes when least expected. Can Coco and Vixen make things work in their personal lives while helping Santa have a low-stress, smooth delivery run on Christmas Eve?
Mpreg. Grumpy/sunshine. Age gap (22-40). A suspected alpha rut. An omega heat. A cool reindeer legend. Possibility of coal in a stocking. An adorable baby. Decorations, snow and roaring fireplaces. Steaming up those frosted windowpanes. HEA.
Vixen is the fourth book in the multi-author M/M Shifter Mpreg Christmas romance series Mated at the North Pole, featuring Santa’s reindeer who find their mates while on a mandatory vacation. There are ten books in the series. Why not read them all?
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A Daddy for Christmas 3: Benson
Brina Brady
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F734PKGW
https://books2read.com/Daddy-Benson
Grumpy /Sunshine, Truck Driver, Hitchhiker, Daddy Kink, Hurt & Comfort, MM Xmas Romance, Age Gap
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Thirty-year-old Benson McCoy hides behind a veil of precision and routine, his cab a sanctuary of order where every item has its place and every stop is timed to the minute. Beneath his tight-lipped smiles and mechanical schedule lies a man aching with loneliness, haunted by the time he never carved out for connection. As he hauls a load of toys cross-country from New York to Los Angeles, trapped in a cycle of work and his father’s expectations, Benson quietly yearns for something or someone to disrupt his solitude. He doesn’t expect that someone to be Kyle Foster, a charming storm of disarray who might just upend Benson’s rigid world and uncover the tenderness he’s tried so hard to bury.
Twenty-two-year-old Kyle, impulsive and reckless, runs from the chaotic mess of his own making with the sounds of sirens faintly echoing in the distance. Kyle shows up on the shoulder of some frozen NYC highway, hitchhiking toward California with half a plan and a backpack full of chaos. If anyone needs a daddy, it’s Kyle. He asks too many questions, laughs too loud, and doesn’t know how to shut down his heart or his mouth. Kyle’s presence is a messy explosion of honest emotion, impossible to ignore his whirlwind of unfiltered energy.
They hit the icy roads together—two strangers, one rig, and a growing tension neither of them knows what to do with. Between awkward silences, cheap diner meals, and late-night talks that get way too real, Benson and Kyle begin to crack each other open. Benson needs a boy, and Kyle needs a Daddy for Christmas. Neither of them was looking for love.
Love doesn’t always come knocking, but sometimes, it climbs into the passenger seat and refuses to shut up.
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A Daddy for Christmas 3 is a multi-author series. Holiday tales of lost boys in need of Daddy’s love and in some cases, a firm hand. Naughty or nice, it’s all in Santa’s hands now. So why not dive in and read each standalone and enjoy the holidays alongside our boys? The character’s theme is Grumpy and Sunshine.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FS2BHYJ3
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Brina Brady
https://books2read.com/A-Little-Christmas-Jamie
Series: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FG8WZWT2
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MM Christmas Romance, Hurt & Comfort, Abandoned Boy, Kind Daddy Dom
Lost in the Snow
Twenty-one-year-old Jamie is in for a rude awakening. What starts as a romantic Christmas getaway to Big Bear, California with his boyfriend, Daddy Tom, quickly devolves into a snow-covered nightmare. They've driven all the way from Long Beach, and Daddy Tom even promised Jamie a new jacket from a small boutique. But when Daddy Tom disappears after parking the car, Jamie is left stranded, his phone dead and his pockets empty.
As the snowstorm rages, Jamie waits, the chill seeping into his bones, until the store lights finally dim. Alone and without a jacket, he stumbles into the biting wind, eventually collapsing by the side of the road, tears freezing on his cheeks. Just as hope dwindles, a jeep pulls up, and a mysterious stranger offers a lifeline, driving Jamie to his cabin. But who is this man, and what will become of Jamie in the desolate, snow-covered mountains?
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This book is part of A Little Christmas: Season Four multi-author series. Each book in A Little Christmas is a standalone where every little is silly, unique, lovable, and downright adorable, so why not read them all?
