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    MUSIC MONDAY: Philadelphia by Alt-J

    July 25, 2022 / 1 Comment

    You pick a song that you really like and share it on Monday.

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    MUSIC MONDAY: King Of Sweden by Future Islands

    March 14, 2022
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    MUSIC MONDAY: The Actor by Alt-J

    May 16, 2022 / 1 Comment

    You pick a song that you really like and share it on Monday.

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    SOUNDTRACK: Every Other Freckle by Alt-J

    March 18, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Necessary Evils: Moonstruck by Onley James

    Every Other Freckle by Alt-J for a book about a ginger psychopathic vigilante killer, who hates (and is not very good at) killing, meeting the non-psychopathic vigilante killer who wants to be his everything, including be his proxy killer. Calls the grumpy ginger, “Freckles”.

    All hand claps
    You will clap
    (Let me be the wallpaper that papers up your room)
    I want to be every button you press
    And all the baths that surround you
    Yes, I’m gonna roll around you
    Like a cat rolls around saw-dusted patios
    I’m gonna kiss you like the sun browns you

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    BLOG TOUR: Whiskey and Warfare by E.M. Hamill (Excerpt & Giveaway)

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    March 18, 2022 / No Comments

    Ah
    I want to share your mouthful
    I want to do all the things your lungs do so well
    I’m gonna bed into you like a cat beds into a beanbag
    Turn you inside out to lick you like a crisp packet

    Hey!
    Hey!
    Hey!
    Hey!
    Hey!
    Hey!

    You’re the first and last of your kind
    (Pull me like an animal out of a hole!)
    I wanna be every lever you pull
    And all showers that shower you
    Gonna paw paw at you
    Like a cat paws at my woolen jumper
    Be your Minpin
    And Borrower of handsome trivia

    Hey!

    Oh, devour me
    Ah
    Lou Lou, let the cover girls sing
    Hey!

    Do, do do do, do do do do
    Do do do, do do do, do do do do, do do
    Do, do do do, do do, do do, do do
    Do do do, do do

    All hand claps
    You will clap
    (Let me be the wallpaper that papers up your room)
    I want to be every button you press
    And all the baths that surround you
    Yes, I’m gonna roll around you
    Like a cat rolls around saw-dusted patios
    I’m gonna kiss you like the sun browns you

    Hey!

    Oh oh oh oh oh devour me
    Oh oh oh oh oh oh devour me
    Oh oh oh oh oh (Oh oh oh oh oh)
    Oh oh oh oh oh
    Oh oh oh oh oh (Oh oh oh oh oh)
    If you really think that you can stomach me

    Hey hey!

    Hey!
    Hey!
    Hey!

    I want every other freckle
    I want every other freckle
    I want every other freckle
    I want every other freckle
    I want every other freckle
    I want every other freckle
    I want every other freckle
    I want every other freckle
    Freckle

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    MUSIC MONDAY: Hard Drive Gold by Alt-J

    January 31, 2022 / 1 Comment

    You pick a song that you really like and share it on Monday.

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    Possible Queer Story Prompts Inspired by Songs

    May 16, 2020 / 1 Comment

    Many times I hear a song and think, hmm that would make a good soundtrack for this or that novel. But once in a while, I hear a song and think, hey this would make a good book. Songs are basically stories with music anyway.

    This post is about songs that I think would make a good basis for a story. I have no storytelling skills whatsoever so I hope some creative mind somewhere would make these happened.


    NYC – Interpol

    “I had seven faces
    Thought I knew which one to wear
    But I’m sick of spending these lonely nights
    Training myself not to care
    The subway is a porno
    Pavements, they are a mess
    I know you’ve supported me for a long time
    Somehow, I’m not impressed
    “

    Prompt: A young immigrant cab driver, a mysterious non-binary individual takes a ride to nowhere, a city on the brink. Gritty, urban fantasy with something like what Tara Sim did with her clock spirits in Timekeeper trilogy but with cities.


    Knee Socks – Arctic Monkeys

    “When the zeros line up on the 24 hour clock
    When you know who’s calling even though the number is blocked
    When you walked around your house wearing my sky blue Lacoste
    And your knee socks
    “

    Prompt: A sapphic coming of age, new adult story involving midnight phone calls, stolen kisses in coat closets and the tantalizing zettai ryouiki


    CVS – Winnetka Bowling League‘

    “And I wanna buy you
    Chocolate hearts from CVS
    Kiss you too hard and follow you west
    Sing you sad songs on a Sunday afternoon
    Yeah I think I’d like to
    Tie you in ways that you can’t undo
    Dinner in bed and Korean food
    Say I love you just a little bit too soon”

    Prompt: Ok so taking it literally the entire chorus of this song had the makings of a fluffy rom com with a dash of kink.


    Something Good – Alt J

    “Something good, oh something good tonight will make me forget about you for now.
    Get high, hit the floor before you go.
    Matador, estocada, you’re my blood sport.
    But something good tonight will make me forget about you for now
    Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you,Now that I’m fully clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view.
    Get high, hit the floor before you go.
    Matador, estocada, you’re my blood sport.
    Forty-eight thousand seats bleats and roars for my memories of you,
    Now that I am clean the matador is no more and is dragged from view.
    But something good tonight will make me forget about you for now.”

    Prompt: A dark, angsty shifter story about a were-bull and a matador complete with enemies to lovers, forbidden love romance with lots of horns, blood, and roses. But make it a happy ending.

    This is the video that inspired this post. When I first saw it, I was in a shifter mood and thought there was SOMETHING between the bull and the matador, especially at the end of the song. Like they were sorry they had to do it to each other.


    Anyway, that’s me and my brain on gay. Hope you enjoyed this post. What songs do you think would make a good book? Where do you usually get your story ideas?

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    MUSIC MONDAY: Deadcrush by Alt-J

    April 27, 2020 / No Comments

    I found this tag on Read Rant Rock & Roll. This meme was created by Drew @ The Tattooed Book Geek. You pick a song that you really like and share it on Monday.

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    BOOKISH PLAYLIST: Songs About Reading, Libraries and Classics

    July 6, 2019 / No Comments

    From David Byrne raving about books that blew him away to Carl Barat ranting about Dorian Gray, here are 25 songs for those wonderful bookish moments.


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    August 12, 2017 / No Comments


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18 Jun

PROMO BLITZ: To Defend a Damaged Duke by Fearne Hill



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DESERT ISLAND CASTAWAYS: Oliver Takely

Our favorite  MM authors a.k.a. castaways are asked, what books, songs and luxury item would they take to a desert island?

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BOOK TOUR: America’s Not-So-Sweetheart by Blair Hanson



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Falling for a royal guard with glowing eyes and a lethal energy punch? Definitely not on my Terrafeara survival bingo card. But here we are.

PROMO BLITZ: Kael by Becca Seymour



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