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Saturday Series Spotlight: SJD Peterson’s Whispering Pines Ranch & Contest

The books in this series are closely interconnected and should be read in order.

Title: Lorcan’s Desire by SJD Peterson
Whispering Pines Ranch Series
Publisher: Dreasmpinner Press
Genre: M/M, Contemporary, Erotic, Romance
Length: 200 pages

Summary:

Whispering Pines Ranch: Book One

Despite the loving support of his family, Lorcan James wants to try life on his own, so at twenty-one, he finds himself walking halfway across the country in search of adventure. What he finds is desperation, desperation that leads him straight to Whispering Pines Ranch and right into the path of its strong, arrogant, gorgeous owner, who awakens something in Lorcan he didn’t even know existed.

Quinn Taylor is up to his neck in grief and frustration dealing with a neighboring rancher who wants nothing more than to see him go belly-up. He doesn’t need more complications, but from the moment he lays eyes on Lorcan, his world turns upside down. Despite finding in Quinn what his heart craves, Lorcan refuses to be Quinn’s dirty little secret—and Quinn isn’t the only one vying for Lorcan’s attention. Ranch hand Jess will happily declare his love for Lorcan to the world, something Quinn won’t offer—something Lorcan needs above all else.


Title: Quinn’s Need by SJD Peterson
Whispering Pines Ranch Series
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: M/M, Contemporary, Erotic, BDSM/Kink, Romance
Length: 260 pages

Summary:

Sequel to Lorcan’s Desire
Whispering Pines Ranch: Book Two

It’s been a year since Lorcan James left Whispering Pines Ranch, and Quinn Taylor has barely recovered. Only two things keep him from falling into the abyss of despair: his work at the ranch and his escape into the world of BDSM at a club called The Push. At The Push, the sound of men begging him helps drown out the bitter memory of his own voice begging Lorcan to stay.

When Lorcan comes back to Pegasus, the same blistering heat simmers between them, but almost nothing has changed. Lorcan is still with Jess, the man he left the ranch with, and Quinn has captured the attention of Ty Callahan, a man who will beg Quinn for anything, anytime, and any way Quinn wants it. Despite how much he wants Lorcan, Quinn swears he’ll never beg a man again. If there’s one thing Quinn has learned the hard way, it’s that not even begging can fill love’s aching need.


Title: Ty’s Obsession by SJD Peterson
Whispering Pines Ranch Series
Publisher: Dramspinner Press
Genre: M/M, Contemporary, Erotic, BDSM/Kink, Romance
Length: 200 pages

Summary:

Sequel to Quinn’s Need
Whispering Pines Ranch: Book Three

Ty Callahan knew Quinn Taylor was special the moment he first laid eyes on him. When the angry and heartbroken cowboy finally opens up, Ty sees the real man inside, and for the first time in years, Ty is ready to love again. There’s only one problem: Lorcan James. Although Lorcan has owned a piece of Quinn’s heart for some time, Ty is convinced he is the better man for Quinn and will stop at nothing to prove it.

Then Blake Henderson, a strong, dominant cowboy, strolls confidently into Ty’s life, offering an outlet for Ty’s anger, a chance to heal, and an option for his torn affections. Can Ty look beyond his feelings of rage and betrayal and find true peace, or will his obsession destroy them all?


Title: Connor’s Courage by SJD Peterson
Whispering Pines Ranch Series
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: M/M, Contemporary, Erotic, Romance
Length: 200 pages

Summary:

Sequel to Ty’s Obsession
Whispering Pines Ranch: Book Four

John Price and Conner Burnett have been part of the Whispering Pines Ranch for the past thirty-seven years. A loving couple who have overcome every obstacle thrown at them, John and Conner are a testament to the strength of true love. But now John is in the hospital with a diagnosis of cancer, fighting for his very life.

As his lover struggles, Conner looks back on when they first met. The early seventies wasn’t an easy time to be a gay man, especially in a small country town. Considering John’s pride, Conner’s need to be himself, shame, bitterness, and two stubborn natures, their love story almost wasn’t written. But they beat the odds, and Conner will be damned if he’ll let anyone take John from him now. He had the courage to stand up for what he wanted in 1974. If need be, he’ll go toe to toe with God himself to keep the man he fought so hard to love.


Title: Jess’s Journey by SJD Peterson
Whispering Pines Ranch Series
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: M/M, Contemporary, Erotic, Romance
Length: 204 pages

Summary:

Sequel to Conner’s Courage
Whispering Pines Ranch: Book Five

At an early age, Jess Jenkins learned to take care of his family and friends and put their needs before his own. He dreamed of finding the same simple happiness his parents had and followed their example. Then Lorcan James broke his heart and an automobile accident broke his independent spirit. Now that’s all Jess is: a broken shadow of the man he used to be, still confined to a wheelchair after six months.

Jess is finally forced to put himself first and accept the help he needs on his journey toward recovery. Though pain, frustration, and depression leave him bitter and eager to push people away, his friends refuse to allow him to wallow in self-pity. Jack has only glimpsed the man beneath Jess’s angry shell, but he takes it upon himself to prove Jess isn’t broken. And Collin is determined to bring back the sweet man he once knew. The simple, happy life Jess has always wanted is there for the taking—all he has to do is open his eyes and see it.


I am giving away one eBook from the Whispering Pines series-WINNER’S CHOICE. Here’s how to enter the Saturday Series Spotlight contest:

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6. Leave a comment on this post telling me WHICH book in the series you would like to win by 5 PM Mountain Time Monday afternoon.

It’s that easy! The winner will be selected using random.org. I will e-mail one lucky winner the eBook of their choice in their preferred format. The winner will be announced on Tuesday.

***The eBooks in this giveaway have been purchased by Book Reviews & More by Kathy.***

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Always MJ by SJD Peterson Review & Contest

Title: Always MJ by SJD Peterson
From the A Mind Is a Sexy Thing Anthology
Publisher: Silver Publishing
Genre: M/M, Erotic, Romance
Length: 98 pages
Book Rating: B+

Review Copy Obtained from Author

Summary:

Matthew Jonathon Parker, Matty to his friends, never did anything spontaneous. Yet six months ago, during a ‘poor-me’ moment, he entered an online chat room and may have met the man of his dreams.

Matthew Jonathon Parker planned every aspect of his day. From the time he woke up until the exact minute he crawled back into bed, his day was set. He wasn’t the kind of man to seek out other men in chat rooms. He certainly wasn’t the type to fall in love with someone he only knew from typed words.
After a six-month online affair, Matty agrees to meet Jay in Florida for a weekend getaway. Only Jay isn’t what Matty expected; although, perhaps he should have known it was too good to be true.

After all, Jay’s screen name AlwaysMJ stands for ‘Always making jokes’–or does it?

The Review:

Always MJ by SJD Peterson is an absolutely charming love story. It is a delightfully fun and sexy read about finding love where you least expect it. It is also a beautiful example of taking a risk and opening your heart to love no matter how great the risk.

Matty Parker is just flat out adorable. He is predictable, logical and quite analytical and the only thing that saves him from total geekdom is his passion for hockey. The only spontaneous thing he has done in his life might just turn out to be the best decision he has ever made. However, Matty is in for the shock of his life when he comes face to face with the man he has been chatting with online for the past six month.

Jay is the complete opposite of Matty. He is a doer not a thinker and he acts on his instincts. Fun loving, life of the party and never taking anything or anyone seriously, Jay is the king of one night stands. That is until he falls for Matty. Now he has to convince Matty to give him the opportunity to prove his love and give their relationship a chance.

Always MJ by SJD Peterson is a wonderful heartwarming romance that will have you grinning from ear to ear as Matty and Jay fight their way to happily ever after. The plot is fresh and unique and an unexpected twist adds another layer to the Matty’s new relationship. The protagonists are marvelously flawed and easy to relate to. There is just enough conflict to keep the story moving at a fast pace and SJD Peterson perfectly wraps up this divine romance with a fabulous epilogue.

Definitely a book for the keeper shelf.


SJD Peterson is giving away a copy of Always MJ to ONE lucky commenter.

To enter the contest:

You Must Do TWO of the Following:

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5. To be eligible to enter contests on Book Reviews and More by Kathy you MUST fill out the contest entry form (found HERE). This form only needs to be filled out ONCE. Your privacy is important to me, and I will not share your information.

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6. Leave a comment on this post by 5 PM Mountain Time Saturday April 28, 2012.

It’s that easy! The winner will be selected using random.org. I forward the winner’s information to Ms. Peterson and she will send your copy of Always MJ to you in your desired format. The winner will be announced on Sunday April 29th.

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Friday Feature: SJD Peterson and Contest for Battle Buddy

Today’s Friday Feature is a spotlight of Battle Buddy, SJD Peterson’s upcoming release at Silver Publishing.

Title: Battle Buddy by SJD Peterson
Publisher: Silver Publishing
Genre: M/M, Contemporary, Erotic, Romance
Length: 67 pages

Summary:

Shane Tucker joined the Army to hide behind “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”. It was working too, until he was paired with sexy Owen Bradford as his Battle Buddy. If boot camp doesn’t kill him, the temptation of Owen’s sinful body surely will.

Shane Tucker joins Uncle Sam’s Army at nineteen. Tucker is gay, but not ready to be open about his orientation and “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” seems like a convenient way to avoid having to dealing with his sexuality.

The Army suits Tucker; he does well right from the beginning. Things get harder for Tucker during boot camp when he is assigned a “Battle Buddy”. Owen Bradford is a walking, talking wet dream, with no concept of personal space–he especially likes being in Tucker’s personal space. Tucker barely survives boot camp living with the constant temptation that is Owen Bradford.

Two years later, Tucker–now in the Army Ranger program–is paired up with Owen once again. Getting through training while ignoring the sizzling sexual tension between him and his “Battle Buddy” might be the biggest test of Tucker’s military career.

EXCERPT:

Harmony Church sounds like a sweet description for a choir singing in tune together on any given Sunday morning. Well, I’m Shane Tucker and I’m here to tell you, Camp Rogers in the Harmony Church area of Fort Benning, Georgia is anything but sweet. No neatly lined pews, stained glass windows, preacher trying to save my soul and no choir singing hymns. In fact, Harmony Church was the first step toward my descent into hell.

At nineteen, I’d gotten this bright idea that joining the army was a great alternative to mucking cow shit and mending fences. I was ready too, or so I thought. I memorized the seven Army Core Values, good thing because I slept, ate, and um… ate some more about those damn core values, all within the first two weeks. I also prepared my body, best I could. I’ve always been a big guy, six foot two inches by the time I was seventeen, and growing up on a farm insured my muscles were well defined. A few months before I shipped out I’d started running every day, doing push-ups, sit-ups, the whole routine, thought I was looking pretty damn good. In the best shape of my life.

Don’t let anyone bullshit you about being prepared for Army basic training, it can’t be done. No one can truly be ready for the kind of fucked up training the army puts a person through. The strenuous physical activities, drills, running, push-ups, sit-ups, and even chin-ups are a breeze compared to the psychological shit they throw at you. You find out the hard way you’re either mentally strong enough to make it through or you aren’t.

The army breaks down basic training into three phrases. Phase I is called the Red Phase, Phase II is White, and Phase III–you guessed it–Blue. Very patriotic of them, huh? Before I was allowed to start Phase I, I had to spend a little time in Purgatory, officially known as The Reception Battalion. Growing up I heard my daddy complain about how slow the government was. He was always bitching about one thing or another when it came to their idea of productivity. I’ve actually seen how slow the government is up close and in–well, I can’t say action–because for the first two weeks, I didn’t see a lot of action at all. I’m convinced to this day that The Reception Battalion is apparently where government officials are sent to learn about taking their damn sweet time getting anything done. I waited and waited… and yeah, waited. When I got bored with waiting, I practiced waiting some more. What I learned while sitting around during those two weeks is that if the bureaucrats ever got their heads out of their asses and efficiently organized the intake process, it would take hours instead of weeks. I never shared my theory with them. I may have been young, but not stupid. Those folks just didn’t seem like the kind that would be receptive to my innovative ideas. I learned later in training I was dead right about that.

By the time I was finally loaded onto a bus to begin the real training I was looking forward to boot camp. After two weeks of shots, waiting, paperwork, waiting, issued uniforms, waiting, haircut, waiting, I remember eagerly loading onto the bus thinking anything had to be better than the constant fucking waiting. Christ, how naive I was. All my delusions of things getting better went out the window as soon as the drill sergeants came on the scene. I mean, we’d had drill sergeants during Purgatory, but they didn’t really yell that much then. My theory was either that only the pansy-ass drill sergeants were assigned to Purgatory, or it’s where the sons of bitches that lost their voices were dumped once they couldn’t terrorize the new recruits with their hollering. The moment we stepped off the bus, the drill sergeants no longer talked, they yelled, and apparently a side effect from yelling so much was they lost most of their hearing, because they could only hear you if you yelled back at the top of your lungs.

I learned three very important lessons within the first couple of hours after stepping off the bus for Phase I. First, do not, for any reason, call a drill sergeant ‘sir’. For some reason that pissed them off, and they would go off on a tirade about how they worked for a living, blah, blah, blah. Second, do not, and I repeat, do not look your drill sergeant in the eye. If I thought he was psycho about being called ‘sir’–holy shit–looking him in the eye caused the veins in his neck to pop out and his face to turn bright red while he stared back at me with his eyeball about an eighth of an inch away from mine. You do not want a drill sergeant going psycho and exploding while that close to you. The third thing I learned, and this lesson came as a direct result from my saying ‘sir’ and ‘eyeballing’ a drill sergeant, was that their favorite phrase was “Drop and give me twenty”. I was ‘dropped’ many a time during the Red Phase. Individually, paired up with some other poor sap who had the same deer-in-a-headlight stare I had, and as an entire platoon. Actually, now that I come to think of it, there’s a fourth thing I learned. Before signing on to join Uncle Sam’s Army, I’d always thought of myself as a problem solver, someone who could figure out easier ways to do things, and I always felt like I could keep situations under control. I was confident of being pretty much in control of my destiny and myself. The trainee having any control over anything was a myth in boot camp. The recruiter, who sang to me the praises of army life, failed to tell me that, while the Army might like initiative and innovation, drill sergeants hated it. That would have been a handy bit of information to have before I started boot camp. My advice to any new recruit–leave your need to keep situations under control at home because, whether it’s the hard way or the easy way, by the end of the first week, you will have to be able to do what you’re told, when you’re told, and exactly how you’re told to do it.

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Battle Buddy inspired by Don’t Ask Don’t Tell…. The next story Beyond Duty will be…. well check it out below 🙂

Goodreads M/M Romance Group

What’s more wonderful than love? How about a summer filled with short custom written love stories by our talented writers? What about stories written just for you but shared with all? How about a lot of them? Our member writers are being encouraged to indulge us with their creativity. Over 150 stories will be offered for free. Read them as they are posted in the group or wait till they come out at ARE in an anthology

Here is the story prompt I fell in love with:

Beyond Duty

Virgina wrote:
He’s been in my life for two decades. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell ended too late for us as we were months from retirement. We spent so much of our lives in the closet, hiding our love, that I worry if we can hold it together when we’re out. I’m scared of losing him. For me, he’s the hottest thing I’ve ever seen still and I know he could get guys half my age without trying hard. Why would he stick with me now? But he always knows…he knows when I need him to center me – to remind me of what we have. We’re in it together to the end.

If an author selects this…I LOVE BDSM. Please, please…

Edited to clarify: I see the man facing forward as a sub and the other man as his dom. They’ve had stolen moments over the years but never the time and privacy to truly explore their D/s needs at the level they have desired. Now they do since they have retired. I enjoy a little angst (no cheating) but definitely want a HEA. Moderate BDSM would work great. Author, up to you if you take this mind. Ultimately, author, if you pick this one I’ll be pleased no matter what you do to give my guys a story!

Keep an eye on my blog for more details coming soon and for blurb and excerpt!


To celebrate the release of Battle Buddy and her visit here today, Ms. Peterson is giving away a digital copy of Battle Buddy to one lucky commenter.


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It’s that easy! The winner will be announced Monday March 19th.

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