Chat with engaging and funny erotic romance authors at Realms of Love. Laura Baumbach and Vincent Diamond join Lucynda Storey in the Realms of Love Chat Castle Monday, August 6 at 9 PM EDT / 6 PM PDT. There will be give aways.
Vincent Diamond is a native Floridian who edited Animal Attraction for Torquere Press, and whose work has appeared in Screaming Orgasms and Sex on the Beach, Coming Together for a Cure, Country Boys, Hot Cops, Love in a Lock-Up, Best Gay Romance 2007, Best Gay Love Stories 2005 and 2006; electronically in Feathers, Chance Encounters, and Play Ball from Torquere Press; and online at Fishnet, Clean Sheets and Ruthie's Club.
Diamond once drove from Tampa to Anchorage, Alaska in the days before the Alcan Highway was paved. (Hey, Vincent was young and there was this hunky Army lieutenant--nothing more need to be said.). Diamond gleefully buys smutty periodicals for "research materials" and lists them on a Schedule C every year. The IRS has yet to question this deduction.
Diamond's stories are varied, including erotica, space opera, and cops-n-robbers. Mushybutt, romantic smut is a self-description for the erotica where partners--instead of just the parts--are the focus. An emotional connection, even a tiny one, is what torque's Diamond's cork. .
Time away from the keyboard is spent riding horses, gardening, and pondering the inestimatable beauty of tigers. More info is at: www.vincentdiamond.com.
Laura Baumbach is the author of fan fiction, screenplays and numerous short stories, novellas, and novels. Her favorite genre to work in is manlove or m/m erotic romances. Manlove is not traditional gay fiction, but erotic romances written specifically for the romantic-minded reader, male or female. She works as an emergency trauma nurse by night and an author by day, with her husband and two sons filling in her free hours.
Her first published book of original fiction titled A Bit of Rough, a short story published by Alyson Books in their Ultimate Gay Erotica 2007, evolved into her first M/M erotic romance novel of the same name, currently print published by MLR Press.
A Bit of Rough placed #4 in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll for favorite romance novel and Laura placed in the Top Ten of the Readers Poll for favorite Author in 2005. A Bit of Rough was a 2005 CAPA nominee, and a 2005 RWA Erotic Romance Passionate Plume Finalist for best contemporary novel,
he first time a M/M story has placed in the competition. Currently her short vampire M/M story Enthralled is a 2006 RWA Erotic Romance Passionate Plume Finalist.
In March of 2006 she released her M/M erotic paranormal werewolf story, Out There In The Night, with LooseId in e-book format, and now available through MLR Press in print format.
Details of the Hunt combined 18th century pirates with 26th century bounty hunters. It was a 2006 EPPIE Finalist published with LooseId and MLR Press. The next in the seven books series, Genetic Snare will be available in the fall of 2007.
Roughhousing, the sequel to her best-selling A Bit of Rough was released in January 2007. While the contemporary M/M romance novel with a thriller element, Mexican Heat, featuring a blind detective
and his Latin lover set in the steamy tropics, is next up on the list with MLR Press the winter of 2007.
She is also the author of The Flight of the Sparrows, an action/adventure mainstream thriller released with Aspen Mountain Press and MLR Press, and six screenplays. Find out more about Laura Baumbach at http://laurabaumbach.com/
Stop by for some fun chat with Laura, Vincent and Lucynda. Be sure to register and log in at Realms of Love before the chat and click on "Chat" under "Explore the Realm."
Next Week? Hostess Lizzie T Leaf has Deborah Smith and Sloane Taylor as guests.
