Big thanks to
Dawn Roberto for hosting me on her blog today. I'm going to take the
opportunity to introduce you all to a new "on its way to gay romance"
humorous paranormal series I'm working on: Critter Catchers. I describe it in
such a way because the two main characters are Cody Bower and Demetrius
Singleton, two twenty-eight year olds who have been best friends since
kindergarten. They grew up and still live in Parson's Hollow, a small town in
western Pennsylvania. Cody is tall, handsome, athletic, and straight, a serial
dater of girls all through school and now women in and around Parson's Hollow.
Demetrius is just under six feet tall, not quite as handsome as Cody, more
bookish than athletic, and gay. He's looking for a monogamous relationship and
is still finding his way after the break-up of his longest lasting relationship
of two years. They decide to open an animal control business together and are
now spending pretty much all of their time together. When their first case ends
in a horrendous crime scene, the two work to clear their names and track down
the killer, dodging the long list of Cody's ex-girlfriends along the way. They
also begin to develop deeper and stronger feelings for each other, but are
unsure what it means and how to address it. As in real life, it's not going to
happen fast, but it will happen, I promise! Check out the excerpt below from
the first book in the series, "Terror By Moonlight: Critter Catchers Book
One." Happy Holidays and here's to an amazing year in 2016!
Book Blurb:
Terror By Moonlight: Critter Catchers Book One
Contemporary Paranormal humorous "might be gay
for you" romance
Wilde City Press
Cody Bower and Demetrius Singleton have been friends
for over twenty years even though they are polar opposites. Cody is tall, handsome,
athletic, and straight, and Demetrius is average height, more of a thinker, and
gay. They have started an animal control business together and have to figure
out how to be business partners without letting it affect their friendship, but
that’s the least of their problems. When one of their first clients ends up
brutally murdered in what appears to be an animal attack, the two realize
something big and dangerous is stalking their tiny town of Parson’s Hollow, and
it’s up to them to catch it before it kills again.
Buy Links:
Wilde City Press: https://www.wildecity.com/books/gay-romance/terror-by-moonlight-critter-catchers-book-one/#.VlikxcrWFFU
Barnes: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/terror-by-moonlight-hank-edwards/1123002676?ean=2940157896768
Excerpt:
“Thank you for calling Critter Catchers. We’re, uh,
not in our right fucking minds at the moment and may call you back if we feel
like it.” Cody mashed the disconnect button and tipped his head back to shout
“FUCK!” at the ceiling.
Demetrius shook his head as he sifted through papers
on his desk. “I don’t really think that message will encourage anyone to leave
us their number to bring in business so we can pay off a few of these bills.
You might want to rethink your strategy.”
Cody looked over, widened his dark brown eyes, and
slipped that gorgeous, half-cocky, half-helpless grin into place. “Come on,
Demmy, just do this one thing for me, okay? You know I’m not good at stuff like
this.”
The grin usually worked. Demetrius was a sucker for
Cody’s grin, had been all the years they’d been friends, but not this time. He
had to stand firm, had to get Cody to see that being part owner of a business
meant having to do the crappy stuff like phone messages and paperwork and
ironing their uniform shirts, and not just the fun field work stuff.
“Nope, not gonna do it.” Demetrius shook his head.
“Consider it a growing experience for you.”
Cody narrowed his eyes before slamming the phone down
again. “Fine. I need a moment to collect myself.”
“Fine.” Demetrius watched him get up and pace the
length of their narrow office. Thirty steps to the back of the office, thirty
steps to the front, and fifteen feet from side wall to side wall. The office was
barely tall enough for Cody’s six foot five frame, seemed barely wide enough to
accommodate his broad shoulders, and was definitely too small to contain his
personality.
“I hope you find your inner phone message muse before
someone calls us,” Demetrius said.
“You know, you’re being kind of a bitch right now,”
Cody practically whimpered as he paced by Demetrius’s desk. “I mean, we’ve been
friends for twenty-one—”
“Twenty-three,” Demetrius corrected automatically as
he continued to shuffle through the mail.
“—years now, and you should know the things I have
trouble with and the things that are my… well, my strengths.” Cody came to a
stop right beside Demetrius’s desk, his big hands hanging straight down, and a
tortured look on a face seven times too handsome for the tiny town of Parson’s
Hollow.
Demetrius sighed, folded his hands on the stack of
unpaid bills, and focused on Cody’s dark brown eyes. “Cody Bower.”
A slight grin turned up one corner of Cody’s mouth.
“Demetrius Singleton.”
“We have been friends for twenty-three years.”
“Twenty-three?” Cody frowned.
“Twenty-three. And during these twenty-three years of
friendship, I have come to understand your inner workings, and, shall we say,
the way you operate.”
Cody smirked his seductive smirk and perched one fine,
firm ass cheek on the corner of Demetrius’s desk. “When you say it that way, it
sounds really romantic.”
Demetrius sighed and dropped his gaze to the desk,
shaking his head. “It would, Cody, if not for the fact that you are
unabashedly, undeniably, certifiably straight and I… Well, I am not.”
“Fine.” Cody pushed off from Demetrius’s desk and sat
in his chair, lowered almost to the floor as he liked it. He tipped back and
put his big boots up on his desk. “You know how a lot of things people do are fun
and enjoyable and stay with them the rest of their lives?”
“Yes.”
“This is not one of those things.”
“Just pull on your big-boy pants and do your part for
our company.”
Author Bio:
Hank Edwards is a curious mix of practical realist and
feral dreamer. He is a fan of absurd comedy, as evidenced in the sizzling and
hilarious Charlie Heggensford Fluffers, Inc. series, as well as Plus Ones, his
wacky rom-com. He also loves a good mystery and suspense story, which inspired
his Up to Trouble series, featuring FBI Agent Aaron Pearce and his lover Mark
Beecher who met during one case and have gone on to solve others. His love of
chills and thrills prompted him to create the Venom Valley series, which
combines vampires and zombies with Old West cowboys. He is also a member of the
Story Orgy group (www.facebook.com/SOGroup), a clan of writers who post free
gay romance reads to their blogs every Monday morning and self-publish steamy
stories based on writing prompts. Like him on Facebook
(www.facebook.com/hankedwardsbooks or www.facebook.com/venomvalleyseries) and
follow him on Twitter (@hanksbooks) to become a true "Hankie." You
may also visit his website at www.hankedwardsbooks.com or send along an email
to hankedwardsbooks@gmail.com.
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