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Caution some of this blog contains content intended for people 18+ only!!!

What do men want?

Answer? Not much different from women. They want love, respect and someone to believe in them. But, and there always is a but, they’re more direct in their needs and desires. Sex is like breathing. They want hard and rough and hot. The partner who can take all that and more is their ideal.

Writing the male POV? Think of the men in your life. The man you love. The men that drive you mad with their grunts and unwanted opinions. Then think of the man who beds you and makes you scream with pleasure because he knows exactly what you want and need. Think edgy, hard and possessive. Think need and tenderness.

Men. They’re complex. To write from their perspective? A real challenge. Nothing is worse than reading a male/male book where one of the characters’ names could be changed to a female name and the story wouldn’t change at all. But written with understanding? Ahh the best romance and hottest sex ever.   

Do I know it all? Hell no. Will I keep striving to improve? Hell yes!

“Summer Sizzle”, my third male/male erotic romance, released from Ellora’s Cave on 19 November. My fourth, “Perfectly Presented”, a holiday story, is coming from Torquere on 15 December.

Here is an excerpt from “Summer Sizzle”.

Caution 18+ only!!! The following is extremely NAUGHTY!!

“Enough,” said Craig, standing up. “Let’s go to bed.”

“Good plan.” Casually Seth dropped his towel and let his cock lead the way out of the room.

Craig retrieved the lube and condoms from the bathroom while Seth pulled the covers down the bed. He piled the pillows up behind his back and lounged against the headboard, his legs spread, his cock pointing straight up.

“God, you look hot.” Craig had left his towel in the bathroom and was now naked. His cock was huge and hard, the head reddish purple with excitement.

“Climb up here and let me suck you. I want to play with that barbell.”

Craig slid across the bed, his arms open to pull Seth into a bear hug. They wrestled a little on the bed, each one demonstrating his muscles but both careful not to hurt the other. Seth, larger and stronger than Craig, ended up on top and sat across Craig’s hips. Then he swiveled around to lie on top of the other man, and sucked Craig’s cock deep into his mouth. His tongue played with the jewelry, rolling it and sliding all around it, then slipping into the eye of his cock to lick the tiny drop of liquid already there. Then Seth relaxed his throat and took Craig in unbelievably deep. The other man groaned loudly. “God, that’s good.”

Craig wiggled around a bit so his mouth was level with Seth’s cock and he began gently biting his way along the length. Seth let Craig pop out of his mouth for a moment to say, “Oh, yeah I like that!” before sucking Craig in again as deep as he could go.

While Seth sucked and played his tongue around the ridge and the piercing, Craig nibbled and bit, adding bites of pleasure-pain alternating with soothing sucking.

Very quickly Seth’s brain was frying with sensory overload. The cock in his mouth tasted totally delicious. It was long and hard and hot, and playing with the barbell was fun. Craig was also very sensitive along the join between cock and cock head and Seth was enjoying teasing along that line, cranking up the tension. He opened the back of his throat wide and swallowed as much of Craig as he could, taking the man impossibly deep and loving every moment of it.

Meanwhile the sensations coming from Craig’s efforts on his own cock were setting his nerves endings on fire. Seth loved a little pain with his pleasure and the nips and sucks along his cock were just the perfect blend of pleasure and pain. Sharp tugs of teeth, soothing laps of tongue.

Seth deep throated Craig again, sucking with all his might, knowing he was close to coming and guessing that Craig was too.

Craig cracked a palm hard on his ass. His body jumped as he sucked even harder on the luscious cock in his mouth.

Craig slapped him again, hard, twice in quick succession. It was enough. His cock exploded huge bursts of cum and Craig’s cock down his throat did likewise. Hastily Seth pulled his mouth back a little so he could swallow every tangy, spicy drop of cum, then sucked hard again, causing Craig to give him another spurt of delicious seed. He licked the head clean then sadly let the cock drop out of his mouth.

Craig dragged on his arm, pulling him around, and they lay together, heads on the same pillow, and cuddled. Craig reached down to pull the bedding over them and they relaxed into each other’s arms, totally satiated for the moment.

Blurb “Summer Sizzle”

Craig and Seth are both on holidays at Two Waters beach. The lust between them is instant and fiercely hot. Sex at the beach, in the woods, in the sauna… When they take a break from having sex they discover they have many interests in common and begin to build a relationship outside the bedroom.

Their growing intimacy is interrupted when Seth is called to a meeting at the school where he teaches. Seth is shattered when he and most of his colleagues find themselves suddenly unemployed due to school consolidation. His well-ordered life has come to a crashing halt, along with his vacation—and perhaps his romance.

BIO: Berengaria is a multi-published author of erotic romance: contemporary, paranormal (ghosts, vampires and werewolves) and Regency-set historical. She loves to read all different kinds of romance so that is what she writes: one man/one woman; two women; two men; two men/one woman; three men…. Whatever the characters need for their very hot happily-ever-after, Berengaria makes sure they get it.

Find out more about Berengaria Brown here http://berengariasblog.blogspot.com/ or here http://berengariabrown.webs.com/ or get your copy of Summer Sizzle here http://www.jasminejade.com/p-8879-summer-sizzle.aspx

Glad Hands

By: Angelia Sparrow, Naomi Brooks

Synopsis from Ellora’s Cave

Chuck rolls his rig across the no-longer-United States, from Montana to Arkansas. He expects a fast run with no complications. What he doesn’t expect is Seven, a pretty blue-eyed drifter who turns not only his head but makes his blood boil.

His gayness tattooed into his very skin, Seven needs Chuck’s help to escape the very limited life Heartland forces upon him. And when the even more repressive Confederated States take an interest, Chuck and Seven are in for the ride of their lives.

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Glad Hands by: Angelia Sparrow, Naomi Brooks

Review by Missy

3/5 Whips in the Backseat

There are a lot of things I liked about this book and that attracted me to the story when I read the synopsis and excerpt.  We find ourselves with a truck driver in an America divided.  I mean by more then our politics and party lines that might be dividing us currently.  We are talking Iron Curtain type boarders here.  So in a country come undone there is left this scary place where you have to worry about breaking laws you did not know existed or facing prejudices made legal like those against Homosexuality that this book’s characters face.

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It is this conflict and tension that caused me to say, me, me, I want that one to review please!  Sadly the paragraph I just wrote leads you to believe there is more depth to the story then actually develops.  We have an interesting world.  Chuck, one of our main characters has to almost go into “Enemy Territory” with his truck – and quite frankly the amount of detail about the truck and the rig and the hitch and the coupling and the gear shift really detracted from the depth of the world, dramatic moments, and the experience of being there with the characters.  In a very interesting locale the focus of the description was the same as we see today Big Rig truck.

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I think my car runs by magic, should I understand it better?  Likely.  Do I care?  If I did I would read the manual front to back and then maybe take an automotive class.  I put in gas, get the oil changed, and turn the key.  I drive an automatic and I have relied on the kindness of strangers in the past when it came to things like checking my oil.  After reading this book I feel there is a good possibility I could use it as a manual to operate an 18wheeler all on my own.  But those parts were on par with reading my car manual too.

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So back to the story, putting aside the technical detail I want to address the Romance.  Our two heros Chuck and Seven are an interesting match.  Seven stranded in a part of the country where they try to cure homosexuality with shock therapy is the kind of fascinating, broken character that makes an alternative near future like this interesting and accessible.  Chuck comes from a more liberal area of the country and the scenes with them together have the potential to really get to the guts of the matter.  Unfortunately the story has one of the biggest No-No’s that a Romance can have.  The main characters are always APART!

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It takes our boys forever to meet – at which point my eyes are glazed.  Then they get separated.  During the separation my eyes glaze again.  Then there is the great build up- a kinda universal question.  After a great big adventure, does the relationship last?  They even mention it at the end of the movie Speed.  I get two people being together while the adrenaline is pumping, but what happens AFTER?  I need to believe the HEA or the Romance does not really work for me and if that element is lacking the story tends to end on a hollow note.

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For a quick read, some action, adventure, a little pulse pounding reading, this was an okay tale.  I warn you though, if you are looking for more of a romance and connection between heroes, Glad Hands just does not seem to have enough face time between Chuck and Seven to fit that bill.