Blog Tour Stop including Author Guest Post & Giveaway - A Barlow Lens by Elizabeth Noble ~ BFD Book Blog

Book Name: A Barlow Lens

Book Two of the Circle series. Can be read alone, but best read as a series.

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22961574-a-barlow-lens

Author Name: Elizabeth Noble

Author Bio:

Elizabeth Noble started telling stories before she actually knew how to write, and her family was very happy when she learned to put words on a page. Those words turned into fan fiction that turned into a genuine love of M/M romance fiction. Being able to share her works with Dreamspinner is really a dream come true. She has a real love for a good mystery complete with murder and twisty plots as well as all things sci-fi, futuristic, and supernatural and a bit of an unnatural interest in a super-volcano in Wyoming.

Elizabeth has three grown children and is now happily owned by an adorable mixed breed canine princess named Rosie, and two cats, Murphy and Yeti. She lives in her native northeast Ohio, the perfect place for gardening, winter and summer sports (go Tribe!). When she’s not writing she’s working as a veterinary nurse, so don’t be surprised to see her men with a pet or three who are a very big part of their lives.

Two of Elizabeth’s books have received Honorable Mentions in the Rainbow Awards.

Where can you find Elizabeth Noble?:

Website http://www.elizabeth-noble.com

Circles website: http://elizabeth-noble-circles.weebly.com/

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Author Guest Post:

We asked Elizabeth to tell us what she likes/dislikes about the various genres in which she’s written.

Hello and thank you for hosting me today.

I’m a genre hopper. There, I’ve said it. That’s not such a bad thing. I think if I stuck to writing in one genre I’d eventually get bored.

My first love is scifi, and as we all know, our first is special. The thing I really love about scifi is the vast and endless possibilities. I can create whatever world I want and make it as different or similar to our own as pleases me. That’s the most difficult thing about scifi. There is a rule for scifi writing that says you have to make it plausible. So, if your characters can get from here to there in 8.3 seconds, there had better be a solid, believable reason even if it’s not something that could actually happen in our world. You have to present it in such a way that the reader believes it could happen.

Next is my newest genre, urban fantasy. I enjoy all the different creatures that can be dropped into our existing world and society. It’s fun having vampires and werewolves as part of the general population and working out how they’d interact, do they keep what they are a secret and what are the benefits for them. The possibilities there are endless. Much of fantasy totally suspends reality and relies a great deal on simply accepting a certain set of events can and do happen. Coming from more of a scifi background that’s difficult for me. I want to give my readers a plausible, scientific explanation.

Last, but certainly not least is contemporary fiction. In one way contemporary is easy. The world it’s written has already been formulated. There are no complicated explanations about why this or that can and does happen. The rules have been established for me. I don’t have to explain to readers the basic day to day workings of the world. We already know those facts. What I like about writing contemporaries is what I find the most challenging about that genre. This world—our world—has rules. In contemporary novels those rules must be adhered to or else it’s not a contemporary novel.

The Circles series are contemporary mystery/suspense novels. While I write a story, or while I’m preparing to write a story there is a small mountain of research that must be completed, no matter what the genre. When working out the details of a contemporary novel a lot of the work has been done for me. There are sources everywhere, online and in print, neatly organized that tell me how a law enforcement agency works, what policies they follow and so on. On the flip side I must have my characters and storyline adhere to those rules. It can be frustrating to get a great plot idea and find out it simply wouldn’t happen in today’s society for whatever reason. One of the coolest aspects of writing this genre is I can go and see some of the places I’ve written about, or have seen them. In the case of some of the Circles novellas I live in the same locale my characters do.

I would write in a genre I didn’t like, and I love all three of the genres I’m currently writing in. They all have pros and cons, but at the end of the day I can honestly say I think I have a little bit of something for everyone.

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Cover Artist: TL Bland

Blurb(s):

While planning a future with his partner, Val, Wyatt’s past refuses to be forgotten. Wyatt’s old friend asks him to look into the mysterious death of her uncle in a fire back in 1927, when men were silent, tough, and did not love other men—except when they did. Working with Val, Wyatt digs up clues uncovering the truth behind the tragic school fire and the one responsible. The story of Tom and Philip slowly reveals itself, and Wyatt and Val realize nothing is as simple as they originally believed. As their trail heats up, an old enemy of Wyatt’s decides he’s waited long enough for revenge. If Wyatt can’t tie everything together, history might repeat itself.

Categories: Contemporary, M/M Romance, Mystery, Thriller

Excerpt:

Once they were back at their hotel, Wyatt ushered Val into their room, not bothering with the light. They were high enough up there was no need to close the drapes, and light from the city cast a soft glow over them.

As Val unbuttoned his suit jacket, Wyatt stepped up behind him, placing his palms on Val’s shoulders, then rubbing lightly up and down his arms a few times. “Let me give you a hand.” Wyatt eased the jacket off and kissed the side of Val’s neck, nudging his head to the side as he did so. A low moan rumbled out of Val’s chest. Wyatt dropped the jacket on a chair and slipped his hands under Val’s shirt, caressing Val’s skin with his fingertips.

When he reached Val’s tightening nipples, he rubbed small circles until Val’s hips jerked. Val shuddered and pulled in a quick, shaky breath, making Wyatt smile. Val’s tie and shirt joined his jacket. Wyatt ran his hands over Val’s torso before returning them to Val’s shoulders. He lightly traced the scars on Val’s shoulder with first his finger, then his tongue.

Val’s surgery to repair the damage done in the course of stopping some seriously dangerous people who had been trying to force jockeys to throw races, had left several scars. They weren’t red, raised, and angry anymore. Val never complained about them hurting, but the marks were still puckered and darker than the surrounding skin.

“You know,” Val whispered between dragging in a breath and panting it out again. “That first time we went out to dinner, I was so worried you’d think I was some uncouth, country hick because I don’t know about wine and art. And that I was too young to bother with.”

“Hmm, do you know what I worried about when I was thirty?” Wyatt scraped his teeth across Val’s shoulder blades.

“N-no. What?”

“Getting a sweet piece of hot ass,” Wyatt said in a low voice.

Val laughed. “Well, you’re sort of slow. Took you long enough. Worth the wait?”

“Oh, hell, yes.” Wyatt maneuvered Val to the bed.

Pages or Words: 32,000 words