Release Blast including Author Guest Post, Excerpt & Giveaway – Ceili by Moriah Gemel

Author Name: Moriah Gemel

Book Name: Ceílí

Release Date: March 17, 2016

Blurb:

The Los Angeles music scene has not been kind to Devon Caelin. He struggles to fit in and has a streak of bad luck the length of the Sunset Strip. One rare rainy night, he drowns his sorrows from bar-to-bar, until he stumbles into an alley club called Céilí. He discovers that it’s home to a small community of mystical people making their way in the human world, and that he found it only because he is Fae himself. With mentoring from the pub’s proprietor, Eldan—a powerful Fae Lord protecting his kind in the city—Devon unearths his past and discovers his magical abilities. His life appears to be back on track—until a member of the Faerie Court is murdered and the secret of their world is threatened to be revealed.

Pages or Words: 200 pages

Categories: Contemporary, Fantasy, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance, Urban Fantasy

Excerpt:

“This is where we’ll do the spell,” Eldan says. “I can open the channel easily enough, but I’d like you to assist in keeping it open. Stand behind me when I tell you to, and put your hands on my shoulders. If we’re compatible, I’ll be able to take some of your energy to bolster mine, just enough to maintain a stronger connection than I would on my own, all right? You might get a little dizzy, but I promise you’ll be okay.”

“I’m not afraid, Eldan.” Devon is excited to see this magic performed, to see the Queens. What will they be like, these women that Eldan is wary to speak of?

“No. You aren’t, are you?” Eldan smiles. “Well. Best get on with it then. Stand nearby, please?”

Devon settles himself just behind Eldan, and Eldan nods. Then, he pulls a little vial from his pocket and shakes it.

“Here we go.”

He uncorks the bottle, and Devon smells something almost metallic. Eldan walks to the first corner of the table, to the right, and pours a drop of whatever’s inside the vial over the little pile of dirt.

“Cré.” His hand hovers over the bowl, and the dirt spreads and forms a flat plane under his palm. Eldan smiles and walks on.

He walks to the back right of the table and pours a drop into the empty bowl. “Aer,” he says and his hand hovers. The bowl trembles, and the dust motes in the air within it coalesce and spin. He walks on.

The third bowl holds sticks, and Eldan pours the liquid on them before hovering his hand, causing them to burst into flames. “Tine.” Devon can’t help but push his breath out and shake his head. This is cool. All this magic, it’s really real. He thought it was a story for children, but magic is real, and he’s a part of it. He never thought much about fairytales but now he wishes he had, because it would make this moment so much better.

Finally, Eldan pours into the fourth bowl, filled with water, and his hand hovering creates little waves that splash on the sides of the bowl gently, as though upset. “Uisce,” he says and then he walks on.

He circles the table counter-clockwise three times and, when he reaches the head of the table once more, he nods to Devon. “Now.”

Devon steps up as Eldan turns away and puts his hands on Eldan’s slim, strong shoulders. Immediately, his palms tingle, as Eldan waves a hand. The mirror in the center of the table stands up, reflecting them. Eldan presses a palm to the center of it.

“Oscailt agus a léiriú,” Eldan says. Devon wishes he knew what the hell he was saying, but it’s pretty, in any case. Celtic? Gaelic? Something. “Na Ríona I Talún Samhraidh.”

The mirror clouds, and Devon licks his lips and stands on his tiptoes to see over Eldan’s shoulder. Nothing happens, though, for long moments, in which Eldan’s breathing comes quick and loud. Devon squeezes his shoulders, and Eldan whimpers faintly. But he slows down, and Devon keeps squeezing, staring at what he can see of Eldan’s face, staring at the delicate line of his jaw, his high cheekbone, the flutter of an eyelash, the jut of his nose, which is freckled and fair.

But then the clouds part, and there they are.

 

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Today I’m very lucky to be interviewing Moriah Gemel, author of Céilí

Hi Moriah, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.

I’m Moriah, I’m an author with Interlude Press, and my current book is Céilí, a story about finding your tribe and learning to belong, and protecting what’s yours. I’m a stay-at-home mother and a full-time writer. I wrote my first story at age seven, and I haven’t really stopped writing since.

What hobbies do you have for when you’re not writing?

My hobbies have a backseat. I am a very busy person. I have a three year old son, and a husband who goes to school AND works, and I’m in charge of the house—keeping it clean and orderly and well-stocked and organized, and living with two boys, let me tell you, is not easy, especially since one of them is a toddler and the other likes to pretend he’s one. So I don’t have a lot of time to myself, and my hobbies are limited. However, I do treasure them.

I love to consume media. And I mean all media—I read books, I read magazines, I watch television and movies, I play on social media, and I keep a personal and a professional blog. When I’m not telling stories, I’m absorbing other people’s stories, because that’s what makes my own creativity spark. And I enjoy it, it feels like I’m transported from the sometimes difficult life I have.

For instance, today I had an argument with my husband. Hey, it happens. But I turn to my hobbies to deal with that sort of thing. I went on my personal blog, and I blogged about it. I talked to a friend about it. That’s how I process the world. Then, in order to calm down and forget about it, I sat down and took out the book I’ve been reading. It took me out of the situation and allowed me to travel somewhere else, see someone else’s problems and triumphs and failings. I love books, I have tons of them, both on my bookcase and on my iPad. I read when I’m working out, I read when I’m bored, I read when I’m getting ready to go to bed, I read when I have down moments. I’m a very avid reader.

 

On top of that, I watch television. I can tell you right now, I am following twelve different currently-running shows. And that’s just off the top of my head, there may be more. And I am also catching up on shows that already ran—I’m watching Firefly for the first time right now. I spend a lot of time each week watching television. Thankfully a lot of them have different yearly schedules so I can watch a couple at a time and not have to watch twelve shows a week every week. I don’t have time for that. And a few are Netflix shows, so I binge watch those and get them out of the way.

I also go on social media. You’d think this was easy, but it’s not. I keep up with three different social media sites right now, one of which has two blogs on it, and I follow at least two hundred people between the three sites. And I catch up every single day on all posts—I don’t want to miss anything, so I spend at least two hours every day catching up and viewing what everyone has had to say. It helps me socialize, it’s very often funny and very fun, and a lot of it is thought-provoking as well. I read social justice articles, I watch funny cat videos, I get to see how my friends are doing and what they’re up to and discuss their lives and my life with them. I write about my day, and the struggles I’m facing, and funny things that happen to me. Others do the same, and it all comes together.

So I love media. Social media, creative media, everything. I even watch commercials, because I love them. I think they’re great. I love seeing how people see the world, because it helps me see the world in a wider way.

 

Meet the author:

Moriah Gemel has developed a dedicated following for her realistic, sexually-charged stories over twelve years in online fan communities. Moriah is passionate about diversity in fiction, as well as realistic depictions of BDSM and sex education. Her first novel, Load the Dice, was published as a serial in ten parts. Céilí is her second novel. She lives with her husband, young son, and two cats.

 

Where to find the author:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/moriahgemel

Twitter: @moriahgemel

 

Goodreads Link: www.goodreads.com/moriahgemel

Publisher: Interlude Press

Cover Artist: Design – CB Messer, Cover art by Ari McFarland

 

Tour Dates & Stops:

17-Mar: Book Lovers 4Ever, Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings, BFD Book Blog

18-Mar: Happily Ever Chapter, Divine Magazine, Unquietly Me, Wake Up Your Wild Side

21-Mar: Outrageous Heroes, Nephy Hart, Inked Rainbow Reads, Velvet Panic

22-Mar: The Hat Party, Rednecks and Romance, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words

23-Mar: Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews, Alpha Book Club

24-Mar: MM Good Book Reviews

25-Mar: Full Moon Dreaming

28-Mar: Kirsty Loves Books, A.M. Leibowitz, My Fiction Nook

29-Mar: Havan Fellows, The Novel Approach

30-Mar: Love Bytes, Bayou Book Junkie, Molly Lolly

 

 

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