Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Tori Anne Martin!   Writes: Tori writes queer witchy paranormal romance. In This Spells Disaster, fake dating gets a magical twist when a witch fears she accidentally gave her famous crush a love potion, and to break the spell, she’ll have to prove how incompatible they are—all while falling ever harder herself.   About: Tori moved from Philadelphia to New Hampshire for grad school and somehow never left. Before writing This Spells Disaster, she wrote and published urban fantasy and contemporary romance. When she’s not writing, she loves hiking, playing D&D, and dreaming about reorganizing her bookshelves (although she never does it because it feels too much like work). She’s fueled by coffee, dark chocolate, and a dash of spite.   For THIS SPELLS DISASTER, my ideal reading match must love: bisexual witches lots of magic in their romance sapphic pining fake dating messy main characters who are still learning to get themselves together   What to expect if we’re compatible: practice kissing competitive…

1–What is the title of your latest release? CYRAX (Book 1 of Cosmic Criminals) 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Cyrax is a quick and spicy Gay Sci-Fi Romance novella about an alien assassin who is exiled to Earth when a hit goes wrong, which leads to Cyrax chancing upon his fated mate on a glittering beach in remote Western Australia. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? There are plenty of books about aliens that take place among the stars, so I wanted to bring the wonder back down to Earth, literally. I love my home state of Western Australia for its vast and varied biomes, landscapes, and decided that Northern Western Australia where the interior is vast and empty, and the coasts are the only thriving settlements made for the perfect setting. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? I’d love to hang out with Cyrax! I mean, he’s a giant, he’s blue, he’s an interstellar assassin, and he’s evolved from a feline species the way humans evolved from primates. (I love cats!) I think he’d find my brand of personal madness entertaining enough to you know… not…

Hi all! A. Poland here, author of TRIPWRECKED, a grump/sunshine, found family, sort-of-ridiculous romcom set in the Sunshine Coast of Australia.   Tim Tams – a delicious Australian snack, and the namesake of an equally delicious lesbian bff Running – halfway across the world from an ex Ice cream – you can’t have a romcom in Australia without a ‘Golden Gaytime’ Pals – what our two lovebirds keep insisting that they are Wondering – if our protagonist wants to be more than buddies-who-bone, chums-who-come, friends-who-fuck Rental – the Airbnb where all the magic began. Eight – age of the daughter the protagonist can’t impress Canlaroy – the idyllic little town where this tale is set Kissing – wow there’s a lot of it Evenings – walking along sandy beaches, hand in hand, humming the Bee Gees Diving – scuba and emotionally head first into love (and that D) TRIPWRECKED by A. Poland Aiden Cole isn’t exactly running away. He’s just taking a month-long vacation halfway round the world. Spontaneously. He may be ditching his job, his disastrous love life, family, and everything else, but nope, he’s just on vacation. Four weeks in a tiny little blip of an Australian town…

CALLING THE SHOTS is Book 3 in the Out on the Ice Series. It’s a sweet second chance-ish romance between two rival women’s hockey coaches: Regan Lane, an outspoken former superstar player who loves the spotlight, and Tierney McGovern, an ice queen single mom determined to protect her daughter and her heart. As their teams face each other game after game, it doesn’t take long for them to realize their hockey rivalry isn’t the only thing heating up.   C is for Coaches. Tierney and Regan are rival head coaches in a women’s professional hockey league. A is for Airplanes and Airports. Both women spend a lot of time traveling with their teams and to see each other. L is for Love of all kinds: parent and child, siblings, and of course, the love between Regan and Tierney. L is for Lady Libertys. Tierney is the head coach of the New York Lady Libertys. I is for Ice. Regan is the head coach of the Boston Ice. N is for New York. Most of the story takes place in NYC, especially Brooklyn. G is for Girlfriends. Friends and former teammates from the previous books in the Out on the Ice…

1–What is the title of your latest release? FLIPPING. It’s a paranormal romance with a lot of humor and heart in it. 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A sassy ghost defends his haunted house and heart from a psychic house flipper. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Flipping more or less decided where it wanted to be set. I penned a few opening lines from the ghost’s perspective, and I knew three things automatically: Charley was deliciously sarcastic, he was dead, and the book would be set in Savannah, Georgia. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Absolutely. He’s a delightful ghost and a fabulous cook. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Sarcastic, loyal, haunted 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I ended up researching laws regarding buried treasure, and I’m leaving that as it is to avoid spoilers. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? Wait until I’m totally done. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Be prepared to be disgusted. It’s fried okra fresh from the garden when I can get it. 9–Describe your writing space/office! I…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Tiana Warner!   Writes: YA Fantasy and sapphic romance. My new book, THE VALKYRIE’S DAUGHTER, will take you through the nine Norse worlds and all the way down to Helheim! I love to write stories that dive into relatable feelings on an epic backdrop, which is why YA Fantasy is so perfect—Sigrid wants more than anything to be a Valkyrie, and on a journey to fulfill her purpose, she gets to explore her feelings and learn about who she is.   About: I’m an author from BC, Canada, who loves to explore nature with my hyperactive rescue mutt, Joey. I’ve had horses my whole life, which you’ll probably notice when you read about the horses in THE VALKYRIE’S DAUGHTER.   What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: My ideal reader match for THE VALKYRIE’S DAUGHTER is into… Norse mythology. The story is full of mythological Norse places, people, and creatures. Underdog stories. Sigrid was never meant to be a Valkyrie, and she…

For a while I found excuses to be in the common areas of the apartment, hoping Art would come back out and I could mount a solid defense about my mad romance skillz, but he stayed holed up in his room and since I couldn’t hear his music, that probably meant he had on noise-canceling headphones and couldn’t hear me conspicuously walking down the hall­way, or washing the dishes, or, uh, moving the couch so I could sweep under it, which I’d never done before and was so gross I might never do again. There was no point if he wasn’t coming out to see what I was doing so I could triumphantly brandish my disgusting dustpan like a…like a very passionate-about-cleaning hero out of a romance novel? That was probably a thing, right? I’d interned under the romance editor, Adams, and I was pretty sure I could sell her on cleaning as a romantic gesture. Well. Maybe. Adams was kinda hard-core. Let’s just say, if it was a thing, she’d probably seen it already and could cite every in­stance of it in every romance novel published in the last fifty years. I finally gave up and went in my…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE LONG GAME 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov get their hard-earned happily ever after! 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Because this is a sequel, the locations were already decided (mostly Ottawa and Montreal), but I chose these cities in the first place because I like writing stories set in Canada and I have some familiarity with those places. 4–Would you hang out with Shane in real life? Oh man. I don’t think we’d have much to say to each other. 5–What are three words that describe Ilya? Charming. Perceptive. Sad. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? That writing a sequel is really hard! 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I edit as I draft quite a bit, especially for the first half of the book. I am trying to not do that as much so I can complete my first drafts faster, but it’s a hard habit to break. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? I love food so much, this is tough. I can’t resist anything homemade, especially…

“I have an idea.” He was much too close, the already cramped kitchen seeming much more so with him near enough behind me to feel the warmth rolling off him. He smelled like a hazy memory—some basic soap or shampoo that I associated with my younger years. “What?” My voice came out husky, my thoughts already turning inappropriately sexy. “Let’s fix the pool table.” “Oh. That.” Fool. Of course he didn’t share my problem of a wandering brain. But doing something, anything sounded better than more chances for my mind to get me in trouble. “Let’s do that.” “I found a toolbox earlier. It has a level in it, so we should be able to fix the table by tightening the legs and adding a shim if necessary.” “You’re a man of many talents.” I followed him back to the game room, stopping to collect the toolbox from the hall closet. “I try.” Calder shrugged as he started examining the pool table this way and that. “With my dad at sea so much, Mom made sure that we all had basic fix-it skills.” “Smart mom. I need to remember to show the girls things like screwdrivers and drills.” I wandered…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors as a reader you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Hudson Lin! Writes: I write queer romance featuring people of color. I truly believe that everyone deserves a Happily Ever After, especially folks who feel like outsiders and are looking for a place to belong. HARD SELL is about a successful businessman looking for something more. That’s when his best friend’s kid brother walks back into his life, all grown up and impossible to ignore. They’re on opposite sides of the boardroom, but definitely on the same side of the bedroom as they navigate family and careers to find their happily ever after. About: Taiwanese Canadian bisexual woman living in Toronto. Avid knitter, crafter, cook, baker, reader, and TV-binger. Can talk for hours about social justice, mental health, anti-oppression, and equity—and get a little angry while doing it. Left the corporate world to be an artiste. What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: Loves to read with a box of tissues at hand. Wants to travel around the world…