You can find a mystery close to home in the Tacoma-set suspense Mounting Danger by Karis Walsh. In Radclyffe’s Above all, Honor, a secret service agent must do what she can to protect the daughter of the president. And if you’re looking for a story collection to pick up, there’s the Best Lesbian Romance 2014.įor mystery and suspense readers, there is quite the selection to investigate! Josh Lanyon’s Come Unto These Yellow Sands finds a professor and his sheriff lover embroiled in a murder case. Yum! For a spicier meal, there’s the three novellas in Uncommon Romance by Jove Belle, or if you’re looking for a fun college romance, come skip class with Anne Tenino’s Frat Boy and Toppy. Or you can dive into the hot dish Hungry for Loveby local writer Rick. If you’re looking for love stories, then the Library is a great place to start! There, you’ll find loads of romances, from mysteries to historicals, from sci-fi to contemporary, and you’ll find a ton of books that star LGBTQ main characters falling in love and finding that awesome Happily Ever After.įor Contemporary readers, especially all you fans who love it when things heat up with firefighters, there’s From the Ashes by Seattle writer Daisy Harris. Since I’m Apple, I’ve also linked a playlist there.Posted by guest blogger Tracy Timmons Gray Instead, I’m just linking to youtube videos and everyone can pick their flavor of music site if there’s a song they like. Normally I’d make a Spotify playlist, but I’m not supporting them anymore after recent events. So here I’ve listed the songs that drove this trilogy. Readers and music inspired the two books that wound up following, The Painted Crown and The Stolen Court. But as the story unfolded, the dam wound up having to go, replaced by a portion of the palace where most of the story takes place. My entire inspiration for his story was the breaking of a dam. The only story in my head at the time was for Vellem, and his initial story was meant to include a dam. When I wrote The Engineered Throne I’d intended (as I so often foolishly do) for it to be a one-off. I wouldn’t be where I am without the music that kept me company at my computer, at coffee shop tables, on the bus, and all the other places where I wrote or pondered. They can also alter a character, a scene, and more. I’ve had songs that inspired entire books, and I’ve had songs that appeared right as I got stuck and provided what I was missing and enabled me to finish a book. Art tends toward creative feedback loops.

It’s not really a secret that writers rely heavily on music and other media for inspiration and motivation. Megan is promoting her latest book with a book tour and giveaway, but first, she’s written an exclusive guest post just for you dear readers (and listeners, too!). Today I am so pleased to have LGBTQ, fantasy romance author Megan Derr with us.

The Engineered Throne by Megan Derr