Blog Post: Guestpost & Giveaway Racheline Maltese & Erin McRae – Doves

A warm Love Bytes welcome to authors Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese stopping by our blog to talk about their new release Doves ,book 2 in the Love in Los Angeles series.

The talk about music while writing , sharing their playlist with us and there is also a giveaway you can enter 🙂

Welcome Erin & Racheline!

We listen to music constantly when we write, to the consternation of our officemates, who have to deal with the eighties rock at 11:30 at night. We also build a lot of of playlists for our stories. Some of those playlists are, as it were, soundtracks for the stories. Sometimes they’re comprised of the music our characters are listening to while they’re stuck in the car. Sometimes they have absolutely nothing to do, musically or thematically, with what we’re writing — it’s just the songs or the artists we were obsessed with while we were writing a particular story.

We didn’t come up with the playlist for Doves: Playlist

 until we’d finished the story and were doing publisher edits on it. For the actual writing of the story, we mostly listened to the playlist for Starling : here and here But while we were editing, we wanted a playlist that functioned as a soundtrack for the story.

What we finally came up with was jangly and angry and has a lot of glam rock on it, which tied we felt to themes of anger, fame, and isolation in the book. Of course, Doves is a pretty fierce and angry book. It’s angry at the media, at the hundred-and-one grossnesses of the film and television industry, at the difficulty of living a public life, at the world that doesn’t like women telling stories. We’re really thankful our publisher let us make Doves as challenging as it is.

Now, don’t get us wrong — Doves is a romance, with multiple HEAs for multiple couples. There’s lots of sex and I love yous and even a wedding! But our characters definitely earn their happy endings. And if you do pick up a copy, well, we’ve got the perfect music to listen along with.

Blurb:

Two years after the events of Starling, Cinderella story and star of The Fourth Estate J. Alex Cook is living happily ever after with his boyfriend, television writer Paul Marion Keane. But when Paul’s pilot, Winsome, AZ, gets picked up, the competing demands of their high-profile careers make them question their future together.

As Paul becomes increasingly absent from their relationship, Alex tries to regain control of his private life and establish a career path independent of Fourth’s enigmatic, and at times malevolent, showrunner Victor. But the delicate web of relationships that connects Alex, Paul, and their friends — including Alex’s excitable ex-lover Liam and his no-nonsense fiancée Carly — threatens to unravel.

With the business of Hollywood making it hard to remember who he is when the whole world isn’t watching, Alex is forced to confront major changes in the fairytale life he never wanted as he discovers that love in Los Angeles often looks nothing like the movies.

Buy Links:

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Amazon.UK

Torquere bookstore

Erin McRae and Racheline Maltese are authors of the gay romance series Love in Los Angeles, set in the film and television industry (Starling (September 10, 2014), Doves (January 21, 2015), and Phoenix (June 10, 2015)), all from Torquere Press. Their gay romance novella Midsummer, Book One of the Love’s Labour series, about a summerstock Shakespeare company, is from Dreamspinner Press (Summer 2015). Racheline is a NYC-based performer and storyteller; Erin is a writer and blogger based in Washington, D.C. They write stories and scripts about the intersection of private lives, fame, and desire. You can find them on the web at http://www.Avian30.com.

Social media links:

Joint Blog: http://Avian30.com

Joint Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Erin.and.Racheline

Erin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/erincmcrae

Racheline’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/racheline_m

Erin’s Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8323893.Erin_McRae

Racheline’s Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1015335.Racheline_Maltese

Erin & Racheline are giving away a copy of Starling, Love in Los Angeles book 1!