Announcing the Third Book in the Seasons of Love Series; Autumn Changes
I am happy to announce that my new novel, Autumn Changes, went live this week for pre-order at the Dreamspinner Press website. And once more it has a cover painted by the remarkable Paul Richmond! It cannot express how excited I am.
Paul let me get a lot of say on the cover. Hopefully I didn’t drive the sweet man mad!!
See, what was going on is this book has a lot of cultural stuff concerning the Samoan people and it needed to be exactly correct. You know of course that Paul did it and did it right and when I sent it to a few Samoan people, the were pretty happy too!
Over the last few years I have gotten to know quite a few Samoan people and through them, their language, ways and culture. They are a proud people and I have come to find out that they have been around for a couple thousand years and the theory is that they are the origin of the island peoples.
I began to wonder if I could write a novel about a young Samoan man and when I mentioned it to my Samoan friends, they got very excited and have been completely supportive and helped me through and through. They even fed my traditional Samoan dishes! I’ve even been to a Samoan wedding. Boy do they feast!
It was also a difficult book to write because the love interest is Jewish by heritage–or at least he is from his mother’s side, which is what counts according to Jewish culture. Asher has some stuff to deal with so that he can not be ashamed of who he is. I was relieved that at least one Jewish person says I got all that right too. I even spoke with a brilliant rabbi to get the scriptures right. I also got quite a surprise in writing the Seasons of Love books to discover that Asher has a drinking problem. More so than his friends simple partying and having a good time.
Here is the cover blurb for Autumn Changes….
Asher Eisenberg is a brilliant actor, destined for fame and fortune. But a traumatic incident in his past has caused him to reject his Jewish heritage and hide from everyone behind walls of arrogance and selfishness, and he blurs his loneliness with a lot of sex and alcohol. When he meets Peniamina Faamausili, however, he strangely can’t stop thinking about the young man.
Peni is struggling with his sexuality, the Mormonism he was raised in, and the Samoan heritage that calls to him. He longs to receive the pe’a—the traditional Samoan tattoos– and learn more of his people’s ways. He has no interest in a man like Asher, who appears to use men and put them aside and whose drinking can’t help but remind him of the drunk driver who killed his father. But he can’t deny his attraction to Asher and finally agrees to a date if Asher can go thirty days without a drink.
Asher is about to go on a journey that will awaken him to his friends, his past, his future, and even to love. But that awakening could well demand the sacrifice of the dream he holds most dear.
So I am very proud of this book! I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did writing it. I guarantee it will be easier to read than to right!
This book is such a huge blessing in my life. I am so grateful it came together the way it did! So grateful for my publisher, my editor Andi Byassee, for my gorgeous cover by Paul Richmond, and for so much more! I can’t count!
You can pre-order the book from Dreamspinner Press right
hereLa manuia le aso
(which means “Have a nice day” in Samoan!)
B.G. Thomas
#dreamer
B.G. loves romance, comedies, fantasy, science fiction and even horror—as far as he is concerned, as long as the stories are character driven and entertaining, it doesn’t matter the genre. He has gone to conventions since he was fourteen years old and has been lucky enough to meet many of his favorite writers. He has made up stories since he was child; it is where he finds his joy.
In the nineties, he wrote for gay magazines but stopped because the editors wanted all sex without plot. “The sex is never as important as the characters,” he says. “Who cares what they are doing if we don’t care about them?” Excited about the growing male/male romance market, he began writing again. Gay men are what he knows best, after all. He submitted his first story in years and was thrilled when it was accepted in four days.
“Leap, and the net will appear” is his personal philosophy and his message to all. “It is never too late,” he states. “Pursue your dreams. They will come true!”
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B.G. loves romance, comedies, fantasy, science fiction and even horror—as far as he is concerned, as long as the stories are character driven and entertaining, it doesn’t matter the genre. He has gone to conventions since he was fourteen years old and has been lucky enough to meet many of his favorite writers. He has made up stories since he was child; it is where he finds his joy.
So looking forward to reading book 3~!
I great series from BJ and looking forward to reading. thank you for todays post.