Blog Tour: Interview & Giveaway Teodora Kostova – Piece by Piece

For the past ten years, Riley Davis’ life has been overshadowed by the tragic death of his partner. Fluctuating between alcohol induced daze, clinical depression and throwing all his time and effort into his business, Riley doesn’t believe, or even hope, that his life will ever be worth living again. 

Until Sonnie Frye drops by his haberdashery shop, changing his life forever. 

Sonnie is a man who likes getting what he wants, when he wants it. He’s worked hard to establish himself as Queen Victoria theatre’s chief costume designer, collecting multiple awards – and high-profile clients – along the way. Sonnie is used to putting his needs, goals and desires first, unwilling to compromise his own happiness for anybody else. 

Until he meets a handsome shop owner whose eyes are so sad that they immediately tug at Sonnie’s heartstrings. 

Seeing something he wants, Sonnie is determined to get under Riley’s skin and, preferably, into his bed. But he soon discovers the task is not that easy. For the first time in his life, Sonnie may need to put someone else’s needs before his own, and re-evaluate what really matters in life. 

Will the two men stand side by side to overcome their differences, and everything else life throws at them? Or will it all become too much to bear, shaking them to their very core, destroying everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve? 

***Sexual content, 18+ only*** 

***Piece by Piece is a standalone novel. It’s the full story of Sonnie and Riley***

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Piece by Piece looks like the third in a series, can you tell us about how the books all connect?

I wrote all the books as stand-alones, but the main characters in one book have cameos in the other books. Jared and Fenix are the characters in the first book Dance, and they also appear in Mask where the main characters are Adam (Jared’s best friend) and his love interest Penn. In Piece by Piece, the main characters are Sonnie (Penn’s boss at the theatre) and Riley (Penn’s best friend).

What was your inspiration for this story?

I went to a phenomenal musical in London’s West End and inspiration for Dance hit me very unexpectedly while I was watching. I’ve never written MM Romance until then so I wasn’t sure what to do. In the end, the story was too strong to ignore so I just went with it.

What authors inspire you?

Too many to name individually! Among my favourites are Abigail Roux, Santino and Ais, Garrett Leigh, Amy Lane, Josh Lanyon and so, so many others.

What is your writing process like? Do you plan or just go for it and see what happens?

I do plan, but only the key points. I like to let my characters find their own way. I’ve been stuck one too many times when I’ve tried to put my characters in the lines I’ve drawn for them. They weren’t happy. So now I just let them roam free.

Will there be more books in this series?

I’m not planning more book in the West End series. But then again, I didn’t plan it to be a series at all when I wrote Dance, so who knows?

Care to share your next project?

I haven’t decided what my next project is going to be yet. I’m still recovering from writing Piece by Piece – it was very draining. Plus, I’ve been travelling for the past month, nearly non-stop, and I haven’t had time to write at all. But I’m planning to release the third book in my het romance series by the end of the year, plus a mm romance Christmas book. Oh, and I had a very insistent plot bunny on the plane the other day, so we’ll see.

Hi, my name is Teodora and I live in London with my husband and my son. I’ve been writing ever since I can remember, but it became my full time job in 2010 when I decided that everything else I’ve tried bores me to death and I have to do what I’ve always wanted to do, but never had to guts to fully embrace. I’ve been a journalist, an editor, a personal assistant and an interior designer among other things, but as soon as the novelty of the new, exciting job wears off, I always go back to writing. Being twitchy, impatient, loud and hasty are not qualities that help a writer, because I have to sit alone, preferably still, and write for most of the day, but I absolutely love it. It’s the only time that I’m truly at peace and the only thing I can do for more than ten minutes at a time – my son has a bigger attention span than me.

When I’m procrastinating, I like to go to the gym, cook Italian meals (and eat them), read, listen to rock music, watch indie movies and True Blood re-runs. Or, in the worst case scenario, get beaten at every Nintendo Wii game by a very inventive kid.