A warm love bytes welcome to author Lissa Reed joining us today on Pride Promotions blog tour for her debut novel “Defenitely , Maybe , Yours”.
Lissa kindly answered some of our questions, shares an excerpt and there is a giveaway to participate in!
Welcome Lissa đ
Author Name: Lissa Reed
Book Name: Definitely, Maybe, Yours
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Publisher: Interlude Press
Cover Artist: Cover photography by LaToya Conward Cover design by Buckeyegrrl Designs
Pages or Words: 296 pages
Blurb:
Seattle-based baker Craig Oliver leads a life that is happily routine: baking cupcakes for an enormous family reunion, managing Sucre Coeur for its frequently absent owner, and closing out his day with a pint at the local pub. He has a kind heart, a knack for pastry, and a weakness for damaged people.
Habitual playboy Alex Scheff is looking to drown his sorrows, but instead discovers that he may have a weakness for Englishmen who carry cookies in their pockets. Can a seemingly incompatible pair find the recipe for love in a relationship they claim is casual?
Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance
Today Iâm very happy to be interviewing Lissa Reed, author of Definitely, Maybe, Yours.
Hi Lissa, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.
Thank you very awfully much for having me here, and hello to you! Iâm the kind of writer who, I think like most of us, has been doing it since they could hold a pencil in their chubby little hand and figured out what a âplotâ was and why it was important. I write by night (and in snatched moments any other time), working as a software support analyst by day in order to keep me in Chinese food and my two cats in canned kitty pate. Definitely, Maybe, Yours is my first novel, and itâs the story of Craig and Alex, a pair of fellows who arenât looking for love and donât seem like they should quite fit together, but they sort of, accidentally, kind of make it all work anyway.
What are your ambitions for your writing career?
To do it until I canât anymore, I think sums it up the best! I want to write nice stories that hopefully folks will like for as long as I can manage it.
How many published books do you have? Can you tell us something about them?
Definitely is my debut novel, but itâs the first in a three book series. Theyâll all center around employees of the Sucre Coeur bakery in Seattle and the love escapades they get into! Iâm excited about the second book, especially, because it wasnât something I was expecting to pop up as an idea while I was writing the first book, but thereâs a particular employee in Definitely who took herself from an idea to a person and Iâm enjoying getting to work with her.
Give us an insight into your main character. What does he/she do that is so special?
Craig is kind, and Alex is loyal. These traits complement each other well, I think, they help provide a foundation for the relationship they develop. I find that kindness and loyalty are traits I appreciate when I encounter them and try to embody myself, so I find them to be very special.
What are you working on at the moment? Whatâs it about?
Certainly, Possibly, You is the second book in the Sucre Coeur series, and it focuses on a F/F relationship, which is very exciting for me to write as a queer lady! But never fear, Alex and Craig are very much present in Certainly, in fact one could almost say theyâre meddlesomely present at times, and thatâs the best kind of fun to have writing a book.
Do you aim for a set amount of words/pages per day?Â
I donât, I am very unstructured as a writer, which I should probably do something about. I can say I donât like to leave off in the middle of a scene unless I have fallen asleep on the keyboard, so whatever I do write, I will write until the scene is finished, whether I have written one or four or ten scenes in a day, the last scene doesnât go unfinished.
With a wink, Craig pulls a ten-dollar bill out of his left coat pocket and a carefully bagged almond and raspberry-lemon croissant, Katie’s all-time favorite baked good, out of the right. He passes them across the bar as if he’s James Bondâa very cheeky and cheery sort of 007. âYou know I’ll always look out for you. Keep the change.â
Katie squeals and flops across the bar to squeeze him breathless, and her ponytail slaps him in the nose. She bounces off with her treat in hand and Craig shakes his head and pulls long black and red hairs from his face, as he does every time this happens. Katie really is his favorite bartender at The Order of the Garter, hell, his favorite bartender in Seattle and maybe even the world. Much too good to be working at a grotty little pub, fending off unsavory advances and spilled drinks four nights a week; that’s why Craig will bring her any bakery treat she wants, anytime she wants it, until she finally wises up and gets the hell out of this place.
Time for another sip of this excellent, excellent stout: Craig reaches forward. It’s a good Thursday.
Of course, that’s when it takes quite the sharp turn, leaving every Seattle-pub-Thursday Craig’s ever known in the dust.
âWell, aren’t you a hit with the ladies,â comes a surly drawl from his left, startling Craig just as he’s got his fingers around his glass. âWas that a croissant in your pocket, or were you actually happy to see her?â
âBoth,â Craig replies, shifting around to lean on his elbow and survey the formerly silent pile of misery hunched over two stools down, the limp guy at the end of the bar Craig had spotted on his way in. He is not unconscious after all, much to Craig’s surprise; judging by the row of empty shot glasses upside down in front of him and the distinct aroma of tequila emanating a good four-foot radius from his person, he should be. Craig winces and turns away as the fumes burn his nose.
âBaked goods. That’s a new one. Never saw anyone use baking to hit on the ladies before.â Mr. Misery sways his head upright, pushes a wild flop of brown hair out of his eyes and swings around until he locates Craig. He blinks. âDoes it work?â
Surprised by the color of the eyes meeting hisâan unusual shade, gray, not blue-gray or blue, but the gray of a sky covered in early storm cloudsâCraig answers without thinking. âI wouldn’t know. I don’t hit on girls. Katie’s my friend, not my type.â
Sales Links:
Interlude Press
Our books are also available for order from the Apple iBookstore, Book Depository and Indiebound.
Lissa Reed is a writer of fiction, blogs and bawdy Renaissance song parodies. She traces her first interest in becoming a writer to the fourth grade, when her teacher gave her the gift of her first composition book. A former newspaper editor, Reed shifted her focus to romance and literary fiction early in her writing career. She lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and is currently working on her new novel, Certainly, Possibly, Youâthe sequel to Definitely, Maybe, Yours.
Where to find the author:
Connect with Lissa Reed at lissareed.com;
on Tumblr at http://lissareedbooks.tumblr.com/;
on Twitter @LissaReedBooks;
on Goodreads at http://goodreads.com/LissaReedBooks
and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/LissaReedAuthor
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Rafflecopter Prize: Grand Prize: $25 Interlude Press gift card. Second prize: One of five e-copies of âDefinitely, Maybe, Yours
Thank you so much, Danielle! I enjoyed stopping by!
Congratulations, Lissa–it sounds great!
Thank you very, very much!
Congrats! Looking forward to reading this book.
Thank you, I hope you enjoy it!