A warm welcome to author Thianna Durston joining us today here @Love Bytes on the blog tour for Discovery.
Welcome Thianna!
Author Name: Thianna Durston
Book Name: Discovery
Series: Drakyl Ranch #1
Release Date: September 1st, 2015
Pages or Words: 154 pages
Publisher: Thianna Durston
Cover Artist: Jay Aheer – Simply Defined Art
Blurb:
Warning: This book is a paranormal m/m romance with some horror elements. It also crosses cowboy and vampire genres. If you don’t think cowboys look hot with fangs, you’re missing out.
Living in Montana and working the ranch is all Aaron wants to do for the rest of his life. Diagnosed as allergic to the sun thirteen years previous, every day is a struggle to get out of bed. Having to wear long-sleeved shirts, gloves, and even material to cover his face from the effects of the sun, just makes it all worse. Now, in his thirty-second year, he is sure this will be his last summer. While he hates it, he knows he needs to come to terms with the truth and put things in order for his younger cousins. Before he does so, he heads out for one night of pleasure before facing what’s coming.
Jaret loves excitement and new adventures. For over five hundred years, he has sought them out. In Montana on a whim, he comes across someone he doesn’t expect, someone who makes him feel things he does not understand and does not want to give up. In no time at all, he feels like he cannot live without Aaron. The only problem is Aaron doesn’t know who he is, what he is, nor that he isn’t going to die. Not on Jaret’s watch. With a plan to help the other man discover who he is in place, he only has one thing to worry about: whether an ancient enemy will come and destroy everything he now holds dear.
Categories:Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Paranormal, Western/Cowboy
Today I’m very lucky to be interviewing Thianna Durston author of Discovery.
Hi Thianna, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.
What’s the best line you ever wrote?
Okay, don’t laugh, but one of the funnest lines I ever wrote was “Fuck Phil’s. He had lube.” I thought it was cute, but I didn’t expect it to catch on with fans of my books. They quote it to me now.
Do you listen to music while writing? If so, what kind?
Oh no. Sometimes I can put on classical, but music as a whole is too distracting while I write.
If your book were made into a movie, what actors would you like to see star?
Oh, this is such an impossible question for me. I’m not very lucid about what’s going on in Hollywood. If we were to go by looks, Matt Bomer would make a great Jaret. I have no clue who I would cast as Aaron. See? I’m lousy at this 😀
What genres do you write in?
I write mostly romance, but across a lot of genres within it. Action/suspense, contemporary, paranormal, fantasy. I stay away from historical for the most part just because of all the research I would insist on doing to get it right. I haven’t tried Urban fantasy yet and that’s a genre that I am interested in tackling at some point.
Where and when do you prefer to write?
Anywhere anywhen. My muse is always there shouting ideas or lines at me. I’m hopefully at the computer at the time to get them down. So many times conversations occur in my head and by the time I get to the computer? I can’t remember them, which sucks.
“You’re not going to die, Aaron.”
“You don’t know that. This sickness, ailment, curse…whatever the fuck it is. It’s gettin’ worse. And it’s changin’. Morphin’ into somethin’ scary. My nightmares lately have been horrible.”
“What kind of nightmares?” Of course, Jaret knew. They were the same kind all of them had during the change. Fire and ice as the body went through horrendous chills and soaring high fevers. They would only stop once the change was complete. For after that, there was no real sleep anymore.
“Bein’ caught on high mountains, pelted with snow. Of the forests here bright with orange fire. Of you—” His voice broke. “Callin’ out my name only I’m no longer here to respond.”
“Babe,” Jaret said in a soft voice, not understanding why but knowing he was closer to this drakyl than he had ever been to anyone. “We’re going to get you cured. Then you can come out with me at night. We’ll keep the place predator free while your cousins slave in the sun. How does that sound?”
A sad attempt at a laugh left the other man’s throat. “Promise me you won’t leave until I’m gone?”
Fury swept along Jaret’s veins. Anger at the sun, the fact the man next to him was terrified, and at Davis for not explaining to the poor man earlier what he was. But mostly, he was furious at himself for not telling Aaron the truth. Leaning in, he placed his nose against Aaron’s. “I promise you,” he said in a deep growl, “that you are not going to die, Aaron Drakyl. I won’t let it happen.”
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Thianna loves to write strong stories with even stronger heroes. While all of her books have an erotic overtone, it is the story that is the most important to her. “The story should be able to stand on its own. The erotic elements are an add-on.”
She enjoys writing about couples with kink, paranormal couples, and straight out strangeness. But more on that later… You can find her at mm.thiannad.com.
She also writes m/f under the name Thianna D.
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Tour Dates & Stops:
31-Aug Amanda C. Stone
1-Sep Hearts on Fire, Rainbow Gold Reviews
2-Sep Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words
3-Sep EE Montgomery
4-Sep Prism Book Alliance
7-Sep Mikky’s World of Books, Divine Magazine, Inked Rainbow Reads
8-Sep MM Good Book Reviews
9-Sep Love Bytes
10-Sep BFD Book Blog
11-Sep The Fuzzy, Fluffy World of Chris T. Kat
14-Sep Velvet Panic, Dawn’s Reading Nook
15-Sep Cathy Brockman Romances, Up All Night, Read All Day
16-Sep Molly Lolly
17-Sep Sinfully Addicted to All Male Romance
18-Sep Jessie G. Books
21-Sep It’s Raining Men, Book Reviews and More by Kathy
22-Sep Vampires, Werewolves, and Fairies, Oh My
23-Sep Bayou Book Junkie
24-Sep Happily Ever Chapter
25-Sep My Fiction Nook, Iyana Jenna, Michael Mandrake
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