Author Missy Welsh drops by Love Bytes today with her blog tour of Take Your Pick.
Welcome to the blog, Missy!
Author Name: Missy Welsh
Book Name: Take Your Pick
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Pages or Words: 20,000 words
Publisher: Missy Welsh
Cover Artist: Thorny Sterling
Blurb:
Peter Kim has been in love with his five best friends since junior high. Now attending college, they share a house, but none of them know how Pete really feels.
Until the five of them come home early to find Pete masturbating while watching a video of them all on vacation near a river last summer.
Devastated and embarrassed, Pete is sure they’ll kick him out come morning. Accepting him as the only gay one among them is one thing, but knowing he lusts after them? All of them? They couldn’t possibly accept that.
But when Pete wakes up the next morning, he’s shocked to discover his housemates have a proposition for him. He’ll choose one of them each day, and they promise to do whatever he wants—including sex—for a full twelve hours.
And, yeah, they’re serious.
Categories: Contemporary, Erotica, Fiction, M/M Romance, Menage/Poly, New Adult
Today, I’m very lucky to be interviewing Missy Welsh author of Take Your Pick. Hi, Missy. Thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.
Hello! Thanks so much for hosting me today. I’m not too complicated, I am addicted to carbs, and I need an app on my phone to yell at me so I work through my to-do list. Sometimes I’m pink and frilly, but mostly I’m denim and bare feet. I’ve worked in membership management, IT, customer service, and marketing, but it’s writing fiction that I truly love.
Take Your Pick is about Peter Kim and his 5 housemates exploring their sexualities in the name of ultimate friendship. See, Pete’s in love with all of them and it’s become a secret he can’t contain any longer. After he’s found out, he’s both thrilled and wary about his housemates’ decision to spend a day with him doing whatever he wants, including sex. Pete’s going to learn a lot about each of them as well as himself by the end of this
Have you ever read something that made you think differently about your genre? Can you tell us what it was?
A few years ago, there was an explosion of people tossing their opinions around about what M/M should be, giving it parameters based on personal preference. As a result of that bullshit, I decided to write what those people were saying wasn’t allowed: transmen, effeminate men, cross-dressers, and open relationships. I guess I like being contrary. Or maybe I just like a little queer reality with my queer fiction.
Tell us about your character’s family life?
Oh, Pete’s life growing up wasn’t that good. His parents were distant and he had to take care of himself a lot of the time. When they found out he was gay, they kicked him out, saying he could come home when he decided to stop that. So Pete’s family now is his 5 best friends.
Compare yourself to your main
There’s a lot of me in all 6 characters. Read the book and you’ll see just how complicated I am. *wink*
Describe your past week as a type of landscape or a weather forecast.
At the time of writing this, I’ve just entered my second week of having a full-time job after a 4-year unemployment stretch, so let’s call my past week a gouged, mile-wide section of grassland after the tornado’s gone through. No destroyed homes, businesses, or trailers, but the horses are loose, kids out of school, and I’m missing my ruby slippers. I’d forgotten that adulting is such hard and exhausting work!
I watched them pile o the behemoth Devon’s mom had loaned for tonight’s trip up to Cleveland. They all looked good in their club clothes. Nothing flashy or too tight, but I’d spread some fashion sense around and they’d believed me every time. Not a single girl would be able to resist my boys.
Of course, there would be plenty of boys who’d be unable to resist them either.
Just like me.
I waved as they drove off, equal parts relieved and lonely. I didn’t want to let them go without me, but I had been wound way too tight lately. I had on one other piece of clothing—the tightest pair of briefs I owned—just to help mask the boner I kept springing every time I’d been near them for the past three days.
Something had to give, and it was going to happen in a gush of orgasmic heat all over my fist.
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Missy Welsh stares into space a lot, has conversations with cats, takes notes while people-watching, conversations (not the ones with cats), named her laptop Norbert and her phone Pushkin, has backups of her backups’ backups, faints at the sight of a misused semi-colon, and will often ask socially unacceptable questions of strangers.
Basically, she’s a writer.
Where to find Missy Welsh:
Missy Welsh Book News (email list)
All Romance eBooks Author Page
Tour Dates & Stops:
5-Oct Rainbow Gold Reviews, The Jena Wade, Hearts on Fire, BFD Book Blog
6-Oct Tara Lain, Divine Magazine, Vampires, Werewolves, and Fairies, Oh My
7-Oct Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, Three Books Over The Rainbow, Ogitchida Book Blog,
8-Oct Because Two Men Are Better Than One, MM Good Book Reviews, Prism Book Alliance
9-Oct Kimi-Chan, My Fiction Nook, Love Bytes, Dawn’s Reading Nook, Inked Rainbow Reads, Sinfully Addicted to All Male Romance
Rafflecopter Prize: One of three copies of ‘Take Your Pick’ by Missy Welsh
