A warm welcome to author Sean Michael joining us today to talk about their new Dreamspinner Press release “X-Factor”.
The Thing About Winter Sports
X-Factor celebrates the extreme sports of winter and while I love winter and I, like Henry, love watching the extreme sports games, I don’t snowboard myself. In fact, I don’t really participate in any winter sports. I’m not a skier, or a skater. I don’t play hockey or snowmobile. Which is kind of ironic, given how much I enjoy winter itself. I do love the cold and the snow and the bright, crisp days. But I don’t even put on snowshoes and go walking in the deep snow in the country as Henry sometimes does. I just enjoy it for it’s own sake.
It’s kind of hard to set a story in the winter, though, and not have at least one of the characters participate in some kind of winter sport. And with Henry and Ecco, I have characters who participate in winter sports from an amateur just for fun standpoint (Henry) as well as a professional standpoint (Ecco).
It was fun to explore the different ways the guys participated in winter, both the sports as well as the downtime activities like snuggling in front of the fire with cups of hot cocoa – and that is one ‘winter sport’ that I do indulge in myself.
Sean
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X-Factor blurb:
Game designer Henry Delloit loves his life, his mountain community, his isolated dream home, and the snow. He also loves that the X-treme Games blow into the area for a month every year, bringing with them hundreds of athletes.
Ecco Rasmussen loves boarding. He knows he’ll never make it to the big time, but as long as he can get on his board and go, he doesn’t care. If only his manager, Blake Dobbs, would cut Ecco a break. The man’s possessive and mean, and believes he owns Ecco.
When Henry and Ecco meet at the Branchberry Games, it’s lust at first sight. An injury on Ecco’s qualifying run offers an opportunity to spend quality time together at Henry’s home, away from the crowds and out from under Blake’s thumb.
At this rate, lust might turn into love, but not if they can’t keep their romance hidden from Blake.
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Often referred to as “Space Cowboy” and “Gangsta of Love” while still striving for the moniker of “Maurice,” Sean Michael spends his days surfing, smutting, organizing his immense gourd collection and fantasizing about one day retiring on a small secluded island peopled entirely by horseshoe crabs. While collecting vast amounts of vintage gay pulp novels and mood rings, Sean whiles away the hours between dropping the f-bomb and pursuing the kama sutra by channeling the long lost spirit of John Wayne and singing along with the soundtrack to “Chicago.”
A long-time writer of complicated haiku, currently Sean is attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate spinning and soap carving sex toys.
Barring any of that? He’ll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark.
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