Author Avon Gale is here at Love Bytes today with her blog tour for her book Power Play.
Welcome to the blog, Avon!
Author Name: Avon Gale
Book Name: Power Play
Series: Scoring Chances #3 (This book can be read as a standalone)
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Pages or Words: 240 pages
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Cover Artist: Aaron Anderson
Blurb:
A freak accident during the Stanley Cup Playoffs put an end to Max Ashford’s hockey career. Despite everything, Max gets back into the game he loves—only this time, behind the bench as an assistant coach of the Spartanburg Spitfires, the worst team in the entire league. But nothing prepares him for the shock when he learns the new head coach is Misha Samarin, the man who caused Max’s accident.
After spending guilt-ridden years for his part in Max’s accident, Russian native Misha Samarin has no idea what to do when he’s confronted with Max’s presence. Max’s optimism plays havoc with Misha’s equilibrium—as does the fierce attraction that springs up between them.
Not only must they navigate Misha’s remorse and a past he’s spent a lifetime to forget, but also a sleazy GM determined to use their history as a marketing hook. But when an unwelcome visitor targets the team, Misha revisits his darkest days, which might cost him and Max the beginning they’ve worked so hard to build.
Categories: Bisexual, Contemporary, Fiction
To tell you the truth, I’m not much of a blog reader unless it’s M/M romance blogs! However, recently I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts so I thought I’d share some of those:
How Did This Get Made: Hilarious discussions about terrible movies, starring Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas. This is the first podcast I’ve ever religiously listened to. My favorite part is the “Amazon Five Star Reviews”, in which Paul reads five-star reviews of awful movies.
The Black Tapes: I devoured this recently and am in AGONY waiting for the next new episode. It’s a fictional podcast that blends The X-Files and Serial, and focuses on paranormal investigations and a man named Richard Strand who tries to debunk them…but it’s so much more than that. They are wonderfully creepy and the ongoing narrative is brilliantly plotted and paced.
The NoSleep Podcast: A horror fiction podcast in which short stories are performed aloud, two or three per episode.
Welcome to NightVale: I just started listening to this, too. It’s like Lovecraft’s version of “A Prairie Home Companion.” Creepy fun!
Grown-Ups Read Stuff they Wrote As Kids: This is Canadian and it cracks me up – very similar to the Mortified podcast, adults read from old diaries and letters they kept in their awkward growing-up years. Hilarious!
“I’d never watched this, you know.”
“The YouTube video?” Misha had seen that too. It was filed with angry commenters yelling that he should be deported back to Russia.
“The hit.”
Misha blinked. “You’ve seen the commercial, though. Yes?”
“Yeah, I wish I could say I haven’t seen that. But I meant, I didn’t watch this until a few months ago. They played that game on the NHL channel, so I watched it.”
It never occurred to Misha that Max wouldn’t have seen it, but then he remembered that Max was the hero, not the villain of the story. Misha watched the hit play out on the screen. What must that feel like, to watch the moment it all ended? When Max hit the ice, did he know that game was his last? Did Misha know it was his? How had he felt? He couldn’t remember.
The scene switched to the replay. Misha watched dispassionately, retreated into the blinding pain of his migraine, and told himself that it was all right to suffer, that he should, that he deserved it.
Max paused the video. “Look. See what I have there?”
Misha blinked. He had not expected questions. “I—what?”
“The puck, Misha. The puck. Your hit wasn’t late.”
Oh. “Yes. I know.”
Max stared at him. On the television screen, their younger selves were suspended at the moment everything changed.
Buy the book:
Avon Gale was once the mayor on Foursquare of Jazzercise and Lollicup, which should tell you all you need to know about her as a person. She likes road trips, rock concerts, drinking Kentucky bourbon and yelling at hockey. She’s a displaced southerner living in a liberal midwestern college town, and when she’s not writing you can find her at the salon, making her clients look and feel fabulous. She never gets tired of people and their stories — either real or the ones she makes up in her head.
Where to find the author:
Twitter: @avongalewrites
Tour Dates & Stops:
9-May: My Fiction Nook, Open Skye Book Reviews, Inked Rainbow Reads, Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings,
10-May: Two Chicks Obsessed With Books and Eye Candy, Joyfully Jay, Jessie G. Books, Rednecks and Romance, Anna Butler Fiction
11-May: MM Good Book Reviews, Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews, Posy Roberts, Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents
12-May: Love Bytes, The Novel Approach, Unquietly Me, Happily Ever Chapter
13-May: BFD Book Blog, The Hat Party, MM Book Escape
16-May: Havan Fellows, Divine Magazine, Outrageous Heroes, Prism Book Alliance, Boys on the Brink Reviews
17-May: 3 Chicks After Dark, Full Moon Dreaming, Butterfly-O-Meter
18-May: Foxylutely Book Reviews, Three Books Over The Rainbow, V’s Reads
19-May: Book Lovers 4Ever, Charley Descoteaux, Mikky’s World of Books, Carly’s Book Reviews
20-May: Making It Happen, Kirsty Loves Books, Bayou Book Junkie
21-May: A.M. Leibowitz, Alpha Book Club, Molly Lolly, Man2ManTastic
Rafflecopter Prize: Books one and two of the ‘Scoring Chances’ series by Avon Gale
Hi Avon!
I do enjoy a good hockey story – these sound great!
congrats avon
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