Caught in the Middle
Hey y’all. I’m BA Tortuga – writer of rednecks and cowboys and down home folks that manage to fall in love. It’s my thing.
Sometimes – lots of times – I feel caught in the middle of the world.
Seriously. I’m a liberal redneck. I’m a divorced multi-racial lesbian cowboy rodeo fan mom that’s married to a bisexual woman. I’m a Texan in New Mexico. I honestly don’t fit anywhere and I can slide in a lot of places.
I wrote Latigo years ago. Literally. Fifteen years ago I just wanted to tell the story of two good old boys that fell in love and lived happily ever after, so that’s what I did.
I just told the truth as I knew it. That’s it. Dean is every middle-aged man I know from my hometown – a good man trying to take care of his daddy and his ranch and his dogs. Will is sort of who I wanted to be – a free soul with an adrenaline bug and the need to ride.
Together they came together years ago and fell in love. I’ll admit, I still cry, every single time I read their story.
Every. Single. Time.
Much love, y’all.
BA Tortuga
Latigo
Official blurb:
Being a hard-core rodeo cowboy means getting by with little money and less of a future. But for two hardscrabble rodeo riders, that might change….
Dean’s been around the rodeo circuit long enough to know when a new kid is down on his luck. Giving young Will a ride to the next event is just the neighborly thing to do, passing on some of the kindness strangers have shown him over the years. Who’d expect Will to be such good company? So good in fact, that Dean figures he might just keep Will around—especially since Will feels the same.
Traveling from rodeo to rodeo, enjoying all the fringe benefits they can, is a dream come true for Dean and Will. Troubles with Dean’s family and Will’s stubborn pride separate them for a while, but they always come back together when the chips are down. These two cowboys are a match made in heaven—now they just need to convince everyone else to let them live the life they love and find their future together.
Latigo first published by Torquere Press, July, 2005.
Bits of Leather first published by Torquere Press, July 2007.
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Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy’s Girl, BA Tortuga spends her days with her basset hounds and her beloved wife, texting her sisters, and eating Mexican food. When she’s not doing that, she’s writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting and surfing Pinterest in the name of research. BA’s personal saviors include her wife, Julia Talbot, her best friend, Sean Michael, and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee.
Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to hard-core cowboys to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast Texas, but has heard the call of the high desert and lives in the Sandias. With books ranging from hard-hitting GLBT romance, to fiery menages, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.