A warm welcome to author Anyta Sunday joining us today here at Love Bytes to talk about new release : Pisces Hooks Taurus, book 4 in the Signs of Love series.
Welcome Anyta 🙂
Hello lovelies! So great to be back here at Love Bytes and to celebrate the release of “Pisces Hooks Taurus”, the latest installment of my “Signs of Love” series. This book features an American English professor, Beckett, and a comic book artist from New Zealand, Zane. One of the traits often attributed to Pisces is that they are very artistic and visual people, and Zane totally fits that bill. He just loves to draw, and is lately also developing his own stories instead of illustrating other people’s.
He’s got many inspirations, and I would like to share some of Zane’s favorite comics and graphic novels with you (they’re also some of my favorites!).
- Disney’s Donald Duck & Duck Tales stories
Zane loved all things Disney growing up, but his favorites were the stories of Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck and the three nephews, from the Carl Barks comics to the classic DuckTales TV show. He still can’t get the theme out of his head… DuckTales – woohoo!
- My Neighbor Totoro
Japanese comics and cartoons are another of Zane’s childhood loves, and none more than the movies by Studio Ghibli. The iconic “My Neighbor Totoro” remains his all-time favorite: who could forget the cat bus?
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Zane discovered the Frank Miller Batman comic books during high school, and they have influenced his style more than any others. “The Dark Knight Returns” remains his favorite of them.
- Burma Chronicles
Beautifully telling stories of everyday life from a country that was closed off from the world at the time, this graphic novel by Guy Delisle features a simple yet intriguing drawing style. The previous books, Shenzhen and Pyongyang, are just as good!
- Hip Hop Family Tree
Telling the origin story of Hip Hop music and culture in painstaking details, these books by Ed Piskor really make you feel the rhythm of the 70s and 80s. Equal parts music appreciation and history lesson, you can tell the love for these artists from every page. Recently, Ed Piskor is the artist behing X-Men: Grand Design, which also has his trademark style.
Check out these books and movies, they are awesome! And check out the story of Zane and Beckett in “Pisces Hooks Taurus”, out now via Amazon and Kindle Unlimited. A short excerpt of the story is below… enjoy!
Beckett observed him with a musing look. He stepped closer, the tail end of his breath flickering against Zane’s chin. Those cautious blue eyes soaked Zane in, making him fidget with the strap across his chest. A warm palm landed at his heart and skated up under the strap. “I teach, Zane.” He lifted the strap of the bag, and Zane ducked out of it. “If you want, you could draw and write.”
Zane could hear Jacob urging him to take it. To make progress on creating his own comic.
Beckett slung the bag over his shoulder and backed toward his lecture hall. “Think about it.”
Zane rubbed at the ghost of the bag strap. He couldn’t bring himself to hold Beckett’s gaze and stared at his leather shoes until the archway swallowed him.
Draw and write.
Zane wavered. He didn’t want to leave.
Just didn’t know how to convince himself to enter.
Pisces Hooks Taurus by Anyta Sunday
Series: Signs of Love #4
Publisher: Anyta Sunday (self published)
Release Date (Print & Ebook): October 16, 2018
Length (Print & Ebook): 69000 words / 285 pages
Book synopsis:
It’s a time for searching, and a time for finding, Pisces: keep casting your line and you will hook what you’re looking for.
Zane has it all planned out: land the perfect Meet Cute, fall in love, and live happily ever after.
Should be simple enough if he put his mind to it. A little creativity and some thinking outside of the box, and voila, he’d be married to the woman of his dreams.
It would be perfect.
And it would be before his visa ran out.
But why are his feelings running wild now that the pressure’s on? Why is his picture-perfect plan turning into a muddled mess of morphed metaphors he can’t make sense of anymore?
Just as well he’s met an English professor to help. And even though their first meet is anything but cute, this down-to-earth teacher may just be the realist Zane needs to ground him and give him a shot at love after all.
Don’t cast your line too wide, Pisces. Your perfect catch may already have bitten.
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Pisces Hooks Taurus (Signs of Love #4) is an MM opposites-attract romantic comedy featuring an unapologetic romantic and a broken realist.
More wit, banter and bad puns – and even more heart-stopping slow burn!
Can be read as a standalone.
Tropes: friends-to-lovers, slow burn, will-they-or-won’t-they
Genre: New Adult, light-hearted contemporary gay romance
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About Anyta Sunday:
HEART-STOPPING SLOW BURN
A bit about me: I’m a big, BIG fan of slow-burn romances. I love to read and write stories with characters who slowly fall in love.
Some of my favorite tropes to read and write are: Enemies to Lovers, Friends to Lovers, Clueless Guys, Bisexual, Pansexual, Demisexual, Oblivious MCs, Everyone (Else) Can See It, Slow Burn, Love Has No Boundaries.
I write a variety of stories, Contemporary MM Romances with a good dollop of angst, Contemporary lighthearted MM Romances, and even a splash of fantasy.
My books have been translated into German, Italian, French, and Thai.
Connect with Anyta:
Author website: http://www.anytasunday.com/
Author newsletter signup: http://www.anytasunday.com/newsletter-free-e-book/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anytasundaybooks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/anytasunday
Instagram: https://instagram.com/anytasunday
Giveaway: Win an e-book set of 3 Signs of Love books: Leo Loves Aries, Scorpio Hates Virgo, and Gemini Keeps Capricorn or, reader’s choice of any back catalog e-book by Anyta Sunday!
Always fun to learn more about the a character outside the book. Thank you for sharing Zane’s favorite graphic novels and comics.