Title: Gay for Pay
Series: Stories from the Sound
Author: TM Smith
Genre: M/M Romance
Release Date: April 1, 2020
I don’t know how to explain it—I just woke up one day and there he was. And he became my everything.All it took was one wrong choice, a decision made in haste, to destroy Chris’s future.
It’s a mistake that he can’t take back or make right, one that cost another person their life. Adrift, alone, and uncertain of his future, Chris moves to New York. He quickly learns that the bright lights of the big city don’t offer the absolution he seeks. A fortuitous encounter moves him in the right direction. But is he willing to take the chance he’s offered to make a fresh start?
After catching his boyfriend cheating, again, Linc is convinced that he’ll never find love.
Linc has always been honest about who he is and what he prefers. He’s a bisexual gay porn star that will do just about anything with anyone, on camera that is, so he can write his own ticket in a versatility-charged industry. It’s not his sexuality that interferes with his personal life; it’s his inability to trust.
Can the possibility of a happy ever after prove to be enough of a reason for these two men to let their guard down and take a second chance on love?
NOTE This story was previously published as Gay for Pay, All Cocks Stories book 1. It has been edited and reworked with a lot of new content added to the story.
Music while I’m writing
I’ve always been a person that needed some type of noise in the background, utter silence makes my teeth ache. So with each new book I start I create a playlist before I even start writing, when I’m first outlining and tossing things around in my head. Sometimes my playlists change drastically, but other times it’s minimal. I love taking a song that speaks volumes and molding a chapter or scene around it, taking those notes and words and shaping them to fit a character or couple and give them depth. It’s something special for me when I’m driving in my car, a song comes on the radio, and I can envision a scene between two characters playing out within the emotion that has been encapsulated in the song. I’m also a fan of promoting LGBTQ artists so there is always a Queer artist on my playlists. I’m quite partial to Adam Lambert and Steve Grand.
For this book specifically, a couple songs I deliberately chose were Adam Lambert, My Heart is a Ghost Town. I think it perfectly describes Chris in the first few chapters of the book. After the accident he’s broken and in despair, lost, and if you listen to the song it truly fits him. And Lifehouse, You and Me, “Cause it’s you and me, and all of the people, with nothing to do and nothing to loose.” Lord, if this doesn’t fit Chris and Linc perfectly, I don’t know what does.
Listen to the entire playlist here
There are Queer as Folk references because this show was a huge inspiration for this book, as well as several LGBTQ Artists and a Jazz playlist. Chris does love his Jazz!
A military brat born and raised at Ft. Benning Georgia; TM Smith is an avid reader, reviewer and writer. A Texas transplant, she now calls DFW her home. Most days she can be found curled up with a good book, or ticking away on her next novel.
Smith is a single mom of three disturbingly outspoken and decidedly different kids, one of which is Autistic. Besides her writing, she is passionate about Autism advocacy and LGBT rights. Because, seriously people, Love is Love!
