Hello there! I’m so happy to be back at Love Bytes Blog to chat a bit about my TV viewing habits and my new release. I bet you’re wondering what one has to do with the other, aren’t you? Well, let me explain.
When I was sitting down to write Draw, Overtime #3, I had a basic idea of what career Jackie Blue Kalinski was going to pursue. I’d been writing Jackie since he was a newborn after all! Victor and Dan’s boy was destined to be a fashion designer, even if his fathers would have wished him to be hockey players like they were. Jackie had his own dreams though and clung to them in true Kalinski style.
When it came time to write Jackie, I found that I knew very little about fashion design. TV and the internet to the rescue! I did a bushel of online research then began watching any show I could find about the fashion world. I stumbled on a new Netflix called “Next in Fashion” starring my fave Fab Five guy, Tan France. It was the perfect show for someone working on a book about a budding fashion designer! I binged the entire series in just a few days and settled in to pen a tale about a college sophomore meeting and falling madly in love with a much older Boston Marine Unit firefighter.
If you’d like to know more about Draw, or the other Overtime books, you can find the blurb below as well as a link to take you to my website for more information.
Thanks for dropping by!
Skate hard and love deeply,
V.L. Locey
Length: 62,000 approx.
Cover Design: Meredith Russell
Vic & Dan Books
Point Shot Trilogy
Coach’s Challenge (Cayuga Cougars #3)
Overtime Trilogy
Book #1 – Rebound
Book #2 – Final Shot
Blurb
They say first loves never last. Jackie Blue Kalinski was about to show them—whoever they are—that the word never is not in his vocabulary.
From the time Jack Kalinski was a preschooler he had a good sense of who he was and where he wanted to go in life. His childhood was spent drawing beautiful dresses for pretty people, male and female alike. Growing up with two dads who played hockey wasn’t exactly conducive to late night talks about tulle or tailor’s chalk, but he never let that stop his dreams of becoming a fashion designer or expressing the genderqueer heart that beat in his chest. His family’s love and support helped him through some painful losses that shaped him into the strong, vivacious, and charismatic college student he is today. Life hasn’t been a smooth ride, but Jack has persevered and is about to take the fashion world by storm.
Little does he suspect that his tidy life is about to be scorched by a chance meeting with one of the men playing hockey on the gay team his father coaches. Martin McKittrick not only catches Jack’s eye, but the much older man wins his heart. The passionate affair with the captain of the Marine Unit of the BFD burns red hot until the new couple run into a few snags that might dampen the inferno: Jack’s ascent into the fashion world, Martin’s job and the inherent dangers that come with it, and the fact that the well-kept secret romance has just been exposed to the world in a rather big way.
USA Today Bestselling Author V.L. Locey – Penning LGBT hockey romance that skates into sinful pleasures.
V.L. Locey loves worn jeans, yoga, belly laughs, walking, reading and writing lusty tales, Greek mythology, Torchwood and Dr. Who, the New York Rangers, comic books, and coffee. (Not necessarily in that order.) She shares her life with her husband, her daughter, one dog, two cats, a pair of geese, far too many chickens, and two steers.
When not writing spicy romances, she enjoys spending her day with her menagerie in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania with a cup of fresh java in one hand and a steamy romance novel in the other.
