Last year I used my February monthly post to reflect on a year of the pandemic. I had high hopes it would be over by summer. We see how well that wish came true. That said, I had a list of things I wanted to do again, and for the most part, I did them. Here is last year’s list with how I’ve done:
- Send my daughter back to school so she can learn from a qualified teacher instead of me. Check.
- Travel again. I want to see and hug my family, hold my great niece (I can’t believe I’m a gruncle already) and meet the new one on the way. Half check – we’ve seen some family, just not all.
- Have lunch with friends and colleagues. Check – did this last week.
- Be able to go write in a coffee shop again. Nope – though I see people who are doing it.
- Walk around town without pulling up my mask every time I see someone coming the other way. Mostly Check. I don’t wear masks outside, but I do inside.
- Not have to schedule two-hour play dates just so my daughter can talk to someone her own age in person. Sorta Check. She now has school time with friends, but she still wants play dates.
- Get back into a routine. For the last year it has all been so temporary. Sorta Check. I’m in a routine, just not a great one.
- Go see a baseball game in person. Check.
Hopefully even all of those “nopes” and “sorta checks” will be done soon.
Your Book Boyfriend’s Boyfriend.
By now I’m sure most of you have seen or heard about this, and many (most?) have downloaded some free books. If not, here’s a link to the promotion:
https://claims.prolificworks.com/gg/v5s432xpx89L872sWJJL
My entry – Spell it Out is a paranormal romance that is a prequel to the start of a new series. You can download it free from the promotion.
New Book – New Series:
For a while I’
ve had this split personality. Andy Gallo for MM Romance, Andrew Q. Gordon for Fantasy. Typically, I’ve focused on one persona at a time. But why be typical? Exactly, don’t. So I’m not.
Relativity – Lateral Parallax Book One – is available for pre-order. It releases April 12, 2022. This is a New Adult Urban Fantasy series I’m co-writing with Carole Cummings. If you like Urban Fantasy with people who have magical and elemental powers, who engage in interdimensional travel all with a side of romantic feelings (this is NOT a romance) – then check out Relativity.
Blurb:
We’re not alone. There are an infinite number of universes and no two are the same.
For Nathan Duffy, life involves several truths—he has an iron grip on his talent, he will never walk again, and he will never stop putting his best friend Camilo Almenara ahead of his own well-being. In a world where talent can kill or save, Nathan’s nearly did both at the same time. When a drunk driver T-boned Cam’s car, Nathan lost control of his talent. He saved his best friend and nearly killed himself.
Nathan thought the accident that left him crippled was the worst pain he would ever experience. He was wrong. After years bottling up his talent, it finally breaks through. The hallucinations he experiences induce pain beyond anything he’s felt. It also means he is a danger to everyone he is close to.
For Cam, life has its own truths. Nathan only had the power to save one of them, and he chose his friend. Cam walked away without a scratch, but the guilt is never far. He’s spent the years since the accident taking care of Nathan—or at least trying to. Now something is happening to his best friend and Cam can’t help. So he goes to the one person who can–his father, Colonel Caesar Almenara, a walking legend whose talent has no equal. And who also refuses to help.
If Cam and Nathan don’t find a cure fast, Nathan will quickly find himself drugged, drafted, and shipped off to war. Desperate and angry with his father, Cam takes Nathan to the one person he thinks can help, a friend of his deceased mother who helped work on a top secret military project that could be behind Nathan’s condition. A project Cam’s father led.
When Cam’s father tracks them down, Nathan is out of time. He offers to go quietly, but the Colonel has other plans. One that includes the other personality that keeps taking over Nathan’s mind. If the Colonel succeeds, Nathan has a chance at a better life. If not….
Available April 12, 2022 – Pre-Order Now:
Until next month, have a wonderful last few weeks of winter/summer.
~Andy
Andy Gallo:
Andy prefers mountains over the beach, coffee over tea, and regardless if you shake it or stir it, he isn’t drinking a martini. He remembers his “good old days” as filled with mullets, disco music, too-short shorts, and too-high socks. Thanks to good shredders and a lack of social media, there is no proof he ever descended into any of those evils.
Andy does not write about personal experiences and no living or deceased ex-boyfriends appear on the pages of his stories. He might subconsciously infuse his characters with some of their less noble qualities, but that is entirely coincidental even if their names are the same.
Married and living his own happy every after, Andy helps others find their happy endings in the pages of his stories. He and his husband of more than twenty years spend their days raising their daughter and rubbing elbows with other parents. Embracing his status as the gay dad, Andy sometimes has to remind others that one does want a hint of color even when chasing after their child.
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