Guest Author: Tara Lain

Tara LainI would like to welcome Tara Lain to Literary Escapism today.  Tara’s latest release is Genetic Attraction.

At a conservative Long Island University, renowned researcher, Dr. Emmaline Silvay, has two great loves — her life-saving work, and her younger research partner, Jake Martin. The romantic love is impossible. She’s his boss and he lives with his girlfriend. But his “girlfriend” is actually a boyfriend; the beautiful and infamous supermodel, Roan Black.

Resigned to a platonic relationship, Em accepts a weekend invitation to their home, but the men have a ménage on their minds. She can’t resist, doesn’t even want to. But their intentions go far beyond passion. They want her to “be a part of them.” Their three-way love defies propriety and the standards of the University that funds their work. The supermodel’s fame makes secrecy impossible. Their ménage threatens to crumble all she’s worked for. What will give way to make room for genetic attraction?

Tara will be giving away a Swag Collection including a CD ROM copy of Genetic Attraction, plus some other goodies at her Book Blog.
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Confessions of a Book Convention Virgin

I’m going to RT. Whew. It gives me a butterfly or two. You see, I’ve never been to a writer’s conference of any kind. Of course, I’ve only officially been a novelist for a few months, since my first book, Genetic Attraction, a M/M/F menage, came out from Loose Id in January. (And if you come over to my Book Blog and leave me advice on how to survive RT, you may win a Swag Collection including a CD ROM copy of Genetic Attraction, plus some other goodies!)

It’s funny to say I’m a convention virgin, because I literally made a living doing presentations for conventions and trade shows for many years right out of college. I started out standing up in front of crowds with a microphone extolling the virtues of some new computer system and, in later years as a PR person, dragged the poor members of the press into my client’s booth for interviews. But RT will all be new. Just getting ready for this conference, however, I’ve already learned a bunch of important facts:

  • It’s all about the bar –If all the people who say they are going to meet me in the bar meet me in the bar, there will be no one left in the sessions.
  • Swag R Us — At my first trade show years ago I was dressed as a rabbit, a singing and dancing one, and I ran around between performances collecting candy -it was the National Confectioners Association. At RT, we writers are the candy givers. I now have a stack of postcards, magnets, little mirror compacts and such to hand out. It should be fun.
  • Build the Back List, baby – At RT, I’ll be in the less than ideal position of having only one ebook available. My next release isn’t until May, then June and beyond. Under ordinary circumstances, I probably wouldn’t have picked RT for my first conference, but it’s in my backyard so I couldn’t resist. I realize with some delight that by this time next year I should have seven or eight books in the backlist including a few in print.
  • Workshopaholics Anonymous – I adore workshops. It’s how I trained myself to be a novel writer after a lifetime writing nonfiction. At RT, I will go crazy because at any given half hour there are multiple events I want to attend. And, of course, there’s the bar!
  • Ready for the Pitch – There are so many great opportunities to pitch publishers and agents at RT, I wish I had a manuscript to present. All my work this year, however, is spoken for and I’m not complaining. It’s a great problem to have.

So come over to the Book Blog and give me your advice on how to survive writer’s/reader’s conferences (and/ or follow my blog). You may win a CD ROM copy of Genetic Attraction plus some show goodies from RT. For those who won’t be at RT, here’s a little bit about Genetic Attraction:

The BOOK TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-yNlgQ3xBI

On May 31, the prequel to Genetic Attraction, called The Scientist and the Supermodel, will be released from Loose Id. It’s a M/M romance and you can read more about it and my Works in Progress on my website: http://www.taralain.com

Come chat with me at: me webiste, http://taralain.blogspot.com, Savvy Authors, Beautiful Boys Books, Facebook, Twitter or GoodReads.

And I hope to see lots of you at RT. Do you have advice for me? Come on over to the Book Blog and leave advice and/or follow and you’ll be entered to win. : )

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Tara Lain never met a beautiful boy she didn’t love – at least on paper. A writer of erotic romance, mostly ménage and male/male, Tara loves all her characters, but especially her handsome heroes. A lifelong writer of serious non-fiction, Tara only fell in love with EROM in 2009 and, through perseverance and lots of workshops, had the first novel she ever wrote accepted for publication in 2010. She’s now on book six. After an exotic life of travel all over the world and work in television, education and advertising, Tara settled in Southern California with her soul-mate husband and opened her own small marketing business. She paints, collages, and started practicing yoga “way before it was fashionable”. Passionate about diversity, justice, inclusion and new ideas she says on her tombstone it will read, “Yes”.

TLain - Genetic AttractionContact Info
Website: www.taralain.com
Blog: http://taralain.blogspot.com
Blog: Savvy Authors
Blog: Beautiful Boys Books
Social Media: Facebook / Twitter / GoodReads

Want to purchase Tara’s novels?
Genetic Attraction at Amazon, the Book Depository, Fictionwise or at Loose Id.

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