AT LAST. HERE IT IS
THE LONG AWAITED COVER OF
LOVE SPELL
BY MIA KERICK
Release
Date: June 1, 2015
Blurb:
Strutting his stuff on
the catwalk in black patent leather pumps and a snug orange tuxedo as this
year’s Miss (ter) Harvest Moon feels so very right to Chance César, and yet he
knows it should feel so very wrong.
As far back as he can
remember, Chance has been “caught between genders.” (It’s quite a touchy
subject; so don’t ask him about it.) However, he does not question his
sexual orientation. Chance has no doubt about his gayness—he is very much out
of the closet at his rural New Hampshire high school, where the other students
avoid the kid they refer to as “girl-boy.”
But at the local Harvest
Moon Festival, when Chance, the Pumpkin Pageant Queen, meets Jasper Donahue,
the Pumpkin Carving King, sparks fly. So Chance sets out, with the help of his
BFF, Emily, to make “Jazz” Donahue his man.
An article in an online
women’s magazine, Ten Scientifically Proven Ways to Make a Man Fall in Love
with You (with a bonus love spell thrown in for good measure), becomes the
basis of their strategy to capture Jazz’s heart.
Quirky, comical,
definitely flamboyant, and with an inner core of poignancy, Love Spell
celebrates the diversity of a gender-fluid teen.
Excerpt:
“Do you really wanna go there?”
Unlike the fake lunch block that I
spend every day with Jazz, my real lunch block with Emily has been a
total bitch lately. I can’t say who the major target of the bullshit is—Emmy or
me—as neither of us has a sizeable fan club at Fiske High School. But I will
say that the front table by the salad bar can be a cold place, and that’s not
just because of the draft that comes in from the hallway.
“Nice makeup, girl-boy.” It seems
Edwin Darling hasn’t forgotten my nickname from grade school, which sucks for
me.
But this diva never backs down.
“Thanks. Haven’t you heard—I was the head makeup artist on Evita?”
“Eh-what-uh?” Eddie the Appalling
wrinkles his greasy forehead and runs his hand over his buzz-cut hair. Clearly,
he is unfamiliar with Tony Award winning Broadway musicals. Not that I’m
shocked. He quickly shifts his attention to Emily. “How do you put up with him,
fat-ass?”
My BFF isn’t as good as I am at
deflecting evil taunts. She looks up at him with wide eyes and seems to lose
her appetite, pushing her salad toward the middle of the table.
“Oh, that’s cold, my darling Eddie.”
(See what I did with his name, there? Clever, I know.) I stand up. “I wouldn’t
go there if I were you.” I then “rawr” at him like a ticked-off tigress,
throwing in a clawing gesture to get my point across. “Do you really wanna
go there?”
I can tell by the look on his face
that he’s remembering how long it took for the scratches on his face to heal
after our last entanglement.
“I personally could live without
going there, but you know me—I’m impulsive as hell.” I fold my arms across my
chest and thrust out my right hip. “Piss me off and I’m likely to do
abso-fucking-lutely anything.”
The bulk of my attention is focused
on my adversary, but it’s impossible to miss that we’ve gathered an audience.
An audience of indifferent “watchers”—the multitudes of apathetic teens who
will later text each other, “did you see the homo and the bully go head-to-head
at lunch today?” They don’t matter one smidgeon in the scheme of things, but my
Emily does.
At this point, Eddie and I are
eye-to-eye and chest-to-chest. Lucky for him, one of his thugs bails him out.
“Get too close to that fag and you’ll get AIDS—am I wrong?” The big oaf grabs
Eddie by the arm and pulls him away.
But he doesn’t remove his gaze from
mine. “You better watch out when we’re off school grounds, pansy.”
If I said I didn’t shudder, I’d be
lying.
About the author:
Mia Kerick is the mother
of four exceptional children—all named after saints—and five nonpedigreed
cats—all named after the next best thing to saints, Boston Red Sox players. Her
husband of twenty-two years has been told by many that he has the patience of
Job, but don’t ask Mia about that, as it is a sensitive subject.
Mia focuses her stories
on the emotional growth of troubled young people and their relationships, and
she believes that physical intimacy has a place in a love story, but not until
it is firmly established as a love story. As a teen, Mia filled spiral-bound
notebooks with romantic tales of tortured heroes (most of whom happened to
strongly resemble lead vocalists of 1980s big-hair bands) and stuffed them
under her mattress for safekeeping. She is thankful to Dreamspinner Press,
Harmony Ink Press, CoolDudes Publishing, and CreateSpace for providing her with
alternate places to stash her stories.
Mia is a social liberal
and cheers for each and every victory made in the name of human rights,
especially marital equality. Her only major regret: never having taken typing
or computer class in school, destining her to a life consumed with two-fingered
pecking and constant prayer to the Gods of Technology.
Stop by Mia’s Blog
with questions or comments, or simply share what’s on your mind. Find Mia on Facebook,
Goodreads,
and Amazon.
Where to find the author:
Publisher: Cool Dudes Publishing
Cover
Artist: Louis C. Harris
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Hi everyone! This is Kari, Mia's assistant. Mia is spending time with her mother this morning who is ill. She will be online later today! Thank you for being a part of the cover reveal for Love Spell! I hope you will all get a chance to meet Chance!
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