Author Name: Joy Lynn Fielding
Book Name: Blowing Off Steam
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Publisher: Samhain Publishing
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Two guys, a train, and lots of steam.
Sam Chancellor has been in love with the steam engine Old Bess
since he was six years old. Well, maybe not literally, but even when he’s lost
everything else in his life, he’s always had her. But now her place in his
heart has been unexpectedly challenged. Her new driver, Ryan Saunders, is the
embodiment of all Sam’s fantasies.
Ryan has written off Sam as just another geeky trainspotter—until the
moment Ryan sees him without his usual shapeless hoodie and realizes that, for
a nerd, Sam’s pretty built.
When Ryan overlooks Sam’s awkwardness long enough to suggest a hook-up,
Sam seizes the opportunity—and Ryan—with both very eager hands. Finding common
ground in their shared love of Bess, their time together is better than Sam
ever dared dream.
But there’s a reason Ryan never talks about his past. And when Ryan’s job
is threatened, Sam’s well-meaning intervention puts both Ryan and Bess in
deadly danger.
Warning: Contains train geekery, bed-hogging, a
hero with no experience and another with plenty to spare, and a spider called
Mabel.
Pages or Words: 66,000 words
Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, M/M
Romance
Excerpt:
Blowing
Off Steam by Joy Lynn
Fielding
“You’re
kind of built for a nerd, aren’t you?” Ryan said. “I guess trainspotting’s a
more active hobby than I’d thought.”
Sam
should have walked away because this guy was insufferable. Except there was humour gleaming in those eyes as
well as something else. Something that if he wasn’t entirely losing his mind
was actual, sexual interest.
In
him, Sam Chancellor.
“It’s
all that running alongside the engines to get the numbers down,” he blurted out
before he could stop himself.
To
his amazement, Ryan laughed. A true laugh that caused his eyes to crinkle at
the corners. It made him even more gorgeous than he already was.
“Ryan
Saunders,” he said. “I drive old Bessie.”
“Bessie?”
Sam was horrified at the heresy. “She’s Bess.
She’s always been Bess.”
“Given
I’m the one whose hands have been over every inch of her, I guess she’s
allowing me intimacies the general public doesn’t get,” Ryan said.
The
low seductive voice and the thought of Ryan’s hands stroking over him the way
they did over Bess meant Sam was getting hard. He clutched his satchel in front
of him like some sort of shield, except that wasn’t helping at all because it
was pressed against his dick and, God above, he was about to get a hard-on,
here and now, right in front of Ryan Saunders.
“You
haven’t told me your name,” Ryan said.
“Sam,”
he choked out. “Sam Chancellor, and I have to go.”
He
put his head down and fled.
About the
author:
Joy
Lynn Fielding lives in a small English market town, where she indulges her
passions for vintage aircraft, horse-riding and gardening (though not all at
the same time).
Joy has a tendency to wax lyrical about the
fascinating facts she discovers during her research for books. Thankfully she has a very patient Labrador
who has a gift for looking interested in what she’s saying while he waits for
the food to arrive.
Where to find the author:
Q & A with author Joy Lynn Fielding
Wicked Faerie's - What
do you have to have when your writing?
Joy Lynn Fielding - Coffee, and more coffee. Usually followed by coffee.
WF - What’s
the last movie that you saw in the theater?
JLF - Paddington.
I loved it, although I ended up going to a later viewing than planned
because of the class of excited five-year-olds that was pouring in just as I
arrived at the cinema. My next cinema
outing is going to be Avengers: Age of Ultron and yes, I might just be
counting the days…
WF - What
book can you not live without? Could be your own or another author’s.
JLF - Oh, blimey.
I’ve spent ages thinking about this, but I still can’t come up with just
one! My choice of reading material
depends so much on my mood. It would
probably be one of my comfort reads—Gaudy Night (Dorothy L Sayers), The
Unknown Ajax (Georgette Heyer), The Moonspinners (Mary Stewart), or Memoirs
of a Fox-hunting Man (Siegfried Sassoon).
WF - Do
you listen to music when you write? Or do you prefer TV or no noise at all?
JLF - I work best in complete peace and quiet. I can’t listen to music when I write, though
it’s great for getting me into a particular character’s headspace beforehand.
WF - What’s
up next for you regarding your books and writing?
JLF- I’m hoping to get cracking on the final book in my Strength
of the Pack series, which follows the fortunes of a small pack of shifters
in Colorado. After that’s done, I’m not
quite sure – it depends which characters turn up and demand that I tell their
story next. :)
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Thank you so much for having me here today. I'll be around all day if anyone has any questions for me or would like to chat about favourite films, coffee, or anything else!
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