Author Name: Mia Kerick
Book Name: Love Spell
Goodreads
Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25550836-love-spell
Publisher: Cool Dudes Publishing
Cover
Artist: Louis C. Harris
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.
Pages or Words: 44,300 words
Categories: Contemporary, Gay Fiction,
Romance, Young Adult
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.
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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.
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with questions or comments, or simply share what’s on your mind. Find Mia on Facebook,
Goodreads, and Amazon.
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