Author Name: Posy Roberts
Book Name: Silver Scars
Publisher: Labyrinth Bound Press
Cover
Artist: Natasha Snow
Release
Date: June 22, 2015
Blurb:
A
bomb destroyed high-powered lawyer Gil Lemieux’s seemingly perfect life, and
PTSD has ruled every decision since the explosion that left him scarred inside
and outside. Moving home with his mom is meant to be a temporary measure, just
like proofreading for a medical institution is only meant to be a stopgap. But two
years after taking on the wrong court case, he’s still living in fear.
Keith
Kramer might be based 1,500 miles away from Gil, but their shared work brings
them together—a chance meeting that’s life-changing. Gil is drawn to Keith’s
good looks and intelligence, but it’s his innate understanding that Gil is more
than the scars on his skin that is truly attractive. He’s everything Gil used
to be and more. It blows Gil’s mind that his attraction might be returned.
Only
doubt could widen the distance between them. Keith’s hopefulness, borne out of
surviving some tough challenges of his own, isn’t enough to bridge the distance
alone. Gil will need to believe he has as much to offer as Keith if they’re to
build a life together.
Pages or Words: 86,700 words
Categories: Contemporary, Gay Fiction,
M/M Romance, Romance
About the author:
Posy
Roberts writes about romantic male love. Whether these characters are family
men, drag queens, or lonely men searching for connections, they all find a home
in her stories.
Posy is
married to a man who makes sure she doesn’t forget to eat or sleep; her
daughter, a budding author and dedicated Whovian, helps her come up with
character names. When Posy’s not writing, she enjoys crafting, hiking, and
singing spontaneously about the mundane, just to make normal seem more
interesting.
Where to find the author:
Website: http://posyroberts.com/
Guest post from author Posy Roberts
Guest post from author Posy Roberts
Thanks for hosting me today. I’m excited to be here to talk
about my new book, Silver Scars and a
little bit of mysticism I wrote into the book.
Ever since I was a little kid, I've loved rocks. Apparently
I liked them so much at eleven months old that I ate them. Eww!
I collected every pretty rock I ran across and soon had
amassed quite the collection. Then in eighth grade, I took Earth Science and
feel even deeper in love with rocks. I prided myself with being able to name a
stone seconds after picking it up. On a camping trip out in SD and WY with the
science club, I bought stones at nearly every roadside stops. I had those rock
identification charts they sell in places like that, the kind with samples of
rocks glued to cardboard.
And even as an adult, this love of rocks has stuck around. I
have an egg-shaped piece of hematite that I often carry in my pocket, quartz
worry stones, and a lot of jewelry
made from semi-precious stones and crystals. I like having something to finger
and hold onto. I've had the hematite for at least twenty years.
There are many people who tout the healing power of stones
and in my book, Silver Scars, Gil
Lemieux experiences some of that when he visits Sedona, AZ and a woman suggests
some stones to help him heal.
Gil has been struggling for nearly two years, fearful of his
own shadow after a bomb was planted in his house, scarring both his skin and
his mind. His place of safety was destroyed. He feels adrift and the stones the
healer suggests to him are supposed to help him feel more grounded, more
centered, and heal his root chakra.
While I was researching stone healing more in depth to write
this section of Silver Scars, I was
looking for rocks that would help Gil feel safe and connected to the earth
again, secure. He hasn't had that sense for far too long.
The one exception was when he met Keith, the first man he'd
been with since before the explosion. Keith and Gil experience a wonderful
night together, which makes Gil feel like his old self, before the explosion
shook up his entire world. Too bad they live many states apart.
Silver Scars is
partly a story about Gil's healing journey so he can be the man he wants to be.
Keith had struggles of his own, so he needs a partner with great mental
strength. Wanting to be with Keith is a great instigator for Gil's recovery.
Hematite—that egg-shaped stone I've carried with me on and
off for years and that Gil carries—is supposed to heal the mind and ground the
soul. I doubt that would hold up in a scientific experiments, but I know I feel
calmer when I grasp that rock. My kid and I now fight over it. She can't
explain it aside from, "I just like it."
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