Friday, January 27, 2017

Club Raven by BA Tortuga, Julia Talbot, and Kiernan Kelly - Blog Tour with a Guest Post from author Julia Talbot


Title: Calling His Bluff, Happy Medium, and Wishful Thinking
Author: BA Tortuga, Julia Talbot, and Kiernan Kelly
Series Title and Number: Club Raven, Books 1-3
Publisher: Self-Published
Release Date: January 17, 2016
Pairing: M/M
Genre/Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Historical, Alternate Universe, Spanking, Mediums, Mind Readers



Synopsis


Calling His Bluff by BA Tortuga


After his twin dies in battle, it’s Patrick Daniels’ duty to marry his brother’s fiancĂ©e. Too bad he can’t make himself do it, and in his distress, he manifests a psychic talent that’s stronger than the tornadoes in his native East Texas. Then a mysterious man from a place called Club Raven steps in and sweeps Patrick off to the booming East Coast city of Baltimore.

Club Raven veteran Remy Blanchard sees Patrick and knows, even though Patrick is very ill, that this is the challenge he’s been waiting for. He nurses Patrick back to health, and begins to teach Patrick to control his talent. His methods might be unconventional, and Patrick might be new to the kinds of sexual games Remy knows best, but the two of them find something in each other that might be just as magical as the gentleman’s club where they meet.


Happy Medium by Julia Talbot


Andrew is out to debunk Max as a medium, not make love to him...

Max Bellame is working his way through 1870s Baltimore as a medium, even if he knows nothing about spirits. He uses the power of his mind to move objects, convincing his clients he's the real thing.

Andrew Meechum works for Club Raven, a gentleman's club that doubles as a paranormal research facility. He sets out to debunk Max, only to be fascinated by the man. Can Andrew convince Max to take a chance on love, and to find his true calling as a medium, or will their personal demons force them apart?


Wishful Thinking by Kiernan Kelly


Tony Brazzio, co-owner of Club Raven, Baltimore's premiere men's club in 1875, has a pocketful of cash and a chip on his shoulder. He’s out to prove to his co-owners -- and himself -- that he’s not a fluke, that anyone can be successful give the opportunity, no matter how poor his beginnings.

Bull O’Brian and Dandy Gilroy are two hoodlums from the rough streets of New York’s Five Points. They’re pickpockets by trade, and both possess psychic talents that make them two of the best. When Tony offers to bring them to Baltimore and give them the chance at a life of riches in polite society, they jump at the chance, if only to steal the members of Club Raven blind.

The best of plans rarely work the way they’re intended, and things swiftly go from bad to worse for Dandy and Bull. There’s murder afoot and a detective on their trail, and not even copious amounts of hot, sweaty sex can ease their fear or guilt.

As for Tony, he’s faced with admitting his experiment is a failure, something he’s loathe to do. It’ll take a great deal of persuasion, a little luck, and a lot of lube to make sure his plans for Dandy and Bull become more than just wishful thinking.


Purchase

Purchase all three Club Raven novels below!

Calling His Bluff: Evil Plot Bunny | Amazon
Happy Medium: Evil Plot Bunny | Amazon
Wishful Thinking: Evil Plot Bunny | Amazon




Hey, y’all!

I’m Julia Talbot, and I’m here to talk about my new release, Happy Medium, which is part of the Club Raven series. It’s a hot m/m historical and paranormal book about a fake medium and the man who sets out to debunk him, but falls in love with him instead.

I’ve been fascinated with gentlemen’s clubs for years and years. When I was thirteen or so I read my first regency era (though it was not at all a demure regency) romance. The hero went to his club, wrote things in the betting books, got challenged to a duel… I was enthralled. Fast forward a few years to college where I was a double major in English Lit and History. I studied early coffee houses and literary salons, as well as the more traditional White’s and the Athenaeum Club. While many of these clubs now allow women, in the 1870s, a club was a place for gentlemen to meet and chat, to conduct business and play cards. They did have membership requirements, as well as annual meetings, as well.

When Kiernan Kelly and BA Tortuga and I began to talk about adding yet another shared universe to our writing pool, I was tickled to death when everyone agreed to a gentleman’s club.

We tossed around the idea of setting it in London, but we really wanted to capture the spiritualist movement, as well as the unique setting of post civil war Baltimore, which was something of a boomtown in the 1870s.

What makes Club Raven unique is the paranormal aspect. All of the core members of the club, the ones who would attend an annual meeting, have some sort of psychic or paranormal power.

Come on, y’all, that’s a pretty cool “what if?” right? What if all these guys came together to protect each other and to fight an ancient evil and just be together? There are friends and lovers, card games and orgies…

Woo. Orgies.

There’s something really cool about actually being able to use something you learned in college for a story, especially when you were in the liberal arts.

I hope y’all will check out Club Raven and see what it’s all about.

Hint. The main characters in Happy Medium have mind reading and kinetic abilities.

XXOO
Julia 



Meet the Authors

BA Tortuga

Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy's Girl, BA Tortuga spends her days with her basset hounds, getting tattooed, texting her sisters, and eating Mexican food. When she's not doing that, she's writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting, and surfing Pinterest in the name of research. BA's personal saviors include her wife, Julia Talbot, her best friend, Sean Michael, and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee.

Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to hard-core cowboys to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast Texas, but has heard the call of the high desert and lives in the Sandias. With books ranging from hard-hitting GLBT romance, to fiery menages, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.

You can find out more about her by following her online.


Julia Talbot

Julia Talbot lives in the great Southwest, where there is hot and cold running rodeo, cowboys, and everything from meat and potatoes to the best Tex-Mex. A full time author, Julia has been published by Samhain Publishing, Dreamspinner Press and Changeling Press. She believes in stories that leave a mark, and that everyone deserves a happy ending, so she writes about love without limits, where boys love boys, girls love girls, and boys and girls get together to get wild, especially when her crazy paranormal characters are involved.

You can find out more about her by following her online.


Kiernan Kelly

Kiernan's award-winning stories of gay romance envelop diverse themes, varying from paranormal, to fantasy, and science fiction to contemporary romance. She has over eighty titles in ebook and print, published through a variety of houses. Her horror short story release, "Cletus," appears in the Coscom Publishing's book “Bits of the Dead.”

Kiernan also writes young adult GLBT fiction under her Dakota Chase pen name. As Dakota, she currently has three novels and several shorter works available in print and ebook. Mad About the Hatter, her YA gay romance, is a finalist for the American Library Association book list for 2017.
You can find out more about her by following her online.


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