Many thanks to Mary Calmes for donating an ebook copy of her forthcoming m/m romance, All Kinds of Tied Down, for a lucky commenter to win! All Kinds of Tied Down will be released by Dreamspinner Press on July 4.
Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones has a reputation for being calm and collected under fire. These traits serve him well with his hotshot partner, Ian Doyle, the kind of guy who can start a fight in an empty room. In the past three years of their life-and-death job, they’ve gone from strangers to professional coworkers to devoted teammates and best friends. Miro’s cultivated blind faith in the man who has his back… faith and something more.
As a marshal and a soldier, Ian’s expected to lead. But the power and control that brings Ian success and fulfillment in the field isn’t working anywhere else. Ian’s always resisted all kinds of tied down, but having no home – and no one to come home to – is slowly eating him up inside. Over time, Ian has grudgingly accepted that going anywhere without his partner simply doesn’t work. Now Miro just has to convince him that getting tangled up in heartstrings isn’t being tied down at all.
About Mary
My name is Mary Calmes and I have been writing since I was in the seventh grade. One of my first stories ever was about Demetrius and Konor, two big strapping gorgeous knights and while it was not historically accurate in any way, hello, seventh grade, the one thing that became glaringly obvious was that the guys liked each other more than the damsels in distress they were trying to save.
“Boys don’t sleep in the same bed when they’re grown-ups,†my mother said when I read it to her.
“Men don’t talk nice to each other like that,†my step-father said that night.
They do in m/m fiction which I was destined to write.
I tried really hard to write a female lead but it just left me flat. I read all kinds of different books and I have favorite writers in every genre but I can only write about men. The dynamics between two men are more interesting to me and as a woman, I like men and the idea of two men together, two beautiful men… I don’t understand the question.
When people tell you that they’ve enjoyed something you’ve written, there really is no greater feeling.
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“Why am I so sleepy in the summer? Oh, wait, I’m always sleepy.” -Chaos
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Thanks for this chance! I want to read this one so bad. Like really bad!
Sleeping, tis a natural feline skill… and you demonstrate it so well big kitty 🙂
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Because you don’t get enough sleep, silly! You need your rest. 18-20 hours a day, they say.
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Summer = warm = sleepy, Chaos you are just normal!
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I am entering the contest, because I read everything Mary Calmes rights. Frog is my favorite…but U.S. Marshalls as teammates, best friends and maybe something more…well let me just jump this book to the front of my “Gotta have it” list.
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