Havan's Heavenly Haven: Book Blast: The Minder @CatherineLByrne @eXtasyBooks @PridePromo #bookcontest

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Book Blast: The Minder @CatherineLByrne @eXtasyBooks @PridePromo #bookcontest

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The Minder

Catherin L. Byrne

Release date: July 15, 2015

Quickie Quiz!!:

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

I live in a village in the south of England with my husband, daughter and new hamster. I’ve lived all over Britain really—Wales, London, the south, the midlands. I’ve done lots of different jobs too—bank clerk, librarian, charity worker, receptionist, advice line advisor, photocopying assistant, teacher, learning support assistant!

Why did you choose to write M/M stories ?

I first got the idea when one of my Viking characters decided he was gay and asked for a story about him with a boyfriend. I thought I’d have a go at writing M/M just to see if I could, as it was a huge step out of my comfort zone back then (about 5 years ago) Then I found that I liked writing M/M so much I wrote three other stories, set in modern times—one a romance, one suspense, one sport based.

Where do you find your inspiration?

Generally these days in settings I have experience of e.g. my first contemporary M/M is set in an English school because I worked in education for about 10 years. There were gay teachers but they didn’t feel comfortable being open about their sexuality for various reasons. Another of my books is set in the world of motorbike racing because I am an obsessive fan of the sport. I imagined what would happen if some of the competitors were gay, because many sports are notoriously homophobic. Another book however was simply inspired by another book I read about a gay James Bond type character, so I wrote a story about a gay Transporter type character. I mean the film The Transporter if you haven’t seen it.

Blurb:

When down-on-his-luck minder Chase takes on a job for a fading gangster, the job and his charge both turn out to be very different to what he expected. Someone is trying to sabotage the mobster’s business and doesn’t care who they hurt in the process. Soon Chase finds himself on the run with his charge, trying to carry out a friend’s last wishes before their pursuers catch up with them.

Categories: Gay fiction, M/M Romance, Mystery, Thriller

92 pages

Publisher: Extasy Books

Cover Artist: Latrisha Waters

Excerpt:

They sneaked down the stairs and along the corridor like ghosts, the voices of the killers shouting in the distance. Chase went first and they reached the long, white kitchen. The spare sets of car keys were in a box by the back door so people could take or return them on the way out. He had just grabbed one when Jody clutched his arm.

“I have to go back for my phone,” he hissed.

“Really? You little—” But Jody had a point. They needed phones to communicate. “I’ll come with you. Just a sec.” He pointed the key through the window blinds at the parked cars lining the driveway by the garage and the red Ferrari 458 flashed its lights. “Nice.”

“Come on.” Jody pulled his arm again and they crept out of the kitchen towards the stairs and Jody’s bedroom.

They reached Jody’s room and it only took him a few minutes to locate the phone and shove it in his pocket. Then Chase remembered something.

“Quick, come with me.” He steered Jody into Tony’s office, unlocked the safe, took out stacks of notes and put them in his rucksack.

“What are you doing?” Jody glared at him. “Stealing?”

Chase pushed him against the wall—no time for pleasantries. “Listen, we’ve got to go or they’ll kill us too,” he snarled in Jody’s face. “Understand? Come with me or I’ll leave you to them.”

Jody gulped and nodded, his brown eyes wide.

“Good.” Chase let him go and dragged him out of the office and down the stairs.

You can find The Minder here:

Extasy Books

Amazon

Amazon UK

Let’s talk about Catherine L. Byrne:

Catherine L Byrne writes stories about relationships which push buttons and provoke reactions from readers. She writes about both gay and straight relationships, depending on which characters in her books shout the loudest to have their stories told.

An inquisitive author, she prefers writing about different situations in each book rather than writing a series about the same one—her stories range from 10th century Viking Britain, to modern educational settings and from mystery to romance.

As she was born and bred in England and lives there with her family, this infuses her books with a distinctly English tone. She has been writing since as long as she can remember and Extasy Books have published her novels since 2014.

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