Let the touring begin…
Into the Blue
Pene Henson
Release date: July 7, 2016
Wacky author interview blitz!
(Treat it like a
speed question quiz, it hurts less that way – preferably 5 words for answers,
but some questions are so much more demanding…)
What is the perfect slice
of pizza?
Nice thin crust,
pineapple and a lot of fresh tomato, low on the cheese. I know, I know, it’s
hardly pizza at all.
If vampires can't see
their reflections, why is their hair always so neat?
I figure they’re
keen to distinguish themselves from werewolves and are known to be fierce
critics of one another. So if a hair is out of place all the others glare with
those vampire eyes until the offending head is fixed.
New ideas, praise,
sunshine.
At a movie theater, which
armrest is yours?
Right side, just the
front half if necessary
The world’s greatest
scientists got together and mated the two most violent predators on Earth. What
predators would they use and what would the name of this new hybrid be?
Human meets my cat.
She’s a killer. But only of cockroaches (she’s not allowed loose on Australia’s
native wildlife). Her name’s Rooney. So Roo-sapien?
Instruct someone how to
make an origami 'cootie catcher'.
Take a sheet of
paper, roll it into a tube, and ask people to breathe into it
Have you ever stolen a
pen from a business?
Yes. Blush.
What human trait makes
you see red?
People’s anger when
another person is different from them.
You’re on The Voice and
all four judges turn around—what song did you sing and whose team do you choose
to be on?
I’d sing Strong by
London Grammar. Or Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye. On the Voice Australia I’d pick
Joel and Benji Madden… in the US I think I’d choose Christina Aguilera. But I
could be led to other coaches.
Go-to sexy read?
Oh. Hum. Read all of
Jude Sierra’s books, especially What it Takes.
Blurb:
Tai Talagi and Ollie Birkstrom have been
inseparable since they met as kids surfing the North Shore. Now they live with
their best friends in a pulled-together family, sharing life and the saltwater
in their veins. Tai’s spent years setting aside his feelings for Ollie, but
when Ollie’s pro surfing aspirations come to fruition, their steady world shifts.
Is the relationship worth risking everything for a chance at something
terrifying and beautiful and altogether new?
Categories: Contemporary, Gay
Fiction, M/M Romance, New Adult, Romance
72,600 words – 236 pages
Publisher: Interlude Press
Cover Artist: C.B. Messer
Excerpt:
Across from them, one of the Brazilians
plays guitar. Ollie doesn’t recognize the song even when a couple of others
sing along. The beach is wider and the sand finer than on the North Shore, but
every beach is a little like home. Ollie misses the Blue House; he misses the
surf and the palms and the shoreline he knows so well. He misses Jaime and
Sunny and Hannah. Still, though he’s as far from home as he’s ever been,
Ollie’s comfortable. These are his people, too. He leans back on his arms and
looks up into the dark.
He’s watched the night sky since he was a
little kid, but down here in the Southern Hemisphere he doesn’t recognize the
hundreds upon hundreds of stars. The Southern Cross is up there. Ollie tries to
orient himself.
Tai shifts toward him, then looks up and
follows Ollie’s gaze. The warmth of Tai’s body settles into Ollie’s heart,
grounds him. Ollie leans into him a little, and their arms brush to the elbow.
The contact simmers in the air between them.
Unexpectedly, Ollie knows what he wants.
“Come back to the hotel,” he says quietly to Tai. He pitches his voice low. It
hums across the tiny space between them. No one else can hear him over the
pounding surf and the sound of the music. It’s easy to be bold in the dark of a
beach where Ollie’s never been before. He’s shocked by that same boldness.
Buy the book
It’s all about the author…
Pene Henson has gone from British boarding
schools to New York City law firms. She now lives in Sydney, Australia, where
she is an intellectual property lawyer and published poet who is deeply
immersed in the city’s LGBTQIA community. She spends her spare time enjoying
the outdoors and gazing at the ocean with her gorgeous wife and two
unexpectedly exceptional sons. Into the Blue is her first novel.
…and stalking them :)
**Remember…the more tours you visit the higher chances
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Tour Stops
7-Jul: Havan Fellows,
Louise Lyons, Hearts on Fire
11-Jul: Love Bytes,
Kirsty Loves Books, Bayou Book Junkie
13-Jul: Oh My Shelves,
Boys on the Brink Reviews
14-Jul: Molly Lolly,
Happily Ever Chapter
15-Jul: Scattered Thoughts
& Rogue Words, Sinfully Addicted to All Male Romance,
Prism Book Alliance
18-Jul: MM Book Escape,
Making It Happen, Velvet Panic, BFD Book Blog
19-Jul: Book Lovers 4Ever,
My Fiction Nook, V's Reads
20-Jul: A.M. Leibowitz, Alpha Book Club
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Thanks so much for hosting me and for the wacky questions. Happy to chat with anyone who wants more information about my deadly predator cat who is actually a sweet purring machine too, or the book!!
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