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Book rec: When the Music Stops by John T. Fuller
My friend John has always been a massive help to me with the Stockholm Syndrome books, with advice and ideas and cheering on and more support than anyone else in the world. Anyone who's read them only did because John kept me writing :)
Anyway, he's just published his novella When the Music Stops, so I wanted to post a recommendation because I think some people on here will be really into it. More details about how much I love it and why in my review, but don't read it if you're bothered by spoilers.
Non-spoilery version: it's an erotic historial m/m romance set in a Victorian lunatic asylum, about a blossoming relationship between a doctor and a patient. If you think that sounds massively inappropriate... you're right. Obviously it is. :P But it's not straightforward wrongness - the details and layers in this thing are immense, and if you're as into repressed self-loathing Englishmen as I am (coughLINDSAYcough) you really can't do much better than Dr Archer. He is wound up so tight it ACHES. Oof. But it's still a really sweet, tender love story with fascinating, flawed, surprising characters, as well as being properly terrifying (the idea of lobotomies and the other godawful things those doctors used to do to their patients kind of gives me panic attacks), and HOT AS ALL HELL. Bonus points for Victorian religious guilt and frilly nightshirts. Swoooooon.
So yeah... please give it a go, because I think it's brilliant!
Anyway, he's just published his novella When the Music Stops, so I wanted to post a recommendation because I think some people on here will be really into it. More details about how much I love it and why in my review, but don't read it if you're bothered by spoilers.
Non-spoilery version: it's an erotic historial m/m romance set in a Victorian lunatic asylum, about a blossoming relationship between a doctor and a patient. If you think that sounds massively inappropriate... you're right. Obviously it is. :P But it's not straightforward wrongness - the details and layers in this thing are immense, and if you're as into repressed self-loathing Englishmen as I am (coughLINDSAYcough) you really can't do much better than Dr Archer. He is wound up so tight it ACHES. Oof. But it's still a really sweet, tender love story with fascinating, flawed, surprising characters, as well as being properly terrifying (the idea of lobotomies and the other godawful things those doctors used to do to their patients kind of gives me panic attacks), and HOT AS ALL HELL. Bonus points for Victorian religious guilt and frilly nightshirts. Swoooooon.
So yeah... please give it a go, because I think it's brilliant!
20% sale on Lulu, and a potential new book release...
Use the code SILVERUK until 2th July to get 20% off your purchase at Lulu!
(I'm assuming by the "UK" part of the code that it's a UK-only discount, but not sure.)
My books are here: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/richard... (paperback and pdf - I'm still planning to get them in other e-formats as soon as possible, but it's taking way longer than I expected because I lost the original word files when my computer died and copy/pasting from the pdf just means I have to manually reformat all the screwed-up line breaks!) and my friend John's are here: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/John_T_...
I've been talking to John over the last few days about our really old writing and how crap it was in comparison to now, but I dug out some ancient stories to laugh at them and ended up just going all nostalgic! I found the first m/m romance I ever wrote back when I was about 17, and even though it's daft and unrealistic and clearly written by some kid still trying to find "a voice" I still remember how stupidly fond I was of those characters. It's more of a novella length than a full novel, but would anybody still want to read it if I tidied it up a bit and put it on Lulu? It's not as full-on dirty as Stockholm Syndrome, it's mostly just clumsy and sweet... I realise that isn't nearly as intriguing as the smut :P
(I'm assuming by the "UK" part of the code that it's a UK-only discount, but not sure.)
My books are here: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/richard... (paperback and pdf - I'm still planning to get them in other e-formats as soon as possible, but it's taking way longer than I expected because I lost the original word files when my computer died and copy/pasting from the pdf just means I have to manually reformat all the screwed-up line breaks!) and my friend John's are here: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/John_T_...
I've been talking to John over the last few days about our really old writing and how crap it was in comparison to now, but I dug out some ancient stories to laugh at them and ended up just going all nostalgic! I found the first m/m romance I ever wrote back when I was about 17, and even though it's daft and unrealistic and clearly written by some kid still trying to find "a voice" I still remember how stupidly fond I was of those characters. It's more of a novella length than a full novel, but would anybody still want to read it if I tidied it up a bit and put it on Lulu? It's not as full-on dirty as Stockholm Syndrome, it's mostly just clumsy and sweet... I realise that isn't nearly as intriguing as the smut :P
Lulu sale: 20% off
I hope nobody ever actually buys anything at full price from Lulu! They have sales so regularly, it's always worth just waiting a few days until you can get stuff for cheap :P and it's great because it's the site that gives the discount, not the author, so nobody's losing out.
You can get 20% off any order until Friday 7th September by entering the code CITHARA20 at the checkout. Stockholm Syndrome lives here in paperback and pdf (I am working on reformatting the ebooks properly, I swear!), and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND John's book When the Music Stops which you can get in pdf, epub and paperback here. Spread the love!
You can get 20% off any order until Friday 7th September by entering the code CITHARA20 at the checkout. Stockholm Syndrome lives here in paperback and pdf (I am working on reformatting the ebooks properly, I swear!), and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND John's book When the Music Stops which you can get in pdf, epub and paperback here. Spread the love!
