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My friend John T. Fuller's novella When the Music Stops has been getting a bit of attention lately so I'm boosting the signal: please read this story! The subject matter probably isn't for everyone (doctor/patient), but he never glosses over how inappropriate it is, which gives it proper depth and realistic drama instead of just being a cheap pulpy trope, and he writes so so beautifully it kills me. He is a genius.

Quote: (not really a spoiler but tagging anyway just in case people don't want to read ahead)

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“Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by lithe limbs and brilliant blue eyes. Doctor Archer has never really understood women, nor has he ever had time for courtship; this is a sacrifice he has willingly made for his career. He thought - believed - for most of his adult life that his vocation was to tend the sick of mind. Romance was a frivolity, carnal urges something he successfully sublimated, resisting the drive to spoil himself. Now, in the overbearing loneliness of his 4am bed he touches himself in secret, panting and hungry and stunned by shame”

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GO NOW! Unlike my books, which I've stillll not got round to sorting, it's available in formats that don't make people want to smash their readers. ;) I will get mine reformatted, I swear, as soon as life calms down and I get more than 0.7 spare seconds a day.

So apparently Wordpress images aren't pulling through properly to Goodreads. Distressing news. This beautiful thick salty sausage needs some love.



Short story collaboration on its way!





(P.S. I blame John.)

In (extremely) unofficial conjunction with British Sausage Week, release date is set for November 2nd!

Written by John T. Fuller (When the Music Stops) and Richard Rider (The Stockholm Syndrome trilogy and Captured Shadows), The Trojan Project is a collection of twelve original stories of gay romance.

A couple move into a new home with that unsettling feeling of being watched; a young man who rescues an antique mannequin from a skip gets more than he bargained for; a lonely campsite worker finally gets up the courage to make a move on the man he admires; an over-privileged student gets more than the standard treatment when he's recruited into a secret society; Andersen, Rimbaud and Verlaine as you've never seen them before – plus fairies, vampires, rockstars, and a surprise appearance from Pip Valentine.

From historical to horror, poetry to porn, there's something to whet every appetite.

We just hope that you like sausage.

ARCs available for book blogs and the like: email richardrider1984@googlemail.com with your preferred file format.

Written by John T. Fuller (When the Music Stops) and Richard Rider (the Stockholm Syndrome trilogy and Captured Shadows), The Trojan Project is a collection of twelve original stories of gay romance.

A couple move into a new home with that unsettling feeling of being watched; a young man who rescues an antique mannequin from a skip gets more than he bargained for; a lonely campsite worker finally gets up the courage to make a move on the man he admires; an over-privileged student gets more than the standard treatment when he's recruited into a secret society; Andersen, Rimbaud and Verlaine as you've never seen them before – plus fairies, vampires, rockstars, and a surprise appearance from Pip Valentine.

From historical to horror, poetry to porn, there's something to whet every appetite.

We just hope that you like sausage.

In paperback, ePub and mobi! The distribution process is chugging along so it'll be available on Amazon and various other sites within the next few days as well.

Special release day discount: ebooks will be 99p for the next 24 hours, so grab the sausage while it's hot :P

We'd love to know what you think, so come and talk to us on Twitter @JohnTFuller and @knightrrrider, or leave a review on Goodreads.