Encore! Encore!

Stage Stories #2

by Charlie Cochrane, Kimberly Gardner, Jet Mykles

Take a bow and blow a kiss as the curtain falls on love. Or does it? From London's West End to a New York drag bar and onto the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, three couples rediscover the passion that once burned as brightly as the stage lights. Their plays might be over, but the show goes on. For these players, the heart discovers that just when you think a love story has come to its end, if you have the courage to turn the page then love will make a return to the stage.

Genres: M M Romance, Anthologies, Romance, Erotica, Contemporary

260 pages, ebook

First published February 10, 2010

About the author

Because Charlie Cochrane couldn't be trusted to do any of her jobs of choice—like managing a rugby team—she writes. Her mystery novels include the Edwardian era Cambridge Fellows series, series, and the contemporary Best Corpse for the Job. Multi-published, she has titles with Carina, Samhain, Riptide and Bold Strokes, among others.

A member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, Mystery People and International Thriller Writers Inc, Charlie regularly appears at literary festivals and at reader and author conferences with The Deadly Dames.

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pleasant collection of stories about theatre and cross-dressing, drag, and gender expression. Two of the stories are follow-ups from the first collection, Bravo! Brava!. I did read the first collection and I wasn't super excited about it, but I love Charlie Cochrane and I'm a theatre kid, so I thought I'd give this one a try as well (and started it, like, a year ago). Her story was definitely my favourite, plus it's full of theatre jokes (which I always appreciate). While Francis and Tommy both have their unlikable moments, their respective growth over the course of the story is well done. They clash, but they work it out. The other two stories were likable, but I don't have strong feeling or memories about them. This collection has been sitting on my Kindle for years and has since gone out of print, but I think all the individual stories are available.

[J.L. Merrow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three great stories. I started reading this book feeling ambivalent about whether cross-dressing guys really do it for me; I can't say it's changed my mind.
I can say I will almost certainly have to buy the prequel.

[Susinok · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well shoot, what do I say? I read these back to back and the two sequels are second chance stories. The HEA in the first story fell apart and the sequel gets them back together. Sort of a bummer to read about problems right after the first volume where they all ended nicely.

[Jean · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars
I really liked these stories. Not often that you get drag queens and cross dressers in the M/M erotica and these were done very well! Sexy, funny, sad, all of it!