"Yes He's My Ex."
Thanks for having me on your blog! Today I’d like to tell
you about my newest release from Dreamspinner Press. Yes, He’s My Ex is a
screwball comedy about Sonny and Tim, two fairly ordinary guys who have rather
un-ordinary things happen to them. They’re not together. But Sonny tends to
forget that, and then... well, I hope you enjoy it!
Blurb:
Sometimes Sonny Scrignoli
forgets he’s Tim Mansfield’s ex. He waltzes in and out of Tim’s apartment like
he still lives there, driving Tim crazy. Is it really so hard to remember
they’ve broken up? Then again, maybe Tim should quit having sex with him.
When Sonny disappears for two weeks, Tim can’t help but be concerned. A strange phone call and a mysterious cry for help leads Tim on a desperate search for his ex.
Sonny’s in big trouble, and it’s Tim to the rescue! He’s the only one who can save his ex from a fate worse than death. Bumbling gangsters, a thick-headed former boyfriend, and secretive FBI agents lead Tim and Sonny on a merry chase full of laughs and quirks.
When Sonny disappears for two weeks, Tim can’t help but be concerned. A strange phone call and a mysterious cry for help leads Tim on a desperate search for his ex.
Sonny’s in big trouble, and it’s Tim to the rescue! He’s the only one who can save his ex from a fate worse than death. Bumbling gangsters, a thick-headed former boyfriend, and secretive FBI agents lead Tim and Sonny on a merry chase full of laughs and quirks.
Excerpt:
Sonny’s real name is Mario, but he’s been called
Sonny since he was a small bambino, as his mother puts it, so Sonny it is. Sonny
stands almost six foot tall in his bare feet, which are surprisingly small for a
man, almost dainty. He has chocolate brown hair that grows thick but not long, and
generally looks tousled; blue eyes so dark that sometimes they look purple in the
proper light, framed behind silver wire spectacles; a generous nose and wide sweet
lips which have been known to give the most amazing head this side of anywhere.
Put that with the body of an Adonis, and you have Sonny.
I had
Sonny, but not anymore. He seems not to realize that, though. At least not most
of the time. Hence the part where I see him more often than should be considered
normal for someone who’s my ex. Which is where I began.
Sometimes I think he forgets that he has indeed
attained that past participle ex-boyfriend status. Granted, it’s only been six months.
His mother tells me he just needs time to adjust, please don’t be too hard on her
boy. Yes, I still see her too. On a rather regular basis, in fact. Hard not to,
when she’s my mother’s best friend. Lucky me. Lia’s a nice lady, I love her to death.
But she has this deep-seated belief that Sonny and I are going to get back together
again, a belief he seems to share. Along with my mother. And most of our friends.
No one seems to listen to me when I say snowballs
rolling along the floor of Hell have a better chance of survival than our relationship.
Least of all Sonny. I guess that’s why he keeps coming over here, because in some
strange deranged naïve corner of his mind, there’s still an us, and he isn’t an
ex. So he wanders over whenever he wants. Sometimes he calls, sometimes he doesn’t.
Today he called.
Sometimes I just get tired of telling him no. Some
days I don’t even get that far. Today, I didn’t want to waste my breath, so I just
said, “Fine. As long as you promise to behave.”
By behave, I mean quit assuming we’re going to have
sex. Even if sometimes we do. I know, I know, he’s my ex, right?
Sometimes I just don’t know where to draw that fine
line, I think. No wonder the boy’s confused.
Meet the author:
Julie Lynn Hayes was reading at the
age of two and writing by the age of nine and always wanted to be a writer when
she grew up. Two marriages, five children, and more than forty years later,
that is still her dream. She blames her younger daughters for introducing her
to yaoi and the world of M/M love, a world which has captured her imagination
and her heart and fueled her writing in ways she'd never dreamed of before. She
especially loves stories of two men finding true love and happiness in one
another's arms and is a great believer in the happily ever after. She lives in
St. Louis with her daughter Sarah and two cats, loves books and movies, and
hopes to be a world traveler some day. She enjoys crafts, such as crocheting
and cross stitch, knitting and needlepoint and loves to cook. While working a
temporary day job, she continues to write her books and stories and reviews,
which she posts in various places on the internet. Her family thinks she is a
bit off, but she doesn't mind. Marching to the beat of one's own drummer is a
good thing, after all. Her published
works can be found at Dreamspinner Press, Amber Quill Press, MuseitUp
Publishing, Torquere Press, and eXtasy Books, and coming soon to Wayward Ink
Publishing and Prizm Publishing. She has also begun to self-publish and is an
editor at MuseitUp.
You can find her on her blog at http://julielynnhayes.blogspot.com, and you can contact her at tothemax.wolf@gmail.com.
My links:
Twitter @Shelley_runyon
Hi I saw you glog post on Chris T. Kat blog and bought the book. It was a very funny and enjoyable book.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sylvie, glad you enjoyed it! I had fun writing it! :)
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