Free MLR Press 12 days of Christmas [LBGT]

[Byrdie]

Site is working now, I was just able to download today's offering. :-)

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by stormcloude

I didn't know that! I've always thought they put out mysteries because I associated them with the Strachey and Mahu series. (I thought they had published some of the Boystown books too, but I don't see them on their website now.)

The Skyler Foxe series has been pretty popular. It never occurred to me that the title might be misleading!

Well, I'm probably inclined to go to the furry/shapeshifter place quickly because I've posted way too many paranormal werethingy romance freebies and read a lot of Fandom W*nk entries† that made bad puns on animal abilities.

As for MLR's original mandate (pun not planned but now intended, I guess), it's kind of still right there in the browser window titlebar as ManLoveRomance, although they no longer show it quite like that anywhere on the actual website page, and they allude to it in their About Us, and their catalogue is still mainly oriented towards m/m romances (and pretty much every category in their Genres is really a romance subcategory where you can read say, Sports as Romances with Athletes) rather than more generally like, say, Lethe Press.

But they probably have been publishing a few non-primarily-romantic titles since inception as a minority in their catalogue the same way that Dreamspinner Press did before they decided to spinoff their non-romance lines into DSP Productions or Samhain does with their "romantic elements" other-genre books (and no, you're not imagining the Boystown series because I remember them too and I think the rights have reverted to the author and he took them to another publisher or KDP Select).

If you or anyone else is looking to try one of their low-romance high-mystery titles that you might not have already, Vincent Lardo's The Mask of Narcissus is a reprint of an older 80s work and a pretty decent standalone hard-boiled PI kind of mystery where the primary emphasis is very much on the sleuthing. I bought it via Fictionwise a couple of years ago and rather liked it when I read it, enough that I picked up some of Lardo's other MLR reprints (still unread) during further FW sales.

Originally Posted by Byrdie

Site is working now, I was just able to download today's offering. :-)

Thanks for the heads-up! I was going to try again later tonight if no one mentioned it, but it's nice to find out earlier that it's been fixed.

† "No furbashing, plz." Sometimes I really miss the FW wiki.

[stormcloude]

Thanks for the recommendation! The Mask of Narcissus is going on my trb list.

[stormcloude]

Day 11 up: Love is a Stranger, More Heat Than The Sun #1 by John Wiltshire.

Loving a total stranger can be very hard work sometimes.

How do you love someone who exists entirely in the shadows? How do you love a man who describes himself as dead? How do you get that ghost to love you back? Ex-SAS soldier Ben Rider falls in love with his enigmatic married boss Sir Nikolas Mikkelsen, but Nikolas is living a lie. A lie so profound that when the shadows are lifted, Ben realises he's in love with a very dangerous stranger. Ben has to choose between Nikolas and safety, but sometimes danger comes in a very seductive package.


As a heads up, I'm going to be away from the computer tomorrow night, so I won't be able to post the last one. If someone else wants to jump in, that's cool, otherwise it's the same link, only the books have changed each day.

[tempest@de]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

If you or anyone else is looking to try one of their low-romance high-mystery titles that you might not have already, Vincent Lardo's The Mask of Narcissus is a reprint of an older 80s work and a pretty decent standalone hard-boiled PI kind of mystery where the primary emphasis is very much on the sleuthing.

Thank you for recomending it, I enjoy this low-romance high-mystery kind of books, it's going to my list for the new year.

Happy Holidays!

[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by stormcloude

As a heads up, I'm going to be away from the computer tomorrow night, so I won't be able to post the last one. If someone else wants to jump in, that's cool, otherwise it's the same link, only the books have changed each day.

Thanks again for starting the thread as a heads-up and keeping up with the daily freebies. I wouldn't have known about this if it weren't for your alert, since I'd gotten the impression that MLR stopped giving away the freebies a long time ago*.

Day 12 is up at the usual link, and it's a paranormal military werewolves-in-uniform shapeshifter overseas action adventure romance with a heat level of Graphic. It's like they filled out a bingo card full of subsubsubgenres!

The Strength of the Pack by Kendall McKenna, 1st in the Tameness of the Wolf series

A Marine werewolf and his commander bring legends to life while surviving combat deployment in Afghanistan.

Lieutenant Lucas Young doesn't know much about shifters. When Sergeant Noah Hammond is assigned to Lucas' platoon, the Marine Corps' True Alpha werewolf challenges the Lieutenant's authority and his self-control. As Lucas learns to dominate and command Noah, he struggles against a strong attraction and deepening emotional bond. During their combat deployment to Afghanistan, Lucas and Noah begin mirroring legendary partnerships. Their bond and their power grow as they survive dangerous combat and ambushes. When one of them is wounded in battle, they both must embrace the strength of their bond before they lose each other forever.

* Though I'm certainly pleased to see them starting up again and that they'll do more, especially if they get boosted sales, which I'll probably be providing, since there were at least 2 of their offerings I'm likely to continue with if they read well.