Thanks for stopping by Readeropolis. Today's feature is SURVIVAL GAME by Susan MacNicol, a M/M Romance. Be sure to check out the humoro...
Thanks for stopping by Readeropolis. Today's feature is SURVIVAL GAME by Susan MacNicol, a M/M Romance. Be sure to check out the humorous guest post on collective nouns from the author. A Clench of sphincters? LOL!
Don't forget to enter for a chance to win the giveaway and follow the Silver Dagger book tour (for other dates see the link at the bottom of the post).
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WITH
CARE
Sue writes steamy, sexy and fun contemporary gay romance stories, some suspenseful, some gritty and dark, and others just plain ahhhh....
Don't forget to enter for a chance to win the giveaway and follow the Silver Dagger book tour (for other dates see the link at the bottom of the post).
AUTHOR GUEST POST
I fancied doing a blog post that was a little tongue in cheek and fun. And in the process, who knows, you might come across one of these collective nouns that you haven’t seen before. I was tickled pink to discover some recent examples. I thought the ones below were either a little writing related or applicable to the genre I write in.
A Kindle of kittens
A Stud of mares
A ‘Knob’ of pintails (a kind of duck apparently)
A Worship of Writers
A Clench of sphincters
A Plump of ducks
A Pace of asses
A Grind of blackfish
A Shiver of sharks
A Head of curlews (more birds)
There was some controversy about the collective noun for cocks – and I mean the rooster like birds that flock around the hens, you fowl minded people.
Some say ‘a Flock of cocks’ others suggest the right word is a ‘Brood’. And in case you really wanted to know, and don’t spend all your time Googling it (as I know you might) apparently it is a ‘Clutch of penes’ (plural for ‘penises’). Others have been suggested but I won’t go into too much detail here ☺
There are those that are more cooking related and I have a book series of which the first one was centred around a restaurant and two chefs. (Some of these may simply be someone’s fancy, while others seem to be the accepted use.)
A Hastiness of cooks
A Glazing of taverners
A Rope of onions
A Jam of tarts
An Accompaniment of condiments
A Sproutness of mushrooms
A Promise of barmen
I had a particular fondness for this one and for the rather amusing little anecdote I found online that accompanied it. You can read it here Fesnyng
It’s a Fesnyng of ferrets – apparently this is the real, honest to goodness collective noun for these slinky creatures. I mean, who comes up with these weird names and what the hell were they smoking at the time because I want some.
And one last one I thought was rather clever...
A Fraid of ghosts
Survival
Game
Men
of London Book 9
by
Susan Mac Nicol
Genre:
M/M Romance
HANDLE...
Kyle
Tripper has led an interesting life. Currently the manager of
London's famous Club Delish, he used to be a croupier extraordinaire
in Las Vegas. But not everything in that life was so glamorous; his
ex was a piece of work. Now gun-shy, Kyle hopes there is someone
special out there for him, and secretly wishes it's luscious
paramedic, Eric Kirby.
WITH
CARE
Every
day Eric Kirby goes through the motions. Yeah, he saves lives, and,
sure, he makes a difference, but he doesn't feel it anymore - not
since he lost his one true. But, when he meets wild, flamboyant Kyle
Tripper and learns there's a skittish, apprehensive man beneath the
bold façade, the best of Eric's protective nature kicks in and opens
his heart to a new love.
Sue writes steamy, sexy and fun contemporary gay romance stories, some suspenseful, some gritty and dark, and others just plain ahhhh....
Lover
of angst and conflict, she enjoys putting her characters through the
emotional wringer and bringing them out the other side with an HEA or
at the very least, a HFN.
Sue
is a PAN member of Romance Writers of America and also of the
Romantic Novelists Association in the UK. She’s also Editor in
Chief at http://www.divinemagazine.biz, an online LGBTQ e-zine, and
she’s a Charity Board trustee at http://www.beingmecampaign.com in
London.
She’s
passionate about research for her books and has stayed in a circus,
taken lessons from a blind person on how it feels to be non-sighted,
and travelled to a lighthouse with maintenance crew to see first-hand
what it’s like inside. She’s also written a screen play with
Hollywood actor and heart-throb Nicholas Downs, with a view to taking
her latest release, Sight Unseen, to the big screen.
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Thanks so much for hosting me and taking part in the tour. I'm glad you liked the blog post :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing the guest post Susan. Every time I think of a clench of sphincters - I laugh like a little kid. SURVIVAL GAME sounds like an interesting read. Best of luck with SURVIVAL GAME and the book tour.
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