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🛳️Ready for a Cruise to Cock Island? 🛳️
It’s Frick’ng Release day!
I can’t wait for you to read about these two best friends to lovers faking a relationship and discovering how much fun a Cruise to Cock Island can be!
🏳️🌈Pride Cruise 2024: Cruise to Cock Island
On Paperback, eBook, and Kindle Unlimited: https://mybook.to/cruisecockisland
Blurb
Jamie
Four years in undergrad and two in law school have me over drunken trips to Mexico, so an adults-only cruise with my best friend sounds more relaxed and grown up. What I don’t expect is the cruise being Pride-themed. I always love messing with Teddy, though.
Teddy
When my best friend suggests celebrating being only one year away from finishing our law degrees with a Caribbean cruise, I jump at the chance for a quiet vacation. I’m less impressed when Jamie signs us up for a newlyweds game, but maybe it’s not all fake…
Take a cruise to Cock Island with two frat bros who get more than they bargain for when they pretend to be a couple on a pride-themed cruise… especially since neither of them is gay!
🛳️Pride Cruise 2024!
Where the water is crisp, the men are HOT, and the party has started! Each book is a standalone but feel free and dive in and binge them all. You won’t want to miss a second of their naughty antics. If you think they’re silly when the sun is up, just wait until it goes down.
🛳️Don’t forget to check out the Pride Cruise books already out:
Brina Brady: Secrets Aboard!
Lynn Michaels: Playing with Sunshine
Janice Jarrell: Under the Midnight Sky
Joe Satoria: Only One Cabin
Nic Starr: Sun-Kissed
TL Travis: Ahoy Daddy!🛳️And the rest up next to round out Pride Month:
BL Maxwell: Below Deck
JP Sayle: Cruising Right Into Love
Layla Dorine: Seafoam and Salt Water Taffy
Dora Esquivel: Murder, Mischief, And Mayhem
Kota Quinn: A Daddy in Paradise🛳️Series page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLKWB4JJ
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Stay Kinky
R.A. Frick
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🏳️🌈Packed Pride Month🏳️🌈
Happy Frick’ng Friday 🏳️🌈
The first week of Pride month has been packed, and the rest of the month looks even busier. I attended the Hot & Steamy Book Event in Portland, where I met a ton of great authors and lovely readers, many new to queer romance. I look forward to going again next year. Here’s my booth, and I’m so thankful my spouse came with to help set up and be my PA for the event!
This week has been all about getting words in to finish my next release, and the end of the school year. My gremlins are going into sixth and eighth grade, and I just finished the hardest year in my fifteen years in Education. I did agree to do Summer School, but that’s easy compared to my past ten months. My classroom is cleaned out, words are flowing, and I’m ready for the month/year ahead!
🏳️🌈 Check out my releases this month: 🏳️🌈
What else is happening this summer for RA? All the things!
🏳️🌈 June RoMance Book Box: Happy Pride is feature in the Book Box for LGBTQ+ Adversities, with a trans sub trying to get out of an abusive BDSM relationship, pet play, and corgis at the Pride Parade! Get it here: https://diannaroman.com/shop-1/ols/products/romance-box-jun-2024
🏳️🌈 June 10-16: 99c/99p sale for US and UK on HAPPY PRIDE, along with many of the other Pride Pet Play books from 2023! It is 99 cents the first two days, then $1.99 for two days and so on, so catch them early! https://mybook.to/HappyPride
🏳️🌈 June 14-15: Pride Party in Dianna Roman’s Rascals Facebook Group, with author giveaways, games, and charity going to raising funds for the Center on Halsted, a Chicago-based LGBTQ+ Community Center. The group is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/romansrascals/
🏳️🌈 June 19: Release day for CRUISE TO COCK ISLAND is an MM Fake Relationship, idiots-to-lovers, dual sexual awakening, contemporary romance on a Pride Cruise! Preorder here – https://mybook.to/cruisecockisland
🏳️🌈June 19th – 21st: Blind Date with a Book Summer event in MM and MMM+ Romance Reviewed Facebook group, where you can entre to win a ton of ebooks!
🏳️🌈 June 26: Cover reveal for AFTERCARE AT RANDY’S, part of the Trans Romance collab series, Diner Days. I’ll post on this site as well as in my Facebook group and other socials, but see it first in the Diner Days group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dinerdays
🏳️🌈 June 28: Release day for the Twisted Pride Anthology, which includes my Hansel & Gretel retelling, Witches and Woodcutters, featuring a Trans “Rhett” and his hunky neighbor the Woodcutter. Preorder here – https://mybook.to/TwistedPride2024
And where will I be in June 2025?
🏳️🌈 I’m signing at Pride LitCon in Richmond, Virginia, June 14, 2025🏳️🌈
🏳️🌈July 14 (11 months ahead so you can plan travel): Tickets go on sale for $25 until September 14th, at which time they will go up to $35
While I’d love to say that’s all for now, folx, I’m sure I’m missing something… Make sure to follow this site and my Facebook group so you get updates first!
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Stay Kinky
R.A. Frick
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It’s Game Time!
Happy Fricking Friday!
Game Night: Truth or Dare Anthology is out now! 
Eleven of your favorite LGBTQ authors are bringing you hot, new stories from one of your favorite party games…Truth or Dare!
Take a ride on the wild side and enjoy fourteen fresh stories, all with a different take on this go-to party game. From sugary sweet to red hot spice, come join these authors as they show you what can happen when you choose truth or dare.
Get it on paperback, ebook, or read in KU: https://mybook.to/gamenighttruthordare
Size Queen is my 17K word novella in the anthology with a bit of Cinderella and a lot of fun:
Miles O’Donnell was a graphic novelist and comic artist in San Francisco. With rainbow hair and a sassy personality, Miles never had trouble getting attention. Unfortunately, most couldn’t satisfy what he really needed…
Shane Long was an engineer who just turned forty and wasn’t sure there was a partner out there for him when they all complained he’s too big. Until a chance meeting and a game of Truth or Dare put a certain size queen in Shane’s path.
Can a game night bring these two together? It might take more truth than they expected to share.
Authors include:
- Courtney W. Dixon
- Joe Satoria
- Kota Quinn
- Nic Starr
- R.A. Frick (Me!)
- Rikki Leighton
- RM Neill
- RS McKenzie
- SA Sway
- Travis Beaudoin
- Zoe Piper
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Cover Reveal: X Club Book 4
Sub-title: An M/X BDSM Romance
Series: X Club (Book 4)
Releasing: September 19, 2022
Pre-order Link: getbook.at/ForLife 
Amazingly steamy cover by Jamie Luther of Luther Designs.
Blurb: Police Officer, Maxx Wu, has never explored BDSM but is certain he’s a top… and maybe a Daddy. A not-so-innocent kitty, Anthony “Ant”, might need to teach him a few things about kinks and how you can always have more.
When Ant witnesses a crime by a dirty cop and the Russian Mafia, all they see is that Ant is Italian, and they think he is in the mob. Wanting to stop the dirty cop and protect Ant, Maxx puts them into hiding knowing he will likely lose his career.
For Life is an M/X BDSM Romance with primal kitten play, forced proximity, mafia families fighting, and two tops learning to improvise and compromise.
#CoverReveal #mxromance #queerromance #nonbinaryromance #rafrick
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Naming Characters
Alright, it’s time to confess, I love Onomastics! You don’t know what onomastics is?! It’s only one of my favorite hobbies. Names! Doesn’t everyone belong to a dozen different sites to discuss and research names? No! Well, if you are a writer, you have to care a little about your characters’ names.
You could pick names based on a person you used to know, family members, a name you would use on a kid, one that “just sounds right”, or a name with a hidden meaning.
You should have a site or two bookmarked to look up characters, whether or not you want to join the forums. Most of these sites have baby in the web address or description, but they are mostly women who love names but are not pregnant. Either way, your writing might feel like your baby! My favorite is ebabynames.com for their easy-to-use database. Others are: behindthename, babynamesworld, babycenter, Native American names, babynamewizard, nameberry, and the US Social Security Names site.
Authors have a history of giving characters names with secret meaning. *Spoilers* Remus Lupin is a werewolf, when both names mean wolf. Darth Vader is Luke’s Father, and Vader is Father.
I love to give my characters a mix. Some names I love but will never use (I have two sons), some from family members, some to show a comparison (named after a famous person), and most are named for the name meaning. I’m currently having fun with my WIP naming Native American and Irish characters very culture specific names. I even got to name a car this week!
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Is Writing a Job?
Do you have a day job that doesn’t involve your creative writing? Yes? Me too. I’m a teacher, and I have found that most writers (except the most successful) have day jobs. There are the teachers like me who write in limited free time, agents and book reviewers who make their living as close as possible to the publishing world, and those in random professions who use writing as their creative outlet. Many of us are hoping to get published.
Now here’s the rub: Do you consider your writing to be another job?
A person who has supported me told me today that writing was a hobby, and I shouldn’t spend so much time on it. Apparently, it is only a job if it makes you money. And if it is for fun, it can’t be work.
So this got me thinking (and furious), what constitutes a job? Here is the definition (noun): A paid position of regular employment, or, a task or piece of work, especially one that is paid.
I love writing, and I also love teaching. Teaching pays me a salary after 6 years of college, 2 degrees, a credential, and years of hard work climbing ladders to get to the awesome job I have today. Writing fulfills my creative outlet, for the first time in 10 years. If I love my job, it is philosophically not work. But would you tell an artist that they’re art is a hobby if their goal is to sell it? That would be insulting.
What about you, is writing just for fun? A job?
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Music I Write To…
I love music. Not as much as reading, possibly as much as writing. I love pop, country, punk, ska, bluegrass, oldies, rock, Motown, Broadway, alternative, and even some rap. Over the past two months writing my novel has been spent mostly listening to popular music.
Music I Write To… is a playlist of those songs plus a couple that make me think of my plot (Radioactive, Royals, Let Her Go). Iris is there because it is always calming to me, Sweeter Than Fiction is there almost purely for the title.
Music can set your mood for a scene. Before I wrote my climactic action scene, I put on upbeat angry rap (The Streets and Eminem, not on this playlist). When I was gearing up for a kissing scene, I listened to sugary sweet love songs. While doing long stints of writing, I played Country or light Rock since they have soothing, even tone throughout.
You can make you own playlists online, or with your smart phone, or you can listen to the radio through your computer. Other sites for music listening and making playlists:
What do you listen to when writing? Do you like your favorite music? Only Instrumental? What about for reading? Leave a comment or tweet me and share!
P.S. If you feel like dancing, Spiderman will dance along to any music. He’s magic like that.
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Where I write…
“Where” is a relative term, since I write at my desk, in my bed, and on the couch. So is “write” since I never actually write anything, I type it. What a terrible title! What I actually mean is: The Tools I Use to Organize Writing Stuff on My PC. But that would have been a terrible title.
I start with OneNote which is a Microsoft program. I began using it when I was a post-graduate student getting my credential and a classmate had all his files on one screen. I had my documents in an organized file, but got tired of opening and closing the wrong thing constantly. OneNote is amazing!
Here is a screen shot of how I organize my outlining notebook for one book series, within the binder of Writing on the side. I also have work binders for each school year I teach for writing lessons and pacing, I cropped those out since they have my school’s name on them. You can see there is all the options within Word for editing and formatting, but you can drop text boxes anywhere.
You can see there are sections along the top, those are notebooks. You can add as many pages as you want within them. Below is the notebook for chapter organization. I moved the writing to the bottom, I love that I can move the chapters around so easily without loosing information. You can also add text anywhere.
After I have my outlining, characters, research, and chapters organized how I want them, I start writing. When I had a few chapters done, I moved it to a word document so I could send it to my editor.
I’ve heard that there is a thing called Scrivener, and I even saved the link: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
Perhaps I’ll try out that site or another in the future, but for right now, it’s OneNote for me! Do you outline and write on paper, all in word docs, or with a giant cork board? Leave a comment with how you write!
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A Query…
As I finish my final chapter (Tomorrow, I swear!), proofread, and await the chapters back from my editor, I find my self entering the wild world of Querying! Every time I look at it, I edit it. I’m not nearly so indecisive about my writing, which has a clear plot. Luckily, I found The Write Shadow’s Query Workshop. It is since closed, but the information was invaluable. Agent name, Hook, Title, Type of story, word count, short description (why your book is unique), transitional hook, blurb/synopsis, very brief info about yourself, thanks, name. I used the formula, but won’t know if it worked until I start sending it out there. I hope your own writing and querying goes beautifully!
Dear Correctly Spelled Name,
In the People’s Republic of Time, every minute is accounted for and Elise cannot go outside without permission. Outside lies the danger of radiation poisoning, but also opportunity. THE TIME TRIALS, a Speculative Fiction YA of approximately 60,000 words, is a look at a future where every person has a job and family based on their intelligence and genes.
There are four inhabitable buildings in Dystopian Denver. Elise lives in the West Community building, but dreams of moving to the Palace as an adviser. What she doesn’t dare hope for, becoming the next Timekeeper Queen, may be a possibility. On her seventeenth birthday, Elise is chosen for the Timekeeper Trials. Is she ready to step into the dangerous world outside the safety of the community for the chance to travel back in time?
My TIMEKEEPER series is a trilogy, with a prequel and novellas from other characters’ POV planned as well. As a Junior High and High School History & Social Science teacher, I spend my time paying attention to what teens like, and this informs my writing.
Thank you for your time and consideration, I hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Rachel Anne Little
rafrickauthor.wordpress.com
@MrsRALittle
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Novel Inspiration
Pun intended. I found it very helpful when doing my original outlining to save images to a Pinterest board. That way, I could reference them from anywhere. Some were helpful to me as a writer:
Others were specific to my story:
There are also the random pictures of actors, models and various celebrities, that probably made my family and friends confused. Those were to help with the characters. They are clear in my head, but if I go two months between describing one, I don’t want to have to go back and find exactly how I want them. Sometimes it’s also fun to look at the pretty people
This obsessive pinning to my Novel Inspiration board paid off today, when I needed it for a Book Trailer opportunity. I’ve also heard publishers want to know this when they get to the Book Cover phase. It is nice to direct people to a one stop web address rather than sending my barely coherent Characters document which contains spoilers for later plot points.
This is sounding like an add for Pinterest, which I hardly use, except for Novel Inspiration. You don’t have to use it, you can just use Google and save to a file on your PC. Either way, get those images saved, because it is much quicker than writing. A picture is worht a thousand words, as they say.
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Writing in Progress
My current WIP is a YA Dystopian set 70 years in the future after World Wart III ended in a nuclear holocaust. It also brought the ability to time travel for certain people. My main character finds she has the genetic trait and must compete to become Timekeeper Queen of the small community of survivors.
Also working on novellas from other characters’ POV, the sequel, and the finale of the series!
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Books
I want to start with my favorite past-time, reading. I often feel that there are so many books on my to-read list that I will never come close to catching up. For every book I read, I add another 3 to my list. It is the same with writing. For every chapter I write, there is another idea for a book waiting to be written! Good thing I love to Read and Write.
R.A. Frick 