NEW RELEASE: All That Shimmers from Piece Us Back Together Antho!

My tenth release! @__@ I can hardly wrap my mind around that. People have said, "WOW, you write really fast!" and I think I do write at a somewhat speedy pace...but really, when you write in secret for ten years, hoarding all your stories for yourself, it's easy to polish them up and put them out one right after other.

All That Shimmers does hold a very special place in my heart. (I know, I know...everyone says that about every book) but it really does. I'd asked the girls (Cate Ashwood and L.J. LaBarthe) if they wanted to do an anthology together. They enthusiastically agreed and together we came up with the theme of "Healing."

I needed that in my life, healing.

I chose to write about two very broken characters-- Beau, paralyzed from the waist down, and Niksa-- beyond suicidal. It was a struggle sometimes, especially dealing with Niksa's darkness which mirrors some of my own--but worth it.

So far the reviews have been mixed. Some people are really moved by what I wanted to accomplish, reduced to tears even, and some people think it's total drivel or far too dark. For some reason the reviews have hit me a bit hard on this one, probably because of how much of myself I put into this story. That said--I do appreciate the people who took the time to read and review. (Yes, even the 1*s) ;) I've even had a couple of peeps ask about a sequel.

I'm always like *mind blown* when someone likes something I wrote enough to ask me about a sequel.

If you check it out, let me know what you think--good, bad, or indifferent!

--Raine

Release Date: May 6th, 2015

Goodreads Links: All That Shimmers | Piece Us Back Together |  

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Cover Artist: Paul Richmond

Blurb(s):

Piece Us Back Together:

Life can seem bleak for people suffering devastating injuries or illnesses of the mind and body, and every day can be a struggle. But sometimes, when hope seems in short supply, they find a reason to keep up the fight. The men in these stories face some of the most difficult challenges imaginable, but fortunately they won’t be facing them alone, because when everything seems darkest, a point of light appears. With compassion, understanding, and love, these hurt souls have a chance to piece the broken parts of their lives and themselves into something strong and beautiful. Love might even be able to mend the most serious wounds of all—those of the heart.

All That Shimmers by Raine O’Tierney

Beau Bell is a former Olympic hopeful, left paralyzed from the waist down after a car accident. He has every reason in the world to be pissed off and miserable, yet he’s training for the Paralympics Men's 100m—S6 division. The chair? Just a part of who he is now. Beau's attitude is golden. If only he could contend with this one little issue: errant erections and no way to relieve them!

Nikša Meríc is a lonely scientist and really bad poet living underneath the old building where he does his research. Every night he watches his neighbor through his basement window as he undresses in his wheelchair. Although there is no apparent reason for Nikša to be unhappy, he’s struggled with depression his whole life and has tried to kill himself on multiple occasions.

When Beau proposes that his “voyeur” come over and help him experiment with the erections he can’t actually feel, the relationship they build is a sexual one. But the relationship they need is one that will heal each other’s heart as well.

Available May 6^th, 2015

Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, Gay Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance

Sales Links:

Piece Us Back Together Anthology:

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6413

All That Shimmers:

http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6340

20 Year in the Making! + 3 #Giveaways! #MostBeautifulWords #MMRomance

So...............................................a dream of mine just came true. Written that way underplays it a bit, I think. Let me rephrase: A VERY IMPORTANT *~*TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING*~* DREAM OF MINE came true today!

Today, I am a published novelist.

I dreamed and I worked and I fretted and I worked and I wanted to quit but I didn't quit and I dreamed some more and I fretted some more and I worked and I worked and I worked and here it is: the product of all of that.

I think my eighth grade self, writing in her notebooks and dreaming, would be very proud. I know last year's Raine O'Tierney is proud!

Okay, enough of the self-pats on the back. Let's get down to business. What's this novel I'm yammering about? And where are the GIVEAWAYS we were promised?!

Twelve-year-old Autumn's world is shattered when her beloved Great-Pop, Tommy Johnson, suffers a stroke that leaves him comatose. With everyone around her resigning themselves to the inevitable, Autumn is the only one not willing to give up. She and Great-Pop have more secret stories to share with each other, after all. More stories about Roy McMillan—the great love of Tommy's life whom he lost fifty years ago.  


Autumn struggles to keep Great-Pop on this side of death's door. But how can she compete with the beautiful and mysterious Valley—a place of surreal magic where the sun never fully sets? Especially when there's someone familiar in the Valley who will do everything he can to keep Great-Pop from returning to her.

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Exclusive excerpt:

 “No,” he said. “You wanted a story I never told anyone. Well, this is it. It’s a story about friendship.”

“I thought he was your love?”

“All good loves start out as friendships, princess,” Great-Pop said, his hands warm and firm on her back. “Do you want to hear?”

Oh how she wanted to hear. More than anything she’d ever wanted before. Autumn nodded quickly.

“I noticed him at church first.”

Autumn looked around the yard. The sun was burning out of the sky, leaving a swath of sunset colors in its wake, and near the edges of the yard where the juniper bushes grew, tiny bursts of green illuminated the growing darkness as the fireflies came out to dance.

“He kept his hair long, which wasn’t the style at the time.”

She thought again about Joey Sullivan on That Rocks! It was the best show on television, and all the girls in her grade thought Joey was the cutest. Of course he was her favorite too. He had a really great smile with a dimple and really long hair, almost as long as hers. He tied it back in a ponytail.

“And he dressed really casual for Sunday service. My step-momma—your great-great-grandmother—used to say that his family was poor trash and that the bank ought to do us all a favor and take those acres of dust they called a farm and drive them out of town. Step-Momma was a snob, and we were poor too. But we weren’t poor like the McMillans, and that made her think she was better than them.”

It was the first time she’d ever heard him say anything about his stepmother. She decided anyone that had anything bad to say about the young man her Great-Pop loved wasn’t a good person, and she immediately disliked the great-great-grandmother she’d never known.

“What did he look like, Great-Pop?”

“Handsome. Mischievous.”

“What color was his hair?”

“Brown.”

“And long,” she repeated for herself. Joey Sullivan had blond hair, so she had to adjust for that.

“With bright blue eyes.”

She fixed that too.

“So you talked to him at church?” she spurred him anxiously. She wanted more!

Great-Pop moved quietly over to the rust-stained iron chair next to the bushes. “I met him at the little library. The librarian there was an old maid named Miss Palmer, and she was mean….”

*~*~GIVEAWAY(S) TIME!!~*~*

Check out my interview over at The Hat Party and comment for your chance to win an e-copy of Most Beautiful Words.

There's a second chance to win an e-copy of Most Beautiful Words if you follow along with my Dreamspinner Press Blog Release Day Party posts from 9 a.m. CDT to 12:30 p.m. CDT today!

And finally, follow the official Most Beautiful Words blog tour around to snag all your chances to enter the rafflecopter for a $25 Amazon gift card

Tour Dates/Stops:

October 10: Angel Martinez | My Fiction Nook | Up All Night, Read All Day | Fallen Angel Reviews

October 13: Amanda C. Stone | Decadent Delights

October 14: Jade Crystal

October 15: LeAnn’s Book Reviews | Velvet Panic

October 16: Full Moon Dreaming | Dawn’s Reading Nook

October 17: Wake Up Your Wild Side | Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words

October 20: Parker Williams | Inked Rainbow Reads

October 21: Cate Ashwood | Love Bytes | Book Reviews, Rants, and Raves

October 22: Regular Guys, Hot Romance | Emotion in Motion

October 23: EE Montgomery | MM Good Book Reviews

October 24: Iyana Jenna | Prism Book Alliance

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DSP is having a #SALE! TIme to *~*BUY*~* #MMromance

If you can't tell from the banner... DSP is having a sale! I am a Year Seven author, so if you've been waiting to check out Under the Table and Into His Heart or Sweet Giordan, Please Remember, now is probably a good time. (Who doesn't love savings?)

Look at the beautiful covers... They are calling to you... OoooOOOOooooOOOOh! (Why do the covers sound like ghosts?!

Looking forward to hearing what you think! And if you've read them, why don't you drop me a line? :)

--Raine

Dreams, Goals, Contracts, and the Day My Husband Contracted an #MMRomance!

When I do blog tours, I talk a lot about dreams. We're often told that dreaming is for babies and it's a waste of our time and we should be doing XYZ instead. And I'll grant, if you only dream...you're going to get no where. My (charming) father, used to say, "Wish in one hand, piss in the other..."

But overall, I think dreaming is important. Dreams sustain us when our wells run dry. If you find yourself re-writing a scene for the seventh time and you can't remember WHY you even bothered starting in the first place, you sit down and you dream big, and you remember, and often, you're able to go on.

I have two main writing dreams and they has nothing to do with publication at all:

Never stop writing and touch someone's heart.

Goals, on the other hand, I have in abundance. Real, measurable goals and slowly, but surely, I'm checking those goals off. They range from the very simple, to the wildly outlandish.

• Publish a novella
• Become a Goodreads Author
• Have my name on a cover
• Make $20
• Make $40
• Sell 100 copies
• Collaborate
• Do a DSP chat
• Publish a novel
• Have my book in the library
• Have an audiobook
• Make a bestsellers list
• Win awards
• Win the Newbery (that's seriously a goal of mine...)

Last night, I accomplished another goal on the list:

Publish a novel.

Dreamspinner Press contracted my novel-lengthed work, The Most Beautiful Words in the World last night with a pub date of Oct/Nov 2014. It will be in print. I can touch it. I can hand it to people. I can set it on a bookshelf. There are so words to describe my joy.

As I'm marveling at this accomplishment, another contract comes in, this one for a co-written novella called Alchemy Ever After that will be out Dec/Jan 2015. And just like that, my husband, Siôn O'Tierney, became a Dreamspinner Press author alongside me. We've been writing M/M together for almost ten years, and it's so THRILLING to know that are names will be side-by-side on the cover of our collaborative work.

Dream big.
Plan sensibly.
Never stop writing.

Under the Table and Into His Heart!

I've contracted a new work with Dreamspinner Press called Under the Table and Into His Heart. This short story will be released for their Valentine Rainbow Event, but it is not part of a compilation--it's a stand alone work! (Woo hoo!) Each of the titles in the event will have a different color of the rainbow for its cover... I jumped immediately on green. Don't think green has anything to do with Valentine's Day? At Under the Table host club, it's all about the green!

Here's my official blurb from DSP:

At the Under the Table host club, Valentine’s Day means one thing: cash. Neglected housewives, newly ex-girlfriends, and lovelorn thirtysomethings pay for the attention of handsome men. Shy bartender Jem has always wanted to be a host, and when the club’s owner, Miss Rye, accepts a contract from a MensLove Convention, Jem volunteers to flirt and make out with another host for the ladies’ entertainment. Bailey, an older man who’s had his eye on Jem, convinces Miss Rye to let him be Jem’s partner, and everyone gets more than they expected—especially Jem and Bailey.

I'm super pumped about this little 10K work because... it kicks off a BRAND NEW SERIES I'm writing called Dirty Business that follows the men of the Under the Table Host Club and their wickedly profit-minded proprietor.

Hope you will enjoy!

Holy Wow-za, I have an estimated release date!

So... Sweet Giordan, Please Remember has an estimated release date of Mar-Apr 2014! A springtime release for a sweet, fresh story. I'm VERY pleased! (Though honestly, I would have been pleased with ANY release date. 2084? Yeah, I can work with that.)

I will say this... I've discovered that I actually ALWAYS had an estimated release date. Yes, going all the way back to the very first day I received the contract. It was actually IN the contract. Now you might be thinking, "Raine? Did you even read the contract?" Yes! I did! I uber-read it, if that's even possible. Out loud. Page by page. Stopping to re-read what I didn't understand.

But when I got to the last page, the release was down in the contact information and my eyes went... sliiiiiiiiide. It wasn't until a fellow Dreamspinner author pointed it out to me that I said, "Oh! There it is!" I'm a nerd.

Should I be so lucky as to be multi-published, I will not miss future release dates. I promise. :)