Merry Christmas! Ps. I Forgot to Tell You ALL THE THINGS! #Surpriserelease #Awards

December has been insanity. Pure and total insanity! Because of that, I hope you'll forgive me for my late announcements... *Pretty please?*

Here's the tl:dr for you~ I won the Rainbow Awards, Bowl Full of Cherries is out on Audiobook, I'm nominated for a slew of Member's Choice Awards from the M/M Romance Group, and SURPRISE! I've got a secret new release for you.

Whoa. Wait. WHAT?!

First up: I won! No, I'm not pulling your leg, I totally, completely, legitimately won TWO Rainbow Awards this month and had several Runner-Up Awards as well!

Best Gay Fantasy Romance

Most Beautiful Words by Raine O’Tierney

Best Gay Debut

Most Beautiful Words by Raine O’Tierney

Best Bisexual Fiction

I’ll Always Miss You by Raine O’Tierney

The William Neale Award for Best Gay Contemporary Romance

Bowl Full of Cherries by Raine O’Tierney

Best Bisexual Book

I’ll Always Miss You by Raine O’Tierney 

Best Gay Book

Most Beautiful Words by Raine O’Tierney

So, YES! Blush, blush, BLUSHSPLOSION! I'm still reeling even though the awards were at the beginning of the month.

THEN...a checked an item off my writing bucket list! I now have an audiobook! (FOR REALS!) The insanely talented Seth Clayton narrated Bowl Full of Cherries and took my "couple of chuckles" story and turned it into something laugh out loud! He's amazing.

So you should definitely check that out!

It's available HERE! If you're unsure, definitely check out the sample. Seth is amazing, I'm tellin' ya!

So what else, Raine?

Well... I got on the Goodreads Group and saw I'd been nominated for a slew of Member's Choice Awards! Which...wow!

Best Coming of Age

I'll Always Miss You by Raine O'Tierney 

That Eighteenth Summer by Raine O'Tierney 

Best Virgins

Sing Me Your Love Song by Raine O'Tierney 

Favorite All-Time M/M Romance

Most Beautiful Words by Raine O'Tierney 

Best Love is an Open Road Story

That Eighteenth Summer by Raine O'Tierney

Best Short Story

Sing Me Your Love Song by Raine O'Tierney

And FINALLY...

*THIS* happened! :) Yep, folks, that's Seeds of Tyrone bk #3 there!

Two couples, two unique stories of love at Christmastime...

Harrison and Paulo were once passionate lovers - until tragedy tore them apart. When the men miss an opportunity to reconnect at a Christmas party, Paulo is prepared to move heaven and earth to see Harrison again.

Michael's coming out didn't go down well in his conservative hometown of Omagh, and the bullies are out to get him. But he has a guardian angel on his side - his unrequited long-term crush, Tom.

Will the magic of Christmas in Ireland be enough to see these two couples through?

This book features characters from the Seeds of Tyrone series, but can be read and enjoyed independently.

AVAILABLE FROM:

Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | All Romance eBooks | Beaten Track Publishing | Smashwords

Thank you all for bearing with me--I know the sheer volume of announcements was... WAH! <3

Merry Christmas to all my readers!

Raine O'Tierney

RELEASE DAY! My Very First YA~~~ plus #Giveaway!

I know, I know...it's been a LONG time since I put up a blog! I need to start doing that. (It's still insane to me that people are curious what's going on with me.) If anything, I'd like to get back to my positivity posts! :)

But more on that at a later date because today is...

*~*~*~RELEASE DAY!~*~*~

And with release day comes a blog tour with PRIZES! <3 This time we're giving away a $25.00 Amazon.com giftcard and a copy of I'll Always Miss You.

There are multiple ways to enter, so make sure you stop by each blog on the tour for your chance to win!

MAR-4 : MB Mulhall
MAR-5 : Cate Ashwood
MAR-6 : Will Parkinson
MAR-7 : Cody Kennedy
MAR-7 : Harmony Ink Chat! <3 (5 p.m. - 7 p.m. CDT)
MAR-9 : Chari Green
MAR-10 : Mia Kerick

ISBN-13: 9781632165244

Pages: 256 pages

Cover Artist: Bree Archer

Categories: Young Adult | Bisexual | Coming of Age |

BLURB:

Isa Zaman might forgive his parents for taking in a friend’s son if only he wasn't the most boring teenager in the universe. Macklin "Mackie" Cormack’s only interests are reading and the outdoors. Yeah, right. Isa's convinced Mackie is either a pyro or a klepto. Plus, as a white kid, Mackie looks ridiculous in the Zamans' Arab American household. Forced to share a bedroom, the boys keep butting heads until an absurd fight finally breaks the tension between them. 

Isa’s just starting to figure life out: this new houseguest, his cultural identity, school, and even girls, when the entire family is uprooted from their home for reasons Isa can't understand. They move from their tiny city apartment to a giant, old house in a small town, hours away from everything he's ever known. Oh, and the new house? It's probably haunted, or so says the blank-faced ten-year-old next door. As if things weren't weird enough, Isa's friendship with Mackie suddenly takes a strange turn down a path Isa's not sure he’s ready to follow. It turns out Mackie Cormack isn’t nearly as boring as Isa once imagined.

EXCERPT:

And that’s when I realized that my friends had become jerks.

I don’t know what it was, staring at their backs, that made me realize it, but they had.

And I was a jerk too.

Because I hadn’t stood up to them, and I’d put Mackie in this position again, when I knew he didn’t want to be there.

I turned immediately to go.

I knew we couldn’t abandon them, but that didn’t mean I had to stay inside to wait for them. I bumped into a couple dancing and somehow avoided the long-nailed grasp of a very drunk woman who wanted me to dance with her, and then I was near the door. I waited only until the people coming in had moved, and then I charged out of the club. I even told the bored guy with the stamp to kiss my ass.

A couple of girls near the front of the line giggled when they saw me, but I ignored them. I ignored them, and I went to find Mackie and the car.

He sat with his hands on the steering wheel, staring straight ahead. No, glaring straight ahead.

I opened the passenger side door, and I climbed in.

“That was qui—”

I didn’t let him finish his sarcastic remark. I just grabbed his shirt and I pulled him across the seat to me, and I kissed him. Long and hard and good. I was fifteen years old, and I really, really, really didn’t want to be at a bar in Kansas City.

“Let’s go see the library,” I told him.

“Okay,” he replied dumbly.

“Right now, let’s leave those idiots and go see the library.”

“Okay,” he said, putting the car in gear. “Yeah, we’ll come back for them.”

“We’ll come back for them,” I agreed. “But right now, just you and me. Let’s go. Take the car and drive.”

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More #MMRomance Than You Can Shake a Stick At! or New #Contracts! (Heh, she said "Stick"!)

I'm so stinkin' excited, y'all! Just this week I signed TWO more contracts--one with Dreamspinner Press and the other with Dreamspinner's YA imprint, Harmony Ink. (Yup, the revise and resubmit has been revised, resubmitted, and accepted <3)

Here's the new estimated release schedule as it stands:

The Most Beautiful Words in the World 

(OCT 2014)

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 sets? Especially when there's someone familiar in the Valley who will do everything he can to keep Great-Pop from returning to her.

Bowl Full of Cherries 

(EARLY DEC 2014)

Porker, Fatty, Tons-of-Fun, Roly-Poly: Crowley Fredericks has heard it all. He’s dropped a lot of the weight since his high school days, but he’s still a big guy, and the painful words follow him. Rejected—again—because of his weight, Crowley’s starting to think that maybe love just isn’t meant for huskier men. And then his roommate, Tyler, invites him home for Christmas in snowy Susset and everything changes.

Averell “Rell” Lang is one half of the Lang Twins. But where his brother Tyler is snobby, elitist and the consummate ‘hipster’, Rell is funny, laid back, and yes, maybe a bit of a slacker. The twins couldn’t be any more different. So when Tyler brings home his roommate for the holidays, Rell expects the worst—a Tyler clone. What he gets instead is Crowley. Beautiful, funny, fascinating Crowley. Rell’s never looked at a man this way before, and what he sees in Crowley Fredericks has nothing to do with his weight.

Can both men overcome their hang-ups to unwrap more than Christmas presents this holiday season?

Alchemy Ever After (with Siôn O'Tierney) 

(LATE JAN 2015)

The city of New Alexandria is filled with marvelous wonders: the largest library known to man, powerful magicians-in-training, mechanical follies, and much more! Yet it is not this thoroughly modern metropolis that lured Idrian from his hometown, but the promise of learning the new art of alchemy. Master Maketh is a scholar combining the spectacular new technology of the era with the ancient art of magic, and he’s taken Idrian in as an apprentice. Together, they are animating a living sculpture from ice. It is the culmination of years of research, and Idrian cannot wait to unveil it alongside all the other marvels being presented at the annual Spring Festival.

But after witnessing his master in a passionate embrace with one of the students from the New Alexandria Academy of Engineering & the Magical Arts, naive Idrian's mind is no longer strictly on things alchemical. When his warm touch accidentally awakens the consciousness within the living sculpture, Idrian learns lessons firsthand about passion and physicality.

I'll Always Miss You 

(MAR 2015)

Isa Zaman could forgive his parents for taking in a friend of the family's son if only he wasn't the most boring teenager in the universe. Macklin Cormack’s only interests are "reading and the outdoors"? Yeah, right. Isa's convinced that "Mackie" is either a pyro or a klepto. Plus, as a white kid, Mackie looks ridiculous in the Zaman’s Arab-American household. Forced to share a bedroom with the new intruder, Isa keeps butting heads with Mackie, until a hilariously absurd fight breaks the tension between them.

Isa’s just starting to figure things out: this new house guest, his cultural identity, school, and girls, when the whole family is suddenly uprooted from their home, for reasons Isa can't understand. They move from their tiny apartment in the city to a giant, old house in a small town, hours away from all he's ever known. Oh, and the new house? It's probably haunted, or so says the ten-year-old next door who can't make facial expressions. As if things weren't weird enough, Isa's friendship with Mackie just took a strange new turn, down a path he's not sure he wants to follow. Mackie Cormac? Not near as boring as Isa imagined.

~ ~ ~

My life's work, right there... I know it seems like I squeezed out all these novels at once, but actually, all my releases have been in various stages of completion for the last decade. 

Now what?

Writing, of course! I've got more stories to tell and hopefully I'll be able to get back into the swing of things soon.

--Raine