Friday Feature, Interview & Giveaway: Slide by Garrett Leigh

slide banFor today’s stop on the Slide virtual tour, we are chatting with Garrett Leigh.

Kathy: Do you have a favorite book or author you like to recommend? Do you have a comfort read?

Garrett: Aleksandr Voinov is my favourite author in the MM genre. I’m also partial to a bit of Con Riley (ahem) and J.P. Barnaby, and SE Jakes.

For comfort, though, I always turn to Jay Northcote. Her gentle way with words always soothe sme.

Kathy: What is your guilty pleasure?

Garrett: Ah…too many things to name here, porn, chocolate, bad films…I love them all 🙂

Kathy: Favorite meal?

Garrett: Depends what mood I’m in, but preferably something I can eat on the couch with a spoon.

Kathy: If you weren’t a writer, what would you be?

Garrett: A schizophrenic and the world’s worst housewife.

Kathy: If you could time travel, what time period would you visit?

Garrett: Yesterday. It was a bit of clusterfuck and I’d quite like to go back and fix it.


slideTitle: Slide by Garrett Leigh
Roads Series Book One
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Genre: Contemporary, M/M, Romance
Length: 274 pages

Summary:

Roads: Book One

Don’t look back. Don’t you ever look back…

Shy tattoo artist Ash has a troubled past. Years of neglect, drug abuse, and life on the streets have taken their toll, and sometimes it seems the deep, unspoken bond with his lover is the only balm for wounds he doesn’t quite understand.

Chicago paramedic Pete is warmth, love, and strength—things Ash never knew he could have, and never even knew he wanted until Pete showed him. But fate is a cruel, cruel mistress, and when nightmares collide with the present, their tentatively built world comes crashing down.

Traumatic events in Pete’s work life distance him from home, and he doesn’t realize until it’s too late that Ash has slipped away. Betrayal, secrets, and lies unfold, and when a devastating coincidence takes hold, Pete must fight with all he has to save the love of his life.

Purchase Links: Dreamspinner Press * Amazon


Excerpt

Ash was Texan by birth, but his southern roots only laced his speech when he was too tired to repress them… too tired to block out all the horrible shit that kept an invisible barrier between us.

He was just seventeen when his friend Ellie found him drawing on the streets of Philadelphia. He was homeless and drew comic book characters on the sidewalk for money. The way she told it, he was one of the best street artists in the city, but he said he just did it to survive. Ellie was in college at the time, and she spent the next three years trying to get him to go to a shelter. Eventually, she got her way, and when she moved back to Chicago a few months later, she asked him to come with her. It took him a year of procrastination and pulling his shit together, but after finishing his tattoo apprenticeship in Philly, he did just that.

Living together was a huge adjustment for both of us. Some days I thought we’d cracked it, but others….

I draped the comforter over us and tucked it around his shoulders. He settled against me with his arm stretched out across my torso. I ran my hand absently along his bicep and enjoyed the rare moment. Though he could be tactile when his mood was right, he rarely cuddled up to me so freely. Most times, he preferred our positions reversed—him on his back with his arms around me.

Curious, I pressed a kiss to the top of his sweat-dampened head. “You okay?”

“Yeah, I just missed you.”

I smiled into the darkness. “I missed you too.”

A light hum was his only answer, so I held him a bit tighter and made the most of having him curled against me. After a while, I felt him shift. I opened my eyes and quirked an eyebrow, too mellow to speak. He just stared at me, but his blazing eyes told me what I knew he found so hard to articulate.

I put my hand to his head and nudged it back down with a sad smile.


Author Bio

Garrett Leigh is a British writer and book designer, currently working for Dreamspinner Press, Loose Id and Black Jazz Press. Her protagonists will always always be tortured, crippled, broken, and deeply flawed. Throw in a tale of enduring true love, some stubbly facial hair, and a bunch of tattoos, and you’ve got yourself a Garrett special.

When not writing, Garrett can generally be found procrastinating on Twitter, cooking up a storm, or sitting on her behind doing as little as possible. That, and dreaming up new ways to torture her characters. Garrett believes in happy endings; she just likes to make her boys work for it.

Garrett also works as a freelance cover artist for various publishing houses and independent authors under the pseudonym G.D. Leigh. For cover art info, please visit blackjazzpress.com

Author Links: Website * Facebook * Twitter * Cover Art Enquiries


Giveaway

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7 Responses to Friday Feature, Interview & Giveaway: Slide by Garrett Leigh

  1. Timitra

    Great post

  2. Lisa

    I loved Slide. This was such a great series. 🙂

  3. Tully

    I would love to win this. . . ! Sounds awesome.

  4. Trix

    I’ve heard raves about this series!

  5. SHELLEY

    GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR BOOK AND THANKS FOR THE GIVEAWAY!

  6. Katherine

    Porn and chocolate sound like worthy “guilty pleasures”.

  7. Ashley E

    Couch and a spoon. Sounds like a perfect dinner to me.