And the nominees are...

Yes, I am excited, and honored, and would have to figure out how to do a backflip if either of my little books get voted into the top three. A huge and heartfelt thank you to those who nominated me. I know who you are... oh, that sounded kind of menacing didn't it?

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You're Always in the Last Place You Look

YAITLPYL is a YA book, previously titled; The Pastor's Son. This will be my first release of 2014. Over half done, I am planning on a February release. I combined my knowledge and love of rodeo with a sweet romance in this book. The main character, Gabriel, is the town Pastor's son and competes as a header in high school rodeo. Life is copacetic, that is until Zane Z. Zimmerman arrives, stirring feelings in him he never thought he'd find. As the book progresses, he learns half the town knew he was gay before he did. This is a coming out story but not typical. Gabe has only ever wanted to feel, so when he finally does, he embraces his sexuality with everything he is. Now he just has to tell his parents, and hope he doesn't become the center of one of his father's sermons. Set in small town Idaho, the story is as languid and sweet as small town life should be. The story contains minor alcohol and drug use, as well as some swearing and age appropriate sexual situations.

Trey Grey; Out of the Dark

I need some inspiration to get back into Trey's head, and finish he and Justin's story. A few hard hits to my soul over the first book have me in a funk. If you love him and his story, please vote for him on the goodreads lists and the MM Romance Readers Choice awards. Thank you so much to those who nominated both The Darker Side of Trey Grey and Six in several catagories. I am about 30K into the second book, but I stagnated due to just a few saying my book is all over the place and unrealistic, that Trey's OCD is ill formed, Trey's mind and mental issues are ill founded. I'd really like to finish their story. I have a third book, a novella, that shows us their life together ten years later already outlined. So show Trey your love and hopefully he will open up to me again.

Giveaway! Copy will be signed.

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Darker Side of Trey Grey

by Tara Spears

Giveaway ends August 31, 2013.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

My current works in progress...

Currently I am working on several books.

(WT) The pastors son is a LGBT YA book that centers around 17 year old Zane Z. Zimmerman who moves from Chicago to small town Idaho after a family tragedy strikes.

Gabriel is the town pastor's son. Not among the most popular kids at school, he is solitary by design, not by choosing. Through no fault of his own, Gabe finds himself in the wrong place at the right time on more than one occasion where Zane is concerned.

A city boy lost to himself and everyone around him...
A pastor's son determined to save him from his own declination...

Somewhere during the journey a heart will be broken and a boy will find his way.

Not all stories have a happy ending...

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The Paladins is a YA urban sci-fi novel set in modern day. An intergalactic parasite has landed with plans to arrogate Earth. The Galactic Guard, in a show of mercy, gifts thirty-four Tellurian offspring to Earth in an effort to stop the Gravenors from succeeding in transmogrifying the planets population.

Raised as human orphans, the Tellurians mature faster than expected, and discover one rainy night they are not of this planet. When they learn the truth, will they choose to fight a war not of their concern or disappear into the world with the only artifact from their own species, a silver survival manual. 

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The Diviner of Death is a YA urban fantasy novel. The first in the Slayers series. This book introduces Joeseph, the very first Slayer-born. What would you do if you discovered you had the power to kill the dredges of society? How do you think the world would react to a genetic anomaly of this magnitude?

Follow Joseph through his physical changes and mental anguish as he becomes a hunter of immoral men and the diviner of death. 

Seattle Pride!!!

Seattle Pride Fest is this Sunday June 30th, 2013. Please visit the links to view the events schedules and parade route.

http://www.seattlepride.org/
http://www.seattlepridefest.org/schedule/

Trey Grey is out and proud...

Trey Grey is available on Amazon for Kindle and the paperback will be released July 1st. I will be giving away a few signed copies on Goodreads in July.

The second (and final) book is planned for a January/February 2014 release.

I am pimping for reviews on; The Darker Side of Trey Grey by offering paperback copies of the second book to the first ten reviewers posting on Amazon. If you post a review (good, bad, or indifferent) on Amazon please contact me (taraspearswrites@gmail.com) and I will add you to the list for a free paperback copy when the second book is released. I would assume only those who actually enjoyed the first book would want to read the final chapter in Trey and Justin's story but I might be wrong... It definitely would not be the first time!