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TTC Books and more Author of the Month for March 2016

T.M. Smith

Yes, TM Smith is my alter ego, my pen name if you will. Since I'm the boss on the blog I thought I would take a month for a little shameless, self promotion.

There are a lot of irons in the fire in the coming months for me and I wanted to share. If you didn't know, Gay for Pay is now available on Audio as is The Library. I recently had the Opposites series extensively edited, they were a hot mess. I was quite the brave soul when I first started out writing in 2011 and decided to forgo the expense of an editor.

Big mistake... Big... Huge!

Thankfully, the lovely lady that edited all the All Cocks stories likes me and my books enough that she dove right in and helped me clean up the Opposites series. So they are all bright, shiny and new and available exclusively through Amazon, free for Kindle Unlimited users.

The All Cocks stories are going to be translated to French soon. I've already signed a contract with Juno Publishing in France and Gay for Pay should be available sometime this month.

For fans of the All Cocks stories, Dare to Hope should be out within the next month, fingers crossed. After that I'll be writing Live for Love, the 5th book in the All Cocks stories. And then back to the world of Opposites for book 3, Snapped.

Anywho... here is more about moi, where you can stalk me online and then there is list of all my available titles to date with buy links.

A military brat born and raised at Ft. Benning Georgia; TM Smith is an avid reader, reviewer and writer. A Texas transplant, she now calls DFW her home. Most days she can be found curled up with a good book, or ticking away on her next novel.

Smith is a single mom of three disturbingly outspoken and decidedly different kids, one of which is Autistic. Besides her writing, she is passionate about Autism advocacy and LGBT rights. Because, seriously people, Love is Love!

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Let's chat about Appearances, they can be deceiving, what one sees on the surface just a mask or facade. That old saying, never judge a book by it's cover... in this instance, that is a mistake.

* * * NOTE * * * This is the 2nd edition of Appearances, originally published in 2014 under the same title and Author. The book has been thoroughly edited with errors and unnecessary content removed, and new content included.

Appearances, can be deceiving.

Raven and Tanis are trying very hard to merge their vastly different lifestyles, but Tanis issues with his own past could prove to be more than their fragile relationship can handle. Is their love for each other strong enough to weather the oncoming storm?

Aiya and Sawyer have fought hard to be together in a world where Opposite relationships are generally forbidden. Yet, they are still forced to keep their relationship a secret while they are outside the walls of House Gaeland.

Everyone assumes that the only threat lies outside their walls, the group of rebels led by Cillian. But something is happening within House Gaeland, something that hasn’t happened since GWI. And with all the attention focused on that, their guard is down. An evil that was under their nose all along strikes, and someone will make the ultimate sacrifice to save another.

Appearances is the second book in the Opposites series, the series should be read in order.

** Warning, Opposites is an Adult Dystopian majorly M/M series that contains explicit sexual content and relationships between gay, straight and lesbian couples. There are brief scenes of violence. **

In Appearances readers are introduced to House Orion and House Devi as the twins travel to their spouses home House to meet their people. I did a lot of research on India and Greece, the cultures and sights for writing this book. As with Opposites, I wanted there to be as much reality in the story as I could add. Above is the visuals for the characters as I see them along with some scenery and imagery for clothing and Mehndi (you will remember the Mehndi ceremony from Opposites) to give you a strong visual of the characters and the description of House Devi.

Appearances Playlist... here are the songs that kept me going while writing Appearances.
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For a complete album for this book, visit my Pinterest page and view the Appearances album. Marcus and Ian play a bigger role in this story, head over to see my visual for them.
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One of my favorite things about this book is the cover. My first cover artist (TL Shreffler or Runaway Book Designs) really did a great job showing my vision for Raven and Tanis, and even added one of Greece's most famous landmarks to the cover.