Hi, I'm Kris and welcome to the blog tour for The Queer and the
Restless, book three in my awesome queer soap opera! Enjoy the blog tour!
Ed Masiello has been on testosterone for a year, is working his dream
job as a reporter, and is finally passing as a man (so long as you don’t ask
his abuela). But the investigation of a murder case is starting to take over
his life. Afraid he’s becoming obsessed, he goes to the local club to relax,
and meets the flighty, whimsical Alisha.
Alisha is a free spirit who’s tossed aside ambition for travel and
adventure. Her approach to life is a far cry from Ed’s, and while Ed has always
assumed that meeting his goals would make him happy, Alisha is much more
content than him—despite all the plans she can’t yet fulfill.
As their relationship heats up, so does the murder case. Alisha thinks
Ed needs a break, but someone’s got to find this killer, and he wants to be
there when it all goes down. Besides, taking off into the great unknown with
Alisha is crazy. But opting for what’s safe is just another way of living in
fear, and Ed vowed to stop living like that a long time ago.
The Queer and the Restless is
available from Riptide Publishing OR Amazon today!
Excerpt...
I sat in my chair on the day after the Fourth of July holiday, drinking coffee and staring at the wall. Since I didn’t have the energy to actually start writing, I switched the calendar over my desk to July: a picture of a massive cruise ship on a spectacularly blue sea with the words Find the destination of your heart in script below it.
It was one of those times when I really wished I had darts. One in the hull of the ship. One in the benevolently shining sun. The rest in that perfect ocean, taunting me with its blue depths.
Caspar, my desk-mate (and by “desk” I mean “table with delusions of grandeur”), snorted. “The fuck does that even mean?”
“No idea. My heart’s just fine where it is.”
“Ha. Funny, Masiello.”
It wasn’t meant to be funny. But oh well. Caspar was forty-five and didn’t give a fuck about anything. I knew this because he found a way to put DGAF in every email he sent me. Potter’s on the warpath. Too bad I DGAF. Alder is lurking, saw him in the coffee room. DGAF myself, but you might try to look enterprising. Which was stupid, because I actually worked. I didn’t have to look like I was working. You’d think he might know that after a year and a half sitting next to me, but no. Mostly because he didn’t give a fuck.
“Ed! How’s the blind cat story coming?”
Speaking of Potter. I rolled my chair out until I had a line of sight to my editor’s office doorway. “You mean, the blind cat that can sense when people are dying? Actually, it’s weirdly interesting. You’d think the cat wouldn’t be so popular, since it’s basically a death omen, but the residents all seem to relish the idea they might be next.”
Potter—who was tall and probably had been good-looking at some point in the past, before the long hours in a desk chair and weekends steeped in beer got the better of him—shook his head. “I want a nice story, Ed. Can you do that for me? No death, no dying, no clever euphemisms for death and dying. Give me twelve inches on the nice blind cat and the little old lady who brings it to visit the seniors. Okay?”
Sure. Take everything interesting out of this story completely.
To read this entire excerpt or learn more about the Author, visit Riptide Publishing.
Kris Ripper lives in the great state of California and hails from the
San Francisco Bay Area. Kris shares a converted garage with a toddler, can do
two pull-ups in a row, and can write backwards. (No, really.) Kris is
genderqueer and prefers the z-based pronouns because they’re freaking sweet. Ze
has been writing fiction since ze learned how to write, and boring zir stuffed
animals with stories long before that.
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Congrats on the release & thanks for the excerpt!
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great title and love the blurb
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Thanks for the post and excerpt! Sounds like quite a romp.
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