mark@marktreble.com
The Men of Carolina, a 450-page story of a gay man's search for love, is ready for beta reading. I'll pay you to read it and let me know what you think.
Did You Ever See Allegro?, a 250-page story of a fictional 1969-1970 college garage band, should be ready by mid-October for beta reading. Let me know if you're interested in being paid to read it and give a reaction.
Thanks!
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Monday, September 19, 2016
Looking for names for children for Life Creates
mark@marktreble.com
Life Creates, volume three of the Life Stories series, will feature two births to different characters. In Taunting we learn that Ethan and Carly are expecting. I have tentatively named their girl child Kimberly. Another couple will have a child, and I'm leaning toward a boy. Anybody have any ideas about names?
Thanks
Life Creates, volume three of the Life Stories series, will feature two births to different characters. In Taunting we learn that Ethan and Carly are expecting. I have tentatively named their girl child Kimberly. Another couple will have a child, and I'm leaning toward a boy. Anybody have any ideas about names?
Thanks
Friday, September 9, 2016
Highly-Rated "Life Struggles" is on a two-day free promorion worldwide
mark@marktreble.com
Life Struggles, the highly-rated Mystery/Thriller, is available for free on Amazon Kindle until September 11, 2016.
US Review: A fun, entertaining book! 2 Mar. 2016
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016FL9KB2
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B016FL9KB2
UK Review: Nail biting and full of wit
Life Struggles, the highly-rated Mystery/Thriller, is available for free on Amazon Kindle until September 11, 2016.
US Review: A fun, entertaining book! 2 Mar. 2016
By Kimberly VanOver - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Kindle Edition
Very entertaining! Filled with a cast of very likable characters. Alex is your not so typical, trouble making teenager, and his step father Ethan seems to manage even when you think he is not going to make it through! This book has a great sub-plot story line as well.
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016FL9KB2
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B016FL9KB2
UK Review: Nail biting and full of wit
By 4personnen on 27 Oct. 2015
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
The book is fully packed with action, humor and naughty scenes, so packed that sometimes I wished more insight were given on a particular event. But I had great fun reading it, and honestly, the plot becomes better as you read it. Some scenes are a bit unsettling and maybe unnecessarily graphic, so beware, but overall a very good book, with great characters you'd like to meet. I am waiting for the second book of the series, as the last scene left me shiver with anticipation. Well recommended.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
A select group of readers will receive a free book
mark@marktreble.com
Readers of Daron's Guitar Chronicles (www.daron.ceciliatan.com) will soon be able to receive a free pre-publication copy of The Men of Carolina, a 450-page erotic tale of a gay man's search for love. We're juggling publication dates, and there are four books ahead of it in the queue.
Daron's Guitar Chronicles is the best coming of age story I have ever read. It's a web serial, and I'll warn you now: it's addictive.
Readers of Daron's Guitar Chronicles (www.daron.ceciliatan.com) will soon be able to receive a free pre-publication copy of The Men of Carolina, a 450-page erotic tale of a gay man's search for love. We're juggling publication dates, and there are four books ahead of it in the queue.
Daron's Guitar Chronicles is the best coming of age story I have ever read. It's a web serial, and I'll warn you now: it's addictive.
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Looking for Paid Beta Readers
mark@marktreble.com
I need paid beta readers for two completed drafts. E-mail me if interested.
Finding Each Other, Volume Two of the Finding Series. 62K words, 166 pages. Bromance.
I need paid beta readers for two completed drafts. E-mail me if interested.
A beta reader is a non-professional reader who reads a written work, generally fiction, with the intent of looking over the material to make suggestions to improve the story, its characters, or its setting. Beta reading is typically done before the story is released for public consumption. Beta readers are not explicitly proofreaders or editors.
Elements highlighted by beta readers encompass things such as plot holes, problems with continuity, characterisation or believability; in fiction and non-fiction.
Straight Mike and gay Luke
explore what they want from their relationship, and why. Luke has reason to
avoid commitment, while Mike has reason to want it. The casual attitude toward
sex of many in the gay community – including some of Luke’s friends – causes
panic for Mike. He wants someone close to whom he can demonstrate affection,
pure and simple. It’s OK to hug and hold hands. What about kissing? What about
the petrifying potential for more? Sex is rarely far from the surface, but
can’t be allowed to break through. Mike wants a friend, a close friend, maybe
even a boyfriend. Luke would be thrilled to have a boyfriend, if he just
weren’t so scared – and scared with good reason.
This story overlaps with Life Struggles and the characters
and actions move between the two stories. We get glimpses of the Decadence
festival in New Orleans and see a few of the events from the perspective of
on-lookers, and occasionally of participants. The sexual energy of Decadence
interferes with the more important needs for love and affection.
Some things are simply not meant to be understood easily, if
ever. In the immortal words of Luke’s nephew, Alex, “Explain it? I can’t
explain television.”
Finding Closure, Volume Three of the Findig Series. 85K words, 232 pages. Bromance.
This story overlaps with both Taunting and Life Continues. The
characters and actions move between and among the stories. We see flashes of a
dysfunctional relationship, snippets of a complex murder investigation, and
realize that life itself makes a mess of any attempt to find and keep love.
The men take their relationship on the road to the South
Pacific where Mike is advising a small island nation on infrastructure and job
development, while Luke finds inspiration for his art. They struggle with the
meaning of love, sex, relationships, life and many other things that each finds
strange in his own way.
Mike’s need for affection meets Luke’s unwillingness to
accept it. Both struggle with norms and expectations, grappling with the issues
separately and together. Finding love is never easy. Do they?
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Tentative Schedule for Releases
mark@marktreble.com
There are several new books that should be available before the end of the year in the Amazon Kindle Store.
All three volumes of the Finding Series, a bromance between a straight man and a gay man, will be published simultaneously in December, along with their companion novellas, each written by the narrator's puppy, Emgee.
Volume One, Finding Friendship, tells the story of Mike (straight man, narrator) meeting and establishing a close friendship with Luke (gay man). It will contain instructions on how to get a free copy of Emgee Adtopts A Pet.
Volume Two, Finding Each Other, tells the story of a deepening relationship, and explores the issues and baggage each brings to the relationship. One of the least important is their different sexual orientations. It will contain instructions on how to get a free copy of Emgee Saves The Farm.
Volume Three, Finding Closure, examines the many ways in which each of the men can bring pain to the other and to the relationship, and the work and dedication needed to repair the bromance. It will contain instructions on how to get a free copy of Emgee Saves The World.
Did You Ever See Allegro, the story of a college garage band in 1969 and 1970, takes the reader behind the scene in organizing and running a rock band. It looks at the music industry at that time, and how it exploited young and inexperienced performers. It gives you a peek behind the curtain for a look at performances from the band members' perspectives. And it lets you watch as the band, a flash-in-the-pan success, shared most such bands' fate byfolding ignominiously.
The book follows the six members of the band for several decades after it folded, and the reader will leaarn how fourteen short months in the long lives of its members shaped their work, relationships and attitudes, for the rest of their lives.
Two other books are scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2017:
The Women of New England tells the tale of a young woman in distress. She just started her law career, and somebody's trying to kill her. Thrills, chills, action and plot twists.
The Men of Carolina follows a young gay man's fourteen year search for love. Caution: Some material may not be suitable for minors.
There are several new books that should be available before the end of the year in the Amazon Kindle Store.
All three volumes of the Finding Series, a bromance between a straight man and a gay man, will be published simultaneously in December, along with their companion novellas, each written by the narrator's puppy, Emgee.
Volume One, Finding Friendship, tells the story of Mike (straight man, narrator) meeting and establishing a close friendship with Luke (gay man). It will contain instructions on how to get a free copy of Emgee Adtopts A Pet.
Volume Two, Finding Each Other, tells the story of a deepening relationship, and explores the issues and baggage each brings to the relationship. One of the least important is their different sexual orientations. It will contain instructions on how to get a free copy of Emgee Saves The Farm.
Volume Three, Finding Closure, examines the many ways in which each of the men can bring pain to the other and to the relationship, and the work and dedication needed to repair the bromance. It will contain instructions on how to get a free copy of Emgee Saves The World.
Did You Ever See Allegro, the story of a college garage band in 1969 and 1970, takes the reader behind the scene in organizing and running a rock band. It looks at the music industry at that time, and how it exploited young and inexperienced performers. It gives you a peek behind the curtain for a look at performances from the band members' perspectives. And it lets you watch as the band, a flash-in-the-pan success, shared most such bands' fate byfolding ignominiously.
The book follows the six members of the band for several decades after it folded, and the reader will leaarn how fourteen short months in the long lives of its members shaped their work, relationships and attitudes, for the rest of their lives.
Two other books are scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2017:
The Women of New England tells the tale of a young woman in distress. She just started her law career, and somebody's trying to kill her. Thrills, chills, action and plot twists.
The Men of Carolina follows a young gay man's fourteen year search for love. Caution: Some material may not be suitable for minors.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Taunting five-star-rated mystery, goes on Amazon Kindle countdown August 12 at 11:00 a.m. on Friday August 12
mark@marktreble.com
Taunting, five-star-rated mystery, goes on a countdown deal on Amazon Kindle at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, August 16. Regularly $2.99, it will be available for $0.99 until 11:00 a.m. on August 15, then for $1.99 until 7:00 p.m. on August 19.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AB1W9LU#nav-subnav
Somebody is killing the elderly members of New Orleans’ venerable Martyrs’ Episcopal Church. Are bigots targeting the church for holding gay weddings? Are activists targeting the church because its priest wants to preach instead of politicize, and minister instead of marching? Or, perhaps it’s because the church’s congregation has shrunk while the value of its land has skyrocketed.
Taunting, five-star-rated mystery, goes on a countdown deal on Amazon Kindle at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, August 16. Regularly $2.99, it will be available for $0.99 until 11:00 a.m. on August 15, then for $1.99 until 7:00 p.m. on August 19.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AB1W9LU#nav-subnav
Somebody is killing the elderly members of New Orleans’ venerable Martyrs’ Episcopal Church. Are bigots targeting the church for holding gay weddings? Are activists targeting the church because its priest wants to preach instead of politicize, and minister instead of marching? Or, perhaps it’s because the church’s congregation has shrunk while the value of its land has skyrocketed.
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