Many thanks to Andrew Grey for donating an ebook copy of his forthcoming m/m romance, Love Comes Home (Sense #3), for a lucky commenter to win! Love Comes Home will be released by Dreamspinner Press on March 7.

When architect Gregory Hampton’s son, Davey, starts having trouble in Little League, Greg takes him to an eye doctor. The diagnosis hits them hard. Davey’s sight is degenerating rapidly, and eventually he’ll go blind.

Tom Spangler is used to getting what he wants. When Greg captures his attention, he asks Greg for a date. They have a good time until Greg gets a call from the friends watching his son, telling him Davey has fallen. Greg and Tom return to find the worst has happened – Davey can no longer see.

With so much going on in his life, Greg doubts he’ll see Tom again. But Tom has researched beep baseball, where balls and bases make sounds to enable the visually impaired to participate in Little League. Tom spearheads an effort to form a team so Davey can continue to play the game he loves. But when Greg’s ex-wife shows up with her doctor boyfriend, offering a possible cure through a radical procedure, Greg must decide how far he’ll go to give Davey a chance at getting his sight back.

Other Books

• Complete list

About Andrew

Andrew grew up in western Michigan with a father who loved to tell stories and a mother who loved to read them. Since then he has lived throughout the country and traveled throughout the world. He has a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and works in information systems for a large corporation. Andrew’s hobbies include collecting antiques, gardening, and leaving his dirty dishes anywhere but in the sink (particularly when writing). He considers himself blessed with an accepting family, fantastic friends, and the world’s most supportive and loving partner. Andrew currently lives in beautiful, historic Carlisle, Pennsylvania. You can find out more about Andrew and his books at his website and his blog.

Contest Rules

• To enter, leave a comment stating that you are entering the contest. Contest closes 7 pm CST, Thursday, March 6.
• By entering the contest, you’re confirming that you are at least 18 years old.
• If you haven’t commented before, your comment will not be visible until after I moderate it. Please do not leave a second comment because your first doesn’t show up! The blog gnomes will decide your comments are spam and then only ritual dust bunny sacrifice will salvage your entry…
• If your comment is actually an advertisement or if your CommentLuv link turns it into an advertisement, your comment will be deleted. (Most of you do not need to worry – this refers to some pretty clever comment spam.)
• Winners will be selected by random number.
• You must leave a valid email address in the “Email” portion of the comment form.
• Please make sure that your spam filter allows email from stumblingoverchaos.com!
• If a winner doesn’t respond to my congratulations email within 48 hours, I will select another winner.
• If you win, please respect the author’s intellectual property and don’t make copies of the ebook for anyone else.
• This contest is open worldwide!

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

Many thanks to Mary Calmes for donating an ebook copy of her forthcoming m/m romance, Floodgates, for a lucky commenter to win! Floodgates will be released by Dreamspinner Press on March 3.

Tracy Brandt considers himself a lucky man. He has a wonderful family, good friends, and a dependable job. His love life, however, features a cheating ex who, though out of the house, is not yet out of the picture – with a past that just might get Tracy killed.

Homicide inspector Cord Nolan wants nothing more than to show his best friend’s little brother that he’s a reliable man, but to do that he’ll have to get Tracy to look past the player he used to be. It’ll be a tough sell; reputation is everything, and Cord’s is tarnished by his past indiscretions.

Tracy and Cord have spent five years trying to suffocate their fiery attraction under a blanket of grudging antagonism. When Tracy finds himself with a target on his back, Cord finally has the chance to ride to the rescue and break through the dam of Tracy’s reserve. But he’d better be careful: if Cord is breaking the floodgates to wash away the past, he’s going to have to hold tight to Tracy to make sure they’re still standing when the tumult recedes.

Other Books

About Mary

My name is Mary Calmes and I have been writing since I was in the seventh grade. One of my first stories ever was about Demetrius and Konor, two big strapping gorgeous knights and while it was not historically accurate in any way, hello, seventh grade, the one thing that became glaringly obvious was that the guys liked each other more than the damsels in distress they were trying to save.

“Boys don’t sleep in the same bed when they’re grown-ups,” my mother said when I read it to her.

“Men don’t talk nice to each other like that,” my step-father said that night.

They do in m/m fiction which I was destined to write.

I tried really hard to write a female lead but it just left me flat. I read all kinds of different books and I have favorite writers in every genre but I can only write about men. The dynamics between two men are more interesting to me and as a woman, I like men and the idea of two men together, two beautiful men… I don’t understand the question.

When people tell you that they’ve enjoyed something you’ve written, there really is no greater feeling.

Contest Rules

• To enter, leave a comment stating that you are entering the contest. Contest closes 7 pm CST, Monday, March 3.
• By entering the contest, you’re confirming that you are at least 18 years old.
• If you haven’t commented before, your comment will not be visible until after I moderate it. Please do not leave a second comment because your first doesn’t show up! The blog gnomes will decide your comments are spam and then only ritual dust bunny sacrifice will salvage your entry…
• If your comment is actually an advertisement or if your CommentLuv link turns it into an advertisement, your comment will be deleted. (Most of you do not need to worry – this refers to some pretty clever comment spam.)
• Winners will be selected by random number.
• You must leave a valid email address in the “Email” portion of the comment form.
• Please make sure that your spam filter allows email from stumblingoverchaos.com!
• If a winner doesn’t respond to my congratulations email within 48 hours, I will select another winner.
• If you win, please respect the author’s intellectual property and don’t make copies of the ebook for anyone else.
• This contest is open worldwide!

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“I think I might’ve heard a bird, big kitty!!!!” -Mayhem

“Really, Mom? You had to take yet another picture?!” -Chaos

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Congrats to Ninna, who won Almost Mine by Eden Winters!

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Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be catching up with Inexplicably Holding A Spear And Crabby About It Guy (IHASACAIG).

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who feared neither

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I have nothing to say in my defense.

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“Ignoring you and the naughty boys, Mom!” -Mayhem

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Congrats to Penumbra, who won Too Good a Man (Red Dragon #2) by Becky Black!

Congrats to Ninna, who won Almost Mine by Eden Winters!

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Randonymity

• I’d take a picture of the snow to show you, but there’s too much ice on my windows from all the snow and sleet blowing around.

Contest(s)

• Blodeuedd’s giving away a copy of The Secret Kiss of Darkness by Christina Courtenay. Closes February 22.

Bookity

• New releases: Fiction Vixen (UF/romance)

• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.

• “How (not) to lie with statistics“.

• LED clothespin book light.

• Lamps made from old books.

• I shall have to make an effort to visit this TARDIS Little Free Library in the spring.

• Such a serious deficiency should really be addressed. (via The Digital Reader)

• Wow. That’s a very specific definition.

• Fanfiction’s eternal question.

Olympickity

• David Attenborough narrates women’s curling. If you just can’t get enough curling…

• Olympic hockey hugs.

• Figure skaters absorb up to eight times their body weight when they land after a jump.

Think, Do, Learn, Make

• IKEA is discontinuing EXPEDIT, sort of.

• I’m not sure how North Dakota can be the happiest state when it has the highest rents, but there you go.

• “Has humanity produced enough paint to cover the entire land area of the Earth?“

• Facebook’s buying WhatsApp.

• Equipment-free exercise.

• Two minute explanation of the Higgs-Boson particle.

• Bill Nye debates climate change with a climate change denier.

• “Google admits that Google+ was just a ploy to track your behavior online“.

• In today’s episode of obvious things that are obvious, bad weather turns out to be good for online stores.

• A humorous beginner’s guide to hockey. Part 2 – penalties.

Cookity

• Egg-free chocolate chip cookie dough for eating. (via puckling)

• Two-minute chocolate mug cake. (via The Kitchn)

• Roasted lemon pepper Brussels sprouts. (via The Kitchn)

• Vegan chili.

• Creamy Parmesan white bean stew with spicy greens. (via The Kitchn)

• Eggs in a wintry kale and tomato sauce.

• Avgolemono soup. (via The Kitchn)

• Make-ahead roasted vegetable burritos with black beans and rice.

• Baked spaghetti squash carbonara.

• 9 broccoli recipes.

• No-bake fruit and nut bars.

Gluten Free

• Peanut butter chocolate cupcakes. (via The Kitchn)

• Oatmeal breakfast cookies.

• Thanks a Lot “Girl Scout” cookies.

• One-bowl chocolate cake.

• Wonton wrappers and soup.

• Turkey meatballs with Asian-style noodles.

• Salted soft pretzels.

Crafty

• Fold a towel bunny. (via CRAFT)

• Knit some seed stitch mittens or fingerless mitts. (via CRAFT)

Cool

• Gorgeous photo of downtown Minneapolis.

• Giant kaleidoscope.

• Game of Thrones women as Disney characters.

• 2014 Best Picture nominees in LEGO.

• Episodic frequency.

• Yes. Yes they are.

• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• 3D mural of the Game of Thrones Wall. (via The Mary Sue) (I’m getting vertigo just looking at the picture…)

• Official Firefly action figures.

• Star Wars chicken coop.

Wha…?

• Junk mail for cats, sprayed with catnip spray.

• “Mashtags” potato shapes.

• Send smoke signals with your iPhone.

• Kissing practice pillows.

• Fifty Shades of Grey teddy bear. (via The Mary Sue)

• Caffeinated doughnuts from Krispy Kreme.

• Chevron gives town’s residents free pizzas to apologize for an explosion.

LOL

• The cat is me.

• Smart kitty.

• If world history’s just too long and dull for you, this might be what you’re looking for instead.

• Creating a password.

• May has the exact same expression when she’s spying on Chaos!

• Yes, this.

• Are we sure this is a kitten?

• Titanic, the feline version.

Teh Cute

• Black kitten! Baby penguins! Baby bunny! Baby tawny frogmouth! Baby otters! Tamandua and baby! Baby nyala! Jerboa! Baby lion! Tree kangaroo!

Reading Update

• You get one guess…

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“Wait, these are different from the socks that were on the floor last week. What’s going on here?! Has Mom been replaced by an alien?!” -Mayhem

My SIL’s 2014 birthday socks, done three weeks before her birthday!

Many thanks to Kim Dare for donating an ebook copy of her freshly re-released kinky m/m romance, Base Over Apex (Kinky Cupid #2), for a lucky commenter to win!

Please note: This story was previously published under the title Call Me, Sir, Boy! This version has been tweaked and re-edited to become part of the Kinky Cupid series.

It’s Valentine’s at the Spread Eagle leather club, but the only sub Jack’s even spoken to belongs to his best friend, Marcus – and all Bret did was con him into taking a stupid bet. It is not going to be a good Valentine’s night…

The moment Jack sees Ricky walking naked through the bar, he wants him. When Ricky kneels at his feet and offers him the keys to his restraints, it’s obvious that his interest is returned. It might just be the best Valentine’s Jack’s ever had…

Ricky is sweet, and eager to please, and obviously new to leather. He’s the kind of guy who actually makes Jack wonder if “something at first-sight” might really be possible. But, when it suddenly becomes apparent that everything is not what it seems, the only thing Jack knows for sure is that this Valentine’s night is going to get very, very complicated.

Kim’s Other Books

• Total-E-Bound
• Resplendence Publishing
• All Romance Ebooks
• Amber Allure
• Riptide Publishing
• Self-published

About Kim

Kim Dare is a full time writer from Wales (UK).

First published in December 2008, Kim has since released more than 75 BDSM erotic romances. That means that well over one hundred characters have chattered away inside her head during that time – and that’s not even taking into account the fact that there are over three times that number of people clamouring in the wings for a chance to tell their stories. It’s no wonder she loses track of what’s happening in the “real” world at times…

While Kim’s stories range over male/male, male/female and all kinds of menage relationships and have included vampires, time travellers, shape-shifters and fairytale re-tellings, they all have three things in common – kink, love and a happy ending.

You can visit Kim at her website and her blog.

Contest Rules

• To enter, leave a comment stating that you are entering the contest. Contest closes 7 pm CST, Friday, February 28.
• By entering the contest, you’re confirming that you are at least 18 years old.
• If you haven’t commented before, your comment will not be visible until after I moderate it. Please do not leave a second comment because your first doesn’t show up! The blog gnomes will decide your comments are spam and then only ritual dust bunny sacrifice will salvage your entry…
• If your comment is actually an advertisement or if your CommentLuv link turns it into an advertisement, your comment will be deleted. (Most of you do not need to worry – this refers to some pretty clever comment spam.)
• Winners will be selected by random number.
• You must leave a valid email address in the “Email” portion of the comment form.
• Please make sure that your spam filter allows email from stumblingoverchaos.com!
• If a winner doesn’t respond to my congratulations email within 48 hours, I will select another winner.
• If you win, please respect the author’s intellectual property and don’t make copies of the ebook for anyone else.
• This contest is open worldwide!

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“All of you just made my list. You’ll regret that.” -Chaos