Many thanks to Kay Berrisford for donating a signed paperback copy of her kinky paranormal historical, Bound to the Beast (The Greenwood), for a lucky commenter to win!

England, 1588. When a fairy betrothal ritual goes wrong, village lad Tam is bonded to Herne the Hunter. Warrior, legend, and Greenwood spirit, Herne once led the terrifying Wild Hunt, an army of the undead who rode as harbingers of doom. When his passions are stirred and his blood is up, Herne sports the antlers of a mighty stag.

Herne could be the lover Tam secretly craves, but Herne’s past makes him fear the brooding warrior will enslave or kill him. While Herne admires Tam’s toughness and humor, he has rejected love – as he has sworn off leading the Wild Hunt – and wishes only for solitude. To break their betrothal, they must travel into the Greenwood, a realm of magic and bondage where their desires for each other grow dangerously irresistible, and the Wild Hunt bays for their blood.

As the threat rises, Herne’s mastery and compassion realize Tam’s darkest sexual fantasies. Soon he’s no longer fighting for his freedom, wishing to be bound to the beast forever. But can Herne’s tortured heart be reawakened? And if so, will their love destroy them both, or prove Herne the Hunter’s greatest weapon?

Excerpt

A post from Kay about Herne the Hunter

Also by Kay

• Bound for the Forest and Lord of the Forest
• Catching Kit
• Simon, Sex, and the Solstice Stone
• Prisoner of the Mountain Watch

About Kay

Kay is a freelance historical researcher, who realized it was even more entertaining to make stories up and add a ton of fantasy, sex and BDSM fun. She loves writing stories set in any time and place where she can indulge her love for research while imagining two hot guys getting it on, but has a particular passion for fairies and English folklore. Her first novel, Bound for the Forest, was published by Loose Id in September 2011.

She lives in Hampshire, UK, with her beloved “other half” Chris. When they aren’t both madly working, they enjoy drinking wine, visiting castles and gorgeous countryside, and stalking cats and greenfinches.

You can find out more about Kay and her books at her website, blog, Twitter, and Facebook.

Contest Rules

• To enter, leave a comment stating that you are entering the contest. Contest closes 7 pm CDT, Friday, May 17.
• 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.
• This contest is open worldwide!

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“Why, yes, I AM very comfortable right now.” -Mayhem

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Congrats to AlbertaGirl, who won Brainy and the Beast by JM Cartwright!

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Many thanks to Kim Dare for donating an ebook copy of her forthcoming kinky m/m romance, Virgin Territory, for a lucky commenter to win! Virgin Territory will be released May 13 by All Romance eBooks.

Danny may be a virgin, but that’s not all he is…

When a fellow dom points Aaron in the direction of the new guy visiting in their local leather bar, there are a lot of things that draw him to Danny. One of those things is the rumor that Danny is a virgin in terms of leather, guy-on-guy action, and even in so far as his experience with girls. Add to that the fact that Danny is hot as hell and knows how to throw down a challenge, and Aaron is helpless to resist.

Danny knew as soon as he laid eyes on Aaron that he wanted him. He’s not going to let a little thing like complete inexperience get in his way. He survived his best friend drunkenly admitting their virginity to the entire club on their first night there, but that doesn’t mean he likes the way people have treated him, or the assumptions they’ve made about him since that night.

Can a virgin handle coming face to face with a serious and experienced dom? Maybe the real question is, can the dom handle the virgin?

Kim’s Other Books

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

About Kim

Kim Dare is a twenty-eight year old full time writer from Wales (UK).

First published in December 2008, Kim has since released 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 CDT, Tuesday, May 14.
• 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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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

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Congrats to Paula S, who won Soul Magic (Triad #3) by Poppy Dennison! Soul Magic is being released today by Dreamspinner Press.

Congrats to Dianna, who won A Sticky Wicket in Bollywood by Devon Rhodes and TA Chase! A Sticky Wicket in Bollywood is being released today by Total-E-Bound.

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Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be checking in to see what Baddest Santa Guy‘s been up to. (I really didn’t want to believe this was Baddest Santa Guy, nor that the covers without a jacket were the same guy as the covers with a jacket, but… the hairline and the underwear line say otherwise.) (Don’t forget you can hover your cursor over the covers to see the title text as used in the Misadventure!)

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It’s a shame I can’t get a job as a run-on sentence writer…

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“There’s really no hope for Mom, is there? Alas…” -Mayhem

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Congrats to Paula S, who won Soul Magic (Triad #3) by Poppy Dennison! Soul Magic will be released by Dreamspinner Press on May 6.

Congrats to Dianna, who won A Sticky Wicket in Bollywood by Devon Rhodes and TA Chase! A Sticky Wicket in Bollywood will be released by Total-E-Bound on May 6.

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Randonymity

• Today’s song from the Chris playlist: “Minneapolis” by Mark Mallman.

• Chaos’ favorite toy at the moment is… a leaf of romaine lettuce. Please let me remember to find it before it starts to rot under the couch…

• My absolute favorite gluten-free, dairy-free bread for toast is Kinnikinnick Sunflower Flax Rice Bread, which isn’t carried in my area anymore… but I  can order 10 loaves of it shipped overnight from Kinnickinnick Foods in Canada for less per loaf than I was buying it for locally. *blink blink*

Contests

• Joyfully Jay is giving away an ebook copy of The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men by Eric Arvin. Closes 11:59 pm EDT, May 5.

• Joyfully Jay is also giving away an ebook copy of Until Forever Comes by Cardeno C. Closes 11:50 pm EDT, May 15.

Bookity

• New releases and more: Rarely Dusty Books (m/m romance), Elisa Rolle (LGBT), Tor.com (fantasy, UF, genre benders, scifi), and Fiction Vixen (romance, UF).

• Book and publishing news from Dear Author.

• One reader reveals why she’s come to hate erotic romance.

• May at Smexy Books would like authors to share their intentions with readers.

• War for the Oaks is probably my favorite book set in Minneapolis.

• CheapRiver searches the various international iterations of Amazon to find you the best price for paper books.

• Authors behaving badly – the Anne Rice edition.

• Infographic about public libraries.

• Beware the library!

• Cool bookshelf… but way too undersized.

Ebookity

• Tor Books UK shares the results of a year going DRM-free.

• The future of the book/ebook?

Think, Learn, Do, Make

• 10 names for various baby animals.

• I had no idea about “America’s growing hummus addiction”… nor that sriracha wasn’t introduced in the US until the 1980s. (via The Kitchn)

• Apparently, ground turkey is less likely to contain drug-resistant bacteria when it’s from antibiotic-free turkeys.

• “What hurts more: child birth or a kick in the balls?”

• “Turn an IKEA lamp into a multi-positional iPad holder”.

• 17 unusual May holidays.

• If there’s not enough procrastination in this linkity post for you, mental_floss has more ideas.

Cookity

• Chocolate bourbon-spiked banana bread. (via The Kitchn)

• Rhubarb crumble pie.

• Creamy coconut lemon squares. (via The Kitchn)

• Crunchy chili-lime quicos.

• Asian peanut noodle salad. (via The Kitchn)

• Thai hot and sour chicken soup. (via The Kitchn)

• Baked halibut with chimicurri.

• Pork tenderloin in tangy tomatillo sauce.

• 11 recipes for Cinco de Mayo.

• 10 Dutch oven dinners.

• Coconut, ginger, and cilantro cocktail.

Gluten-Free

• Gluten-free rhubarb coconut honey tart.

• Gluten-free almond butter chocolate chip cookies. (via The Kitchn)

• Gluten-free churros con chocolate.

• Oaxacan cinnamon chocolate macaraoons. (Thanks, Margene!)

• Red quinoa and cranberry salad.

• Green chile chicken casserole.

• Gluten-free quinoa burgers.

Crafty

• Crochet your own faux taxidermy deer butt. (via CRAFT)

• Knit a simple tote bag. (via CRAFT)

Cool

• 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs opening montage.

• Hockey linkity from Hockeypedia.

• Ice chandeliering on the shore of Medicine Lake (right by where I work).

• Star Wars characters as if they were from Chinese folklore.

• Enterprise, the Transformer edition. (via The Mary Sue)

• A map of the TARDIS.

• “On the matter of Bronies”.

• LEGO Polaroid camera.

• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Walking Dead cross stitch for a newborn… (via The Mary Sue)

• Binder clip bag.

• Highlighter with a see-through tip.

• I am strangely unsurprised that this meat/cheese/Bloody Mary spectacle can be found in Wisconsin.

• A mayor in Iceland voted in the national elections… dressed as a Jedi.

• Iron Man flash drive.

• Decaying city of bread.

Wha…?

• House fire started by a dog’s water bowl?!

• Batman car seat.

• A giant head was found in the Hudson River. (via Tor.com)

• Shirt that can be worn 100 days without being washed.

LOL

• Well duh.

• Yeah, I’ve heard that one before…

• Pretty much… except Chaos, ever hopeful for food.

• What’s you cat name?

• Lord of the Cats.

• Obama’s the sassiest president.

• Wil Wheaton and Nathan Fillion…

Teh Cute

• Kittens! Kittens! Kittens! Kittens! Kittens! Lioness and baby! Tiger and baby! Cheetah and baby! Black jaguar! Tiger and baby! Kitten! Baby lions! Kittens! Baby tiger! Baby wolf! Black kitten! Porcupette! Kitten!

Reading Update

• Look! Up in the sky!

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“Don’t make me any crabbier. You won’t like it when I’m crabbier.” -Chaos

Many thanks to Mary Calmes for donating an ebook copy of her forthcoming m/m romance, Still, for a lucky commenter to win! Still will be released by Dreamspinner Press on May 15.

What happens when two men who have been together for seventeen years fall out of love? Sivan Cruz, a set director in San Francisco, and Walter Wainwright, a big shot Bay Area lawyer, find out the hard way. Walter loves Sivan with all his heart but rarely talks about it, and Sivan needs to hear the words. The language of the love they have shared for so long, that has enabled them to build a life together and raise two children, stops working. They become – still.

When Sivan asks for a divorce, Walter doesn’t know how to say no. They separate, but while Sivan sees the relationship as over, Walter sees only a temporary setback. He has never lost his passion for Sivan and decides he has to say something before he ends up loving his husband in silence for the rest of his life.

Excerpt (scroll down and expand)

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 CDT, Tuesday, May 14.
• 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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“No one understands me like you do, wastebasket.” -Mayhem