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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 86th (The Return of Tie Guy Two)

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Congrats to Tracy W, who won In His Hero’s Shadow (EMS Heat #10) by Stephani Hecht! In His Hero’s Shadow is being released today by eXtasy Books.

Congrats to Majken, who won the Cross Bones anthology, courtesy of Piper Vaughn and M.J. O’Shea! Cross Bones is being released today by Dreamspinner Press.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be catching up with Tie Guy Two. 🙂

, Dalton, got all

in

when he asked

of

, his friendly neighborhood

. Poor Raven was somewhat distracted by

to his

, but figured it was better than Dalton’s previous obsession with

… and he didn’t want to even think about Dalton’s attempts to use

to achieve

while working at

last year. “

” yelled Raven, hoping to distract Dalton with some

and

“It’s definitely time for one of our

, Dalton. In fact,

…”

Hmm. I wonder what happened next… 😉

“This is what I think of you, naughty boys!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 85th (BSUG)

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Congrats to Maya, who won Ashton and Justice by Stephani Hecht! Ashton and Justice was released by Amber Allure on August 7.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be meeting Blank Stare Updo Guy (BSUG). Keep an eye out for three other Misadventures guys, too!

was to agree to be

after being part of

. He figured it was an

to spend*

time

if he wanted to (even if the butterflies

), but how could he have predicted the

would be

after he jumped out of

and yelled, “

!”?

Really, who could have predicted that?!? 🙂

*Nope, that isn’t how “prerogative” should be spelled. Whoops!

“I don’t want to see any more naughty boys!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 84th (MUMMCHG Rides Yet Again)

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Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be catching up with My Underwear Matches My Cowboy Hat Guy (MUMMCHG) again. Guess what? The model, Jeandre, commented on the two previous MUMMCHG posts – and pointed out that he was 20 when the photos were taken, not 15. 🙂

Across the

, doing the

in his special

and yelling, “

in time! You only have

before that

goes off in

! Then I’ll be

by taking

away from him.”

Well, that doesn’t seem very nice at all, does it?!! O.o

“My name is Mayhem and I disapprove of this post, and of naughty boys in general.” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 83rd (BBFHG)

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Apologies to anyone who was worried or disoriented by Friday’s linkity post going live at 3 pm CDT instead of its usual 2 am CDT! I typoed when I hit publish Thursday evening, then had no idea there was a problem until I got home Friday evening after helping my brother and sister-in-law move all day. Whoops.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be meeting Bleached Blond Fabio Hair Guy (BBFHG). Many thanks to PD Singer for sending me the first few pictures of him! 🙂

Although he would’ve preferred to be

, BBFHG was forced to traverse

to get to the

to buy

from the

in order to satisfy his

after he’d been

when trying to

. Soon after, in the

,

the

, leaving BBFHG

after

. *blink blink blink*

Huh.

“A naughty boy with bad hair – why do you make me suffer so?!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 82nd (The Return of Everywhere Guy)

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Congrats to Renee, who won Dark Sun by M.J. O’Shea!

Congrats to Julie, who won In the Shadow of a Hero by Anna Mayle!

Congrats to Amy, who won the Tea and Crumpet anthology, donated by Clare London!

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography, in which we’ll be catching up with Everywhere Guy (aka Jimmy Thomas). Today’s Misadventure will once again focus on his covers from a single publisher, albeit a different publisher than that of his previous Misadventure. 🙂

It was

and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a

…but

was

about having to host

for

(

!) and the

who had found the

in

on

by arriving

to confront the

about his

for a

who had provided

that allowed him to be

.

I’m strangely out of breath after writing that one-sentence Misadventure… I hope no one tried to read it out loud! 😉

“Words fail me, Mom.” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 81st (UYWHEG)

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Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be meeting Undressing You With His Eyes Guy (UYWHEG).

set UYWHEG on a

with his

, who demanded more

(

, of course) before they left the

at the

to get ready for

because the

of

and

.

, they accepted the vampire’s

, wondering what sort of

he was hiding behind

and

, knowing they would not have to wait

for answers…

“MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM! How could you leave that poor spotty kitty up there surrounded by naughty boys!?!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 80th (SOBJG returns for the 8th time)

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Congrats to Midia, who won Static by L.A. Witt! Static was released over the weekend by Amber Allure.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll catch up a bit with Slouching Open Black Jacket Guy (SOBJG). He’s always so busy – this really is the eighth post featuring him! (And if today’s Misadventure seems a bit short, it’s because I limited it to a single pose.)

was

and he played it with

,

to get hot tips. This led

cre Vil to refer to him as

, then to claim he had a

because his

stole her

. Um…

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 79th (The Return of YCDYLOMWAG)

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Congrats to Marie A, who won Just-You Eyes by Clare London!

Congrats to Kerstin, who won Deefur Dog by RJ Scott! Deefur Dog was released by Silver Publishing on Saturday.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Let’s catch up with You Can Do Your Laundry on My Washboard Abs Guy (YCDYLOMWAG), shall we? (How many other Misadventures guys can you identify in this post? There are a lot!)

,

and

for

, went to visit

to complain about the

, who had knocked Romeo and Julies out with a

, then stolen

and taken it to

, where

it!

Alas, the Love God’s response was too cryptic to be useful. He told them that when you’re

to be at the

, you’d better be prepared to

on your

when things get

in

. Huh. Since there was a

, Romeo and Julius decided to

to see if they could extract

from

. Whew!!

“Noooooooo! The big kitty lied to me! He said there really weren’t any naughty boys last week!! But there is so much naughtiness!!!” -Mayhem

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 78th (Haughty Blond Guy)

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Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be meeting Haughty Blond Guy. Brace yourselves – he’s completely clothed in every photo. 😮 (And remember, you can always hover your mouse cursor over the covers to see the title as used in the story!)

If

, the

will be very disappointed. They were hoping he’d be sold

, or that they could win him for

from the

r in

. Since they weren’t willing to risk

, one said to the other, “

– our

plan can still work if we seduce the

, using every trick of

that we know… unless

shows up to tell us that we’re

and out of

.” The end. Huh. I promise abs next week! 😉

“Thanks a lot, Mom. May’s on strike now – something about naughty boys? These boys don’t look very naughty to me.” -Chaos

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Misadventures in Stock Photography: Part the 77th (The return of MCSIBTYG)

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Congrats to Kate, who won The Love of a Mate (Pack Discipline #4) by Kim Dare! The Love of a Mate is being released today by Total-E-Bound.

Welcome to another edition of the Misadventures in Stock Photography! Today we’ll be catching up with My Cup Size Is Bigger Than Yours Guy (MCSIBTYG) – you’ll notice that the cover artists still love to mess with the poor guy’s hair. Keep an eye out for the cover where he has leopard pox on his belly! And wave at WiHG when you see him. 😉

to

all the time, claiming that he understands their

, without revealing even a hint of his

to invade

of their

at

and abduct both the

and the

from their

. Instead, he speaks of his

their cause, never mentioning his fantasies

or of how he craves forcing a

to have

.

Oh my. That took a dark turn or three, didn’t it?! 😮

“No! Not more naughty boys! Argghh!” -Mayhem