Blog Tour + Giveaway: A New Way to Dance by Sean Michael

Sean Michael and IndiGo Marketing host A New Way to Dance blog tour at the clubhouse! The author gives a recipe and hosts a backlist eBook giveaway!

Title: A New Way to Dance

Author: Sean Michael

Publisher: Self-Published

Release Date: June 20, 2017

Heat Level: 4 - Lots of Sex

Pairing: Male/Male

Length: 65,000 Words | 262 Pages

Genre: Contemporary Gay Romance, M/M Romance, BDSM

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Synopsis

Dancer Seth Avery has it all. He’s at the top of his game as a dancer and he’s in love with famous dance director Fayden DelMonaco, the man who is his sub. Seth’s whole world is turned upside down when Fayden dumps him in the nastiest and most public way possible. To compound matters, he’s in near fatal car crash shortly thereafter that leaves him severely injured.

Brook Turner is an ex-lawyer turned micro-brewer, baby-brother of Seth’s best friend Lizzie. The two met briefly before Seth’s accident, but it’s when they meet again six years later that they get a chance to act on the attraction they’d initially felt.

With Brook’s help, Seth begins to heal not only from his residual physical injuries, but also from the emotional ones inflicted by Fayden. Will it be enough to keep the two of them together?

Join Seth and Brooke as they find a new way to dance together.

Excerpt

“Did you see USA Today, man?” Julian plopped down, eyes wide. “Fayden is… Well, he’s not naming names, but…”

Seth looked at one of his oldest friends and arguably the best choreographer he knew and tried not to growl. “I saw.”

He saw. His brother saw. His mom saw. His neighbor. Fayden’s sister. Ernie at the fucking convenience store where he bought his daily diet energy shot saw.

“World-Famous Director Escapes from Abusive Sex-Slave Relationship! Says He Feared for His Life!”

Sex slave.

Christ.

Ten years they’d been together. He’d been nineteen when he’d met Fay. Nineteen and horny and amazed that a man almost twenty years his senior with money and power and the most beautiful eyes on earth would want a dancer in the chorus.

“It’s all lies,” Julian told him. “You should sue him.”

“Just drop it, Jules. It’s no big deal.”

Just a huge, life-changing, world-altering deal.

Julian’s eyebrow went up, the man not saying another word but still speaking volumes.

“What do you want me to say? I… I don’t have anything.” He had an apartment. The cops had let him take his car and computer—after they’d copied the hard drive for evidence.

Evidence.

Christ.

“Honey, I’m on your side here.” Julian hugged him.

“I know. I do. Thank God for that.” Who else would he have called from the jail? His lawyer was Fay’s. His friends were Fay’s. Julian was it. His saving grace.

“Come on out with me tonight. There’s a new bar that we haven’t ever been to—he won’t be there.”

“No. Not yet. I’m not going out right now. I need to recover.” Seth needed his space.

“You need someone to take the bad taste of that asshole out of your mouth,” Julian said.

Seth blinked, then started laughing, deep, full belly laughs that felt so good. God, this sucked so hard. “I caught him with another man. That new dancer. Dylan.”

Dylan was nineteen now. Ah, the irony.

“Shit, he’s old enough to be that boy’s grandfather!”

“Yeah. Well, you know…” Seth was going to lie down and die, simple as that. Okay, he wasn’t, but he was going to pretend to, mentally.

“You think we should warn Dylan what a predator asshole he is?”

“Poor, innocent, victimized Fay?” He shrugged. “You wait. I’ll stop getting jobs soon.” It was inevitable.

Julian shook his head. “That’s not fair.” Seth noticed that his friend didn’t say it wasn’t going to happen.

“Life’s not fair. I have to work out and head home. I have an audition for a music video in the morning.” Hopefully he’d make a good impression. It would be good to put some money in the bank before the jobs started drying up.

Julian hugged Seth tight. “If there’s anything I can do, honey…”

“I love you, honest. Maybe we’ll meet for brunch on Sunday? Somewhere new?” Somewhere the paparazzi and Fayden wouldn’t be.

“You got it. Text me the deets.”

“Absolutely.” He grabbed his coffee and headed out of the little coffee shop outside of the studio he’d rehearsed in most of his adult life.

He was going to lose that too, he’d bet. Everything was going to just disappear because Fay had decided to trade him in for a younger model and was doing it in the nastiest way possible. Seth could feel everyone staring at him, could hear people talking about him.

He couldn’t stand it anymore and it was only going to get worse.

“Hey. Seth. I…” Lizzie Bean came up, took his arm, the leggy dancer as tall as he was. They’d worked together a hundred times at least. “I don’t know what to say except that I love you, man, and people suck.”

He made this weird half-tickled, half-surprised sound. “They totally do. God, they do.”

“Come have supper with us? Mel is grilling chicken.”

Mel was an amazing cook. And it was tempting, being with people who wouldn’t look at him like he was a monster.

“Please. Come on. You look exhausted and I promise to just feed you foods with no real calories and ply you with wine.” She put her hand on his arm. “Please.”

“God, you’re so demanding.” Seth nodded, though, found a smile. “Let’s go.”

She beamed at him and slid her hand into the crook of his elbow when they started to walk. Lizzie and Mel lived not that far from the studio in a converted loft with the most amazing roof garden full of potted trees and flowering plants and several large raised areas where they grew vegetables.

Mel was big into farm-to-table cooking and tried to grow as much of his own produce as he could.

Lizzie told him a story about one of Mel’s nephews—the man had far too many nieces and nephews to keep track of—who had gotten a skateboard for his birthday and become the terror of the neighborhood.

Seth tried to laugh in all the right places. Every so often he’d catch sight of himself in a window, just the barest hint, and he’d sigh. He’d really thought Fay was his Mr. Right. They’d been into the same things, the chemistry had been off the charts, they were uber-compatible in bed…

Author Visit

Thank you to Boy Meets Boy Reviews for hosting me today.

In A New Way to Dance, Brook loves pairing his beers with specific dishes. One of his favorites is wings and he does a mean homemade wing dish in the book.

I admit that I don’t drink beer often, but wings do sort of call for it. Wings are amazing things – nuggets of flavor that you can’t eat without getting your hands either greasy or saucy. I prefer my wings crispy (or as crispy as they can be with sauce on them!) and I usually do them in the air fryer, but here’s a great recipe for wings baked in the oven instead of fried. I’m going to have to try these.

INGREDIENTS

Buffalo sauce:

1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted

1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

1/4 cup hot pepper sauce (such as Frank's)

Wings:

5 pounds chicken wings, tips removed, drumettes and flats separated

2 tablespoons vegetable oil

1 tablespoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

PREPARATION

For buffalo sauce:

Mix first 4 ingredients in a medium bowl; let stand for 5 minutes. Whisk in hot sauce; keep warm.

DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 week ahead. Let cool completely; cover and chill. Rewarm before using.

For wings:

Preheat oven to 400°F. Set a wire rack inside each of 2 large rimmed baking sheets. Place all ingredients in a large bowl; toss to coat. Divide wings between prepared racks and spread out in a single layer.

Bake wings until cooked through and skin is crispy, 45–50 minutes.

Toss wings in Buffalo sauce. Serve immediately.

(recipe from http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/crispy-baked-chicken-wings-388693)

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Exclusive Excerpt:

When Rocky Horror was over, Brook switched to cable and went through the TV channels until he found something to watch. He didn’t want to wake Seth—the man looked like he could use the sleep.

Brook had been shocked when he’d realized it was Seth. Gaunt and somewhat haunted, Seth looked like the years had taken their toll.

The years, or maybe the very nasty, very public break-up and the terrible accident.

He’d heard about it, of course, well after he’d had the pleasure of meeting the man in person. Everyone in the lifestyle had, with people coming down on either side of the fence on whether Seth Avery was evil incarnate or just looking to destroy the lifestyle single-handedly.

Brook knew there was more to the story. If Seth had been honestly abusing his lover, there’d have been an arrest, a trial.

And then the wreck. God. Lizzie had cried some, but he’d… well, he hadn’t really known Seth. Their paths had crossed again now. He wasn’t going to turn away from that. The blond hair was severely short now, the blue eyes piercing.

There was something about the man that drew him, even more strongly now than it had before.

Seth woke with a shiver, blinking. “Oh. Oh, good lord. Look at me. Sorry, man.”

“That’s okay. It’s nice to know you’re comfortable here.” He smiled and put his arm around Seth’s shoulders. “You cold?”

“No. It’s incredibly pleasant in here.” Seth didn’t tense, just took a deep breath. “Still, it’s incredibly rude to just conk out on someone.”

“Eh. I had the movie to watch. And honestly, you looked a little beat.”

“End of a long week. I’m still learning the whole teaching gig.”

Brook nodded, the urge to lean in and kiss Seth huge. He’d been attracted to Seth that first meeting, the chemistry between them perfectly delicious.

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Meet the Author

Often referred to as “Space Cowboy” and “Gangsta of Love” while still striving for the moniker of “Maurice,” Sean Michael spends his days surfing, smutting, organizing his immense gourd collection and fantasizing about one day retiring on a small secluded island peopled entirely by horseshoe crabs. While collecting vast amounts of vintage gay pulp novels and mood rings, Sean whiles away the hours between dropping the f-bomb and pursuing the kama sutra by channeling the long lost spirit of John Wayne and singing along with the soundtrack to “Chicago.”

A long-time writer of complicated haiku, currently Sean is attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate spinning and soap carving sex toys.

Barring any of that? He’ll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark.

Sean’s available for interviews, by the way. He can always be talked into, well talking about himself. Just drop him an email.