GayRomLit in New Orleans is fast approaching. The dates are October 13 to 16, two weeks from now, and if you haven’t registered you just might be out of 
luck. But never say never, Ethan Day says he’ll share his suite with you (yes, I said suite not room) 🙂 if you’re willing to perform certain duties. NO … not those, he has people to rub his feet and massage his shoulders – it’s the in-between stuff that could win you a free place under his sheets. :blush: :diablogrin:
GRL organizers: Amanda Young – Carol Lynne – Ethan Day – JP Bowie – Lynn Lorenz, together with other volunteers, have been working hard behind the scenes to make this the most fun event you ever attended. How could they miss? Ethan is offering to share his bed; Damon Suede says he’ll wear his kilt and he promises to go commando (you can peek to keep him honest) :eazy: and Lynn Lorenz promises to buy everyone free drinks :drinkin: Amanda and Jim haven’t told me what body part they will be sacrificing but they say it’s going to rock your socks.
Best of all here’s the BIG NEWS, something everyone can enjoy. There will be a wonderful Scavenger Hunt organized by the GRL fans at Goodreads, and here are the details:
§ All GRL attendees can join Scavenger Hunt in which players look for 17 AUTHORS.
§ REGISTRATION BAGS will contain clue sheet and empty bracelet for all GRL attendees so they can join in.
§ Players solve gay romance RIDDLES (clues/anagrams) to identify the authors.
§ Authors are a MIX of beloved bestsellers and newer names.
§ Players collect BEADS for their bracelet from each author, building a “European” bracelet.
The organizers iof the Scavenger Hunt say there are more RAFFLE PRIZES at the end.
This will be a lot of fun and a perfect icebreaker as well as the cherry on top of those free drinks that Lynn will be buying. 😆
Keep those sheets clean Ethan, and Damon please wear your cock sock – the extra large knitted ones you requested I send you. :biglove:
WWhhhaaaaaa….I wanna go sooooo bad! Hope you all have a wonderful time! But we also want a full report on what goes on between Ethan’s sheets And pics of Damon in his kilt (up skirt if ya gotta!) 😯
The guys and gals will miss you but you can still share in the fun on Ethan’s sheets – someone promised to take pics. As for Damon, maybe, just maybe he won’t wear even the socks. Who knows?????? 😯
This sounds like uber fun!! I love solving riddles/puzzles and I’m going to NOLA with a friend on Oct. 5th and we’re of course attending GRL 🙂
Hi Leontine
If you’re going you have to promise to send back pictures so that we can post them on the site. Looking forward to them. 😀
I’ve got about 8 GB in SD cards for me to fill with pictures. I think I can shoot to my hearts content ^^
OH, I am soooo jealous! I wanted to go so badly but it is over my 15 year anniversary and hubby is not quite that understanding! (plus talk about sex versus the real thing…) hopefully next year. Have fun everyone!
jayhjay
You could have taken your husband with you to GRL. I’m sure he would have had a great time with the gay boyz. 😆 :blush:
I’m so excited! I can’t wait and this sounds like such a fun thing!!! 🙂 I know I’ll be taking TONS of pictures. 😀
Jambrea
Be sure to upskirt Damon. He may or may not be wearing his cock sock. Ethan also promised to do a spread but I don’t know what kind. 😕 Jim says he’s up for anything, and other than free drinks from Lynn I know she and Amanda are a lot of fun.
Talk about massive envy! I hope all of you who do attend would have enough fun to sustain all of us who’re not! I expect a lot of pictures, haha. Enjoy, guys! 🙂
You and me both Beatrice. They won’t let ME in especially after my post of a couple of days ago. Ethan actually threatened me and said he’ll never let me read his books again. 😯
:blove2: Wave, I can’t believe you thought I’d forget. After your hot tub boys knitted everything so thoughtfully from Daniel Craig’s and Michael Fassenden’s pubic hair! 😉 Of course, the fit turned out to be PERFECT, but your fellas measured me SO thoroughly I had a feeling it might be.
Actually they had a feeling too. :flirt: Can I just say again how bummed i am that you’re not gonna be there.
I wonder if this bracelet thing can be repurposed as cocksock bedazzlement. Inquiring minds wanna know.
Like a Prince Albert you mean, except it would be wrapped around the penile implant? lol
You know Damon, someone has to hold the fort here in GRL central. If I were there I probably wouldn’t be able to resist checking to see if you were regulation, or if you wore that sock made from you know what. 😮
Wave-
LOL: Still laughing 🙂 wow quite a visual 😀 I really wanted to go but, don’t have anyone could take.. that knows about my er reading choices..don’t think will be PG 13 haha. Hope there will be pictures and hey there is always next time.. maybe someone else can hold the fort so you can go too.
They made me say those things. I would never be so bold as to upskirt Damon or check out Ethan’s sheets – I’m not that kind of girl. 😯
It’s too bad you can’t go because we need some photographers who won’t be too drunk after all the free drinks. The last time I asked for pictures they were all fuzzy.
Wave
😮 Just have to ask what kind of penile implant were you referring to some of the ones I saw looked pretty scary…haha I don’t know about the sober pictures…depends on who is paying 🙂
I was just yanking his chain about the implant because that’s one topic I know absolutely nothing about. 😮
The pictures must be high res or they won’t be good enough to post; when we upload them they lose some of their resolution.
I’m so excited to be going!! Two weeks. Yahoo. : )
Tara
You are one of the lucky ones and all of us who are staying home can only look on with envy.
Hi Wave!! Thanks for pimping our event!!
Just want to clear a few things up – the scavenger hunt is being organized by our delightful and fabulous fans over at Goodreads! They wanted to do something special and we (the organizers) said yes!
but it’s not really part of the GLR retreat.
Next – free drinks… sorry, you got that backwards. It was supposed to say, Lynn Lorenz will be at the Bourbon OH bar ACCEPTING free drinks, not buying them.
Goodness, anyone who knows me knows I never pass up a free drink. 🙄
As for Ethan’s bits…well, as an organizer he isn’t going to have time for much extracurricular activities; we have some helpers, but for the most part the organizers will be quite busy!!!
Maybe next year, Wave, we’ll see you and everyone else who is going to miss it this year.
See ya in N’awlins, dawlin’!
Hi Lynn
I think a lot of readers who are attending GRL are already looking forward to the free drinks. 😆 With or without the freebies it’s going to be a wonderful 3 days in NO and I know that everyone will have a great time.
Thanks for clarifying that the scavenger hunt is being organized by the fans at Goodreads. I don’t think I said in the post that the GRL organizers were involved in the hunt but I’ll make it clear.
Ethan promised to be available to the highest bidder whatever that means. 😆 You guys will have the most wonderful time and I’m so jealous.
Wow just 2 weeks, when I registered it was 6 months away. Now it is around the corner. Rooming with my bff Ethan Stone, we live so far apart I am so excited to see him. Can’t wait to meet the authors and readers. Scavenger Hunt, that gives me the right to pat a few Ethan’s and Damon down right, I need a thorough search! Oh I can take some bribe pics, how much???? 😈
Hi Laura
You will have to negotiate your own terms with Ethan and Damon I’m sorry. However I hear that they are open to offers regardless how obscene (I mean delightful). 😮 😯 I think if you promise not to show any FACES in your pictures you will get a lot of opportunities to pat down. Good luck on the scavenger hunt. 😀
Good God, look at all the excitement I have to look forward to LOL. But not to worry, I’m bringing my 21yo son as moral support… what do you mean, he’ll be off at the bar, seduced by the free drinks offer, instead of guarding Mom, the Bemused Author?!
I’ll have to console myself with Damon’s kilt issue *wipes brow*, *wipes anything else that needs it*, *gets into trouble with hotel management* …
Anyway, I’m looking forward to it all, but don’t expect to see me in any photos! 🙂
Hello Clare
They can’t wait to sample all the goods (I mean, sample all the books) :blush:
Damon’s kilt is an eagerly anticipated treat going by some of the emails I received so you’ll have to get in line.:) I hope you son isn’t easily shocked. You will have to tell me how you persuaded him to attend, other than the free ticket. 😀
Readers have strict instructions to take photos with their favourite authors – sorry. 😮
I’ll see all of you there. The Bookstore of Doom will be open in my hotel room (the only place you can get paper copies of Nikolai and Niko-Chan) and there will be lots of interesting swag and drawings for even MORE interesting swag, including a custom flash drive containing not only my entire backlist, but sneak peeks of forthcoming novels.
That’s truly awesome Angel. (I wonder if there are other goodies in her hotel room outside of swag and prizes? ) hmmm 😕
Other than me in a black leather corset?
There’s chocolate…if you come to shop or listen to a reading.
There are tarot readings. (Yes, I know, redundant in the Quarter) Free One card pull, or a longer reading for a donation to MAGY, the Memphis Area Gay Youth.
There are readings from my work, both by me and my devoted minion.
I’d prefer it if folk didn’t raid my cooler. 8)