Fool of Main Beach by Tara Lain Guest Post, Excerpt & Giveaway!

Hi guys! We have Tara Lain popping in today with her upcoming release Fool of Main Beachwe have a great guest post from Tara, a fantastic excerpt and a brilliant giveaway, so check out the post and click that giveaway link! <3 ~Pixie~

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Fool of Main Beach

(Love in Laguna 05)
by

Tara Lain

The unlikeliest of lovers. The sweetest of loves.

Merle Justice wants to reach for the stars, but it’s tough to get respect when playing a teenybopper vampire on TV. Then he meets a famous director anxious to give him all he thinks he wants—and maybe a bit more. Everything’s looking up until a life-threatening encounter with some homophobes on Main Beach puts Merle face-to-face with a Sasquatch-sized hero in a pink puffer coat.

Tom Henry defies description. As unsophisticated and simple as an angel, he walks through life content with who he is and asking for very little except to care for his sister, Lily, and the dogs he loves. Then he meets Merle, the embodiment of dreams he barely knows he has. Merle knows the people who hold his future in their hands might love Tom—but they’ll never understand Merle and Tom together. Tom knows it too. With lives this far apart, who’s really the fool of Main Beach?

Release date: 21st August 2017
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The Tale of the Title

Hi! I’m so happy to be here introducing my new release, Fool of Main Beach, to you today. I’m Tara Lain and I write the Beautiful Boys of Romance. I know some of you have heard me talk about the power of titles, how I love creating them, and how they can seriously influence the actual theme and story of the book. That fact never stops amazing me and it was true with this book.

To give you a little background, the first book in the Love in Laguna series is called Knight of Ocean Avenue. But that wasn’t its original title. That’s very unusual for me. I almost always have the title of a book before I write it. In that case, I just couldn’t settle on the right title – but I did have a clear idea of the romance between a blue collar guy who falls for a flamboyant, femme fashion stylist. Fairly early in the story, the stylist thinks of the construction worker as his knight and that description pops up a few more times. That word prompted the title. Since the story takes place a lot on Ocean Avenue in Laguna Beach, CA. it became Knight of Ocean Avenue.

That established the naming convention for the series. My next book about another construction worker who falls for a cardiologist who’s kind of a player became Knave of Broken Hearts. Book three that stars a fashion designer and a movie star who meet at the Laguna Playhouse was named Prince of the Playhouse, while the fourth book concerning an architecture student who falls for a famous architect named Braden Lord who lives above Thousand Steps Beach is titled Lord of a Thousand Steps.

So that brought me to book five. I knew my hero would be a minor character introduced in Prince of the Playhouse, Merle Justice. People wanted him to have his own story and so did I. I kind of decided I wanted to use Fool in the title. That fits well with a knight, knave, prince, and lord. Main Beach is a very recognizable landmark in Laguna so I really liked the name Fool of Main Beach. While I was playing with that title, I went where I often go when creating a story. Who would be the least likely lover for my hero? And in what way would the world think of him as a fool? Bam. My hero Tom Henry, as simple and beautiful as an angel who asks so little of life, meets Merle on Main Beach and one of my favorite romances I’ve ever written was born. I hope you love Fool of Main Beach.

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Excerpt!

White bursts of light flashed in front of his eyes and a river of burning bile filled his mouth, oozing around the pressure of the big asshole’s arm on his neck. Damn. Damn. Who the fuck wants to die on the beach in a tuxedo?

Merle staggered backward as the brother tightened his grip and the other sibling from hell moved in to do more damage. Brother One pulled back a fist—and suddenly flew through the air, practically knocking Merle and his captor off their feet.

Standing behind where Brother One had stood was—Sasquatch. It had to be—this huge man, easily six foot six, dressed in what might be a pink puffer jacket, with a shock of curly, dark hair flying around his face. He stopped his forward momentum and snapped a fist at Ritchie, who was staggering back to join the fray. Only the smallest interface between that huge hand and Ritchie’s chin signaled bye-bye, Ritchie. The dude staggered back and fell on his ass. Merle would have cheered if his neck wasn’t breaking. Sweet Face held up his hands, and Sasquatch nodded with a smile more appropriate to a kindergarten class than a beach brawl.

Then the giant turned to Brother Two, who still held his arm painfully around Merle’s throat. Brother hissed in Merle’s ear, “Don’t come any closer or I’ll break his neck.”

Sasquatch cocked his head and gave that weird smile again. Is the guy nuts? “It’s very hard to break a person’s neck, did you know that?” He walked slowly forward. “You don’t want to hurt him.”

The arm around Merle’s neck trembled and tightened convulsively. Merle made a gagging sound.

Sasquatch frowned, an oddity on what appeared to be a young, pretty face. “It will be very bad for you if you hurt him, you know? But if you let him go, I won’t hurt you.” He looked over his shoulder. “See. Your friends ran away already.”

Sure enough. They’d melted into the dark the second they got the chance.

“You should go too.” Sasquatch stepped forward again. “Go now.”

Brother Two released Merle and ran like a rabbit toward the water as Merle collapsed onto the damp sand. “I hope you fucking drown.” He rubbed his neck and tried to get a full breath into his lungs.

The big man knelt down beside Merle.

Merle glanced up. Yes, on closer inspection the face might have been a choirboy’s—on the body of the Jolly Green Giant.

The big man bobbed his head. “You’re okay, right?”

“Yeah. I think so.”

“How can we know?”

Merle almost laughed. “Uh, I guess you can help me up, and we’ll check it out.”

“Okay.” The giant reached down, grasped Merle at the waist, and whoa—sent him flying to his feet. This time Merle did laugh. “Was that fun?” The big man smiled, and huge dimples popped out in his cherub face.

“Yeah. Thanks.”

“I could do it again. I like lifting you.”

“No, that’s okay.” Funny how that gave him a little flip in the stomach. He rotated his neck very gently. “I think I’m okay. How does my tux look?” He stepped back and wiped sand from his butt.

“Tux?”

“Oh, my clothes.”

“Good. Really pretty.”

“Thanks. A friend designed the clothes for me, and I’d hate for those assholes to ruin them.”

“Yes. That would be bad. Disappointing.”

“Yes, it would.”

“Friends are good.”

Merle stuck out his hand. “I’m Merle Justice, and I’m extremely grateful to you. I think you might have saved my life.”

The big man looked at Merle’s hand for a minute, then grinned and shook it enthusiastically. “I’m happy to save your life.”

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Love in Laguna series

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About Tara!

Tara Lain author picTara Lain writes the Beautiful Boys of Romance in LGBT erotic romance novels that star her unique, charismatic heroes. Her first novel was published in January of 2011 and she’s now somewhere around book 32. Her best-selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Paranormal Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft.  She lives with her soul-mate husband and her soul-mate dog near the sea in California where she sets a lot of her books.  Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”!

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12 thoughts on “Fool of Main Beach by Tara Lain Guest Post, Excerpt & Giveaway!

  1. I’m really excited about another book in this series. I already pre-ordered it. 🙂

  2. This sounds like a great addition to the rest of the series. Tara is such a fantastic author. I look forward to every book she releases!

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