Mix 'n' Match: A Wayward Ink Publishing Anthology

by Layla Dorine, Eric Gober, Eddy LeFey

Overview

The heart wants what the heart wants. Race… Culture… Creed… Become little more than words in the dictionary when the heart sets its sights on its desire. Join our authors as they explore interracial themes ranging from the challenges of loving someone from another culture to fighting for the right to love at all. MIX AND MATCH Celebrate diversity with us. STORIES INCLUDED FORBIDDEN LAYLA DORINE Sage never imagined a trip down south would lead to so many discoveries. He also never expected to meet Eugene, who is as different from Sage as north from south. Two young men from different backgrounds. Can they find friendship and love while surrounded by those who consider their desires to be forbidden? THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR EDDY LEFEY A front door could be many things: Hope, fear, a fresh start, a cold expanse of nothingness. What will Thomas Ng’s front door mean for Daniel Grimm? DECEPTIVE HISTORIES ERIC GOBER When Miguel falls for Van, he gets caught in the crosshairs of an angry spirit. A spirit who cursed Van’s family long ago. Can Miguel and Van break the curse? Or will their lives end in ruin? MESCHIANZA MEETINGS ASTA IDONEA Philadelphia, 1778 Lieutenant Penton has two problems: dealing with society functions and hiding his passion for Isaac, a slave. When invited to assist with preparations for the Meschianza, he sees it as a brief escape from both. However, the night will prove to have more to offer than he ever would have dreamed possible. A HOPELESS MIRAGE KEVIN CAUCHER After hearing "no rice" enough times, Guy decided to swear off dating apps and men, only to find himself falling for his best friend's boyfriend. A TOUCH OF PARADISE ALINA POPESCU Hauled to work in Hawaii, Tudor has little time to enjoy the island paradise. His obnoxious friend Radu has it much easier, using his free time to set Tudor up, dangling a willing Hawaiian beauty in front of him. Having been burned by long-distance relationships before, Tudor stubbornly resists Kahoni’s advances. But can Tudor be worn down enough to enjoy a touch of paradise? A SURPRISING SERVICE A. LUSCH It's another frustrating chore in Nick's day: getting the boiler serviced. But when Prince walks through the door, it's not just the heating that gets hot. BELONG LILY VELDEN Sent by the Royal Flying Doctor Service to curb an outbreak of influenza in an Australian outback aboriginal community, Dr. Dan is ready for anything. Except Tommy… A half-caste aboriginal who feels he doesn’t belong… Anywhere. KISS OF THE SOUTH KASSANDRA LEA The north and south have been divided by war. But love has other plans for Joseph Calder and Ephraim Pickett. HOME DALE CAMERON LOWRY What if the man you thought you could never have was waiting for you all along?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781925222814
Publisher:	Wayward Ink Publishing
Publication date:	03/24/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

LAYLA DORINE lives among the sprawling prairies of Midwestern America, in a house with more cats than people. She loves hiking, fishing, swimming, martial arts, camping out, photography, cooking, and dabbling with several artistic mediums. In addition, she loves to travel and visit museums, historic, and haunted places. Layla got hooked on writing as a child, starting with poetry and then branching out, and she hasn’t stopped writing since. Hard times, troubled times, the lives of her characters are never easy, but then what life is? The story is in the struggle, the journey, the triumphs and the falls. She writes about artists, musicians, loners, drifters, dreamers, hippies, bikers, truckers, hunters and all the other folks that she’s met and fallen in love with over the years. Sometimes she writes urban romance and sometimes its aliens crash landing near a roadside bar. When she isn’t writing, or wandering somewhere outdoors, she can often be found curled up with a good book and a kitty on her lap. Eric’s fiction often explores complications and entanglements in romance. His debut novel, Secrets of the Other Side, won three Reader Views literary awards, including Best Fiction Book of the Year. Described by critics as “an emotional journey of love, loss, and self discovery” and “an incredible coming-of-age story,” the novel chronicles one gay youth’s quest for love and happiness during the tumultuous eighties and nineties. WIP recently published Eric’s short story “Out of Order,” a tale of an unexpected second chance at love set during a deadly San Francisco earthquake. His stories are also featured in WIP’s anthologies Mix ’N’ Match, Men in Uniform, Three is Not a Crowd, Of Heaven and Hell, Encore, Stranded, and A Likely Story. He has written for other publications and anthologies, including First Time for Everything and Best Gay Romance 2014. He earned his MFA in creative writing from Wichita State University. Eric grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and has lived in Arizona, Kansas, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Today he makes his home in Los Angeles, where he enjoys trail running, spending time with friends, and working on new short stories and his next novel. EDDIE LEFEY started reading m/m romance fanfiction a few years ago. At one point, during a crucial point in the soap opera storyline of his favorite gay couple, the story went on hiatus. He needed a fix and decided to write his own version of what he wished would happen. Friends wanted to read it, so he plucked up his courage. Pressing the submission button was nerve-wracking, but he did it. People liked it. He wrote a few more. Up until that point Eddy had tried his hand at writing many times. The delete button was his friend, as was starting over, and over, and over, but he could no longer do that if he wanted people to read his works. A few of his writing friends decided to create original stories, and feeling brave, Eddy did the same. The stories were shared among a select few. They encouraged him to submit one of them. Low and behold, another is now being published. Eddy lives in Canada with his husband Ken and his cat Oscar Wild. He is busy writing many more stories.