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29 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
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Earthly Concerns
by Xavier Axelson
Spooky love from Xavier Axelson, done with real characters that pull at your heart. This is creepy done right.
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Reflection and anticipation
01 Dec 2011 1 Comment
in Bebe Burnside, Michele L Montgomery, Seventh Window, Xavier Axelson, Zachary Wild Tags: Bebe Burnside, Michele L. Montgomery, Seventh Window, Xavier Axelson, Zachary Wild
publisher/editor Seventh Window
It’s December, a time to reflect on the past year, look forward to the new year and bust your butt getting ready for holiday cheer. Most new and aspiring authors are too busy with the other job while trying to prepare for the upcoming festivities, so I’m not going to bother talking about the craft of writing. Like I said, this is a time to reflect and look forward to upcoming projects.
I have to say that 2011 was a banner year for Seventh Window, with new titles from Xavier Axelson, Bebe Burnside, Christopher Trevor, Evan Gilbert and Zachary Wild. It was exciting introducing three new authors to the M/M community while working with an author who had already been published by Silver Publishing and looking for another press to showcase his talents and Christopher Trevor, who was looking to move his highly erotic stories in a new direction. It was both an honor and a pleasure to work with these people and I look forward to being a part of their publishing careers in the coming years.
So what does Seventh Window have in store for you all in 2012? I’m working on new projects with Bebe Burnside, whose latest manuscript landed on my desk last week; Xavier Axelson has a new novella that goes off in a new direction; and Michele L. Montgomery has a new novel titled Dammit! coming out with Seventh Window in both eBook and print late March 2012! I’m very excited to add Michele to our growing list of authors.
Sure, that’s what’s coming up, but what’s going on now? I’m presently working with a new author on a novella that is hard edged, sexy and sweet. The book is called Scar Tissue by GL Roberts. Scar Tissue is sure to get your hearts thumping and set your sex drive racing. Get ready for some sexy fun set in the mid 1970s. Men, guns and romance, what more can you ask for?
This coming year is going to be fun! So break out the Menorah and mistletoe and get ready for a sexy year ahead from Seventh Window.
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The Birches by Xavier Axelson
19 Nov 2011 1 Comment
in authors, publishers, Seventh Window, Xavier Axelson Tags: Seventh Window Publications, Xavier Axelson
Title: The Birches
Author: Xavier Axelson
Publisher: Seventh Window Publications
Pages: 135
Characters: Leo and Dock
POV: 3rd
Sub-Genre: Contemporary
Kisses: 5
Blurb:
Perfection isn’t everything, although it’s everything Leo wants. His desire to become the perfect chef may keep him at the top of his class, but it drives his friends and family crazy while keeping love and passion on the back burner. That is until he meets Dock, owner and chef of the new and popular restaurant, The Birches. Although Dock isn’t a trained chef, Leo finds the food he cooks delectable and the man behind the food irresistible. The lessons taught at the hands of an untrained cook may be just what this uptight chef needs to let go.
Review:
The Birches is a very interesting story about two characters whose lives center on creations of delectable, edible, nutritional foods. One of the characters Leo attends school to become a chef, and not just any chef, he has bigger goals. He want to be the absolute best chef. Ever. He is so driven to exceed at that goal that it has managed to manifest itself deep within his soul so much so that his very mannerisms, his personality, his whole life is focused only on that one goal. To outsiders, including the readers will see how hard he drives himself, how hard he pushes himself, and how that leads to a flawed less than likeable character at times. He seems so angry at times and when he meets Dock, the owner and chef of the Birches his every way of thinking is challenged, questioned, and finally changed.
This is a cute saucy story with a great plot line, well thought out characters and many references to food. The author also included a special recipe at the end of the story and let me just mention this one scene in particular. Learning how to cook, while naked and blindfolded, using fresh ingredients and in the very skillful hands of one of the most adorable cooks I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting, was the best scene to date. I asked the author if he wouldn’t mind ordering up a Dock for me.
The Birches is the perfect recipe for love.
Reviewed By: Michele
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New from Seventh Window
27 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
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The Birches
by Xavier Axelson
Perfection isn’t everything, although it’s everything Leo wants. His desire to become the perfect chef may keep him at the top of his class, but it drives his friends and family crazy while keeping love and passion on the back burner.That is until he meets Dock, owner and chef of the new and popular restaurant, The Birches. Although Dock isn’t a trained chef, Leo finds the food he cooks delectable and the man behind the food irresistible. The lessons taught at the hands of an untrained cook may be just what this uptight chef needs to let go.
Xavier is here and he’s ready to share. All you have to do is ask.
23 Aug 2011 3 Comments
in Seventh Window, Xavier Axelson Tags: Questions, Xavier Axelson
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The Incident by Xavier Axelson
23 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
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Title: The Incident
Author: Xavier Axelson
Publisher: Seventh Window Publications
Pages: 126
POV: 3rd
Kisses: 5
Blurb:
In the line of duty, decisions that will change your life forever are made in a split-second. Nobody knows that better than Officer Michael Carmac, whose fatal split-second decision haunts his days. Tormented by guilt, Michael seeks solace in a bottle and the friendship he has with his partner, Officer Bertram Angel. But the more he leans on Angel for support, the more Michael discovers a longing that he’s kept hidden for too long. Can Angel help ease the pain of guilt or will Michael’s hidden desires be the end of their friendship?
Review:
Xavier has done it again. He applied the fingers to the keyboard and brought us this wonderful story sure to have you sighing with understanding and sadness for Officer Michael Carmac and the guilt he lives with every waking and sleeping moment of his life since he accidently took the life of a young innocent boy. Unable to forgive himself the mishap he forces himself to go on, and many a night he finds himself so intoxicated he can’t think.
Enter Bertram Angel, Michael’s best friend and partner, who is there for him whether he likes it or not, who tells him daily to let it go, who on more than one occasion, has sat with him and held his hand through the pains, the anger, and the helplessness Michael felt after the shooting. Not only is Michael dealing with how to deal with his part in the death of a teen who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, he is also fighting his growing attraction to Angel and dealing with his mother as well, not to mention the snide remarks made by a few of the other officers and towns people over the Incident.
Xavier did a wonderful job in the telling of how one move can change the rest of your life. He also showed us how sexy chocolate pie and cops are in a scene together. He even included a tasty recipe for his adoring fans. I really encourage you to read this and get to know these two officers and their love of chocolate pie.
Reviewed By: Michele
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15 Aug 2011 Leave a Comment
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The Incident
by Xavier Axelson
Xavier Axelson Puts The X In SeXual
27 May 2011 Leave a Comment
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StarFucker
By
Xavier Axelson
I am usually oblivious to strawberries but for some reason this summer I am compelled to think about them, crave them.
They are not a sexy fruit as everyone has been led to believe…cherry imposters, distant cousins of sexuality. Funny…I found out today this guy I fucked around with awhile back got a boyfriend. I had a feeling he had, as he had had been on my mind lately for no other reason except that it had been summer when we began fucking. I had seen him in a couple local rags clinging to one scruffy looking guy or another…looking cute, smiling…what a big cocked asshole he was.
I have a tank top that has a bleach stain on it from an encounter in his basement laundry room. He got with someone who looks just like him two strawberries, not distinguishable from the others in the bowl.
I’ve thought a lot about strawberries lately. How odd that I’ve been craving them and went as far as to buy two cartons from a roadside stand and then ate one the minute I got home. I’m lying. I started eating them the minute I got back into my car. The red juice spurting like sweet blood; dribbling down my chin, making my scruff sticky. I hadn’t been opposed to letting HIM make my scruff sticky, not something I do with many guys but something about that Fucker made me almost servile.
Maybe I’m really just craving vitamin A or C or whatever it is that the berries possess.
Summer does tend to bring out the worst in me so I played it safe and bought a bag of cherries to counteract the underlying pent up passions of the strawberries. Balancing what you truly want with what you truly need is a rare quality and being the sign of the scales, I am in constant weighted torment.
I put the heavy bag of cherries; dark red, purple-black next to the remaining carton of strawberries just to give them something to think about. I imagined mixing them into thick yogurt or sprinkling sugar on them…but it’s all a dream. I’ve only wanted them naked, cold from faucet water, perspiring and gleaming like the forgotten dreams of a basement lust.
There are some dreams better left in the basement, the laundry room…the elevator that had those incredible metal gates that you have to lock for the thing to operate…you know exactly the kind I’m talking about…and lastly that place near his house…Italian, good pizza made only better by his bare foot pressing between your legs…toes digging into your balls, and the smile on his beer stained lips.
Summer, strawberries, cherries…none quite as seductive as being at the mercy of someone who knows exactly what it is that makes you melt like a creamcicle some kid dropped on the sidewalk. Sticky, messy, sweet…,and gone…melted, lost and disappearing. I’m glad he’s found someone who looks just like him.
I really am.
Oh by the way…did you hear? I have two new books coming out: Lily with Silver Publishing and The Good Cop with Seventh Window Publications.
Feel free to also stop by my examiner.com column and say hello…fuck off…or send me a recipe or cookies…whatever you dish I can take… or come by my website!
Dutch’s Boy by Xavier Axelson
29 Apr 2011 1 Comment
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Title: Dutch’s Boy
Author: Xavier Axelson
Publisher: Seventh Window Publications
Pages: 88
POV: 3rd
Book Cover Rating: 5
Kisses: 5
Blurb:
Fulfilling your dream isn’t easy, especially if you’re the son of well-known rodeo rider Dutch Reynolds. Dutch doesn’t want to see his son Harry leave the family ranch until he feels Harry is ready. But for Harry, his dream of riding broncos at the rodeo seems to be passing him by. With the moral support of his best friend Reb, Harry takes his life in his own hands and leaves the ranch before Dutch can stop him. Chance encounters, sex and love soon teach the young cowboy life lessons that he will not forget.
Review:
Dutch’s Boy is a well told story about Harry, the son of a Rodeo Star, and his desire to leave the only home he’s known to follow in his fathers footsteps. However, his father, Dutch, isn’t so keen on that whole idea and absolutely forbade Harry and his sister from following in his footsteps. School comes first because he doesn’t want them to have to live the hard life he chose to live. Understandable as a parent to think that way, however, Harry isn’t the educational type, he’s a cowboy like his daddy, thru and thru. Given that, the only life for him is one which includes riding Bronc’s. And he’s good at it, too.
The tale starts off with Harry and his sister discussing their father and Harry’s urge to join the Rodeo, while she helps him pack to do just that, the scene then introduces Harry’s friend Reb, who I absolutely adore!
Reb has been Harry’s friend for many years they did everything together. Everything but this that is. Harry wants to be free, he needs the Rodeo, it’s in his blood, but with Reb? I really can’t tell you what his plans were, this is Harry’s tale, not Reb’s. It’s a tearful goodbye between Harry, his mother, sister, and Reb at the train station. But no matter how much Harry will miss the familiarity of the ranch, he hears a calling and he follows that right on out of town.
Harry’s biggest obstacle in life is his father, Dutch, as mentioned above, what I failed to point out was that Harry is somewhat scared of him and what he’ll do to him once Dutch finds out Harry has run away to join the Rodeo.
All in all, Dutch’s Boy is an interesting take on the lives of Rodeo stars and their families, it’s a contemporary western piece full of “old west” slang, and it’s also a YA coming of age, coming out story. Xavier did a great job with it, his choice of phrases, the set up, the delivery, the description, all done without a hiccup. Would I call this piece a romance? Lets go for a cowboy romance and it’ll fit perfectly.
Reviewer: Michele
Never Say Never an Anthology
23 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in BG Thomas, RJ Scott, Xavier Axelson Tags: BG Thomas, RJ Scott, Shae Connor, Xavier Axelson
Valentine 2525 by RJ Scott- In the year 2525, Samekh Taw designation #65572 aka*Sam* is a Companion. A cloned human – a lab creation. Made specifically toorder to serve any and all of the needs of Max Absolom III. A deliberate act ofsabotage adds emotions to Sam that he should never have. Max is the one man whonever wanted a Companion in the first place, only agreeing to the wholeuncomfortable situation because his social standing demanded it. When itbecomes clear that Sam is flawed and he seeks to end his existence before he iserased, it is up to Max to convince Sam to hold his secrets close and that loveisn’t just for one day.
A Secret Valentine by BG Thomas- Knowing that only by being open about who heis will he find happiness, Steve Manchester gets divorced and comes out as agay man. But happiness isn’t fast coming. All Steve finds are cheaters andliars and men who want anonymous sex. Then he meets Bill Cameron, a man who iseverything that he wants. But Bill only wants to be friends. Steve trieseverything he can think of to make “just friends” work, but everytime he sees Bill, his heart aches with longing. Just when Steve realizes hecan’t take it anymore and decides to move to San Francisco to get away from hishopeless situation, Bill invites him to a Valentine’s Day Ball.
A Valentine for Evrain by Xavier Axelson- Evrain runs a chocolate store in asmall town and is not above using the storefront for hot encounters with localguys. But love is definitely not in the cards, at least until he meetsAmbrosio. The Sexy Latino soon teaches Evrain a lesson in love that neither manwill soon forget.
