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Author Bio

Pat Henshaw, born and raised in Nebraska, has lived on the U.S.’s three coasts, in Texas, Virginia, and now California. Before she retired, she held a number of jobs, including theatrical costumer, newspaper features reporter and movie reviewer, librarian, junior college English instructor, and publicist. She also loves to travel and has visited Canada, Mexico, Europe, Egypt, and Central America as well as almost all fifty US states.
Now retired, she enjoys reading and writing as well as visiting her older daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren on the East Coast and playing havoc with her younger daughter’s life in Washington State. She thanks you for reading her books and wants you to remember that every day is a good day for romance.

Pat’s Quirky Questions

Holly: What other artistic pursuits do you indulge in apart from writing?
Pat: For a long time, I made quarter-inch miniatures of houses and shops. What that means is the scale was one quarter inch equaled a foot. My first fully detailed project was a mystery bookstore called Clues. I also participated in swap art for which I made deco booklets and sent them around to artists in the U. S. and other countries. Recently, I’ve gotten into constructing Lego and alternative brick kits. This activity started when my daughter gave me a Lego minions kit for Christmas a couple of years ago. I was hooked and have since made dozens of model buildings.

Holly: What are some day jobs that you have had/have? Do they impact your writing?
Pat: I started out as a page in my local library and between then and now have had many jobs—most of them writing-related. Although I was theatrical costumer at the Alley Theater in Houston, Texas, I only lasted one season before becoming a newspaper librarian and eventually a book/movie/arts reviewer for the Houston Post, then the Houston Chronicle. I’ve reviewed books for Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and other publications as well as taught English composition at the local Community College. So you ask if anything I’ve done has impacted on my writing? Um, yes, everything I’ve done has bled over into my writing.

Holly: How did you come up with the idea for this book?
Pat: Frank McCord is a man we’ve all known all our lives: hard-working, good-natured, and unremarkable. He took over the family hardware business and is proud to be one in a long line of people who listen to others and solve their problems. He’s a mainstay of the community who hires high school kids during the summer. He’s a man common to towns all over the world. As a gay man in a macho foothills community, he has given up hope of finding a husband and having a family of his own. Since this is a romance, however, Frank is proven to be wrong.
Also, I got the idea for the collapsing house from a friend of my husband’s who was having his guest bathroom redone. The room was above his garage and had been there for years. When the construction team arrived, the foreman said the DYI add-on bathroom should have fallen into the garage years before. So could a remodeled small-town stone house fall apart? The answer’s yes.

Holly: We know you don’t write all the time. What do during your down time?
Pat: I love playing casual computer games from Game House and Big Fish Games—primarily match three, hidden object, and mosaics. My current obsession is a hidden object game called Our Beautiful Earth. Talk about armchair travel! Beautiful Earth takes players around the globe, mostly to places I haven’t traveled, but sometimes to revisit places I have. Looking for the animals and other things hidden in the lush scenes, I can fall into an almost Zen state and let my mind drift. When I stop and go back to writing, often the problems I was having with the plot or characters have solved themselves and I can keep going.

Holly: Snacks! Nobody can write without them. What’s your snack of choice?
Pat: I’d love to say chocolate bonbons and cake or pie, but in reality, it’s long, thin pretzels and roasted, unsalted mixed nuts. And Ice Cubes wintergreen gum. Though I must admit, I throw in an M&M or two if they’re in the house. So I try to keep them out. In my defense, I must add that I drink cup after cup of water during the day, which I think helps balance out the snacks. Wish I could say I snack on carrot and celery sticks. But, no, I don’t.

Holly: If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be?
Pat: Write. All the time. Don’t worry about publication. Also, I’d tell myself to get my English composition and Library Science degrees and forget about the Theater Arts degree. Writing and helping others to write and to find information have always been more fulfilling and enjoyable for me. I’d tell my younger self to stick with those because they are what will make you happy.

Excerpt/ Teaser

As we walked down the street toward the house the Darlings had just bought, I felt at peace with the world. For one thing, it looked like Christopher and I would be getting to know each other better. There was something between us. I wasn’t sure exactly what. Even thinking it, though, gave me the feeling I’d made a turn into a better life and maybe an exciting summer.
Beyond our bond, whatever it could be called, I liked Christopher’s son too. Henry was bright, engaging, and a joy to be with. No matter whether Christopher and I became closer than friends, I felt I could love both of them. This might be as close to fatherhood as I would ever get, so I was on board to make the most of it.
As we neared it, I remembered more about the Adams-Scott House. Built in the early twentieth century, it was a masterpiece of native rock and redwood, a two-story beauty on a big lot with mature shade trees surrounding it. A porch spanned the front of the house, and a dormer window in the attic kept an eye on the street. The façade said the house had been built for a large family with lots of kids. That was somewhat misleading since the house only had four bedrooms. I knew because I’d done minor repairs a couple of times for Doc Adams when he was alive.
“You’re having problems?” I asked Christopher.
He grimaced.
“Maybe. I’d like to know what you think.”
I glanced at Henry for a hint, but he seemed to be studying his shoes.
I was shocked when Christopher opened the front door. The four large rooms on the ground floor had been turned into one huge space. Open floor plan, I think they call it. Very modern and very chic. Even the fieldstone fireplace had been ripped back and covered with drywall. Instead of a cozy lodge-like ambiance, the interior resembled a gutted fish to me. But I could see where others might think all the sunlight and space was more freeing.
“Do you want me to go upstairs?” Henry asked his dad softly.
At Christopher’s nod, the teen climbed the flimsy-looking stairs that replaced the solid staircase that had once dominated the right-hand side of the room.
As the boy walked around, the ceiling bowed and shimmied.
“Henry!” I yelled. “Get back down here. Don’t run.”
I whipped out my cell phone and started dialing as he obeyed my command.
“Abe? You need to get over to the Adams-Scott House. Quick.” I clicked the flip phone shut after reminding him of the address, which was down the street from his office.
Christopher was staring at me like I was a madman. I couldn’t believe he’d let his son go back up there after he’d seen what I had. Was the man a lunatic? The floor appeared to be seconds from collapsing.
I was herding both the Darlings out of the house when Stone Acres’s premier contractor, Abe Behr, hurried up to us.
“Frank? What’s the problem?” he gasped. “You sounded like the end of the world was around the corner.”
“I’d like you to go inside and see if you think what I do. And be careful.”
Abe gave me a headshake and opened the door. He took two steps inside, looked around, stared at the ceiling, and backed out carefully. He slowly closed the door.
I nodded as he stared at me in shock. Then he turned to Christopher and led us all off the porch and onto the sidewalk.
“Okay. Hi, I’m Abe Behr, head of Behr Construction. And you are?” He stuck his hand out to Christopher, who introduced himself and shook hands. “Well, Christopher, we have a problem here. Do you have someplace else to stay tonight?”
As Abe talked Christopher through the danger he and his son had been living with since the support walls had been removed, Henry sidled closer and closer to his dad.
“So you mean the top floor could have fallen through?” Christopher sounded aghast. “But it’s a stone house. Stone is sturdy, right?”
“Uh, yeah, up to a point. I can’t tell you why it hasn’t collapsed yet.” Abe took out his phone, dialed, and walked away, talking in a low, serious voice.
“Do you have somewhere else you can stay?” I asked Christopher, putting a hand on his arm.
“What? No. This is our home. This is where we live.”
“Not tonight, it isn’t.”
I took out my phone and called Zeke at the Bandy Hotel. Christopher looked so shell-shocked I figured I could at least get him a room. But not only was the Bandy filled, when I called the motel off of the highway, it was too. So much for my help. Too many fly fishermen in town had packed all the area accommodations.
Then I remembered my spare room. It wasn’t much, but it wasn’t about to collapse either.
“Tell you what. You’re coming home with me, both of you.”

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Jax’s Quirky Questions

Holly: If you could be an animal for a day what would it be and why?

Jax: A cat. They seem to have pretty sweet lives, or at least mine do. Cuddles when they demand, food waiting for them, and they sleep half the day.

Holly: If you could have any superpower what would it be and why?

Jax: Teleportation. I’d love to be able to travel all over, without the actual cost and time it takes to travel to these places

Holly: Are you oddly obsessed with anything? Tell me about it!

Jax: Um, a little bit obsessed with Stray Kids right now, just a look at my TikTok FYP proves that lol.

Holly: Do you have any quirky collections? Feel free to add photos!

Jax: Not really. I have a lot of books and bookmarks

Holly: If you had to write yourself a warning label what would it say?

Jax: Gets Hangry

Holly: Does writing exhaust you or energize you?

Jax: It can do both depending on what I’m writing and the scene.

Holly: What’s your favorite underappreciated novel, yours, or someone else’s.

Jax: Mine? January Blues, I think. His Reluctant Omega Mate is a special book to me and it’s done amazingly well, but January Blues was just so fun to write. I love Cody and Toth so much.

Holly: What’s your writing process like?

Jax: I’m not sure I have a process as such. I try to write scenes in order. Sometimes I’ll plan chapters out, but most of the time I just pants it.

Holly: What comes first for you, plot, or characters?

Jax: characters

Holly: What’s your most annoying habit?

Jax: Not listening. I zone out a lot

Holly: What’s on top of your fridge?

Jax: A worktop lol. We have an undercounter fridge. The microwave is on the counter above it.

Holly: What’s your favorite thing to do to relax yourself?

Jax: I read. A lot. I’ll either listen to music or an audiobook while I play games on my phone

Holly: Which household chore do you find the most agitating?

Jax: All of them.

Holly: How many unread books are on your Kindle or bookshelf right now?

Jax: Hundreds. I can’t even begin to count them.

Holly: Explain your book terribly in a few words. (For example two men meet and hate each other, until they don’t)

Jax: romance in Crete

Holly: Where did your inspiration come from for your MCs?

Jax: For part of the multi-author series we were given the brief, low angst in less traveled destinations. I’ve only ever been to Crete and as much as I love Scotland, it’s a pretty big bucket list destination for people, so that was an easy choice. Then Joshua and Lysander kind of found their way into my head.

Holly: What did you do to unwind in between words when writing this book?

Jax: I was also editing and promoting His Bonded Omega Mate so there wasn’t much time to relax

Holly: Tell me three reasons I should buy this book today!

Jax: It’s super cute. Crete. To find out why Joshua’s ex needs thrown off a cliff (not my words)

Holly: Was there anything lost in the story in the editing process that you wish you’d been able to keep?

Jax: Not so far. A lot of the things the MC’s do is things that I did while in Crete so they are authentic experiences to the island.

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SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK

A Glorious Encounter

Pining for his gorgeous flatmate makes Jason permanently horny. When given the opportunity to release his pent-up sexual frustration, he takes it, even if it means sucking off a stranger through a hole in a bathroom stall.

Without Touch

Being flatmates for years, Jason and Cornelius had glimpses of each other’s bodies. Whether it was after a shower or an occasional morning wardrobe malfunction, it was not an uncommon occurrence. Neither of them, however, ever reacted to it. Until now.

Okay, team! That’s all from me today, and I think it was a very successful week. 

A huge thanks to Pat and Jax for sharing their time, selves, and books with us! Don’t forget to enter the giveaways at the top of the page, and be sure to grab some freebies if you haven’t already. 

Next week we have Edie Montreux and Vawn Cassidy, so I’ll see you all then 🙂