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IT’S RELEASE DAY! 🎉
I’m continuing the thread I started a few weeks ago from Closets Are for Clothes featuring Mike & Wes. For general context, Mike is heading “home” to Kansas to come out to his parents.
Told from Mike’s 1st-person POV.
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This Week’s Snippet:
Wes’s words meant a lot to me. I appreciated that he hadn’t tried to say he “knew” everything would be fine. Because we couldn’t know that for sure, and that wouldn’t have been reassuring.
He was right. I’d absolutely hate it if things blew up with my father, but knowing Greg and Helen were on my side would cushion the blow. And unless I let it eat away at me, it would have no effect on my day-to-day life in Austin. I would still be accepted and treated fairly at my work. I would still have my friends. And I would still have Wes.
Title: Closets Are for Clothes
Series: Dream On (book 1)
Author: Addison Albright
Publisher: JMS Books, LLC
Cover: Written Ink Designs
Length: Short Novel / 42,719 words
Heat Level: 3 flames – Moderate – While physical details are described, they are not graphically depicted.
Genres/Tags: Contemporary Gay Romance, M/M Pairing, Coming Out, Roommates to Lovers
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Mike’s life is carefully compartmentalized. He’s deep in the closet to his family back in Kansas, but lives life honestly and openly in Austin. He’s unnerved when Wes, his old university crush, turns up at his door in answer to a roommate advertisement, but quickly sees the potential…benefits of the arrangement. Wes has never doubted nor denied his sexuality. With the support of his family he’s an out and proud LGBT activist.
On the scale balancing his self-esteem on one side, and the love of his family on the other, Mike has to decide which weighs more. Is Mike being fair to his parents by not giving them the chance to know his real self? When the delicate balance of his life is disrupted, he decides he’s tired of living a lie. Will Wes understand his concerns, or will their fledgling relationship crumble under the strain of Mike’s uncertainty?
NOTE: Closets Are for Clothes is a from-the-ground-up comprehensively rewritten and reedited version of A Dream Come True (published by Addison at Torquere Press in February, 2009). While the theme of the original story is the same, and many important scenes will be recognizable, the way the characters deal with important events is handled differently than in the original story and much of the story’s backdrop and side characters have changed. Beyond converting the story from an alternating 3rd-person POV to being told entirely from Mike’s 1st-person POV, this is a significantly changed retelling of the story.
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Wohooooo!! I hope you have a great release day ❤️
Thank you! 🎉
I feel for him. Well done! And thank you for sharing.
Thank you! 💕
Congratulations on release day!
Thank you! ❤️
Happy release day! Mike sounds as though he’s trying to convince himself everything will be okay. hugs him
Thanks! It’s kind of like the cartoons where there’s an angel on one shoulder telling him to chill, everything’s gonna be all right, and a devil on the other, whispering worst-case-scenarios into his ear. 😄
Happy Book Birthday! Right now I want to cheer Mike for being so brave and positive, trying to move forward even while he’s facing his fears, remembering what he has, even while he’s confronted with the danger of losing something else.
Thank you! ❤️ He’s trying to put on a brave face. 😉
Happy release day! I can’t wait to read this.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it. ❤️
Oh, it’s out, yay!! Happy book birthday!! ❤
Thank you! 🎉 💖
Coming out stories always get me. Happy book birthday!
Thank you! 💕😁
Interested in the fairness question raised in the blurb. Looking forward to read the story. Thanks and good luck!
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it! ❤️
Happy release day! Loved this snippet – I’m rooting for him! 🙂
Thank you! 💖
You can really feel his emotions here.
Thank you so much! 💖