a spectacular release day
Oct. 15th, 2022 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luninosityIt's a book release day! "Spectacular," the final-ish* Jason/Colby-as-main-characters Character Bleed story!
*"final-ish" because there'll be the holiday JMS Books advent calendar short fluff, and then Jason and Colby have fairly prominent roles in Leo's upcoming novel, too! So we'll see them again.
"Spectacular" is the story in which...well, to summarize...Jason & Colby spend time with Jason’s family, do some switching in bed, and talk about something they maybe didn’t completely talk about way back in book one…
Come buy it here! (Amazon ) (JMS Books ) ...and everywhere else too, like Barnes & Noble and such!
To celebrate...hmm...five pieces of trivia? Or, if not exactly trivia, some thoughts?
1 - did you spot the Finn Ransom reference? That's a nod to the Wes & Finn stories - more fluffy, contemporary, with a medievalist and his actor fiance! I like to think they'd all get along. Colby and Finn can trade recipes. And they all like historical trivia. :-)
2 - I do actually have vague ideas for a couple other little Jason/Colby scenes that never got written! I don't know if they will - maybe just for fun freebies at some point? We'll see. Among them: Colby's first time getting on a motorcycle with Jason (definitely a turn-on), and also Jason's 40th birthday party (at which someone makes a movie reference from Jason's teenage years, Colby says, "Oh, I've never actually seen that," Jason says, "Wait, what?" and Colby points out, "Well, when you were seventeen and going on dates, I was nine years old," and Jason protests, "No, wait, that CAN'T be right, don't make me think about that!" and Colby says, very sweetly, "Oh, don't worry, I've always liked older men!" and Jason stares at a birthday cupcake in horror for a few minutes)...and also the little crossover story in which Jason and Colby meet Ben and Simon from the Leather & Tea stories (and it turns out that, not exactly directly, Colby's and Ben's paths have crossed before)...
3 - a little bit of this story owes a little bit, in a way, to Gregory Ashe's last Hazard & Somerset novel - not a reference, not even anything as direct as inspiration, I think, but...I was reading that, and loving it, and so impressed by the emotional arc, and all the emotional complexities, especially coming back to something from early on that I'd actually wanted to be dealt with in more depth for one character - and then, look, here at the end, that was such a huge and tender part of his character arc, and it was beautiful. And it made me think - you know, there is actually something in this series, my own series, back in book one, that...as Jason accurately points out...Jason and Colby didn't entirely talk about, not then. They did, a bit - enough to move on with - but there was a question Jason didn't ask and maybe should've. And he realizes that. (I also really like Colby's answer, if I'm allowed to like my own words! He does take the question seriously, but he's also very clear that that was then and this is now, and he's sure of himself and Jason and their love.)
4 - the murder mystery they're talking about at the beginning is, of course, inspired by Knives Out. Love that movie, love Chris Evans.
5 - unusually for me, this one was written fairly linearly! Not entirely, but mostly. I tend to start in the middle of stories, usually with an important conversation or character emotion - something that lets me know what the characters want and what they care about. But this one started with the opening, and - also unusually - very visually: Jason standing in the hallway, in pale sun, on the phone, and then suddenly no longer alone, because Colby's there. I also hadn't planned it but that's such a good parallel, at the opening of the last-ish story starring them, with the first book for theirs, Seaworthy, which also opens with Jason on the phone. Like bookends. (Oh, maybe I should've pretended I had planned it! Oh, well...)
This whole series has been such a joy - and we're not done yet! - and I'm so glad to've shared it with you all. <3
![Spectacular by [K.L. Noone]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/411ELmL4zmL.jpg)
*"final-ish" because there'll be the holiday JMS Books advent calendar short fluff, and then Jason and Colby have fairly prominent roles in Leo's upcoming novel, too! So we'll see them again.
"Spectacular" is the story in which...well, to summarize...Jason & Colby spend time with Jason’s family, do some switching in bed, and talk about something they maybe didn’t completely talk about way back in book one…
Come buy it here! (Amazon ) (JMS Books ) ...and everywhere else too, like Barnes & Noble and such!
To celebrate...hmm...five pieces of trivia? Or, if not exactly trivia, some thoughts?
1 - did you spot the Finn Ransom reference? That's a nod to the Wes & Finn stories - more fluffy, contemporary, with a medievalist and his actor fiance! I like to think they'd all get along. Colby and Finn can trade recipes. And they all like historical trivia. :-)
2 - I do actually have vague ideas for a couple other little Jason/Colby scenes that never got written! I don't know if they will - maybe just for fun freebies at some point? We'll see. Among them: Colby's first time getting on a motorcycle with Jason (definitely a turn-on), and also Jason's 40th birthday party (at which someone makes a movie reference from Jason's teenage years, Colby says, "Oh, I've never actually seen that," Jason says, "Wait, what?" and Colby points out, "Well, when you were seventeen and going on dates, I was nine years old," and Jason protests, "No, wait, that CAN'T be right, don't make me think about that!" and Colby says, very sweetly, "Oh, don't worry, I've always liked older men!" and Jason stares at a birthday cupcake in horror for a few minutes)...and also the little crossover story in which Jason and Colby meet Ben and Simon from the Leather & Tea stories (and it turns out that, not exactly directly, Colby's and Ben's paths have crossed before)...
3 - a little bit of this story owes a little bit, in a way, to Gregory Ashe's last Hazard & Somerset novel - not a reference, not even anything as direct as inspiration, I think, but...I was reading that, and loving it, and so impressed by the emotional arc, and all the emotional complexities, especially coming back to something from early on that I'd actually wanted to be dealt with in more depth for one character - and then, look, here at the end, that was such a huge and tender part of his character arc, and it was beautiful. And it made me think - you know, there is actually something in this series, my own series, back in book one, that...as Jason accurately points out...Jason and Colby didn't entirely talk about, not then. They did, a bit - enough to move on with - but there was a question Jason didn't ask and maybe should've. And he realizes that. (I also really like Colby's answer, if I'm allowed to like my own words! He does take the question seriously, but he's also very clear that that was then and this is now, and he's sure of himself and Jason and their love.)
4 - the murder mystery they're talking about at the beginning is, of course, inspired by Knives Out. Love that movie, love Chris Evans.
5 - unusually for me, this one was written fairly linearly! Not entirely, but mostly. I tend to start in the middle of stories, usually with an important conversation or character emotion - something that lets me know what the characters want and what they care about. But this one started with the opening, and - also unusually - very visually: Jason standing in the hallway, in pale sun, on the phone, and then suddenly no longer alone, because Colby's there. I also hadn't planned it but that's such a good parallel, at the opening of the last-ish story starring them, with the first book for theirs, Seaworthy, which also opens with Jason on the phone. Like bookends. (Oh, maybe I should've pretended I had planned it! Oh, well...)
This whole series has been such a joy - and we're not done yet! - and I'm so glad to've shared it with you all. <3
