Showing posts with label Max Griffin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Max Griffin. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Editor's Notes: June 2022

 


Welcome to Angelia Sparrow with her western steampunk novel, The Sweet Science of Bruising. This author pushes the envelope and tempts the reader to go on an adventure of passion and curiosities in an alternate history where airships and gaslights abound. Lillian, her inventor main character, tempts fate by attending a controversial boxing match dressed as a boy, and everything goes sideways from there. She is captured as a plaything for Turlough the boxer, but even he is not what he seems. This was one I just could not put down. I wanted to know what happened next, where these two were going to end up, and how they were going to get out of each predicament they fell into. If you enjoy a steamy story with MFF, an abduction, and a clever plot to escape, this one’s for you!



Next up is Max Griffin’s Timekeepers which releases June 25, 2022. This MM sweet romance is heavy on the sci fi and alternate history. As Haakon and Nathan struggle to find their way back to one another, the world as we know it gets turned and twisted into something quite different. The Timekeepers have to clean up anything that goes awry, and maintain order. But at a cost! See how many historical references you can spot in this full length novel that will take you on a trip through important events that shaped what is to come, and has the main characters struggling to find out when and where they are, dodging counter-plots to the Timekeeper mission all the way. Max's stories are always fun to read. He blends in realism and mystery to everything he does. From the first line, I was hooked! If you love a good, twisty time travel tale, check this one out!



Traci


Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Timekeepers by Max Griffin

Author: Max Griffin
List Price: 6.99
Published: June 25, 2022
Word Count: 79,639
Genres: Science Fiction, Gay Romance, Time Travel

The future depended on deciding one way, but his one true love’s life depended on the opposite choice.

History is a fragile thing. Haakon's job with Timekeepers is to prevent Deviations that could change the past and devastate the future. But saving humanity comes at a high cost, especially now when destiny forces him to choose between the man he loves and the future he's sworn to protect.

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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Meet Author: Max Griffin

 

Max Griffin writes horror and science fiction stories, often with a dark twist. John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction is the single most important influence on his thinking about the craft of writing. Authors as diverse as John Updike, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, and Lawrence Block inspire and inform his literary style.

Max Griffin is the pen name of a mathematician and academic. He has retired from his positions at a major university in the Southwest. He is the proud parent of a daughter who is a librarian, and the grandparent to two beautiful, little boys. Max is blessed to be in a long-term relationship with his life partner, Mr. Gene, who is an expert knitter.

More About Max Griffin:

When did you decide you wanted to be a writer, and what inspired you?

I decided to try writing fiction in 2008 at age 58.  I wanted to write genre fiction such as SciFi and mysteries that featured gay protagonists, with a focus on the characters’ goals and aspirations. 

Tell readers about your most current release.

My most current novel release is “The Hounds of Hollenbeck.”  Allen LeClerc is a graduate student working in a lab with genetically enhanced, hyper-intelligent rescue dogs when he meets Sam Sondergard, a local police detective. Romance blossoms, but there’s an edge of danger as Sam investigates a string murders of young, local men.  When Allen disappears, Sam deploys Allen’s favorite dog from his lab in a desperate attempt to find him.

What do you love most about writing?

Having written. 

Which of your stories is your favorite and why?

“Murder Me Tender” is inspired by “Rebecca” and was lots of fun to write.  However, my favorite is always the one I’m currently writing, in this case “Murder on Cabot’s Landing,” a crossover SciFi/Mystery novel.

What is the strangest thing you’ve had to research for a book?

The color of the sky on an earth-like planet orbiting a K-class star—it’s blue, but almost white. The same novel, “Murder on Cabot’s Landing”, also involved learning the minimum size for an isolated population of cats to survive without genetic drift.

What message do you want your readers to take away from your stories?

Gay people are just like all people, with largely the same hopes, desires, and fears.

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Website: MafGriffin.net 

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Monday, September 4, 2017

What in Dreams Abides by Max Griffin

WHAT IN DREAMS ABIDES
Author: Max Griffin


List Price: 5.99
Published:  Jun 13, 2015
ISBN # 9781612921495
Word Count: 57,654
Genres/Categories: Horror


Delve into the darkness with author Max Griffin’s collection of nineteen twisted tales of horror. Heavily inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Griffin’s stories will leave you with a sense of foreboding, a glimpse into the mind’s of those who have turned the wrong way, and many times, justifiably so.
 

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Sunday, September 3, 2017

Murder Me Tender by Max Griffin

MURDER ME TENDER
Author: Max Griffin

List Price: 6.99
Published:  Nov 27, 2013
ISBN # 9781612920900
Word Count: 63,995
Genres/Categories:Murder Mystery, Gay Romance

Rick's brooding over his missing wife doesn't stop him from inviting Brandon to move into his mansion in the hills of southwest Wisconsin. When the sheriff finds bodies at the estate, it's a race against time to save Rick from accusations of murder.
Brandon struggles with poverty and longs to be a doctor. He falls in with Rick, an older, closeted, banker whose wealthy wife Victoria is mysteriously missing. Romance blooms between the two men and all seems well, until the sheriff discovers Victoria's body at the family estate, Lindermont Manor. Danger and scandal abound as Brandon has to decipher the clues to save Rick from prison. The shocking truth about the murder changes their lives forever.

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The Hounds of Hollenbeck by Max Griffin

THE HOUNDS OF HOLLENBECK
Author: Max Griffin


List Price: 5.99
Published:  Feb 11, 2015
ISBN # 9781612921341
Word Count: 50,235
Genres/Categories: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Gay Romance


Allen, a graduate student, and Sam, a cop, are unlikely lovers in the small college town of Hollenbeck. When a serial killer stalks young men in the town, Sam investigates, and the clues lead back to the genetically engineered dogs in Allen's lab. Danger mounts as the killer closes his grip on the city.

 
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Flatland by Max Griffin

FLATLAND
Author: Max Griffin

List Price: 6.99
Published: Aug 21, 2013
ISBN # 9781612920788
Word Count: 64,752
Genres/Categories: Suspense, Mystery, Thiller, Gay Erotic Romance

Flatland: where a fortune in mob money, a stone-cold serial killer, and a crooked FBI agent collide with two gay guys looking for love.

Danny and Skip’s jerky new neighbor is much more than he seems. Their boring trailer park in Flatland, fielded by wheat and occasionally threatened by unpredictable Kansas storms, harbors something deadly—a hit man on the run, waiting for his chance to escape to all the money he’s swindled from the mob. But the mob doesn’t let thieves get away.

Danny and Skip end up with the hit man’s dog and clues that could lead them to all his stolen loot. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones after the money. A crooked FBI agent and two professional killers stand in their way.

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