M(e)/M(e)

I was tagged by Lisabea over at Nose in a Book for this M/M themed meme, created by Kris at Kris ‘n’ Good Books.

Lisabea must’ve known I’m a sucker for a good meme, so here it goes!

Rules:

1. Answer all the questions below in either the comments here or post it on your own site. If you post it on your own site you have to come back and give the link here so I/Kris can mosey on over and see if you answered correctly have a sticky beak.
2. You have to tag two other people once your done and pester them relentlessly until they do the meme too.
3. Instead of a meme image thing you have to post a cookie, preferably a twofer. It is an m/m meme after all.

This isn’t necessarily a cookie, so much as my own wishful casting of Adrien English and Jake Riordan (I always did have a hard time following rules.):

Montgomery Clift as Adrien English

Karl Urban as Jake Riordan (KU carried off blonde hair well in Two Towers.)

Well, it works for me.

Questions:

1. How long have you been reading GLBTQ fiction?

IDK if books with gay or bi protags count like Tanya Huff’s Smoke series, Elizabeth Bear’s New Amsterdam or A Compaion to Wolves, Diana Gabaldon’s Lord John series or Sarah Monette’s Doctrine of Labyrinths, but specifically m/m genre fic, I’d say a little more than a year.

2. What was the first book you read in this genre?

J. L. Langley’s With Caution (With or Without series) which I had won over at DIK.

3. Are you ‘out’ as a reader?

To a select few.

4. Ebooks, print or both?

E-books mostly.

5. Do you buy direct from publishers or from secondary sellers?

Both.

6. Prove you’re a Book Slut. How many books would you say you buy a week?

I’m currently on a diet. I’ve only bought 3 books this month, so far.

7. Are you a cover, blurb or excerpt buyer?

Excerpt if there is one. Blurb, otherwise.

8. Yeah, you read reviews, but do you actually take notice of them?

Sometimes. It depends on the reviewer, the author, my mood, the weather.

9. Who’s your fave publisher?

I’m loving the spec fiction over at Blind Eye Books, right now.

10. What about authors? Your top two only!!

Josh Lanyon and JL Langley.

11. Is there a sub-genre you particularly dis/like?

I usually don’t dig GFY.

12. Short or long?? *rolls eyes* And, no, I’m not talking about cocks.

The longer the better. Book. Rather than short story. (stop that!)

13. Anything turn you off about m/m or is all just glorious smut to you?

No sniffing of athletic equipment, plz.

14. Finish this sentence. You know it’s m/m twu wuv when…

They get to meet the parents. Or, the one that’s in the closet comes out. Whichever comes first.

15. What trope or theme are you heartily sick of in m/m romance?

Insta luv.

16. If you could choose any 3 characters for a m/m/m who would they be?

David Cooke (LB Gregg’s Happy Ending)/Adrien English (Josh Lanyon’s Adrien English series)/René DuBois (Samantha Kane’s Islands)

17. What new GLBTQ release are you most hanging out for right now?

The Dark Tide (AE book 5) by Josh Lanyon. Though I just got Strange Fortune in the mail a couple of days ago. ::squee!::

18. What GLBTQ book has completely blown you away this year?

Wicked Gentlemen by Ginn Hale. I also really loved Hemovore by Jordan Castillo Price.

19. What do you think we’ll see more of in m/m romance in 2010?

Lanyon. Who has to be the busiest author in the genre.

20. Don’t you agree that author Josh Lanyon should kill off arsehole character Jake Riordan?

No, but I want lots of good nice-nice with Adrien to make up for what Jake put him through.

I tag for this M(e)/M(e):

Hilcia

Mandi