Long and Short Reviews welcomes A. Nybo who is celebrating today’s release of Three Bears.
G’day! Thanks for having me.
My first novella with Dreamspinner Press is part of their ‘World of Love’ collection. Since the geographical region is a prominent feature, as a West Australian writing a menage story, how could I go past the surf spot called Three Bears?
I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to go to some amazing places like, Peru, Borneo, Canada, Russia, Ireland, and destinations closer to home. When you’ve been to places like that, it’s pretty hard to choose one as a ‘favourite’. They each have their own delights and their own horrors, but one thing I can say about them all—I wasn’t there long enough.
Going to places where you can’t speak the language is always entertaining. I hate shopping, but give me a non-English speaking supermarket and I’m entertained for hours trying to figure out what a particular food is or the intended purpose of a particular item. It’s a bit like playing pictograph—only discovering if you’ve won when you buy and open the products (which can be expensive when you’re a picky eater). Places like Singapore are easy to get by in, as most people speak English as well as their own language.
However, get to a place like Russia? Yeah, there can be some interesting moments. One day I stepped into the lift to go to my hotel room and an armed policeman followed me in (this was at a time I wasn’t yet used to seeing armed policemen). The moment the doors were closed he began speaking to me, then speaking sterner, and then demanding. I had NO idea what he wanted, so I attempted to tell him I didn’t speak Russian.
I don’t know whether he was becoming annoyed with my inability to understand, or my amazing ability to mangle his language when I pulled out one of two Russian phrases I pretended to know, which meant ‘I don’t speak Russian’. Now, I may or may not have said that, as I was feeling somewhat intimidated by this point and my mind conjured images of gulags and exile to Siberia—and I really hate the cold. In reality, I might have asked him for his grandmother’s knickers for all I knew.
Not all that surprising, he followed me to my hotel room and stood waiting for…something. I finally invited him in, picked up the phone and asked the concierge to translate then handed the phone to the cop. Turns out he just wanted to look at my passport. Who knew my god-awful scary passport picture would be the least frightening aspect of the interaction?
The incident was soon dismissed as later that day we had the opportunity to hang out with some of the locals and discuss cultural differences. Which was a lot of fun. All the Russians I spent time with had a very dry sense of humour. When I mentioned it to one of them, I was told that when your life savings becomes worthless overnight, what else are you to do other than wallpaper your toilet with rubles and laugh about it?
I’m more of a flora and fauna traveller than a cultural traveller. I gravitate to forests and jungles rather than museums, art galleries and nightlife. That’s how I end up swimming in the Amazon and canoeing the Kinabatangan. However, that’s not to say I haven’t spent the odd hour or fifty in Irish castles.
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Of course, while I was in Peru, I couldn’t leave without going to Machu Picchu. The atmosphere there was really special. I have never experienced anything remotely like it anywhere else I’ve been. Being on top of a mountain when clouds roll over it is pretty special anyway (Western Australia that has no real mountains to speak of). But to sit amongst the llamas and buildings with their amazing waterways when it happens, is another. I imagine it is quite different these days—tourism has a habit of changing places.
At Three Bears surf break, the attraction between a group of friends is anything but “Luke warm….”
Dan goes to stay with his best friend Josh in Margaret River, the surfing capital of Western Australia, to sort out his sexual confusion. But his best friend is the source of that confusion. Having never been attracted to a man other than Josh, Dan fears risking their friendship just to discover men aren’t his thing.
Within the first few days, Dan meets Luke, a local barista who offers him surf lessons. Dan soon finds himself emotionally coveting not one, but two men. When they go to Three Bears, his hidden desires begin to emerge. As the ambiguity of Dan’s mixed signals clears, it becomes apparent both of his surfing companions want him—badly.
It is only when Luke and Josh hook up that they formulate “Operation Three Bears,” an adventurous plan that might lead to a satisfying outcome for all of them.
About the Author: A. Nybo has tried conventional methods (a psych degree and a GC in Forensic Mental Health) but far prefers the less conventional, such as the occasional barbecue in the rain, 400km drives at 1am for chocolate, and multiple emergency naps in any given 24hr period. Favourite things to do include that which can be seen (e.g. reading, writing, drawing, walking the dogs, travelling) and that which can’t, such as dreaming (both awake and asleep).
Western Australian born, she has been spotted on the other side of the planet several times–usually by mosquitoes. And discovered Amazonian mosquitoes love her just as much as they do in her home state.
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It’s holiday time in Fairyland. On Halloween, Ichabod Crane, a young schoolteacher, has a boner over sexy and muscular farmer Brom Bones. When the residents of the homophobic Sleepy Hollow aren’t happy about it, the headless horseman rides into town. Will Ichabod fall off his horse into Brom’s strong, rescuing arms, teaching the townsfolk a lesson in acceptance they’ll never forget? On Christmas, hunky Cavalier P.I. receives a visit from a new client, handsome young Fritz. Somebody strangled Fritz’s sister Clara with the ribbons of her toe shoes, and Fritz is the top suspect. But he seems more interested in the bulge in Cavalier’s tights than in getting himself off the hook. When Cavalier turns sweet on Fritz, it’s time for the private investigator to question his old dance partner the Sugar Plum Fairy, Clara’s husband the Nutcracker, Fritz’s other sister Louise, and Fritz’s Godpapa Drosselmeyer to save his intended and find out: Who Killed Clara? At Winter Solstice, young Vasily falls in love with a mysterious, handsome man who rides by his orphanage each morning, noon, and night. Upon following him, Vasily discovers the man is a prince under the powers of Baba Yaga. Can Vasily rescue his tortured Prince Anton from the witch’s conversion therapy and dance around his pole on May Day?
Welcome to Fairyland, a magical place where your favorite fairytale characters come out on the other side of the rainbow. Poor and beautiful Cinder offers his clothes to a naked prince in the woods in a twist on the classic Cinderella tale. Eighteen-year-old Gideon Golden, after being thrown out of his home by his homophobic parents, breaks into the cottage of three irresistibly burly men on Bear Mountain. Romance ensues between that stringy guy with a growing appendage and the character with a thing for giants. A handsome but cold-hearted prince bewitches young Kieran into being his captive. Can Gaelen thaw the ice palace and save his love?
Joe Cosentino is the author of six novellas published by Dreamspinner Press: The Naked Prince and Other Tales from Fairyland (Open Skye Book Reviews Audiobook of the Month); the In My Heart series: An Infatuation & A Shooting Star; and the Bobby and Paolo Holiday Stories: A Home for the Holidays, The Perfect Gift, and The First Noel; the Nicky and Noah mysteries: Drama Queen (Divine Magazine’s Favorite LGBT Mystery), Drama Muscle (Rainbow Award Honorable Mention), Drama Cruise, Drama Luau, Drama Detective, Drama Fraternity; the Cozzi Cove series (NineStar Press): Cozzi Cove: Bouncing Back (Rainbow Award Honorable Mention/TBR Pile Book of the Month), Cozzi Cove: Moving Forward, Cozzi Cove: Stepping Out, Cozzi Cove: New Beginnings, and Cozzi Cove: Happy Endings; and the Jana Lane mysteries: Paper Doll, Porcelain Doll, Satin Doll, China Doll, and Rag Doll (The Wild Rose Press). As an actor, Joe appeared in principal roles in film, television, and theatre, opposite stars such as Bruce Willis, Rosie O’Donnell, Nathan Lane, Jason Robards, and Holland Taylor. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Goddard College, Master’s degree from SUNY New Paltz, and is currently a happily married college professor/department chair residing in New York State.
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A native of Louisville, KY, I graduated from the Kentucky Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in 1976 and then went on to earn a BSN from Indiana University in 1986. Horse crazy from the time I knew what a horse was, my family moved to rural Indiana in 1989. Since then, I’ve managed to accumulate a number of animal friends, but am currently holding at two horses, four cats, and one crazy little dog named Peaches.
When Lauren Chapman helped the CIA bring down one of he biggest illegal arms dealers, she put herself square in Eric Bauer’s crosshairs. He might have avoided prison but his empire is destroyed, and he blames Lauren for it all. Forced to leave the CIA, she is living in the small Florida town of Arrowhead Bay, where she runs an art gallery and keeps a low profile. Her closest friend is Avery March who runs the high risk security agency, Vigilance, and fighting her attraction for the very sexy Vigilance agent, Justin DeLuca.
What if the woman he needs is the one he thought was out of his league?
