May152017

Secret Project Revealed: The Sumage Solution, Gail Carriger Writes Sexy M/M Paranormal Romance as G. L. Carriger

Finally, the big announcement!

If wishes were werewolves.

So a while ago, Gentle Reader, I started muttering about this stupid trashy-great story that kept waking me up in the middle of the night and bothering me with new characters. I called it SAS. Or occasionally Secret Project Smut.

It’s not steampunk.

It’s not in the Parasolverse.

Although there’s a way this could be the Parasolverse’s future, but you have to read it to find out how.

The Sumage Solution: San Andreas Shifter #1

G.L. Carriger

Preorder: Amazon | B&N | Apple | Kobo

So what is it?

It’s m/m paranormal romance set in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s raunchy and filthy. It’s hilarious and so much fun.

It’s the follow up story to Marine Biology.

I asked myself what happened after Alec moved with his merman boyfriend and his newly formed pack to San Francisco. Turns out he discovers that werewolves have a bad reputation, his brother has been in the closet his whole life, and there’s a snarky annoyed mage on their case.

The story is told with swapped POVs.

Whose story is it?

Start with a beefcake with a caregiver complex…

Bryan (AKA Biff) is Alec’s older brother and a Beta werewolf. Didn’t know he was a closet case, did you? A redneck jock type, overly muscled, overly gruff, and (as it turns out) overly sensitive.

Meets broken beautiful smart-ass with a heart of gold…

Max (Maximillian Barker) is a sumage (a mage who can’t actually do any magic) stuck in a crap government job with a mouth like a sailor and some serious relationship hang ups.

Max works at DURPS, the supernatural equivalent of the DMV. When Bryan goes in for processing, he discovers Max, and Max smells delicious. But mages are supposed to stink… to werewolves. It all goes downhill from there.

So I’m officially calling this the San Andreas Shiftier Series.

This series includes Marine Biology which is the prequel, and will now get a new cover. (And is, I guess, San Andreas Shifters Book #0.5? Although, Marine Biology shouldn’t really be San Andreas Shifters because it’s about the pack before it was a pack and moved to the Bay Area, but… I digress.)

Yeah. Series. This means there could be more. I suspect once you start reading about the San Andreas Pack that you will love them. I built myself a whole cast of fabulous gay biker werewolves to play with.

What, you doubted me?

What’s the first book called, then, Miss Gail?

The Sumage Solution

You gonna publish it?

Yep. It’s up for preorder right now. Amazon | B&N | Apple | Kobo

I dithered a while, worried about silly things like “polluting the brand.” (There are pros and cons to writing in multiple genres.) And is m/m too smutty for Gail to scribble? And will I get in trouble for writing trash? (In Defense of Trash)

You know what?

I really flipping love this book.

And I think you guys can take it.

I slapped sexy cover art on it (more on that soon) and a big old warning in the blurb, and so I hope none of my readers are sideswiped by butt sex. (Sideswiped By Butt Sex incidentally, is the name of my all-drag-queen Smashing Pumpkins cover band.)

Speaking of drag queens, there’s also one of those in The Sumage Solution. Her name is Manifest Destiny, and the biker werewolves are house-sitting her apartment at the beginning of the book. Yes, there is a wall of rainbow feather boas and a werewolf in a kimono.

Oh stop it.

You know you want to read it. Or if you don’t, I bet you know someone who does.

Yes, proper descriptions, and cover art analysis, info about print & audio releases, and all that fancy stuff to come.

Heh… come.

You see what this is doing to me?!

You can leave questions in the comments.

But I’m only answering the indiscrete ones.

Want More?

On a serious note, Romance Novels for Feminists (one of my favorite blogs) talks about the problem inherent in writing the classic Alpha hero and also concerns around women writing m/m smut (yes I share her concerns, but not enough to stifle myself) in two incredibly erudite interviews for LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS.

“Next time he’ll have me bummed by a big gay werewolf, I swear.”

~ Lesbian Vampire Killers

“When I say ‘spank me with a broomstick and call me Joseph Stalin’ I’m sure I speak for all of us.”

~ Hotel Babylon

“Can’t you tell from the hair and the cheekbones? Humans don’t grow that beautiful. Not outside of Denmark, anyway.”

~ Marine Biology (Alec talking about merfolk)

P.S. Don’t get me started in prostate wands because when you’re writing m/m with mages… comedy flipping gold.

{Gail’s monthly read along for May is Radiance by Grace Draven.}

UP NEXT

The Sumage Solution: San Andreas Shifters #1 by G. L. Carriger
Contemporary m/m paranormal romance featuring a snarky mage and a gruff werewolf. Hella raunchy. Super dirty. Very very fun. Spin off of Marine Biology.

Can a gentle werewolf heal the heart of a smart-mouthed mage?

GAIL’S DAILY DOSE

 

Your Infusion of Cute . . .

“When I got my library card, that’s when my life began.”

~ Rita Mae Brown

Your Tisane of Smart . . .

Mourning in the 1880s: U.S. vs Great Britainl

Your Writerly Tinctures . . .  

“You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is there a reason…I write only because there is a voice within me. That will not be still.”

~ Sylvia Plath

Book News:

Good Books & Good Wine says:

“Carriger’s Etiquette & Espionage is a female-empowering steampunk read, best opened up if you are looking for a cracking good time.”

Quote of the Day:

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are’ is true enough, but I’d know better if you told me what you reread.”

~ Francois Mauriac

Questions about Gail’s steampunk world? There’s a wiki for that!
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13 Responses

  1. Kate said:

    Very excited. I come from a biker family and live in a tiny town in England where big bikers like to go into tiny tea shops and drink tea out of tiny tea cups) I love when stereotypes get broken down. Incredibly excited for a gorgeous drag queen as well

  2. Ash said:

    I am always willing to read a new type of genre from an author I like. I suspect I will thoroughly enjoy it despite modern age books not being to my taste. Either way its already preordered.

  3. Melissa Hyland said:

    Will this only be in e-book form, or will there be a paperback version as well? I’d prefer a hard copy but will settle for downloading on the Kobo – looking forward to it either way!

      1. Melissa Hyland said:

        Oops, yes, just spotted it near the bottom. Thank you, can’t wait to read this!

  4. Lotta said:

    “Oh stop it.

    You know you want to read it. Or if you don’t, I bet you know someone who does.”

    I pre-ordered it before reading your description of the book and when I got to this part I almost yelled “Yes I do!”

    Can’t wait!

  5. Jo said:

    Thanks for sending my sister and I into fits of laughter over the name “Manifest Destiny!” Good to know there will always be a nod to us history nerds. I’ll definitely add The Sumage Solution to my growing, as I call it — and yes I do know this is silly — Gail Carri-shelf.

    1. Gail Carriger said:

      Never. I will never let the history nerds down. I am here for you. Always.

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