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In this scene from my novel Shattered Glass Milo's unreasonable jealousy fed by drummer Bart Hedge led to an argument with Liam.  What follows is Milo's apology and Liam's reaction.


“Milo, we’ve had this discussion before. He’s no longer jailbait. What’s wrong with being with
the guy you love?”


“Everyone will know. It wouldn’t be good for the band.”


“Milo, Elton John is openly gay and it hasn’t affected his record sales. For Christ’s sake, he
does work for Disney. It’s not the band, Milo, it’s you. You have been fighting what you are for years
for no good reason. Your true friends already know. The roadies know. There are always rumors in the
media. Liam is obviously gay. We spent years trying to tone it down because of where we were raised,
but we’re not there anymore. The entertainment industry is a big tent, and no one is going to throw you
out because you and Liam are lovers. This is your macho bullshit talking.”


“He says I put him on a shelf and just take him out to perform or fuck and then I lock him away
again.”


“Do you? Ask yourself that question and answer it honestly for a change.”


“I don’t know.” Milo checked the door to make sure he was still alone.


“Milo, have you ever taken him out dancing? Do you go to dinner, or a movie?”


“I haven’t got a lot of time with the band—”

“Cut the crap. I played in and managed that band for years, and yet I had time to finish law
school. I only asked for a break to study for the bar. I passed the bar three years ago, opened the firm,
and yet even though Shattered Glass is one of my most important clients, you won’t let me do my job.


You insist on handling everything yourself. What the fuck are you really hiding from?”
“I think I’m afraid to lose him. He’s still so young. I’m scared he’s going to go out and find
someone else.”


“If you keep pushing him away, it will only happen faster. Fuck, you need to get the hell out of
the closet. Your father’s dead, he can’t do you any damage. If you still have issues with that, see a
counselor. You need to do something or you will push everything and everyone you love so far away
from you that you’ll never get them back.”


“I’ll think about it.”


“You better do more than think.”


Milo sat in the study and stared at the wall. Was Sam right, could it be him? But Bart had toured
with a few other bands and knew how much all of this took out of a man. He said Liam just didn’t
understand how much it took to keep it all together. Milo didn’t know, and his ignorance of his own
feelings had caused a rift between not only himself and Liam, but between him, Sam and Rick. He
wished it could be simple. All he wanted to do was love and take care of his baby in peace.
Milo went back upstairs to the bedroom. Liam lay on his stomach, with the cats sleeping on the
pillow above his head. Milo looked at him longingly. He had to stop running from his heart. He crossed
the bare wood floor and sat on the edge of the bed. He was determined to make it up to him somehow.
Lifting the covers, he slid in beside him.


“Baby,” he whispered as he began to stroke his back. “Baby, I need to talk to you.”


“You’re here. I dreamed that you left.”


“No, love, I’m right here beside you. Come into my arms, and let me love you.”


“You’re not mad at me anymore?”


“No, I’m mad at myself for being an unreasonable, jealous prick.”


Liam rolled over on his side and the sheet slipped down below his waist. Milo kept stroking his
skin.


“I didn’t do anything wrong,” Liam said. “I swear. I just needed to talk to someone. I know you
need to run the band. I don’t want to be another burden. I’m so lonely sometimes. Danny’s just a friend.
He’s as het as you can get. I didn’t want to spend the evening feeling sorry for myself.”


“You’re right. I haven’t been putting the time into our relationship that you deserve. I have been
taking you for granted. I promise, I’ll try and do better. You are still so young. The thought of you
finding someone else makes me crazy.”


“I keep telling you, you are it for me. There will never, ever, be anyone else. If you believe
nothing else I tell you, believe that.”


“I’ll try, baby.”


Milo’s hands moved down Liam’s torso, stroking him into arousal. He tried to be as gentle this
morning as he was rough the previous evening. He worshipped Liam’s body with his mouth, moving
down his chest to his now blatant erection.


Placing kisses on Liam’s long, slender shaft, he wrapped his mouth around the mushroomed
head and began to suck with a soft motion that caressed his lover’s organ in his warm mouth. He
fondled Liam’s balls, licked, and sucked around the head, deliberately avoiding his lover’s ass because
he thought Liam would still be sore from his rough treatment of last night.


Liam moaned, “Please, love, more.”


Milo worried at the tip of Liam’s erection with his teeth, building up the tension gradually,
making his lover feel every swipe of his mouth and tongue.


“Milo, I’m gonna—”


Liam spurted into Milo’s mouth. Milo swallowed all his lover had to give him.


"Come up here, love,” Liam begged. “I want to make you feel good, too.”


“No, baby, this time was just for you. Let’s get a shower and go out for breakfast. Then we can
shop for a bench for the garden. I haven’t spent any time there either, and I want to watch you play the
guitar as I tend the flowers. I want to do so many things, baby, but I only want to do them with you.”

Shattered Glass is available in paperback and e-format from Captiva Press at www.captivapress.com.  It is also available in paperback and for the Kindle at www.amazon.com.  If you wish to know more about my novels and views, check me out at www.ackatt.com.

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Today I noticed that I have 1,647 comments on my blogs, the great majority of them compliments on my writing.  My blogging activity is dependent upon the sale of my books which cover the same subjects in fiction that the blogs cover in fact. So here it comes, the sales pitch. 

I currently have two books in print.  The first is Shattered Glass. The following is a blurb for the book:

Can love survive and be rekindled when a heart is broken like Shattered Glass?

Milo grew up in fear, hiding the fact that he was gay. Becoming a rock star with his band Shattered Glass was a dream come true. Finally lovers with Liam, the friend he’d desired since childhood, Milo worries about his image and keeping their relationship a secret.

Liam knew he loved Milo, even as a kid. But their fame and fortune can’t buy him the happiness of talking Milo out of the closet, able to freely express their love. Unfortunately, a fellow band-mate with vengeance on his mind conspires to break the lovers up in the most vicious way possible, destroying the couple’s relationship and shredding Liam’s peace of mind.

Six years later, Liam is older, wiser, and has rebuilt his life after the devastating loss of Milo and the band. Forced into a tenuous working reunion, Liam knows his heart still belongs to Milo. Working together to uncover the web of lies that pulled them apart, now all they have to do is survive the psychopath intent on silencing Liam and his music forever.

The plot includes the social and political positions that I discuss in my blogs.  The blogs are the effect of my book and if you want to understand them more throughly, read the book.  Shattered Glass is available from Captiva Press and can be bought at www.captivapress.com and from Amazon's Kindle Store at www.amazon.com.  There is also a buy link on my website www.ackatt.com, with the cover of the book and the words Click to Buy. C licking on this will bring you directly to the buy link on the publisher's website.

My second book is A Matter of Trust from XOXO Publishing. The theme of this book is trust and acceptance of who and what you are.  The following is a blurb for the book:

Donald Bear Drummond has everything, a commercial real estate empire, part ownership of Indiscreet, BDS&M club and status as a Master Dominant. Now he is looking for a special boy to share it with, but Donald is short on trust. Burned before, he is reluctant to take on just any boy. Donald wants the perfect boy, his boy. Can he find happiness with the troubled, Brian, the clumsy boy with horned rimmed glasses and a pocket protector who walks into his office and spills a bottle of Bordeaux on his Persian rug? Can he protect Brian from his enemies and well as Brian's own demons?

It's all A Matter of Trust.

The plot in A Matter of Trust tells of a different lifestyle than most of are accustomed to living.  But the world of Dominance and Submission is not all about pain.  It is about subverting your will to another because you want to please them.  It is about accepting another's complete trust and being worthy of what is given to you. A Matter of Trust can be purchased through its publisher XOXO Publishing at www.xoxopublishing.com.  There is also a direct buy link on my website, www.ackatt.com. where you can click the book cover and go to the publisher's page to buy the book.

Shattered Glass will be out in paperback in late November and again, be available from the publisher and other outlets.  I will keep you posted as to when this will occur.  Both books are relatively inexpensive and they support my blogging activities.  For those of you who enjoy my blogs, you will enjoy my books.

NEWS:  My original novel, The Sarran Plague, a menage a trois is being re-released by Captiva Press, I will keep you apprised of the progress on the new chapters, edits and release dates.

Don't forget my new show on Blog Talk Radio.  My page is www.blogtalkradio.com/ackatt. From my page you can listen to previous shows or catch the upcoming show on Thursday, November 4 at 12:00 noon Eastern, 11:00 am Central, 10:00 am Mountain and 9:00 am Pacific.  

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Shattered Glass – Lyrics

I started to write Shattered Glass for NANOWRIMO in November of 2008. For those of you who are unfamiliar with NANOWRIMO it stands for National Novel Writing Month and it is held every November. The object of the contest is to write a fifty-thousand word novel within the month of November. Winners are simply those who finish the task. Shattered Glass eventually became over ninety-thousand words, but the basic book started small, before extensive revisions at fifty-thousand for NANOWRIMO.

Initially, I had structured the as a series of flashbacks, but that didn’t work. After several attempts ending in failure, to shore-up that approach, I was advised by my stalwart Beta Reader, Crossthebar, to put it in chronological order. This worked well and with the exception of a single event, all of the novel’s action now takes place in sequence.

I realized soon after beginning the novel that since Shattered Glass was a band, the band needed songs, or, at the very least lyrics. After a bit of soul-searching, I decided to write the lyrics myself. As portrayed in the novel, Milo and Liam wrote music together with Liam as the composer and Milo as the lyricist. While separated from Liam, Milo wrote a book of poetry entitled Words Without Music. Liam wrote songs for two solo albums. All of the lyrics I wrote for the book are credited to Milo’s book, Liam’s albums or the albums that Shattered Glass recorded prior to the breakup. Here are some sample lyrics. Shattered Glass will be available June 30^th from Captiva Press at www.captivapress.com. If you want to know more about me and my writing come visit my website at www.ackatt.com.

Song of Might Have Beens

It’s painful to see

What might have been

If I had let it be

If we were both different men

Less burdened and more free

Of all the baggage and illusions

Secrets and darkness bring

The past spoke and winter came

And we never sought out spring

Lies and secrets are to blame

They caused our demise

And now, the season of the rain

Has cleared up dreary skies

You are to me the fount of life

My love that I so missed

There is no more any strife

Now that we have kissed.

—Milo Stamis

Not Alone

It’s difficult to ask for aid

When you know you’ve been betrayed

Who to trust, what to say

Who swept all your dreams away

Trust your heart; hear your soul

Give up some of your control

Burdens lighten when they’re shared

Just as hearts when they’re paired—Liam O’Shea