And dog and blog rhyme! I didn’t even plan that! Sweet.
What the hell am I talking about, you ask? What the hell am I ever talking about…
I’ve got the most. Fun. Blog. Tour. Ever going on—that’s what I’m talking about!
Coming 9/9/13 from Liquid Silver Books!
If you love someone, set him free. If he steals something of yours, hunt him down and make him sorry.
Alex Bremen is over Chance Ralan. Ever since his high school boyfriend ditched him nine years ago, Alex has barely thought of Chance at all. Sure, Alex attended a concert or two when his ex’s band, Armageddon Showdown, was in the area, but that was more curiosity than anything else. Who wouldn’t want to see firsthand how his once clean-cut boyfriend transformed into a pierced and tattooed heavy metal god?
But when Chance has the nerve to record a love song Alex wrote for him years ago, Alex crosses the country to confront him. Revenge becomes a dish best served sizzling hot. The two men lock horns, but find the chemistry between them has only intensified with time, and occasionally love needs to do some growing up before it can be done right.
Do you love naming animals and possibly small people, but not necessarily cleaning up their poop? Do you love $20 Amazon gift cards? Does the thought of the name you pick being used for the name of the puppy in my next book get you excited? How about a shout-out in the acknowledgements of said book, AND a free e-copy of that very book to add to the bundle of fantastic I’m offering here?
Here’s the deal, Shaquille:
Name this dog.
Cute little shit, ain’t he/she? That’s right. I don’t know if it’s a boy or girl yet. I don’t even know what breed it is for sure. You can be the judge and let your ideas inspire the name. All it has to be is freakin’ perfect, and then I’ll obviously pick it and use it in my next book.
Want to have an advantage over the competition? Well here’s your hint: Chance and Alex of “Forever is Now” show up in the second book in my Shooting Stars Series (Double Takes). The puppy will be theirs. Run with that—but not with scissors.
That’s all I’m telling you. If you read “Forever is Now” you probably have a leg-up on naming the new addition to Chance and Alex’s family. Do you have to read it to come up with something that twangs my cat gut? Not necessarily! So if you don’t even read M/M and you’re just here for a gift card—go for it! We’ll see which I pick. 😉
Oh, and people who follow my blog and enter a name, while I will try to be fair and partial, you will probably come up with something that just sounds better to me. That’s how things go, right? If you stop by my house and suggest a puppy name, and then tell me I should weed more and my place is a freakin’ pig sty and you never want to come over again, your name suddenly sounds a little shitty, doesn’t it? 😉
Yay! Fire at will, and feel free to supply more than one name! Contest runs from 9/6 to 10/6, after which time I will announce and contact the winner.
Oh, and if you’d prefer to email me a name directly: kimbervale [at] hotmail {dot} com
Or you can tweet to my handle @kimbervale and #ForeverIsNow is a fun hashtag, methinks.
Or you can find me on Facebook and post to my wall.
I’m still pretty flexible despite my years. 🙂
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Wanna know where I’m touring? Well, I’m not one for planning and organization, but here’s the run-down…
9/6 The Gemini Girls: Sofia Grey and Allison Lindt
9/7 Reading Between the Wines for their weekend music festival (with a double e-book giveaway from me and tons of other author giveaways)
9/9 Forever is Now Release Day! 🙂 🙂 🙂
9/10 Lila Shaw’s Blog
9/15 Cover Reveals
9/13-9/21 The Romance Reviews Fall into Romance Hop –I will post right here about a favorite GLBT Romance book and host a giveaway of some sort–I’m still deciding what!
9/19 Genna Writes Good— Genna Wade’s blog
9/20 Ms Romantic Reads
9/23 Romance Novel News (New England Romance Author spotlight)
9/24 Sinfully Sexy Book Reviews
9/27 Book Reviews and More by Kathy–with giveaway!
9/28 The Novel Approach
10/3 Joyfully Jay
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And for my own clarity, I’ll keep a running tally of suggestions down here:
Bono from Diane Saxon
If it’s a small dog I’d call it Pixie, or Nix, or TD(short for tiny dog), Plec, short for plectrum.
If it’s a big dog, I’d call it Brutus or Bosh, or Zildjian which is a make of cymbal rock drummers use. –From Daisy Banks
Mugzy or Pepper–from Karen Gelsi
Axle or Elvis–Steph M.
Skeeter or Chex–Cari Anne
Springsteen–Danita Minnis
Porcupine–Books on Silver Wing
Rascal–Norsher
Diamond or Noble– Felinewyvern
Finn or Fyn- Ashley E.
Marlow–Arella
Bogey– Anne
Ellie–Jaime
Kuma–Jean MP
Lucky or Hunter–Christalynn
Satchmo–Satchmo
Eskimo-Nicki B
Lover Boy, Kip, Kit, Tyke, Rufus, Dog, Scruff– Mary Prestion
Charlie–Leslie R. via email
Thunder, Brimstone, Chaos–Give a Rush
Marshall (or, for that matter, Hi-Watt, depending how yelpy the dog is)–Trix
Bowie–Charley Desccteaux
Ralphie or Babs–RobinB78
Miagy–Angelique via email
Rex-Renee
Precious–Christine Mine
Dou–Toni Whitmore
Sasha, Cara, Harmony, Aaliyah, Lyric, Allegro, Aria, or Calypso—June
Bear or Muffit (the name of the robotic dog in old tv show Battlestar Galactica, because the dog in the picture reminds me of him.–Anne
Clancy–Book Lady
Vera since it means faith, but Gyfo (gift)–Lyra
Penny, Lady, Zoe, Goldie, Lucy, Kari, Bell, Mila, Luna, and Mine (pronounced Mean-a)– Judi P
Zeb, Barry (which is short for Barracuda), Waya ( Wa ya is wolf in Cherokee)–Kassandra
Vale, Armie, Rockie, Star--bn100
Kimber Vale 
September 6th, 2013 at 10:31 am
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September 6th, 2013 at 5:56 pm
Skeeter.
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September 6th, 2013 at 6:09 pm
One more…Chex. Cheesy, yes, but still a cute puppy name. 🙂
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September 6th, 2013 at 11:25 pm
porcupine
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September 7th, 2013 at 12:38 pm
It looks cute now but looks like it will grow into a very elegant dog so I would pick a name that it could grow into. Something like Diamond or Noble.
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September 7th, 2013 at 12:55 pm
Rascal
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September 9th, 2013 at 8:38 am
Finn (or Fyn, however you like to spell it). Good for the fluffy puppy stage, and the hulking monster stage.
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September 9th, 2013 at 8:51 pm
I usually need personality to name something. Like my cat, Zilla, was named that because she stayed up under my feet as a baby. It means ‘shadow’. Or Trysten, which means ‘noise’ since he won’t shut up.
Hmm… first thought though is Ciera (Sierra, just spelled funny cuz I’m like that). She’s a cute little pup.The only boy name that pops into my head is Maverick. 😉
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September 9th, 2013 at 9:11 pm
I know what you mean about the personality. With my love of Mel Gibson, though, I do like your Maverick suggestion, Amilyn! 🙂
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September 11th, 2013 at 7:40 pm
For some reason, when I see that wonderful puppy, I see a boy with the name Marlow. ❤
lol… Thank you for the contest!
and I hope you find the right name for this cute dog~~
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September 11th, 2013 at 8:32 pm
Oh, Marlow is such a cute name!
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September 12th, 2013 at 11:27 pm
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September 13th, 2013 at 3:57 am
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September 13th, 2013 at 9:18 am
Bogie.
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September 13th, 2013 at 9:47 am
I used to have a dog named Bogie growing up, Anne! 🙂
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September 13th, 2013 at 6:02 pm
Hmmm…so many dog names to pick from. I think the one I would go with is Ellie.
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September 14th, 2013 at 11:51 pm
Lucky or Hunter
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September 15th, 2013 at 9:50 am
Satchmo, maybe? Of course that’s my online nick but there’s also an adorable dog named Satchmo on the TV show White collar 🙂
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September 15th, 2013 at 11:55 am
And it doesn’t hurt that I picture Alex as Matt Bomer… 🙂
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September 17th, 2013 at 1:58 am
Mr. Beau Jangles or just Beau for short =)
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September 17th, 2013 at 8:06 am
My dad’s favorite dog of all time was named Beau! But we called him Road Kill for short. 😉
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September 18th, 2013 at 9:11 pm
Fluffy[I am re-reading Harry Potter :D], Smeagol, Precious, Galahad, Delia
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September 18th, 2013 at 9:23 pm
Too funny! The drummer for Armageddon Showdown (Chance’s band) is named Delia! 🙂
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September 19th, 2013 at 11:01 am
LOL, that’s cool 😀
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September 19th, 2013 at 11:09 am
since he/she will be replacing King, maybe Prince or Princess. I also like Fender and Gibson after the guitars or Lita and Jett after the two great ladies of rock
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September 19th, 2013 at 1:31 pm
You did your homework, Tamela! Good girl! 😉 Fun name suggestions–adding them to the master list right now!
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September 26th, 2013 at 10:56 pm
Lover Boy
Kip
Kit
Tyke
Rufus
Dog
Scruff
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September 27th, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Marshall (or, for that matter, Hi-Watt, depending how yelpy the dog is)
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September 27th, 2013 at 2:16 pm
Armageddon…The end of times, the end of the world as we know it. What do you think of when you picture such times? I picture the puppy as growing up to be a big, strong dog. So, going with the theme of the band (Title), I’d go with Thunder. (Brimstone and Chaos would be good as well. These are strong, significant names for their dog.)
Rush
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September 27th, 2013 at 5:52 pm
Ooh, what about Lemmy? Similar facial expression, and there’s certainly rock cred there…
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September 27th, 2013 at 6:06 pm
The story is about hunting for someone. I think, Tracker, Seeker, Trace or Chase.
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September 27th, 2013 at 6:21 pm
Also Hunter ,Charger ,Windrider.
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September 29th, 2013 at 2:15 pm
I immediately thought of two names: Ralphie (no clue why!) and Babs- after Barbara Streisand.
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September 30th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
I usually need to be around a puppy, at least for a day or so to figure out personality to find a name – however, I’d suggest Rex – it’s a strong name and also means King.
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October 1st, 2013 at 9:15 am
Since the puppy has a pink collar on, I am going to awesome it’s a female. She is quite beautiful that’s for sure. I like the name “Precious”. She’s tiny and just so darn cute & Precious!!
Christine
chrissy12583 at yahoo dot com
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October 6th, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Have another name, if it’s a boy- “Lucky”. i had a husky by that name when I was growing up. He was a great faithful family dog.
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October 6th, 2013 at 3:51 pm
ARISTOTLE, ADMIRAL,DELTA,Daisey.Lacie,theses are a few more. I think I’m done now. : )
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October 2nd, 2013 at 1:42 pm
Bear
Muffit (the name of the robotic dog in old tv show Battlestar Galactica, because the dog in the picture reminds me of him.
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October 3rd, 2013 at 1:54 pm
What a cute dog! I would name him Clancy. Then I could call him Fancy Clancy or Clancy Fancy.
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October 3rd, 2013 at 7:42 pm
Zeb
Barry (which is short for Barracuda)
Waya ( Wa ya is wolf in Cherokee)
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October 5th, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Vale
Armie
Rockie
Star
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