Today I am so pleased to welcome J.A. Rock (and her mom!) to Joyfully Jay. J.A. is here as part of her Rocking Read Aloud Tour to share a reading from her book Pain Slut (The Subs Club #2). She has also brought along a copy to give away. Please join me in giving her a big welcome!

 

Hi! I’m J.A. Rock, and welcome to the Rockin’ Read Aloud Tour. Today on the tour, I have a special guest: My mom was visiting Chicago, and she asked if she could be in one of the readings. I thought she was joking, so I was like, “Yeah, we’ll read from Pain Slut.” And she said, “Okay.”

So what started as an attempt to call her bluff resulted in us reading together from Pain Slut. We picked a relatively tame scene, and it was super fun to record. I’m not sure what my favorite part was—having to say, “You’ll always be a kinky fucker,” to my mom, or trying to keep a straight face while she read the line, “I’m more bottom than sub.” Or her Sean Penn from Fast Times meets Willard from Footloose interpretation of Kamen.

If you know the series, or saw last week’s reading from The Subs Club, you know the club is comprised of four best friends: uptight Miles, snarky Dave, sweet but none-too-bright Kamen, and man-of-few-words Gould. So my mom took Miles and Kamen, while I read Dave and Gould, and we tackled the scene where the easily embarrassed Miles has to tell his friends he’s dating a member of the vampyre community.

Or click here to watch Episode 3: Pain Slut

You can comment on this post for a chance to win an ecopy of Pain Slut, and if you want to watch past tour videos, or find out more about the tour—which still has a few more stops—you can visit www.jarockauthor.com. Thanks for stopping by!

Tour Stops:
March 19th – Boy Meets Boy (Calling the Show)
March 25th – Prism Book Alliance (The Subs Club)
March 31st – Joyfully Jay (Pain Slut)
April 4th – The Novel Approach (When All the World Sleeps)
April 11th – Love Bytes (Brandon Mills versus the V-Card)
April 16th – Sinfully Gay Romance (The Grand Ballast)
April 20th – Crystal’s Many Reviewers (The Good Boy)


Blurb

PainSlut_200x300Honestly, I’m ready to take a step back from the Subs Club. Making the kink world a safer place for subs is the sort of bandwagon I’d have boarded as an idealist in my early twenties, but now I’m a pragmatist in my late twenties. I prefer to focus on adopting and raising a child.

But unexpected factors inevitably derail my plans. Like Drix Seger—attractive and the first genuine sadist I’ve encountered. If I were not in the process of renouncing my masochistic ways and becoming the normal, responsible potential father the adoption agency wants to see, Drix and I might do well together. But he has a foolish name and belongs to a cult of vampyres, and I am quitting kink. So why does Drix’s infatuation with blood and biting make me so hot I can’t think straight? And why, when he looks at me, does he seem to see something beyond a basket case with a stick up my ass?

Can I start a new phase in my life without leaving part of myself behind? Please send help.

—Miles

About the Subs Club series

After the death of their friend Hal at the hands of an irresponsible dom, submissive friends Dave, Kamen, Miles, and Gould band together to form the Subs Club—an organization seeking to expose dangerous local doms. The club slowly evolves as romances blossom, loyalties are tested, and tensions mount in a community already struggling for unity in the wake of Hal’s death.

From domestic discipline to knife play to fashion paraphilia, and from family drama to new jobs to first loves, the members of the Subs Club explore life’s kinks inside and outside of the bedroom as they attempt to let go of the past and move forward.


Bio

J.A. Rock is the author of queer romance and suspense novels, including By His Rules, Take The Long Way Home, and, with Lisa Henry, The Good Boy and When All The World Sleeps. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama and a BA in theater from Case Western Reserve University. J.A. also writes queer fiction and essays under the name Jill Smith. Raised in Ohio and West Virginia, she now lives in Chicago with her dog, Professor Anne Studebaker.


Giveaway

J.A. has brought a copy of Pain Slut to give away to one lucky reader. Just leave a comment at the end of the post to enter. The contest ends on Monday, April 4th at 11:59 pm EST.

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