Hi. Please welcome my friend Parker Williams to the blog. Be sure to enter on the Rafflecopter below. Now, i’m turning it over to to Parker.
Today I’m very grateful to be visiting Tara Lain!
My name is Parker Williams (or Will Parkinson if you prefer). I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with my husband, our four dogs, and three cats.
Haven’s Creed is a huge departure from anything I’ve ever done in the past. Haven is not a nice man. He’s an assassin whose job it is to protect the innocent when he can, and avenge them when he can’t.
* What genres do you enjoy writing in?
So far I haven’t found a genre I don’t enjoy at least trying. Shifter stories, YA books, somewhat sweet romances, BDSM (with K.C. Wells), and now something dark and dangerous.
*What was the hardest part about writing this book?
Haven’s not a nice man. He does some things that are really awful. Writing those scenes were difficult, because I’m not one to enjoy the suffering of others, even when they deserve it. (And Haven’s targets ALWAYS deserved it.)
*What did you enjoy most about writing your book?
The feeling of accomplishment when I finished at 94,000 words. Jae Ashley, my editor, helped a LOT with that. This book took me over a year and a half to write, so there were a lot of things that needed to be looked at.
*What cultural value do you see in writing?
Stories have the power to bring people together, to make kids realize they’re not alone in the world, to give hope where there hadn’t been any before. I think it’s important that we encourage kids to write, to get their feelings on paper rather than keeping them bottled up until they erupt.
*What is your favorite positive saying?
SJD Peterson once told me about writing:
Some people will love your book.
Some people will hate your book.
Most people will just like your book.
But at the end of the day, you’ve done something 99% of the people can never claim. You wrote a book. And that, for me, is powerful.
Book Name: Haven’s Creed
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Blurb:
An act of violence destroys his family and ends the life he knows. To escape his haunted past, he joins the military, where, as a sniper, he is trained to kill with precision and detachment. When a covert organization offers him a new purpose, he becomes Haven, an operative devoted to protecting the innocent when he can and avenging them when he cannot.
After ten years of battling the evil in the world, the life no longer holds the attraction or meaning it once had, and he’s ready to walk away. Then he meets Samuel, a young man forced from the age of twelve to work as a sex slave. If ever a man had a need for Haven, it is this one.
Yet nothing about this growing relationship is one-sided. Sammy gives Haven a stability he’s never known, and Haven becomes the rock upon which Sammy knows he can depend.
When Sammy reveals something about the enemy Haven has been hunting for months, Sammy fears it will destroy what they’ve built and he’ll lose his home in Haven’s heart.
Warning: This book contains violent and dark scenes
Categories: Contemporary, Gay Fiction, Thriller, some romantic elements, some dark and violent imagery
Excerpt:
When I was fifteen, I killed my first man. Every time Arnie, the guy my mother was shacking up with at the time, drank, he got it into his head she was cheating on him. He’d start slapping her, and that turned into full-fledged beating within a few months. When he was done, he’d start on my sister.
There were nights she’d crawl into bed with me, sobbing. For the longest of times, she wouldn’t tell me what happened, but when I found blood on her pajamas, I knew. I’d tried to stand up to him, but he beat me badly enough that I couldn’t go to school for two weeks until the bruises faded. But I got off lucky. The things he did to Chrissy gave me nightmares. I’d hear her cry out and knew there was nothing I could do but hide in my bed, my pillow covering my head. He was bigger, meaner, and stronger than me, and he reminded me of that fact constantly.
The old lady never said boo about it. She always forgave him and tried to justify what he did by telling me how much stress he was under. How he was a good man and didn’t mean it. It was just the drinking, she swore. It was more like he was a bastard and she was his meal ticket.
I came home one night and found him whaling on her, my sister’s body crumpled in a heap, her head smashed in. The son of a bitch had a gun in his hand, slick with blood, and he threatened to kill them both, screaming he wouldn’t let her leave. She slapped him. It wasn’t hard, but it shocked him enough that he dropped the gun. I picked it up. He sneered at me and called me a weak-willed fag.
I looked at the gun I held in my hand. The instrument of my revenge. The means to saving my sister.
“Give me the gun, you fuck. It’s not a dick, you wouldn’t know what to do with it.”
The bullet I put in his forehead showed him how wrong he was. He lay on the floor, blood bubbling from the wound, and his eyes locked on mine as he took his last breath. I wanted that fucker to know it was the weak-willed fag who had done this to him.
Buy the book:
Amazon eBook: http://www.amazon.com/Havens-Creed-Parker-Williams-ebook/dp/B0190XCAX2/ref=sr_1_1
AllRomance eBook: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-haven039screed-1940506-153.html
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/598547
Meet the author:
Parker Williams believes that true love exists, but it always comes with a price. No happily ever after can ever be had without work, sweat, and tears that come with melding lives together.
Living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Parker held his job for nearly 28 years before he decided to retire and try new things. He enjoys his new life as a stay-at-home author and also working on Pride-Promotions, an LGBT author promotion service.
Where to find the author:
Connect with Parker on: Twitter: @ParkerWAuthor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/parker.williams.7564
Or you can visit his website: www.ParkerWilliamsAuthor.com
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28017836-haven-s-creed
Publisher: Parker Williams
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