Category Archives: Love in Los Angeles

Starling: A New Year’s Eve Excerpt

Posted on December 31, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

It’s New Year’s Eve and three weeks away from the release of Doves, book 2 in the Love in Los Angeles series. Below is an excerpt from a New Year’s Eve party that takes place relatively late in Starling, the first book in the … Continue reading →

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Avian30 Housekeeping

Posted on December 20, 2014 by erincmcrae

As we’re coming to the end of the year, and ramping up to the release of Doves in January, we’re dusting up around the site. Primarily,  the links to all our reviews media appearances are here, and now we’ve added our guest blog … Continue reading →

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Breaking down Evergreen’s five big adjectives

Posted on December 19, 2014 by erincmcrae

We keep saying Evergreen is an interracial, biexual, polyamorous, Hollywood, holiday romance (and yes my fingers are starting to hurt from typing that so often). Today on the Torquere blog, we talk a bit about what we actually mean by that.

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The Awesome Women of Love in Los Angeles, Part 8: Darcy DeRosier

Posted on December 18, 2014 by erincmcrae

Of the fabulous new women that are introduced in Doves, Darcy is one of our absolute favorites. She’s eighteen. She grew up in New York. She’s a theater brat and has a bevvy of younger siblings — who are also theater brats. … Continue reading →

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New Release: Evergreen

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

It’s new release day! Evergreen, a 12,ooo-word interracial, bisexual, polyamorous, Hollywood, holiday romance is now available from Torquere Press and major distributors. When bisexual polyamorous TV star Liam Campbell returns home to New York City for the holidays he finds … Continue reading →

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Holidays: Alex

Posted on December 16, 2014 by erincmcrae

Everyone Alex works with, or is friends with, or who has seen an interview with him on television, knows he is from Indy-fucking-ana. It’s no secret that he’s from a tiny, crappy town. Exactly how tiny and how crappy that … Continue reading →

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The Awesome Women of Love in Los Angeles, Part 7: Ellen Carr

Posted on December 11, 2014 by erincmcrae

Ellen Carr is one of Victor’s prized directors. She’s dry, snarky, and immensely competent. Victor adores her because she’s brilliant, capable, and angry. She’s practiced at navigating the bullshit that being a woman director in the old boys’ club of … Continue reading →

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How Stuff Works: The SAG Awards

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

The SAG Awards nominations for this year have just been announced.  While they are one of many, many entries in the ever growing and lengthening awards season, they are arguably the one actors care most about. As union members we … Continue reading →

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Holidays: Liam

Posted on December 2, 2014 by erincmcrae

While we don’t usually think of Starling as a holiday book, the reality is that Thanksgiving and Christmas loom large in it, with one of Alex’s major growing up moments happening in a thoughtful moment after attending midnight mass at … Continue reading →

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Thank you

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

About a year ago, Erin & I got the yes from Torquere on Starling. It was Thanksgiving weekend, she was at a bar in Rochester, and we’d finally decided enough time has passed beyond the deadline Torquere promises a response … Continue reading →

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