Wild Wales by Patricia Evans Cox (VBT, guest post, excerpt, and GIVEAWAY) GFT ADULT title

I have the pleasure of sharing a thought-provoking guest post by author Patricia Evans Cox...

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Patricia Evans Cox

Recently, I was reading a current book from one of my favorite authors, and she described one of the characters as …. “overly butch.”

This author is very successful and well known, and a fan of my work as well, it turns out. Here is my question: how can someone be “overly butch?”
Why is being appearing butch, or very femme for that matter, somehow a negative within our community? And why would we, as lesbian authors, reinforce that negative stereotype?

I love butch-identified women. Let’s face it, however you identify, they’re just plain hot, and they’ve melted me since I bought my first pair of Docs. But even if they didn’t, it’s none of my business what any woman feels comfortable wearing, or how she chooses to present herself to the world, and it’s always inappropriate to comment negatively about it.

I feel it’s also appropriate here to mention that the way someone appears may not actually correlate with how they identify. For example, I look like I probably own an extensive collection of vintage aprons and kitten heels, but let me assure you, I do not. I’m as tomboy as they come; don’t let the perfect smoky eye and bedroom hair fool you.
Do my looks make me “too femme?” No, there’s no such thing, only me, Tomboyinkslinger, and I don’t identify as femme.
‘Get what I’m sayin’ here?

What I do know is it’s a LOT harder to move through this world as a masculine woman, and butches will always have my respect and support for the rampant ignorance they put up with, sometimes on a daily basis.
They are part of our family, and it’s our responsibility to use our platform as authors and writers to support and normalize all identities within our lesbian family.

Let’s all be more careful not to label the women in our community negatively. Don’t we get enough of that from the outside world? No one is “overly butch.”
Brave, hot, admirable and strong as fuck, but never too butch.

Just sayin’.

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Wild Wales

by Patricia Evans Cox

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GENRE:   Lesbian romance

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BLURB:

Aisling Moss is balanced on the crystal edge of success as one of the most sought-after wedding planners in London…until one ill-advised move brings her career crashing down around her feet like a toppled tower of champagne flutes. The next day, a letter from a family solicitor arrives at her flat, and she has to choose between picking up the pieces of her career in London or taking the next flight to Wales to honor the wishes of someone she loves.

Finn Morgan was forced to end her fighting career after an injury sidelined her dreams of being a star in the cutthroat world of professional women’s boxing. Her job as a short-order cook in a Brooklyn diner certainly doesn’t compare, but it also doesn’t require her to think about what she wants to do with her life. Sleeping with her boss’s wife and spending quality time with a punching bag is all she needs, until the day she comes home to find a letter from across the pond, surrounded by a pool of warm sunlight, on her entry table.

Once in Wales, long-kept secrets and unexpected demands surface for both Finn and Aisling, and they are forced to make hard decisions about their futures: Do they return to rebuild the lives they had, or take a chance on love in wild, windswept Wales?

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EXCERPT

Caroline looked up at her. “Do you think it’s just jitters?”

Aisling paused, wishing Caroline had asked her any question but that one. She took a breath and smiled, choosing her words carefully.

“Every bride has nerves the night before the big day. All you need to do is put this nonsense to the back of your mind and get a good night’s rest.” Aisling realized suddenly that she was still holding Caroline’s hand and subtly let go as she continued. “This will all seem like a dream tomorrow morning when you wake up and realize it’s your wedding day, the happiest day of your life.”

Caroline bit her lip, searching Aisling’s eyes. “Do you really mean that?”

Do I mean it? What if she really is gay and the poor girl is reaching out for advice?

Aisling squared her shoulders and reminded herself that this wasn’t her decision to make. Only Caroline could decide what was right for her, just like only Aisling could create the life she wanted for herself. And she knew what she wanted: the corner office in the corporate headquarters with the floor-to-ceiling windows and the ridiculously inflated salary.

“Yes,” Aisling said. “I do think it’s just nerves.”

Caroline ran her hands through her hair looked up at the sky. It was a long moment before she looked back at Aisling and held her eyes.

“If that’s true.” Caroline’s words were slow and deliberate. “Then kiss me.”

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Patricia has been slinging ink and falling in love with characters since her boarding school days, and continues to write in her hometown of Eureka Springs, AR.

Her handmade tiny home in the forest, strewn with leather journals and forgotten cups of tea, serves as her writing studio. Her dogs Dublin and Snoo do their best to help by snoring loudly at her feet.

Patricia has lived in Ireland and England and returns there frequently to write, as well as to a much loved tiny island off the coast of Glasgow, where the owner of the local pub saves her the red velvet chair by the fire.

More of her writing can be seen at her website

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