Kerry Freeman's Blog

I am happy to announce that What We Deserve is now available in paperback. You can purchase it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and CreateSpace.

Reese Dante did an amazing job on the cover. She really captured the guys and the atmosphere of the book.

And if you'll be at the Southern Magic Reader's Luncheon next month, I'll have a few copies to sign.

It's been a long wait, but it's almost here: the release day for PLAYING BALL! It has been great working with Shae, Kate, and Marguerite, and I am thankful that Shae invited me to contribute to the anthology.

Baseball—America's favorite pastime—provides a field wide open for romance. A Home Field Advantage may not help when Toby must choose between the team he’s loved all his life and the man he could love for the rest of it. In 1927, Skip hides his sexuality to protect his career until...

To celebrate the release of our anthology PLAYING BALL, Shae, Marguerite, Kate, and I are going on a tour of some of our favorite blogs. Beginning tomorrow and running through October 9th, you'll be able to read excerpts from all our stories and great guest posts about the anthology, baseball, hot men, and more. And there's a big tour giveaway! (more about that tomorrow)

Here's the schedule of where we'll be and when. Make sure to come by and say hi.

Release day is getting closer, and my co-authors and I are pleased to share the cover of our baseball-themed anthologyPlaying Ball. The talented cover artist is Aaron Anderson.

I love the cover, and I hope you like it too.

And what's better than a cover reveal? Pre-order links! Starting today, you can pre-order Playing Ball on the Dreamspinner Press website.

Pre-order print

Pre-order ebook

We are also gearing up for the Playing Ball blog tour, which will begin on September 20th. We're planning a l...

Last year at the GayRomLit book signing, I shared a table with Shae Connor. Like me, Shae is a baseball fan (GO BRAVES!), and we spent part of the time talking baseball. At some point, Shae mentioned that it would be great if some of us baseball-loving gay romance authors put together an anthology. I agreed. Then I forgot all about it.

Flash forward a few months. I get an email from Shae about the aforementioned baseball anthology. Would I still be interested in doing it? A...

Today I have the great pleasure of interviewing author and fellow book bunny Michelle Smith about her new book KINGDOM COME, released today. Welcome to the blog Michelle!

Q: What inspired you to write Kingdom Come?

A: A cloud. No, seriously. My son and I were playing outside one afternoon, and I looked up and saw storm clouds rolling in. I told him, "We need to head inside. There's a storm coming." And with that line, a swarm of plot ideas poured into my head. The (very rough) outline of Kingdo...

I'm very influenced by music, and I like to have a theme song in mind when I'm writing a story. I'm currently working on a story about two men reuniting after 20 years apart. As I was driving to work, I heard a song by 3 Doors Down that captured the feelings of the protagonist as he reaches out to his first lover, a man he wants back more than he's ever wanted anything.​

I’ve been waiting so long, just to hold you
And to be back in your arms where I belong.

That's exactly what my guy wants to sa...

​Today I am so happy to have Debra Glass here to talk about historical inspiration. Debra is a fellow Southern Sister of Steam (our book signing group) and member of the Southern Magic chapter of RWA. Please welcome Debra and make sure to comment for an awesome giveaway :)

​Thanks so much for hosting me on your blog today, Kerry!

Stage at the Southern Voices Festival at the Hoover Public Library

On Saturday, I attended the Southern Voices Festival at the Hoover Public Library. I was excited to hear so many Southern authors talk about their work, and I was especially looking forward to seeing Wiley Cash, who wroteA Land More Kind Than Home​, my favorite book of 2012.

As each author spoke, I found myself inspired by their stories. Dorothea Benton Frank told her story about becoming a writer after years in the workforce. G...

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Remember when letters from your grandma or your best friend took days to get to you? You checked the mailbox religiously, hoping to find an envelope or a post card with your name on it? If you were a kid, getting your own mail made you feel like a grown up. If you were an adult, it was a welcome deviation from a box full of bills and catalogs.

Don’t remember any of that? Chances are you are a child of the digital age. Communication is almost instant. You and your friend across the ocean can email/text back and forth with the only pauses being for bathroom breaks or sleep. (We all know we don’t stop emailing or texting for something as basic as eating.)

Lately I’ve begun to miss old-fashioned letters. My husband and I will go days without checking the mail because, after all, it will just be a bunch of junk and a few magazines. (With the advent of ebills and autopay, we rarely get bills now.) It’s kinda sad, if you think about it.

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Last week, I heard about a project that is exactly what I need: A Month of Letters.

In the month of February, mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture, or a cutting from a newspaper, or a fabric swatch.
Write back to everyone who writes to you. This can count as one of your mailed items.

All you are committing to is to mail 23 items. Why 23? There are four Sundays and one US holiday. In fact, you might send more than 23 items. You might develop a correspondence that extends beyond the month.

Write love letters, thank yous, or simply notes to say that you miss an old friend. Let yourself step away from the urgency of modern life and write for an audience of one. You might enjoy going to the mail box again.

And it’s not too late to get started. You’d only be two letters behind if you started today.

I’m really looking forward to this. It’s the first of three projects I have planned this year. (You’ll hear about the other two eventually, I promise.) I can’t wait to get my first Lettermo mail!