Author Chat with Andy and Guest B.A. Tortuga

Please welcome my good friend (and hopefully soon to be co-author) B.a. Tortuga. I’ve know B.a. for a lot of years (and I still don’t know what BA is short for. ) And like the characters she writes about, she’d stand back to back with her friends and fight for them if you needed her. Not only is she a great friends, but she’s wicked funny and full of good common sense. I’m so glad she’s with us today.

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ACwA Guest: B.a. Tortuga.

Origin: How did the first story you ever wrote influence your career as an author and how do you feel about that story now?

That’s a complicated question. *grins* I started in the 70s publishing poetry, I wrote horror in the 80s, went back to poetry in the 90s and then started writing romance in the 2000s. Stress Relief is the first romance I published, and while I love it, my style has totally changed in the last 15 some odd years.

Which of your characters is most like you (or someone close to you.)

Hmm… If MJ from the Road Trip series and Coke Pharris from the Roughstock series had a crafty lesbian baby…

What is your favorite trope and why?

Former lovers — absolutely. I love redemption and bringing souls back together. It makes me happy.

How many half-written stories are on your hard-drive and what do you plan to do with them?

Hrm — surprisingly few. I have a couple of fantasy-type stories I’ve started, but that’s really it. *grins*

What are you working on next?

Right now I’m writing the third in the Banished series, Aspen’s Song. It’s a gay werewolf story featuring a hurt black ops agent and a psychic fashion model *sparkles*. I’m also just starting the second in the Wounded Warrior series, and this one’s going to feature a dog trainer with PTSD and a damaged bullfighter.

B.A. Tortuga’s Newest Release with Jodi Payne

Just Dex: Les’s Bar Book One

When Dexter Appleton’s best friend Huck commits suicide, it damn near kills Dex too. Huck was a bull rider with a crazy life, and leaves behind a big house, and a ton of unanswered questions. But Dex is just a simple guy, just a Texas redneck trying to scrape together a life, and he can’t handle much more before he breaks.

Cyrus Hughes is a professional Dom. He’s shocked to learn that Huck is gone, he’s met with Huck twice a month for years, and didn’t expected to miss a client so much. When he heads to Texas to pay his respects, he instinctively feels protective of Huck’s anxious and unlikely best friend, Dexter.

The attraction between them grows, even long distance, until Cyrus insists he needs Dex with him in New York. Clinging to his last bit of hope, Dex takes a leap of faith and moves what little he still owns in with Cyrus, hoping to find his place is in the world, and learn how to love a lifestyle Dom.

Their path is full of trial and error, adjusting expectations and discovering how they fit together. Cyrus and Dex try to smooth out the rough edges and create their own family, one where Cyrus hopes to convince Dex that he’s not “just” anything.

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About B.A. Tortuga

Texan to the bone and an unrepentant Daddy’s Girl, BA Tortuga spends her days with her basset hounds and her beloved wife, texting her peeps, and eating Mexican food. When she’s not doing that, she’s writing. She spends her days off watching rodeo, knitting and surfing Pinterest in the name of research. BA’s personal saviors include her wife, Julia Talbot, her best friends, and coffee. Lots of coffee. Really good coffee.

Having written everything from fist-fighting rednecks to hard-core cowboys to werewolves, BA does her damnedest to tell the stories of her heart, which was raised in Northeast Texas, but has heard the call of the high desert and lives in the Sandias. With books ranging from hard-hitting action-adventure, to fiery menages, to the most traditional of love stories, BA refuses to be pigeon-holed by anyone but the voices in her head.