Lilah Suzanne

Author of LGBT+ contemporary rom-coms. Bi-furious. Genderqueer. Lambda/Indies/Bi Book Awards finalist. TACK & JIBE is now available!

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Raised on a small island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Willa has a picture-perfect nautical life: hanging out at the beach with her friends, living in a cozy seaside cottage, working at a sailing store, and running a hugely popular sailing Instagram. It’s so convincing that her overzealous online followers register her to compete in the High Seas, a televised national sailing championship.  

Too bad Willa doesn’t actually know how to sail.  

Desperate to protect her carefully curated life, Willa tracks down four-time High Seas champion Lane Cordova, and begs her for a crash course in sailing before the race begins. But Lane’s mastery of the water is matched only by Willa’s ineptitude—and her growing crush on Lane isn’t helping matters. When the competition threatens to go awry and take her idealized life with it, Willa has to figure out if she can save her reputation from sinking while taking a chance on love.

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When Frankie’s glamorous big city life falls apart, the only place she has left to go is her grandmother’s retirement village where she’s charmed by her grandmother’s friends, and a beautiful home health aide named Claire.

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Carter’s fiancé is in love with someone else. Link has just been left at the altar. After bonding over mutual heartbreak at the would-be reception’s open bar, Link and Carter pass out in the honeymoon suite—and are mistaken for the happy newlywed couple the next morning. Reluctant to deal with the fallout from their breakups, they embark on an exciting week of fake honeymooning, during which Carter starts to have real feelings for Link. A genderqueer artist who lives life by their own rules, Link inspires Carter to build a new future. Against the eclectic and electric backdrop of New Orleans, Carter and Link have to decide if a second chance at love is in the cards, or if they’re only meant to be sidelined in someone else’s story.

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Caleb Harris and Ty Smith-Santos are struggling actors who have never crossed paths until their lives take a turn for the bizarre when they learn that a farm in Sunset Hollow, Washington has been bequeathed to both of them. Intent on selling the property, Caleb and Ty clear out the cluttered farmhouse, but soon find themselves falling for the charming farm nestled between two misty-topped mountains, the lonely man who left it to them, and each other. When a real estate developer offers them a hefty payout, will they take the money and run or keep the farm and their budding relationship?

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Grady Dawson’s future looks bright. He’s at the top of his country music career, has a close-knit group of friends who have become his Nashville family, and has found solid ground in his personal life as he plans his intimate, private wedding with Nico, his stylist-turned-lover-turned-love of his life. It seems Grady has finally left his difficult childhood and tumultuous youth behind. That is, until his past shows up on his doorstep, news of his upcoming nuptials is leaked to the media, and his record company levels demands that challenge his integrity as an artist and as a person. The foundation of Grady’s new life begins to crumble, and fast. Will he be forced to make the ultimate choice between a private life with Nico and the public demands of his career?

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Gwen Pasternak’s got it all. Or so it seems…

In the sequel to RT Book Reviews’ Top Pick Broken Records, Gwen’s life looks perfect: She has a job she loves as stylist to the stars; a beautiful wife, Flora; and a house in the heart of Nashville. But the more she works alongside country music’s dynamic princess Clementine Campbell, the less Gwen is certain of her commitment to a life of domestic bliss.

Meanwhile, her business partner Nico Takahashi is happily settled down with reformed bad-boy musician Grady Dawson. But when Nico questions the permanence of their relationship, Grady retreats into some dangerous old habits. Will Gwen ruin the life she’s built with Flora for something new and exhilarating? Can Grady be convinced of Nico’s devotion before it’s too late?Burning Tracks is a story of tough choices, taking risks, and the pressures of living life in the spotlight.

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Los Angeles-based stylist Nico Takahashi loves his job—or at least, he used to. Feeling fed up and exhausted from the cutthroat, gossip-fueled business of Hollywood, Nico daydreams about packing it all in and leaving for good. So when Grady Dawson—sexy country music star and rumored playboy—asks Nico to style him, Nico is reluctant. But after styling a career-changing photo shoot, Nico follows Grady to Nashville where he finds it increasingly difficult to resist Grady’s charms. Can Nico make his peace with show business and all its trappings, or will Grady’s public persona get in their way of their private attraction to each other? Book One in the Spotlight Series.

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Former Olympic hopeful Jack Douglas traded competitive swimming for professional yoga and never looked back. When handsome pro boxer Felix Montero mistakenly registers for his Yoga for Seniors class, Jack takes an active interest both in Felix’s struggles to manage stress and in his heart, and discovers along the way that he may have healing of his own to do.

Faced with the ghosts of his athletic aspirations, can Jack return to his old dream or carve out a new path, and will their budding romance survive the test of Felix’s next bout in the ring?

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As writer of the popular Ask Eros advice column, Simon Beck has an answer to every relationship question his readers can throw at him. When it comes to his own life, the answers are a little more elusive—until computer troubles introduce him to the newest and cutest member of his company’s IT support team.

Simon may be charmed by Benji’s sweet and unassuming manner, but will he find the answer to the one relationship question he has never been able to solve: how to know when he’s met Mr. Right?!

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Free Story - As The Years Go By

When the boy next door falls for the boy next door… Gus Hoffman has been best friends with Leo Westley for most of his life, and in love with him for almost as long. As Gus and Leo grow and change through the years, their feelings for each other grow deeper— and more complicated. Gus is sure that they’ll end up spending their lives together, as friends or maybe something more, but when their paths split into different directions as adults everything comes crumbling down. Estranged for years, Leo and Gus come back into each other’s lives after a near-tragedy, and it becomes clear that Gus’s still-lingering attraction to Leo isn’t just one sided. But will giving in to physical desire ruin any chance at rebuilding their life-long friendship, or could this finally be Gus and Leo’s chance at happily ever after?

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Coming in 2020: TACK & JIBE by Lilah Suzanne

When an idealized Instagram life hits stormy weather, do you choose a picture perfect fiction, or the rough seas of true love?

Coming April 7th. award-winning and bestselling author Lilah Suzanne (Jilted, the Spotlight Series) returns with a romantic comedy about the undertow of a carefully curated life. 

Cover art by C.B. Messer.

Summary

Raised on a small island in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Willa has a picture-perfect nautical life: hanging out at the beach with her friends, living in a cozy seaside cottage, working at a sailing store, and running a hugely popular sailing Instagram. It’s so convincing that her overzealous online followers register her to compete in the High Seas, a televised national sailing championship.  

Too bad Willa doesn’t actually know how to sail.  Desperate to protect her carefully curated life, Willa tracks down four-time High Seas champion Lane Cordova, and begs her for a crash course in sailing before the race begins. But Lane’s mastery of the water is matched only by Willa’s ineptitude—and her growing crush on Lane isn’t helping matters. 

When the competition threatens to go awry and take her idealized life with it, Willa has to figure out if she can save her reputation from sinking while taking a chance on love.

About the Author

Lilah Suzanne is a queer author of bestselling and award-winning romantic fiction. Their 2018 novel Jilted was named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Foreword INDIES Award, and won a Bisexual Book Award for romantic fiction. Their critically acclaimed Spotlight series included the Amazon #1 bestseller Broken Records, along with Burning Tracks and Blended Notes. Lilah also authored the romantic comedy Spice, the novellas Pivot & Slip and After the Sunset, and the short story Halfway Home, from the holiday anthology If the Fates Allow. A writer from a young age, Lilah resides in North Carolina and mostly enjoys staying indoors, though sometimes ventures out for concerts, museum visits, and quiet walks in the woods.

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Cover Reveal!

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Now Available: The Spotlight Series Digital Boxed Set by Lilah Suzanne

“Hollywood style meets Nashville charm in this sweet, sexy fling turned romance.” —Publishers Weekly on Broken Records

Just in time for your summer TBR List!  Lilah Suzanne’s sweet and sexy series about finding love in unexpected places when a Nashville superstar falls for a Hollywood stylist—THE SPOTLIGHT SERIES.

The Spotlight Series Boxed Set is the complete series with exclusive new “B-sides,” short stories featuring popular characters from the Spotlight Series universe—all available at a discounted series price of $8.99 at your favorite digital retailers.

Included in the set:

BROKEN RECORDS: Los Angeles-based stylist Nico Takahashi loves his job—or at least, he used to. Feeling fed up and exhausted from the cutthroat, gossip-fueled business of Hollywood, Nico daydreams about packing it all in and leaving for good. So when Grady Dawson—sexy country music star and rumored playboy—asks Nico to style him, Nico is reluctant. But after styling a career-changing photo shoot, Nico follows Grady to Nashville where he finds it increasingly difficult to resist Grady’s charms. Can Nico make his peace with show business and all its trappings, or will Grady’s public persona get in their way of their private attraction to each other?

BURNING TRACKS: Gwen Pasternak’s got it all. Or so it seems… In the sequel to RT Book Reviews’ Top Pick Broken Records, Gwen’s life looks perfect: She has a job she loves as stylist to the stars; a beautiful wife, Flora; and a house in the heart of Nashville. But the more she works alongside country music’s dynamic princess Clementine Campbell, the less Gwen is certain of her commitment to a life of domestic bliss. Meanwhile, her business partner Nico Takahashi is happily settled down with reformed bad-boy musician Grady Dawson. But when Nico questions the permanence of their relationship, Grady retreats into some dangerous old habits. Will Gwen ruin the life she’s built with Flora for something new and exhilarating? Can Grady be convinced of Nico’s devotion before it’s too late? Burning Tracks is a story of tough choices, taking risks, and the pressures of living life in the spotlight.

BLENDED NOTES: Grady Dawson’s future looks bright. He’s at the top of his country music career, has a close-knit group of friends who have become his Nashville family, and has found solid ground in his personal life as he plans his intimate, private wedding with Nico, his stylist-turned-lover, turned love of his life. It seems Grady has finally left his difficult childhood and tumultuous youth behind. That is, until his past shows up on his doorstep, news of his upcoming nuptials is leaked to the media, and his record company levels demands that challenge his integrity as an artist and as a person. The foundation of Grady’s new life begins to crumble, and fast. Will he be forced to make the ultimate choice between a private life with Nico and the public demands of his career?

Spotlight B-Sides: Spencer

Spotlight B-Sides: Clementine

Available at the IP Web Store, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo.

Add it to your Goodreads TBR shelf at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45991745-spotlight-series-boxed-set

About the author

Lilah Suzanne is a queer author of bestselling and award-winning romantic fiction. Their 2018 novel Jilted was named a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Foreword INDIES Award, and won a Bisexual Book Award for romantic fiction. Their critically acclaimed Spotlight series included the Amazon #1 bestseller Broken Records, along with Burning Tracks and Blended Notes. Lilah also authored the romantic comedy Spice, the novellas Pivot & Slip and After the Sunset, and the short story Halfway Home, from the holiday anthology If the Fates Allow. A writer from a young age, Lilah resides in North Carolina and mostly enjoys staying indoors, though sometimes ventures out for concerts, museum visits, and quiet walks in the woods.

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Coming July 16: Lilah Suzanne’s SPOTLIGHT SERIES Boxed Set

“Hollywood style meets Nashville charm in this sweet, sexy fling turned romance.” —Publishers Weekly on Broken Records

Just in time for your summer TBR List!  Lilah Suzanne’s sweet and sexy series about finding love in unexpected places when a Nashville superstar falls for a Hollywood stylist—THE SPOTLIGHT SERIES.

The Spotlight Series Boxed Set is the complete series and with exclusive new “B-sides,” short stories featuring popular characters from the Spotlight Series universe—all available at a discounted series price of $8.99 at your favorite digital retailers.

Included in the set:

BROKEN RECORDS: Los Angeles-based stylist Nico Takahashi loves his job—or at least, he used to. Feeling fed up and exhausted from the cutthroat, gossip-fueled business of Hollywood, Nico daydreams about packing it all in and leaving for good. So when Grady Dawson—sexy country music star and rumored playboy—asks Nico to style him, Nico is reluctant. But after styling a career-changing photo shoot, Nico follows Grady to Nashville where he finds it increasingly difficult to resist Grady’s charms. Can Nico make his peace with show business and all its trappings, or will Grady’s public persona get in their way of their private attraction to each other?

BURNING TRACKS: Gwen Pasternak’s got it all. Or so it seems… In the sequel to RT Book Reviews’ Top Pick Broken Records, Gwen’s life looks perfect: She has a job she loves as stylist to the stars; a beautiful wife, Flora; and a house in the heart of Nashville. But the more she works alongside country music’s dynamic princess Clementine Campbell, the less Gwen is certain of her commitment to a life of domestic bliss. Meanwhile, her business partner Nico Takahashi is happily settled down with reformed bad-boy musician Grady Dawson. But when Nico questions the permanence of their relationship, Grady retreats into some dangerous old habits. Will Gwen ruin the life she’s built with Flora for something new and exhilarating? Can Grady be convinced of Nico’s devotion before it’s too late? Burning Tracks is a story of tough choices, taking risks, and the pressures of living life in the spotlight.

BLENDED NOTES: Grady Dawson’s future looks bright. He’s at the top of his country music career, has a close-knit group of friends who have become his Nashville family, and has found solid ground in his personal life as he plans his intimate, private wedding with Nico, his stylist-turned-lover, turned love of his life. It seems Grady has finally left his difficult childhood and tumultuous youth behind. That is, until his past shows up on his doorstep, news of his upcoming nuptials is leaked to the media, and his record company levels demands that challenge his integrity as an artist and as a person. The foundation of Grady’s new life begins to crumble, and fast. Will he be forced to make the ultimate choice between a private life with Nico and the public demands of his career?

Spotlight B-Sides: Spencer

Spotlight B-Sides: Clementine

Add it to your Goodreads TBR shelf at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45991745-spotlight-series-boxed-set

Preorder at the IP Web Store, Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo.

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Congratulations to our Foreword INDIES Nominees!

Interlude Press and Duet Books titles were nominated for six Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards today!

Congratulations to each of the authors for the following nominations: Naomi Tajedler for Concerto in Chroma Major (LGBT and Romance categories); Jude Sierra for A Tiny Piece of Something Greater (Romance); Jilted by Lilah Suzanne (Romance); Tom Willinsky and Jen Sternick for Snowsisters (LGBT); and Mia Kerick for The Weekend Bucket List (Young Adult).

More than 2,000 entries spread across 56 genres were submitted for consideration for Foreword Magazine’s INDIES Book of the Year Awards. The list of finalists was determined by Foreword’s editorial team. Winners will be determined by a panel of librarian and bookseller judges from across the country.

Foreword exclusively covers university and independent (non “Big 5”) publishers, the books they publish, and their authors. 

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JILTED Named Lammy Finalist

Congratulations to author @lilahsuzanne, whose romantic comedy JILTED has been named a Lambda Literary Award finalist for bisexual fiction!

A novel of love lost, faked, and found, JILTED features Carter, a weary architect, and Link, a genderqueer artist, who bond over mutual heartbreak when their respective exes run off together. Against the eclectic and electric backdrop of New Orleans, Carter and Link have to decide if a second chance at love is in the cards.

For more than 30 years, the Lammys have identified and honored the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books. Winners will be announced June 3rd.

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Holiday Special & Giveaway!

If the Fates Allow holiday anthology eBook $2.99 through 12/2!

Now though December 2nd, grab these five short stories of hope and love during the holiday season for only $2.99 at your favorite online retailers! If the Fates Allow features short stories from bestselling and award-winning authors Killian B. Brewer, Lynn Charles, Erin Finnegan, Pene Henson and Lilah Suzanne.

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And be sure to join our Instagram contest for your chance to win an If the Fates Allow swag bag and gift cards to the IP Web Store:

Share your best pics of the holiday spirit of hope and love depicted in If The Fates Allow. We would also love to hear your story of how a twist of fate can change a holiday or new year! (WE LOVE A GOOD STORY!)  

It can but doesn’t have to include a copy of the book, so you can enter whether you have already bought it or not. Tag us on Instagram with your entries @interludepress​​!

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