K.L. Noone has a new contemporary MM romance out: “Steadfast.” And there’s a giveaway too!

A love story for the ages! An intimate confession! An epic quest! And happily ever after on the horizonā¦
Jason Mirelli loves Colby Kent. And Colby loves him. Theyāve told the world. And Colbyās recovered from injury, so theyāre back at work and back on set. Jason just might have everything heās ever dreamed of, with a serious leading role, an epic love story, and Colby safe and happy in his armsābut they only have two weeks of filming to go. Heās afraid of the dream falling apart, and he knows Colby has a secret to confessāone that could transform both the ending of their movie and their future together.
Colby never got around to telling Jason his final secret before the accident on set. Now that heās recovered, he wants to share his writing and his silent script doctor work with the man he loves. Besides, heās rewritten this script to give their characters a proper happy ending. But heās nervous about making changes to a classic novel, and he wants the authorās approval.
Colbyās hoping to seek out the famously reclusive author in question, but first heāll need to trust Jason with this last piece of himself. If he can, he and Jason might finally find their happily-ever-after both on screen and offāfor their characters and for themselves.

About the Series:
An epic motion picture! A gay Napoleonic War love story! Ballrooms and battles at sea! Romantic happy endings on the silver screen! And a film thatāll change everything for its stars …
Jason Mirelli canāt play adrenaline-fueled action heroes forever. Heās getting older, plus the action star parts have grown a little thinner since he came out as bisexual. This role could finally let him be seen as a serious dramatic actor, and he needs it to go well — for his career, and because heās fallen in love with the story and the chance to tell it.
The first problem? Heāll be playing a shipās captain … and he hasnāt exactly mentioned his fear of water. The second problem? His co-star: award-winning, overly talkative, annoyingly adorable — and openly gay — box office idol Colby Kent.
Colbyās always loved the novel this filmās based on, and he leapt at the chance to adapt it, now that he has the money and reputation to make it happen. But scars and secrets from his past make filming a love story difficult … until Jason takes his hand and wakes up all his buried desires. Jason could be everything Colbyās ever wanted: generous and kind, a fantastic partner on set, not to mention those heroic muscles. But Colby just canāt take that chance … or can he?
As their characters fall in love and fight a war, Colby and Jason find themselves falling, too … and facing the return of their own past demons. But together they just might win … and write their own love story.
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Excerpt

Steadfast ā the Character Bleed Trilogy #3
Guest Post ā Casting Ideas!
For this guest post, I wanted to think about ideas for casting my charactersāit seemed only fitting, since itās a novel (and trilogy) about filming a movie! So, here are some thoughtsā¦
Colby ā a younger Ben Whishaw or Cillian Murphy, or maybe even Sebastian Stan around the Political Animals or Winter Soldier era. Or possibly a slightly older TimothĆ©e Chalamet. Someone who can manage pretty-but-strong, and upper-class but generally anxious, especially around people, and overly enthusiastic about books and cheese!
Jason ā some sort of cross between Russell Crowe in Master & Commander specifically (one of my overall inspirations!), the muscles of The Rock, and maybe Jon Bernthal. Or Clive Owen. Or, though heād probably have to get bigger, Enver Gjokaj, because he can do competent-but-adorable so well.
Leo ā Tom Hiddleston! Heās always been the person in my head for Leo.
Jillian ā Angela Bassett would be fantastic! Or Taraji P. Henson. Someone who knows how to control a movie set as an experienced director, and likes to dress comfortably but also still likes having pink or purple hair, is on-and-off dating the singer from a legendary former girl punk band, and tries very hard to be the big sister Colbyās never had.
Andy ā this oneās actually tricky! Iām not sure I have a good exact match. I sort of picture a younger Simon Pegg, or possibly Rupert Grint. Short, red-haired, in favor of bad puns, and protective of people.
Sir Laurence ā Ian McKellen! Patrick Stewart would also work wonderfully, with that voice. Or Charles Dance.
George ā also any of those three, above! I would absolutely love watching Ian McKellen as Laurie and Patrick Stewart as George, especially when they meet and get cranky with each other (and protective of Colby!), and then fall in love.
And now I want this movie to happenāwhat a fantastic cast that would be!

Excerpt
Jason steadied Colby and himself as best he could. His heart hadnāt calmed down yet. Slamming into his ribsāseeing Colby come running through a doorway, eyes wide, breath quickāhearing Colby ask for helpā
But Colbyās eyes were bright. And Colbyās hand on his arm was exuberant, not frightened.
āāIāve saved them, you see,ā Colby was saying, voice tripping all over itself in excitement, accent rippling and delighted. āIāve worked it out, the happy ending, and Iām very sorry youāll have to lose an arm, but that wonāt be too dreadful, and your Stephen can come home to Will after all, but if Iām going to change anything that drastic I do want to explain, so Iāll need your help, but anyway, here, tell me whether you think itās all rightāā
āYouāre okay,ā Jason said.
āOh.ā Colby blinked at him, then smiled. Willās dressing gown slid off one shoulder; Jason moved to tug it back up, but Colby already was, unselfconsciously graceful. āYes. Very much.ā
āYouā¦saved Will and Stephen?ā He took offered script pages. āYou changed the ending?ā
āYes, I had toāI couldnāt let them be tragicāyes, go on, read itāā
Serenity the PA had tactfully wandered down the hallway and was pretending to be texting. Night fell like a slowing carousel around them, through tall curtain-framed windows full of stars.
Jason kept an arm around Colby, who believed in happy endings. Found the beginning of the new scenes.
After a minute he said, āHoly shit yes.ā
āYes, I thought so too, did you like the bit when Stephenāā
āHang on, Iām not doneāā It was good. It was so good. He wanted to leap headlong into Colbyās words, to plunge into this imagined historical future. He could see himself playing it out, knowing exactly the quaking weight in Stephenās steps toward Willās townhouse, fearful and hopeful, reunion only a possibility until it became triumphantly realā¦
He knew how Stephen would gather Will close with his one good arm, and how the tears would burn: Will lived, Will still wanted him, they would face the rebuilding of their lives together.
His chest ached, because Colby had written words that reached in and gripped his heart and shook it apart and then soothed it into a soft safe rhythm again.
He looked up, after. āThis is right.ā
āYes,ā Colby said. āYes. Itās a good historyātwo men getting to be happy together, because they did, they could, we have to tell those storiesāā
āBut itās also right for them. What they do with the house, with their livesāā
āI wanted it,ā Colby said, āto feel like joy.ā He looked like joy too, wrapped up in an embroidered period dressing gown.
āIt does,ā Jason said. āIt does.ā
āBut to make that changeā¦ā Colby hesitated, excitement not dimmed but reshaped. āFirst weāll have to tell Jillian. Itāll alter the tone of the film.ā
āSheāll love it. I do.ā
āI think she willāweād talked about the ending, and Iād said I wasnāt entirely happyābut itāll mean a longer shoot. I can put more money into it, thatās not a problem, but weāll be asking the crew to extend their commitment. Iāll understand if some of them canāt, of course.ā
Jason mentally skipped over the financing comment. It was a reminderāColby had a hell of a lot of money even compared to Jasonās action-hero income, enough to casually fling at a production in needābut heād already made peace with that. He knew Colby used it to help people.
More importantly, he guessed that most if not all of their crew would stay on. If not for the paycheck, for Colby. āBet theyāll want to. This is big. This kind of story. Telling it.ā
āThatās the other part. I know how much the novel means to the people who love it.ā Colby squared shoulders. āI think, in order to do thisā¦we should go and find George Forrest and ask. Not permission, preciselyāhe gave that when we agreed on the rights, and he said he didnāt want to be involvedānot bothered by all that nonsense, was how he put itābut Iād like some sort ofā¦ā
āApproval?ā
āPerhaps. I want to be respectful. Iāll show him my version, and he can comment, Iād not mind, he knows Will and Stephen the bestāI wonder if heād like raspberry tarts as a sort of giftāā
The next realization hit Jasonās brain like a falling ton of Regency-era bricks. āColby?ā
āThatās the bit Iād like your help with, not the baking but the travel, becauseāā
āColby.ā
āPossibly not tarts?ā
āIf you do thisā¦if we do thisā¦ā He had both hands on Colbyās shoulders. Bracing. āItāll mean telling people. About your writing. Itāll have to. We could try to keep your secret, I know you and Jillāve been good at that, and Iāll help, you know I will. But it wonāt work for long. If youāre the one finding the author, if youāre showing him thisāif even one person says even one thingāwith the press weāve already gotā¦ā He gave up, said it again: āYouāll have to tell people. And I know you donāt want to.ā
Colby didnāt flinch. āI know. Iām fine with it.ā
āYou are?ā
āI am. Iād already decided that, last night. I thoughtā¦yes, itāll change things, but Iām proud of what I write. And I love Stephen and Will, and I believe in romance, and if giving them a happy ending means being a bit brave about sharing myself, I can do that.ā
You can, Jason thought. His hands gentled, holding those slender shoulders; his heart skipped a beat, caught breath, felt awe like sunrise. He thought that even without being in love with Colby, which he was, heād love Colby: someone who cared about happiness deeply enough to face the price of it with open eyes. With freshly-made raspberry tarts in hand.
Author Bio

K.L. Noone employs her academic research for writing romance, frequently LGBTQIA, often paranormal, fantasy, or historical. Her full-length romance novels include the Character Bleed trilogy (Seaworthy, Stalwart, Steadfast), Cadence and the Pearl, and A Demon for Midwinter, available from JMS Books, and A Prophecy for Two, available from Inkshares, and sheās also the author of multiple romance short stories with JMS Books, and previously with Less Than Three Press, Circlet Press, and Ellora’s Cave. Her non-romance fantasy fiction has appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress and the magazine Aoife’s Kiss.
With the Professor Hat on, sheās published scholarly work on romance, fantasy, and folklore, including a book on Welsh mythology in popular culture and a book on ethics in Terry Pratchettās fantasy. She is happily bisexual, married to the marvelous Awesome Husband, and currently owned by a long-legged black cat named Merlyn.
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