1. Jay Hogan is a New Zealand author of mm romance and romantic suspense and a 2020 US Lambda Literary Award Finalist  in Gay Romance for her novel, Digging Deep.
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    Welcome!
    I consider myself very lucky to be able to write and bring LGBTQ romance stories to life. I am a bi woman of a certain age who has found herself able to do something she has dreamed about all her life and I have my readers to thank. For that, I am very grateful.

    I've traveled extensively and  lived in the US, Canada, France, Australia and South Korea. In a past life I  have been an  Intensive Care Nurse, Counselor, and a Nursing Lecturer. 
     
    I'm a cat aficionado especially of Maine Coons, and an avid dog lover (but don’t tell the cat). I love to cook, pretty damn good, love to sing, pretty damn average, and as for loving full-time writing, absolutely… most days at least, depending on the word count, the deadline and how obliging my characters are, and how much coffee I've had. 

    I like to write complex character driven romances with a heavy dose of realism and a dollop of angst —some  more than others. 
     
    Welcome to my world.
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OFF BALANCE
​Painted Bay #1
What happens when you're living your dream and life whips the rug right out from under your feet? Off Balance is about two men coming to terms with just that in different ways, and trying to find a way forward. Can they build a new dream together?

When JUDAH MADDEN flees his tiny suffocating home town in New Zealand for the dream of international ballet stardom, he never intends coming back. Not to Painted Bay. Not to his
family’s struggling mussel farm. Not to his jerk of a brother. Not with his entire life plan in shreds. And certainly not into the tempting arms of MORGAN WIPENE, the older, ruggedly
handsome fisheries officer who seems determined to screw with Judah’s intention to wallow in peace.

But dreams are fickle things. Shatter them and it’s hard to pick up the pieces. Hard to believe. Hard to start again.

And the hardest thing of all? Finding the courage to trust in love and build a new dream where you least expected to find it.

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