Title: Three To Get Ready
Series: Mannies Incorporated #4
Author: Sean Michael
Genre: M/M Romance
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Cover Artist: Kris Norris
Blurb
This book can be read as a standalone
Single father Jack Jones is in dire need of a new nanny. His five year old son Nathan is legally blind, he has twin baby girls arriving in less than two months and the girl currently working for him is leaving at Thanksgiving to go home and continue her higher education. If Mannies Incorporated doesn’t come up with a viable candidate soon, he’s not sure what he’s going to do.
Dan Miller is on the hunt for a new job. He’s had some great placements with Mannies Incorporated, many as Manny to multiple birth families to get them over the hump. He even has experience with special needs children, so the job he’s interviewing for looks like it’s right up his alley.
When Dan arrives at Jack’s house, he discovers that this Jack Jones is his Jack Jones, the man he was in love with during college, and who broke up with Dan because Dan wanted children. Will Dan and Jack be able to put the past behind them and work together, or will their past keep them from having a future together?
Excerpt
Dan Miller followed the instructions on his GPS to one Jack Jones’ house for his interview. He was trying to decide if it was a good or bad omen that he’d dated a Jack Jones. It had ended, so maybe bad. On the other hand, they’d ended because Jack didn’t want kids and he did, which was better to learn early on, before they’d invested a lot of time in each other, right? So good sign.
Chuckling at himself, he went over what Drake at Mannies Inc had told him about the family.
Single gay dad, one special needs son – the boy was nearly six and clinically blind. Apparently he could see general shapes if they were high contrast and he could see lights and light contrast. There were twin girls on their way. In a couple of weeks in a few weeks in fact.
Newborns were Dan’s favorite. He loved that new baby smell. He loved their chubby little cheeks and limbs, their fat bellies and how quickly they changed.
After reading the file, he’d had to agree with Drake that he seemed like a really good fit for the family.
The position was live-in, so he paid close attention as the condo came into view. Not far from the beach, it was a decent size, not too big, but not tiny. The front was neat and he could see the backyard was fenced in.
Pulling into the drive, he turned off the engine and took a deep breath. Okay. Interview time. He climbed out of the car, with his best ‘I’m the perfect man to look after your kids’ face on.
He knocked on the front door.
“Daddy! Maddie, someone is here!”
“I’ll get it, man. Hopefully this one will work for your daddy, Mr. Picky. I have to leave the week of Thanksgiving. I have to.”
The door opened and a lovely dark-skinned young woman stood there with a skinny little boy in thick glasses. “Hey there. Can I help you?”
“Hi, Dan Miller. I’m here to see Mr. Jones?”
“Sure. Come on in. I’m Maddie, Nathan’s personal assistant.” She winked at him.
“Very nice to meet you.” He shook her hand.
Then he turned his attention to the little boy. “Hey there, You must be Nathan.”
“Uh-huh. Nathan James Jones.” One hand was held out. “Pleased meeting you.”
Dan took Nathan’s hand and shook it solemnly. “Pleased to meet you, too.”
“Hey there. Sorry, man. I was paying some bills. Crazy life.”
Dan looked up at the familiar voice and blinked. Strong jaw, blond curls, and the bluest eyes in the history of the earth — that was Jack. His Jack.
Dan felt like he’d been poleaxed.
His Jack who didn’t want kids, no way no how was he fucking crazy for even suggesting it.
“Jack?” Oh, smooth, Dan. Clearly it was Jack. Hell, even if he couldn’t believe his eyes, the folder he’d gotten from Drake had said the guy’s name was Jack.
“Dan? Danny? Oh, my God!” Jack’s eyes went wide. “Look at you. You look amazing.”
He kind of hated the way Jack’s words made him stand a little taller, a little straighter. “So do you. The years have been good to you.” Twelve years. Shit, things had changed in that time, that much was obvious, but not how just a glance from those devastating eyes could make his cock perk up. That hadn’t changed a damn bit.
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Today we're very lucky to be interviewing Sean Michael author of Three To Get Ready, a Mannies Incorporated novel.
Foxylutely: Hi Sean, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.
Sean: Thank you so much for having me! I’m so excited about the release of my latest Mannies book.
Foxylutely: What book do you wish you could have written?
Sean: There are so many great books out there that I have loved to read and kind of wish I’d written all of them! Let me see if I can narrow it down to just one…
I’m going to go with Michael Ondatje’s Coming Through Slaughter. It’s a powerful book and the use of language is very clever and the narrator’s voice is so real.
Foxylutely: How important are names to you (in your books)? Do you choose names based on liking the way it sounds or meaning? How do you choose your names?
Sean: I think names are important and sometimes that leads to a real struggle. Sometimes the characters arrive fully named, but often one will have a name and the other won’t. So I have to find a name that goes with the first character’s name, that has the same feeling. You don’t want a Rasputin with a Joe. Although having said that, I’m going to have to do a story with a Rasputin and a Joe in it… I also have to try not to use a name that I’ve already used a lot. There was a point when I had a Richard, or a form of Richard in every second book I wrote.
For the Mannies book, Jack showed up first, first and last names right there, while Dan didn’t have a name. In this case, the name Dan came to me fairly easily, so that was good.
I have had a book or two where I started it and got a few pages in before I was finally able to use a name instead of ‘he’. But if it’s not the right name, it just doesn’t feel right!
Foxylutely: Were you already a great writer? Have you always enjoyed writing? How long have you been writing?
Sean: I don’t know if I’m a great writer – I think there’s plenty of room for growth. I do however love writing. It’s the best job in the world and I hope that love shows through the writing.
As for how long -- I think I’ve always been writing – I’ve at the very least been telling myself stories for as long as I can remember.
Foxylutely: Which character, from any of your books, do you consider your greatest work?
Sean: I can’t answer this question. Not without a revolt among all the characters who live in my head. It would be like picking a favorite child.
Foxylutely: What hobbies do you enjoy?
Sean: I love reading. All genres. I’m also a bit of a TV junkie – watching movies and TV shows is a great way to unwind after a long day.
Meet the author
Often referred to as “Space Cowboy” and “Gangsta of Love” while still striving for the moniker of “Maurice,” Sean Michael spends his days surfing, smutting, organizing his immense gourd collection and fantasizing about one day retiring on a small secluded island peopled entirely by horseshoe crabs. While collecting vast amounts of vintage gay pulp novels and mood rings, Sean whiles away the hours between dropping the f-bomb and pursuing the kama sutra by channeling the long lost spirit of John Wayne and singing along with the soundtrack to “Chicago.”
A long-time writer of complicated haiku, currently Sean is attempting to learn the advanced arts of plate spinning and soap carving sex toys.
Barring any of that? He’ll stick with writing his stories, thanks, and rubbing pretty bodies together to see if they spark.
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