{"id":232,"date":"2012-01-18T15:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T23:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:36","slug":"anyone-want-a-copy-of-ersatz-available-friday-or-saturday-for-purchase-mm-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/anyone-want-a-copy-of-ersatz-available-friday-or-saturday-for-purchase-mm-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone want a copy of &#8220;Ersatz,&#8221; available soon? mm contemporary romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this little thing I&#8217;ve been working on, &#8220;Ersatz,&#8221; will be available soon for $0.99 purchase. It&#8217;s a short piece, though it&#8217;s wormed its way into my black little heart.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking to give away 10 free epub copies, so if anyone&#8217;s interested, just leave a comment and I&#8217;ll email you back.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>ERSATZ<br \/>\nby Sol Crafter<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, what&#8217;s it like being in an ersatz homosexual relationship?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What?&#8221; His head whipped around so he could stare at Julie in surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Cast of characters (just the mains, baby):<br \/>\n<strong>John<\/strong>&#8211;our MC. Comes across to others as the strong silent type, but since we&#8217;re following this story with him, we get more of a view of the inner workings of his mind.<br \/>\n<strong>Charlie<\/strong>&#8211;can be somewhat goofy, he&#8217;s a good guy and John&#8217;s happy to call him his best friend and roommate.<br \/>\n<strong>Neidelmeyer<\/strong>&#8211;the friend that&#8217;s always willing to mooch off the people around him.<br \/>\n<strong>Julie<\/strong>&#8211;the rather intrusive girlfriend of one of their friends.<\/p>\n<p>One innocent question, and the lives of two friends are completely changed forever.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ersatz.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-233\" title=\"Ersatz\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ersatz.jpg?resize=187%2C300\" alt=\"&quot;book cover: Ersatz&quot;\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">book cover: Ersatz, by Sol Crafter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this little thing I&#8217;ve been working on, &#8220;Ersatz,&#8221; will be available soon for $0.99 purchase. It&#8217;s a short piece, though it&#8217;s wormed its way into my black little heart. I&#8217;m looking to give away 10 free epub copies, so if anyone&#8217;s interested, just leave a comment and I&#8217;ll email you back. ERSATZ by Sol&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/anyone-want-a-copy-of-ersatz-available-friday-or-saturday-for-purchase-mm-romance\/\" title=\"Anyone want a copy of &#8220;Ersatz,&#8221; available soon? mm contemporary romance\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anyone want a copy of &#8220;Ersatz,&#8221; available soon? mm contemporary romance<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,62,80],"tags":[298,329,495,648,662],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-discounts-specials","category-self-publishing","category-upcoming-projects","tag-ersatz","tag-freebies","tag-mm-romance","tag-short-story","tag-sol-crafter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":565,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/ersatz-by-sol-crafter-is-the-story-of-two-slackers-in-love-solcrafter\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":0},"title":"Ersatz, by Sol Crafter is the story of two slackers in love #SolCrafter","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"March 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so \"Ersatz\" is now on Amazon and Smashwords. 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