Nighttime Wishes MA Church

Aliens and Tentacles, Oh My!

Getting off on Weird

Blurb:

When you wish upon a star... it comes true in ways you never expected.

Make A Wish, Book 1

Ziang, a tentacled warrior from the planet Maz’Rar, has come to Earth to claim his most precious prize and start a new life. When an unforeseen accident results in a crash landing, his plan for a quick removal of the human Shawn lays in a twisted ruin at his feet, much like his shuttlecraft. If that isn’t enough, the FBI is sniffing around.

Confronted by the very same alien who observed him since he wished on a shooting star as a child, Shawn finds his initial inability to communicate with Ziang leads to misunderstanding and fear. Forced to hide until rescue arrives, tensions mount. Shawn learns of Ziang’s intentions of taking him as a mate. Ziang, on the other hand, is completely befuddled at Shawn’s less than stellar response to said taking.

As they wait, a spark ignites. Turns out humans and Maz’Rarians are very compatible - tentacles and all. Shawn falls for the big alien he jokingly calls E.T. Now he must decide if he’s willing to throw away all he knows to travel the stars with Ziang.

A FIVE Star Review for Nighttime Wishes

by MA Church

When I first stumbled upon the darker side of the mm genre, the first thing that truly caught my eye, and my penchant for fetish, was gay tentacle erotica.

Don't be alarmed! It is A LOT sexier than you'd think. I don't question what gets me off, either. And boy-o, do tentacles do it for me. For each doe-y eyed young twink and tall, dark and handsome alpha male story I devoured, I easily consumed three to four gay tentacle eroticas. Yet something was always lacking in the stories I found--and that was substance. It wasn't until I came across the scifi alien mm romances of the delightful MA Church that I figured out what I wanted, what I NEEDED from my alien erotica...and darlings, she delivers.

This version of Nighttime Wishes is a re-release, and what's really amazing to me is that the original version was written 'way back in the day' BEFORE gay tentacle erotica was a 'thing'. The Lovely Ms. Church has taken back her work, vamped it up, sexed it up, and given me heat-induced hallucinations of big, scary total alpha male aliens that go all sweet protector on their better halves.

Scorching sex factor aside, Nighttime Wishes is graced by one of Ms. Church's best qualities--originality. No tired trope here, no overdone alien abduction rape scenarios, nothing for sex's sake. (though the sex is enough to make me want to hide in my room for some alone time)

Shawn, our twenty-something hottie, is at a crossroads in his life. Unaccepted by his family, his father dead, his mother disinterested, and weighed down by obligations that were never his to begin with, Shawn is given a chance at a better life--a life that he never, ever, expected.

As a child, Shawn made a wish on what he thought was s shooting star, but in reality it was Ziang, our sexy alien. Having come across Shawn as a child, Ziang recognized in him the potential for the human to become his mate--and set a watch over him for the rest of his life. Always in the background, Ziang waited until Shawn was an adult before coming to claim him as his own. Things don't go as expected, and Ziang has a bad habit of crashing on Earth. (We can thank him for Roswell.)

They meet, and as any of us would, Shawn freaks out at seeing an alien. The FBI comes hunting, and so do the local authorities. Shawn makes a choice based on what his instincts are telling him--the alien would never hurt him, and that one leap of faith is enough to spark off a sexy romp of hide-and-seek with Uncle Sam.

Though not one of her longer works, Nighttime Wishes is a streamlined masterpiece of sex, emotion, scifi action and some tasty tentacles scenes. I wholly and eagerly endorse this romp through the stars...and don't let the tentacles turn you off if you've never had the pleasure. If you want to give tentacles a try for the first time, or the hundredth, Nighttime Wishes will not disappoint.

Give me Book two please!!!! (Comes out later this fall.)

Series name: Make A Wish. Books need to be read in order. Book #2, Nighttime Promises, releases Nov 1st.

Log line: When you wish upon a star… it comes true in ways you never expected.

Release Date: Sept 1, 2015

Publisher: ARe (coming soon to other outlets)

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An Excerpt:

“Mayday, mayday! I’m taking fire. We are hit. I repeat: We are hit and losing altitude. My coordinates are 33.3872° N, 104.5281° W. Date of transmission: Standard Earth Time July 4, 1947.”

“Frack! Captain, what are we going to do?” Co-pilot Napal Moray fought the shuttle’s holo controls. “Engines offline. We’re leaking radium vapor out of the rear engine.”

Captain Ziang’lamdious Ta snarled at the holo controls. “How the hell did they know we were here? Dammit, this is the last thing we need.”

“The power transfer conduits are overheating. We’re losing containment in the radium core. It’s going to blow, Ziang. We’re about to light up the nighttime sky.”

“Not if we shut the core down and eject it.”

“If we do that, we won’t have enough power to maintain… We’ll descend. We won’t be able to stop it,” Napal argued. “As far as ejecting the core, do we really want the humans to access that kind of technology? They’ll try to reverse engineer it. You know they will.”

“For now the shuttle has power to weapons. We’ll detonate it. Since it’s not a warp core engine, the fallout won’t harm the humans.”

“Can’t we just transport to the main ship?” Napal asked.

“It’s on the other side of Earth’s moon. We simply don’t have the power for that now.” Ziang frowned at the computer’s main control panel. “As a matter of fact, the transporter is offline. We’re not transporting anywhere.”

“Then I guess we’ll try and land the shuttle.”

Ziang rubbed his forehead. “Yeah, that’s not a great answer either. Remember that whole conversation we just had about reverse engineering?”

Napal threw his hands up. “What else do you suggest then? We either go to the surface or we blow up. I’m not for the blowing up option.”

“Right. Down we go then.”

Ziang waved his hand on the computer holo and brought up the engine semantics. He entered the command to eject the core. It took two tries to get the command and his captain code entered and acknowledged.

“We’re losing power to the ship’s computer. If we’re going to do this, it has to be done now,” Ziang said. “I hope to all our gods we don’t end up scattered all over Earth’s atmosphere.”

“I hope we aren’t found by the Earthlings. That’s my main concern. You know what those humans would do to us. ”

“We have to get to the surface in one piece first. Then we’ll worry about the humans.” Ziang tapped in the coordinates where he thought was the best place to land the shuttle. Then he ejected the core.

As it floated away from the shuttle, he raised shields and programmed the phasers to fire. He hoped the shields would protect them from the majority of the blast.

“Ready?”

“As much as I’ll ever be. I wanted to see the wildlife here, but not quite like this.”

The Interview

With MA Church

And now for the interview!

What would people be most surprised to learn about you?

I drink Coke. Oh wait, that’s what wouldn’t surprise folks!

I don’t watch horror movies. Lord have mercy, they give me nightmares. I’m talking ‘leave every light in the bedroom on’ nightmare. I have an active enough imagination without adding blood and gore to the mix *snort* thank you very much.

When did you start writing? Is it something you've always been interested in, or did it develop later in life?

I started four years ago. A story of mine won a contest at a free site called Literotica. That made me think I might actually be good enough to be published, so I decided to give it a try. I’m not of those who started writing at age ten. But boy did I read a lot. If I didn’t like how a story ended, I made up a new ending that suited me, lol.

Has it been everything you thought it would be or not?

Pretty much, yes. I knew it wouldn’t be easy. I had so much to learn *laugh* and I’m still learning (as my editor will tell you). I’ve hit a few bumps along the way—had a few bad experiences that really opened my eyes to what’s out there—but I’ve made some very good friends. I’ve learned what to take seriously and what to ignore.

The best perk, though? Holding your own work in your hands. 

How did it feel when you realized that your very first book was going to be published?

Color me shocked, lol. The publisher contacted me about a story on a free website. They wanted to publish it. I screamed, jumped up and down, shook like a leaf... and cried. You see, I got the email like a day or two after I returned home from burying my mom. She knew I was writing at a free site, and that I wrote M/M. I do wish I’d had the chance to tell her I was offered my first contract.

What's your favorite part of writing a book?

My favorite thing to tackle is when the characters land in hot water, lol. Life is going to throw you a curve ball as we all know. I love taking that, dumping my characters in the middle of it, and then watching them figuring it out. Sometimes it gets messy, but hey, life is messy. That’s part of the fun!

Author Bio!!!

I'm excited!!

M.A. Church is a true Southern belle who spent many years in the elementary education sector. Now she spends her days lost in fantasy worlds, arguing with hardheaded aliens on far-off planets, herding her numerous shifters, or trying to tempt her country boys away from their fishing poles. It’s a full time job, but hey, someone’s gotta do it!

When not writing, she’s exploring the latest M/M novel to hit the market, watching her beloved Steelers, or sitting glued to HGTV. That’s if she’s not on the back porch tending to the demanding wildlife around the pond in the backyard. The ducks are very outspoken. She’s married to her high school sweetheart, and they have two children.

She was a finalist in the Rainbow awards for 2013 and is a member of Romance Writers of America, Rainbow Romance Writers, and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.