Free Gay Valentine - eBook Set on North Shore

Rick Bettencourt’s Painting with Wine 
February 14 -15, 2014 
Available for free at Amazon.

Rick Bettencourt’s Painting with Wine, a gay romantic thriller will be available for free on February 14th and Saturday, February 15th at Amazon. Set in Boston’s North Shore, Painting with Wine is about two men who just can’t live without each other. It’s a love story gone wrong—and a discovery gone right. If you like art, you’ll be shocked by the conclusion. Let this Valentine be yours this Friday and Saturday.

"I originally wrote Painting with Wine as an exercise for Stephen King’s book On Writing. And I just fell in love with the characters and grew it from there,” says Rick Bettencourt, a 2013 Gay Romance MM Award-Nominated Author. “It’s about a man who not only discovers his ex-husband has escaped from jail but discovers himself in the process.”

Bettencourt’s first book Not Sure Boys—also set in the Boston area—was highly acclaimed and was nominated for five 2013 Goodreads awards, including Best Book of the Year and Best Debut Author.

Grady Harp of Literary Aficionado had this to say about Bettencourt’s writing, “The handsome new Boston writer Rick Bettencourt jump[ed] onto the platform of young brilliant writers with this short but exceptional book Not Sure Boys. If there are more stories such as these in his head or imagination then we are going to be noticing the rise of a writer in the ranks of Jamie O’Neill, K.M. Soehnlein, André Aciman, David Leavitt, Michael Cunningham, Edmund White, Alan Hollingsworth, Paul Russell, Jim Grimsley, Andrew Holleran to list some – those writers of great intelligence and masters of the English language who have taken up where EM Forster and Christopher Isherwood left off, creating stories about the world of gay men."

Painting with Wine is Bettencourt’s second release. It is a must-read for anyone who loves art. It is erotic, mysterious and as one reader says, “very thought provoking ... well written, plotted, and edited.”

For more information on Rick Bettencourt, you can visit his blog at rickbettencourt.wordpress.com, check him out on Facebook at FacebookRickBettencourtWriter or follow him on Twitter @rbettenc.