ari b.

[jeff foxworthy voice] you might be a hockey author

real 🥲

when someone asks you how many teeth your mc is missing and you have a reference picture ready to go

also, the vibes of the current project

i will definitely keep it in mind if i write one 🥲 i had to get an edmonton “sensitivity reader” for this one hahaha

i’m also a habs fan so … we have lots of opportunities 🥲

we may be mortal enemies but i can pretend to be nice. 😉

i’m sorry! the greatest tragedy of my life is being a home town flyers fan lmao

awww i can only imagine. hard to live up to that one 😂

yeah he started in tampa but then got traded to vegas and then to colorado 🥲 at the start of the book he’s waived and ends up in edmonton. and i have family in tampa and fond memories of watching marty play haha

yes!! i don’t know if it will be with my publisher or self pubbed but if you remember leo cohen the rat…it’s his book.

50k into a fantasy, 10k into a hockey book, absolutely nothing finished 🤓

Cover of Home Ice Advantage by Ari Baran. A black and white photo of a man with dark hair and a beard wearing a dark hoodie. The title and author's name are at the bottom in an ombre of yellow/green/turquoise

Day 19 📚🏳️‍🌈 Home Ice Advantage by @aribaranwrites.bsky.social - work rivals to lovers with a backdrop of pro hockey. Part of a series, I've only read this one so far.

I love a cranky protagonist, in much the same way I enjoy those videos of cranky dads loving the pets they initially didn't want.

a cranky dad loving the pet he didn’t originally want really does summarize their relationship perfectly too lmao

i’m always surprised when something at my day job is so
bad it genuinely upsets me, a person who has been reading and writing about horrific occurrences for years 😔

if my brain could chill on the churning up ideas beyond my talent and intelligence level front so i could get back to trying to finish literally anything that i’m not giving away for free that would be awesome thanks

the tragedy of them having their own minds, haha. rip 😭

i'm actually in the process putting together a series bible for myself so i have an easier reference for this in the future 😩

this is referring to old man yaoi and it isn’t wrong

this book is “what if you said ‘i can fix him’ but instead he made you worse”

Straight to the Heart Battle Beast · Bringer of Pain · Song · 2017

not writing this book but also why is this leo unsportsmanlike conduct about devon unsportsmanlike conduct…. open.spotify.com/track/5CgFJ4...

thinking about leo cohen and the book i will probably never be able to write

This is a really fucking good book if you’re so inclined to reading

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my favorite of my books is on sale right now just fyi.

when you talk to an author friend who confirms something you already knew and it’s both validating but also kinda terrifying!

If you like Sad Men who use the unrelenting pressure of professional sports to distract themselves from having one human emotion, have I got something for you!

No jokes though, these are some of my very favorite books, ever, so you should definitely pick them all up

Listen. I just really really really love these books and these sad and slightly less sad hockey players and also the most Boston man to ever live.

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enemies to lovers! friends to lovers! one sided enemies to lovers and one sided who are you again to lovers! under-negotiated kink! very sad hockey men and some less sad hockey men! a scene involving dept of player safety dirty talk and other thought experiments my editor did not make me remove!