Author Q&A | feat. Melanie Robertson-King about writing the first installment of the ‘It Happened… series’ beginning with “It Happened On Dufferin Terrace”, a Sweet Romance!

Posted Thursday, 6 September, 2018 by jorielov It Happened on Dufferin Terrace, It Happened series, King Park Press, Melanie Robertson-King 2 Comments

Hallo, Hallo dear hearts!

Today, I am happily able to spotlight a #newtomeauthor whilst participating in the final tours for Brook Cottage Books – today’s author has written a *Sweet Romance* kicking off a new series of which she is publishing through her self-published imprint ‘King Park Press’. I love finding authors who are taking the reins of their writerly careers into their own hands. I regularly *celebrate!* authors like Ms Robertson-King on my blog – such as Brenda S. Anderson, Nicole Evelina, MK McClintock and many others who have decided the best route for them in their publishing endeavours is to create imprints & publish their stories themselves. They undertake the creative freedom this provides them whilst being the keeper of their destinies.

An author I haven’t yet had the pleasure of joy to share my ruminations of thus far along is *Julie Lessman* who went from being traditionally published in the world of INSPY Romance to a bonefide Indie Author with the publication of her second series – she is someone who will be shining a light on my blog starting this holiday season when I can finally reveal my thoughts & musings on behalf of the prequel to the Daughters of Boston trilogy which kicked off a saga of *3!* trilogies following the O’ Connor family! This will be a specially keen part of my first year of joining #blogmas!

So you see, I have a healthy appetite for seeking out #IndiePub & #IndieAuthors who are re-defining the book world by seeking out alternative methods to publish. This time round – the story is set in Quebec – an unexpected blessing finding a Canadian Lit setting – where you happily find similarities to some of your favourite films which take the quirkiness of placing oppositional characters into a story about second chances, alternative paths to romance & the curious way in which fate intervenes on the plans you feel can’t be deviated from once you’ve established the path your walking.

These are the kind of stories you like to curl up inside just to see ‘what becomes’ of the characters – what do they decide is more important!? To walk through life alone, to risk their heart and take a chance on a love they never expected or to struggle to keep open to the possibilities that life has a way of giving you what you really want even if you never owned up to what it is yourself?

I must confess when I first saw it was being cross-related with two of the films I personally have always loved watching (ie. ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ & ‘Sleepless in Seattle’) I had a feeling it was the kind of novel I could get lost inside due to the uplift and heartwarming after effect it would have on me! Those are the kind of films I miss seeing release more regularly – we’ve lost a bit of that kind of afterglow in the cinema – we’ve lost so many lovely writers and directors (think Marshall & Ephron) it is a wait/see period now to see who will step forward and bring these kinds of gems back onto the silver screen.

Be sure to brew a cuppa of your favourite tea whilst your reading this convo!

It Happened on Dufferin Terrace
by Melanie Robertson-King

Miracle on 34th Street meets Sleepless in Seattle.

Toronto business consultant, Serenity Layne, knew the only person she could depend on was herself. Married to her career, she has no time for other pursuits and life’s intangibles.

Widowed for three years, Roger Scott, a data security specialist in Quebec City, is a single parent to his ten-year-old son, Adam.

On a day out on the Plains of Abraham with their black Labrador retriever, Roger’s cell phone rings incessantly. Adam has played matchmaker and put his father’s profile on a number of online dating sites.

The week before Christmas, Serenity is heading up a series of meetings after a six-month study of the Canadian retail chain, jonathans. After an unpleasant encounter with one of the store managers, she escapes from the boardroom of the Château Frontenac Hotel, only to be bowled over by Roger and Adam’s dog.

Guilty over the accident, Roger invites Serenity out for a drink by way of apology. Over the course of the week, and spending time together, feelings long dormant for Roger are re-awakened. At the same time, emotions foreign to Serenity fill her with contentment and happiness.

Will the couple get their happily ever after?

Genres: Contemporary (Modern) Fiction (post 1945), Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy (Rom Com)

Places to find the book:

Borrow from a Public Library

Add to LibraryThing

Find on Book Browse

ASIN: B07FD9JQVB

Published by King Park Press

on 22nd July, 2018

Published by: King Park Press (self-publishing imprint of author)

Formats Available: Paperback and Ebook

It Happened series

It Happened on Dufferin Terrace (Book One)

*more installments to follow, could be as many as *six!*

Converse via: #HolidayRomance + #CanLit and #SweetRomance

How did you approach writing the back-story about Serenity Layne being an expert in sales and store efficiencies? Did you approach a similar business to ask about how to round out this character or was there another method of research you used which clued you into how this character might best come to life? What was your favourite takeaway from her job?

Robertson-King responds: I wanted Serenity to be a successful businesswoman, but have to work harder than most to achieve this, rather than land the position because of wealthy family members. Thanks to grants, bursaries and student loans, she put herself through University and secured a position at Thacker, Price & Associates, where she worked her way up into the position she holds when the book opens.

Serenity had to be in a job where her motives are perceived by others as suspicious. Hence, retail consultant. In this field, she has to have a strong personality, yet be empathetic to the needs of the people. Because of her position, she must be knowledgeable with computers, and cloud-based software applications. The company I work for recently switched over to cloud-based accounting software, so I drew on the situations that unfolded in front of me. I’m a bit of a computer geek myself (studied programming in College) so shades of me creep into that area. Read More

Posted Thursday, 6 September, 2018 by jorielov in Blog Tour Host, Brook Cottage Book Tours, Reader Submitted Q&A

Book Spotlight with Extract | A series I have enjoyed reading as Ms Rock draws us closer into the Cade family within her Rocky Mountain Cowboy series! This spotlight focuses on the fourth novel “A Cowboy’s Pride”!

Posted Wednesday, 5 September, 2018 by jorielov A Cowboy to Keep, A Cowboy's Pride, Christmas at Cade Ranch, Falling for a Cowboy, Harlequin Books, Harlequin Heartwarming, Karen Rock, Rocky Mountain Cowboys series 6 Comments

Hallo, Hallo dear hearts!

You might remember my fondness for reading the prequel of the Rocky Mountain Cowboys – ‘A Cowboy to Keep’? I was overjoyed I could borrow this novel through my local library’s ILL services (inter-library loan) whilst I celebrated the publication of the first novel ‘Christmas at Cade Ranch’?! Since I hosted my interview with Ms Rock last year, the series has experienced quite a bit of growth – as there are now *five!* novels released!

As I eagerly anticipate reading ‘A Cowboy’s Pride’ I will have happily read four of the stories – isn’t that grand?! The first thing you realise when your reading this series is how lush & vivid the scenery is as the Cade Ranch is set in Carbondale, Colorado – nestled in a lovely area of the Rocky Mountains on the Western range where you are quite literally surrounded by the beauty of the mountains and the wildlife who calls the place home. This is the country of wide open ranges, tall mountain peaks, small townes & communities and a lifestyle that is both relaxed and celebrating either ranching or cultural art.

Ms Rock has a lovely niche of depositing you into this family saga through the different eyes of perspective she lends her readers – it is not your typically set series either – as despite the largeness of the Cade clan, you would generally believe each installment would funnel itself exclusively through the ‘men’ of the series but thankfully Ms Rock switched things up quite a bit and has gone a different route completely! Mind you, there is a female Cade amongst the brothers – of whom I am itching to have her own day in the spotlight but for now, what impressed me most is how there are other women whose lives bear remembering as they each have sought redemption & second chances in Carbondale amongst the Cades! A bit like the film ‘Mrs Winterbourne’ where Ricki Lake’s character learnt a hard truth about how if life is going to get a bit rougher and more complicated, it is best to ride out the uncertainties with a family who adopts you into their fold than to bear it all on the harsher side of the streets!

Reflections on ‘A Cowboy to Keep’:

What I thought was so keen about this series is how it harkens back to yesteryear – where the open range and ranches were relying on the law – through bounty hunters, lawmen and the courage of the ranchers themselves to seek justice when needed. The West has a lot of History in this regard and to even get a slice of it within a Contemporary Western playing homage felt ‘right’ to me! I was most encouraged to see how Ms Rock would shape the series whilst owning to the heart of what implores us about the life of living in the West nestled against the Rocky Mountains! Part of the allure for me to read Westerns (both Historical & Contemporary) has been the appeal of the mountains which in of themselves are part of the character and charm which define the Western culture and influences the topography of the settings.

The area of the mountains they were riding in whilst on horse-back is the stuff of envy for any horse girl because they were right in the thick of the wild country – where the mountains were endless, the skies were enriched by the crispness of the climate and there were no trails except the ones you choose to carve for yourself as you rode. The horses could feel the vibe, too, as there is a certain freedom attached to riding on a ranch whose acres are half of 1,000!

The worst thing to be left with when your alone are your thoughts – such as how Dani is finding she’s not nearly as strong as she first perceived she had become ever since Jackson took up residence on the Ranch. It’s hard to shake the restlessness you feel being around someone you know could alter the course of your life – which is why Dani is betwixt and between knowing how she could proceed. She has as job to do – that’s true – but at what cost to herself and to those she’s considered her friends? As you watch her counter-weigh her own mistakes against the (supposed) mistakes of those she knows under her employ, you start to see her wrestling with her own guilt and the line of conscience recrimination which is overtaking her mind and heart.

Reflections on ‘Christmas at Cade Ranch’:

One of the beautiful things about this series is how redemption and second chances permeate through the stories. Erstwhile, you are becoming closer in acquaintance with the Cade family themselves – the ranch they live on becomes the anchour to their lives, the place where they gather and they grow; where love nurtures their present and where it breathes hope into the future. Each installment of this series builds on the last story in sequence – thereby, by the time you start at A Cowboy to Keep whilst reading each new story thereafter, you are given a wonderful portrait of a resilient family. A family whose honest about the hardships in life and where good or bad, this is a family who remains evermore true of themselves.

Ms Rock does a great job of taking you into the heart of addiction – first through the opinions of family who feel they are being helpful but in reality their falling a bit short with a few good observations. Secondly, she takes you into an NA meeting to hear the stories of other addicts who are struggling just like Sofia to quash their innermost doubts and to remain above the pains of addiction whilst re-setting their lives free of the substance of their choice. It was in one of those meetings where Sofia felt both ashamed to be present and rather awkwardly at first, comfortable amongst those who she could relate too.

Ms Rock also highlights what it is like to have a controlling personality – someone who is unable to yield or bend – this was spoken about in regards to Sofia’s father but in the present time-line of the series it is mostly directed towards James who has a definitive way of ‘taking over’ and claiming roles he was not meant to lead because doing so would jeopardise another person’s sense of self.

One of my favourite parts of the story is how closely Sofia and Joy (the Cade siblings mother) bonded over being in such close quarters whilst she was recuperating. Joy still had quite a bit of spunk left in her and she had a right to want to keep living her life to the fullest she could. Sofia inspired her in equal measure of Joy inspiring Sofia to take new risks and to keep bettering herself for her future and her son’s (Javi). Javi was an impressionable child but he also understood what was important in his young life. I can see why Sofia stressed about how he might react around James and why being around James for both of them was proving to be a bit too difficult.

Posted Wednesday, 5 September, 2018 by jorielov in 21st Century, Blog Tour Host, Contemporary Romance, Farm and Ranching on the Frontier, Indie Author, Life Shift, Modern Day, Prism Book Tours, Realistic Fiction, Romance Fiction, Small Towne Fiction, Small Towne USA, West Coast USA, Western Fiction, Western Romance

Author Interview | conversing with Rachel Amphlett on behalf of the #KayHunter Detective series! Otherwise known as the dramatic crime series Jorie was wicked addicted to #amlistening to Spring 2018!

Posted Wednesday, 5 September, 2018 by jorielov Gone to Ground, Kay Hunter Detective series, Rachel Amphlett 0 Comments

Good morning, dear hearts!

I have had a very unique journey into the world of police procedurals & dramatic crime fiction this year! It began in the Spring when I first started to listen to the audiobook versions of Ms Amphlett’s #KayHunter series, wherein I shortly became a part of #TeamKayHunter without realising their was a tag to celebrate this affection on social! (smiles) I would have used it in earnest, had I known!

My journey continued when a new series began on #BritBox – a subscription channel you can see modern & classic British comedies & dramas as well as lifestyle series or documentaries – the new variant of Bletchley Circle began, shifting the focus to San Francisco. When this first began, I hadn’t realised the connection to a prior series but thankfully the bookish & tv serial community in the twitterverse are equally approachable & helpful to one another! This modern adaptation has a lovely cast of women, each presenting their own unique talents for criminological observation, sleuthing and the art of deduction through their mutual passion for ‘codes’ and ‘ciphers’.

Whilst I was enjoying my reprieve between installments, I discovered another lovely for dramatic crime on #BritBox called: Scott & Bailey which aired originally from 2011-2016, marking one of the more ‘recent’ British serials I’ve become attached too! I plowed straight through Series 1 and most of the first half of the second series as well – wherein, would you believe, I came full-circle!? One of the key episodes where we get to peer behind the facades of the detectives in this series involved a case which is nearly word for word the synopsis for ‘Gone to Ground’. There are variants in the case(s) of course, but the stark similarity within them leant me the advantage to realise, I could handle this #KayHunter installment, too! (something I shall expound upon when I share my ruminative thoughts on Friday, the 7th!)

Likewise, when I wasn’t watching wicked good dramatic crime dramas, I was eagerly anticipating reading them and/or listening to them – as I had the pleasure of reading the latest #HiroHattori novel; I grabbed my first pre-order for an audiobook & interviewed the author whilst I am happily retreating back inside both the latest #MarjorieTrumaine & #SamuelCraddock mysteries this [September] in-line with my sixth experience of listening to the life & adventures of Kay Hunter! September is also my first month for participating in PERIL (#perilxiii) wherein I think I’ll be finding myself happily consumed by suspenseful & thrilling reads overall!

My fondness for Kay Hunter and her emotionally gutting back-story was wickedly brought to life by Ms Amphlett’s narrator: Alison Campbell, of whom to this day, I still recognise so readily as ‘being Kay Hunter’ it is hard to distance myself from this role if I try to hear her voice narrating another character (and yes, I have tried!).

It was one of the few times where I had the pleasure of joy of beginning a series and having the ability to ‘continue’ forward with it within a very short expanse of time. With all my health difficulties in the Spring, the Kay Hunter series was a calming balm to my anguish and strife. I vividly remember not feeling like ‘myself’ but putting in my earphones, soaking into the narration of Ms Campbell and feeling as if I had transitioned so wholly into Kay Hunter’s life, my own troubles felt a bit distanced.

I listened to this series in various places – from the kitchen to public libraries – wherever I found myself within the series itself, I felt cocooned away from the ‘outside world’. So much so, one of my most vivid responses is hearing the ending of one of the stories and being emotionally shattered to where I had trouble ‘exiting’ the emotional angst of that ending only to realise I was in the middle of a public library where *everyone!* and their cousin (so to speak) had suddenly decided was ‘the’ place to be at that late hour in the afternoon! I was amazed! All those people – and yet, whilst I was connecting to the emotional bits of Kay’s story, I could have been in an isolated listening chamber!! I never heard nor saw anyone the whole time I was listening to Ms Campbell relate the story into my earphones!

There is a powerful centreing in this series – a credit to Ms Amphlett for her strong intuitiveness about continuity and the backbone of the series being grounded in her research for authenticity – you are presented with a sturdy foundation of a crime drama which gets under your skin and settles inside your heart. The gaps between the installments are an aching loss but one you meet with patience! It takes time to knit out a series like this – especially one which is breathed to life so eloquently by Ms Campbell and heightened in integrity by Ms Amphlett!

Today, I have the joy of welcoming the author to Jorie Loves A Story – sharing a conversation about her series and the ways in which she approached writing it. Remember, dear hearts, there will be a slight gap between the next installments of this series, not just for the time needed for the author’s relocation *but!* because she is also working on other projects, including another rather popular series – whose readers, I would imagine are as itching to see what happens next for their characters as we are for ours within #KayHunter!

If you’ve been seeking a police drama series with an incredibly layered strong female lead at the heart of the series, look no further! You might be happily surprised and charmed by how easily you become addicted to reading and/or listening to the Kay Hunter series! Then, again, I’d be the first to give you a warm welcome into #TeamKayHunter!

As always, my conversations are best enjoyed with your favourite cuppa, a comfy place to sit and a curiosity about the series at hand! IF your cuppa involves tea, kindly let me know what your current favourite brew is below the conversation!

While attending a crime scene on the outskirts of Maidstone, DI Kay Hunter makes a shocking discovery.

The victim has been brutally cut to pieces, his identity unknown.

When more body parts start turning up in the Kentish countryside, Kay realises the disturbing truth – a serial killer is at large and must be stopped at all costs.

With no motive for the murders and a killer who has gone undetected until now, Kay and her team of detectives must work fast to calm a terrified local population and a scornful media.

When a third victim is found, her investigation grows even more complicated.

As she begins to expose a dark underbelly to the county town, Kay and her team are pulled into a web of jealousy and intrigue that, if left unchecked, will soon claim another life.

As you’ve built the Kay Hunter series through influences of your favourite crime novelists as well as serialised crime dramas – what did you immediately want readers to connect with when they first ‘met’ Kay Hunter? Was it something specific about her you hoped would shine through or was it a sense this is a complex character who slowly reveals more of herself as the series progresses?

Amphlett responds: When I began to develop the structure of the first book, Scared to Death, I knew right away I wanted a series with the character of Kay Hunter – I started with a resilient female detective in mind before the actual crimes came to fruition.

I made a conscious decision to create her character differently from a lot of my favourite detectives I’d been reading about. A key part of this was giving her a safe home environment – anyone who works within the emergency services has a stressful enough time in their role, so her home is a safe haven, and one she retreats to in order to make some sense of the dark crimes she finds herself investigating. Read More

Posted Wednesday, 5 September, 2018 by jorielov in Audiobookworm Promotions, Blog Tour Host, Reader Submitted Author Interview

#PubDay Book Blitz with Notes and Extras | “Jaclyn and the Beanstalk” by Mary Ting A new #YAFantasy novel which re-invents the tale surrounding #JackAndTheBeanStalk with an impressive premise driving it forward!

Posted Tuesday, 4 September, 2018 by jorielov Jaclyn and the Beanstalk, Mary Ting, Vesuvian Books 3 Comments

Hallo, Hallo dear hearts!

Happily this is my second of featuring stories I would love to be reading through spotlighting the titles I am discovering through Xpresso Book Tours! Earlier this week I was highlighting a new Digital First release for a New Adult Romantic Suspense whilst tonight I am drawing your eye to a fairy tale re-telling of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ – set within a Young Adult Fantasy world. I would speculate this one is a bit darker than I normally might be drawn to read – however, when it comes to Dark Fantasy, I dearly remember how charmed & enchanted I was by ‘Bearskin’ which gives me the hopefulness to find more Dark Fantasy writers out there who can give me a chillingly thrill of a read *but!* in such a way I can handle the context of their stories without feeling I’ve become :pushed: outside my zones of comfort (to a negative effect).

What do you love about fairy tale re-tellings & after canon sequels on behalf of the stories / series / canons you draw a thirst of interest in re-exploring? Do you read a heap of adaptations per each original you love OR do you hop round like I do and only occasionally read the same story told through different variants every odd moon!?

‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ has a lot of room to work with in regards of how to re-tell this particular Classic and still have room to breathe! This is partially why I was enchanted by the premise but also, in finding new voices within the bracket of Young Adult Fantasy which is a niche of Fantasy literature I happen to be drawn inside more oft-times than naught! The worlds within YA Fantasy worlds are just as compelling if not moreso than their Adult variants – I have spent many enjoyable hours (including recently!) spellbound by how writers are curating their worlds, deepening our awareness of how wide the realms of Fantasy can become explored & of the convicting plot threads which carry us into the final chapters where we might not be fully ready to depart reading the story!

I selected two extracts from this novel, which I am happy to announce *celebrated!* its #PubDay for print today on the 4th of September – isn’t that especially grand for those of us who are traditional readers!? These extracts and the quote banners which accompany them I felt gave the best ‘introduction’ to who Jacyln is in the story but also, the direction of Ms Ting’s vision for this novel!

The artwork gracing the cover was brilliant – between the colour palette and the combination of seeing Jacyln near the beanstalk with the ready sense she was affirmatively ready for whatever was awaiting her – gave you the strong impression there would be quite a heap of adventuring to be done alongside her as we ventured into the story left behind for us to read!

Jacyln and the Beanstalk
by Mary Ting

What fate awaits a girl who hears monsters at night…

Sixteen-year-old Jaclyn looks up to her father. An honest man who once fought for the king, he now teaches Jaclyn how to use her wits—and her sword.

But he has a secret. And his secret may have a connection to the one thing Jaclyn is hiding from him.

Upon hearing “monsters” are terrorizing the small villages around Black Mountain, Jaclyn’s father and his friends head out to hunt them … but they don’t return.

Armed only with her sword and three magic beans—a gift from a mysterious old woman—Jaclyn sets out for Black Mountain to save her father.

On her climb, one bean drops and grows into a beanstalk, catching her when she falls.

She isn’t the only one that takes the ride. Jack, her childhood friend and secret crush, is following her.

Together, Jaclyn and Jack must battle to save not only their fathers, but the townspeople the beasts plan to lay waste to before it’s too late.

Genres: Dark Fantasy, Fairy-Tale Re-Telling, Fantasy Fiction, YA Fantasy

Places to find the book:

Add to LibraryThing

ISBN: 9781944109745

Published by Vesuvian Books

on 4th September, 2018

Published By: Vesuvian Books (@VesuvianMedia)

Available Formats: Paperback and Ebook

Converse on Twitter via: #YAFantasy, #YoungAdult + #Fantasy

OR #DarkFantasy #JackAndTheBeanstalk re-telling

About Mary Ting

International Bestselling Author Mary Ting/M. Clarke resides in Southern California with her husband and two children. She enjoys oil painting and making jewelry.

Writing her first novel, Crossroads Saga, happened by chance. It was a way to grieve the death of her beloved grandmother, and inspired by a dream she once had as a young girl. When she started reading New Adult novels, she fell in love with the genre. It was the reason she had to write one-Something Great.

Why the pen name, M Clarke? She tours with Magic Johnson Foundation to promote literacy and her children's chapter book-No Bullies Allowed.

Posted Tuesday, 4 September, 2018 by jorielov in Blog Tour Host, Book | Novel Extract, Book Blitz, Book Spotlight, Coming-Of Age, Dark Fantasy, Fairy Tale Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Indie Author, Upper YA Fiction, Xpresso Book Tours, Young Adult Fiction

Book Blitz with Notes and Extras | “Twelve Months of Awkward” by Lisa Acerbo a new Digital First Contemporary Romantic Suspense which caught my eye!

Posted Monday, 3 September, 2018 by jorielov Lisa Acerbo, Torrid Books, Twelve Months of Awkward Moments 0 Comments

Hallo, Hallo dear hearts!

I have an announcement – I decided to start hosting for Xpresso Book Tours for showcasing new books which interest me to be #amreading, such as this spotlight blitz post and/or hosting guest features for authors on behalf of the stories I want to be reading! They mostly feature digital releases on their blog tours, which is why I am not expecting to be hosting review tours for them but I do like to find new Indie published authors and from what I can gather from their list of tours, they have the tendency of featuring quite a lovely variety of Indie writers!

As you know, my search for new Contemporary authors has had its fair share of ups and downs over the past few years, yet when I first read the premise behind this one it felt like it stepped out a bit from what I would usually expect to find inside a Contemporary plot. Especially since this is a story which is anchoured to someone who is trying to not just overcome a particular moment of their life but to find distance and peace from it as well.

Romantic Suspense threads of intrigue are becoming my jam lately – as you well know, I am over the moon in *love!* with #LoveInspired Suspense novels – each of those lovelies is a #RomSusp knitted taut and tight out of high emotions, dramatic passageways and the eclipse of a Thriller you are never fully sure if your prepared to handle but you *keep turning the pages!* all the same! Meanwhile, outside of my INSPY readings – I still love to see out these sorts of stories on the mainstream side of the ledger!

What set this particular book apart in my mind is the fact it’s #NewAdult – a tricky category of interest for me as I rarely if ever find an NA I can soak into and find myself enthused. Ms Acerbo held my attention in the extracts provided on this Blitz tour and that in of itself was a happy surprise! I am truly hopeful as I ever am this Digital First will one day be released into print or audio – thereby allowing me to read it.

What do you currently find yourself drawn into when it comes to Rom Suspense plot threads & especially when it comes to New Adult!? What are you personally seeking when you try to find stories which fit inside these particular categories of interest!?

As an aside, when I first saw the publisher was ‘Torrid’ – it brought back fond memories of a clothing store heralding the same name – you know, from the 90s and early 2000s before it was ‘altered’ out of its funkified state of loveliness to be just another ‘lemming’ of bland!?

Twelve Months of Awkward Moments
by Lisa Acerbo

Dani can’t wait for senior year at college. A straight-A scholar whose anxiety is a daily struggle, being awkward, introverted, and studious has become a way of life. She vows this year will be different. It’s time to move beyond her comfort zone, but that’s not easy.

Dani’s wild roommate and handsome best friend hate each other; her crazy family won’t leave her alone; and a new job forces her to be social. Unfortunately, when college romance finally calls, Dani is unable to answer thanks to a stalker who has her all tied up.

Can she stay alive long enough to find love and graduate?

Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romance Fiction, Romantic Suspense

Places to find the book:

Add to LibraryThing

Find on Book Browse

ISBN: 9781682992937

on 30th August, 2018

Format: eBook

Published By: Torrid Books (@torridbooks)

Available Formats: this is a Digital First release into ebook

*I am hoping this goes into print or POD eventually so I can read it!

Converse on Twitter via: #Contemporary #RomSusp

About Lisa Acerbo

Lisa Acerbo is a high school teacher and adjunct instructor at a local community college. Her previous novels have been published through a variety of indie presses. She has a short story “Carnivorous” coming out in October as part of an anthology titled Carnival of Nightmares. When not writing or teaching, she spends time with her family, friends and pets. She also fosters dogs to help them find their forever homes.

Posted Monday, 3 September, 2018 by jorielov in 21st Century, Blog Tour Host, College & University Years, Coming-Of Age, Contemporary Romance, Domestic Violence, Indie Author, Modern Day, New Adult Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Romance Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Singletons & Commitment, Upper YA Fiction