Sean Kowalski gets out of the army and has no idea what he’s going to do with the rest of his life. He heads to his cousins’ hometown, where he can find work until he figures out his future. He’s barely in town a few hours before a crazy woman shows up at his door… Continue reading Review: Yours To Keep by Shannon Stacey
Tag: contemporary romance
Jill Shalvis giveaway winner
And the winner of one of Jill Shalvis’s Lucy Harbor novels is…Alexa-Lunchtime Explorer! Congratulations, Alexa. I’ve emailed you to find out which novel you want. Hope everyone has a lovely long weekend full of writing, good books and excellent friends!
Don’t bulldoze your writing distractions – win one of mine!
I’m not a natural motivator. I will never do an impersonation of an army drill instructor and yell at you to sit your butt in front of your computer or drop and give me twenty. Why not? Because that’s not me. I’m not interested in having people yell at me, even if it’s online where… Continue reading Don’t bulldoze your writing distractions – win one of mine!
Love for the downtrodden hero
This is cross-posted at The Season. A couple of months ago, I wrote about how I don’t always connect with kickass heroines. The women I empathize with the most in novels are inevitably ones more like me—people whose main fights have been to overcome internal barriers, like fear and low confidence after spending too much… Continue reading Love for the downtrodden hero
Step into another world
This is cross-posted on The Season blog. Every keen reader knows how it feels to lose themselves in a completely different world—whether that’s JRR Tolkien’s hobbity Middle-earth, or the snappy, witty Regency England of Julia Quinn’s imagination. Isn’t escape one of the biggest reasons genre fiction is so popular? It transports us to another time… Continue reading Step into another world