1–What is the title of your latest release? THE SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE LOVE LIFE OF AMANDA DEAN 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Schitt’s Creek meets Love Rosie – The Seemingly Impossible Love Life of Amanda Dean is a queer love story told in a series of flashbacks, starting from the self-described bi-disaster’s wedding day, and moving back and forth in time through her past relationships as our heroine discovers herself and readers discover who finally won her heart. It’s a contemporary novel full of queer characters where their queerness is never an issue—not because this is historically accurate but because this is the world I hope for.   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The simple answer is all my books are set in California. I was born there, grew up there, and it’s where my heart is. Sending Mandy to London to study abroad was challenging, as I’ve never been there myself and I do hope to one day get the chance to go. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Of course I would. We’d get margaritas and chips and salsa and probably bum around a street…

In GET LOST WITH YOU, Jillian Keller has settled into her life as a divorced mom who is happy to be back in her hometown, surrounded by her family and the people she loves. When Levi Bright, the boy that all of her teenage diary entries were about, comes back to Smile for good, they reconnect and realize that all those long-ago feelings never went away. This is a second chance, brother’s best friend, childhood crush story that needs a soundtrack to encapsulate the multitude of feelings and emotions both Jilly and Levi have.   If this book had a theme song: Everything has Changed by Taylor Swift And all my walls Stood tall painted blue But I’ll take ’em down, take ’em down And open up the door for you And all I feel In my stomach is butterflies The beautiful kind, makin’ up for lost time Takin’ flight, makin’ me feel like   Jillian and Levi have both been through a lot in the last ten years. When they reconnect, it’s first as friends even though they both feel the spark of what once existed between them. Jillian is more cautious now but it doesn’t take long for…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Misty Simon!   Writes: I’m all about giving the escape hatch from life for a little fun reading time! One of my favorite things in life is that I get to have an absolute blast bringing readers the blend of RomCozies – cozy murder mysteries with a rom com twist that’s sure to make you laugh and sigh in delight, all while trying to figure out whodunnit. Hopefully not before me and my sleuth since that would ruin the fun of our race to the finish!   About: I like long walks on the beach to contemplate where my next murder will happen, extended soaks in the bath so I can figure out who did the dirty deed, and deep conversations over which method to use and how the bad guy thinks he might get away with it… These things fill my head as I do my best to bring laughter, escape, and a story that makes you forget to make dinner or go…

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One of my favorite parts of writing ONCE MORE FROM THE TOP was going back through decades of country and pop music and imagining my protagonist Dylan Read in the context of music history and in conversation with the greats. While you can listen to the official ONCE MORE FROM THE TOP playlist on Spotify, here are five songs that were left on the cutting room floor:   Here You Come Again – Dolly Parton   I listened to loads of Dolly as I was writing OMFTT; the podcast “Dolly Parton’s America” was a key research text for me. “Here You Come Again” is, ironically, one of Dolly’s very few hits that she herself did not write—and yet it’s important in the canon because it’s her first true crossover single. The saying goes that country girls can’t go pop, but before Dylan does it in OMFTT, there was Taylor, and before Taylor there was Shania, and before Shania there was Dolly.   Dear Miss Loretta – Carly Pearce feat. Patty Loveless   Dylan is drawn to country music because it has a language and a set of conventions that—as a chronic Good Girl and rule-follower—she can learn and feel safe…

1–What is the title of your latest release? HAUNT SWEET HOME 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? “Don’t talk to day about what we do at night.” Mara Billings gets hired as the production assistant on the night crew of reality TV’s Haunt Sweet Home, which bills itself as a combination fixer-upper and paranormal show. Her job is to haunt the houses, but maybe she’s the haunted one. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? It needed to take place in an area with a lot of very old (for the US, anyway) and idiosyncratic houses, where there are still woods.  I figured I’d be better able to nail the character of the woods and the old houses in New England, since I’ve stayed in a fair number of motels up there, and hiked around in the woods, and played in a fair number of grand old houses. And New England has all those great stone walls to stumble across. Haunt Sweet Home the show, as I envision it, spends each season in a different area, but this particular season that I focus on for the book takes place in small town western…

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Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Virginie Marconato!   Writes: Medieval Romance, focusing on the period from the 11th to the 15th century. SEDUCING THE WARRIOR is the final book in my Noble Norsemen series. My next will be about Welsh Rebels. I also write spicier novels and even spicier Regency novellas under the name Judith Falcon. Feel free to check them out of a scorching read.   About: I’m a mum of two. I’m French and married to a Welshman. What better to indulge in my love for medieval castles and find inspiration on the very places my stories take place? The place is teeming with them. I love reading, with an obvious preference for romance of all genres, cooking (and eating!) travelling, practicing calligraphy, and anything to do with horses.   What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: My ideal reader would be someone like me, fascinated by all things Middle-Ages or even a Regency reader in search for something different. They will prefer cinnamon roll…

1–What is the title of your latest release? LITERARY LARCENY 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When an antique safe is discovered during a renovation and uncovers a treasure of breathtaking value, Dakota’s life takes a turn she never saw coming and thrusts her into a mystery that might be her last. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The town is fictional but set in between two real towns. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Definitely! 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Smart, funny, and resourceful. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? Exactly how valuable some books are. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I lightly edit as I write, then go back and do a more thorough proof when it’s finished. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Pasta! 9–Describe your writing space/office! I have a beautiful blue built-in bookshelf behind my desk, hunter green walls, and a massive dry erase board on the back wall. 10–Who is an author you admire? Way too many! Some of my favorites right now are Lisa Edmonds, K.F. Breene, Hailey Edwards,…

I’m N.J. Walters, author of TEMPTING THE BLACK WOLF, the final book in the Lone Wolf Legacy trilogy. It’s the final battle to save the lone wolves and to keep their enemies from stealing their lives and immortality. Who are the lone wolves? Since the rise of the werewolf, there has always existed a single lone wolf—with pure white, gray, or black fur and eyes that match—who answers to no alpha, belongs to no pack. Merciless and deadly, he wanders the world, both judge and executioner of rogue wolves who senselessly kill, endangering all their kind. When one dies, another takes its place, awakening to his purpose the first time he shifts to his wolf form. Known by the sign of the lone wolf—a sickle over the heart—the short-handled, circular blade remains as a tattoo on the man and as a mark on the wolf. A lethal combination of intelligence, brutal strength, and keen instinct, he walks a lonely path, shunned by pack, always alone. For the first time, there are three in the world—white, gray, and black—who all bear the mark on their chests. No one knows why, least of all them…   T is for Temptation. The heroine,…