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 Meredith Schorr!   WRITES: Hi there! My name is Meredith and I write lighthearted romantic comedies with a splash of on-the-page heat and reform Jewish representation. SOMEONE JUST LIKE YOU is an enemies-since-childhood to lovers romcom set in Manhattan. Molly and Jude are former neighbors and complete opposites who have hated each other since they were kids. Now, in their late twenties, they are forced together to plan a surprise co-anniversary party for both sets of parents, who are still best friends. Initially, they revert to their immature pranks but soon a grudging friendship develops, ripe with sexual tension that catches them off guard. When they discover they’ve each been dating doppelgangers of each other for a decade, they are forced to question why they are seeking in romantic partners what they claim to hate about each other.   ABOUT: I am a born and bred New Yorker who recently moved out of Manhattan to the smaller city of White Plains (and am still…

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 Olivia Blacke!   Writes: Light-hearted cozy mysteries set just outside of Austin, Texas where the only thing hotter than the cowboy-hat-wearing Detective Beau Russell is the weather. Luckily, you can dip into Sip & Spin Records, the local vinyl records shop/coffee café, where Juni Jessup and her sisters always have the perfect music selection and delicious caffeinated beverage to help you beat the heat, that is unless they’re off solving a murder at the annual Cedar River Bluebonnet Festival.   About: Must love unicorns! I’m a little nerdy, a lot awkward, and just the right amount of weird. Luckily, I finally found a way to put my Criminology degree to use by writing mysteries. And please, don’t judge me by my search engine history or any notes you might find lying around about how to get away with murder. They’re for research. I promise.   What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: Appreciates a wide variety of music and isn’t afraid of…

1–What is the title of your latest release? A QUESTIONABLE CHARACTER 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? The murder of a local contractor may be the final nail in the coffin for Tricia Miles. Can she find the killer before he or she has the chance to bring the hammer down? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? As it’s the 17th book in the series, it was a no-brainer. Stoneham, NH where all but one of the Booktown Mysteries takes place. (#10 takes place on a cruise ship–but Tricia brought half the village along with her, so all my favorite characters got to go on a vacation, too!) 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Definitely. Especially at happy hour. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Strong, capable, curious. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? That I can meet a deadline under EXTREME pressure. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? I always edit the previous day’s work before I start my writing day. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? Sausage Egg McMuffin. I make a pretty good version at…

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 Jane Porter!   Writes: I write modern love stories from sweet romance to women’s fiction featuring mature heroines with heart and hope.  I love strong women, great heroes, and stories that validate and entertain.   About: I was raised in California, but I’ve lived all over the world, and continue to travel—preferably with my husband and sons—whenever possible.  I love to read and can usually be found sneaking in more reading while making dinner or folding laundry.  I grew up dreaming of happy-ever-afters and being an author has allowed me to create happy endings for my characters, my readers, and myself.  Being a wife and mom is my great joy, but it’s peace I find between the covers of a special story.  When not with my family, I love to meet up with my readers and talk books and life and men…because after all, I am a romance writer.   My Reader Match Loves: Warm, witty, compassionate heroines with heart and backbone, women who’d…

1–What is the title of your latest release? PROM MOM 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Twenty years ago, a girl gave birth to a baby during a high school prom. The baby died, the girl’s life was upended. Now she’s returned home – and starts stalking her clueless date from that night, who’s now happily married. Or is he? 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I set most of my work in my hometown of Baltimore, the darker stories tend to be set in the suburbs. This is a very suburban story. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? No, but I would definitely buy art from her gallery. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Intelligent, obsessive, determined. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I learned quite a bit about Class B and Class C commercial real estate. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? Sort of both? I try to write straight through, over and over again, but sometimes I allow myself to edit if I’m stuck. 8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence? I have so many, but…

Douglas awoke on the singular thought that somehow during the night, whilst he’d been asleep, and without him even waking because of it, someone had clubbed him over the head with a cudgel. He stirred, tried to swallow, his mouth wanting water. Just the effort of opening his eyes to squint against the muted light of the dawn caused him to set his teeth, top to bottom, together. Any noise—the lads working in the stables outside, muffled voices coming from the downstairs taproom, the simple closing of a door down the hall—all of it took on a volume that thrummed, throbbed, ached. Why the devil had he drunk so damned much whisky? He’d not woken to a morning thus since he’d been a lad of fourteen, the day after he and his younger brother, Iain, had stolen their way into their uncle’s underground distillery. They’d been two green boys who’d wanted to play at being men and Douglas had learned then that while the drink of his ancestors went down quite smoothly, it came up with a violence that could make a grown man—or a fourteen year old lad—weep out loud. He’d spent two days afterward hanging over a chamber…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE HEIRESS SWAP   2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?  The Holiday meets The Prince and the Pauper with a Victorian twist in this laugh-out-loud and sexy first in a new series from award- winning author Maddison Michaels. Evie Jenkins didn’t know what she was thinking by agreeing to switch places with her American heiress cousin. After all, she’s naught but a poor―and usually quite sensible ―companion. All she has to do is spend six weeks among London society, pretending to be an heiress…and ensure that absolutely under no circumstances does she accept any proposals of marriage. Easy right? Wrong!. Especially when Alexander Trenton, the Duke of Hargraves is convinced she’s a title hunting Dollar Princess and is determined to expose her…   3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place?  I write Victorian era romances and as I wanted to write about a wealthy American Dollar Princess who trades places with her poor cousin it had to be sometime between the late 1860 up to the earl 1900s when the Dollar Princesses invaded British Society! So I chose to set my book in London amongst…

Book Title: ALL THAT GLITTERS ISN’T OLD Character Name: Whitney Dagner   How would you describe your family or your childhood? Oh, my family. Well, we’re an odd assortment of totally dependable and completely not around. I kind of had my parents when I was older, but they chose to leave me and my brother with my grandparents when we were still pretty young. We don’t talk about that very much.   What was your greatest talent? My greatest talent I think has been adaptability. I see the situation and do my best to be whatever is necessary to survive and preferably thrive.   Significant other? Now that would be Felix on most days. He and I got a rocky start but we’re working on things. My can, Whiskers, would say it was definitely her. We’ll let her think that so there are no issues!   Biggest challenge in relationships? Trusting people to stay. Whew, you are asking the hard questions, aren’t you?   Where do you live? The beautiful and often visited Catalina Island off the coast of California.   Do you have any enemies? I wouldn’t call them enemies, but after three murder mysteries I can definitely say…

Book Title: URGENT VOWS Character Name: Severu   How would you describe your family or your childhood? La famiglia is everything. When I spoke my vow to my father and became a made man, I knew one day I would lead the Genovese mafia. I trust my brother more than anyone else and that is as it should be.   What is your greatest talent? Making money. Legally and illegally. I’m damn good at unaliving people too.   Significant other? My new wife is a distraction I didn’t think I wanted, but now that she’s mine, I’ll claim her in every way.   Biggest challenge in relationships? As the most powerful don among the Five Families in New York, I don’t have time to worry about shit like that.   Where do you live? Manhattan, but I have territory in the other four boroughs, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island, ruled by the other mafias in the New York Cosa Nostra.   Do you have any enemies? Is this a joke? Who doesn’t want to take me down? We have an uneasy truce with the other mafias of the Five Families in New York, the Greek mafia and the…

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