Fresh FIction Box Not To Miss
Andie J. Christopher | Exclusive Excerpt: UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS
Excerpt / September 26, 2023

Chapter Four Jessica needed to pee. And then she needed to go home and sleep for about a thousand years. Last night, she’d had a dream about waking up with white hair and a frail body, surrounded by the loving family that it was now questionable she would ever have. Now that she was single and firmly in her late thirties, she was more likely to end up in a Golden Girls–type living situation. Instead of waking up to loving grandchildren reminiscing about baking cookies or crocheted blankets, she’d be waking up to her best friend Kelly roasting Barbie about what a slut she was being in and around the retirement community. As she made her way through the almost-empty bar, her gaze snagged on a man sitting alone, staring into a glass of amber liquid. He was slumped over the bar, holding the side of his head with one hand. There were two empty glasses in front of him, and the bartender cleaned glasses while giving him a pitying look. She stopped short, which was weird because her bladder was seconds from bursting. She walked past him, toward the bathroom, but she noticed his big hands as she went…

Andie J. Christopher Interview – Rom-Com with Real Life Inspiration
Author Guest / June 14, 2022

What inspired you to write THANK YOU, NEXT? Any of your own personal experiences, or people you’ve known find their way into this story? About a decade ago, long before wrote romance, I turned on Say Yes to the Dress and saw a guy that I’d had feelings for as the fiance on the show. I was in a pretty low place in my own personal life, so it was a mix of both funny and sad. (He also looked like Michael B. Jordan, which weighed heavily in the “sad” column.) Whenever I told that story in a group of authors, people would ask me when I was going to put it into a book. And this seemed like the right time to do it. How would you describe the dynamic between Alex and Will? One of my favorite romantic tropes is the “friends-to-enemies-to-lovers.” I love the angsty push-pull of that dynamic. Because there’s history, the feelings are really intense, but it takes a lot to get over the inertia. When the characters finally get together, it feels like an explosion. Would you say there’s an equal amount of romance and humor in this story, or does one element dominate?…

Andie J. Christopher | 20 Questions: NOT THAT KIND OF GUY
Author Guest / April 14, 2020

1–What’s the name of your latest release?  NOT THAT KIND OF GUY 2–What is it about?  It’s a workplace romance between an older woman and her intern, but with wild Vegas weekend in the middle. It’s the companion book to NOT THE GIRL YOU MARRY, and you get to see a lot of the characters from that book, but it can be read on its own.  3–What word best describes your heroine?  One word to describe Bridget Nolan: tough. 4–What makes your hero irresistible?  His kindness and empathy.   5–Who are the people your main characters turn to when they need help?  Bridget turns to her dad and brothers, and Matt turns to his parents.   6–What do you love about the setting of your book?  I loved the brief period of time that I lived in Chicago and I think it’s such a great rom-com setting. It’s larger than life.   7–Are you a plotter (follow an outline) or a pantster (write by the seat of your pants)? I’m pretty much a plantser. I have a synopsis at the start but most of my books diverge from the plan at some point.  8–What is an ideal writing day for you?  Honestly, my…

Meet the Author: Andie J. Christopher
Author Guest / August 17, 2017

I never planned on becoming a writer. Not even when a high school English teacher told me to “be sure to send [her] a copy of my first book” in my yearbook at the end of junior year. But, at the point, I thought that writing stories was something I just did for fun. She had no idea that I had odds and ends of a bunch novels on my Macintosh SE. I didn’t plan on becoming a writer when I was ten years old and spending the summer at my grandparents’ house on Lake Mille Lacs in Minnesota. My grandmother was a voracious reader, and her shelves were always stocked with mysteries, biographies, literary fiction, and romance novels. Until that summer, I’d gorged myself on all of the genres but the final one. But one day, after I’d run through all the new mystery arrivals, I stumbled on a grocery sack filled with Harlequin Romances. I distinctly remember being mesmerized by the colors and the story descriptions. Unlike the mysteries or the classics I’d read, these books were set in far flung, glamorous locales. There was *kissing* in these books. And the endings were all happy. Romance novels became…