1–What is the title of your latest release? ONE SWEET SUMMER 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Two strangers team up to build a tiny house for a televised competition, trying their best not to kill each other en route…or fall in love. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I wanted to write a small-town series and have always loved beautiful forests, lakes…and ice cream. My sister went on her honeymoon to Vermont, visited the Ben & Jerry’s factory and ever since I’ve been intrigued to go see both for myself. In One Sweet Summer the hero’s brother owns an ice cream factory. We moved to Canada in 2019, unfortunately, due to Covid and border closures, a visit hasn’t been possible, but I hope for one this fall for some leave peeping. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely – she is feisty, full of grit, and is very creative. She is a hard-working go-getter and can do anything she sets her mind to. I love that her outgoing personality is such a perfect match for the hero, who is very much an introvert. 5–What are three words…

Hey y’all! I’m Aliyah Burke and I’m thrilled to be here today. I write romance and cozy mysteries. Romance wise, I dabble in contemporary, historical, and paranormal. This is my first rom com with Entangled and is the first in a series. Tinkering With Love is about a woman, Dawson Shay, who gives up the life she knows to move across the country for a job that isn’t hers any longer when she gets there. Determined to hate the man who took it from her, she finds out it’s not that easy. Tully Faulkner is going to pull out all the stops to get Dawson to like him and what better place to do it than their teambuilding event where she can’t avoid him. Add in some wildlife, friends, nights under the northern lights, a bloody nose, and a goat to name a few and we have a romp to get to their Happily Ever After.   T is for Teambuilding. I is for Individuality. N is for Never giving up. K is for Kisses. So many kisses. E is for Enjoyment. R is for Repair. I is for Inked skin. N is for Nature. G is for Geocaching.  …

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 as a reader you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Gillian Libby!   Writes: FOUR WAYS TO WEAR A DRESS is a contemporary romance that’s a little like a grown-up Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. When Millie Ward gets fired (again) she packs up a forgotten lucky dress she and her closest friends once shared and goes off to start a new more adventurous life, full of surfing and long lost crushes.   About: A writer and mom of two, plus two dogs, who loves a good dress and a good occasion to wear one.   What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: Anyone looking for a fun, sexy, summer romance with a lucky dress that might help Millie get lucky in more ways than one.   What to expect if we’re compatible: Fun settings that take you on an adventure without ever leaving home. Steamy romance and swoon-worthy main characters. Friends that have your back Modern storylines Happily Ever Afters and a forever book boyfriend FOUR WAYS TO WEAR A DRESS by Gillian Libby You are…

1–What is the title of your latest release? STRANGERS IN PARADISE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? When Alaskan business mogul Parker Hall comes looking for investment opportunities in the small town of Paradise, Alaska, he runs afoul of local bush pilot Hailey Barosse. Parker’s suave sophisticated takeover approach reminds Hailey of her wealthy cutthroat family back home. To save Paradise businesses, she sets out to thwart his plans. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? STRANGERS IN PARADISE is Book #3 in the Paradise, Alaska series. I moved to the far north from a major metropolitan center, and I’m fascinated by the contrast in the two lifestyles. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely. Hailey is smart and feisty with a great sense of humor. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Hardworking, protective, loyal. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I’m married to a northern bush pilot, and he answered a whole lot of technical questions about bush flying. I only used about a quarter of what I learned. But I still ended up with so much detail that my editor asked me to…

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 Melinda Curtis! Writes: Melinda Curtis writes sweet romance and sweet romcoms set in small towns and bigger cities. Her stories make readers laugh a little, cry a little, and sigh a little. Her latest release is a small-town ranching romance loosely based on Beauty & the Beast.   About: Melinda Curtis developed her sense of humor working her way from a corporate cubicle to an office, which seems surreal considering she grew up on a 50-acre sheep ranch. She’s raised kids and furry creatures and is a newly minted grandma living in a fixer with a fishpond in the backyard (the previous owners stocked it with regular old goldfish that somehow are still alive). To combat a chocolate addiction and writer’s butt, she gets on the Peloton every morning, but her nights are filled with reading romances and watching kdramas or Hallmark movies.   What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match: The ideal reader for my latest release – HEALING THE RANCHER –…

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 Cynthia St. Aubin!     Writes: (short description of new book/genre) The original squirrel, Cynthia can’t stick to purely one genre and scampers back and forth between a snarky, silly paranormal rom-com-mysteries (Tails from the Alpha Art Gallery) and steamy, trope-tastic contemporary romances centered around smoke-show billionaire siblings (The Kane Heirs).   Whether she’s turning up the temperature in corner offices or making mischief for a ramshackle pack of werewolf artists, you can expect tons of tension, buckets of banter, all the feels, and most likely gratuitous food/adult beverage descriptions. CORNER OFFICE CONFESSIONS, her very first novel with Harlequin Desire, is a twin-rivalry second chance romance with all the fixins!   About – Cynthia’s very favorite thing is to make people laugh. An art history aficionado and foodie, she’s likely to corner you at parties and tell you way too much about Cambezola cheese (seriously though, go try it immediately) or obscure 19th century French painters. A bone fide bird nerd, she’s her happiest…

Fresh Fiction: Tell us a little bit about your new book, FLIRTING WITH FIFTY. Jane Porter: FLIRTING WITH FIFTY is about a strong, smart, successful divorced woman who is quite happy being single, and isn’t interested in dating or marriage because it would require compromising, and she’s done enough of that in her life.  But in Paige’s desire to be safe, she’s also somewhat stuck, and a little too risk adverse.  Enter popular, handsome world traveler, renowned scientist Dr. Jack King, and everything changes, pretty quickly.  And probably far too quickly for our cautious Paige!   What inspired you to write this book? I have a very close friend–a smart, funny, loving, youthful 50-something year old friend– who decided years ago, after her divorce, that she would never get involved with a man again.  And yet men are intrigued by her, and attracted to her, and ask me to introduce them to her.  So I’ve had conversations with this friend asking her what would it take to want to date again, and she said nothing.  I still don’t accept this answer and so I created a hero that I knew my friend would fall for (I mean, he looks like High…

The two obvious romance tropes in your new book MILLION-DOLLAR CONSEQUENCES are “surprise pregnancy” and “fake romance turned real”. I LOVE the “fake romance turned real” trope. Do you have a favorite? And what made you use them in this story? My favorite trope would have to be “forced proximity”, which I also include in the book. Once they convince everyone they’re in a relationship, she opts to stay with him in his temporary apartment in town during the ruse.   Because Isaac is an actor in MILLION-DOLLAR CONSEQUENCES, how would you describe him to readers? With that kind of career, authors usually go one of two ways – make the character uber charming and gregarious (although sometimes this can come to readers like me like he’s trying too hard) or have him be the exact opposite of everything you’d immediately assume about a celebrity. Isaac doesn’t necessarily fit into either of those molds, actually! I wrote him as a character who used to have it all—the fame, an incredible career with his brother—and then he lost it when the show ended, and his twin brother stepped away from acting. Now Isaac is trying to regain what he’s lost, repair…

1–What is the title of your latest release? THE EMMA PROJECT 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? She believes love is a lie. He believes love is the only truth there is. They both believe they can save the world (or a little piece of it), but only if they can find a way to work together despite the fierce sexual chemistry that can ruin everything. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The book is set in a family that’s descended from Indian royalty where the oldest son is running for California governor. I wanted to explore privilege in the immigrant South Asian American community and the San Francisco Bay Area gave me a lot of layers to explore. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Absolutely. Naina is a badass who suffers no fools and sees the world with incisive clarity. Exactly my favorite kind of person. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Generous. Funny. Superhot. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? That childhood trauma strikes deep roots and that every character however dark is redeemable with love and has light inside. 7–Do you…

1–What is the title of your latest release? SUMMER AT THE FRENCH CAFE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Kat loves her life in France, but this summer’s tricky – even before she gets involved with the mysterious Noah. Sunny, romantic commercial fiction underpinned by contemporary conflicts to make the reader wonder if everything can possibly come right for Kat. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Travel was difficult when I was researching and writing the book, but I’d set JUST FOR THE HOLIDAYS there in the past, so had a library of photos and memories to work with. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Definitely! Kat’s a hardworking, valiant heroine, and I have huge sympathy with her when she appears to be overlooked by those who should know better. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Mysterious, hot, determined. 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? How to run a book cafe. 7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done? Mainly, I write a first draft and then a second (and maybe a third). However, where I know a first…