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…

FLIRTING WITH THE BEAST was inspired by a cabin my husband and I bought halfway through the Covid pandemic. We live near the beach, literally a five-minute walk from the San Clemente beach and pier, but during California’s lockdown we felt a need to go somewhere, so we’d feel as if we’d escaped to somewhere.  Ty and I spent a couple of weekends looking at cabins and areas, and in January 2020 we found a 1923 cabin near Lake Arrowhead in the little town of Blue Jay in California’s San Bernardino Mountains. Even better, the drive was only an hour and a half without traffic (especially with my husband at the wheel.) The cabin still had the original logs, all placed in a vertical design, which was popular in the 1920s and early 30s.  Why vertical placement of logs?  It allowed local builders to use local logs, and the logs didn’t have to be exactly the same size as there was no joining logs at the corners.  The cabin we fell in love with needed so much work, but we loved its history, (our Hawaii house was built in 1929, and our San Clemente home was built in 1926-27) and…

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…

As we speed closer and closer to Boas & Tiaras (click here to buy your ticket) we decided to give you more insight into our attending authors. We’ll highlight one author in each newsletter with five quick questions.     Jane Porter is stepping up to the mic. Pitch us your newest book in one sentence. There are consequences when you help your best friend avoid a loveless marriage, especially when its ends up sabotaging your boss’s wedding. What book made you fall in love with the genre(s) you write? Michelle Reid’s PRICE OF A BRIDE (but also, Debbie Macomber’s early romances, and Nora Robert’s Silhouettes). Tell us about your favorite character you’ve ever written. I don’t have just one, but I tend to fall in love with my heroes.  I really adore them, and want to date them, and I so enjoy their banter, and their charm, and masculinity and appeal.  (Now that I think about it I’m terribly fond of Rory Douglas from MIRACLE ON CHANCE AVENUE) What do you do to de-stress when you’re on a writing deadline? Travel, read, and watch reality singing and dancing competitions. I have lots of secret weaknesses and I record my shows…

I’m a hard worker, a good mom, a loyal friend, and sometimes a pretty decent writer, but that doesn’t mean everything goes smoothly. In fact, sometimes it means nothing goes smoothly and life becomes what life generally is: one endless roller coaster of highs, low, and loop de loos. I’ve been most this year on the roller coaster and the past six months have pretty much been loops and swoops and hair curling drops that put your stomach up in your mouth and leaves it there. Like everyone else, I’ve had sick family members and lost family members and had financial worries and child worries and work worries but what the heck, we can’t cry (too much), we just have to keep going. And that’s what I’ve been doing. Putting one foot in front of the other as I finish one book and begin to hit the road and promote another. My kids hate me being gone. I’m a single mom and the boys’ dad has been in the hospital since April. They don’t want to be left with sitters. I don’t blame them for not wanting to be left with sitters but sometimes we do what we don’t want…