Summer Sizzle is available for sale, now!
Of course, I hope you’ll read it, love it, review it.
If you haven’t preordered it, you can get it at the outlet of your choosing, below:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HHNZOUI
B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1124015119
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1128139488
Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/summer-sizzle-6
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-summersizzle-2061259-166.html
Here’s ten log lines (there are twenty great stories), to entice you:
Get swept away in this summer, love-at-first-sight fantasy every single girl dreams of in Roz Lee’s Summer League!
In Shelby Ellis’ Under the Light of a Thousand Stars, when Keeley was sixteen she vowed to spend every summer of her life on the island, but that was #BeforeTannerBuchanan broke her heart. How will she find her way back?
Can a blindfolded Ravannah learn to follow her sexy ballroom dance instructor in Tonya Plank’s Lead Me?
In Karen Ehrenberg’s Snooze You Lose, love and sparks fly when kismet is given a push for two headstrong journalists and surf junkies.
Evie Marigold is protecting her heart and her livelihood, but sexy surfer/entrepreneur Ian Sterling threatens to steal them both on the Pacific sands in The Shore Thing by Charlene Sands.
In Lynne Marshall’s Something Borrowed, Something New, it’s the wedding catering staff who are star-crossed lovers. Can these hard-working immigrants find a happily ever after despite coming from families who are traditional enemies?
Take one stranded actress with a secret, a small town veterinarian, and add a hideously ugly dog with worse manners. In Beverly Diehl’s The Dog Days of Summer, can the sexy vet – and the dog – win Panick’s heart before Hollywood calls her home? (Yes, this is my story.)
One pretty witch trapped between Heaven and Hell, one ruthless demon after a soul, and one smitten angel willing to risk it all for love, in Ophelia Bell’s Falling for Her.
In Samanthe Beck’s Keeping Her Handyman, he’s giving his runaway bride a night so hot she’ll beg for forever.
Spring’s Summer by Kara Winters: As the summer nears its end, the goddess of Spring knows she will soon see her beloved husband Hades once more. But Hades has a few tricks up his sleeve for their reunion.
So, enough sales pitching. I already flogged the online workshop I’m giving, and the panels I’m presenting at CatalystCon West, in my last blog post.
Let’s Talk About the Helpers
There’s a lot of crappy things going on in the world right now. Terrorist attacks, the UK not knowing whether to shit or wind Big Ben, US politics being especially nasty…
And my widowed sister’s community in the Lake Isabella area just experienced a major wildfire, the Erskine. Over 48,000 acres burned, 285 homes destroyed. An elderly couple lost their lives. I had long planned a visit to her over the holiday weekend, as it coincides with her wedding anniversary. It was both sobering, traumatic, and inspiring to be there.
Yet, their community really came together. People helped in restaurants, gave each other places to stay, clothing. My sister fostered two puppies belonging to evacuees, although they went home before I arrived.
We were able to visit her favorite camping spot, and because we wanted to toast the anniversary, I MacGyvered off the cap of a mini champagne bottle using a dog tag and key ring, Because we didn’t bring a bottle opener or Swiss Army knife.
Except that, to our vast amusement, upon packing up to leave the campsite my sister discovered she did have a Swiss army knife, after all. We are still giggling about that.
I also got a tragic phone call, while I was with my sister, informing me of the death of a young woman I loved very much, who had been one of my family day care “babies,” back in the day. Heather was only in her thirties, and it breaks my heart to know she has passed. But at least I was in a place where I could get a comforting hug.
Sometimes people call me Pollyanna, claim that I don’t understand how terrible everything is. And yes, sometimes it is terrible. But it is also wonderful, and there are people out there making things better for their neighbors, as Mr. Rogers always encouraged us to do. I’m trying to both be a helper, when I can, and notice and thank those I see.
Have you noticed helpers in your life, or neighborhood?
Or around the world?
Your thoughts?