Title: Love Harder A Memoir Author: Monica James Genre: Creative Non-Fiction Release Date: October 23, 2024 BLURB         LOVE. O V E Once upon a time, I looked at love through rose-tinted glasses because love is meant to conquer all, right? However, was I just a hopeless romantic at heart, chasing the proverbial happily ever after? Being a romance author, one may think I know what I’m doing when it comes to love. But I hate to spoil the ending for you, dear reader; love and me, we aren’t friends. And we haven’t been for quite some time. That’s not because I don’t believe in love. On the contrary. And that’s the reason we are here…again. We all have that one person. For me, he caught me unaware, and that’s when life usually screams KEEP UP! And most times, we can’t. If you’ve read Love Hard , then you know how love and I were no longer on speaking terms. But I wrote something which was a sign from the heavens. Or perhaps, hell… I’ve learned that good men are...

Title: Love Harder A Memoir Author: Monica James Genre: Creative Non-Fiction Cover Design: Sommer Stein Perfect Pear Creative Covers Photographer: Michelle Lancaster Models: Monica James & The Unicorn Release Date: October 23, 2024 BLURB         LOVE. O V E Once upon a time, I looked at love through rose-tinted glasses because love is meant to conquer all, right? However, was I just a hopeless romantic at heart, chasing the proverbial happily ever after? Being a romance author, one may think I know what I’m doing when it comes to love. But I hate to spoil the ending for you, dear reader; love and me, we aren’t friends. And we haven’t been for quite some time. That’s not because I don’t believe in love. On the contrary. And that’s the reason we are here…again. We all have that one person. For me, he caught me unaware, and that’s when life usually screams KEEP UP! And most times, we can’t. If you’ve read Love Hard , then you know how love and I were no long...

Review: Swear on this Life - Renee Carlino - August 2016 Imagine if you had dreams of becoming a writer and then one day, a friend gives you a book that has sold millions of copies and is becoming a literary phenomenon you read it and it is your childhood fictionalized including the worst parts that you have tried for years to block out. That is what happened to Emmeline when her roommate Cara raved about a new book by an upcoming author named J. Colby. Emmeline starts to read it and soon is chucked into a world of Emerson and Jake, as she goes along she soon discovers that her childhood best friend Jase has fictionalized their life and is telling the book from her POV. She is Emerson, how could he do this to her, especially since they haven't seen each other in at least twenty years? As the book goes on, it will confront Emmeline and help her not only move on from the past but she will soon learn that the boy she loved with all her heart, never forgot about her and loved her too...

In The Shadow of The Apennines Kimberly Sullivan Publication date: October 21st 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Historical, Women’s Fiction An American divorcée. An Italian shepherdess. Separated by a century, united by common dreams. The sleepy little Abruzzo mountain town of Marsicano seems about as far as Samantha can flee from her failed marriage and disastrous university career. Eager for a fresh start, Samantha begins to set down roots in her Italian mountain hideaway. At first, the mountain retreat appears idyllic, but an outsider’s clumsy attempts at breaking into the closed mountain community are quickly thwarted when the residents discover Samantha’s snarky blog ridiculing the town and its inhabitants. Increasingly isolated in her mountain cottage, Samantha discovers the letters and diaries of Elena, a past tenant and a survivor of the 1915 Pescina earthquake. Despite the century that separates the two women, Samantha feels increasingly drawn into Elena’s life...