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Cover Reveal StrangeLove by T.L. Bradford

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StrangeLove by T.L. Bradford


Title: StrangeLove
Author: T.L. Bradford

Cover Reveal: StrangeLove by T.L. Bradford


ABOUT:

Archer

The year began great for me.

Became the starting quarterback for an NFL team – check.
Secured a multi-million-dollar contract – check.
Moved to LA and lived the glamorous life – check.

What could possibly cause me any issues?
Oh yeah, one more thing. I’m gay.

I was outed a couple of years ago to my former team and my family, but it hasn’t been made public knowledge yet. Well, that is, until now. I’ll be known as the first LGBTQ+ active player in the league’s history. And if I stick to the conditions of my contract, it won’t be a problem. The thing is, I’m not really a guy known for playing by the rules.

Most people think of my personality as the three B’s: bold, brash, and blunt. My mouth has gotten me into more predicaments than I can count. Even my best friends have told me I’m stubborn as a mule and have the delicacy of a bull in a china shop. This presents a big problem for me because I have my eyes set on winning over the guy who stole my heart years ago, only he doesn’t know it yet.

Getting his attention is going to be challenging. It’s a good thing I’m tenacious.
Unfortunately, it’s not great timing and could get me into a whole mess of trouble.
Why does falling for a guy need to be anyone’s business but mine?

Kai

The past couple of years were a whirlwind of activity. My career took off after my guest shot appearance in Americana. I appeared in a few indie features and finally got a shot at my first major motion picture release. The work came as a great distraction from my personal life, which took a further nosedive after I found out the guy I was falling for had already fallen for someone else.

Why should I be surprised? He was another in a string of failed relationship attempts. I swore I wouldn’t get involved with anyone else, choosing to stay focused on my career instead. That is, until the force of nature known as Archer McMillan came storming into my life.

To be the pursued instead of the pursuer was not in the cards. To top it off, he’s everything I’m not. Yet, there’s something to be said for a guy who can make you laugh when it’s the last thing you want to be doing. I’ll admit he’s got a playful and determined spirit. Archer also has one of the biggest hearts of anyone I’ve ever known. Not the mention the cute way he… Hold on. What am I doing? We cannot be a thing. Nope. Not gonna happen. Ever. Right?

**

Follow Kai and Archer as they cross the lines as friends, partners-in-crime, and confidants, to discover a love beyond boundaries that needs no definition.

(StrangeLove is a funny, heartwarming, slow-burn love story. It contains a cast of fully developed characters that encounter romance, laughter, and life lessons. It contains adult language, mature themes, and is best enjoyed by those over the age of 18. It can be read as a standalone; however, if you would like to know the backstories of some characters, check out the prior books in the series.)


Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60291958-strangelove


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Cover Reveal StrangeLove by T.L. Bradford




AUTHOR BIO:

Cover Reveal StrangeLove by T.L. Bradford
T.L. always hated math, so it was a good thing she had a way with words.  Since she was a shy and quirky kid; words were her best friends.  She would imagine entire worlds in her head and talk to herself endlessly.  Her mother wondered if she was speaking with ghosts for a while.
 
Her older sister was a voracious reader of trashy romance novels and would pass them down to her after she had finished them.  T.L. was the only 10-year-old kid sitting in class reading “The Stud” by Jackie Collins during reading time.  Oddly enough, she never got called out on it.
 
As she grew older, her tastes evolved, but one thing held fast; her undying attachment to love stories. One day out of the blue, she decided to write the love stories she always wanted to read instead of searching for her story.  Since then, writing has been a dream fulfilled for her and she could not be happier.

She enjoys writing about love, regardless of gender and is a proud supporter of the LGBTQ community.
 
T.L. calls the Pacific Northwest her home and enjoys the quiet rural life of her little oceanside home with her playful/crazy husband and their giant dog Noah.


Author links:

https://tlbradford.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19366370.T_L_Bradford
https://twitter.com/tbradfordauthor
https://www.instagram.com/tlbradfordauthor/
https://www.bookbub.com/profile/tl-bradford?list=about


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Cover Reveal Butterfly Sisters by Jenny Hale

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Butterfly Sisters by Jenny Hale


Title: Butterfly Sisters 
Author: Jenny Hale

Cover Reveal Butterfly Sisters by Jenny Hale


ABOUT:

“When emerging from its cocoon, a butterfly needs the struggle to push the fluid from its body into its wings. So essentially, without the struggle, it never flies.”

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Beach House comes a story about family bonds, second chances, and finding out who we really are. Butterfly Sisters is the perfect escape for fans of Susan Wiggs, RaeAnne Thayne, and Susan Mallery.

About to land her biggest deal yet, Leigh Henderson is on her game. She’s prepared for this, and nothing can get in her way. Except Rebecca Mayer, who’d sashayed in a few weeks ago with a former client list that would fill the entire hallway to Leigh’s office if she laid it out end to end. When her boss unexpectedly offers the deal to Rebecca and tells Leigh he’s letting her go, Leigh finds herself without a job.

But that’s the least of her worries. 

Her mother has some news that will change everything. She’s asked Leigh and her sister Meredith to meet her at the family cabin on Old Hickory Lake. Not only has Leigh been unable to pin her sister down in years, but going back to the cabin would mean dealing with the loss of her beloved grandmother and also chance running into her old flame Colton Harris, the one love she’s never been able to completely let go of.

Will confronting her grief, speaking to her estranged sister, and being forced to face the love she’d left behind help Leigh to learn who she really is? 

A heartwarming story that will have you laughing, crying, and rushing to those you hold dear. If you loved the Christmas movies based on Jenny’s books and are looking for more feel-good, small-town romance, look no further!


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Cover Reveal Butterfly Sisters by Jenny Hale


Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60212478-butterfly-sisters

Pre-order:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3g1ia1T

AUTHOR BIO:


Author Jenny Hale
Jenny Hale is a USA Today, Amazon, and international bestselling author of romantic contemporary fiction. Her books have sold worldwide, have been translated into multiple languages, and adapted for television. Her novels Coming Home for Christmas and Movie Guide Epiphany Award winner Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses are Hallmark Channel original movies.

She was included in Oprah Magazine’s “19 Dreamy Summer Romances to Whisk You Away” and Southern Living’s “30 Christmas Novels to Start Reading Now.” Her stories are chock-full of feel-good romance and overflowing with warm settings, great friends, and family. Jenny is at work on her next novel, delighted to be bringing even more heartwarming stories to her readers.

When she isn’t writing, or heading up her romantic fiction imprint Harpeth Road, she can be found running around her hometown of Nashville with her husband, two boys, and their labradoodle, taking pictures—her favorite pastime.


Author links:

https://www.itsjennyhale.com/
https://www.facebook.com/jennyhaleauthor/
https://www.instagram.com/jhaleauthor/
https://twitter.com/jhaleauthor
https://www.pinterest.ca/jhaleauthor/_saved/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7201437.Jenny_Hale
https://www.bookbub.com/profile/jenny-hale
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xY4E_pNRwzu_S3IHrvwiQ



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Endless Pre-writes  Effective Prewriting Techniques  Guest Post By Howard Michael Gould

Endless Pre-writes 

Effective Prewriting Techniques

Guest Post By Howard Michael Gould

 

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Authors seem locked in an eternal (even tiresome) debate between “pantsers” and “plotters.”  I can’t gainsay the former, but I’ve never met another writer who’s quite as extremely the latter as myself.  So I thought I’d share how I got that way, and detail my process.

It began long before I became a novelist.  I started as a playwright (college, then off-off-Broadway), then worked successfully in TV audience sitcoms for a decade. Then I wrote another play, which Mike Nichols wanted to direct, which got the attention of the movie side of the business.  But the more successful I got, and more importantly, the better I got at my craft—specifically, the more I knew about what a good script actually was—the harder it got for me to actually write.  I’d intimidated myself into paralysis.  It was hell.  

I came to think of it as page fright.

I still have it.  And I still think of all I’m about to describe as a workaround.  But it’s an effective one.

When I start a new project, whether it’s a movie rewrite or my own novel from scratch, I start by opening a Word document, and just talking to myself, doing all my thinking is on paper (well, pixels).

At some point—and if it’s a novel, this may be weeks in—I have an idea of some things I know.  So I’ll list them.  But what’s more glaring and scary, of course, is how very much I don’t know.  So I’ll make a list of questions.  Where’s the action?  Which characters from the last book are in this one?  Do we need another dead body somewhere?  Usually they’re pretty general at this point.  

When that document becomes too cumbersome, I’ll open a second—called “Notes2”—and start again by taking stock of what I have, and what I don’t.  A new set of questions, becoming more granular.  How does Waldo know his client is lying?  How many suspects are there?  How does he figure out who the killer is?

For the fourth Waldo novel (in progress), I had four of these documents, totalling 150 single-spaced pages… before I even started outlining.

Once I’ve answered every question I can think of, I start putting everything on index cards.  When I started in TV, we used real index cards on a cork board.  (For the last 25 years I’ve been addicted to software called Writer’s Blocks.  If they ever go out of business, I’ll have to retire.)  I use different colors for different storylines, and put absolutely anything that I think might go into the book onto a card.  For the Waldo in progress, there were around 350 of them.

The next step is putting those cards in order, a daunting task.  Here the screenwriting background helps.  Mainstream movies traditionally have major story turns at the ¼, ½, and ¾ points.  I think of my Waldo books as sort of overstuffed screen stories, and put the major turns of each storyline at about those marks, so the cards naturally group roughly into more manageable quarters.  I order each of those quadrants, then further divide each into chapters.

That done, I use the “manuscript” function in Writer’s Blocks to turn it all into text, and import it into a new Word document, which I’ll expand into my outline.

To do that, I flesh out each chapter from the list of index card thumbnail notes into a detailed telling.  I write in unabashedly clunky prose, in present tense—vestigial from my screenwriting years—and throw in everything I can think of, and grind on anything that might slow me down later.  If I’ll need to do some research, this is the time.  If I know I’m going to need to refer to a previous Waldo book, I’ll note the exact spot here.  The idea is to do every bit of work that I can, before the scary parts starts.

This phase alone can take me months.  It usually yields about 70 single-spaced pages, or 30,000 words, toward a novel which will run 70,000 to 75,000.

When I get through that… at last, it’s time to brave the blank page.  But with a hell of a head start.

One famous writer-director I collaborated with laughed when I told him about my process.  He said, “You’re tricking yourself into writing while you’re telling yourself you’re not writing.”

Maybe he’s right.  But at this point, it’s the only way I know how to get through it.


Endless Pre-writes  Effective Prewriting Techniques  Guest Post By Howard Michael Gould

Howard Michael Gould graduated from Amherst College and spent five years working on Madison Avenue, winning three Clios and numerous other awards.

In television, he was executive producer and head writer of CYBILL when it won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series, and held the same positions on THE JEFF FOXWORTHY SHOW and INSTANT MOM. Other TV credits include FM and HOME IMPROVEMENT.
He wrote and directed the feature film THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY LEFAY, starring Tim Allen, Elisha Cuthbert, Andie MacDowell and Jenna Elfman. Other feature credits include MR. 3000 and SHREK THE THIRD.

His play DIVA premiered at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and La Jolla Playhouse, and was subsequently published by Samuel French and performed around the country.

He is the author of three mystery novels featuring the minimalist detective Charlie Waldo: LAST LOOKS (2018) and BELOW THE LINE (2019), both nominated for Shamus Awards by the Private Eye Writers of America, and PAY OR PLAY (2021). The feature film version of LAST LOOKS, starring Charlie Hunnam and Mel Gibson and directed by Tim Kirkby, will premiere February, 2022; Gould also wrote the screenplay.

Catch Up With Howard Michael Gould:
HowardMichaelGould.com
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Instagram - @howardmichaelgould
Twitter - @HowardMGould
Facebook - @HowardMGould


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