july updates
little things, volume eighteen
Hey book bestie! It’s time to catch you up on what went on behind the scenes in June.
On June 20th, I had my first in-store book signing of the year at For the Plot in Orlando and had the best time.
On June 29th, I started my first developmental edit for a debut romantasy as a freelance fiction editor.
I announced my new release date for Come Back to Me on June 30th.
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AUTHOR JESSICA SYDNEY’S JULY BOOK SPOTLIGHT
It’s just a bet, right?
Calum
Jade Montgomery has changed everything I thought I knew.
My big brother’s ex’s best friend. Eight years older.
She’s untouchable. Guarded. Fierce...and pretends I don’t exist.
Too bad she intrigues me in a way no one else has.
The only person who has sparked a light back into my disappointing life.
I’m the let-down.
The player.
How can I convince her I’ve changed and win the money?
Well, let’s just say, I love a good challenge.
Jade
On the outside, I’m cold and calculated.
Some might even say mean.
But on the inside? I hide behind walls I’ve built tall to keep everyone out.
Somehow, Calum Hayes breaks through every single one of them.
He’s confident. Broody. A downright playboy.
And, for some reason, he has his sight set on me.
Acting like he doesn’t affect me is the smart thing to do. Right?
Oh, what the hell...it can be our little secret.
Beneath the Ashes by Isa Lynn is a small town, friends with benefits contemporary romance with an age gap (she’s older), found family, a secret bet, and groveling.
When a violent storm rips through Wisteria Creek, Madison Cole loses more than her home. She also loses the fragile stability she has spent years building for herself and her daughter. Forced to stay in the guest house of her best friend’s infuriating, undeniably attractive older brother, she finds herself confronting memories she thought she’d outgrown.
Seth Cunningham has always been the man she could never quite figure out. The boy who teased her, the teenager who kept his distance, and the adult who now watches her with a quiet intensity she doesn’t understand. Living steps apart was supposed to be temporary. However, beneath long summer evenings and soft moments they never meant to share, their friction begins to shift into something neither of them is ready for.
Under a sky broken open by storms, Madison and Seth learn that sometimes the pieces left behind create something stronger, deeper, and worth fighting for.
Beneath the Broken Sky by Emily Scotto is a small town, frenemies to lovers, best friend’s brother contemporary romance with a single mom, found family, and forced proximity.
All Bea wants is to fly to Scotland and write her steamy new book. Find a smoking hot Scotsman to model the hero on. She can do no-strings, in the name of art, right?
But Bea hasn’t met Cal Butler. Yet…
Bea Gracie, an American romance writer, flees to Edinburgh to escape her broken heart and find inspiration for her fictional love interest. And there he is – the stunning-yet-aloof Cal Butler – in the same Edinburgh coffee shop where Bea is tapping at her laptop. All she has to do is orchestrate a meet-cute and her muse is hers.
Drawn inexorably to each other, Bea and Cal agree to a no-strings fling so they can revel in guiltless passion with a firm end date. But Bea’s feelings for Cal grow like the wildflowers along the coastline of his homeland. Is it possible he harbors feelings for her, too, or is the fire in his kiss something he can safely pack away? And what will happen when this privacy-guarding hero finds out he’s been immortalized in Bea’s spicy novel?
Surfing with a Scotsman by Amber Cooper is book one in the Butlers’ series. It’s an open door contemporary romance with grumpy x sunshine set on the Scottish shores.
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