Hello from Florida! And thank you,
AnneMarie for inviting me to spend some time on your blog.
Although I have been writing for most of my
life, I only began writing fiction last year. Well, that is not strictly true.
I began
fiction over and over again. It was last year that I finally got past the
dreaded middle and actually finished not one but two short pieces of romantic
fiction.
At one time, I was the editor of the
newspaper of the small, rural island in the Gulf of Mexico on which I live. I
set my stories in a similar town but gleefully modify people and places to suit
myself.
The first book of my Calusa Town Tales is The Lady Is a Mayor. The mayor of my
made-up town of Calusa disappears one night, taking the town’s bank account
with him. The first young woman to serve on the town’s council takes over as
interim mayor and tries her best to keep the town afloat. When a property
developer from Pittsburgh arrives with plans to build a hotel, she thinks her
worries are over. The quirky citizens of Calusa have other ideas—and are not
shy about sharing them.
Not to give too much away, but the second
book, Southern Hospitality, is set at
the hotel. A new manager comes to town determined to use this job as a stepping
stone to bigger career success. Conventioneers, a celebrity on the lam, and the
Weather Channel keep throwing curve balls at her, but in spite of herself she
becomes part of the fabric of the Calusa community.
I’m hard at work on book three. Keep an eye
out for Island Dream in September.
Amazon buy links:
The Lady Is a Mayor
Southern Hospitality
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