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September 27, 2018
Book giveaway: Win a copy of my f/f romance Paper Love & a special package
My latest lesbian romance novel, Paper Love, has been out for a month now, and it’s been doing well. To celebrate, I put together a special giveaway package.
As you might know, Paper Love is set in Freiburg, the city where I live, which is at the edge of the Black Forest. So the giveaway package is Black Forest-themed. It includes:
A signed paperback copy of Paper Love,
A bar of Black Forest chocolate with coffee-cherry filling,
A packet of Black Forest wine gums,
A Black Forest duck keychain (the hat is part of the traditional costume women wore in parts of the Black Forest),
A Black Forest pencil,
A bottle with a paper boat inside, like the one Susanne makes for Anja in the last chapter of Paper Love,
A fridge magnet depicting the Martinstor, a medieval city gate through which Susanne passes in chapter 1 of Paper Love,
A cool “book dragon” bookmark,
A signed autograph card,
A notebook (because you can’t have a Paper Love giveaway without some paper!)
Anyone can enter, no matter where you live.
All you need to do to be entered into the drawing is to leave a comment on this blog.
Want to improve your chances to win?
Share the link to this post on Facebook and/or Twitter, and I’ll enter your name into the drawing additional times. Just tag me so I can put the right amounts of tickets into the drawing for you. I’m JaeAuthor on Facebook and @JaeFiction on Twitter.
Entries close on Friday, October 5, 2018, 10 a.m. CET, when I’ll draw the winner using a random numbers generator. I’ll notify the winner via email. Your email address won’t be used for any other purpose.
Are you interested in more giveaways?
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Best of luck!
Jae
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September 20, 2018
F/F Books with Disabled Characters (Lesbian Book Bingo #19)
Much too often, the characters in lesbian books, especially in romance novels, are all too perfect. They have perfect looks, perfect jobs, perfect health, perfect everything. That’s just not a realistic representation of our lives.
So for this square of the Lesbian Book Bingo, we’re focusing on novels featuring characters with a disability. It can be a physical disability, a chronic illness, or a mental disorder.
If you need to brush up on the rules of Lesbian Book Bingo, check out the rules post.
15 GREAT F/F BOOKS FEATURING CHARACTERS WITH A DISABILITY
I’ve put together a list of 15 women-loving-women books about disabled characters I hope you’ll enjoy.
Rain Falls (Rain Falls series, book 1) by Kelli Jae Baeli (main character uses crutches)
Two women. One, a freelance writer, editor and sci-fi author, who is also an emotionally unavailable and closeted lesbian. The other, a disabled romantic lesbian fiction writer, who believes no one will ever love her. In a writing cabin outside the tourist town of Rain Falls, Colorado, the two struggle with the temptation and absurdities their situation inspires.
Available at:
Amazon
Making a Comeback by Julie Blair (blind character)
Jazz pianist Liz Randall is reeling from her wife’s death and struggling to keep their band together. An invitation to play at the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival is an opportunity she can’t turn down, and a challenge she might not be up to until she enlists the help of a mysterious neighbor who’s surprisingly knowledgeable about jazz. When Jac Winters reluctantly agrees to help, a past she wants to forget threatens to destroy the carefully ordered life she’s built with her guide dog, Max. Will Liz and Jac play it safe or risk everything on making a comeback?
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audio book)
Far From Home by Lorelie Brown (character with an eating disorder)
My name is Rachel. I’m straight . . . I think. I also have a mountain of student loans and a smart mouth. I wasn’t serious when I told Pari Sadashiv I’d marry her. It was only party banter! Except Pari needs a green card, and she’s willing to give me a breather from drowning in debt.
Available at:
Riptide Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Reluctant Hope by Erin Dutton (cancer survivor)
Cancer survivor Addison Hunt knows she can’t offer any guarantees, in love or in life, and after experiencing a loss of her own, Brooke Donahue isn’t willing to risk her heart. But spending time together while working on a project to raise money and awareness for cancer research has them both questioning their convictions.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Mending Defects by Lynn Galli (character with a heart condition)
Small town life for Glory Eiben has always been her ideal. With her rare congenital heart defect, keeping family and friends close by preserves her easygoing attitude. When Lena Coleridge moves in next door, life becomes anything but easy. Lena is a reluctant transplant and even more reluctant friend. Their growing friendship adds many layers to Glory’s ideal.
Available at:
Amazon
Just Physical (Hollywood series) by Jae (character with multiple sclerosis)
After being diagnosed with MS, actress Jill takes herself off the romantic market. On the set of a disaster movie, she meets stunt woman Crash, whose easy smile makes her wish things were different. Despite their growing feelings, Jill is determined to let Crash into her bed, but not her heart. As they start to play with fire on and off camera, will they be able to keep things just physical?
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
The Loudest Silence (Part One) by Olivia Janae (deaf character)
Kate, an up and coming cellist, is new to Chicago and the Windy City chamber ensemble. During her first rehearsal, she is surprised and intrigued to meet Vivian Kensington, the formidable board president who also happens to be deaf. As she develops a tentative friendship with her cold-hearted boss, she begins to wonder if it’s possible for two women, one from a world of sound and one a world of silence, to truly understand each other?
Available at:
Heartsome Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Locked Inside by Annette Mori (character with locked-in syndrome)
How much does the power of love matter to someone who has overcome obstacles greater than most people face in a lifetime? Carly, a beautiful and vivacious young woman, sees something in the semi-comatose Belinda and they form an unusual bond. Can Carly help Belinda break free from her emotional prison?
Available at:
Affinity Rainbow Publications
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Frame by Frame by CJ Murphy (character with PTSD)
Valkyrie (Val) Magnusson, a former Marine photographer, injured while covering a goodwill mission with Iraqi children. Haunted by flashbacks, Val travels the country as a photographer for Rider magazine. A self-proclaimed nomad, Val has little inclination to settle down. Something or rather someone keeps calling her back to a little tourist trap called Cool Springs in rural West Virginia.
Available at:
Desert Palm Press
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Wounded Souls by RJ Nolan (character with a lower leg amputation)
Dr. Ashlee Logan has spent the last two years on the road with only her Great Dane as a companion, trying to escape her past. While serving her country, former Navy doctor Dale Parker had her life shattered in a single moment. LA Metropolitan Hospital brings the two women together. Can they overcome their pasts and find happiness together, or are they forever destined to be…Wounded Souls?
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Battle Scars by Meghan O’Brien (character with PTSD)
Returning Iraq war veteran Ray McKenna struggles with battle scars that can only be healed by love. Ray McKenna returns from the war in Iraq to find that she had attained unwanted celebrity status back home. As the only surviving American soldier of a well-publicized hostage crisis, she is the center of attention at a time when all she wants is solitude.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audio book)
Five Feet or Less by Erik Schubach (main character uses a wheelchair)
Reese is a programmer and tech geek who was confined to a wheelchair at a young age. Since then she has locked herself away from the outside in her virtual world. Until a chance meeting with an ex-punk rocker girl, Sarah, who teaches her that her world is not defined in five feet or less.
Available at:
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audio book)
Up the Ante by PJ Trebelhorn (character with MS)
Jordan Stryker’s multiple sclerosis diagnosis changed her life. She left the FBI and decided to try her hand at professional poker. She’s played poker for years, but no amount of practice could have prepared her for what she’d face in Las Vegas away from the tables—Ashley Noble, the woman she had an affair with fifteen years ago, long before her diagnosis.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Blindsided by Karis Walsh (blind character)
Guide dog trainer Lenae McIntyre left the high-speed world of television news writing behind, and now she helps other visually impaired people adjust to life with their canine companions. Cara Bradley compensates for her family’s shallow celebrity lifestyle by devoting her life to helping others, while keeping to the background. When Cara gets roped into puppy walking one of Lenae’s young dogs, their lives become intertwined with more tangles than Pickwick’s leash.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audio book)
Don’t Let Go by Sheryl Wright (character with traumatic brain injury & PTSD)
Tyler quickly realizes Georgie is not the damaged goods everyone sees. She recognizes something special in Georgie DiNamico, garnering trust, loyalty, and something more…something Tyler hasn’t thought about for a very, very long time.
Available at:
Bella Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
If you haven’t done so already, download your bingo card, pick the book you want to read for the “disabled character” square, and start reading! Remember that you can either read one of the 15 books listed above or pick another f/f book featuring a character with a disability.
Lesbian Book bingo giveaway: Win a book by leaving a comment
For the Disabled Character square, I’m giving away an e-book copy of:
Just Physical by Jae
Blindsided by Karis Walsh
Locked Inside by Annette Mori
Anyone can enter. To be entered into the drawing, leave a comment on this blog and let us know which book you’re going to read for the “disabled character” square or if you can think of other lesbian books that fit this category.
Entries close on Thursday, September 27, 2018, 10 a.m. CET, when I’ll draw the winners using a random numbers generator. I’ll notify winners via email. Your email address won’t be used for any other purpose.
Subscribe to this blog so you won’t miss the next book bingo post
The reading list for the next bingo square—books with butch/femme couples—will be posted on October 4. Subscribe to my blog so you won’t miss it. There’ll be another giveaway too!
Happy reading!
Jae
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September 17, 2018
Pre-release book giveaway “If I Loved You Less” by Tamsen Parker
I have a wonderful surprise for you today. Fellow author Tamsen Parker offered to do a pre-release giveaway of her upcoming book If I Loved You Less for my blog readers.
If I Loved You Less is a re-telling of Emma. It will be published on September 20, so you are getting a chance to win and read it before it’s even out!
Here’s a description:
Matchmaking? Check. Surfing? Check. Falling in love? As if.
Sunny, striking, and satisfied with her life in paradise, Theodosia Sullivan sees no need for marriage. She does, however, relish serving as matchmaker for everyone who crosses her path. As the manager of her family’s surf shop in Hanalei Bay, that includes locals and tourists alike.
One person she won’t be playing Cupid for is the equally happy bachelorette down the street. Baker Kini ʻŌpūnui has been the owner of Queen’s Sweet Shop since her parents passed away and her younger brother married Theo’s older sister and moved to Oahu. Kini’s ready smile, haupia shortbread, and lilikoi malasadas are staples of Hanalei’s main street.
However, Theo’s matchmaking machinations and social scheming soon become less charming—even hazardous—to everyone involved. And when she fails to heed Kini’s warnings about her meddling, she may be more successful than she ever intended. Theo has to face the prospect of Kini ending up with someone else, just as she realizes she’s loved Kini all along.
You can pre-order If I Loved You Less from the shops listed below:
For a chance to win an ebook copy of If I Loved You Less by Tamsen Parker, please leave a comment below.
Anyone can enter the drawing. Entries close on Wednesday, September 19, 8 p.m. EST, when I’ll draw the winners using a random numbers generator. I’ll notify winners via email. Your email address won’t be used for any other purpose.
Best of luck, and stay tuned for the next book bingo post & giveaway on Thursday!
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September 8, 2018
Paper Love travel guide – take a look at these photos while you read
I had a lot of great feedback regarding the setting in my romance novel Paper Love, which is set in Freiburg, Germany, where I live. I really love the city, so for those of you who want to be able to imagine the locations, here’s a little Paper Love travel guide with photos from the places and dishes I described in the book. The pictures are sorted by chapter so you can easily take a look at the photos as you read (or re-read) Paper Love.
Enjoy!
Chapter 2
This is Bertoldsbrunnen (Bertold’s Fountain), where Susanne gets out of the streetcar on her first day of work
Martinstor (Martin’s Gate). Susanne walks through the arch on the right on her way to her uncle’s store.
The Martinstor (Martin’s Gate) was part of the medieval city fortification.
The streetcars drive through the archs of Martinstor too.
This is Kaiser-Joseph-Straße, Freiburg’s main shopping street, on the other side of the gate.
A few steps down the street, you catch sight of the Starbucks where Susanne wants to get coffee
Gerberau, the street in which Paper Love is located
Some of the buildings in the Gerberau
The Turkish restaurant Susanne walks past on her way to work.
On the restaurant is a mural of a monk tapping beer
This is what Paper Love might look like. In the bottom left corner is the Bächle that Susanne steps into
The famous Bächle, small canals that run through the Old Town
Another Bächle. They are built with stones from the river Rhine
One Bächle runs right past a charming café close to where Anja and Susanne work
The mosaic in the sidewalk across from Paper Love. The Bächle is to the right
Chapter 3
This is the Wiehre, the neighborhood where Susanne’s apartment is
Another building in the Wiehre
Seepark (Lake Park), the man-made park where Anja and Miri come for their daily walks
Seepark (Lake Park) at sundown
Another picture of Seepark (Lake Park). To the right is the bridge Anja & Miri walk across
The bridge Anja and Miri walk across on their walks
The love locks on the bridge
A vegetarian yufka, a Turkish dish invented in Germany
Chapter 4
Markthalle – the food court where Susanne considers eating
Markthalle (the food court) used to be a newspapers building
That’s me on the Münsterplatz, the square surrounding the cathedral
The Münster, the red sandstone cathedral, in the center of Freiburg
The buildings surrounding the Münsterplatz
The farmers market on the Münsterplatz
One of the Bratwurst stands on the Münsterplatz. This one is a vegetarian one.
The Bratwurst Susanne eats. It’s called a lange Rote (long, red one)
Chapter 5
Anja rides her bike to work along the Dreisam River
A gray heron on the lookout for a snack at the Dreisam River
The notebook Anja recommends to her customer
Chapter 7
The medieval city wall close to the parking garage where Susanne parks her car
Street mosaic in Betzenhausen, the part of the city where Anja lives
The church tower with the stork’s nest you can see from Anja’s apartment
Paneer salad, which Anja eats
Naan bread
Onion Pakoras
Chapter 8
Bike rack along the old city wall where Anja chains her bike
Chapter 9
Books hanging from the ceiling at Paperworld, the stationery fair in Frankfurt
More pictures from Paperworld
Fountain pen case at Paperworld
The wall Anja & Susanne color in at Paperworld
The notebook from the Croatian company at Paperworld
The Spätzle Anja orders in the restaurant
Chapter 10
The café over the Gewerbekanal (canal) Susanne takes Anja to
The cheesecake Anja eats in the café
The Fischerau, the street along the Gewerbekanal, where the café is located
Another picture of the Fischerau
The Gewerbekanal runs beneath a house
The crocodile in the Gewerbekanal
The crocodile in the Gewerbekanal
Chapter 11
Schwabentor (Swabian Gate), another gate that was part of the medieval city fortification
Schwabentor (Swabian Gate) from the other side
St. George, the patron saint of Freiburg, depicted on the Schwabentor
The path up the Schlossberg (Castle Hill)
The beer garden halfway up the Schlossberg, where Anja, Susanne, Miri & Franzi have Flammkuchen
The view from the square on the Schlossberg
View from the Schlossberg
The observation tower on the Schlossberg
The metal steps of the observation tower on the Schlossberg
The crow’s nest on top of the tower
View from the observation tower
The Flammkuchen they eat in the beer garden
The Raclette Franzi eats in the restaurant
Chapter 12
The Bächle boats Anja mentions
Chapter 13
The street where Anja & Susanne watch the carnival parade
Witches at the Rose Monday Parade
Chapter 15
The fountain pens Anja’s customer tries out
Chapter 20
Anja’s favorite restaurant
Some of the delicious Indian dishes they serve
Palak Paneer
Chicken curry
Paneer salad
Chapter 22
The Japanese garden close to the lake
Stone bridge in the Japanese garden
Wooden bridge in the Japanese garden
The Japanese garden
The waterfall in the back of the Japanese garden
The bench where Susanne & Anja have their picnic
Me on the famous bench
I hope you enjoyed this little visual trip through Freiburg!
If you haven’t read Paper Love yet, you can get it here:
Happy reading!
Jae
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September 6, 2018
F/F Workplace Romance Novels (Lesbian Book Bingo #18)
After focusing on enemies-to-lovers romances in the last post, it’s time to explore another popular trope: workplace romance novels.
In a workplace/office romance novel, the two main characters work together, so they are either boss/employee, co-workers, or client/customer. Sometimes, that introduces an element of “forbidden love” into the story.
If you need to brush up on the rules of Lesbian Book Bingo, check out the rules post.
15 GREAT LESBIAN OFFICE ROMANCE NOVELS
I’ve put together a list of 15 f/f office romance novels I hope you’ll enjoy.
Too close to Touch by Georgia Beers
Gretchen Kaiser is a workaholic corporate honcho with issues — she’s got daddy issues, she’s got female-executive-in-a-man’s-world issues, and she’s got one night stand issues. Kylie O’Brien is the kind of girl who believes in true love and is willing to wait until it shows up at her door.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
Flinging It by G Benson
Midwife Frazer and social worker Cora have always grated on each other’s nerves, but they have to work together to start up a programme for at-risk parents. Soon, the unexpected happens: they tumble into an affair. However, Cora is married to their boss, and both know it needs to end. But what they have might turn out to be much more than just a little distraction.
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Eyes Like Those by Melissa Brayden
Isabel Chase and Taylor Andrews struggle between love and ambition from the writers’ room on one of Hollywood’s hottest TV shows.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
The Muse by Suzie Carr
Jane Knoll is a shy, never-been-kissed woman who meets Eva, a gorgeous executive at her company. Too shy to get to know her in real life, Jane joins Twitter to talk to Eva, creating an alter-ego that draws Eva in. Sparks begin to fly. But, is she brave enough to reveal her true identity and risk ruining all she’s gained by it?
Available at:
Amazon
Audible (audiobook)
You’re Fired by Shaya Crabtree
When an inappropriate Secret Santa gift backfires, Rose needs her smarts to save her job, while Vivian, her sexy boss, needs her smarts to save the business. Can they stop bickering long enough to do a deal?
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Uncommon Emotions by Lynn Galli
When someone spends her days ripping apart corporations, compartmentalization is key. Love doesn’t factor in for Joslyn Simonini. Meeting Raven Malvolio ruins the harmony that Joslyn has always felt, introducing her to passion for the first time in her life.
Available at:
Amazon
Paper Love by Jae
Susanne Wolff isn’t thrilled when she’s sent to save her uncle’s stationery store from bankruptcy. Paper Love’s employee Anja instantly dislikes the digital-loving snob who’s her fill-in boss.
But thanks to a meddling cat, a stationery road trip, and an armada of origami boats, Susanne discovers how sexy pens, notebooks, and certain stubborn employees can be.
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Love by the Numbers by Karin Kallmaker
“She has no idea who she’s dealing with!” It’s hate at first sight for Dr. Nicole Hathaway and her new assistant, Lily Linden-Smith.
Available at:
Bella Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
The Music & the Mirror by Lola Keeley
Anna is the newest member of an elite ballet company. Her first class with her gifted idol, Victoria, almost ruins her career before it begins. Now Anna must face down jealousy, sabotage, and injury to pour everything into opening night and prove she has what it takes to Victoria, her colleagues, and herself. In the process, Anna discovers that she and the daring, beautiful Victoria have a lot more than ballet in common and that not every thrilling dance can be found on stage.
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Ambereye (Garoul Series book 2) by Gill McKnight
The thing with the Garouls is you never get quite what you think you will. They really are something else. Hope Glassy loves her job at Ambereye, Inc., despite having Jolie Garoul as her new boss. Jolie is a moody workaholic. She is awkward, contrary, and on occasion just plain mean. Hope is hardworking, popular, and in recovery from a serious illness. She doesn’t need a bizarre boss. She doesn’t need office politics. And she doesn’t need to work over Thanksgiving either. Nevertheless, that’s what she and Jolie end up doing…in Little Dip, home of the Garoul clan.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Turbulence by EJ Noyes
Stockbroker Isabelle Rhodes is no longer a one-night stand virgin, which should be something to celebrate, right? Not when the woman turns out to be your newly hired company pilot, Audrey Graham, and workplace relationships come with contracts and conditions. An insistent libido and a persistent Audrey break Isabelle’s resolve, and she agrees to a casual, sex-only relationship. But what happens to casual when feelings start to get involved?
Available at:
Bella Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Unlikely Match by Fiona Riley
When ambitious PR exec Claire and her super-rich coding geek-girl client Shelly start spending more time together than necessary, they have to decide if mixing business and pleasure can result in a perfect match. But when passions and ambitions overlap in more ways than one, both women have to decide if they are willing to give something up for a chance to have everything.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
Courtship by Carsen Taite
In a stunning twist of events, Addison Riley is launched from the halls of academia to the spotlight of Supreme Court nomination. She’s determined not to let her attraction to a beautiful woman or the threats on her life deter her from becoming the first female Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Julia Scott is in charge of making sure the president’s first Supreme Court appointment sails through the Senate. She’s faced tough challenges before, but nothing like those posed by the infuriatingly focused Addison Riley, a woman who challenges her mind and awakens her heart.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
Beauty and the Boss by Ali Vali
Ellis Renois is at the top of the fashion world and has built the Renois Company into a success that dominates the runways of the world. Ellis loves creating clothes, and she loves the beautiful women who wear them. Charlotte Hamner has worked her way through school and is ready to make a better life for herself and her daughter, but she’s not about to fall victim to Ellis’s easy charm. A summer job presents Charlotte with the chance to learn from Ellis, but it might also land her the position of head designer for Renois. But her promotion will come only through betrayal and perhaps at the cost of her heart.
Available at:
Bold Stroke Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
Falling for You by Noelle Winters
After a past betrayal, attorney Isi Addison is determined to never fall in love again.
Dr. Taylor Wallace has locked her heart away since her tragic past could mean she’s a ticking time bomb endangering anyone she loves. But then she meets Isi and gets close to her once, twice…well, who’s counting? It’s not like it means anything.
But when the hospital assigns Taylor to be a consultant on Isi’s malpractice cases, keeping emotions separate from sex isn’t as easy as it seems.
Available at:
Amazon
If you haven’t done so already, download your bingo card, pick the book you want to read for the “workplace romance” square, and start reading! Remember that you can either read one of the 15 books listed above or pick another f/f office romance novel.
Lesbian Book bingo giveaway: Win a book by leaving a comment
For the office romance square, I’m giving away an e-book copy of:
The Music and the Mirror by Lola Keeley
Courtship by Carsen Taite
The Muse by Suzie Carr
Anyone can enter. To be entered into the drawing, leave a comment on this blog and let us know which book you’re going to read for the “workplace romance” square or if you can think of other lesbian books that fit this category.
Entries close on Thursday, September 13, 2018, 10 a.m. CET, when I’ll draw the winners using a random numbers generator. I’ll notify winners via email. Your email address won’t be used for any other purpose.
Subscribe to this blog so you won’t miss the next book bingo post
The reading list for the next bingo square—f/f novels featuring characters with a disability—will be posted on September 20. Subscribe to my blog so you won’t miss it. There’ll be another giveaway too!
Happy reading!
Jae
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August 16, 2018
Enemies to Lovers Romances (Lesbian Book Bingo #17)
I know many of you have been waiting for the enemies to lovers romance list to be posted since it’s one of the most popular tropes in romance novels.
In an enemies to lovers romance, the two main characters start off hating or disliking each other, maybe because of clashing personalities or because they are rivals competing for the same goal. They’ll be butting heads for a good portion of the book, but all those snarky comments and witty banter translate to a lot of sexual tension.
15 GREAT LESBIAN ENEMIES TO LOVERS ROMANCES
I’ve put together a list of 15 f/f enemies to lovers romances I hope you’ll enjoy.
The Road to You by Harper Bliss
Workaholic Katherine and free-spirited singer Ali have disliked each other since college. Fate, however, keeps bringing them together and the paths of their lives keep crossing. Are some differences in personality simply too vast to overcome? Or are some things just meant to be?
Available at:
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
Party Wall by Cheyenne Blue
The moment Freya looks at the new sex shop, she knows it will clash with her new-age store next door. She’s right. Outgoing newcomer Lily begins to intrude on Freya’s ordered life. The woman stands for everything Freya has lost—playfulness, spontaneity—even sex. But does Lily have more in common with Freya than the wall that divides them? A lesbian romance about crossing lines that hold us back.
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Falling Slowly by Lila Bruce
Badly wounded in Afghanistan, Captain Quinn Briscoe is struggling to rebuild her life. Her first meeting with successful business owner Alison Jenkins is disastrous. As a favor to her sister, Quinn offers to fly Alison to a family wedding. But what should have been a quick trip to the mountains of North Carolina suddenly turns into a long weekend at a romantic lodge.
Available at:
Amazon
Audible (audiobook)
Planning for Love by Erin Dutton
Wedding coordinator Faith McKenna doesn’t believe in the happily-ever-after that she promises her clients. So she has no qualms about giving a few brides one last fling on the side before they commit for life. When maid of honor Rachel Union catches her best friend fooling around with the wedding coordinator before her wedding day, she swears she’ll out Faith to everyone if the bride doesn’t make it down the aisle.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Ice by Lyn Gardner
The last time Maggie Campbell and Alexandra Blake worked together, they both received two-week suspensions. This time…it’s worse.
Available at:
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Tropical Storm (Dar and Kerry Series, book 1) by Melissa Good
Dar Roberts, corporate raider for a multi-national tech company, is cold, practical, and merciless. Friends are a luxury she cannot allow herself, and love is something she knows she’ll never attain. When she takes over the small tech company where Kerry Stuart works, she and Kerry start out as enemies. But when Dar unexpectedly hires Kerry as her work assistant, the dynamics of their relationship change.
Available at:
Regal Crest
Amazon
Crash Stop by Mary Griggs
Gail and Lily, opposites in many ways and enemies at work, are forced to re-evaluate their interactions after tragedy strikes. As Lily recovers, she accepts Gail’s efforts to mend fences and they become friends. Their attempt to find common ground is interrupted by a threat to oust Lily
from her position. Together, Gail and Lily must struggle to make peace and find love amidst the corporate intrigue and life-changing challenges of the beautiful San Francisco Bay.
Available at:
Bella Books
Amazon
Second Nature by Jae
Novelist Jorie Price doesn’t believe in the existence of shape-shifting creatures or true love. She leads a solitary life, and the paranormal romances she writes are pure fiction for her.
Griffin Westmore knows better—at least about one of these two things. She doesn’t believe in love either, but she’s one of the not-so-fictional shape-shifters.
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Second Chances by Eliza Lentzski
High school was hell for Reagan Murphy, so she left her small town as soon as she graduated. But when she unexpectedly runs into the one person responsible for the misery of her high school years, will she keep running or will she stick around long enough for a second chance?
Available at:
Amazon
Anyone But You by KG MacGregor
An underground pipeline has ruptured, spilling oily sludge into Minnesota’s pristine Lake Bunyan. Taking the media’s heat is Corporate Communications Director Cathryn Mack, an old pro when it comes to spinning the facts. Stuck in Duluth, she finds a silver lining in Stacie Pilardi. It’s best for everyone involved if they end this, and that’s exactly what they intend to do. Eventually…
Available at:
Bella Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Dirty Little War by C.K. Martin
Evie Baedeker knows her place in the world. Born into a life of organised crime in the gritty East End of London, she has endured nothing but hardship and disappointment. Then one night, in a sleazy bar, fate sends a dangerous opportunity her way. The chance to bring the rich and beautiful Carmen Trogan to her knees—both figuratively and literally—is too good to pass up.
Available at:
Amazon
Parties in Congress by Colette Moody
Elated to secure her first paid political staff position, Bijal Rao is eager to focus her efforts on the election of her candidate to U.S. Congress. However, Bijal’s first unforeseen obstacle is her profound and unexpected attraction to their opponent—incumbent Congresswoman Colleen O’Bannon—who is outspoken, charismatic, and openly lesbian.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Pleasure of the Chase by Ann Roberts
Professional photographer Nellie Rafferty is a member of an elite group called the “Carparazzi,” daredevil photographers who’ll do just about anything to get the shots of the coolest, newest automobiles. Paydays are lucrative, so when newcomer Jos Grant horns in on Nellie’s territory, she ups her game. It should be easy to best the newbie—until their natural chemistry sends Nellie into a tailspin.
Available at:
Bella Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Rook Takes Queen by Em Stevens
Rook Black wants nothing more than to leave her life as a chess player in the past. But a bad choice lands her with a hefty bill, and tutoring in chess pays. The woman hiring her? A beauty queen. When a stubborn chess player is pitted against an ambitious pageant winner, heads butt and sparks fly. Will Rook’s gambit pay off? Fate aims for a checkmate in this lesbian romance!
Available at:
Amazon
Audible (audiobook)
The Red Files by Lee Winter
Ambitious journalist Lauren King is stuck reporting on the vapid LA social scene’s gala events while sparring with her rival—icy ex-Washington correspondent Catherine Ayers. Then a curious story unfolds before their eyes, involving a business launch, thirty-four prostitutes, and a pallet of missing pink champagne. Can the warring pair join together to unravel an incredible story?
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
If you haven’t done so already, download your bingo card, pick the book you want to read for the enemies to lovers romance square, and start reading! Remember that you can either read one of the 15 books listed above or pick another lesbian or women-loving women book that fits the category.
Lesbian Book bingo giveaway: Win a book by leaving a comment
For the enemies to lovers romance square, I’m giving away an e-book copy of:
Planning for Love by Erin Dutton
Tropical Storm by Melissa Good
Anyone But You by KG MacGregor
Anyone can enter. To be entered into the drawing, leave a comment on this blog and let us know which book you’re going to read for the “enemies to lovers” square or if you can think of other lesbian books that fit this category.
Since I’ll be traveling to EllCon, the European Lesfic Literary Conference, you’ll have a little more time to enter the giveaway this time. Entries close on Tuesday, September 4, 2018, 10 a.m. CET, when I’ll draw the winners using a random numbers generator. I’ll notify winners via email. Your email address won’t be used for any other purpose.
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The reading list for the next bingo square—workplace romances—will be posted on September 6. Subscribe to my blog so you won’t miss it. There’ll be another giveaway too!
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Happy reading!
Jae
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August 2, 2018
F/F romantic comedy (Lesbian Book Bingo #16)
Since more than half of the year is over, many readers are slowly starting to complete their Lesbian Book Bingo cards and asking me for recommendations for squares they haven’t yet filled.
One of the categories that I get asked for recommendations most often is romantic comedy. Rom-com novels are pretty popular with many readers. Every once in a while, it’s just nice to get a change of pace from all the heartache and angst and to read a novel that will make you laugh out loud.
15 GREAT F/F ROMANTIC COMEDY NOVELS
I’ve put together a list of 15 must-read romantic comedies that will tickle your funny bone.
Just Jorie by Robin Alexander
On a wasted trip to New York, a snowstorm, and a canceled flight home that puts Jorie Andolini in the path of Lena Vaughn. Travel the road to happiness with Jorie and Lena. Two crazy old women, meddling friends, and cattitude are just some sights you’ll see along the way in this hilarious romantic comedy.
Available at:
Amazon
Audible (audiobook)
A Fairytale of Possibilities by Kiki Archer
Wedding planner Lauren Hilliard weaves fairytales out of possibilities. It’s her business and she’s good at it. Her brides love her for making their dreams come true but she’s not managed to make the magic happen for herself – yet.
Trouble is, Lauren’s in love with her best friend and has been for eleven hopeless years.
But what if the feelings are mutual?
Available at:
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Crazy Little Thing by Saxon Bennett & Layce Gardner
Ollie and Claire fell head over heels in love, drove to Iowa and got married. One year later they realized they’d made a big mistake. But in order to get divorced they have to drive back to Iowa and live together for three months before the judge will grant them a divorce. Can Ollie and Claire fall back in love? Can their love survive a divorce?
Available at:
Amazon
Kiss the Girl (Soho Loft Romances) by Melissa Brayden
Sleeping with the enemy has never been so complicated. Twenty-eight-year-old Brooklyn Campbell is having a bad day. A speeding ticket, a towed car, and a broken heel are all working against her laid-back vibe. To top it all off, her birth mother, whom she’s never met, has requested contact. The only bright spot is an impromptu date with a beautiful and mysterious brunette.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
Love Bites by Lila Bruce
The last person Ashley Baldwin expected to see when she walked into Ridgeview Animal Clinic was the gorgeous ex-love-of-her-life, Peyton Maxwell. Their break-up in college had been an explosive one, and now, some twelve years later, Ashley was still picking up the pieces of her broken heart.
Peyton Maxwell knew better than anyone that life rarely turned out the way you planned…
Available at:
Amazon
Clichéd Love by Lynn Galli
As a journalist, Vega spends her days writing other people’s stories. For her latest assignment, she’s taking down LGBT love stories and worrying that her eyes might roll right out of their sockets during every mushy interview. Only the help of her new friend, Iris, who also believes romance stories are worth mocking, prevents her from finding ways to make her subjects mysteriously disappear to save her from having to listen to more clichés.
Available at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
A Date With Angel and Other Things That Weren’t Supposed to Happen by J. Judkins
Kim’s ordinary life became complicated when she met Angel, a woman she immediately identified as an alien attempting to pass for human. She did what any other science fiction geek would do and invited her home.
Available at:
Amazon
Audible (audiobook)
Eight Dates by Lori L. Lake
After a disastrous breakup, Skylar Cassidy finds meeting women daunting and doesn’t want to go through it again. But when her best pal and business partner Mitchell signs her up at the GirlsGaylore.com dating website and characterizes her as a happy-go-lucky, amorous, risk-taking single, all hell breaks loose. Suddenly, women are coming out of the woodwork and Sky hardly knows what to make of it.
Available at:AmazonApple iBooks
Shell Game by Benny Lawrence
Life in a remote fishing village in the middle of a civil war is neither safe nor inspiring. So when an opportunity comes along for village girl Lynn to be kidnapped by a ruthless pirate queen, she takes full advantage of it. But Darren is neither as ruthless nor as piratical as she appears–and Lynn’s not exactly what she seems to be, either. In between encounters with old girlfriends, a slow death involving marmalade, and bounty hunters with no sense of humor, Lynn and her new mistress attempt to work out exactly what they are to each other–and who’s in charge.
Available at:
Bedazzled Ink
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Welcome to the Wallops by Gill McKnight
Jane Swallow has always struggled to keep peace, friendship, and equanimity within the community she loves, but this year everything is wrong. Her father has just been released from prison and is on his way to Lesser Wallop with the rest of her travelling family. Her job is on the line, and her ex-girlfriend has just moved in next door. Only a miracle can save her.
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan & Salem West
Jill Fryman (Friday to her friends) is a Line Supervisor at a truck manufacturing plant in a small Indiana town; and life on the assembly line is almost as predictable as her love life. When it comes to matters of the heart, Friday always seems to be making the wrong choices. Things go from bad to worse when El, a sultry labor organizer from the UAW, sweeps into town to unionize the plant after it’s been bought out by a Japanese firm. Sparks fly on and off the line as Jill and El fight their growing attraction for each other against a backdrop of monster trucks, fried catfish dinners, Pork Day USA, and a small-town bar called Hoosier Daddy.
Available at:Bywater BooksAmazonApple iBooksAudible (audiobook)
The Seduction of Moxie by Colette Moody
When Hollywood-bound actress Violet London meets speakeasy singer Moxie Valette, her trip takes an unexpected turn toward love. New York City, 1931: When wry Broadway actress Violet London and her hard-drinking cohorts venture into a speakeasy the night before she is to board a train for Hollywood, she is floored by sassy blond singer Moxie Valette.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
See Right Through Me by L.T. Smith
Schoolteacher Gemma Hughes is an ordinary woman. Disorganised and clumsy, she soon finds herself in the capable hands of the beautiful Dr Maria Moran. Everything goes wonderfully until Gemma starts doubting Maria’s intentions. But has Maria something to hide? Can Gemma stop her actions? Or will she ruin the best thing to happen in her life? Given her track record, anything is possible.
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
The Hypotenuse of Love by Kate Sweeney
Parker Englewood is a respected professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. All she wanted one night was dinner at her favorite restaurant, then a quiet weekend. And what did she get? The madcap Charlotte Darcy on a platter with a side of screwball chaos.
Available at:
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
The Plus One by Natasha West
When Charlie Black gets dumped by her girlfriend just before her sister’s wedding, she’s too embarrassed to admit it. She’s finds a solution in Rent-a-Date, a company that will provide you with an actress that can pretend to be your partner at social occasions. So after booking herself a date from the company, Charlie is guaranteed that a hot woman will show up to the wedding with enough knowledge to pretend to be her girlfriend, at least for the length of the big day. But when Charlie turns up at the church, her date has a surprise in store…
Available at:
Amazon
If you haven’t done so already, download your bingo card, pick the book you want to read for the romantic comedy square, and start reading! Remember that you can either read one of the 15 books listed above or pick another f/f rom-com novel.
Lesbian Book bingo giveaway: Win a book by leaving a comment
For the romantic comedy square, I’m giving away an e-book copy of:
A Fairytale of Possibilities by Kiki Archer
Clichéd Love by Lynn Galli
The Plus One by Natasha West
Anyone can enter. To be entered into the drawing, leave a comment on this blog and let us know which book you’re going to read for the “romantic comedy” square or if you can think of other lesbian books that fit this category.
Entries close on Thursday, August 9, 2018, 10 a.m. CET, when I’ll draw the winners using a random numbers generator. I’ll notify winners via email. Your email address won’t be used for any other purpose.
Subscribe to this blog so you won’t miss the next book bingo post
The reading list for the next bingo square will be posted on August 16. Subscribe to my blog so you won’t miss it. There’ll be another giveaway too!
Happy reading!
Jae
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July 30, 2018
Back from the GCLS conference in Las Vegas
Las Vegas by nightAt the beginning of this month, I attended the GCLS conference for lesbian fiction…or rather WLW (women-loving women) fiction since it has become a lot more inclusive. It’s an annual conference that travels around the US. This year, it was held in fabulous Las Vegas.
My friends and I flew into Las Vegas a couple of days before the start of the conference to explore Sin City a little. Somehow, we managed not to end up with heat stroke, which was quite the feat with temperatures of around 115°F (46°C). People kept telling me “it’s a dry heat,” but believe me, once the temperatures climb that high, it really doesn’t matter. It was like sticking your entire body into an oven.
Bellagio FountainsTwo of my favorite spots in Vegas were the Bellagio Fountains and The Venetian, where we discovered a great Mexican restaurant directly along the faux-Venetian canal.
The conference itself passed by in a blur of meeting new people, reconnecting with friends, and talking books. It’s hard to explain how empowering and inspiring it feels to be among 400 women who are just as passionate about lesbian fiction as I am and to get to talk about reading and writing with people who get how important it is to me. There’s a sense of camaraderie and community that keeps bringing me back all the way from Germany year after year. The conference in Vegas was number five for me.
Lynn Ames with a copy of “Just for Show”
Signing a shirt for a reader
Awards night with Caren WerlingerIt was wonderful to meet readers and to catch up with friends and fellow authors that I only get to see once a year. I also connected with a lot of people whom I only met online before. This year, over 100 of the attendees were “con virgins” who hadn’t been to one of the conferences before.
Lynne Pierce surrounded by Lynn Ames, me, Karin Kallmaker, Jessie Chandler, Patty Schramm, Lori LakeDuring the con, I was part of a fundraising author auction, with proceeds going toward future GCLS conference sponsorships. The prize was a dance with all of us at the gala after the award ceremony. But thankfully, the person with the winning bid, Lynne Pierce from Lesfic Unbound, didn’t make us dance.
I didn’t get to go to a lot of panels and presentations this year because I was covering the Ylva Publishing table with my fellow Ylva author A.L. Brooks, but the sessions I did go to were excellent.
There were several panels on diversity and writing diverse characters this year. It made me happy to see the GCLS strive for more inclusivity. There were more women of color and also younger authors and readers attending the con this year than ever before, and Rachel Gold gave a great speech on gender diversity.
My GCLS Award 2018I was also happy and surprised to receive a “Goldie,” a GCLS Literary Award for Perfect Rhythm. While it’s my eleventh Goldie, it’s my first one in the contemporary romance category, and I was especially grateful to receive it for a book with an asexual main character.
After the conference, I spent a week in the San Diego area to recover from the craziness of Vegas at the beach and to meet up with a couple of friends and fellow Ylva Publishing authors. I visited RJ Nolan and her Great Dane, and I spent a day exploring Balboa Park and Coronado Island with Catherine Lane, whose upcoming sports romance I just finished editing.
RJ Nolan’s Great Dane
Coronado Island
Beach walk with Catherine LaneNow I’m back at my desk, inspired to start working on my next novel and already looking forward to next year, when the GCLS conference will be in Pittsburgh!
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July 18, 2018
Friends to lovers romance novels (Lesbian Book Bingo #15)
This week’s Lesbian Book Bingo square is one of my favorite romance tropes, and one I know many readers love too: friends to lovers romance novels.
In a friends-to-lovers romance, the two main characters have been friends for some time, sometimes even childhood friends. Now they are developing romantic feelings for each other.
15 GREAT F/F FRIENDS TO LOVERS ROMANCE NOVELS
I’ve put together a list of 15 great friends-to-lovers romances I hope you’ll enjoy.
Love and Devotion by Jove Belle
KC Hall loves her family, her small East Texas town, and her best friend, Emma Reynolds. All of that takes a backseat when her lover beckons. Lonnie is blond, beautiful, and willing. She’s also married and a lifelong friend of KC’s mama.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Like Jazz by Heather Blackmore
Claiborne High newcomer Cassidy “Cazz” Warner unwittingly attracts the attention of her beautiful, popular classmate Sarah Perkins, though a cross-country move wrests them apart before they begin to understand the depths of their friendship. Ten years later, Cazz runs into Sarah during a fraud investigation at Sarah’s charitable foundation. Will Cazz’s feelings for Sarah compromise her objectivity and jeopardize her case, or will they make her risk everything to protect the only woman she’s ever loved?
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Just Three Words (SoHo Loft Series) by Melissa Brayden
Sometimes the one you want is the one you least suspect…Accountant Samantha Ennis craves order and structure. As the bookkeeper at the boutique advertising agency she owns with her three best friends, it’s her job to apply logic to the chaos. When one of those best friends, laid back Hunter Blair, moves in to share her loft apartment, Sam’s carefully organized world is thrown wildly askew.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
Jukebox by Gina Daggett
Soul mates from their first meeting at age eleven, Harper and Grace know better than to fall in love. Yet they do. And are too much in love to care. But formidable powers control their lives: shame, fear, and especially money. Potent forces that will challenge their love to its very limits. This breathtaking debut novel is a feast for the senses, an erotic, melodic, lushly-detailed coming-of-age story that erupts with conflict and passion.
Available at:
Bella Books
Amazon
Imagining Reality (Virginia Clan, book 2) by Lynn Galli
Changing a reputation can be the hardest thing anyone can do, even among her own friends. But Jessie Ximena has been making great strides over the past year to do just that. Will anyone, even her good friends, give her the benefit of the doubt when it comes to finding a forever love?
Available at:
Amazon
Coming Home by Lois Cloarec Hart
Rob, a charismatic ex-fighter pilot severely disabled with MS, has been steadfastly cared for by his wife, Jan, for many years. Quite by accident one day, Terry, a young writer/postal carrier, enters their lives and turns it upside down.
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Into Thin Air by Jeannie Levig
Hannah Lewis’s life is exactly where she thinks it should be. But when her girlfriend, Jordan, disappears into thin air and she and Jordan’s best friend, Nikki, are drawn closer in the search, the more she learns, the less she seems to know, and the more she discovers about herself. When Jordan Webber is torn away from everything she knows, she finds herself in a struggle for her sanity and is forced to confront who she has been. When they come together again, can anything ever be the same?
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
None So Blind by LJ Maas
Torrey Gray hasn’t seen the woman she fell in love with in college for 15 years. Taylor Kent, now a celebrated artist, has spent the years trying to forget, albeit unsuccessfully, the young woman who walked out of her life. This time, will they be able to voice their unspoken desires, or has time become their enemy?
Available at:
Amazon
Without Warning (Shaken series, book 1) by KG MacGregor
Two strangers, trapped in a collapsed shopping mall, find each other amid the rubble and join forces to escape. Hampered by injury and darkness, they claw their way through one crumbled store after another, emerging long after most have given up hope for survivors. Without Warning is the story of their courageous journey through adversity and their promise of steadfast love.
Available at:
Bella Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Like I Love You by JT Marie
When Dana Kelly meets Bethany Bartlett for the first time in college, she falls in love. But her feelings go unrequited. Throughout their college years, Dana’s love grows and their friendship deepens.
After graduation Dana struggles to put aside her feelings for Bethy. When one drunken kiss threatens to ruin everything they’ve built together, Dana would rather run away than admit how she feels. But is she still the only one who feels this way?
Available at:
JMS Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Jericho by Ann McMan
Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an eighteen-month position in Jericho, a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Her plans to hide out and heal her wounds fall by the wayside as she gets drawn into the daily lives of the quirky locals. When Syd gets a flat tire and is rescued by the town physician, Maddie Stevenson, the two women form a fast friendship—but almost immediately begin struggling with a mutual attraction. Together, Syd and Maddie learn that life and love can have as many twists and turns as a winding mountain road.
Available at:
Bywater Books
Amazon
Audible (audiobook)
Awakenings (I Found My Heart in San Francisco series, book 1) by Susan X. Meagher
A glimmer of attraction, discovery of shared interests, growing respect for one another, and the stirrings of desire. These are the building blocks for a nascent relationship. But when one member of the pair is out and experienced, while the other believes she’s straight, their friendship will have to change in dramatic ways to lead to the goal they both seek—love.
Available at:
Brisk Press
Amazon
Beginnings by L.T. Smith
Lou Turner loves Ashley Richards. Always has and always will. This is Lou’s story, a story spanning thirty years…from the innocence of youth to the bitterness of adulthood. But can Lou use her beginnings to shape her future? Only one woman can answer that question. Childhood and friendship, love and belief, and the hope that yesterdays can be what futures are made from.
Available at:
Ylva Publishing
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Prairie Heart by Marian Snowe
Eleanor Higgins has an incredible talent for matchmaking–for everyone but herself. That’s because no one can measure up to her best friend, Morgan…but Morgan’s straight, and Eleanor’s spent her entire life trying to put that fantasy behind her. When Morgan reveals that she may not be so straight after all, can Eleanor find her friend the perfect lady when all she really wants is to be that “perfect lady” herself?
Available at:
Amazon
Audible (audiobook)
The Gravity Between Us by Kristen Zimmer
Kendall Bettencourt is Hollywood’s hottest young starlet, but she longs for normal. Payton Taylor is Kendall’s best friend since childhood and her refuge from the craziness of celebrity life. With her career taking off, Kendall moves Payton to LA to help keep her sane. But Payton is hiding a secret that could make everything ten times worse. Because to her, Kendall is more than a best friend—she is the only girl that she has ever loved.
Available at:
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
If you haven’t done so already, download your bingo card, pick the book you want to read for the “friends to lovers” square, and start reading! Remember that you can either read one of the 15 books listed above or pick another f/f romance novel with two main characters that start out as friends.
Lesbian Book bingo giveaway: Win a book by leaving a comment
For the “friends to lovers” square, I’m giving away an e-book copy of:
Love and Devotion by Jove Belle
Just Three Words by Melissa Brayden
Jericho by Ann McMan
Anyone can enter. To be entered into the drawing, leave a comment on this blog and let us know which book you’re going to read for the “friends to lovers” square or if you can think of other lesbian books that fit this category.
Entries close on Thursday, July 26, 2018, 10 a.m. CET, when I’ll draw the winners using a random numbers generator. I’ll notify winners via email. Your email address won’t be used for any other purpose.
Subscribe to this blog so you won’t miss the next book bingo post
The reading list for the next bingo square—romantic comedies—will be posted on August 2. Subscribe to my blog so you won’t miss it. There’ll be another giveaway too!
Important notice to make sure you don’t miss any of the Lesbian Book Bingo posts!
The data protection laws have changed on May 25, so I’m asking you to re-subscribe to my blog if you want to get each new book bingo post sent to your in-box.
Happy reading!
Jae
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July 4, 2018
F/F summer reads (Lesbian Book Bingo #14)
Summer has officially started, so it’s time for the “summer reads” square of Lesbian Book Bingo!
A summer read is a book that is set during the summer months, which might mean June to September in the Northern Hemisphere (the US, Europe, etc.), but December to March if the story is set in the Southern Hemisphere, e.g., Australia.
A summer read can also be a novel that takes place in an exotic location where people go on vacation, e.g., a beach, an island, a cruise ship, etc.
15 GREAT F/F SUMMER READS
I’ve put together a list of 15 great f/f summer reads that I hope you’ll enjoy.
Sunset Island by AJ Adair
Ren Madison has it all–a loving family and passionate relationship with Brooke. It all crumbles in a moment when Brooke dies. When Dr. Lindy Caprini, a multi-lingual professor, is looking for an artist to illustrate the book she is writing she hires Ren. Their collaboration on the book leads to a close, light hearted, and flirtatious friendship. Will their collaboration end there?
Available at:
Desert Palm Press
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Whitewater Rendezvous by Kim Baldwin
Danger, destiny, and romance on the river. A wilderness kayak adventure brings together two very different women—Chaz Herrick, a laid-back outdoorswoman, and Megan Maxwell, a workaholic news executive. As they battle the challenges of nature for survival, they discover that true love may be nothing at all like they imagined.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
Strawberry Summer by Melissa Brayden
When Margaret Beringer’s first love Courtney Carrington returns to their small town, she must grapple with their troubled past and fight the temptation for a very delicious future.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
I Remember by Julie Cannon
What happens when you can never forget the first kiss, the first touch, the first taste of lips on skin? When the first sigh of pleasure, first glimpse of soft, smooth skin, the slide of fingers through warm, wet folds burns into your memory? What happens when you know you will remember every single detail of a mysterious woman?
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Symphony in Blue by MJ Duncan
It was just supposed to be a working weekend in Maui and not anything remotely life-altering, but all that changes the moment Gwen Harrison holds a hotel elevator for Dana Ryan. Beautiful and charming, Dana is a breath of fresh air that Gwen is helpless to resist—something she dearly regrets when their whirlwind weekend is over and reality sets back in. The course of true love is notorious for being anything but smooth, but the truths and consequences of an inauspicious beginning such as theirs are enough to put that old adage to the ultimate test.
Available at:
Amazon
Slow Burn in Tuscany by Giselle Fox
Single mom Brianna Valente has hated Madison Blake since the night they graduated high school. So when the rich, beautiful Madison signs up for the same tour of Italy that Bree is taking with her BFF, it’s almost enough to ruin the trip before they start. As if that’s not bad enough, a nosy, loud-mouthed journalist starts poking into the tourists’ private lives—and turns Bree’s upside down. Suddenly, everything she thought she knew is wrong…and the woman she was sure she hated is hotter than the Tuscan sun and firing all Bree’s fantasies.
Available at:
Amazon
Storm Season by Pene Henson
When Sydney It-Girl Lien Hong finds herself stranded and alone in the stormy New South Wales outback, her rescue comes in the form of wilderness ranger Claudia Sokolov, whose isolated cabin and soulful singing voice bely a complicated history. While they wait out the weather, the women find an undeniable connection that long outlasts the storm.
Available at:
Interlude Press
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Beached by Jody Klaire
Mable Thompson is trying to keep her family together, but she finds herself on the remote exotic island of Île Blanche. Without the advantage of knowing how to swim, working a bar for a suave woman called Jack and face to face with a lifeguard called Chief with a smooth walk and even smoother smile, Mable discovers that she may just be on a spectrum herself. Will Mable follow her heart and allow Chief to help her to float?
Available at:
Amazon
Love’s Abiding Spirit by Syd Parker
Songwriter Soren Lockhart needs a fresh start, far away from the pain of her last relationship. She moves to Savannah in hopes of forgetting the past.
Contractor Merritt Tanner is struggling with her own unsettling relationship.
When their two worlds collide, they soon find out that an unseen force is silently pushing them together and resisting is going to take everything they have.
Available at:
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Snowbird Season (Seasons series, book 2) by BJ Phillips
Kelly Bradley feels destined to always be alone. She meets Andi, niece of Snowbird Elise Wainwright, while doing a woodworking job. There is an attraction, but Andi is healing from a failed relationship. How can Andi, a woman from New York City and owner of an art gallery in SoHo, and Kelly, a middle-class Florida Girl who has no intention of ever living anywhere else, make it work?
Available at:
Desert Palm Press
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Summer’s Cove (A Cape End Romance) by Aurora Rey
After her parents’ unexpected deaths, Emerson Lange drops out of medical school and moves to Provincetown to pursue her real passion—art. Darcy Belo never expected to become a single mother at twenty-two, but she has no regrets over moving back home or the life she’s built with her son. A chance meeting at a wedding sparks an instant attraction between them, but pursuing it is not without complications.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Audible (audiobook)
Lightning Strikes by Cass Sellars
When Parker Duncan and Sydney Hyatt’s one-night stand turns to more, both women must fight demons past and present to cling to the relationship neither of them thought she wanted.
Available at:
Bold Strokes Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Take only Pictures by Laina Villeneuve
Kristine Owens is back in the saddle in the California backcountry confronting a past that she cannot leave behind as she struggles to take a trail that would lead her away from her family’s ranch. A summer assignment for wildlife biologist Gloria Fisher becomes more attractive when she crosses paths with the sexy cowgirl. As the season comes to a close, they must decide whether their attraction is more than a summer fling.
Available at:
Bella Books
Amazon
Apple iBooks
When the Stars Sang by Caren Werlinger
When Kathleen Halloran returns to Little Sister Island nearly twenty-five years after her brother drowned there, her arrival stirs unwelcome memories for the islanders. Molly Cooper is determined to protect the island from this offlander. Molly and the islanders soon realize they may have misjudged her. But Molly and Kathleen will never have a future together until they all face the past.
Available at:
Amazon
Apple iBooks
Summer Wine (Callie & Rebecca, book 4) by Barbara Winkes
Rebecca and Callie plan to visit the family of Dina’s boyfriend. They are in for some surprises before they can go on their journey.
Callie and Rebecca’s Italian adventure turns out to be an exploration of the past as well as the future. In her book series, Callie’s characters say I Do, but is it too early to think about this question in her real life?
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If you haven’t done so already, download your bingo card, pick the book you want to read for the “summer reads” square, and start reading! Remember that you can either read one of the 15 books listed above or pick another lesbian book or f/f novel that fits this category.
Lesbian Book bingo giveaway: Win a book by leaving a comment
For the “summer reads” square, I’m giving away an e-book copy of:
Whitewater Rendezvous by Kim Baldwin
When the Stars Sang by Caren Werlinger
Summer Wine by Barbara Winkes
Anyone can enter. To be entered into the drawing, leave a comment on this blog and let us know which book you’re going to read for the “summer reads” square or if you can think of other f/f books that fit this category.
Since I’m traveling at the moment, the giveaway will run a little longer this time. I’ll draw the winners on July 26, 10 a.m. (CET). I’ll notify winners via email. Your email address won’t be used for any other purpose.
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The reading list for the next bingo square—Friends to Lovers romance novels—will be posted on July 19. Subscribe to my blog so you won’t miss it. There’ll be another giveaway too!
Happy reading!
Jae
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