RELEASE DAY!
I am delighted to announce that Summer at Seaside Cove has finally arrived! The official release was yesterday, a day it seems I'd been waiting for forever. A year ago I was writing the book–while we were in the midst of packing up and closing on our old house, moving into our new house, and preparing for our son to go Army Airborne school. It was a hectic time when my non-writing life and my deadline were at war with each other.
Summer at Seaside Cove was the thirty-fourth book I'd written, but in many ways it was a first for me. All my previous contemporary stories were either short, category length books or novellas that, because of their tight word count, focused solely on the romance between the hero and heroine. While Summer at Seaside Cove is at its heart a romance, it's also a multi-generational story, exploring the intricacies and difficulties of the heroine's relationships with her mother, sister, and teenage niece. So, while it's a romance, there's also a lot more going on. I like to call it Romance–But More.
The book was especially challenging to write because unlike my historical books which all contain mysteries, there was no mystery to solve. And unlike my shorter contemporary stories, I had the word length to really delve deeply into my characters' emotions, as well as the time frame (an entire summer) for those characters to get to know each other and themselves. I wanted to convey the full range of feelings involved with heartbreak, loss, betrayal, desire, love, and redemption. The heroine's summer in Seaside Cove changes her life, and it's a journey I hope readers will take with her and embrace. The first chapter of the book is posted on my website http://www.jacquied.com/SASCexcerpt.html Happy reading!
So—what have you been up to lately? What are you reading? I'm on deadline so I'm not reading a lot right now–what great books am I missing? I also haven't been to the movies in ages. What do I need to catch up on once my book (which is the sequel to Summer at Seaside Cove) is turned in?
