Jennifer and Kellie Take Over to Talk About Treading Water

By: Jennifer Marriott and Kellie Harker
Type faster Jennifer, before Marie comes back...
Hi, we're Jennifer and Kellie and we've taken over Marie's blog. Well….."takenover" might not be completely accurate. She did give us permission and all, butwe are so excited to be here we can't stop giggling like school girls. Marieasked us to share "our" story with you.
K - So last March, it was March right Jennifer?
J - Yep, March!
K - Ok, last March I finished Marie's book The Falland was left with lots of questions and emotions. I wrote a blog post aboutthis being the first book I read that made me feel so much all at once.
J - Marie is a master at emotionally "messy" books.
K - Messy is exactly right, Jennifer! Feeling entirelytoo brave, I sent a link to Marie with a link to my blog, www.mommywishdom.com, andwent back to bed. When I woke up hours later I realized Marie had posted a linkto my blog on her twitter and Facebook page! Marie, HERSELF had come and commented and slowly other people startedcommenting as well.
J - Including me! That's where I came in. In Kellie'spost she admitted she had read 120 books in the last year and I knew we'd befriends. I finally "met" someone who read as much as I did. We commented backand forth and got to ask Marie a lot of questions about her books and she tookthe time to answer each one. It was just awesome!
K - We can be honest, we were totally star struck.
J - SQUEE!!! We couldn't believe she took the time toanswer our questions. A few weeks later Kellie and I started emailing eachother about this book or that book and at some point we decided to read a booktogether and then meet online to talk about it. We would start a book on aMonday and have an online discussion just between the two of us aroundThursday. It was a virtual book club….with two very cool chicks as members.
K - Oh we should mention. We've never met. Jenniferlives in New Jersey and I live in Arizona. If we had met through a classifiedad it would have read something like "Enjoys devouring romance novels, timealone with our Kindles and looking for someone to have long chats on theinternet with about books" We both would have answered that ad..
J - So true! It was SO fun. Our friendship grewquickly from that point. We could no longer wait to finish a book before westarted commenting. We were e-mailing and then soon we were texting every day. Itstarted with texts about the characters, story lines and soon followed with ourown personal lives, discussions about our children and families and all thatfun stuff. Recently, we finished Treading Water and the text messages goingback and forth were classic. When we finished the book we of course sent Marieour questions. Here is just sample of our texts to each other about TreadingWater:
J - I'm at 57%. I swear at this point I would dumpJack.
K - What??? Dump jack? R U ill?J - Are you reading? I don't think I can move on.K - Tell me when you get to the beginning of Part 3and tell me what you're thinking!J - I think I'm about to cry. Poor Andi
K - My heart is absolutely broken for her. Can you imagine?
K - We tried to keep out any comments that would givethe ending away for the few of you out there who may not have read it yet.Hurry though because the next book is coming out soon and you'll want to keepup. Marie didn't pay us to say that either.
J - When Marie wrote back and graciously answered allour questions again she asked if we'd be willing to write a blog post about"Our Story" and share how we met, meet online to talk about the booksand share the questions Marie gets after we finish her books.
K- I think we're stillstar struck.
J – Ya think?!? Totally!!
Here are a few of the questions we posted to Marie about TreadingWater. What do you think? Thanks for letting us stop in and tell a little aboutus. We met through Marie's books, quickly became close friends and share anabsolute love for romance novels. Doesn't get much better than that! Come leaveyour comments and let us know what you think about the questions we wererattled with after reading Treading Water.
1. Was Andi Jack's "true love?"2. Do you think Clare gave up on Jack too easily?3. If Clare had not made the choice she had, what do youthink would have happened between Jack and Andi?

Marie: Thanks so much to Jennifer and Kellie for sharing their totally cool story of how they met through my books. I LOVE that, of course! So, weigh in on their three questions and tomorrow I'll post my answers as well as a few other questions we talked about as we planned these blogs. On Friday, I'll give away copies of all three books in the Treading Water Trilogy, so make sure you comment today and tomorrow to be entered into the drawing.