Releases, Reviews and Roller Coasters

This week has been full of the three Rs.

The Courage to Love was released yesterday. I've been looking forward to seeing this one in print for so long, it became an unattainable fantasy, then suddenly it was there.

This story is the rest of David's story (remember him from Between Love and Honor when he loses Carl in such a dramatic and tragic way). He returns home from war, realises he hasn't mourned Carl at all (he's been too busy fighting and staying alive), meets Bernard, nearly loses Bernard, loses his job... the list goes on. David's on his own roller coaster of life, trying to find even ground. It takes him a while and I don't think he'd be able to do it at all without Bernard, so it's a good thing Bernard is there.

I have a soft spot for David. I've loved him ever since Carl introduced him to me. He deserves his happy ending, even though he can be an idiot a lot of the time.

So that's the release - yesterday in fact. It's available from Dreamspinner Press, Amazon and ARe.
The Courage to LoveBy: E E Montgomery | Other books by E E Montgomery
Published By: Dreamspinner Press
ISBN # 9781623809447

Word Count: 60294
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Available in: Epub, Mobipocket (.mobi), Adobe Acrobat


The review came a couple of days before release. Josie from Mrs Condit Reads Books reviewed the story and gave it FIVE sweet peas! How exciting is that. She even used my favourite piece of dialogue from the book:

“My grandfather used to tell me,” Bernard continued, “that a man’s worth wasn’t measured by the battles he fought but by the grief he left behind. I’d say that means your Carl was one hell of a man.”
The crackle of dry eucalyptus leaves next door comforted me as I thought of what Bernard said. Eventually, as the light dimmed around us, I turned to him. “Can I come with you?”

Here are some of the lovely things Josie says:
"In fact [Mrs. Gill]'s probably one of my favorite secondary characters of all time.
The writing is beautiful, it’s descriptive and eloquent, the flashbacks are sensitively written, designed to show the reader what both men went through during the war, but not to take over the story in any way. ...  I adore historical stories and have a weakness for this part of history, for stories that show the unbreakable human spirit and that’s what this story does, it shows how two men, back from the war to end all wars, can build a future in a world not yet ready for them. I adored it."

And that brings me back to the roller coaster. After all the anticipation, the fantastic review, receiving the hard copies in the mail and, finally, the release, I'm exhausted. I think I need to sleep for a week to recover, but I'm so hyped my mind is buzzing with all the promotional stuff I should be doing and the next story I want to write - the last in the Just Life series - and the one after that...