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PerPETually Yours #3
A Tail of Love: Perpetually Yours
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265 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2006
About the author
Alice Sharpe
174 books28 followersI was born in Sacramento, California. As a child, I wrote plays for the neighbor kids and invited their parents to performances. As I got older, I started my own family newspaper, handwritten and hand delivered, for the extortion price of 25 cents. Eventually, I moved into writing angst-ridden poems and journals – lots of them. Right after graduating from high school, I married the love of my life whom I met while walking on a beach in Northern California. We had two children, spent years building a house, juggling pets and living on sailboats. All the while, I wrote stories but I never attempted to sell them.
When the kids started Junior High, I started marketing my writing. When my short stories were turned down by mainstream women's magazines, my mother suggested I try a confession magazine. I sold my first story to them within two weeks. What a feeling of accomplishment! I walked on air for about a week! It took me almost two years to sell my next story, but after that, I went on to sell over two dozen to the various confession magazines. The experience of learning to get a story off the ground within a sentence or two was invaluable as was the connection I made with one of the editors. When she moved to a small book publisher, I sent her a completed manuscript which she bought. I wrote twenty books for her, mostly romances with a few mysteries thrown in. During this time, I learned about pacing, plot development and characterization. There is nothing a writer can do to improve their craft that trumps the actual setting of oneself in a chair and writing. Eventually I sold a manuscript to Silhouette. Now, forty books and many editors later, I've written for Avalon, Silhouette, Kensington, and Harlequin Intrigue I am also still married to the love of my life and our two children have given us three wonderful grandchildren.
When the kids started Junior High, I started marketing my writing. When my short stories were turned down by mainstream women's magazines, my mother suggested I try a confession magazine. I sold my first story to them within two weeks. What a feeling of accomplishment! I walked on air for about a week! It took me almost two years to sell my next story, but after that, I went on to sell over two dozen to the various confession magazines. The experience of learning to get a story off the ground within a sentence or two was invaluable as was the connection I made with one of the editors. When she moved to a small book publisher, I sent her a completed manuscript which she bought. I wrote twenty books for her, mostly romances with a few mysteries thrown in. During this time, I learned about pacing, plot development and characterization. There is nothing a writer can do to improve their craft that trumps the actual setting of oneself in a chair and writing. Eventually I sold a manuscript to Silhouette. Now, forty books and many editors later, I've written for Avalon, Silhouette, Kensington, and Harlequin Intrigue I am also still married to the love of my life and our two children have given us three wonderful grandchildren.
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July 26, 2016
4 Stars! ~ Five years ago Isobelle and Rick were a couple with a dream, only it turned out it had been Isobelle’s dream, not Rick’s. He went on to law school, leaving her and Marnie, the wire fox terrier he’d given her for her 22nd birthday, to do the dream without him. While visiting her best friend, Heather, Isobelle runs into Rick entering the apartment building as she’s on the way out. Turns our Rick’s new fiancée lives there and Heather is going to be catering Rick’s engagement party. And because of some Marnie mischief Isobelle finds herself short of funds and has to take a job helping Heather with the party. To complicate things, wonder dog Marnie, has decided it’s time for her masters to get back together, so she uses her amazing physic powers of persuasion on them.
This was a charming reunion story with a few inventive twists. We have three points of view; Isobelle’s, Rick’s and Marnie’s. And unlike the first book in this trilogy, I found the change in point of views done very nicely and not at all distracting. Both Rick and Isobelle have their own opinions on why their relationship had broken down years ago. It was interesting to see how they both came to view those times differently, and to appreciate the other’s perspective. In this one, it’s the heroine's more self-centered view of things that needs to be overcome. Marnie’s contributions bring us the comic relief. I enjoyed this one very much.
This was a charming reunion story with a few inventive twists. We have three points of view; Isobelle’s, Rick’s and Marnie’s. And unlike the first book in this trilogy, I found the change in point of views done very nicely and not at all distracting. Both Rick and Isobelle have their own opinions on why their relationship had broken down years ago. It was interesting to see how they both came to view those times differently, and to appreciate the other’s perspective. In this one, it’s the heroine's more self-centered view of things that needs to be overcome. Marnie’s contributions bring us the comic relief. I enjoyed this one very much.
July 10, 2008
Very funny. Not often you have a POV of a dog, but in this instance it really worked.
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