🍯🌺 Last call for Grumpfest ARCs before next week's release!
Published 16 days ago • 3 min read
OMG, OMG, OMG! IT'S HAPPENING!
Remember Max, our deliciously grumpy hockey player whose smile is more rumor than fact? He's officially hitting e-readers everywhere next Wednesday (May 14th)!
ARCs have made their way into the world if you're on my ARC team already (and psst... I have a few more available if you're ready to read and review quickly—just hit reply and we'll get you sorted!).
Now. Let's talk about romance's most satisfying trope collision: grumpy/sunshine with a healthy dose of forced proximity.
You know the setup—one growly hero whose smile is theoretical at best, one determinedly optimistic sunshine bomb who refuses to be deterred by death glares, and circumstances that force them to occupy the same space until feelings happen.
What's not to love?
The scowling.
The eventual crack in the grumpy facade.
The moment when sunshine realizes they're the only one who gets to see the soft side.
It's chef's kiss perfection, lemme tell ya. Also, Grumpfest. 😉
Live Stream Chaos Corner
If you caught last night's Instagram Live with yours truly and fellow author Erin Fitzgerald, you witnessed our valiant attempt to:
Discuss our new and upcoming releases
Promote the Tampa book signing I keep yammering about
Include awesomesauce Michelle Healy PA in spirit after technology said "absolutely not" to letting her join
Channel our inner Michelle while discussing her Tampa book signing event
Look and sound professional
🤦🏻♀️ What actually happened:
Uncontrollable giggling
Technical difficulties featuring our complete inability to understand Instagram or make it work right
A dramatic reenactment of trying to get Michelle into the live to join us (several times)
Zero professionalism achieved on any front
Missed it? Catch the replay here! You might giggle a bit. Or just think we're bananas, but hey, outcome the same, right?
Want more shenanigans?
Join us this Thursday at 6PM EST when we'll try again—this time hopefully with fewer technical difficulties, but several more authors and no doubt just as much laughter.
What's Next?
GRUMPFEST, OH MAH GERD!: May 14th! (Did I mention this? I feel like I should mention this again)
Instagram Live: Thursday at 7PM EST with Michelle, Erin, myself, plus CL Strickland, Charnaye Conner, Miranda Stone, and Emorie Cole
Tampa Signing: July 12! (Come see us all attempt a modicum of professionalism in person!)
Feeling frisky?
Hit reply and tell me your favorite grumpy/sunshine moment in a recent book you've read—or just share your excitement for Max's imminent arrival.
Either way, I'm here for it.
Yours in holy hockey gods romantic heaven,
P.S. Be sure to peep Erin's book down below, freshly launched and ready for greedy readers grubby lil hands. You'll be feeling all the feels, guaranteed!
P.S.S. Missed previous editions of this newsletter? Find them here.
P.P.S.S. That Booking signing in Tampa is coming up FAST (July 12), and my books are ordered. Can't WAIT, hope you can make it out!
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By Erin Fitzgerald
After twenty-four years of marriage, I'm starting over. A colorless condo and a cat I never wanted, an empty existence that reminds me of everything I've lost. Work keeps me tethered to reality, but it's the distance from my teenage boys that haunts me the most...
“I’d rather fight with you than make love with anyone else.”
— The Wedding Date
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