Release Day

Hi!

Thanks for taking the time to take a gander through my website. I have a confession to make. This is my first time blogging. It’s not that I have anything against blogging. It’s more that I’m not sure I have interesting things to say. But the release of my first book, Sweet Nothings, is today, and I feel like I should be doing something to celebrate. When each of my children were born, my dad gave me flowers. And there were pain meds.

You might have clicked here and there on my website and have a good idea what Sweet Nothings is about – a brilliant baker with a gypsy heart who meets her match in an uptight businessman hiding a vulnerable side. Hopefully, you’ve also seen the two books that accompany Sweet Nothings – Sweet Thing by Emily Leigh and Sweet Spot by Amy Knupp. Awesome, awesome stories written by awesome, awesome gal-pals. I couldn’t think of two better people with whom to share a book birthday.

The three of us have been buddies for over eight years. You know when you meet someone new and there’s that time of getting to know them? A kind of dance where you share a little bit about yourself, and they share a little about themselves. You might start hanging out, have some conversations and eventually you have a friend. Yeah. That didn’t happen with us. We met each other at a writing conference (Chicago North RWA’s Spring-Fling) and hit it off instantly. We critiqued for each other, helped each other plot, whined to each other about writing and shared a deep and abiding love for office supplies (there might be a clerk at Office Max that still has nightmares about us). And a little over two years ago, we decided it would be fun to write stories together.

Ivy, Violet, and Kennedy came to life over the course of the next year, and the energy and sheer fun we had writing together – in the same world, about the same people – has been unbelievable. I don’t suppose it’s surprising that the bakery girls, as we call them, didn’t take long to bond to each other. Hale Street is a place we created from our imagination, and I really hope that readers will love our little neighborhood as much as we do – because we have a lot more stories planned. (A little note here to let you know that each story is intended to be read alone, but like Doritoes, they’re yummier when you eat the whole bag. Or is that just me?)

I’ll try to be interesting in my future blogs. For now, Happy Release Day to my friends.