A wee reminder: Occasional Soulmates is out in less than a month. I’m putting the finishing touches on the upload files (thanks to some eagle-eyed advance readers!), and Max Scratchmann’s cover is ready to rock.
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Meanwhile, here’s the jacket copy:
Sarah Phelan is in love. It’s about time.
When the thirty-eight-year-old San Francisco doctor meets her new patient, a handsome British expat with the unlikely name of Dylan Cakebread (and an uncanny resemblance to Jude Law), she’s convinced it’s the start of her own relationship novel. He’s an architect, no less — always a key piece of her most indulgent fantasies — and the heroine of a relationship novel always gets her fantasy man, right? Though their shaky start raises red flags that her oldest girlfriend, Jules, is quick to point out, Sarah can’t help it. She falls hard for Dylan and it appears to be a two-way street.
But maybe meeting your perfect mate in the exam room isn’t the best opening act. Sarah thinks she’s the cure for what ails him, but soon she learns the secret Dylan has been keeping from her. Now she has to choose between happiness and the illusion of it — if Dylan doesn’t take the choice out of her hands first.
It’s starting to look like this isn’t her relationship novel at all: it’s his.
Look for it September 23!
I can say as an early reader this book is one everybody should pick up. There are so many good parts and for writers damn good examples to follow. Don’t get me wrong this is not a “how to” book, but a literary gem worth emulating.
Aw, shucks! 😊
As an early reader, I agree with John. It was a story I really enjoyed
Thank you, Pamela! So glad you liked…
Ditto to Pamela and John! I’m excited for you and was most impressed.
Thanks, Susan. Appreciated your helpful comments too…
Very cool. Good luck.
Thanks, Charles! Don’t think I could handle being as prolific as you, though… 👏
I’ll be slowing down soon. Free time is becoming harder to find, so my punished works might catch up to my finished works next year. Still trying to balance all this.
Freudian slip? Your “punished works”? I like.
More of a phone-caused typo since I was also wrangling a temperamental kid. Can’t wait for school to start.
Still doing hard copies for us dinosaurs, I hope.
Absolutely! If you’re willing to part with $10.99, that is… 😉
I’ve seen worse!
Looking forward to this one Kevin! I’ll be needing some late-night reading for awhile…
Should get you through a few nights!
I’ll reblog this over at King Midget’s and promote it again when it’s actually published, but I just noticed in your sidebar that you reviewed Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. Thanks to a writers conference I went to last year in Mendocino where Peter Orner highly recommended it and a local blogger friend who had a copy to loan me, I read it last summer — one of my alltime favorite books and it was completely unexpected. There are things in that book that just blow me away. Hmmm … maybe I ought to read it again. It definitely is worth it.
Thanks for reblogging, Mark! And yes, the Yates was a real pleasure to rediscover this year. A glimpse of what’s possible in literary storytelling…
Reblogged this on KingMidget's Ramblings and commented:
Here’s the next indie author I’ll be promoting in a few weeks. Got to read an advanced copy of his book, too. It’s another good one. What the heck is going on here? A bevy of good books out there you should be reading!!!
Loved it! Looking forward to getting the paperback 🙂
I’m emailing you off-grid mañana. Thanks for the perfect read… 😘