What I’m reading: The Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy

Dec30

I have read this book many times before, seen the movie and listened to the BBC radio broadcast, but it hold up. Every few pages is a laugh out loud. Great light reading for the holiday break.

What I’m watching: Fir Crazy

Dec23

Fir Crazy (2013) Poster

I have a weakness for Hallmark movies. Especially Christmas movies. I also really liked Chuck. So a Hallmark Christmas movie starring Sarah Lanchester (who played Chuck’s sister) is a shoe in for me. Enter Fir Crazy. Elsie has been trying to put her childhood spent selling Christmas trees with her family in New York, but the year she loses her job right before Christmas her father breaks his foot and her parents can’t manage the stand so she takes over. It’s predictable, but sweet and good fun.

Video Friday

Dec18

This was almost not the title of the book, but it worked so perfectly with the storyline that I couldn’t resist.

Guest post: Resplendent Rush

Dec16

Blurb

Lexi is a vivacious, quirky, and fiercely independent woman with enough attitude and wit to intimidate even the most confident of men. Levi is a sexy-as-hell, cocksure, smoldering hot marine blessed with smooth swagger and cool confidence to charm his way into any woman’s bed. The one thing they have in common, though, is their disinterest in finding love. She’s determined to not let love interfere and dictate her life. And with his career, he doesn’t need the emotional ties and baggage of love, and dreams of white picket fences.

But a few chance encounters have these two tangled up in one wild, passionate, explosive ride which neither of them expected, and which leaves them completely and utterly addicted to each other. Already in too deep, Lexi stubbornly fights her growing feelings for him and refuses to become vulnerable against the power that love seems to yield. She has witnessed firsthand how loving someone can destroy a person, leaving him defenseless against a life of emotional turmoil. She refuses to let it happen to her.

Levi knows that Lexi is holding back. He knows that she is keeping a part of her heart guarded. He’s determined to burn down the walls she so desperately clings to, and make her surrender her all to him. But with his long-lost brother’s unexpected return comes an inexorable danger that he will do just about anything to protect her from—even if it means losing her, and in the end, breaking her heart.

Goodreads link for Resplendent Rush (Resplendence Book 2)

Presenting the smoking hot cover of Bella J’s new Contemporary Romance – Book 2 of the Resplendence Series

RESPLENDENT RUSH

Excerpt:

Lexi indicated for the bartender to bring them a round of shots. Just as she was about to toss the tequila back, someone rammed into her from behind, and her little shot glass of heaven went bye-bye all over the counter and down the front of her dress.

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What I’m watching: Baby’s First Christmas

Dec16

Make me cry. Just make me cry. Baby’s First Christmas starts out like a typical Hallmark Christmas movie with feuding co-workers who end up as feuding relatives-by-marriage, but in the middle it switches to something a little deeper. Her brother and his sister, now married with one child and one on the way, are in disastrous financial straits after a job loss. Behind on their bills and set to lose their house at the beginning of the new year, they kinda need the one-on-the-way to be the local radio station’s Christmas baby so they can win the $25,000 and dig themselves out of their hole. This is the background for the main story about the feuding couple, but it’s where the heartstrings get yanked. So I watch it every year and cry just like I’m supposed to.

Video Friday

Dec11

The original tagline for Let Me Be the One was Tempted by the fruit of another…, but my publisher’s legal department thought that Squeeze might take issue with it. Such a shame because it would have been a perfect tagline for this story.

What I’m reading: Ursula K. LeGuin

Dec9

I hadn’t read any LeGuin until it was assigned in class, but I’m going to have to rectify that shortly. The Left Hand Of Darkness was amazing. More amazing was the rejection letter LeGuin posted on her website. If I had ever gotten that letter, I’d have taken up the oboe and never written another word! Highly recommended.

Origin of the title

Dec1

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“Let Me Be the One” is a song by Def Leppard off the X album. It very nearly wasn’t the title of the book because I actually like the song “You’re So Beautiful” better. (I wanted to teach it to my kindergarten class in Korea for Mother’s Day, but ended up leaving that job to go to Chile before I had a chance.) Upon reflection, the title of this one fit my story better while leaving the outcome ambiguous, though if you are familiar with the song, the outcome of the romance is pretty obvious.

Most readers have commented on the scene when Suzi and Brian get lost and she spills her fear to him that Logan will get bored with her. She says she feels like she can’t breathe without him. Brian promises to be her oxygen. I admit I stole the line from the song. However, dollars to doughnuts, they stole the idea from Sweet’s “Love Is Like Oxygen.” I’m pretty sure if I dug in and did a little research I could trace that idea back to, I don’t know, Chaucer? Somewhere in the Medieval ballads for sure.

Ah, there really is nothing new under the sun.
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