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Lauren , Posted in Blog, At May 9, 2018,

Books That Mom Will Love This Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is just a few days away and we know what that means…. you’ve procrastinated on what to get all the moms in your life! Don’t worry, we’re not judging, it happens. What better gift to get a mom than some free time and a good book? We’ve put together a little bit of everything so you’re sure to find something that mom will love!

 

Lost Girl Lake by C.K. Crigger Lost Girl Lake by C.K. Crigger

Lost Girl Lake is a cozy mystery that is perfect to take anywhere for a quick escape. As one reader said, this book has mystery, suspense and a bit of romance. “I was craving a good mystery, and this was it. It drew me in with a crispy hand and kept me enthralled with the characters and their stories. There is always just a little something going on beneath the surface. it was charming, exciting, and a nice way to relax at the lake. Great read, highly recommended.” – Amazon Reader

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Expectations by Samantha Adkins

Expectations by Samantha AdkinsExpectations is a sequel inspired by Pride and Prejudice, and all Jane Austen fans are sure to love it, including mom! About the book: Expectations begins six months after Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice ends. As a newly married woman, Elizabeth Darcy agrees to throw her first ball as mistress of Pemberley, a large and prosperous household. Meanwhile, her father writes a strange letter encouraging her to produce an heir for her husband, she welcomes several visitors to her home, and tries to mend broken family relationships. Georgiana Darcy remains unmarried, but feels the pressure to find a suitable mate. She nearly ruined her family’s reputation with her first choice, can she be trusted to find a proper husband?

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Yesterday Rules by John Kestner Yesterday Rules by John Kestner

Yesterday Rules is the humorous romance no one knew they needed. Follow Jeff Bailey as he dives into his old journals and relives the discovery and pain as he retraces his first feelings for Shelley, his lost love. From the author, John Kestner: “It started a long, long time ago as a First Romance story, but my own insecurities, stumblings, and losses turned those years into a comedy.  I wanted to be honest enough about my own feelings of inferiorities and ridiculousness that perhaps anyone reading it might identify and come to terms with their own feelings of utter absurdity.  I might look stupid, but at least I’m honest.”

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Tin Angel by Kat & L.J. Martin

Tin Angel by Kat & L.J. MartinTin Angel is a western romance that’s currently on sale for just $0.99 in honor of Mother’s Day! About the book: In this rollicking western romance, written by New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin, with husband L. J. Martin, Jessica Taggart, fresh out of a Boston finishing school, comes West…to discover the “restaurant” she’s inherited from her late father is actually a saloon and bawdy house! And to add to the insult, it’s run by a handsome rogue, Jake Weston, who owns 49% of Taggart Enterprises.

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Lauren , Posted in Blog, At January 9, 2018,

Coming Soon: Yesterday Rules by John Kestner

John Kestner is back again with another hit novel, Yesterday Rules! We got a chance to hear a little more about the novel, which is being coined as a “Sort-of Memoir.”

Yesterday Rules by John Kestner“Jeff Bailey is turning 40.  Settled and happily married, he spends his nights writing unsold screenplays while working security at a remote desert nuclear power plant after 9/11. Surfing the web one night, he sees the name of his first love, Shelley Dawson, pop up on a high school website.

Bailey offers to dig out his journals and take them both back to the summer of 1981 in Ohio. She never knew he kept a detailed journal about his time with her so, uneasy but curious, she allows him into a past she can’t remember to see what he finds.

Surprised by how much he’d forgotten, Bailey returns to the single summer that first broke his heart and made him a stranger to his own life and to the only world he’d ever known. The end of his childhood and the beginning of what his young parents always warned him about: dreaded adulthood. Transcribing his journals to a distant lost love, the adult Bailey follows his doomed teenage self, reliving the discovery and pain as he retraces his first feelings for Shelley, unearthing and unleashing emotions that hold consequences for them both all these years later.”  

City Lights Press: What Inspired Yesterday Rules?

John Kestner: What happens in Yesterday Rules inspired Yesterday Rules.

CLP: Did the conversation in your preface actually happen? Has “Loni” read the book?

JK: Yes, it did.  Nearly word for word.  “Loni” had read the initial manuscript (it started as a short document to a first love) and as it developed into this novel, we talked about it, but she hasn’t seen this final version—which now includes her!

CLP: How did your wife feel about Yesterday Rules?

JK: I think I actually portrayed her response to that situation accurately.  If she had any other reaction, she didn’t tell me.

CLP: Jeff Bailey is the same character in your other novel, Vegas Working Girl; is this the same character or just happens to be the same name?

JK: It’s the same guy.  As difficult as it might be to imagine someone more naïve and hopeless as the kid who landed in Las Vegas for Vegas Working Girl, you’ll see that he was actually worse while growing up in the Ohio cornfields of Yesterday Rules.

CLP: Did you ever consider adding in Shelley’s point of view and having two narrators?

JK: If I had any understanding of what went on in her head—at least enough to include her point of view—I’m sure our story would’ve been completely different!

CLP: You wouldn’t tell us what actually happened in Vegas Working Girl and what didn’t, what about Yesterday Rules? Can you tell us what parts were fiction or are you keeping it a secret?

JK: For now, I’d rather let the books speak for themselves. Part of the joy of studying literature in college was discovering that most of the great writers I read used their own lives as the inspiration for their greatest works.  God knows I’m not putting myself in their class, but I feel like good writing connects the author to a reader when the author is exposed and the reader believes what he or she is saying.  “This had to have happened” is one of the highest compliments I could receive from a reader.

CLP: How did you decide on the quotes you used throughout the book?

JK: Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I heard music everywhere.  Radio, records, cassette tapes, the beginning of MTV (when they played music videos).  As a teenager discovering emotions, I would hear a sentiment expressed vocally and musically in a song that helped articulate my feelings in a way I couldn’t on my own.  And all these years later, the songs still touch those nerves and express those feelings.  It’s not unusual to tear up in traffic when the right song comes out of nowhere.

CLP: Did you intend for this to be more of a humorous read or more romance?

JK: It started a long, long time ago as a First Romance story, but my own insecurities, stumblings, and losses turned those years into a comedy.  I wanted to be honest enough about my own feelings of inferiorities and ridiculousness that perhaps anyone reading it might identify and come to terms with their own feelings of utter absurdity.  I might look stupid, but at least I’m honest.

CLP: And last but not least, do you believe in soul mates?

JK: I do.  I know couples who were clearly meant for each other, and God bless ‘em.  I hope I never give up on believing in such a consuming, meant-to-be love.  It hasn’t worked out that way for me…but at least I got a couple of stories out of it.
 

Look for Yesterday Rules by John Kestner this February! 

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