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    Beach Read Recommendations: Contemporary Romance

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    If you haven’t taken my quiz yet to get beach read recommendations tailored just for you, check it out here.

    If your result is Contemporary Romance…

    Contemporary romance encompasses quite a few sub-genres, so I’m going to focus on sweet/clean romance and rom-coms, two of my personal favorites.

    Sweet/clean romance: You believe in happily ever afters, and reading is an escape from your everyday life. You want that emotionally-satisfying ending that leaves you smiling. Hallmark movies are your happy place, and you love a man who’s willing to tell the woman he loves exactly how he feels about her. If you want to escape to a charming small town where you get to know characters beyond the heroine and hero, these books are for you.

    Rom-Coms: You love awkwardness, confusion or even a little hi jinx on your way to happily ever after. Lighthearted and funny, these books can be sweet/clean or a little steamier. There’s often something big one or both of the main characters doesn’t know about the other. If you find yourself going back to movies like When Harry Met Sally, Pretty Woman and Sleepless in Seattle, the books are for you.

    If you lean toward Hallmark-esque small town romances, try:

    Summer at Firefly Beach by Jenny Hale

    Read my review

    The House on Firefly Beach by Jenny Hale

    Read my review

    A Simple Wedding by Leigh Duncan

    Read my review

    The Magnolia Sisters by Alys Murray

    Read my review

    Sweet Pea Summer by Alys Murray

    Read my review

    The Perfect Hideaway by Alys Murray

    Read my review

    Sandover Beach Memories by Emma St. Clair

    This one is the first book in a Christian sweet romance series

    If you lean toward rom-coms, try:

    If the Shoe Fits by Julia Murphy

    Read my review

    She’s Faking It by Kristin Rockaway

    Read my review

    Island Affair by Priscilla Oliveras

    Read my review

    Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey

    Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

    The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

    The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez

    Curious about the other quiz results? Here are links to those recommendation pages:

    Women’s Fiction

    Thrillers

    Historical Romance

    Have others that should make this beach read recommendations list? Obviously I can’t read *all the things* myself, so I’d love to hear your recommendations! Contact me

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    When you write a book set at the beach, you revers When you write a book set at the beach, you reverse outline by the beach/pool for inspiration. 🌴
    #FridayKiss: candy

This is from my MS with:
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📚The cutest Little Free Library
    The hubby @seegreatart and I took a road trip to F The hubby @seegreatart and I took a road trip to Fort Pierce, FL this weekend to see the latest Florida Highwaymen exhibition at @aebackusmuseum. 🎨 

My hubby has written extensively on the Florida Highwaymen, and we are lucky to get to see so much of their work here in Florida. This group of more than two dozen African American painters captured the Florida landscape in bright, vivid colors from the 1950s on. They could often be found selling the paintings out of the trunks of their cars. 

You used to be able to nab these paintings in garage sales around the state from people who didn't know what they had. However, those days are long gone. Now, these paintings can go for tens of thousands.

One of the original Highwaymen, Roy “R.A.” McLendon, was in attendance last evening. How work hangs in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.

Have you ever seen these paintings around FL?
    #FridayKiss from the MS I #amquerying, SUMMER BY T #FridayKiss from the MS I #amquerying, SUMMER BY THE BOOK:

The woman blushed and seemed embarrassed that Lucy had caught her looking through the shelf. "Do you have Hydrangeas on Hill Street?"

"I do." Lucy nodded, moving to the left of the woman and plucking the title off the shelf. "I read it when it first came in. It's a lovely book."

"I feel a little silly." The woman opened the book and turned it so Lucy could see the author photograph on the back flap. "It's my first book. I still get a little thrill every time I find it in a bookstore." Her cheeks still flushed pink, her eyes not meeting Lucy's.
    Cheers to 2022 🥂 In fiction writing accomplish Cheers to 2022 🥂

In fiction writing accomplishments this year:

💋 I landed the incredible @authorjessicalepe as my #KissPitch mentor

💻 I edited my Little Free Library romance 

📨 I started querying my Little Free Library romance 

🎉 I got 10 full requests so far 

⌨️ I started editing my country music romance

✍️ I started outlining a new story 

Considering how busy I've been as @sportsbizmiss this year, that seems like a lot! Excited to see what 2023 brings. I really feel in my gut like it's the year I'll get a book deal for my romance! 🤞 Just putting that out into the universe!
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