Showing posts with label romance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romance. Show all posts

Monday, January 23, 2023

Evelina's Garden Book Review

 

After a failed romance, Evelina Adams spends the rest of her days pouring her love into her garden. When her young cousin, Evelina Leonard, comes to town and begins a relationship with the local minister, will her romance end in the same fate?

This was a fanciful romance with some frustrating decision-making from most of the protagonists. However, its short length (apx 60 pages) and purple prose are its saving grace. It reads as a dreamy fairy tale and ends on a high note. This would be a great story to read aloud to young children, or a perfect "starter romance" for young teens. Originally published in 1899, this novella is widely available to read for free .

Thursday, December 8, 2022

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It is a gloomy winter morning when Becca Evans arrives at her grandparents’ home with little more than the clothes on her back. Struggling with a recent trauma, she seeks refuge in the small, mountainous community of Harmony Ridge. She wants nothing more than to be left alone, but her grandparents have other plans. According to her grandmother, Mikhail Volkov, the widower next door, is as close to perfection as a man can get. Handsome, charming, kind, and thoughtful, he also just so happens to be the county sheriff.

When danger follows Becca to town, Mikhail offers not only his help, but his friendship. Soon she realizes that if she has the courage to open her heart to him, he may have a place in it. As the darkness of winter gives way to the brilliance of Christmas lights, so too does Becca’s loneliness give way to the warmth of love and family.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A Blueprint for Hope Release Announcement & Free Giveaway!

I am so excited to announce my new book launch! A Blueprint for Hope, a contemporary sweet romance will be released on July 6th, 2020. Thank you to all the followers who have encouraged and supported me on my writing journey. 

From now until July 5th, 2020, please email me at olenequinn@gmail.com for your FREE pre-release copy. Honest reviews posted on release day would be greatly appreciated.

Here is the first glimpse:

A Broken-Hearted Chef with a Big Dream. An Architect with a Past. A High School Crush. What could go wrong?

When Hope Gibson broke up with her fiancé, she lost everything. She returns to her small hometown of Harmony Ridge with a modest savings account and big dreams of opening her own restaurant. However, she soon learns that her own father and his cronies in the county government have every intention of blocking her plans.

Hope’s high school crush, Lone McGregor, is not having any better luck. The death of his grandfather forces him away from his high-speed life as an architect in Los Angeles to repair and sell the property he inherited in Harmony Ridge. As a member of the least popular family in the county and boasting a hell-raising reputation of his own, he too finds the local government standing in his way.

When Lone concocts an ingenious plan to solve both their problems, they must commit to working together. And manage not to fall in love…

 A Blueprint for Hope is a sweet romance and is book one in the Harmony Ridge Romance Series. Each book in the series can be read as a stand-alone novel. Keep up with your favorite couples by reading them in order. Happily Ever After guaranteed!


Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Rediscovering my Voice

I am now in the process of putting the final polish on my romance manuscript. It has  already been edited approximately... 8,000 times. The first draft was unusually rough for me and I've only just realized why.

I wrote The Gates of Nottingham when I was very young. It was a huge learning experience for me. I believe any author's first novel teaches them patience, perseverance, and humility, but most of all, it gives them a voice. From Nottingham I learned that I prefer to pen third-person limited narratives with tight, lean prose. My novels have all had varying degrees of darkness, most exuding a certain level of anxiety.  In So Many Secrets I experimented with first person story telling because I believed that would best suit the story, but in Prince Dead, I returned to form with a story written from the perspective of four characters. I have often been told I write like a man, all flowery prose and high emotion kept to a minimum for the sake of stress-inducing suspense and emotionally scarred characters.

For these reasons, dipping my toes into the romance genre proved a challenge.