If you’ve known me awhile, you’ll know that I’m not a fan of Valentine’s Day. I’m not anti-love or romance, far from it (how could any Gen Xer raised on Lloyd Dobler standing outside with a boombox not be a little sappy about romance?). I just think love should be about the little things we do for one another daily, not all lumped into a once-a-year-gesture. Plus, I refuse to go out on Valentine’s Day because I think it’s entirely possible an employee, bitter at being scheduled on what has got to be the worst night of the year for servers, will spit in my mushroom risotto.
Some of my Valentine’s Day cynicism spilled over to Corinne, and the following is my original attempt to bring Corinne’s complicated relationship with love and romance to light. Enjoy!
Lessons From a Launch
Oh the weather outside was frightful
But Page 158 is so delightful
And since we’ve no place to be
Let us read! Let us read! Let us read!
On June 20th, despite a torrential downpour, more than forty friends and family members came to help me celebrate SOMETHING BETTER’s release day at Page 158 Books in Wake Forest.
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I’m in the last tenths of the journey, looking beyond the finish line to new ways keep moving after SOMETHING BETTER.
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One of my fellow 2023 debuts recently posted on IG about how publishing is the process of making “my” book “yours,” and I’ve been thinking about it ever since.
Read more5 Surprising Influences on SOMETHING BETTER (and 1 Predictable Choice)
How did a snarky comedy about high school become a Women’s Fiction novel about reconciling the fantasy of “what if” with the reality of “what is?” Read on to learn about the influences behind SOMETHING BETTER.
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