Joyce asked for a pic of me with big hair…
Interview: Tara Eldana, author of ‘Restoring Ainsley’
Thanks so much to the male reader who left this five-star review for “Cabin Fever” Sept. 20, 2018 on Amazon Books
-a friend bought me this book and i loved it! i will definitely read the rest. hats off to the author Tara Eldana, she wrote like life truly is!
Starting tomorrow, “In the Depths” e-book will be discounted to $0.99. Becca Paxton spends her days covering news on Hawaii’s Garden Island and her nights asleep in the arms of her Ethan, dream lover. He’s a merman who knows her destiny lies with him, under the waves. Can he convince her he can make her dreams come true? Can she leave everyone and everything she knows on land to be with him? https://www.amazon.com/Depths-Tara-Eldana-ebo…/…/ref=sr_1_1…
Another mermaid tale (pun intended), my merman, Gareth, a shark fighter who doesn’t want to be tasked with bringing Ainsley under the waves, is probably my favorite leading man (or merman) yet. And I love all my heroes.
This is scheduled for release Oct. 20. Stay tuned.
It’s the prequel to “Double Dare.” Gray leaves Amy at the altar to avenge his dead friend, who he believes Amy wronged. He realizes his mistake and begs her for another chance, which she won’t give him. But he’s a fighter and gives it, and them, all he’s got in a cabin on the banks of Lake Superior. Will it be enough?
“Cabin Fever” will be released by Black Opal Books in May. Stay tuned.
Thanks to the fabulous Jack at Black Opal Books for the cover.
As I listen to my interview with Tony Kay on the Authors-First show on the Artist First Radio Network, um, I realize, I, like, say um and like too often.
But I had a lot of fun talking about writing and reading romance. Give a listen: http://www.artistfirst2.com/Authors-First_2018-01-09_Tara_Eldana.mp3
My friend, she’s the oldest of seven kids, was talking about doing dishes as a kid and I flashed back to the dish wars at our house.
I am the oldest and was the fastest dish washer. I just wanted to get it over with. My younger sister (by 11 months) was an epic staller and usually the dryer. And if she found one miniscule particle on a dish, she gleefully dumped it back in the dish water.
I got to be an epic stacker of dishes in the drainer. One time since my sister was epically stalling, I built an epic 3-foot tall tower of dishes. Mom was not happy.
My mother-in-law told me she stretched the family budget and splurged on a dishwasher because she couldn’t stand to listen to her kids fighting over washing the dishes. And they were all four years apart and she worked afternoons so she only heard the fights on weekends.
Dish wars were either valuable life lessons I can use in my writing – goal, motivation, conflict, Deb Dixon talks about in her fabulous book, “Goal, Motivation, Conflict, The Building Blocks of Good Fiction” or it was just pointless bickering – which I guess I can also use in my writing.
Goal: get dishes done. Motivation: So I could watch TV, go to a friend’s house, read a book, or do homework. Conflict: working with younger sister who stalled and put clean dishes back in the water for me to rewash, or washed them herself, super slow, so I had to wait for the next one.
The only dish wars at our house these days (as empty nesters) is the best way to stack dishes in the dishwasher. (I am still a epic stacker). My husband, an engineer, believes he knows best. I, as the person who usually empties out the clean dishes, believe I know the best way to cram as many dishes as possible into the machine so the dishes come out clean. Again, this may be pointless bickering or a good life lesson.
At this point, I’m betting on a good life lesson. All those dishes have to count for something.