For the Love of Murphy
Publisher: Roane Publishing
Release
Date: March
17, 2014
Key
Words: Adult, Romance, Sweet, Contemporary, Anthology
Jessica
Brannah is escaping from her last heartbreak with a loaded car and a new
address. But, when Murphy's Law finds her stranded in a back country town, she
realizes there's no outrunning love.
Darci’s
ready to move on. Too bad the dating pool stinks. Until, a ghost from her
past resurfaces—the man she missed out on in college.
Andrew
was the one man she’d always loved, but neither of them ever made a move.
But, old feelings aren’t the only thing resurfacing of late. Darci’s ex
comes crawling back at the most inappropriate time, and with all the
testosterone flying, she might not end up with either man.
Fresh out
of a failed relationship and exhausted by a constant barrage of fiascos at
work, Olivia Johnson doesn’t see the man of her dreams standing right in front
of her. She tells herself the morning coffee meet-ups with Daren are nothing
but coincidence, but even she can’t deny his unequivocal attractiveness. When a
night entertaining clients takes a turn for the worst, and Daren shows up where
she least expects him, failure starts to look more like fate.
Anne
Montgomery is psyched for her girl’s only weekend, despite her friends’ choice
of vacation locale—the snowy slopes of Harris Peak Ski Resort—where someone as
notoriously accident prone as she has no business being. When Murphy’s Law
finally catches up with her, Anne is forced to consider there may be times when
it pays to be unlucky.
Florist, Marissa Carmichael isn’t
usually a klutz, but she’s in a hurry and having a bad day. In her haste, she
loses her balance and tumbles from the back room of her shop, arms flailing.
Her less than graceful entrance halted by a headfirst crash into a display case
chock full of silk flowers.
Trey Cleary didn’t think his day
could get any worse, until he finds. himself picking the side view mirror of
his BMW up from the ground. On a mission to do something about it, he locates
the flower shop matching the name on the back of the van that mangled his
‘baby'. But, his car is forgotten when a beautiful woman bursts into the room
like an out of control whirling dervish, and takes one mother of a wipeout into
the shop’s counter. Coming to her aid brings out the hero in him like no one
he’s ever encountered, and leaves him with a need to know more.
For Marissa and Trey, this just
might be the one time it pays to be unlucky.
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Can
you describe a typical writing day / author process?
Michelle Ziegler:
What? We get a day? A
whole day? Okay. I am guessing that wasn’t
literal. A typical writing session starts after putting my two
wonderful children to bed as early as possible, normally around 11:00 pm– don’t
ask. After that, I sit down at my computer and pick out the right
song. Music sets the mood of my scenes; therefore I have a song for
every scene. Then I listen to the song on repeat, check my email,
and generally get distracted for ten minutes. After I’ve talked
myself out of online shopping, or I solved world hunger, or gotten fed up with
MSN headlines, I open up my work in progress. Then I start to
write. I’ll usually re-read the chapter where I left off and get a
little sidetracked with changes. My goal every night is one rough
chapter. I rarely plot anything, so where I go is anyone’s
guess. Breaking at a chapter keeps me focused and also makes me feel
like I accomplished something. On bad nights my writing process
involves a lot of chocolate.
London Saint
James:
I wish I could
say I have achieved structure in my writing habits. LOL. I don’t allot any
certain amount of time to write and I sure don’t sit stiffly at a proper desk
when I do write. To me, if I did that, keeping a specific daily schedule, it
would seem like a 9 to 5 job instead of the fun that I find writing to be.
I suppose I
really can’t say I have a typical writing day since I tend to write, more often
than not, late at night or at willy-nilly times. What is typical; I write using
my trusty old laptop while flopped in a comfortable chair, stretch out on my
couch, or even lounging across my bed.
As far as my
process, I might have a major inspiration on a story while doing something
mundane like the dishes, so I stop and quickly write my idea down on a sticky
note, then come back to actually typing the story when I have time to work on
it. I’m not really a writer who outlines plots. I’m a panster. I go where the
characters tell me to.
Lisa Adams:
Plotter or Pantser? This question is thrown around the
writing world constantly. Which one is better? Which are you? How do you follow
that? Well, I follow neither to the core but a bit of both in all
actuality. I consider myself a "plot-ser". (Yep, I just made that
word up. I love being an author!) I actually get an idea in my head and then
take out a piece of paper. I start with the beginning and plot my way through
to the end. However, I have the story broken up into chapters and I only write
one or two sentences under each, describing major plot changes. This usually
takes up less than half of one side of the page. As I begin my writing process,
I check the paper to make sure I'm on target. However, more often than not,
while I'm writing my middles change. The characters are telling me other things
they want to happen and I go with it. Forgetting my original plot and outline.
Once I feel my characters are done and I'm fighting with my muse again, I go
back to the outline and see my original ending and figure out if I can make my
story head in that direction. So, as I stated above, I do both!
Rebecca Hart:
My writing days are more hectic than I would prefer
these days. Between launching Roane Publishing and all it entails, a full time
job, life partner "bohunk", and three kids, writing happens whenever
I can steal the time. I have found deadlines help keep me on target, but
sometimes even that doesn't help. Lately, I save the writing for weekends, when
I can put on my headphones and tune out the world for an hour, or if I am
lucky, two. But, the way I look at it, anything you love doing, you find time
for, and so far, I have always been able to find the time to write, and every
so often, I just force myself to MAKE time.
Annabelle Blume:
A typical writing day, for me, is really
just me grabbing an hour here and an hour there
to write around my three children’s busy schedules. You can find me
often hiding behind my laptop screen while they are on the karate mat, and I
have a blessed one day a week when I have a sitter and get a little writing
done. I have several freelance jobs, so not all of my time is spent on my
fiction, but I write every single day.
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