Forever is a heartbeat away . . .
Kerris Moreton knows how to make things work. Bounced from foster home to foster home as a kid, she adapted; when opportunity arose, she thrived. Now, about to open her own business and accept a marriage proposal, Kerris is ready to build the life she's always wanted. The only thing missing? A passionate connection with her would-be fiancé, Cam. Kerris wants to believe that sparks are overrated-until Walsh Bennett lights her up like the Fourth of July.
. . . but what about love?
As one of the East Coast's most eligible bachelors, Walsh enjoys financial independence, fulfilling work with his family's nonprofit, and plenty of female attention. But lately he's been distracted by the one woman he can't have. Lovely to look at and even sweeter to know, Kerris is the soul mate Walsh never thought he would find. The problem is, his best friend found her first . . .
In case you haven't noticed, we have a fairly large crush on Kennedy Ryan and her book: WHEN YOU ARE MINE. Have you read it? If not grab it here: Amazon | B&N | iTunes | Goodreads
Kennedy: ON WRITING:
I always knew I would write fiction. When I was a little
girl, I used to act out scenes on my grandmama’s back porch using her mop as my
long-haired heroine! Along the way, I wrote poetry and eventually editorials
for newspapers. I obtained my journalism degree, but never quite forgot about
the stories that weren’t true, but
for me were just as real. “Grown folks” responsibilities sometimes sideline our
dreams, and that is exactly what happened to me. My son was diagnosed with
Autism when he was two years old. The very next day my husband lost his job,
and I was suddenly the breadwinner. The provider of much-needed benefits and
insurance. The one holding it down.
My son is profoundly impacted, and raising him, managing his
services, finding money to pay for his therapies took up all the space my
dreams had occupied. Once I had a little bit of a handle on the systems and
therapies it took to make his little life run, I felt compelled to help other
families facing the same challenges. I started a foundation for families living
with Autism in Georgia, where I live. Writing dreams officially on hold for
about a decade.
That decade was hard and dark. I consider it the winter of
my soul. My imagination hibernated while my family scraped and struggled and
limped along. As things cleared some and I could breathe, I’ll never forget the
day the “voices” came back. My son, like so many ASD kids, is obsessed with
water. And at the end of every day about two years ago, we would go to the Chattahoochee
River for maybe two hours. Watching my son lose himself in nature, I lost
myself in a story that sprouted up around a river in a fictional town called
Rivermont. That story is WHEN YOU ARE MINE and LOVING YOU ALWAYS, book two of
the Bennett’s trilogy.
I wrote the book in a matter of a few months, but was far
from done. I joined Romance Writers of America and my local chapter, Georgia
Romance Writers. I had only been involved for a few months when they hosted
their annual conference, Moonlight & Magnolias. Other writers asked if I’d
pitch my story.
What’s that?
LOL
They told me you schedule a time with editors and agents who
fly in for the conference and you pitch your story. They may pass. They may ask
for a partial, the first 30 pages of your manuscript. If they’re really
interested, they ask for the full manuscript. Well, I didn’t have high hopes.
Everyone I talked to had been pursuing publication for years. It was not a
quick process. Here I am, a few months in, the newest kid on the block. What
did I have to lose? Sure, I’ll pitch. It’ll be a great learning experience.
Imagine my internal mouth hanging open when the agent and the editor from Grand Central
Publishing both requested my full manuscript after my pitch.
Um, okay.
I kept telling myself nothing was guaranteed and not to get
my hopes up too high. But hope is something I have always been able to find.
Emily Dickinson’s words from one of her most famous poems hovers over my life.
“Dwell in possibility.” I always thing impossible is negotiable! LOL. Sure
enough, three months after I submitted my manuscript to the agent, she asked to
represent me. And a few months later, the editor said Grand Central wanted to
publish my book as two novels. And then they asked if I’d be willing to round
it out to a trilogy, making it a three-book deal.
Well, if you insist!
The rest, as they say, is history. WHEN YOU ARE MINE,
released June 17, 2014. To some it may seem overnight, but you can see how for
me, it was a long time coming.
Thanks again to Kennedy to being such a great friend to our blog. We're looking forward to the read along and the release of book 2! (Please go to Kennedy's FB link for more information about her read along and GREAT prizes!)
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