Amy Andrews's Blog - Posts Tagged "entangled-publishing"
My Baby Is Here and Isn't She a Beauty??
After 30 Harlequins am proud to announce my first Entangled romance -
Taming the Tycoon. I will be kicking off the blog tour next week with some giveaways so keep an eye out for dates and details!
Taming the Tycoon. I will be kicking off the blog tour next week with some giveaways so keep an eye out for dates and details!
A Dear Reader letter from the Heart
How To Mend A Broken Heart has caused some chatter about the purpose of romance novels and suggestions that maybe its just a bit too dark and gritty. So I thought I'd post the Dear Reader letter that appears in the front of the book here so you can judge for yourselves before you buy and read whether it is the right book for you.
Sometimes, as writers, there are just stories we have to tell. And this was one of them. I thank everyone for their thought provoking reviews - they mean more to me than the easily celebrated five star ones because I know how difficult the book is for some people.
Amy
Dear Reader,
The opening scene of How To Mend A Broken Heart came to me in this perfectly formed picture in my mind. I knew little about the woman kneeling over the grave at the time other than she was grieving for her child and that she was very, very broken. I didn’t even know her name! But I knew, after many years of sadness, I wanted her to be happy. To start functioning again.
The book deals with some heavy issues. Issues that, sadly, I have come across in my other life as a paediatric intensive care nurse. Issues that, no matter how hard you try to keep an emotional distance, still touch you on a personal level.
I often wonder what becomes of couples after their child has passed away. When they leave hospital for the last time without their little loved one in their arms. How do they cope with the grief? How do they ever lead a normal life when something so precious and integral to their happiness and identity as a couple has been wrenched away? And in particular how much worse is it when the death is accidental. When for a split section of distraction, a blip of inattention that marks us all as human beings, everything changes. How badly must they want to be able to go back in time, to do over that one moment, to make it all okay?
I also wanted to write a romance that didn’t have a “riding off into the sunset” ending. Re-uniting two broken people was never going to be easy and to give them an everything-is-okay-now future didn’t seem true to life. I wanted to show Tess and Fletch’s love was true but I needed to acknowledge that to make their marriage a success the second time round, they were going to need help. That they were going to have to work at it.
I loved giving these two people their lives back and whilst their story is wrenching at times, I hope I’ve been true to them and their love.
I hope you think so too.
Sometimes, as writers, there are just stories we have to tell. And this was one of them. I thank everyone for their thought provoking reviews - they mean more to me than the easily celebrated five star ones because I know how difficult the book is for some people.
Amy
Dear Reader,
The opening scene of How To Mend A Broken Heart came to me in this perfectly formed picture in my mind. I knew little about the woman kneeling over the grave at the time other than she was grieving for her child and that she was very, very broken. I didn’t even know her name! But I knew, after many years of sadness, I wanted her to be happy. To start functioning again.
The book deals with some heavy issues. Issues that, sadly, I have come across in my other life as a paediatric intensive care nurse. Issues that, no matter how hard you try to keep an emotional distance, still touch you on a personal level.
I often wonder what becomes of couples after their child has passed away. When they leave hospital for the last time without their little loved one in their arms. How do they cope with the grief? How do they ever lead a normal life when something so precious and integral to their happiness and identity as a couple has been wrenched away? And in particular how much worse is it when the death is accidental. When for a split section of distraction, a blip of inattention that marks us all as human beings, everything changes. How badly must they want to be able to go back in time, to do over that one moment, to make it all okay?
I also wanted to write a romance that didn’t have a “riding off into the sunset” ending. Re-uniting two broken people was never going to be easy and to give them an everything-is-okay-now future didn’t seem true to life. I wanted to show Tess and Fletch’s love was true but I needed to acknowledge that to make their marriage a success the second time round, they were going to need help. That they were going to have to work at it.
I loved giving these two people their lives back and whilst their story is wrenching at times, I hope I’ve been true to them and their love.
I hope you think so too.
Fab Four!!!
Question - What's better than one fabo author doing a Christmas Novella?
Answer - Four fabo authors doing a Christmas novella anthology!!
Baby,It's Cold Outside published by Entangled is up now at Amazon and B&N for only 2.99 starring the fabulous Hiedi Rice, Kate Hardy, Aimee Carson and me! :-)
Here are the blurbs -
Kate Hardy's 'TIS THE SEASON TO KISS SANTA
With the help of a sprig of mistletoe and some snow angels, a recently single pastry chef teaches a highly successful and sexy Scrooge the true meaning of the holidays on a snowy Christmas Eve that quickly heats up.
Heidi Rice's 'TIS THE SEASON TO GO SHOPPING
When a Christmas Day blizzard strands an up-and-coming marketing manager and her boss's very off-limits, very hot playboy son in his department store, the two toe the line between naughty and nice as they unwrap their holiday presents—and each other!
Amy Andrews’s ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR KISSING
A down-on-her-romantic-luck kindergarten teacher plans to drown her New Year’s Eve sorrows in a gallon of spiked eggnog, but the arrival of her best friend's sexy brother threatens to melt the snow piling up outside the tiny Vermont cabin.
Aimee Carson’s ‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE TEMPTED
After the worst year ever, a jilted music manager rings in the New Year alone, swearing off men forever. But things get complicated when her brother's best friend, the perfect man with the perfect body, tempts her to break her vow—if only for one hot night!
So, what are you waiting for? Treat yourself. Go on....I know you want to :-)
Answer - Four fabo authors doing a Christmas novella anthology!!
Baby,It's Cold Outside published by Entangled is up now at Amazon and B&N for only 2.99 starring the fabulous Hiedi Rice, Kate Hardy, Aimee Carson and me! :-)
Here are the blurbs -
Kate Hardy's 'TIS THE SEASON TO KISS SANTA
With the help of a sprig of mistletoe and some snow angels, a recently single pastry chef teaches a highly successful and sexy Scrooge the true meaning of the holidays on a snowy Christmas Eve that quickly heats up.
Heidi Rice's 'TIS THE SEASON TO GO SHOPPING
When a Christmas Day blizzard strands an up-and-coming marketing manager and her boss's very off-limits, very hot playboy son in his department store, the two toe the line between naughty and nice as they unwrap their holiday presents—and each other!
Amy Andrews’s ‘TIS THE SEASON FOR KISSING
A down-on-her-romantic-luck kindergarten teacher plans to drown her New Year’s Eve sorrows in a gallon of spiked eggnog, but the arrival of her best friend's sexy brother threatens to melt the snow piling up outside the tiny Vermont cabin.
Aimee Carson’s ‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE TEMPTED
After the worst year ever, a jilted music manager rings in the New Year alone, swearing off men forever. But things get complicated when her brother's best friend, the perfect man with the perfect body, tempts her to break her vow—if only for one hot night!
So, what are you waiting for? Treat yourself. Go on....I know you want to :-)
