Kitty Berry's Blog

RomantiConn 2022 will be held on Saturday, July 16, 2022, at the premier Marriott Hotel in vibrant Trumbull, CT that combines small-town New England character and charm with local attractions. It is about an hour from NYC, a short drive from Metro North Railroad, and offers easy on and off highway access. New York or Connecticut airports are easily accessible. We hope you’ll join us for another crazy journey into fangirling, book-boyfriends, and love for all things related to BOOKS! Come create memories with authors and friends.
Attending Authors and Vendors subject to change without notice:

A.M. Johnson
Amanda Siegrist
Angela Nicole
Artemis Crow
Avery Maxwell
B.K. Leigh
Barbara Nolan
Brittany Taylor
C.D. Gorri
Cecile Tellier
Charlene Raquel/Char Webster
Cheri Allan
Clair Brett
Connie Hunter
Danica Flynn
Davidson King
E.S. McMillian
Elias Raven
Elizabeth Barone
Elizabeth Hayley
Elle Greco
Everly Taylor
Gracie Guy
Harper A. Brooks
Holly Roberds
J. F. Lowe
J. M. Davies
J. Nathan
J.T. Cheyanne
Jaime Lewis
Jean M. Grant
Jeannine Colette
Jen Talty
Jennifer Field
Jennifer W. Smith
Jill Marie Denton
Jill Prand
Jodi Payne
Judith Paolercio
Judy Kentrus
Julia Pelletier
Kathryn Hills
Kelly Kay
Kelsey Elise Sparrow
KiKi Malone
Kitty Berry
Krystal Pena
Linny Lawless
Lisa A. Olech
Lola Clarke
Lori DiAnni
Lucia Catherine
Lucinda Race
Luis DeLeon
Lynn Burke
M.L. Pennock
M.S. Brannon
Mariah Kingsley
Mel Walker
Michelle Iannarelli
Michelle Windsor
Miski Harris
MJ Santangelo
Morgan Malone
Nancy Fraser
Peggy Jaeger
Rae B. Lake
Rebecca Gallo
Rebecca Hefner/Ayla Asher
Reina Torres
Renee Dyer
Roux Cantrell
Roz Lee
S Courtney
Samantha A. Cole
Santana Blair
Sara R Stewart
Sinful Grace
Stacey Komosinski
Stephanie Rose
Suanne Laqueur
Sue Langford
T. Ashley
Taylor Delong
Taylor L. Bryan
Yolanda Olson

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Welcome to Falls Village...

Olivia Lancaster
My life couldn’t get much worse. Am I destined to be a small-town girl for the rest of my life?
Crap, maybe I was.
But I want to live. I want to see things. I want to do things, all kinds of things. Even very naughty things. Things I know nothing about.
But I’m running out of time.
I was born and raised in Falls Village, Maine, not in the McMansions, but not in the rundown old factories that were a poor excuse for apartments either. Nope, I grew up in the middle.
It’s the story of my life.

Matthew James
I’m living my best life. Destined for great things in the wild world of Hollywood. My big-screen career is flourishing. But life should hold more than that, shouldn’t it?
Fuck, maybe not.
But I want to be a better man; I want to be more than just a pretty face with deep pockets and my expertise with women. I want to find a woman who wants me for who I am. Something I know nothing about.
So I’m running away from the limelight.
Born and raised in Falls Village, Maine, I’m the family fuckup who will never be fit for family life.
It’s the story of my life.

One chance meeting...
After bumping into Falls Village’s Hollywood celebrity (literally), Olivia’s life gets way more interesting.
Once Matthew finds a woman who doesn’t care about his money, he looks at life differently.
But can a small-town girl be the one to change the playboy ways of a Hollywood actor for good? Or will Olivia be left in the middle again, this time stuck between a broken heart and the future she craves?
Can a man who never thought love was necessary become a family man?
Will Matthew James destroy the small-town girl, or will he promise her forever?

Come check out the contest entries today after 10am. I will be posting chapter 1 from Screen Play (The Stone Series book 5) as my entry. I think you'll be able to make comments on all the entries so head on over there and comment away on mine! ‪#‎SYTYCW
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Stoned

Oh, no ladies…now we’ve done it! Damian is jealous of all the attention his cousin Tate has been getting.

Who’s ready to take their punishment like a big girl?

Hop over to Amazon and when you check out the revised version of Sliding make sure to also give Damian some love…Stoned: The Stone Series Book 2

Sliding

Upon recently receiving solid advice from an editor I made a few changes to Sliding. Nothing to get crazy about…Tate and Brook are still the same characters but I hope that the story flows better now. I did make a few changes to the story line but not much. Head over to Amazon to check it out.
I’ll be back to work on Screen Play (the 5th book in the series soon)
I’ll keep you posted…
Kitty

I was thinking the other day about how music influences my writing. I find it inspirational at all times but crucial at others, for example, when writing Siblings. I could never have written the 3rd book of my series without the songs of Hinder. Their music was the backdrop for that novel and the inspiration for Sebastian and Sykler’s relationship.
I thought there might be someone out there who would be interested to hear the songs that inspired me while writing each book from The Stone Series.

So, here you go…

Sliding: Sliding had a ton of songs from the 80s mentioned in it, each song brought Brook back to a memory from her youth. But when I think of the songs that inspired me, songs that helped me develop Tate, Brook and their relationship in my head I would have to go with the following: The Scientist by Coldplay, Never Say Never by The Fray, and I Won’t Give Up by Jason Mraz.

Stoned: When I first started to look for songs to inspire me for my 2nd novel I entered the word ‘Stoned’ into the iTunes search box and Presto…Magic! Get Stoned by Hinder and Stone by Stereophonics popped up. This discovery of Hinder made my next book start writing itself in my head while I was still working on Stoned. I had heard Hinder’s more popular songs on the radio before and loved them but it wasn’t until this point when I heard a variety of their music that I got hooked. Fix You by Coldplay will always make me think of how Damian feels about Sydney. He would do anything to fix her, to take away her memories of her past. S&M by Rihanna was the inspiration for the scene at Hard as Stone when Damian walked in to find his new dancer “Cinnamon Stick” was actually Sydney.

That leads me to Siblings: At the start of Siblings I provide a partial playlist of the Hinder songs that inspired me while writing Siblings. They were: Heartless, One Night Stand, Loaded and Alone, Anyone But You, Everybody’s Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Believe, Thing For You, and Up All Night. As I listened to each song over and over again in my car on the way to everywhere I went Sebastian and Skyler grew into characters in my mind. Many of the songs created scenes for them to experience. In this book I even wrote song lyrics for Sebastian. I just wish I could snap my fingers and make him appear to perform them for me!

Second Chances: Second Chances was the least musically inspired novel I’ve written. When I Was Your Man by Bruno Mars was popular and on the radio all the time when this story was brewing in my head. Taylor Swift’s song, I Knew You Were Trouble made me think of Raina. She knew from the moment she saw Pete Roman that he would be trouble and boy was she right!

At the moment I’m in the process of re-writing Sliding. A Senior Editor was kind enough to give me a few pointers that will hopefully catch the eye of an agent or a publishing house. Keep your fingers and toes crossed for me. But before I began that process I had started writing the 5th book in the series, Screen Play. You can find a blurb on my website about it if interested. I hope to be able to spend more time on it within the next month or two. It’s too early to determine where it’s ultimately going to go but songs that are calling to me when I think of Phoenix and Bailey are All of Me by John Legend, Beneath Your Beautiful by Labrinth, Human by Christina Perri and Say Something by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera.

I hope you’ll check out the songs that helped me to create the characters from The Stone Series. Please support the artists through legal means.

Kitty Berry

SlidingStonedSiblingsSecond Chances

Second Chances should be live on Amazon within 24 hours...YAY V-Day!

I’m almost ready to go live with Second Chances...The Stone Series Book 4. All I have left to do is write the synopsis...but it’s so hard!
I hope you’ll come and fall in love on Valentine's Day with Pete Roman and Phoenix Doyle.

Come watch as Pete and Raina Montgomery reconnect and sparks fly. But will Phoenix "Nix" Doyle add to their flames or extinguish them?

Second Chances: The Stone Series Book 4...Coming soon on Amazon

Second Chances manuscript has gone through revisions and is finished...I think! I just sent it out to a few readers…let’s hope it’s ready for the public soon. Stay tuned for the Amazon ebook release date. I think you are all going to enjoy Pete Roman and I hope this one gets you excited about Phoenix Doyle who will be the star of Screen Play (The Stone Series Book 5).

I recently finished writing (or thought I had) Second Chances. It's the 4th book in the Stone Series. This one features Pete Roman, the sexy general contractor/sexual Dominant who is friends with Damian Stone and works with his wife Sydney on all of her decorating jobs.
I say I thought I had finished because after getting feedback from a few people whose opinions I trust I am now making a few necessary edits. I know this story will be richer after I make some adjustments.
I’m looking forward to completing and publishing it on Amazon.
Be on the look out...Second Chances is coming soon!