Sacramento Love

by Laura Roberts

Craving a good love story? Fall in love 26 times in Sacramento!

A love note to the city of Sacramento, SACRAMENTO LOVE features 26 short fictional romances—each sparked somewhere within California's state capital. Follow along as locals meet one another in diners, dive bars, coffee shops, restaurants, parks, and at beloved Sacramento landmarks!

A fictional companion to author Laura Roberts' forthcoming travel guidebook, SACRAMENTO FROM A TO Z, each of these stories embrace the spirit of the city while the real world is on hold. Lift your spirits with the joy of new relationships, a little romance, and a lot of Sacramento Love!

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Published September 14, 2020

About the author

Laura Roberts writes travel themed contemporary romance and short women’s fiction, with steamier stories under the pen name Laure L'Amour. She currently lives in Sacramento, California with her artist husband and their literary kitty, Percy. When she’s not writing, she can be found editing manuscripts for indie authors, transcribing reality TV (her day job), watching rom-coms, testing chocolate recipes, or searching for more typewriters to add to her collection.

Dabbling in both factual and fictional genres, Laura has penned 27 books for adults, including the alphabetical travel guides Montreal from A to Z and San Diego from A to Z, the offbeat writing guides NaNoWriMo: A Cheater's Guide and Confessions of a 3-Day Novelist, a collection of capital city meet-cutes called Sacramento Love , and various steamy romances under the pen name Laure L’Amour, as well as three nonfiction career guides for young adults (Careers in Gaming, Careers If You Like Music and Careers in Digital Media) published by ReferencePoint Press. She has also contributed shorter works to the following anthologies: SDW/EG's 5th edition of The Guilded Pen; Diane Lee's nonfiction collection, The Secret Lives of Writers; the cancer charity anthology Stardust, Always; Book Lovers: Sexy Stories from Under the Covers; Ironology 2014: The Iron Writer Championship Series, and Drabble Harvest #14: Extraterrestrial Reincarnation.

In addition to her writing, Laura is also the editor of the poetry collection Haiku for Lovers, and the ethnomusicological anthology Everything I Need to Know About Love I Learned from Pop Songs, and the founder of the literary magazine Black Heart.

Reviews

[Theresa Halvorsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked up this book as a Sacramento native and was surprised by the format. It's a group of very short stories about couples finding love in popular Sacramento locations. It was a quick read, but enjoyable and definately a feel good novella. It was a great way to spend an hour with a glass of wine.

[Hannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is quite possibly the cringiest thing I’ve read. The stories are super short - about a page each - going through the alphabet with names and locations. I liked the references to Sac locations, like Gunther’s, Leland Stanford Mansion, Midtown, Pachamama Coffee, and Shady Lady Saloon. I liked the first one about running on a Thursday afternoon and talking to yourself, because I do that LOL. Also, this was written in 2020, so it references Trump being president and the unexpected pandemic.

[Elyssa Gooding · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic Snack

This collection of short stories makes for a fun snack between meals. Each snippet introduces a situation and couple in a different setting around the city of Sacramento.