Hello lovelies and welcome back to Romancelandia, the only place where the earth moving is expected and where seeing stars and hearing the hallelujah chorus in your head is perfectly acceptable!
May is upon us and, along with it, comes a host of new books! I’ve showcased a few below from local and overseas authors for your reading pleasure. If you see anything you like, just click on the cover to check them out!
Australian Romance Authors
How To Mend A Broken Heart
by Rachael Johns
Summer in New Orleans means hot days, long nights, spooky stories and surprising new beginnings.
Felicity Bell has struggled to move on after her marriage broke down. Her ex has found love again, her children have their own lives, and it’s beginning to feel like her only comfort comes from her dog and her job as a taxidermist. So when Flick gets an offer to work in New Orleans for a few months, she’s drawn to the chance to make a fresh start. But all is not as it seems in New Orleans …
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The Beautiful Fall
by Hugh Breaky
Every 179 days Robbie forgets everything. He knows this because last time it happened he wrote himself a letter explaining it. The disorientation. The fear. The bizarre circumstances imposed by the rare neurological condition he lives with. To survive the forgetting – to cope with his recurring loss of identity – Robbie leads a solitary, regimented life. Lives alone. Speaks to no one if he can avoid it. Works to complete a strange herculean task set for him by his former self.
And then, with twelve days left before his next forgetting, Julie invades his life. Young, beautiful – the only woman he can ever remember meeting.
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International Romance Authors
Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry
by Joya Goffney
Quinn keeps lists of everything – from the days she’s ugly cried, to “Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud”, to all the boys she’d like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. That is, until her journal goes missing . . .
An anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire journal will go public. Quinn doesn’t know who to trust. Desperate, she teams up with Carter Bennett – the last known person to have her journal and who Quinn loathes – in a race against time to track down the blackmailer.
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The Road to Rose Bend
by Naima Simone
Sydney Collins left the small Berkshires town of Rose Bend eight years ago, grieving her sister’s death—and heartbroken over her parents’ rejection. But now the rebel is back—newly divorced and pregnant—ready to face her fears and make a home for her child in the caring community she once knew. The last thing she needs is trouble. But trouble just set her body on fire with one hot, hot smile.
Widower and Rose Bend mayor Coltrane Dennison hasn’t smiled in ages. Until a chance run-in with Sydney Collins, who’s all grown-up and making him want what he knows he can’t have …
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One Week To Claim It All
by Adriana Herrera
She’s on track to be the new CEO. Her ex is the only one standing in the way.
When Esmeralda Sambrano-Pena unexpectedly inherits her father’s media empire, it ruffles more than a few feathers. And no one is more conflicted about it than Rodrigo Almanzar. Esmeralda knows her father’s long-time protégé — and her ex-lover — wants the executive job for himself. Making matters worse, their renewed passion grows undeniable with every late-night meeting. Will Rodrigo prove to be the perfect partner in business and pleasure … or her professional undoing?
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Amy’s Favourite of the Month!
As an extra treat each month, I usually recommend one of my fave reads/authors to you. This month I’m taking this space to remember an absolute pillar of the Australian romance community, Valerie Parv O.A.M., who passed away late last month.
As stated in the Romance Writers of Australia monthly magazine, Valerie was a ‘beloved author, mentor and educator’. She was a Life Member of RWA and achieved national and international recognition for her life’s work. Valerie was a leading light, a loyal friend and a powerful advocate for the romance genre.
And, as New Woman Magazine put it, ‘Valerie Parv is one of the planet’s most widely read romance fiction writers. Visit Iceland, Korea, Bulgaria or Czechoslovakia and you’ll find women curled up with a Parv saga’.
She sold 34 million books and was translated all around the globe, writing not only romance but sci-fi romance, romantic suspense, movie scripts and short stories. As an aside, Valerie’s how-to book on writing romance – The Art of Romance Writing – was the first craft book I ever read and it still sits in my book case today.
Vale Valerie. You will be missed.
If you’d like to know more about the warm and fascinating Valerie I recommend her memoir.
34 Million Books
by Valerie Parv
Have you ever wondered what makes a writer? Or if you might become one yourself? Part memoir and part writing guide, Valerie Parv’s book provides a fascinating look into her world of words.
Valerie has been published since the age of fourteen when the Australian Women’s Weekly accepted her first article. Ninety books, dozens of short fiction, magazine serials, movie scripts and articles followed. She has sold over 34 million books and eBooks translated into 29 languages. As she recounts here, from the drama of Parvgate to meeting some of her personal heroes and being made a Member of the Order of Australia, writing has sustained her, challenged her, frustrated and excited her throughout her career. Valerie concludes each chapter with a “writing takeaway” with unique insights and a few caveats for those interested in how she works her story magic or would like to follow in her footsteps.
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Okay – that’s the rundown this month. I hope you join me down the rabbit hole next month in Romancelandia. Until then stay safe and happy reading!
Amy Andrews
About Amy
Amy Andrews is an award-winning, USA Today best-selling Aussie author who has written eighty plus contemporary romances in both the traditional and digital markets.
She’s sold three million books and been translated into over a dozen languages including manga. She has won three Ruby awards and is a triple RITA finalist.
In her other life, she was a paediatric intensive care nurse for twenty-one years. Amy lives near the sea with her husband of thirty years.
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Beneath Southern Skies
Enjoy these four fabulous outback romances from four bestselling Australian authors.
Driving Her Crazy - Amy Andrews
Journalist Sadie Bliss is on a mission to prove herself as a world-class reporter. But three things stand in her way. Dangerously mouth-watering photographer Kent Nelson. A road trip across the outback with the above distraction. And an insatiable longing to throw her rule book out of the car window because what happens in the outback stays in the outback... Right?...
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