Summer Reads, Road Trips & Real Talk: Four Authors on the Books That Belong in Your Beach Bag
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Host Samantha Tennant discusses summer reads with four authors, exploring their writing journeys and book recommendations.
What makes the perfect summer read? Host Samantha Tennant puts that question to four of Fresh Fiction’s Game Sponsors — and the answers are as delightful as their books. In this episode, award-winning contemporary romance author Nina Crespo (Bishop Honey Bee Farm series, Tilbridge Stables world) talks about writing characters inspired by country music and why passion is always the first connection between her leads. Multi-award-winning historical romance author Misty Urban (The Ladies Least Likely series) shares her obsession with rich historical settings and heroines who refuse to sit quietly in a ballroom. Carrie Schaffer — also writing as Carrie Ann King — explains how a personal hatred of funerals became the spark for an entire mystery series. And bestselling romantic suspense and Western romance author Deborah Parmley, who is currently traveling the US full-time with her veteran husband, reveals that even when she deliberately set out to write a sweet holiday romance, a stalker ended up climbing down the chimney anyway. We dig into each author’s writing journey — the manuscripts that got picked up, the ones that didn’t, the genres they stumbled into, and the ones they can’t…
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