Showing posts with label romcom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label romcom. Show all posts

3.07.2024

Run for the Rose...Run to finish a Book

I have decided to dive back into a book I have been working on off and on through the years romance at the horse racing track...mainly Santa Anita Park where I was introduced to the ponies as a toddler by my father who has always loved the horses...and, of course, I will be dedicating the book to him... Betting on Misters (Hoping for a Triple Crown) and I hope to release it on June 7th, the day before the last leg of the Triple Crown... NONE of these are the actual cover... I'm just playing with ideas... 






Stay tuned for the REAL COVER REVEAL 
that will be created by my wonderful cover designer and friend, Liz of LKO Designs




2.23.2024

My Own Little World

LOVE seeing my books in printed paperbacks… there are a few more not pictured… Andddd… they all contain made-up characters (of course), companies, celebrities/famous people, products (too many to list), restaurants including food delivering via CuisineCab—I made up that name during the lockdown period when we would deliver meals to my mother, I even started my own Butler Communications company with its own social media apps and podcasts: On the SEEN, EyeSpied Gossip Rag and television networks: Liquid Rush TV, VueTV, DesignTV, CuisineNetwork… and I started an online website FashionistaForward.com that you can visit and read posts by more of my made-up characters; Frank Fashion is probably the most famous contributor as he is in many of my books…




It’s a LOT of work creating my OWN LITTLE WORLD but I absolutely ADORE it!!! You can read more about all of these books and find links below…


I do write romance into my books with non-graphic Fade-to-Black intimate scenes but I also write stories about people’s lives that aren’t always filled with romance…family sagas, suspense, friendships, women’s issues, etc so I’m not sure my books fit into the typical romance genre… Andddddd recently, I have been working on what some might call a paranormal romance or magical realism romance; I’m not sure how to label it.

That’s what I call author life/author problems…
But, again, I LOVE writing!!!



 

1.09.2024

WRONGED is LIVE NOW!!!

Sooooooo THRILLED… my NEW NEW book is LIVE NOW and on SALE ONLY 99cents for a limited time (ends 1/16/24) and available in Kindle Unlimited…








Gianna Marinelli, an Italian in America, just wanted a new independent life as an interior designer

Ashton Tate, the owner of Tate & Sons Construction, just wanted time to create his own designs

Winning spots on a reality design show--Get It Right...get your own design show--has Gianna and Ashton competing against each other but maybe they don't understand the whole premise... 


Is it wrong to fall in love with your competition? 
Are you supposed to hate your fellow competitor?



AVAILABLE NOW: PURCHASE LINK
ONLY 99cents until 1/16/24
GRAB A COPY NOW!!!




12.19.2023

Graphics for my countdown

WRONGED is releasing soon and I needed to make graphics to post on my social media sites… 








EXCITED to have a BRAND NEW book releasing!!!




12.02.2023

Holiday Romance and Gingerbread Cookies

This story is very heartwarming and funny… laugh . cry . smile… and maybe bake gingerbread cookies or make Bertie’s Magical French Toast (recipe included in the book)… Enjoy the holiday season… Love Me Now is FREE with Kindle Unlimited and 2.99 to purchase…



Nick Granger, an entertainment attorney, immersed himself in work logging ridiculous hours and avoiding a social life. The only connection he cared to make was with a certain ski bunny he met on a Christmas break trip years ago. 

Victoria Davine, once on the road to the advertisement world, found herself traveling a different path after life intervened. Content with her new direction, she finds herself decorating and improving other people's lives while pushing her own desires aside.

When unexpected guests announce their plans to invade for the holidays, Nick must cancel his yearly ski trip and quickly trim his apartment for Christmas. Lacking the time or talent to make his place look homey and inviting, his enthusiastic assistant hires St Davine Interiors to save her boss. And once she meets the owner, Victoria, she thinks maybe she is exactly the divine angel Nick needs to bring him back to the land of the living.







If I was an accomplished baker and cookie decorator, I would attempt to recreate the gingerbread cookies I write about in my holiday novel, LOVE ME NOW, but I’m not so I shared these cute ones found on Pinterest… I ADORE gingerbread cookies… yummy besides being cute

Don’t forget to grab an ebook copy of my book… LINK above 





11.28.2023

2023 Version…Second Chance RomCom

Book One of my Billionaire series… Controlling the Billionaire has been edited and is NOW available… a fun second chance romantic comedy… FREE with Kindle Unlimited…



Morgan Butler is an ex-professional water polo player looking for a place to fit within his family-owned multi-billion dollar communications company. He is the oldest, least mature, reckless, wild child of the family.

Waverly Monroe is an independent businesswoman alone in the world and determined to be successful. She has worked extra hard and landed herself in charge of a new division within Butler Industries.

Morgan, thinking that he has been given the reins of the new extension of the company is quickly knocked off balance when he finds Waverly sitting in his chair in what he believes is his office.

What will happen when Morgan learns that Waverly is in control of not only the new division but him too?








11.27.2023

NEW 2023 Book Releases

Here are two more GREAT STORIES with a NEW 2023 vibe... more romcom-ish... less graphic naughtiness... laugh . smile . swoon reading JUST A NUMBER and 11 ENTICING DONUTS... 


Not looking for love.

No details.

Follow rules and restrictions.

Only fun. No feelings.

Forever--not an option.

Simple Flings.

They were all just a number.

Dash Oliver and Willow Dane both shared the same philosophy.

That is, until a merger of sorts.

Thrown together by fate or serendipity, was their connection... their chemistry... their compatibility enough to convince them that their rules were made to be broken and that they belonged together?




***************************************************



Open a donut—patisserie style—shop... Check!
Create incredible sweet goodness... Check!
Have patrons raving, craving and returning... Check!

Falling all over myself while doing and saying crazy things at the sight of one beautiful customer... Not part of my business plan!

A sweet match made in heaven or a fiery mixture: Peyton Beignet and Valentina Zeppole? 








11.25.2023

NEW 2023 version of Making Waves

I'm making my way through my backlog of romance books... MORE romcom... eliminating graphic steaminess... Making Waves is my latest one to be reworked and is NOW AVAILABLE and FREE with Kindle Unlimited...





This romantic comedy will make you smile, laugh, and swoon! A friends to lovers romance you don't want to miss! Jack wants Mitzi while she thinks he's unattainable.

When my sexy business partner, Jack Fritzi, suggested that we take a vacation together to a resort near a beach under the pretense of bonding and working on designs for our new collection of footwear, I imagined Monte Carlo by the sea.

What I got was a quaint campground with trailers, tents and cabins surrounding a lake which didn't exactly match the high fashion clothing and delicate sandals created by me, Mitzi Warren, that I had packed in my designer luggage.

The location proved to be a great find, but it was the way that surfer Jack continued making waves in our relationship that was the biggest surprise of all that threatened to end our business partnership.

Can we survive our time together at the Happy Endings Resort?

NOTE: This book is a STANDALONE book in a series called The Happy Endings Resort - ONE resort - LOTS of Different Stories from OTHER authors to be read







11.21.2023

Decorating for Characters

LOVE interior decor and I have such a GOOD time using my interior design background to create environments for my book characters… These are an example of what inspired Chanel Devlin’s office space (top two) and murphy bed for her studio condo…


STEALING HEARTS unedited book excerpt…

I was going to select a corner office but I had my heart set on painting a wall in a rich turquoise to make two white chairs with chocolate brown legs on either side of a medium-sized white Saarinen-knockoff dining table pop! I had a good sized signed and dark brown framed print—because I couldn’t afford an original—of a Renaldo Rossellini painting on the same turquoise wall. The opposite wall was filled with inexpensive dark stained wood bookcases with adjustable shelves to allow me large spaces for different colored glass vases and some large coffee table-sized fashion books. A basic three-drawer-across-the-top stained wood desk sat in front of the bookcase with a modern white ribbed leather office chair. All of the wood in the room was the same dark chocolate brown shade including accordion folding shutter doors to block the windows on sunny days and to hang clothing to be photographed. The floors were polished concrete throughout the office building but I had a larger low-pile navy blue area rug with a slight line pattern in it covering the floor, only showing about two feet of concrete from all four walls.


Of course… Levi Laurent needed a look for his office desk…

Another unedited book excerpt…

Sitting in my office, folders had been placed on my solid wood conference-table-looking desk minus drawers. “Take your pick” was scribbled on a post-it note. After careful research, my assistant working along with my top-analysts had found three good-bets—sound online businesses for my company to purchase.

This book will steal your heart!

Chanel Devlin has been a fashionista since the day she was born.

Levi Laurent has always been a successful businessman with compliant employees.

When Levi purchases a very successful fashion blog, he is faced with one very unhappy fashionista and she plans to fight every change management tries to make. Chanel knows what is best for Fashionista Forward but does she know how to keep Levi from stealing her heart?


Release date… stay tuned for more information



 

11.18.2023

NEW 2023 Version of Foolish Hearts books

Excited to announce that my Foolish Hearts (standalone) series has been reworked and the NEW 2023 VERSION are available and free with Kindle Unlimited…


First in the series: ARRANGED…


Ireland Dumont loved her life—single with not a care in the world, running her own online concierge company. On the edge of ultimate success, her parents stepped in and arranged a proper groom for her to marry. Giving over to their request, she heads to Vegas to celebrate her last days of freedom.

Meeting a handsome stranger was not on her agenda.
Accepting his marriage proposal was the perfect addendum to her agenda.

Jensen Callum needed a wife for his new business venture with a company that prided themselves on being a family-owned operation. His old playboy status was about to be nipped in the bud by his parents when he returned home from his business trip to an arranged marriage of their doing.

What will happen when Ireland and Jensen’s families find out that they arranged their own marriage venture that wasn’t in the grand scheme of things?





Book #2: DECEIVED…


Daphne Chastain is living the dream. Documenting California art and architecture for her coffee-table style book while living in a historical home...what could be better?

Answer: Having an amazingly gorgeous handyman show up on her doorstep.

Caldwell Tate is trying to piece his life back together. Living with his brother after losing his home, he steps in to help him out by giving an estimate to a heart-stopping beauty. How can he let his brother near what he wants to be his?

Answer: Take his brother’s place and do the work himself.

When secrets are revealed, can they move forward or will it put an end to their actions after realizing that they’ve been deceived?

Answer: Read Deceived and find out!




Book #3: HACKED...


Subway rides weren’t supposed to hack into your heart with a mere glance. They definitely weren’t supposed to have you fantasizing about romantic interludes.

Madison Bristol was waiting for her opportunity to represent authors in her beloved book world when Mr. Hottie appeared right before her very eyes.

Cooper Kitridge was getting used to a new sales position that had him skateboarding all over the city when the beautiful Train Girl captured his attention.

Lost to each other in the vast downtown area, a chance run-in reunites Madison and Cooper giving them the opportunity to get acquainted...to a point.

What will happen when their career paths cross?


Book #4: WRONGED is releasing on December 29th...
 

Gianna Marinelli, an Italian in America, just wanted a new independent life as an interior designer

Ashton Tate, the owner of Tate & Sons Construction, just wanted time to create his own designs

Winning spots on a reality design show--Get It Right...get your own design show--has Gianna and Ashton competing against each other but maybe they don't understand the whole premise... 


Is it wrong to fall in love with your competition? 
Are you supposed to hate your fellow competitor?


PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW: PURCHASE LINK


Author Note: There will be one more book in this series - DISOBEYED - release TBA

LOVED writing all of these books and LOVE the characters... and I must say I LOVE the stories even MORE without graphic intimacy... Romance to make you: LAUGH . SMILE . SWOON




11.15.2023

Fashionable Character

Writing about a fashionista… actually she is the Editor-in-Chief on Fashionista Forward… Chanel Devlin… of course I have to find clothes for her and I was thinking she might wears these jackets during this time of year…





LOVE gathering inspiration to make my characters more REAL… STEALING HEARTS will be releasing in 2024… learn more about the book HERE



 

11.11.2023

Restructuring Romance Books

Some readers may be opposed to me reworking my contemporary romance books but I need to be happy with what I publish… sooooo I have been going through my romance books and editing out graphic move by move sex… still a hint of intimate moments…readers will have use their imagination… Still the same stories… still the same great characters… 


So far I have reworked three of my books… starting with the first book I published A Window to Love… it was my first attempt to write VERY steamy romance… removing the many graphic sex scenes, it has gone from an X rating to a PG-13… lol… the love story between Evan and Melissa is still a charming, swoonworthy… heartwarming Holiday book… AVAILABLE HERE


Another heartwarming Holiday book reworked is Love Me Now… this story will have you routing for the characters, Nick and Victoria, to find each… laughter… tears…  smiles… swoons… great story minus graphic steaminess… give it a try… AVAILABLE HERE


With another HEART series book (containing no graphic sex) about to release in February, I decided to rework the first book to the standalone series… another great second chance romance story featuring two lovable characters: Hadley and Gerard… their book Clashing Hearts will capture your heart… AVAILABLE HERE 


Publishing a NEW book in my standalone series FOOLISH HEARTS on December 29th… I am currently reworking the first three in the series… NO MORE steamy X or R rated romance books written by me, Fifi Flowers… Great Stories that will make you laugh - smile - swoon!!! 

I will be posting links and book covers for my reworked books as I complete the edits… it’s a lot of work… 3 books done and 22 books to go



11.10.2023

Always Learning

In an author’s life books must be formatted in order for them to be uploaded as ebooks online and to be made into paperbacks—that is another story—I only learned how to do ebook formatting… and I’m getting the hang of it…








Being able to format my own books has been very beneficial for me since I’ve decided to rework all of my older contemporary romance book into PG-13 versions… and going forward my NEW books will be written in the same genre… Happily Ever After stories to make you laugh . smile . swoon!!!

These books are all AVAILABLE HERE - FREE with kindle unlimited



 

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...