Robin Wells is an accomplished romance author, having written over a dozen titles for Harlequin. She is the author of Baby, Oh Baby (Lovespell, 7/03), which won the National Readers' Choice Award. Robin Wells has won the prestigious National Golden Heart Award from the Romance Writers of America, and her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
I always know a lot more about my characters and fictional settings than I have room to put into a book. One thing about the fictional town of Chartreuse, Lousiana that didn’t make it into either Between the Sheets or Still the One: it has a sign at the city limits that reads: “Welcome to Chartreuse, the most colorful town in Louisiana.”The town of Chartreuse is loosely modeled on a town about thirty minutes from my home called Pontchatoula. Pontchatoula is very eccentric: it has a giant strawberry on the roof of the police station and a caged pool in the middle of town that houses an enormous alligator.
The concept of the Chartreuse Cafe as a local gathering place comes from a cafe in Pontchatoula. When you walk inside, it’s like entering a time warp to the fifties.
I decided to create a fictional town instead of setting my stories in an actual one because I mention local politicians. I didn’t want anyone to think I was referring to actual people.
I love writing about small towns because they have such a rich sense of community. People’s lives and histories are intertwined, which can make for some interesting dynamics. When one person changes, it can be hard for the other people to accept (after all, they remember what you were like in high school!), but then every change has a ripple effect throughout the whole community.
I started thinking about Katie’s story the moment she appeared as a secondary character in Between the Sheets. I wanted her to be married so that she could offer Emma experience-based advice about love, but I wanted her to be able to hang out as a single, unencumbered by a husband. I decided Katie’s husband would be in Iraq. Then I started wondering what her life would be like when he returned - or if he would return. And that’s when the story of Still the One took off.
STILL THE ONE
STILL THE ONE
Thank you to Hachette Book Group for another great book!
BUY IT: Pick up a copy STILL THE ONE for yourself for $6.99 or on Amazon for Kindle for $6.99.
EXTRA ENTRIES - Do as many as you like just leave a separate comment for EACH:
- Become a Friend of Author on Facebook (2 Extra Entries)
- Follow @RobinWells on Twitter (2 Extra Entries)
- Follow my blog
- Have my button up on your site
- Subscribe via email (2 Extra Entries)
- Sign up for Networked Blogs (facebook - located on the right side) (2 Extra Entries)
- Follow @AlexisAKAMOM on Twitter (2 Extra Entries)
- Retweet and let me know you can always click the retweet button (2 Extra Entries) can be done daily.
- Blog about the giveaway or on your side bar (3 Extra Entries)
have fun in the game!
ReplyDeleteCount me in! I'd like to read this book, then pass it along to my grandmother.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good book.
ReplyDeleteYou must be a speed reader!
I have your button on my blog.
ReplyDeleteI get your emails.
ReplyDeleteI get your emails.
ReplyDeleteWow sounds like a very emotional book and one that I would like to read.
ReplyDelete2 Email Subscriber!
ReplyDeleteBook looks great!
ReplyDeleteI follow your blog
ReplyDelete1 email subscriber
ReplyDelete2 email subscriber
ReplyDeleteI'd like to read this book. Thanks.
ReplyDeletepartymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
have your button up on the left hand side of my blog
ReplyDeletepartymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
follow your blog
ReplyDeletepartymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
email subscriber #1
ReplyDeletepartymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
email subscriber #2
ReplyDeletepartymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
follow you on Twitter, partymix25
ReplyDelete#1
partymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
follow you on Twitter, partymix25
ReplyDelete#2
partymix25(at)hotmail(dot)com
I'd love to read this - thanks!
ReplyDeletewinnieayala at yahoo dot com
I follow on GFC!
ReplyDeletewinnieayala at yahoo dot com
This looks like a good read.
ReplyDeletelyndadawinda1074 at yahoo dot com