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Week in Review 10/23/22 to 10/29/22 & a Giveaway

October 29, 2022 by Suzie Waltner 6 Comments

 Week in Review

Wow, can you believe this is the last weekend of October? We’re officially creeping into the holiday season. I’m working on development edits for my next book this weekend. My hope is to wrap those up so I can finish writing book three for NaNoWriMo. I found out a few weeks ago that the remaining three books in my series are releasing in 2023. While it’s wonderful for readers and from a marketing perspective, I had a little freak out about writing the other two books in the series and editing all three in the next 14 months. Now that I’ve wrapped my mind around everything, I’m ready to burrow in and get them in your hands.

For those of you who have read Midnight Blue, you’ve met everyone in the upcoming books as each member of Jake’s band is going to get their own story. Red Velvet is scheduled for a release April 11, 2023, Yellow Roses on July 11, 2023, and Ever Green in December. Now those dates are subject to change, but for now, they are on Anaiah Press Publishing’s editorial calendar for those dates.

I feel like I say this every year, but you will probably (really this time) see even fewer reviews from me as I’m immersed in my own stories. I will definitely continue to do this weekend roundup, though.

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Week in Review 5/15/22 to 5/21/22 & a Giveaway

May 21, 2022 by Suzie Waltner 8 Comments

 Week in Review

 

Welcome to a new weekend! I hope you are getting to enjoy some spring weather!

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Week in Review 1/30/22 to 2/5/22 & a Giveaway

February 5, 2022 by Suzie Waltner 6 Comments

 Week in Review

 

Welcome back! I made it back home last weekend and feel like I’m back into my usual routine. I hope everyone is staying safe and warm with this newest winter storm system hitting the US. We only got rain and cold weather in Nashville, but we’ve had our share of snow already this year.

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Week in Review: 8/23/20 to 8/29/20 & a Giveaway

August 29, 2020 by Suzie Waltner 12 Comments

 

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It’s the last weekend of August. I’m hoping for cooler (or at least comfortable) temperatures as we head into September. What are you looking forward to this fall?

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Love Arrives in Pieces by Betsy St. Amant

May 11, 2015 by Suzie Waltner Leave a Comment

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Will she ever find beauty?

For years. Stella Varland’s identity was in her looks and she has the pageant trophies, sashes, and bouquets to prove it. After her divorce, Stella no longer trusts her beauty and struggles to find her true identity. Instead of focusing on her appearance, Stella makes spaces beautiful. And her secret desire it to create beauty out of nothing in her art—something she’s kept hidden from her family. When her mother secures a job as the designer for the renovation of the town’s old theater, Stella accepts so she won’t have to move back home with her parents. The day she visits the theater to meet with the head of the local development committee and the contractor, she’s shocked to learn she’ll be working with Chase Taylor, her ex-boyfriend from six years prior. One who left town without a word and was the first to make her doubt herself. Can God and Chase make Stella realize that there is beauty in her brokenness?

While this book is not listed as part of a series, those who have read All’s Fair in Love and Cupcakes will recognize a few residents of Bayou Bend, Louisiana. In the character Stella Varland, Betsy St. Amant expresses the heartache and doubt that comes with divorce and the feelings of not being enough. The enough is different from person to person—not pretty enough, not sweet enough, doesn’t make enough money, etc.—but the guilt is the same. Despite her beauty and accomplishments, the pain of her failed marriage, of her unfinished art, of her strained relationship with her mom resonated with me as a reader. I wanted to give her a hug several times, even before Chase revealed she always needed hugs. And speaking of Chase Taylor, what a man. Yes, he’d made some poor decisions in his past, and even in his present, but his desire to protect Stella and show her that she is still beautiful makes him a lovable lead. I enjoyed reading more about Stella’s sister Kat after her own happily ever after in the aforementioned All’s Fair in Love and Cupcakes, and the people of the homeless shelter were both endearing and wise.

****Thomas Nelson Fiction and NetGalley provided me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest and fair review. All opinions expressed are my own.

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