You Can Play

I'm deep into writing hockey romance #2 for Carina Press. Part of the plot of this book came about from a video I watched months ago. It features two of the Los Angeles Kings, Alec Martinez and the captain, Dustin Brown. They wanted to record a message that showed they support people who want to play the sport of hockey, regardless of their sexual orientation. I really liked and respected that they alone out of the entire Kings organization took the time to make a short (albeit stiff) video. It stuck with me until the time came to plot my second hockey book. 

The You Can Play project strives to "promote respect for all athletes," a worthy goal, and one I hope will resonate in the book.

Save the Date!

I have received the release date for the Untitled Hockey Romance! 

April 21, 2015

I'm so thrilled and excited. This is to coincide with Carina Sports Week. It's also just in time for the NHL playoffs. (Go, Kings, go!)

I am still waiting to hear on what the editorial team at Carina has chosen for a title. I submitted a long list of possibilities for both the first hockey romance and the rest of the series. 

Out of that list, my personal favorites for this first hockey book are:

A KISS FOR LUCK
THE TROUBLE WITH FANS
WHEN ERIN MET TIM

I can't wait to hear what they pick. 

Knowing the Score

As a new Carina Press author, I felt compelled to read one of their titles and recently a sports romance book came out, so of course, I got that one. Knowing the Score, by Kat Latham, is about a rugby player. I've never watched rugby before and know very little about it, but I thought reading it might be a wonderful exercise for me. I'm assuming that some of the people who buy my hockey book (still untitled!) won't know much about hockey either, so reading Knowing the Score would put me in their shoes.

I thought it was a fun read and very well written. I liked the foreign setting (London.) It was a sexy book. The hero, Spencer, was fantastically masculine while still being soft with his woman. The secondary characters were well-fleshed out. I thought the rugby parts seemed realistic, a big plus in my book and something I hope to achieve with my own book.

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