It's My Mom's Fault #lucindarace #romancegems

 Hello again, 

My mom cultivated my love of reading and writing. I can say she is not only my biggest cheerleader but without her I wouldn’t be writing and publishing books today. 

When I was nine or 10, I ran out of books during a summer vacation. I had read my brother’s Hardy Boys collection, exhausted all the other bookshelves in our house and our small-town library was only open one day a week. What was I going to read? My mom hated to throw away magazines, she liked to reread articles, which led me to hitting the jackpot of words, specifically Good Housekeeping magazine. The stack was a couple of feet high and organized in order by publication date. I picked up the first one and read it from cover to cover, including the romance novella. I was hooked. 

Me- age 10 

So, you can see after that summer I really didn’t have a choice; I fell in love with reading and then writing the Happily Ever After. Thanks Mom! 

 

Which leads me to why I am so excited today! Crush, book 2 in the Crescent Lake Winery series is released today.

When I began to plan the series, long before I started actually doing the writing, I named the town and the winery Crystal Lake. Then I sent out pages to an editor told me there is a horror movie series in a town called Crystal Lake. What the heck, I don’t read horror and definitely don’t watch horror movies so how was I supposed to know. I decided to put something up on my Facebook page to see what readers thought and would they be put off by the connection.  It was pretty much unanimous, people did make the connection, so it was time to change the name of my town. 

I stewed for a couple of days, what could I call my town, and still hold true with the glacier moving through the region? I put out Crescent Lake to the Facebooks readers, it was a winner. So, the winery had a new name as well as the town.

 

I wanted to share something special with you about when Colin and Anna meet for the first time, not in Crush but in Ready to Soar - which was released July 2016 – almost 5 years ago. 

Here is that scene when Sam Price, Anna’s dad, is in the hospital with a mild heart attack and Colin is his nurse…

Colin, this is my family. Let me introduce you to my kids.” He pointed to Don. “My oldest, Donovan, and his wife, Kate. That’s Tessa standing next to her mother, and Jackson and Anna on the end of the bed, and of course Liza and my two grandsons. Everybody, this is Colin. My nurse.”

Anna murmured hello and studied the floor.

Colin nodded to each in greeting. “Okay, well, Sam I would appreciate it if your family would keep their voices down.” Colin’s gaze strayed to Anna and her cheeks flushed bright pink. “Anna, are you feeling okay?”

Mortified, she muttered, “I’m fine.”

Colin took one last look around. “Alright then. Sam, you need to get some rest so the family should leave soon.” Colin gave each family member a stern look. He did his best to catch Anna’s eye, but, unsuccessful, he left the room.

After writing this scene I just knew Colin was the perfect guy for Anna. I hope you read Crush and let me know what you think. Of course feel free to post a review on your retailer of choice, Goodreads or Bookbub. I love it when you do. 

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To purchase your copy, click this link https://books2read.com/Crush-book-2 and if you’d like a signed paperback, drop me an email at lucinda@lucindarace.com

 

Until next time, 

I wish you, health, happiness and love. 

Lucinda