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 Welcome and enjoy finding a whole new you. Image credit to Toa Heftiba at Unsplash It is so wonderful to have you in our reading room. We are delighted to share with you, our discovery of intricate connections that we made on our year-long dating project. Though we have been married for A Very Long Time, there is always something new to learn about each other and ourselves. This is the secret sauce to keeping your relationship alive - moving with the changing environment that we constantly find ourselves in as we progress along our daily lives.  Our daily lives become our years together. I do hope you enjoy reading about our fun and quirky dates. You'll find it  at this link.  I'd love to hear date ideas of your own, as well as your feedback once you've read 'Creating Sparks That Last'. 

Embracing The New

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The How and The Why of Letting Go You've heard it before, but today, I'm giving you the HOW and the WHY of letting go. September brought about massive growth for me in both my business and personal capacity. This spilled over into the first week of October where growth became epiphany.  And that, I just had to share with you. I'll start with the easier business achievements to record and move on to the more complex areas of personal growth after. Every year I choose a word to embrace for the season of my  CURRENT journey I'm experiencing, in order to expand on that in the best way for me, in the coming months. This year my word was COMFORTABLE and it has served my expansion so very well. BUSINESS GROWTH As a recovering people-pleaser, I finally had to embrace the notion that I simply could not please everyone, in other words, I had to grow into the idea of being COMFORTABLE being disliked. To start this rollercoaster off, I enthusiastically sent many of my manuscripts

Author Reveals All in Her Autobiography

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Broken: An Autobiography by A.R. Grosjean Last month we introduced author, A.R. Grosjean, a fiction writer who has turned her hand to nonfiction in her reveal-all autobiography,  Broken .  🎉 Today is release day for her enigmatic story 🎉  Let’s hear from Amber as she answers our questions below:   BROKEN: An Autobiography by A.R. Grosjean Tap the link for buy options I have posed four questions for A.R. Grosjean which she has answered in her signature refreshingly honest style of writing.  Author Questions 1. How did you manage your mental health while writing this emotive story? I was told that telling my story would help me heal. I’ve been in therapy off and on my entire life and it did help sometimes to talk through things. As I told my story, I kept telling myself that it was going to help me get through the pain from my past. I do feel a little more relieved getting things off my chest. I can say the name the kids called me without crying, which kind of did surprise me, but m

New Autobiography by A.R. Grosjean

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Book Review   Broken: An Autobiography by A.R. Grosjean   Join author, A.R. Grosjean on her journey as a survivor of bullying and emotional struggles. With her underlying message of not giving up, you will find a woman of strength and resilience surrounding her inner turmoil of vulnerability and fragility.   Trigger Warning:   This story contains themes of mental abuse. However, it is told in a gently unfolding, manageable manner.   My 5 Star Review:   ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐   Despite the topic being deep and heavy, A.R. Grosjean writes with refreshing honesty. As such, her book, Broken , embraces the genre of autobiography perfectly. The author takes us on a visual voyage as we see inside her life as an often-overlooked child and, later through the window of her school days, a bullied teenager, into adulthood. Her childhood questions are never answered and as such she grapples to understand this treatment from people she felt rejected by. Here in lies the author’s inn

Couldn't Wait to Share

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This Exciting News Couldn't Wait! Hah! I bet you never expected to see me twice in your inbox in one month, but, here we are. Haha. And for good reason I might add. My most exciting news is that my novella manuscript is nearing publication stage and I am seeking a street team to help with its visibility. Love & Laughter (And other disasters) is a 31000 word friends-to-lovers contemporary fiction story. If you enjoy clean romance, empowering midlife protagonists and schmoozy cats, reach out for your chance to read it first! But, reading the novella is not essential if you'd just like to be on the street team. We're simply sharing promotional posts for it, now and again. No review required. Comment your interest below, or email me if you'd prefer: elora.canne@gmail.com - Subject heading: LAL Novella My second exciting piece of news is that my memoir, EN ROUTE , is available FREE to members of the group We Love Memoirs on Facebook. It's easy to join and is well-kn

Romance and Icing

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And a Little Bit of Writing July’s edition has a few surprises. Let’s start with the icing on the cake! ALL my family joined me for my birthday weekend, which was tons of fun and a rare get together with everyone present. There was cake, of course, homemade Victoria sponge which was the second time I’d made that recipe, and store-bought chocolate mud cake, YUM. We played giant lawn games which I think the neighbours enjoyed as much as we did, given the shrieks of hilarity that accompanied our games; we built a wood fire for s’mores; gazed at our sparkling starry sky, and now my heart is filled with so much love. ☺ Next up, I unexpectedly started writing a new story I’m jumping up and down about. I couldn’t sleep one night last week and a story idea came to me so I started making notes. Soon enough it started flowing into a story and I kept going until 2am! Here’s the premise: Veda is a 30-something data analyst not looking for love. She receives a gift from a random stranger that chan

Bachelor Bungalows

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Eligible Bachelor Bungalows for Shy and Bold Alike I went on a deep dive recently to find the perfect bachelor pad   for   my fictional bachelors in two of my manuscripts. I wanted realistic bungalows for them and felt that these three suited their stories. (All images sourced from Canva and Unsplash)                     Bungalow 1 Bungalow 2 Of my two manuscripts, one has a shy, isolated yet genuine bachelor, Nel in Forest of Sun and Shadows. The other, from Love & Laughter (And other disasters) , has a bold, charming mid-life bachelor, Louis .  Bungalow 3 Both are perfect gentleman with only honourable intent regarding their lady friends, but will they be lucky in love? You’ll have to find out when both books release in early 2025. I would love your input regarding suitable bungalows for both bachelors, from the choices above. Leave a comment below this post to let me know. News from my holiday in England: I had a fantastic time climbing Glastonbury Tor in whipping wind, explo

New Book Release

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It’s time for me to come clean Swooping Through the Milky Way Paperback You may not know that I also write children’s books, as well as my adult stories. That’s because I write them under different names. After four long years, I’ve finally created a paperback version of the very first children’s book I ever wrote, Swooping Through the Milky Way . I’ll be celebrating the new book release with an online launch party 🥳🥳 It feels so right to have gone full circle to my beginnings as an author. If you’re wondering why it took so long, it’s because I had to change the cover. But I’m okay with that now. If you’re curious, come join my new book release launch event live on either Instagram or Facebook, or catch the replay if our time zones don’t align. Instagram Book Release Party Facebook Book Release Party Onto Other Exciting News I’m going on a literary trail in South West England! I’ll be visiting Dulverton where Lorna Doone’s statue stands. I’ve owned a copy of her story since 1977 and