I met Jennifer Pastiloff at her book signing and she’s amazing! Go buy her new book Proof of Life! But first read this story on how we accidentally became texting friends.

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Your social media is for YOU and your creative expression. I love this, thought I’d share. 🩷

I wanna hear what you think when you’re done! It was right up my alley in storyland.

I LOVED One Golden Summer. I went out and bought the rest of her books as a treat. 💙 It’s beautiful writing.

I really like this cover! Great design. :)

I write romances set in small Caribbean islands because I want to believe that we can have that happily ever after, and that our stories are not weighted down by traumas both in the present and in the past

#booksky #blackbooksky #blackskybooks #CaribbeanVibes #Romancelandia #CaribbeanSky #readersky

Image: Handsome man reading a book with his shirt open (of course). 39 Steamy Romance Freebies, yours for a click.

#RomanceBooks
#SteamyReads
Has it been a rough week? 😫
Grab a little pick-me-up on us!
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Enjoy!
And please sh@re with a romance-loving friend or two 😘

I agree, and I think if we’re doing it right, plot is character and character is plot.

congrats!

Feeding Friday - real authors feed each other with support. We believe in you! Post here if you have a book coming out, an event we need to boost, a blog post to Like. Make sure you give back, too! ❤️

#FeedingFriday #writingcommunity #booksky #books #bookreview 📚🖋️#bookstadon

An Official Announcement from my writing desk—on creepy neighborhood dudes

Hey, writing community! I’m writing a little nonfiction on the substack. open.substack.com/pub/sarasota...

An Official Announcement from my writing desk—on creepy neighborhood dudes

I wrote a little ditty about creepy old dudes in my neighborhood. And a Part II. open.substack.com/pub/sarasota...

#amwriting #independentwomen #charactersforfuturebooks

I’m sorry, I can’t talk right now, Dr. Gates is on and about to find some peoples’ roots. #IlovePBS #Findingyourroots

Trying out these new graphics for the beach books…do you all use the app on your phone? Is the text here big enough to see on your screens? #booksky #womensfiction #beachreads #lovestories #romancelandia 📚💙 🖋️ mybook.to/freelovebeach

Image shows a black notebook cover with the words, “A Love Story set in 1964.” Independent WFMC, Latino Musician MMC, Sweet and Steamy. “I loved it! It was fun! This one took me out of my reading slump! Set on the gulf coast of Florida. https://mybook.to/freelovebeach. Book cover is blue and pink and reads Free Love Beach by Sarasota Green. With a guitar and flip flops in the sand.

Almost done with draft two of the WIP. I just started an instagram, because my new editor suggested it. Playing around with some graphics, and wanna see how they translate here. #booksky #womensfiction #beachreads #lovestories #romancelandia 📚💙 🖋️ mybook.to/freelovebeach

Here’s a fun writing thing that happened this week: I discovered what my WIP is REALLY about, while in the shower, and it made me laugh out loud. Figures the characters would want to teach me something. #amwriting

Wanna escape to the beach? Book One of the Cocktails, Sunsets, and Music Series is a big love story with a little adventure. mybook.to/freelovebeach #booksky #writersky #amwriting #romancelandia

Hey, Skyfriends. I’ve been in a writing cave. How’s everybody? I’m almost done with the WIP, and I’m at the part where I get sad and cry a little, so I think it’s almost done. I’m really excited about the cover, too. Here’s a little shot of my books hanging out on my beat up futon.

Somehow this month, I took a weird, obsessive turn into genealogy and therefore, history. Hopefully, it will all come together and make sense. I told myself I would absolutely not write another story set in the past, but perhaps I am researching book six? #writerslife #weirdturns

Yeah, thanks! I shall keep it and cherish it forever. :)

I don’t know much about Amazon Ads, but hang in there. I read this week, it’s fail, fail, fail, takeoff!

I just read I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter this summer, and I loved it!

Image shows books listed in Friends and Lovers categories on Amazon. #41 is Serenity Lake Marina by Sarasota Green and #42 shows Losing Hope and Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover.

So, this is a weird flukey thing that happened on Amazon, but THAT’S MY BOOK NEXT TO COLLEEN HOOVER’S, and I will forever look at this photo when I am discouraged. #friendstoloversromance #romancelandia

(Pretty cool, though, right?)

haha! It’s fun, because there’s room for more writing. It’s crazy, because it comes out of nowhere when the story seemed cohesive.

Some of my random book stacks of most recent activity. I think I’ve read all of them but two…things to do!

Hey, hi! I love this phrase “Luxury Romance.” 💙 I’ve been offline for a bit, glad to see you still here!

Hey, hi. I’ve been offline for a bit. Glad to see you’re doing well and still writing!

Writing in the Waves Riding the ups and downs of the writing life, an update

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Covers of 23 books with the quote from Judge Mendoza, 'None of these books are obscene.'

These 23 books were removed from Florida school libraries under HB 1069.

A federal judge has now struck down part of that law, citing nearly a century of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas.

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A Roseate Spoonbill and its reflection in the Florida Everglades #birds