GCC presents Jennifer Echols

Ah yes, and any hopes I had of being a regular blogger this year appear to be well and truly out the window. We are slowly getting settled into our new life though there are still a lot of things waiting to be crossed off the To-do list (you know like 'find lots of money', 'get fabulously slim and gorgeous') but overall the kids are settling in and no one has laughed at me for having such a weird hybrid accent from my years away.

Anyway, today it's not about me, it's all about Jennifer Echols and her latest release, Love Story. But before we just start can I please just mention that Jennifer is also our fearless leader who organizes the Girlfriend's Cyber Circuit tours and without her we would be lost, so she needs an extra big cheer for being so awesome!!!!!
Love Story

For Erin Blackwell, majoring in creative writing at the New York City college of her dreams is more than a chance to fulfill her ambitions – it’s her ticket away from the tragic memories that shadow her family’s racehorse farm in Kentucky. But when she refuses to major in business and take over the farm herself someday, her grandmother gives Erin’s college tuition and promised inheritance to their maddeningly handsome stable boy, Hunter Allen. Now Erin has to win an internship and work late nights at a local coffee shop to make her own dreams a reality. She should despise Hunter… so why does he sneak into her thoughts as the hero of her latest writing assignment?

Then, on the day she’s sharing that assignment with her class, Hunter walks in. He’s joining her class. And after he reads about himself in her story, her private fantasies about him must be painfully clear. She only hopes to persuade him not to reveal her secret to everyone else. But Hunter devises his own creative revenge, writing sexy stories that drive the whole class wild with curiosity and fill Erin’s heart with longing. Now she’s not just imagining what might have been. She’s writing a whole new ending for her romance with Hunter… except this story could come true.

“A tremendously talented writer with a real gift for developing relationships.”
– Romantic Times Magazine

1 How did you come up with the idea for this book?
When I was in school, I took every creative writing class I could. The experience was always so intense, and the writers in these classes got so touchy and emotional about sharing their stories, that I thought this would be an explosive place to set a romance.

2 What’s been your favorite author moment so far in your career?
My critique partner Victoria Dahl and I were both finalists last year in the RITA, an award judged by fellow romance authors. That was very special for both of us.

3 It’s Oscar speech time! Who are the three people that you would most like to thank for helping you write this book?
Vicki and my other critique partner, Catherine Chant, make all my books so much better. But my best friend from high school, Catherine Burns, was also a huge help on this book particularly. She lives in New York City, and when the copyeditor questioned my traffic patterns, my subway stops, and my horses in the middle of the city, she came to my rescue.

4 Describe a typical writing day
I wake up at 4:30 a.m. and try to get in two hours of writing before my son wakes up and I have to make breakfast. After that I try to fit another six hours of writing into my day, but the summer schedule is crazy! Things will be easier when my son goes back to school in August.

5 Tell me one strange random fact about this book.
Hunter writes a story about the sizes of the planets in our Solar System in relation to the distances between them. When I was in eighth grade, I wanted to be an astronomer, and I had an idea for a project like this. It wasn’t feasible because, as Hunter discovers, the distances between the planets are too vast. This is my favorite part of the novel. Retweet this button on every post blogger