Today is a good day. It's my birthday and the first day of
my blog tour so thank you so very much, Wenona, for allowing me to write a
guest blog for your site.
I saw that you published "The Everything Green Wedding
Book." In a past life of mine (literally a few years ago, not another life
of mine like my main character, Danielle Grayson) I was a wedding planner for a
hotel chain so I commend you on writing that book for the "green" bride.
It wasn't easy being a wedding planner. And it usually
wasn't the brides who gave me problems, it was ALWAYS the mother of the brides.
There was one Monster-of-the-Bride who blamed me for rain
washing out her daughter's ceremony. I warned her when she booked our gazebo
area outside that it might rain and that all of our other ballrooms were booked
so there wasn't a contingency plan if bad weather was in the forcast. Well,
guess what, it poured like it was the first of the 40 days and 40 nights. Our
courtyard looked like a swamp. We had to jam all 150 guests into a small
meeting room that wasn't going to be occupied until an hour after the ceremony
was over. We rushed to get a flower-covered arch placed at the front of the
dance floor and quickly brought in white chairs in a messy arrangement of rows
as guests were literally dripping in.
The Monster-of-the-Bride asked me why I didn't have a backup
plan and I lost it. It takes a lot to fire me up enough to say anything to
anyone but this woman was relentless. "Don't you have anywhere else for us
to go?"; "Why are all the other ballrooms booked?"; "Why
didn't you tell us it was going to rain?" I flipped out on her in front of
everyone and I didn't feel bad about it either. Well, not at the moment because
I was so mad but later I felt really bad. I think I went into the bathroom and
balled my eyes out.
I vowed from that moment on to find a new job, which I
quickly did.
And now, ten years later, I'm the author of two novels and
have fulfilled my dream. Sometimes it takes the wrong path to steer you in the
right direction.
Sarah DiCello is the
author of the debut YA historical romance novel, "As I Close My
Eyes," and tomorrow, the sequel, "As I Wake," will launch on
Amazon. You can find her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sarahdicelloauthor or
at her blog - www.sarahdicello.blogspot.com. You can also reach her via Twitter
- @sdicello and check her out on Goodreads at www.goodreads.com/sarahdicello.
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Michelle @ Mom With A Kindle
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YA Between the Lines
As I Wake
Breaking Fate Collection Book 2
Breaking Fate Collection Book 2
Sarah DiCello
Genre: YA Historical Romance with a time travel twist
Publisher: Taylor Street Books
Number of pages: 200
Word Count: 60,000
Cover Artist: Heather Moreland
Book Description:
Readers entranced by As I Close My Eyes will once again be thrust into the enchanting life of Danielle Grayson in As I Wake, the second book in the Breaking Fate collection.
A secret of Dani’s past is revealed and she must find the answers before it’s too late. Can she change the fate of her one true love or will he suffer the same destiny for all of time?
As Dani rekindles her relationship with Ben she finds herself torn between her present day life in Sugar Hill, Georgia and a new past she has yet to discover. But something in her past makes her question the journey she has chosen. Time is running out and she is the only one who can understand the path that must be taken. But will it be enough? Has the story of Dani and Ben been written in stone never to be undone?
Book One
genre: historical YA with a time travel twist
Publisher: Taylor Street Books
Book Description:
You know you are alive, but what if you are dead?
Danielle Grayson is a beautiful, intelligent young woman in present-day Georgia, but when she closes her eyes, she becomes someone else in a different time, one hundred years earlier in fact.
Danielle's other life is as entrancing and romantic as her current one, and the contrast between the lifestyles is intriguing and enlightening (they didn't have iPods in 19th century USA, apparently), but what starts out as being dreamlike soon becomes real and strangely familiar.
Available in paperback from Amazon.com - here
Danielle Grayson is a beautiful, intelligent young woman in present-day Georgia, but when she closes her eyes, she becomes someone else in a different time, one hundred years earlier in fact.
Danielle's other life is as entrancing and romantic as her current one, and the contrast between the lifestyles is intriguing and enlightening (they didn't have iPods in 19th century USA, apparently), but what starts out as being dreamlike soon becomes real and strangely familiar.
Available in paperback from Amazon.com - here
Available from Amazon for the Kindle - here
Sarah DiCello is new to Taylor Street.
She writes fantasy / romance and;lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs. She graduated from Shippensburg University with a degree in Communications/Journalism.
1 comment:
I'm a huge fan of the Historical genre, thus this book is right up my alley. Thanks for the chance to win! :)
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