Stranger Than Fiction

Updates:

Since I can’t give away the title, or the cover, or the fairytale I am retelling, I’m afraid this little glimpse of Annabelle is all you get. 🙂

Annabelle’s story is with Beta readers now.
Cover reveal will be Sept 7th. (If you’d like to help me with that, please contact me!)
Work on Ansel and Gretchen’s story is slow. I just have to get through these last two weeks of summer and then I should have more mental capacity to devote to it.

Story Time:

Do y’all ever have moments in your lives where you think, “This could be a scene in a movie/book”?

Well, I have! And (unsurprisingly) those are some of the most memorable.

When I was dating my husband, we were having a tough conversation about me going to a different university and being apart, etc… At one point, he put his fingers under my chin and lifted my face so I would look at him, and at that moment, a tear slipped down my cheek. Even though I was in the middle of being devestated, I still had the thought that I was basically a book heroine in that moment!

Then there are times when real events in our lives seem just a little too unrealistic, even for fiction.

Back in my younger years, the movie Pearl Harbor came out. A friend of mine scoffed at it, saying it was unrealistic, because once the male love interest was MIA and presumed dead, the girl falls for his best friend. She couldn’t fathom that ever really happening.

I didn’t think it was unrealistic at all. See, there was a guy (let’s call him Dale). Dale dated my older sister for a while before my sister left for college. Dale and I became friends. Dale developed feelings for me. I awkwardly ignored the fact he had a thing for me because I didn’t feel the same. But it wasn’t lost on me that a guy who was once attracted to one girl could later be attracted to that girl’s good friend or sibling. It’s really not all that strange or uncommon. My sister and I shared a lot of the same personality traits, and also some physical traits. It made sense that we were both his type.

It’s an example of one of the many things that writers have to be careful of when crafting their stories. If we lean too hard into using our own experiences, we run the risk of sounding unrealistic. Strange, right?

Clean Romance Author Highlights

Anne M. Scott writes sweet romance and has a series all about military vets! If you’re on Bookbub, you should go follow her.

I recently went on a Jenny Proctor book binge. Some of my favorites were How To Kiss Your Best Friend, How to Kiss a Movie Star, and Love Unexpected. You can also follow her on Bookbub!