Thursday, July 16, 2015

Featured Author: Karla Sorensen


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By Your Side (Three Little Words #1)

By Your Side (Three Little Words #1)

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He needs to open up.

Jake Miller likes his life. It’s simple and quiet. Solitary. He’s taking the last thing his mother truly cared about before she died, the properties she owned, and making them his purpose. His time in the Army hadn’t allowed him to be there for her before, but this is something he can do now. Just him and his dog. Exactly how he wants it. Until her, his first tenant. With her innate openness and blinding smiles, the opposite of everything he thought he could possibly want.

She needs to grow up.

Casey Steadman has less to show for her twenty-nine years than she’d hoped. No white picket fence. No 2.5 kids. And definitely no loving husband. Just a few lukewarm relationships, an exceedingly crappy apartment, and a fabulous shoe collection (and the credit card debt to prove it). Moving into her new place is one big, high heeled step towards a new life. The stable, make-boring-mature-decisions kind of life that she needs to be able to prove to her family that she can live. What she wasn’t planning on was her hotter-than-Hades new landlord.

Sparks are a-flying, and they’re the kind that can only come from a stiletto-loving, dog-hating, budget-repelling, relentlessly optimistic, youngest of five becoming the tenant and next door neighbor to a stoically silent, slightly pessimistic, ‘my only friend is my dog’, only child and former Army Ranger. Casey and Jake are total opposites. But when they come together, it just might be true love.
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By Your Side is a PG-13 humorous contemporary romance with a moderate heat level, and is the first in a series of standalone novels


 


Light Me Up
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For Rachel Hennessy, it’s been an interesting six months. Boyfriend? Cheated on her. Job? She totally just got fired. Starting her own wedding planning business sounds exciting … in theory. In reality, it’s completely terrifying. And on top of all that, the freaking cherry right on top? She just had an ill-timed, alcohol-instigated one-night stand with her bff Casey’s brother, Tate. Yeah, that Tate. The one that she’s had a teensy, inconvenient crush on for years.

But nothing about it is ill-timed or inconvenient for Tate Steadman. Because he finally feels free. Free of the oppressive relationship he’d been in for the past six years. Free to pursue Rachel, because one alcohol-fueled night was not even close to enough for him. He just wished she saw it that way. Because she makes him want more than he ever knew he was capable of.

When their one night has unexpected consequences, Rachel has no clue how to trust that he’s not just trying to be ‘the good guy’ who wants to do ‘the right thing’. And even though the chemistry between them practically burns down an entire city block when they’re together, she doesn’t know how to let down the concrete wall she’s built up around herself.

The ‘mistake’ of one evening can change the trajectory of two lives, but maybe a mistake is all they really need to push them right into true love.
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Light Me Up is a 90k word humorous contemporary romance with a moderate heat level, and is second in a series of standalones



 
 
 


About Karla Sorensen:

Karla Sorensen has been an avid reader her entire life, and not long after the purchase of her first e-reader, she realized that it would probably be cheaper to just write out her own happily-ever-after stories. It doesn’t take much to keep her happy…a book, a glass of moscato, and at least thirty minutes of complete silence every day. She still keeps her toes in the world of health care marketing, where she made her living pre-babies. Now she stays home, writing and mommy-ing full time (this translates to almost every day being a ‘pajama day’ at the Sorensen household…don’t judge). She lives in West Michigan with her husband, two exceptionally adorable sons and their German Shepherd, who is not nearly as well trained as the one in her first book.




Interview With Karla Sorensen:

1-Can you tell us a little about your books?
I like to classify my books as chick flicks on pages. It helps non-book people understand the type of story I tell. I want people to feel a fairly big range of things when they read, sometimes funny, sometimes sexy, sometimes emotional. Just like I want my chick flicks. And always a little swoon factor when it comes to the guy. 

2-Can your series Three Little Words be read a s standalones or do they need to be read in order?
They can definitely be read as standalones. I try to never have a 'hook' for the next book in the current one. Of course, it's nice to understand the recurring characters by reading all the books, but in no way will it detract from which ever one you start with first. 
 

3- When did you know you wanted to write a book?
As long as I can remember, honestly. I started multiple short stories and chapters of a novel as far back as early high school, I just didn't know what to do with it. Of course at *that* time, Devon Sawa was my greatest source of inspiration. Oh, the crush I had on that boy. 

4- What inspires you to write?
Everything! A funny line on a tv show, something my friends might say, my kids doing something crazy, it can all trigger a scene in my head. I have thousands of notes on my iphone, because I don't want to forget any of those ideas I had. A lot of them come to me when I'm laying in bed and about to go to sleep, then I roll over and type something in that usually doesn't make sense the next day.

5- Do you have a favorite spot to write?
 Oh yes. My living room. We live on a hill overlooking a lake, and I have the best view in that room. It's also a 'kid-free zone' in our house, so there aren't piles of toys to annoy me. 

6-Do you have any “odd” writing habits?
 A couple, yes. I *have* to have my hair up in a ponytail, and I cannot STAND if there's a TV on in the background. Like, it makes me ragey. 

7-Do you listen to music while you write?
 Yes, have to. I put on headphones and just drown everything else out. A room with no one in it is preferable, but not necessary. But music? Yes. Sometimes I listen to the same song on repeat for days if it captures the mood of the chapter I'm writing. 

8-What's one random fact about yourself that you can share?
 Ummm, I hate math with a fiery passion. My brain instantly shuts off if I have to do even the simplest math. And then you start talking algebra? No way. Stop speaking to me. 

9-What are writing projects are you currently working on?
  Right now, I'm about ten chapters in to my third book, which is also part of this series. Then I'll move on to a different series of standalones that I have tentatively plotted out. 
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