Welcome Today's Featured Author
Jillian Liota!!
PROMISE ME NOTHING
Wyatt Calloway
isn’t a good idea.
I didn’t pick up my life and move to this urban beach city to spend my days swooning over a rich bad boy who rides a motorcycle and seems to always get his way with just a flash of that smile.
I’m here to get to know the brother I’ve never met. Try and create a family when I’ve gone so long without one. Maybe find a place where I belong.
But I can’t seem to get him off my mind.
Hannah Morrison isn’t a good idea.
I’m back in town just for the summer, and my priorities are to spend time with my little sister, check in with my family, and make sure things aren’t really as bad as they seem.
But somehow, the new girl becomes my focus. She’s got a ton of baggage, and she doesn’t understand why she’s really here. But I’ll do anything to make her feel like she belongs.
Even give her promises I’m not sure I can keep.
Welcome to Hermosa Beach
I didn’t pick up my life and move to this urban beach city to spend my days swooning over a rich bad boy who rides a motorcycle and seems to always get his way with just a flash of that smile.
I’m here to get to know the brother I’ve never met. Try and create a family when I’ve gone so long without one. Maybe find a place where I belong.
But I can’t seem to get him off my mind.
Hannah Morrison isn’t a good idea.
I’m back in town just for the summer, and my priorities are to spend time with my little sister, check in with my family, and make sure things aren’t really as bad as they seem.
But somehow, the new girl becomes my focus. She’s got a ton of baggage, and she doesn’t understand why she’s really here. But I’ll do anything to make her feel like she belongs.
Even give her promises I’m not sure I can keep.
Welcome to Hermosa Beach
About Jillian Liota:
Jillian
Liota is a southern California native currently live in Kailua, Hawaii. She is
married to her best friend, as a three-legged pup with endless energy, and acts
as a servant to two very temperamental cats. When she isn’t writing, she is traveling,
reading a good book, or watching Harry Potter.
Always.
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Interview With Jillian Liota:
1. Can you tell us a little about your books?
I write a mixture of contemporary
romance and new adult romance. I am a strong believer in people getting
the love they truly deserve, and that overflows into my stories. Some of
the praise I've gotten over the years is that I write strong female
friendships, side characters that matter, and have a positive outlook on
mental health.
2. What inspires you to write?
I'm
inspired by almost everything. Sometimes it's a line in a comedy show or
something I've seen on TV. Oftentimes themes from my real life make
their way into the book I'm working on at the moment. But I think
there's a difference between being inspired to write and being motivated
to write. I'm motivated by my list of long and short term goals, as
well as by my own determination - because sometimes you just have to get
your butt up and writing even if you don't want to.
3. How do you come up with your characters names?
I keep a little notebook of names that I like as I hear them, but if
nothing feels right, I'll hop onto a baby names website and snoop until
I've found something.
4. If you could be friends with one of your character, which one would you chose?
I would
definitely be friends with Carly, my heroine from Like You Want It. My
husband told me she was the character I wrote that most closely
resembles me, so maybe that's a narcissistic response. But I love her
optimism, her active choices to make her life better, and how she
communicates with Fin.
5. Do you have a release day tradition?
Usually,
on release day, my husband will take me out to lunch or dinner. But
without fail, every time, he writes me a card, and I have them all
saved. They tell me how proud he is of me for going after my dreams.
That's the only thing I need on release day to feel good.
6. Do you work with an outline, or just write?
I'm a pantser, 100%. I tried to create a plot for the past few books,
and whenever I look back at them, the book looks completely different.
I'm trying to work on that, though, because I want to be able to write
stories that overlap or are interconnected, and I hope to write a
post-apocalyptic fiction novel someday, so I really need to work on the
plotting side of things. But that is a someday goal.
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