Hey Roses and Readers, please welcome Liz Flaherty today!
I
don’t think I can write another word.
It has been the winter of
discontent. Of family illnesses and surgeries, and as February finally came to
an end, loss. But time and publishing wait on no one, and my new book, Every Time We Say Goodbye, came out April
1. You all know what happens then—you spread yourself around, holding up a
figurative hand with a figurative book in it and saying Here I am! You blog, you sign books, you do giveaways, you talk
wherever anyone will listen, and you keep smiling even on the days you feel
heartbreak nipping at your heels.
I’m working on two manuscripts,
which I hardly ever do, and making sketchy progress on them both, because I
tend to think too often that, as I said above, I can’t write another word.
But it’s a pretty day here today.
I’m looking out the window beside my desk at the awakening lawn. My husband
mowed it over the past couple of days, all three acres of it, and the grass
lies in bright green beautiful strips.
That he mowed one at a time. When
the wind was blowing. When his hip hurt. Or his knee hurt. While he grieved the
loss of his mother. Or while there were a thousand other things he wanted to
do.
That is the way of it then, isn’t
it, when we feel as though one more word or one more strip of grass is one too
many. We just go ahead and do it. One at a time.
When I visited Roses of Prose in
January of 2015, I’d just signed a new contract, and I said, “The book...was
shockingly difficult to write. It took ten months or so, not a really long time
for me, but it seemed longer.” What a blessing it is that now that the book is
out with a different and better title than I gave it and a cover I’ve grown
used to, I don’t remember how hard it was to write. I don’t remember how many
days I thought I’d never finish it. I don’t remember, although I know it’s
true, that I wrote it one word at a time even when I thought I couldn’t.
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He had her at “hello again…”
After the prom night accident that had stolen the
innocence of his small lakeside hometown, Jack Llewellyn had run. The
guilt—especially facing his high school sweetheart, Arlie Gallagher—had been
too much. Now he had no choice. He was back in town, and on Arlie’s radar.
Arlie couldn’t believe that after all these years, she
still had him under her skin. He was such a changed man…a responsible business
owner, a single parent. Would he understand the changes she’d gone through, the
secrets she lived with? She was ready to forgive him but was he ready to
forgive himself? And did they have to say goodbye this time?
Buy
links:
B &
N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/every-time-we-say-goodbye-liz-flaherty/1122822597?ean=9780373367863
Harlequin: http://www.harlequin.com/storeitem.html;jsessionid=9C747F81499204563E22D33236264F89?iid=64137&cid=
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Liz Flaherty thinks one of the things that keeps you young when you
quite obviously aren’t anymore is the constant chances you have to reinvent
yourself. Her latest professional incarnation is as a Harlequin Heartwarming
author and she is enjoying every minute! She’d love to hear from you at lizkflaherty@gmail.com or please come and see her at http://www.facebook.com/lizkflaherty
