Category: Adult Fiction 18+,
Genre: Womens Fiction, Chick Lit
Publisher: She Writes Press
Release date: September 2020
Content Rating: PG-13 + M
2020 Canadian Book Club Awards Finalist in Fiction
“Taylor’s dialogue is snappy and contemporary . . . A witty and often amusing marriage drama.”
―Kirkus Reviews
Then again, Kassie is no angel. The separate lives they lead collide head-on into a tangled web of sex, lies, and DNA. As she helps her husband find an organ donor, Kassie uncovers a secret, forcing her to decide whose life to save: her husband’s or her own.
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Sense-ible Benefits to Being an Author
By Valerie Taylor
Author of What’s Not Said (She Writes Press, 2020) and What’s Not True (She Writes Press, August 2021)
Everyone has a unique innate talent. Since I can’t sing, dance, or even grow a potted plant, I guess mine is writing. Since childhood, I’ve been mesmerized by the written word; and just like Thomas Jefferson, I can’t imagine living without books surrounding me.
That it took six decades for me to write my first novel and then to follow it with a sequel amazes me when I hold both books in my hands. What was I waiting for?
Since publishing What’s Not Said in the fall of 2020 during the pandemic, I have learned that I actually traded the financial services marketing career I retired from to a 24/7 author marketing career that has no retirement plan in sight!
While being a published author can be exhausting, especially when trying to balance the inner drive to write the next best seller with the demands of promoting the current titles, there are a number of benefits I could have never imagined during my years in corporate America.
Let me tap into our five senses to describe what I mean.
There is nothing better than holding in your hands the book it took years to create. Touching the front and back covers, as if they were cashmere; rubbing your fingers across the dedication in the front and the acknowledgments page in the back, all the while fearing the moisture from your fingers might smudge the ink.
And the paper and ink of an off-the-press book has a distinct smell that you love like you love the scent of a newborn baby.
Moreover, it’s mind boggling seeing your name sprawled across the cover, on the spine, inside the book, online, on your website, in guest blogs, on the shelf of your local library or bookstore. Your fifteen minutes of fame expands for some infinite amount of time because books don’t have an expiration date! (I know my novels will still be around even when I’m not!)
Attending book club discussion groups, in-person or on Zoom, lets you hear the good, the bad, and the ugly impressions of real honest-to-goodness readers, not just the biased opinions of your relatives and friends. And through that feedback, you become better at your craft, if you accept it honestly.
Finally, no matter how many or how few books you sell, being a published author gives you a taste of satisfaction. Using your own unique talent, you’ve achieved some level of success that motivates you to sit your rear back in the chair and do it all over again—whether or not it makes any sense to you or anyone else.
You are an author. Soak in all the five senses to your heart’s content.
Please contact me at: www.valerietaylorauthor.com
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Book Details:
Book Title: What's Not True by Valerie Taylor
Category: Adult Fiction 18+,
Genre: Women's Fiction, Chick Lit
Publisher: She Writes Press, 321 pages
Release date: August 2021
Content Rating: PG-13 + M: What's Not True has several sex scenes and some bad language.
“What’s Not True…is
an enthralling, character-driven story that will appeal irresistibly to
fans of women’s fiction…Taylor’s prose is crystalline…she does not
waste words, rather using them to create a tense, nerve-shredder that
offers full entertainment to readers.” — Readers’ Favorite 5-star review
Book Description:
With her court date set for her divorce and her plans with the younger
man in the rearview mirror, Kassie O’Callaghan shifts attention to
reviving her stalled career. But things get complicated when she
unexpectedly rendezvous with her former lover in Paris. After a chance
meeting there with a colleague and a stroll along Pont Neuf, Kassie
receives two compelling proposals. Can she accept them both?
But Kassie’s decision process screeches to a halt when her soon-to-be
ex-husband has a heart attack, forcing her to fly home to Boston. There,
she confronts his conniving and deceitful fiancée—a woman who wants not
just a ring on her finger but everything that belongs to Kassie. In the
ensuing battle to protect what’s legally and rightfully hers, Kassie
discovers that sometimes it’s what’s not true that can set you free.
Though a standalone novel, What’s Not True is the sequel to What’s Not Said (September 15, 2020).
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Meet the Author:
Valerie
Taylor was born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut. She earned a B.S.
Marketing degree and an MBA from Sacred Heart University, as well as a
graduate certificate in health care administration from Simmons
University (formerly Simmons College). She had a thirty-year career in
the financial services industry as a marketer and writer. Valerie is a
published book reviewer with BookTrib.com; and a member of Westport
Writers’ Workshop, Independent Book Publishers Association, and Women’s
Fiction Writers Association. She enjoys practicing tai chi and being an
expert sports spectator.
connect with the author: website ~ twitter ~ facebook ~ instagram ~ goodreads
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