Iced Coffee Dreams
Jul. 23rd, 2018 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archerOh hey! My new book is live! Iced Coffee Dreams, “A sweet New Adult romance full of cool iced coffees, warm summer evenings, and flickering fireflies.”
I feel that this basically captures the atmosphere of the book, so hopefully that will draw readers in, although who knows really.
For years, Wynne has dreamed of opening a café that will be an oasis of peace and belonging for her customers. But her first job as a barista at a campus coffee shop comes as a rude awakening. How can she run a café of her own if she can’t even muster the backbone to say no to a customer who constantly demands freebies?
But Wynne's growing friendship with her coworker, quiet but self-possessed farm boy Parker, gives her hope. Parker admires her aspirations and helps her build her confidence – and as her confidence expands, so do her dreams. Could her future include love as well as a café?
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Because Briarley has made more money in two months than literally everything else I have ever written combined, my current plan is to focus on that pen name from now on, although I still do have a couple of Civil War romances kicking around in my head that might happen someday… but otherwise.
This seems like a good place to end it because I always meant for there to be four Coffee Shop Romances. The fourth book was originally meant to be something else, which is part of why there was such a big gap in between publishing the third & fourth books, because I kept banging my head against that story and it never did work… but no matter. There are four! That’s the important thing! This one has more allusions to anime (Wynne is partial to Sailor Moon) and to the Romola Garai version of Emma than the other one ever could have mustered, anyway.
I feel that this basically captures the atmosphere of the book, so hopefully that will draw readers in, although who knows really.
For years, Wynne has dreamed of opening a café that will be an oasis of peace and belonging for her customers. But her first job as a barista at a campus coffee shop comes as a rude awakening. How can she run a café of her own if she can’t even muster the backbone to say no to a customer who constantly demands freebies?
But Wynne's growing friendship with her coworker, quiet but self-possessed farm boy Parker, gives her hope. Parker admires her aspirations and helps her build her confidence – and as her confidence expands, so do her dreams. Could her future include love as well as a café?
***
Because Briarley has made more money in two months than literally everything else I have ever written combined, my current plan is to focus on that pen name from now on, although I still do have a couple of Civil War romances kicking around in my head that might happen someday… but otherwise.
This seems like a good place to end it because I always meant for there to be four Coffee Shop Romances. The fourth book was originally meant to be something else, which is part of why there was such a big gap in between publishing the third & fourth books, because I kept banging my head against that story and it never did work… but no matter. There are four! That’s the important thing! This one has more allusions to anime (Wynne is partial to Sailor Moon) and to the Romola Garai version of Emma than the other one ever could have mustered, anyway.
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Date: 2018-07-24 01:50 am (UTC)