Free book!

[osprey_archer]

Iced Coffee Dreams is free on Amazon until the 20th.

I’ve thought about giving Briarley a few free days as well, but I don’t think it makes sense to do that till I’ve got something else published under that pen name: right now there’s nothing else people can buy if they like it.

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[asakiyume]

I will tweet this!

[rmc28]

Nabbed it on Amazon UK.

(And, as a reader, I firmly endorse waiting to give Briarley some free days until there's something else to buy. I mean, I've already bought and read Briarley, but I've not read your Coffee Shop Romances, and getting one free definitely works to get me started.)

[osprey_archer]

Thank you!

[osprey_archer]

I hope you enjoy it! But it is quite different from Briarley and I know that not everyone is going to be into both.

I also saw that you subscribed to my Patreon. Thank you and welcome!

[landofnowhere]

I grabbed it, and had a fun read! It's not my usual genre, but I will keep your other work in mind in the future when looking for travel reads (which is when I usually buy fluffy romance-y e-books). It reminded me of the things that I liked about Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl without any of the things that I disliked.

Thank you!

[osprey_archer]

Aw, thank you! I really liked (parts of) Fangirl, although I found Cath's total lack of an online fandom community baffling. She's got like ten zillion readers! She's got a beta reader who zooms through a chapter a night. She's gotta have some social connections in there somewhere.

...now admittedly neither does Wynne, but then again she's not a Harry Potter Simon Snow BNF, now is she.

[landofnowhere]

Yeah, Fangirl is not particularly good with its representation of fandom -- I think it does better with the New Adult romance/college-coming of age story. Also it gave me the sense that the main point of college was meeting a cute farmboy (ok, and getting some very hands-off mentoring from that English professor) -- and I appreciated that Wynne (a) had a life goal that wasn't "write fiction" (which I think is overdone in coming-of-age stories, for obvious reasons) and (b) thought seriously about how college would fit in with her life goals.

[brigid]

I really look forward to reading your book! Thanks! I'll be sure to drop a review on goodreads.

[osprey_archer]

Thank you!

[osprey_archer]

I love books about budding young writers, but at the same time yes, for obvious reasons it is quite over-represented in coming of age stories. You don't have to adhere that closely to "write what you know," writers!

[landofnowhere]

I do actually enjoy writer protags too :-) But I think one trope that I was tired of by the time I got to Fangirl was the teacher/mentor figure steering the protagonist towards more "high-brow" forms of literature, generally with a healthy dose of "write what you know". We already had this in Little Women and Emily of New Moon to start with! (Also in Two is Better than One by Carol Ryrie Brink, which I think you would like if you haven't read.)

Not that "write what you know" is bad advice, but where are the books where the protagonist learns "write what you want, don't worry about what your teachers will think" or "use your imagination"? (Probably they don't exist because the authors who learned those lessons decided to not write semi-autobiographical fiction.)

[osprey_archer]

I have read Two is Better than One! Now there's a book that ought to be better known. Some publisher ought to reissue it with "by the author of Caddie Woodlawn" scrawled on the cover: that would surely sell at least a few copies. (I speak from the extremely selfish position of wanting my own shiny new copy. That's one sale right there, publishers!)

The heroines of Two is Better than One may have benefited from "write what you know" more than Jo or Emily, given that they had the Rhine flowing into a tropical sea. If you're writing what you don't know, at least look at a map!

[landofnowhere]

If you're writing what you don't know, at least look at a map!

;-) (although Shakespeare did just fine without one...)