Jencey's Writer's Corner

Visit the French Coast with Anita Hughes in her latest release.   Thank you to St. Martins Press and Anita Hughes for a copy of this novel.   I have had the opportunity to read Anita’s previous novels.   I think this is one you might be her best! Synopsis:   Serena’s life could not be better with a great fiancé, a great job, and wonderful family.   Her boss Chelsea gives her the opportunity of a lifetime to go to Cannes and interview the head of French Vogue and write her memoir.   All of the sudden news comes out that her father has a second family in France. Will she be able to complete her job in Cannes?   How will her fiancé react?   Serena finds herself at her hotel staying with a new friend Zoe Gladding after the hotel messed up her reservation.   Who happens to be the daughter of Malcolm Gladding the designer.    What happens when Serena meets the mysterious Nick?   How will this impact Serena and her future...

Today I am sharing The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller.   She is a new author for me. I of course saw the pretty cover that screamed “Read me!”    Are you a fan of this author? Synopsis:   Meri is just beginning her married life in a new town.   Her husband Nathan will be a college professor at the local college.   They move in across the street from their neighbor Delia Naughton who is married to the ex-senator Tom Naughton.   Delia and Tom share a checkered past where choices were made and consequences resulted.   What are these consequences?   Meri wants to know as she carries out her pregnancy.   Both women make choices that will either encourage a relationship or destroy it.   What will the final result be? My Thoughts: What did I think of Sue Miller’s writing?   I thought it was okay.   I might read another of her books.   What I found most interesting in this book was the comparison made betw...

It's time to celebrate!   I want to formally invite you to raise a glass with me at the official book launch party for THE SUMMER’S END at the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston, SC on Monday, May 18 th at 6:30 p.m.   Invitation attached.   We want a proper launch for the end of the Lowcountry Summer trilogy! Imagine strolling through the Aquarium at leisure--delicious food, wine, live music and books--while getting exclusive access to all of the exhibits, including the brand new Shark Shallows , and having a chance to tour the sea turtle hospital.   We're also making a special, exciting announcement! If you’ve needed a good excuse to take a trip to Charleston (voted America’s #1 city four consecutive years in Conde Nast Magazine), this event is the perfect opportunity!   We've arranged for a limited number of hotel rooms to be available at the Isle of Palms and downtown Charleston at a group discount rate under the name “Mary Alice Monroe Book ...

Flowers of Grace, a novel inspired by a true story, is a heart-wrenching book club choice that one reviewer called “a tribute to love and friendship.” Set in an upscale St. Louis boutique amid a fragile economic climate when retail customers are trading brick and mortar stores for online shopping, Flowers of Grace is a story of love and loss, friendship and forgiveness. Still mourning a broken engagement, Grace inherits a hibiscus with a legacy she fears she will kill. Doubt in her capacity to nurture anything prompts her to bring the plant into the clothing store she manages, and the dynamic personalities of the female staff band together to help it bloom. Grace and the hibiscus blossom through a wedding and a birth, but its unexpected death pushes her to face false assumptions, opening a path for new love to appear. The simple gift is more than a plant. When it blooms, so does she.   But when it dies, she fears love will too. Author Bio: Teresa H...

Sometimes inspiration can come from the unlikeliest of places.    Last year the kids and my husband and I were watching reruns on a Saturday afternoon of a popular 1980s sitcom. In one of the episodes a character announces his intention to bury a time capsule in the backyard and open it in 25 years, all in the name of proving how much he loves his wife. The show wound to its expected conclusion, but the idea of the time capsule stuck with me.   I mulled the idea of a container used to preserve precious objects. What would happen, I thought, if the person who buried it couldn’t open it? What if someone else found that time capsule and then had to figure out what the contents meant?    This small brushstroke of inspiration provided me with the sketch of the second story in my first book, Two for the Heart .   I write short stories and have begun publishing them in serial format. I named the series “Stories in Pairs”, and each book c...