Guest Post & Giveaway: Nobody's Angel by Sarah Hegger
Nobody’s
AngelWillow
Park Romance # 1
By:
Sarah Hegger
Releasing
March 31st,
2015
Zebra
Blurb
In
this evocative new series from author Sarah Hegger, a woman returns
home after a long absence—and wonders if two wrongs really can make
a right...
Nine
years ago Lucy Flint ran away to Seattle, taking her friend's
boyfriend and leaving her high school sweetheart without a word of
explanation. Now she's back in Willow Park, Illinois, to help care
for her ailing father—and it's no surprise that her ex, Dr. Richard
Hunter, is still angry.
Still,
she's a different Lucy now. Sober, wiser, ready to make amends to the
long—make that very long—list of those she mistreated during her
wild younger days. Falling for Richard all over again would mean
wreaking havoc in both their lives and possibly squandering her
opportunity for redemption. But here, in the place where everything
went wrong, is the one person who always felt right, and a
second-chance that could be the best mistake she ever made…
Goodreads Book Link
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Thank you so much for having me over
today.
Although it’s my third book released,
Nobody’s Angel, is like being a debutante all over again for me.
She’s the first of my contemporary romances to be released. Having
had many homes and career incarnations before I settled into writing,
it’s no real surprise that I couldn’t confine myself to one
genre. And considering I started my writing journey wanting to write
Regency Romance, it all gets a bit confusing.
And what a gap between the genres I
have—over 800 years, the other string to my bow being Medieval
Romance.
Other than historical versus modern
setting, and the research involved, the biggest adjustment is
language, the wonderful freedom of words that opens up to you in
contemporary. So many of the words we take for granted in our
everyday speech, simply didn’t exist in the middle ages. It’s
particularly hard to get a good swear going in England, 1217.
Expressions we use freely today often refer to things not in
existence in that period. Nobody in a medieval book can radiate
anything—love, laughter, good humor, rage. They also can’t be
electrified into action or rocket out of their seat.
They can’t tune in, turn on or step up.
Mostly, I think I drove the copy editor nuts as he painstakingly put
all the contractions into the contemporary work (thanks, Gary, sorry
for the hair tearing).
Research is a bit easier in
contemporary. All hail the Internet and the wealth of information
right at our fingertips. Of course, there is a wee bit of sifting to
be done, but it’s all there. And if you can’t find it online, you
can always get your hands on a real live person who can give you
their experience. I don’t know any 800 year olds to do the same for
medieval.
Writing Nobody’s Angel was a labor of
love from start to finish. She was first written about four years
ago, when my husband dared me to write contemporary. I’m a total
plotter and I don’t write Chapter One before I have the entire book
planned out. This one took on a life of it’s own from the first
time I ‘met’ the character of Lucy Flint. Of course, she’s gone
up on the chopping board several times, had a lot of tweaks and
changes, but she will always have a special place in my heart—don’t
tell the other characters I said so.
Nobody’s Angel is the first in the
Willow Park Romance series. Her stablemates – Nobody’s Fool and
Nobody’s Princess are scheduled for release on August 25, 2015, and
March, 2016 (respectively). I promise there’s a little taste of
Lucy and Richard in both of them.
I hope you get as much out of sharing
Lucy’s journey as I did writing it. I’d love to hear your
thoughts.
Author
Info
Born
British and raised in South Africa, Sarah Hegger suffers from an
incurable case of wanderlust. Her match? A hot Canadian engineer,
whose marriage proposal she accepted six short weeks after they first
met. Together they’ve made homes in seven different cities across
three different continents (and back again once or twice). If only it
made her multilingual, but the best she can manage is idiosyncratic
English, fluent Afrikaans, conversant Russian, pigeon Portuguese,
even worse Zulu and enough French to get herself into trouble.
Mimicking
her globe-trotting adventures, Sarah’s career path began as a
gainfully employed actress, drifted into public relations, settled a
moment in advertising, and eventually took root in the fertile soil
of her first love, writing. She also moonlights as a wife and
mother.She currently lives in Draper, Utah, with her teenage
daughters, two Golden Retrievers and aforementioned husband. Part
footloose buccaneer, part quixotic observer of life, Sarah’s
restless heart is most content when reading or writing books.
She
loves to hear from readers and you can find her at any of the places
below.
This sounds good. I haven't read her yet.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the positive feedback Karen
DeleteI am part of the Tasty tour, too and will be reading it soon. The cover is eye catching,
DeleteThank you to Romancing the Reader for hosting me today.
ReplyDelete"eventually took root in the fertile soil of her first love, writing" stayed with me. Well said!
ReplyDeleteI wish I could claim credit, Laney, but a dear friend helped me write my bio.
DeleteI liked the blurb, sounds like a good read.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that, Rita.
DeleteThank you for hosting Sarah today! (and Sorry for by "Duh" moment)
ReplyDeleteYour so welcome. And I always have those moment why shouldn't you! 😘
DeleteI love the cover :) I can't wait to read this one!
ReplyDeleteComing at you, Jennifer
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