Chicks
Dig the Accent
by Roxanne D. Howard
Date of
Publication: August 23rd 2016
Publisher:
Loose Id, LLC
Cover
artist: Natasha Snow
Genre:
Contemporary erotic Romance, Modern-Day Fairy Tale, Fairy Tales Revisited
From The Book Junkie Reads . . . Chicks
Dig the Accent . . .
If a man with an accent get you
going. Then you will want to read this one. We have accents for days. More,
more, more. Quick and entertaining.
Molly had a plan. That plan involved
marrying her a man with an accent. She knew this. She now has a choice of men to
choose from. Her professor or her neighbor, hot rocker.
I will not tell this outcome but it
was so worth the short time it took to read it. I enjoyed it all the way to the
end. I was not sure which one was the true target and was happy go find my
guess or wish was the right one.
**This eBook was provided via Bewitching Book
Tours in exchange for an honest review.**
BLURB
Molly Ivers has always known she’d
marry a foreign man with a delicious accent. Six months ago, in a night of
unbridled passion, Molly gave her virginity to her friend and sexy-as-can-be
neighbor, rocker Evan Castle. Unfortunately, thanks to his swarm of constant
groupies, things didn’t work out, but they remained friends. Now, after having
just broken up with her boring, run-of-the-mill right wing boyfriend, Sean,
she’s on the verge of finishing her graduate degree, moving to Paris, and is
desperate to shake things up!
She’s had a crush on Nicholas
Sullivan, her British professor, for as long as she can remember. So when
opportunity comes knocking to spice up her appearance, in the form of a French
life coach, she hires Jean Luc Dubois to help her let her hair down and become
more Parisian and hip, to reflect the person she is within. Thanks to Jean
Luc’s magic, she starts to catch her hunky English professor’s eye, but the
more time she spends with Evan, the more she begins to realize that her Prince
Charming might just be the one she’s known all along.
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Author
Info
Roxanne D. Howard is an author with
Loose Id. Her first novel, At the Heart of the Stone, was released in February
2016. She is an Army veteran, has a bachelor's degree in Psychology and
English, and enjoys reading classical literature and Stephen King. She is also
an avid musical theater nut and loves everything related to marine biology. She
is the proud mother of two beautiful girls, several pets, and loves to spend
time with her husband and children when she's not writing. Roxanne and her
family currently reside in the Midwest United States. Roxanne loves to hear
from her readers, and she can be contacted at author@roxannedhoward.com.
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Guest Blog Post - Self-Editing Tips for Writers from Roxanne
D. Howard
As writers, whether we’re aspiring
or published, we’ve all heard that old chestnut “everybody’s got to start
somewhere.”
Um, well, what about when the
novel’s complete?
I know when I completed my very
first novel, At the Heart of the Stone,
I spent a good two to three days wondering how in the Sam Hill I was going to
move forward. I’d like to share these self-editing tips that I’ve picked up
that have helped me clean up a manuscript before sending it in to beta readers
and editors:
- Use spell check and grammar check. This seems like an obvious one, but a lot of people either forget to do it or find it too cumbersome. It can make a world of difference in catching misspelled words or segmented sentences.
- Use “Find and Replace,” and change or get rid of as many Adverbs (-ly endings) and Gerunds (-ing endings) as you can. Shaving the amount of these from your manuscript (either getting rid of them altogether or using a stronger description) will make your manuscript more readable. This is time consuming, but worth it!
- Through “Find and Replace” in Word, track down your filter words (felt, saw, heard, knew, start(ed), realized), and see if you can make the sentence stronger with different verbs or by shortening the sentence (i.e., “Michelle started to climb the ladder.” to “Michelle climbed the ladder.”). There are helpful blogs you can Google that pinpoint exact filter words to look for, such as: was, so, that, all, began, start, smile, etc. This can transform a rough draft into a readable work, and it is worth taking the time to do it; your manuscript will thank you for it! Text to Speech! Listening to your manuscript on text to speech can help tremendously. This can be done either one of two ways; you can save the file as a .pdf and listen to it on your kindle or handheld device with the text-to-speech option, or there is a “Speak selected text” option in word that allows you to highlight an area and listen to it being read. Having your book read to you in a different tone and voice can work wonders on areas you might have missed or dialogue that doesn’t flow the way it should.
Do you have any helpful tips to add
to this? Please let us know below!
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