Amalie Berlin on her First Romance and Giveaways!

We have writer Amalie Berlin with an amazing post and she's got a giveaway for one commenter. Yes, a signed and print copy of her CRAVING HER ROUGH DIAMOND DOC.

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My First Romance vs My Memory & Goodreads

 

When I was eleven, I had to have a surgery which left me out of the regular outdoor playtime activities. Until that point, as a rather severe dyslexic, I had never read for pleasure. Reading caused headaches, I could do it but it wasn’t fun.

Until my mom gave me a copy of a decades-old Harlequin Romance by Essie Summers called No Orchids By Request, and TRICKED me into reading it.

I don’t know if I loved that book so much because the pump was primed—I was almost twelve, very interested in boys, and had a whopper of an imagination that craved stories—or if the book really was as good as it is in my memory.

The first time I read it, it took a while, more than a week. Then I read it again. And a few more times after that. I don’t have the copy anymore, though the cover has been etched into my memory.

So, the other day, I decided to look it up on Goodreads. Two main camps exist on Goodreads when it comes to this book: Camp5* and Camp3*-- and when I read the reviews I can’t tell if it was written with a recent read in mind, if it was read with the idea that it is nearly 50 years old, or if it withstands modern sensibilities in a read. (I know this was a no-nookie-booky though, or I wouldn’t have been allowed to read it). All the data is skewed. I have to go to the source.

I had to buy a copy.

I’m in the middle of writing toward a December 1 deadline, so I’m kind of glad it’s not available in eformat, my curiosity has roused to the point where I am pretty darned sure that if I had it in my hot little hands at this instant, I’d put my deadline aside for a few hours to read. In the name of Science, you understand, AND ART. And how often do we get to combine Science and Art? Not nearly enough.

 

Have you ever revisited a book which you loved long ago? Did it stand up to time for you? Was it as captivating now as it was the first time(s) you read it?

Amalie has her debut novel out now. Check this link out!

Craving Her Rough Diamond Doc

Her first sighting of Dr. Wyatt Beauchamp is of him with his shirt off—all deliciously bronzed corded muscle and mouthwatering abs—and nurse Imogen Donally hopes the next six months working in his remote mountain practice will be…more interesting than she'd originally thought! Only, her Dr. Tall, Dark and Handsome quickly proves to be more Tall, Dark and Seriously Brooding…. Tough cookie Imogen has no desire ever to settle down, but even she is reluctantly intrigued by a man just as haunted by the past as she is. Could a red-hot fling with the sexy, stubborn doc be Imogen's undoing?


Please click on this link to enter the Goodreads Giveaway for Amalie's book. And Amalie would be giving a signed print copy to one commenter as well.