If We Never Met
By- Allison Winfield
Genre- Contemporary Romance
Publication Date- February 2nd
If We Never Met, is a collection of contemporary romance short stories. Sweet and sexy tales about fateful encounters and second chances; sparking new love and rekindling old flames.
Stories included:
Stay With Me
Coming Home
Summer Fling
Starting Over
Author
Interview-
What inspired you to write, If We
Never Met ?
My
book is a collection of short stories. Two of the stories were written for
anthologies and the third was a short I had written to round out the
collection.
When or at what age did you know you
wanted to be a writer?
I
was probably 6 or 7 when I loved to write stories about princesses princes, and
evil witches or angry dragons. And like
so many fairy tales, the princess was stuck rescuing the prince from the bad
guys.
Then
as an adult, I opened a bakery and self published a cookbook. Once I realized
how easy it was, I decided to finally write my novel.
What is the earliest age you
remember reading your first book?
In
kindergarten. We had a list of books we
had to read before first grade and I was the first to finish the list. My prize
was the book, Jog Frog Jog.
What genre of books do you enjoy
reading?
I
mostly read mystery/ thrillers. But I
also love chick lit and romance.
What is your favorite book?
My
Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
You know I think we all have a
favorite author. Who is your favorite author and why?
I
love JK Rowling because she is the epitome of struggling author. She was a
young Mom trying to sneak in writing time and then once she did finish, she got
rejected so many times but didn’t give up. And now look at her. She is
definitely a woman I admire so much.
If you could travel back in time
here on earth to any place or time. Where would you go
and why?
Italy
during the renaissance. I love the art
from this period and would have loved to meet Michaelangelo, da Vinci and so
many others.
When writing a book do you find that
writing comes easy for you or is it a difficult task?
It
is so hard. I have tons of ideas and
love outlining/ planning my stories. But
then to actually sit and write is so hard for me. Actually it is the starting. If I sit and write two words, I can sit and
write all day; it’s just very difficult for me to actually start writing.
Do you have any little fuzzy
friends? Like a dog or a cat? Or any pets?
Rue
is our 100 pound Lab (yes we named her after the character in Hunger Games),
Scrappy is our 7 pound Chihuahua, who thinks he is an attack dog. Then we have
2 kittens: Cali and Harley Quinn.
What is your "to die for",
favorite food/foods to eat?
Anything
Italian. I love pasta. And then for
dessert anything chocolate like mousse cake or brownies!!
Do you have any advice for anyone
that would like to be an author?
Just
do it. It’s so hard to do it but if you
persevere it is worth it. Plus we are so lucky to have self publishing
now. We can put anything we want out
there and not have to risk rejection from publishing houses. Of course self
publishing is still a lot of work. Find a tribe of writers on Facebook and
learn from authors who are already established. I am so thankful to my FB
writing group, the Writing Wenches.
My
Review-
I received a free copy of the book from the author
for my honest opinion.
In If We Never Met there are three very well written
stories that will grab a hold of your heart and keep on tugging. Each story has
its own amazing and awesome couples that have a hard time either trusting in
people or has had their heart broken some way or another in the past. They
either don’t think that they deserve to be loved or they have lost someone very
dear and close to their hearts and have built up walls around their hearts. The
very handsome and dreamy men in each story kind of have a hard time getting
these wonderful and beautiful women to trust and love them.
I don’t get into reading just romance books much and
am into dystopian at the moment but once in a while we need to mix things up a
little bit. I am thankful for the chance to have read If We Never Met it was
way more than I thought it would be. Every once in a while I do enjoy a good
love story just to see someone happy for a change and falling in love without
some monster chasing them around.
If We Never Met was an awesome book with some awesome
stories and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who loves a good love
story or stories. Three amazing stories in one book for one price. So grab your
copy today and you will probably want to through in a box of tissue as well.
About the Author-
If We Never Met is Allison Winfield's first published collection of short stories. Her debut novel, Like Smoke, will be available Spring of 2016. Allison was born and raised in Southern California but currently calls the mountains of Tennessee home. When she is not writing, she is raising her five kids and playing with her two dogs.
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