Welcome to the Secret Cravings Contemporary Blog hop! Lots of wonderful authors are participating, all with prizes to give away!
What makes a romance “contemporary”? Does that just mean that it is taking place in the present day and time? The dictionary says:
con·tem·po·rar·y
[kuhn-tem-puh-rer-ee] Show IPA adjective, noun, plural con·tem·po·rar·ies.
adjective
1.existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton’s discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
2.of about the same age or date: a Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand.
3.of the present time; modern: a lecture on the contemporary novel.
noun
4.a person belonging to the same time or period with another or others.
5.a person of the same age as another.
Contemporary romance novels combine a lot of these elements. They take place in the present. They are often about characters we feel are “contemporaries”. But I think they also need to be relevant to issues that we find “contemporary”.
It great romance novel will draw you into the story. Allow you to make parallels to your own life, or the life of someone you know. Are you a single mother? A widow? A young person looking for the one person to be your soul mate?
I hope when you read my books you find a little bit of yourself in them. There is definitely a little bit of ME in all my stories.
My latest release, Roping Love
Shows you a glimpse of my childhood. I showed Quarter horses from the time I was ten until about 16. I participated in the All American Quarter Horse Congress. And I had a horse named Hercules.
Blurb:
Ten Years ago love slipped through Chance’s lasso. This time “He was going after her and she didn’t stand a chance, just like a calf in a chute, he was going to rope her with his love and ride back into her life.”
Carrie Stewart is a dedicated horsewoman. She runs a successful breeding and training program. She is a good friend, a good sister and a favorite aunt, but she has been burned by love. Carrie has never gotten over her first love, Chance Ryan. After ten years of absence Chance shows back up in her life. Should she risk her heart again, with the man who left it broken at her feet in the past? Chance has some serious work ahead of him to win back the one woman he could never forget
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Love the sound of this book 😉 I hope you have a great hop. I love watching the arrival of all the nirds that summer in the UK and marvel that such small creatures can and will travels so many thousands of miles to nest and breed.
I’m looking forward to this title as well. And hey, you ever wondered…we write contemporary now, but with technology changing so quick, twenty years from now, our books may feel historical. LOL
And what I like about contemporary…the heroines are (sometimes) modern-day tough. They match up to their male counterparts and I love that. I’m Tara, by the way.
I love contemporary books because they take place in the present times and area easier to follow for me
i love how the contemp romance books always give me an HEA even if they stress me out getting there!!!
I love contemporary romances because the heroines are more relatable and the heroes are what I wish real guys were like. 😉
I like that there are more dual point of views in contemporary romance and that the females can be strong too.
I am excited to read this. Thank you for the chance to win. 🙂
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I too prefer contemporary romance because the action takes place in the present.
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I like contemporary because I can better imagine what is going on because I am living in this time period. I have read historicals where I had to look up words of objects to find out what they are or look like, takes away from the enjoyment.
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I love that I can put myself in the character’s shoes!
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coming from a family of rodeo folks, this one sounds great to me!
the characters
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I like feeling like we’re in the present and have hope that if these characters can overcome odds, so can we!
Hi! The romance! lol Okay, i love the characters and knowing that the love they share, anyone can have. 🙂 Thanks for sharing and being apart of this great hop!
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Can’t wait to read this story. jeanine.mcadam@gmail.com
I like contemporaries because sometimes historicals make me work too hard! I like fun, flightly, funny, fast-paced contemporaries.
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