My latest book With Strings Attached
is the first in a three book series, San Amaro Singles. For anyone who worries
about starting a series before all the books are out, all three books
definitely stand alone and are mainly linked by the location, which is the
fictional California city of San Amaro, and by some of the secondary characters
who appear in each story.
San Amaro is a touristy, beachy city, loosely based on
Huntington Beach, La Jolla and Santa Barbara. I’ve set many of my books in
Santa Barbara, because I’m so familiar with it and it’s probably my favourite
place in the world. But there isn’t a lot of surfing in Santa Barbara, so I put
San Amaro further south on the coast.
San Amaro is home to one of the biggest events on the
Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour. The ASP is a real
organization, however the San Amaro event (the Jackson Cole Open) is fictional.
Jackson Cole is a casual clothing manufacturer based in San Amaro and they
sponsor the event. They also sponsor Dylan Schell, a professional surfer who
grew up in San Amaro.
In With Strings
Attached, Book 1, we meet Matt Ferber and Corey Fenwick. Matt owns Laguna
Dorada, a popular brewpub in San Amaro. Corey is a chocolatier, producing hand-made
luxury chocolates. They’re both passionate about their careers, both loving to
create something new, in Matt’s case a new ale or lager, in Corey’s case a new
combination of chocolate and other ingredients.
Dylan Schell is Matt’s best friend. They grew up together in
San Amaro, spending a lot of time surfing. But Dylan went on to make surfing
his career, and he’s on the ASP World Tour, trying to win, when he gets
seriously injured. He’s grounded for a while so he comes home to San Amaro to
recuperate.
In Book 2, How to Love (June, 2013) we meet Jules Stockwood. Jules is a photographer who does portraits and some commercial photography, and beneath her studio is a small gallery where she displays and sells some of her more artistic photographs. Her nude photos have become very popular, but she needs models willing to pose nude. When two hunky guys, Mike and Carlos, move into the house next door, she thinks she’s struck photography gold.
Carlos and Mike moved into the house next door to Jules, but
on the other side of them is Matt Ferber’s house. The “Surf Sisters”, Arabella
and Jaden, run a surf shop and school at the beach, and they live on the beach
near Matt and Carlos, and Mike and Jules, and hold wildly popular beach parties.
In Book 3, Slammed
(September, 2013) Dylan returns to San Amaro a year later for the Jackson Cole
Open. He’s really feeling it’s his turn to win, and it would be amazing to be the
home town boy who wins the event. But he’s been living life a little wild
lately, trying to bury all the bad stuff in his head, and his sponsor, Jackson
Cole, isn’t too happy about that. Assistant Marketing Manager Brooke Lowry is
assigned the job of polishing up Dylan’s image and keeping him out of trouble
while he’s in town.
So we do get to visit with the characters from each book
again, with most of the overlap being between Book 1 and Book 3, but each story
stands alone.
So what's your favourite kind of pie?
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4 comments:
Pie! I love blackberry pie, especially when they're just picked off the bushes and topped with a sour cream crust. Or lemon meringue.
And I cannot WAIT to enjoy all three of these books! Mmmm!
I love key lime pie best, but I'm kind of confused. Does pie play a big role in the series?
No, pie has nothing to do with the series, but I can never think of a good question to ask at the end of a blog post.
These books all sound good. I guess my favorite kind of pie would either by Coconut Creme Pie or either Apple or Pumpkin. However, I don't eat pie very often, maybe once or twice a year.
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