If I had to sum up my writing in one word, it would be SWEETNESS.
I’m always telling people that my brand of Sweetness consists of one (or more!) of the five F’s… First times, first loves, fidelity, forever endings, and… friskiness! (’Cause stories can definitely be both sweet AND spicy!)
I’m a library-lady by trade and I live my life on the ideals of intellectual freedom! But, just because I write Sweetness doesn’t mean that every story should be sweet (how boring would that be?) or that my writing is for everyone.
I do love me some solid FOREVERs, though. Sweet Giordan, Please Remember (my first published novella) really examines what happens to forever when a love is put to the test. How long would you continue to search for your lover? What if you had no assurances that they were still alive? Even if you found them, how could you know that they would still want you? I wanted to explore what would happen if someone spent years searching. That moment when you’re reconnected? Do you run into each other’s arms? Or are you more hesitant?
I write forevers because I want to believe in forever. Sometimes the world really is dark, and love doesn’t always triumph. But I feel that if I write a story about hope, then I can add a little hope to the world. That’s what I tried to do with Giordan.
Fill the world with Sweetness! We all can.
Raine
(Thank you so much, Sid Love, for hosting me!)
Blurb
Sweet Giordan, Please Remember by Raine O’Tierney
Giordan Stone is lucky, all things considered. Sure, he spent five years in a coma only to wake with a right leg that’s practically useless and no memories other than his name. But now he’s under the care of sassy southern surrogate mother, Chloe Devereaux, spending his days painting and healing. Giordan wants for nothing at all… until he looks out the window one morning and sees Chloe’s gorgeous son, Shane, standing there. Something very familiar stirs in Giordan.
When he sketches, Giordan is able to go into an “art trance” where pieces of disjointed memory come back to him without time or place. More and more of these flashes are of Shane Devereaux and the intense, intimate experiences they shared together. Even though Shane keeps his distance now, Giordan is convinced his flashes are real. But he doesn’t have the whole story. Giordan is determined to fill in his memory blanks and convince Shane his feelings are genuine.
Excerpt
Outside, the light of the morning was a gentle white. He was ready to go with Chloe to the orchard and paint anything and everything. Maybe she’d take him all the way down to the end of the lane so he could sit near the creek that separated the Devereaux’s property from county land.
Giordan was daydreaming about smearing blues across fresh canvas when something down below caught his eye. He looked closer.
His cane slipped through loose fingers, but he didn’t hear it clatter to the wood floor. He didn’t hear anything. Suddenly, his whole attention was intensely focused on a man standing down on the walk. He was talking seriously with Chloe’s husband, Mr. Devereaux.
Giordan couldn’t have torn his eyes away if they’d been burning, because something about the man he saw there was familiar and that familiarity strained against the mental veil. A hot feeling spread over him, and he flushed, at once both embarrassed and curious. He wanted to throw open the window and call out to this stranger, but of course, he didn’t know his name. What in the world was happening to him? Did he know the man standing below?
Giordan opened his mouth and raised his fists to the pane to call attention to himself when Chloe caught his arm and placed the cane back into his hand.
He’d never seen the look on her face before, and it startled him into obedient silence. She placed a finger to her lips and motioned him back to his bedroom. Giordan snuck one final look at the man standing outside before Chloe hurried him on, faster than his aching side wanted to go. That deep, familiar feeling lingered inside him, and Giordan felt achingly disappointed at his missed opportunity.
“Maman, who is that?” Giordan asked once she’d shut his door.
Her look softened and she placed a gentle hand against his cheek. “That’s my son, Shane.”
“Shane,” Giordan repeated. He was hoping once he had a name to go along with the handsome face that memories would flood in and everything would become clear. “But I know him, right?” he begged, certain she would confirm it. Seeing Shane’s face was like the trances Giordan went into when he drew: too familiar not to be real.
Chloe took one long, slow breath and replied, “Ah, not anymore, honey. It’s been a long time.”
“Well, then I’d like to meet him. I-I should reintroduce myself!”
“Giordan, I….” Chloe’s hesitation, much like the expression she’d had on her face, quieted him. She didn’t want them to meet. “I don’t think that’s such a good idea.”
Buy links
DSP: http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/store/index.php?cPath=55_1024
ARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sweetgiordanpleaseremember-1453078-149.html
Bio
Raine O’Tierney is an always-writing, boundlessly enthusiastic, exclamation point addict! (!!!) She is known for declaring every day “the best day EVER!” and every thing her “all-time FAVORITE!” Despite this (obnoxious?) exuberance, she still somehow manages to have a wonderfully encouraging husband and writing partner, Siôn, and an amazing group of friends and colleagues who continue to support (read: put up with) her. Raine spends her days working as a library lady, fighting the good fight for intellectual freedom.
Website and social media links
Website: http://raineotierney.com/
E-mail: Raineotierney@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RaineOTierneyAuthor
The Hat Party (LGBT Author Interviews) http://raineotierneyhatparty.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @RaineOTierney
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/RaineOTierney
Blog Tour and Prizes!
Sweet Giordan, Please Remember Blog Tour
March 17th–March 29th
Prizes:
*** Set of Sweet Giordan, Please Remember and Under the Table and Into His Heart ebooks
*** I Believe in the Sweetness Notebook
*** I Believe in the Sweetness Tote
*** 2x I Believe in the Sweetness Bumper Stickers
*** 2x Sweetness! Bumper Stickers
Please visit Home of the Sweetness to enter:
http://raineotierney.blogspot.com/2014/03/sweet-giordan-please-remember-blog-tour.html
On my wishlist!
Thank you so much, Laurie! ^__^
count me in please
Thank you, Lee!
Sounds like a great one! (Wish I’d known about the Rafflecopter before now, and I think I messed it up today anyway…)
It’s still open a couple more days, so you can definitely still enter <3 Thank you so much, Trix
I like books with hope and HEA. It makes life brighter, and as you said, sweeter.
I so appreciate you, Jbst <3
I like those Fs myself.
Please count me in.
YAY! Another lover of the Five F’s! <3 Thank you so much, Debra!
Sounds really interesting. I’ve added to my wishlist.
Thank you so much! <3