A warm welcome to author Jaime Samms joining us today to talk about new release “Thief in the Night”, welcome Jaime 🙂
We all know that in real life, love doesn’t change who a person is, fundamentally. We can learn new behaviors to replace old, bad habits with, for sure. We can practice how to treat people better. Sometimes we just don’t know all our bad patterns until someone comes along to point them out.
Like Kreed, in this book, who tended to default to letting his sometimes-lover treat him less than respectfully, sometimes we don’t recognize the poisonous people in our lives for the toxins they are. Then Lucky came along, showed him how a person should treat someone they care about, and Kreed learned to put himself on a higher pedestal, to be nicer to himself and demand better treatment from others.
Or like Lucky, who knew damn well some of his behaviors were not okay, but who had convinced himself there was no other way, sometimes we spin ourselves a narrative for our lives that lets us continue to go down a destructive road instead of making the changes necessary to do better. When Kreed gently pointed him down a less destructive path, Lucky accepted the help. He changed his own story, gave himself a better ending.
So be gentle with yourself. Sometimes, we just don’t know what we don’t know, even about ourselves. Sometimes, we just make bad choices because we were never taught how to make better ones. Until one day, we learn And then we do better. At least that’s the hope.
And that’s the beauty of being a writer. You can create these people, put them in their lives, figure out how bad their lives can get, but then, you can fix it all. It tends to make you think there is a way to fix the whole world. It’s disappointing to realize you don’t have that power in real life, but it also is a good reminder that even if you can’t control the outcome, you can learn to master your own reactions to the bumps in the road.
And we have all had more than a few bumps in the road the past month or so. So here’s to us, riding out the rough road, reding some good books, and coming out the other side hopefully a little more self aware, a little braver, and able to do better than when we started down this path into the unknown.
Blurb:
Lucky Denver has wandering feet, sticky fingers and an unreliable moral compass—he’s never had a home and he’s not so sure he cares about what he’s missing.
Arnold Kreed who runs a small-town B&B knows what a home should be. So does his home, The Oaks—aka Mildred—and she has some very definite opinions on who should stay and who should go.
Mildred wants Lucky to stay—and while Kreed is surprised, he can’t really blame the old girl. He’s getting sort of attached himself. Lucky might be fine with the house’s eccentricities, but he’s not so sure Kreed will be fine with the man attached to Lucky’s real name. When Kreed falls ill, Lucky needs to make a decision—wander away like he’s always done or stay and be his better self. Kreed’s hoping he’ll stay—and so is The Oaks, and Mildred has a way of getting what she wants.
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Jaime Samms is a plaid-hearted Canadian who spends the too-long winters writing stories about love between men and the too-short summers digging in the garden.
A multi-published author whose work has been translated into French, Italian, and German, Jaime delights in the intricate dance of words that leads her through tales of the lost and broken hearted men she writes about, to the love stories that find and mend them.
She also makes pretty things with yarn and fabric scraps because in her world, no heart is too broken to love, and nothing is too worn or tired it can’t be made beautiful. All it takes is determination and the ability to see life a little bit left of center.
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