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Christine Nolfi

Party time on the Women’s Fiction Fans FB page

March 27, 2017 by Patricia Sands 36 Comments

Hey everyone! Join all of us who host the Women’s Fiction Fans FB page on Tuesday, March 28th, for our spring fling! We love to connect with our readers and share thoughts and comments about books you love or simply about reading in general … or anything else that’s on your mind. Ask us questions at the party, enter all the great giveaways we have planned and feel free to invite your friends!

Don’t forget to keep refreshing your FB page. That’s how you can keep up with the conversation threads. I know it gets a bit crazy at times …  but you all make it so much fun!

Here’s what the schedule looks like … see you there!

Enter the special code word from the party in a comment here, for a chance to win a free audiobook of The Bridge Club! Good luck everyone!

The winner will be announced in my April newsletter. Have you subscribed yet?

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Christine Nolfi’s sweet new release!

February 28, 2017 by Patricia Sands Leave a Comment

Christine Nolfi’s latest novel is released today!

It’s a classic heartwarming and entertaining story in the style we’ve all come to expect and love from her.

Here are the details straight from Christine herself!

Welcome to Sweet Lake

Booklist gave me happy feet when they said my February 28th release “…has such a charming small-town vibe and endearing characters that readers will find themselves falling in love with quirky Sweet Lake and hoping for a series.”

There’s no need for hoping: look for the second book The Comfort of Secrets in summer, 2017.

If you’ve read the Liberty Series, you know I love writing stand-alone stories without cliffhangers, and with characters reappearing in later books. Creating a fictional town packed with eccentric, heartwarming people that readers will enjoy visiting time and again—is there anything more exciting? For me, there isn’t.

In Sweet Lake, Linnie Wayfair battles to wrest control of the family’s inn, a historic Ohio landmark, from her flamboyant, filmmaker brother. During the tussle for control, she inadvertently sparks a romance with his attorney. Not that she thinks romance is a great idea: the tourist town of Sweet Lake, Ohio is dying. If she doesn’t turn the Wayfair Inn around, her beloved hometown will be all but shuttered.

She has help along the way from her two closest friends, Jada and Cat. She’s also aided by a group of older women in town who refuse to see the inn shut down. The Sweet Lake Sirens intervene on Linnie’s behalf in hilarious, and often poignant ways.

I don’t want to give all the fun away. Let me leave you with this quote from Kirkus Reviews: “The theme that ‘any event capable of breaking a woman could break her open instead, to reveal her true beauty and power’ reveals itself in surprising ways. In this uplifting and charming story, each room of the inn is filled with friendship, forgiveness, and love.”

Award-winning author Christine Nolfi provides readers with heartwarming and inspiring fiction. Her debut Treasure Me is a Next Generation Indie Awards finalist. The Midwest Book Review lists the books in the Liberty Series as “highly recommended” and her novels have enjoyed bestseller status. Look for her 2017 series, Sweet Lake.

Join her mailing list by clicking here.

Christine’s website ~ click here.

Goodreads page ~ click here.

Facebook page ~ click here.

Christine on Twitter @christinenolfi

Link to Sweet Lake on Amazon by clicking here. 

Link to the Liberty Series on Amazon by clicking here.

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Spend some time with Christine Nolfi!

June 22, 2016 by Patricia Sands 13 Comments

Many of you are accustomed to seeing me involved in writing events and projects with Christine Nolfi.Nolfi-Photo-150x150 Collaboration is just one of the many rich and satisfying aspects of a writer’s world. Christine has also now been signed by Lake Union Publishing so we have even more opportunities to interact.

Hi Christine! It’s great fun to have you stop by for a chat!

Patricia, many thanks for the opportunity to stop by your blog! For those readers who are unaware, Patricia and I have been friends for quite a long time. She’s one of the first authors I had the luck of meeting when I began publishing.

Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions and give us a glimpse into your writing world.

PS ~ Have you always been drawn to writing? Was there a particular time in your life when you knew you simply had a story to share with the world?

CN ~ Like many novelists, I can’t recall a time when I wasn’t writing stories! In childhood, I had the other kids on the street convinced fairies had hidden treasures we’d find if we searched hard enough, and in high school, the literary magazine gave my stories front page billing. For many years I worked in public relations. When my children were in elementary school, I finally put storytelling front and center—the Liberty Series was the result.

PS ~ Your stories are described as 51vnQT3UNaL._UY250_“heartwarming and inspirational”, and they certainly are! Do you draw from past experiences in your own life when you develop an idea?

CN ~ Absolutely. I’ve had the luck of an interesting life, meeting an abundance of unusual people over the years. Many of my plots begin with a memory or an idea drawn from those past experiences. For example, the underlying story of Birdie finding her roots in Treasure Me is drawn from my personal history: my French ancestors were among the first families to settle in Charleston, South Carolina in the 1680s.

PS ~ When you begin a story, do you have an outline or do you have a particular writing style?

CN ~ I can’t begin work until a general outline becomes clear, and I’m certain of the main characters’ deep motivations and desires. The plot evolves and often changes as the characters come to life on the page.

PS ~ Is there a particular novel of yours that is your favorite? Why that one?

CN ~ Although I’ve fallen in love with characters of each novel I’ve written, THE TREE OF EVERLASTING KNOWLEDGE holds a special place in my heart. The themes underpinning the story were drawn directly from my experiences as an adoptive mother. In fact, several of the scenes in the novel were inspired by actual events. Like the book’s heroine, I underwent a personal transformation while helping my children put the nightmare of an abusive early childhood behind them.

PS ~ You create strong, engaging characters in all of your stories. Are any of those personalities based on people you have actually met?

CN ~ I suspect my characters represent an amalgam of personalities I’ve met over the years. I never begin work with the notion of representing an actual person in one of my novels.

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PS ~ Your new Wheaten Terrier pup, Lucy, looks like such fun and I’m sure she offers great diversion to your day. What else do you like to do when you aren’t writing?

CN ~ We adore Lucy! Barry and I moved to Charleston five years ago; in many ways, we’re still in tourist mode. We love strolling the beach, visiting the historical sites—Charleston is one of the oldest cities in the U.S., a distinctive the city shares with Boston. Lately I’ve begun researching my Postell ancestry—two weeks ago, I visited the oldest French Huguenot church, appropriately located on Church Street, and discovered the man hosting the tours was a distant cousin. The next thirty minutes were spent in astonishment as he described our ancestral connection to many of the founding families of Charleston.

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PS ~ Congratulations on recently signing a contract with Amazon Publishing’s Lake Union, the women’s fiction imprint. Can you give us a sneak peek at what you will be writing for them and a publication date?

CN ~ Like the Liberty Series, the new series for Lake Union will feature a small town with a cast of quirky characters. I’ve had too much fun writing the debut to call this work! The first book will release in February 2017. The second book will release in July 2017. I hope readers enjoy these new books—I’d love to write ten or more installments for the new series!

Christine’s bio ~ 

Some writers are gifted with an unusual life and I’m certainly one of those.SCG 180x240.jgp I’ve lived in Ohio, Virginia, California, Utah and now South Carolina. In college I was featured on the front page of the Houston Post for a lark that erased all my debt. I met my four adopted children for the first time in the sweltering heat of the tropics. I helped build several companies and was lucky enough to earn a living doing what I love best–writing–in a PR firm I owned.

In 2004 I made the wisest and most irrational decision of my life–I began writing fiction full-time. All those years of hard work pay off daily in sweet notes and comments by readers. Please continue the mail, tweets and comments on FaceBook, GoodReads and other sites. I cherish your support and love chatting with readers.

Visit Christine at her website by clicking right here or on Facebook.

Discover more information about Christine’s books on her Amazon Author Page.

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Work In Progress

March 12, 2015 by Patricia Sands 13 Comments

Author Anneli Purchase lives on beautiful Vancouver Island and sets her anneli7novels in stunning locations. She is a talented writer and copy editor and always so supportive of her peers. I couldn’t resist when she asked me to take part in this “Work In Progress Blog Tour”.

Here’s how it works. First I link back to Anneli‘s website, since she invited me to join. She has posted about her new work in progress and then given us a peek at the first few lines of Chapters 1, 2 and 3. It’s a sequel to her fine novel, The Wind Weeps, which is described in this way, “The Wind Weeps is a pure Canadian tale of love, betrayal, and triumph, told with gusto, humour, and bold insight.” Click here to see more on Amazon.

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Now I’m supposed to do the same with my WIP. My newsletter subscribers TPOPFinalistShadedall know I am hard at work on Book #3 in my Love In Provence series. It’s still untitled as my characters and I develop the storyline and of course I’ll be taking you to some inviting new villages in the south of France. But first we have to spend a bit of time in Toronto …

I assure you Katherine and Philippe have already delivered some great surprises for me as their story progresses. Writing fiction is never dull!

Chapter 1 ~ Rain pelted down. Sheets of water created a continuous, almost impenetrable, curtain across the windshield. The car crawled along in a clog of traffic and the rhythmic ‘wap, wap’ of the windshield wipers was all that broke the silence much of the time.

Philippe knew Kat was struggling to keep her composure. He kept conversation light and brief. “Now you know why I never take a taxi into Paris from the airport. At least with a hired car, I don’t have to watch the meter skyrocket if we get caught like this.”

 Kat nodded and smiled weakly, looking straight ahead. She thought it ironic that the weather was as gloomy and dark as the feelings she was fighting.

Chapter 2 ~ Without a sound sleep the night before, Katherine dozed her way through a couple of  in-flight movies. Her napping had been interrupted by thoughts about Philippe, memories of her mother, as well as shattering images of Molly’s accident.

This would be the first time in almost six months, since she left for Antibes, that Katherine was back to Toronto. Back to the house she had shared with her mother for a few months, after James had walked out on her. She suspected the memories of that special time before Elisabeth died, might be overwhelming at first. It might not be an easy homecoming.

Chapter 3 ~They were back at the hospital by 10:00 a.m., with a detour on the way via the drive-through for Katherine’s café mocha.

“It didn’t take long for you to slip back into that habit,” Terrence teased.

There’s much to discover in this continuing story. Will Molly recover from her dreadful accident? What happens when Katherine, as Molly’s only legal and personal support person, parts from Philippe to return to Canada and help her? And then there’s Nick, who appears back on the scene … and just who is Simone and what is her connection to the story …?

Speaking of which, I’ve got to get back to writing this book.

Before I do, I would like to leave you with links to a few of my good friends who are releasing new novels in the near future. Take a look at what’s going on with Bette Lee Crosby, Christine Nolfi , Diane Capri, Steena Holmes and D.J. McIntosh.

Here’s a brilliant quote from Robin Sharma. Who are you having your conversation with these days?

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