From the BLURB: When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do ...
Hello Darling Readers, You may remember way back in June when it was announced that I joined Jacinta Dimase Management as ‘ agent-at-large ’ ... specifically I joined with a focus on Young Adult and Middle Grade fiction works. Well, now I'm thoroughly excited to share with you some details about my first author whose manuscript has sold to Hachette . I'd like to introduce you to Graham Akhurst , pictured here signing the contract for his debut YA novel, Borderland - coming out with Hachette in 2018! Graham is an Aboriginal writer and academic hailing from the Kokomini of Northern Queensland. He has been published in Mascara Literary Review , Westerly , and VerityLa , to name a few, and he is currently enrolled in an MPhil in Creative Writing at The University of Queensland. The two people in the photo with him are Associate Professor Jon Willis and Dr Carlos Rivera - his supervisory team for the MPhil, who he also works wit...
