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, So, last year all my reader dreams came true because I got to meet one of my book idols - A.S. King . She is the author of everything I love, and she came to Australia for the Reading Matters Conference last year, to become living PROOF that you should definitely meet your idols. I am thrilled that Text Publishing is this month releasing King's Printz-Honor book, Please Ignore Vera Dietz - and gifting her words to a broader Australian audience. I was even more thrilled when Text asked me if I'd like to interview Amy (again!) So here she is. An author I most admire, letting me pick her brain. Link to the Text website feature (which also includes King's writing process and an extract from the book!) is here: https://goo.gl/Hu795U Enjoy! I work in youth literature. It’s pretty much my whole life. I write, advocate, edit, review, and even sell it as a literary agent. I have bountiful thankfulness for t...
