Tamara Mataya here.
I grew up in a very small, rural community. Okay, that's not true.
I actually grew up on a farm and had to travel to *get to* a very small, rural
community.
And then take a bus from there to get to my school.
My elementary school was very small and, sadly, the library was
tiny. But we had this amazing thing called The Bookmobile!
The Bookmobile was basically a huge RV that had been lined with
shelves, and filled with books. It would show up every couple weeks and BLOW
OUR MINDS.
Crammed full of books we hadn't read yet, it was a magical place
for a voracious reader like me who had basically rampaged my way through the
shelves at school and NEEDED MORE THINGS TO READ.
I thought that Bookmobile driver was a hero. Honestly, I’m pretty
sure we all thought that the driver owned
all the books and was letting us borrow them from his private shelves. We
didn’t question why an adult had so many children’s books; we were too busy
grabbing all the Berenstain Bears and Little Miss books we could get our hands
on!
Such a small thing, having new books to read, made a huge
difference in our lives.
And it still means the world to me. Waiting (somewhat) patiently
for the next book in a series I love, knowing it’s On Its Way is almost as
exciting as reading the book itself.
Almost. Let’s not be silly.
There are so many authors out there producing new and exciting
things for us to read, and suddenly I’m out there too, pouring my heart into
the keyboard while words come out of my fingertips.
I’m not a kid climbing the stairs into the dark aisle of the
bookmobile anymore, but I feel just as excited–only now mine is the book
someone might take off the shelf, or one-click.
I can’t tell you how good that feels.
I’m so excited for you all to meet Melanie Walker—a woman who
travels 1200 miles to get away from it all…and finds something she wasn’t expecting—in
Summer Indiscretions, my latest book release.
Putting yourself out there can be incredibly hard to do, but it’s
worth it. The things we regret the most are the ones we DON’T try to go for
because the ‘What Ifs’ can really haunt us.
I can only hope that you’ve gone for one of your dreams as well,
and made it a reality. If not, how about now? Right now. Go for it! It’s never
too late.
Title: Summer Indiscretions
Series: Summer
Love, #2
Author: Tamara
Mataya
Pub Date: January
3, 2017
ISBN: 9781492635345
Free-spirited beach-dweller
looking to Switch lives with outgoing urbanite.
Sense of adventure mandatory.
Clothing optional.
One email away from a total
meltdown, I'm desperate to escape New York. Using Switch—a website designed to
help strangers swap homes for the summer—I slip out of my stilettos and into a
string bikini. But of all the beaches in all the world, Blake Wilde just had to
show up on mine. He's hot. Scorching hot. And he's been strictly off-limits for
as long as I can remember.
To hell with that. New life?
New rules.
I know something this good
can't be made to last. But for three sizzling weeks, I can pretend there won't
be consequences, recriminations, or regret... And that somehow our growing
connection can be more than just a summer fling.
Tamara Mataya
is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, a librarian, and a
musician with synaesthesia. Armed with a name tag and a thin veneer of
credibility, she takes great delight in recommending books and shushing people.
She puts the 'she' in TWSS and the B in LGBTQIA+. Website | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads
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