Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Searching For Beautiful by Jennifer Probst ~ Guest Post & Giveaway

SEARCHING FOR BEAUTIFUL (Searching For, #3) by Jennifer Probst
To be released May 26th. 2015 / Gallery Books

BLURB: 
The highly anticipated third novel in the Searching For series from Jennifer Probst, “one of the most exciting breakout novelists” (USA TODAY), featuring a runaway bride and the man who wants to be more than just her best friend…

Genevieve MacKenzie has her life completely under control. About to wed the charming Chief doctor at the local hospital, she’s an up-and-coming surgeon with everything she could ever want. Until an escape through the church window on the day of her wedding sends her life into a tailspin…and flings her right into her best friend’s arms.

When Wolfe catches his best friend falling out a window on her wedding day, he doesn’t ask questions. He whisks her away, determined to watch over her and discover the truth behind her desperate escape. But when his feelings turn more than platonic, he realizes he may risk his most important relationship in order to protect his damaged heart, and the woman he loves.

Can Genevieve and Wolfe’s friendship turn into something deeper—or is it already too late for true love?


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Guest Post by Jennifer Probst

SEARCHING FOR BEAUTIFUL

A REAL LOVE STORY –

As a writer, I’ve evolved into the idea that theme in my series is an important part of the reading experience. What’s so amazing about theme is the reader doesn’t usually know it’s there. Like an invisible presence that bond and connects the books together into one whole, most readers wouldn’t be able to tell you exactly if the writer has incorporated a certain theme in his or her work.

But like anything well done, it’s an element that subtle but powerful. An string as delicate and strong as a spider’s web.

When I began examining my main themes I explored in my work, I kept coming up with certain repetitive subject matters. One emerged more powerful than any other, and I realized this was the premise that excited me beyond all others. I consistently searched for answers, story after story, within the pages of each book I wrote.

In order to embrace romantic love, one must accept and love thyself.

Simple, right?

But...not. Not when life makes us a tangle of our pasts, and mistakes, and shatters our confidence at every turn. Not when pain hits. Not when we are rejected and abused by the ones we love.

Barriers begin to spring up, and it becomes harder to accept and beleive in true love. I’m fascinated by this human condition of normal people fighting to believe and accept extraordinary love and passion.

In the Searching For series, I sketch out each character with the same type of issues. Whether it be hero or heroine, I strip down and explore their pain, finally allowing them to grow within the book until they are strong enough to reach for the one they love.

I never get tired of this. In Searching for Beautiful, Wolfe is damaged from his past. He has such intense demons, he believes he not worthy of anyone’s true lasting love, including himself. HIs journey is one that humbled me, and made me cry as I wrote it.

When you read a book you love and keep coming back to, examine its theme. What is it within the pages the story contains that you are fascinated with? What do you understand and bond with as your own issues? I think it’s an important part of being both an astute reader and writer.

Tell me some of your all time favorite books that exemplify the theme you love the most!


Giveaway...



https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17571266-searching-for-somedayhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17570751-searching-for-perfecthttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609089-searching-for-beautiful

 eBook set of the Searching For series

About the Author:

Jennifer Probst wrote her first book at twelve years old. She bound it in a folder, read it to her classmates, and hasn’t stopped writing since. She took a short hiatus to get married, get pregnant, buy a house, get pregnant again, pursue a master’s in English Literature, and rescue two shelter dogs. Now she is writing again.

She makes her home in Upstate New York with the whole crew. Her sons keep her active, stressed, joyous, and sad her house will never be truly clean.
She is the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of sexy and erotic contemporary romance. She was thrilled her book, The Marriage Bargain, was ranked #6 on Amazon's Best Books for 2012. She loves hearing from readers. Visit her website for updates on new releases and her street team at www.jenniferprobst.com.


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10 comments:

  1. I love all of Jennifer ' s books

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  2. Pretty much any of Jennifer Crusie's books :) they all about loving and being loved for who you are with a lot of humor mixed in. thanks for sharing!

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  3. My very favorite friends to lovers book is Always On My Mind by Jill Shalvis

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  4. I love workplace romances! Jill Shalvis, Carly Phillips, and Susan Elizabeth Phillips have some great books in this theme.

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  5. Oh wow... Wolfe's story sounds like it was hard for Jennifer to write! To cry while trying to bring it to the reader... so good!

    Naomi @ Naomi’s Reading Palace

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  6. I just finished this story and adored it! I know you would love it Val :) Fantastic guest post! I agree that one must love themselves before they can love someone else. Wolfe & Gen's story was an emotional one!

    Lindy@ A Bookish Escape

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  7. I always love the best friend's sibling theme like Kate and Griffin in Jill Shalvis' Rumor Has It.

    Can't wait to read Wolfe's book!!!

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  8. I suppose epic fantasy - the series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE comes to mind.

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  9. I love intense head over heelromances mixed with Paranormal elements. One of my favourite is the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness.

    Megan @ reading away the days

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  10. I love small town romances like the ones written by Susan Mallery, Jill Shalvis, Kristan Higgins, etc

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