I’m delighted to share that my third standalone quirky and funny novel in the Love & Mishaps series is a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards!
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Love & Misdirection is a Finalist!
Author: Mari Jane Law
Author of quirky, sweet, uplifting, laugh-out-loud romantic comedies. Member of the Romantic Novelists' Association's NWS. Member of the SOA.
Love & Misdirection – Kindle Publication Day!
Love & Mishaps #3
I’m thrilled to announce that Love & Misdirection has been published in paperback.
The Kindle is available for pre-order and will be released on December 1, 2024.
Although reading the previous two titles is unnecessary, it would certainly enhance enjoyment. This is another multi-point-of-view story and is also multi-layered.
Here is the Amazon description:
Two people. Two personal tragedies. Can an outrageous lie bring them together?
Harmony Payne is at breaking point. She’s survived being dumped, losing her musical career and a lifesaving operation that rendered her childless. But when she discovers an abandoned newborn, the door to her agonising past re-opens. Hope and longing for motherhood grow—but can she keep the baby? Being engaged might increase her chances of adopting the foundling, but the only eligible man she knows is her judgemental new neighbour…
James Traffurth is still grieving for his wife and younger child. Moving into a cottage opposite the children’s home where Harmony lives and works, the fresh start he wishes for with his wayward older son becomes complicated. The last thing James needs is a fake engagement. Yet…
Life is never simple with troubled youngsters, a clueless employee and mums with adorable babies. While Harmony’s yearning to build a family, James is valiantly trying to rescue what’s left of his.
Will Harmony ever become a mother—and will she and James find happiness together?
Love & Misdirection: A thought-provoking, fake engagement romantic comedy set near Bristol, UK.
Heat level: mild – sometimes described as ‘fade to black’ – and comedic.
Language: mild.
Themes include loss of pregnancy, childlessness from past cancer and serious childhood issues.
LOVE & MISDIRECTION is the funny yet thought-provoking THIRD book in the LOVE & MISHAPS QUIRKY ROMANTIC COMEDY STANDALONE series. If you like deeply wounded souls, farcical moments, stories with children and babies, bittersweet storylines and heartwarming endings, then you’ll love MARI JANE LAW’S quirky romantic comedy. Buy LOVE & MISDIRECTION for an entertaining, thought-provoking read today!
Hygge Book Tours
Love in the Cupboard book tour to start tomorrow 20.03.2023 thanks to Hygge Book Tours!
Love in the Cupboard: A quirky, uplifting, contemporary romantic comedy is out now!
Love & Mishaps book 2
A Catholic priest seeks a wife. A betrayed woman needs an honest man.
What could possibly go wrong?
When Father Thomas Sheridan encounters Faith in a dark cupboard, he believes he’s found his future wife. But Tom isn’t brave enough to tell her the truth…
When Faith meets Tom in the office kitchenette, she can’t stand him. No matter, she’s fallen for the mysterious man she met in the cupboard and can’t wait to meet him again. Oh, and she’s got a new rule: one lie and he’s out. She’s not getting duped again.
But everyone loves Tom. From Perdita, Faith’s friend, to Hope, her chronically ill sister—who’s on the lookout for a man herself. And neighbours Luke and Gavin—who’ve fallen out over Luke wanting a baby. They urge Faith to give Tom a chance. But how can she have strong feelings for two men? And even worse, how will she react when she discovers that Tom is the man in the cupboard—and, heaven forbid, a Catholic priest?
Love in the Cupboard: A charming, sweet, quirky, farcical, hilarious, contemporary romance set in Bristol, UK. It is the second in the series but can be read as a standalone novel.
Heat level: mild – sometimes described as “fade to black” – and comedic.
Language: mild.
Readers who enjoyed the witty dialogue found in Jennifer Crusie’s Anyone But You might enjoy the dialogue in Love in the Cupboard.
Enjoy Catholic humour e.g. Father Ted and British humour e.g. Tom Sharpe? Enjoy a forbidden love story? Give Love in the Cupboard a go and buy now!
Love & Pollination: Love & Mishaps Book 1 was shortlisted for Choc Lit’s 2019 Search for a Star competition.
Mari Jane Law… knows how to keep a story rollicking along, uses language confidently, and crafts a great plot. Amazon reviewer.
How Do You Write Romantic Comedy?
Visit The Romance Bloke‘s website for my article on writing romantic comedy and read some hilarious quotes from Love & Pollination.
Royal Mail Stamp
Royal Mail was inspired by the beautiful cover of Love & Pollination (obviously!) and so produced a stamp to commemorate Perdita’s unique coping mechanism for emotionally managing Setback Number One.
Many thanks to DuBois Publishing for having made this possible (they designed the fantastic cover). (Did you work out its meaning before reading the book?)
Would you let your dog drive your car?
Comedy is for everyone – including men. Watch with the sound on!
This guy was so keen to read, Love & Pollination that he asked his dog to take over the driving. Do you know a man you can recommend my whacky romantic comedy book to? – but only if he doesn’t own a dog.
A man contacted me after seeing this page and wrote: I take it the dog has already read your book? I replied: He’s the one who recommended it!
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