About this Event
All are welcome to a presentation and signing with Local Author, Beck Erixson! She will be presenting her newest title Feeling Fiery that came out in paperback April 2024 and is now available in audiobook.
Let's warm up this winter with a hot contemporary romance!
Saturday, January 11th at 7pm!
If you wish to pre-order your book, CLICK HERE!
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About the Book:
Life gets awkward when two opposites find love is their unexpected adventure.
Fiadh O’Cleary, the planner of all planners, is ready to celebrate all summer after becoming a tenured associate professor of fermentation and brewing. Within hours of turning in her grades and going home for the break, she finds a letter in her city apartment informing her she’s now single because she’s boring. Worse, she discovers her carefully laid out plans of teaching students the art of making hard cider in a proper space that is not a makeshift lab, her dream of all dreams, is close to gone. An evening of commiseration with her best friend since childhood leaves her with a throbbing head and a litany of emails for day-trip adventures in woodsy northwestern New Jersey.
Fiadh calls the adventure company to cancel and is informed by the grumpy man on the phone, Maverick Graves, that the programs are nonrefundable. Despite trying charm and then flat-out protest, she cannot change his mind. Her choices are kissing the money goodbye or a summer of hiking, rock climbing, whitewater rafting, and more experiences she is not prepared for. Maverick thinks nature has all the answers Fiadh needs, but she is not convinced. After all, nature cannot plan. On an adventure day, rain pours, and she goes running for shelter only to find herself in a defunct old cider mill. The mill leaves her breathless. With repairs and proper care, the space would be better than anything the city could ever offer. But the mill comes with Maverick.
As the summer ticks away and her timeline grows shorter, she finds arguing with Maverick in the woods is more fun than not being around him. His quiet nature is a frustrating combination of intoxicating and intellectually addicting. The pressing timeline of the upcoming school year means she must figure out whether there’s a way to be all in with Maverick and the mill, or if she’ll have to hit pause and retreat back to her comfortable routine of university life.
Plans are hard to make when there are distractions everywhere, and Maverick Graves is a distraction.
A Note from the Author:
First things first…I’m a full-blown Jersey Girl. The non-fist pumping type who grew up near a big lake and now lives down the Jersey Shore just a few blocks from a major river connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. I absolutely love living here, and there’s always plenty of salt in the air to invigorate the soul.
I write primarily Romance with humor and super deep feely feel Women’s Fiction. My betas, critique partners, and writer friends have mentioned on more than one occasion I’m really good at putting the awkward into my FMCs. I find awkward highly relatable. Life is messy and awkward happens. In the Romance genre I love reading humor, and adore interwoven touches of magic.
In 2018 I finished a Doctor of Letters. What is that? (Don’t worry, everyone asks this question.) Essentially, a D.Litt. is a Doctorate in Humanities. I was able to take a great number of well rounded courses in subjects I love. I devoured history, writing, and philosophy courses. Throughout my studies in undergrad, graduate school, and for my doctoral program I was fortunate enough to study in Japan, China, and in Ireland. Ultimately, I wrote my thesis and dissertation on topics incorporating identity theory. Why is this important? A good deal of my writing focuses on the MCs looking to figure out who they are. For me, identity and the search to understand our identities is such a relatable subject. (The subject itself is beautifully complex, and yes we all have multiple levels of identity. I won’t keep writing about this here because I’ll nerd out for hours.)
- Beck Erixson
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Hope to see you at the bookstore!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Asbury Book Cooperative, 644A Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park, United States
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