Happy Pride Month, everyone!

I’m so excited about my latest release, Sour Grapes, published just in time to kick off this month of celebrating and recognizing our community. It’s been a year (ugh) since my last release, book 5 in the Don’t Call Me Hero series, so I hope you’re ready for this brand new story and its new couple.

Sour Grapes was really inspired by a vacation I took with my wife back in December of 2019 to celebrate 15 years of being together. We had the good fortune to visit Napa Valley and stay at a really beautiful property on a vineyard. The setting was off the charts, so I tucked it into my “To Write” queue and set to writing the novel immediately after wrapping up Julia and Cassidy’s latest adventures from Grave Mistake.

I didn’t set out to make Sour Grapes a slow-burn romance, but the characters took a while to even tolerate each other; a romance would have to evolve from an initially prickly meet-cute. I hope the wait for their first kiss and (this book!) will be worth it. As always, I’d love to hear what you think of this new couple—let me know! Communicating with readers on social media is one of my favorite things and one of the biggest things I miss about writing fanfiction, back in the day. And if you enjoyed the book, I hope you’ll consider leaving a review. It’s the best kind of word-of-mouth PR we indie authors can get!

Next up, I give myself the rest of the month off to recharge my creative juices before diving into a new project. I’ve promised you that Book 6 in the Don’t Call Me Hero series would be next, and I fully intend to keep to my word. My wife and I have another trip to Napa coming at the end of June to celebrate her birthday … who knows? Maybe I’ll be inspired for a Sour Grapes sequel if you all enjoy this first installation. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy Sour Grapes. It was a real pleasure to create and evolve these characters and their love story.

Prost,

Eliza