What group did you hang out with in high school?
I’m not sure I had a particular group. My school in London didn’t have lots of cliques. You were either popular or you weren’t. I had a couple of friends who were considered popular, but I definitely wasn’t part of that crowd. I had a group of friends who were all quite different, some of us were deeply into our emo phase (no judgment please!) and others were all about the boy bands.
What are you passionate about these days?
Travel, photography and writing are my passions. Writing especially is my happy place. Now that I’ve started writing books, I can’t ever see myself not doing it. As long as the ideas keep coming, I’ll keep writing.
If you had to do your journey to getting published all over again, what would you do differently?
I’m not sure I would change anything. Everything I did I learned from. My first book was self-published, and that was a whole learning experience in itself. One that taught me the ins and outs of not only publishing but the importance of marketing. It wasn’t until I wrote a second book that I thought to send it to publishers. I was lucky in a way that I didn’t have to wait long to hear back from Inkspell Publishing, a contract for Love Tools was signed within a few weeks of my submission. From the beginning, they have been a joy to work with. From the cover design to edits, they’ve made the whole journey easy, and I’ve got to know other amazing Inkspell authors along the way too.
Ebook or print? And why?
Can I say both? I mostly buy eBooks because of the sheer volume I read. My bookshelves at home would not fit all the books I read. London isn’t cheap guys; you get very little space for your money! Talking of cheap, eBooks are also so much cheaper than printed books, throw in my Kindle Unlimited subscription and I save a ton of money. But that doesn’t mean I don’t indulge and buy myself a paperback every now and again as a treat, and there’s nothing quite like seeing your own book in print.
What is your favorite scene in this book?
I loved writing the first kissing scene between Jake and Lily. The first kiss is always such a huge deal in any romance book and because of that, I spend a little more time writing it compared to other scenes. All the flirtation and sexual tension finally comes to a head and one kiss changes everything. As most readers know, a kiss is never just a kiss. And the first kiss in Love Tools is no exception.
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BLURB:
When city girl Lily shows up in Bluestone County, cocky cowboy Jake reckons it won’t be long until she hightails it back to London. It didn’t matter that his heartrate spiked whenever she was nearby. Or that he couldn’t get her out of his head. Because Jake was the king of casual and Lily was apparently the queen of picking the wrong men.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Isobel was born and raised in London. She still lives along the River Thames with her husband and her substantial book collection. Ever the hopeless romantic, she fell in love with the genre from a young age and was inspired to write her own stories. When she's not feasting on romantic comedies or binge-reading her hoard of contemporary romance novels, Isobel is writing.
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/isobelreedbooks
https://www.instagram.com/isobelreedbooks/
https://www.amazon.com/author/isobelreed
https://www.goodreads.com/Isobel_Reed
https://www.bookbub.com/authors/isobel-reed
Buy Links:
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJZ1QW41
KOBO: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/love-tools
BARNES & NOBLE: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love-tools-isobel-reed/1142547867
APPLE: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6443957300
GOODREADS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63105785-love-tools
BOOKBUB: Love Tools: Bluestone Series: Book One by Isobel Reed – BookBub
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