With: Jenny Holiday
Giveaway Alert!
I have two
books on sale right now. They’re very different books—like, laughingly
different. The Engagement Game is a
contemporary romance between career-focused adults in a big city, whereas The Fixer takes place on a college
campus in a small town in the mid-1980s. Of course, we’re in Romancelandia, so
each couple gets their happily-ever-after, but the juxtaposition between the
two books got me thinking about the differences between dating in the two time
periods.

Second: In
the 1980s, people actually went on dates. Like, one person asked the other out,
and at a prearranged time, came together—without their friends—to participate
in a defined activity. If you’re under thirty, you probably think I’m speaking
a foreign language.
Finally:
hair. Yes, hair. We can’t really talk about dating in the 1980s without talking
about hair. Think about someone who has really good hair today. What are you
imagining? Maybe some nice, subtle beachy waves? Or shiny straight hair? Or
tidy braids? Now go off and type “1980s hair” into Google images. Go do it…I’ll
wait.
Are you
back? Did you die laughing? There isn’t really a “2016 style” per se, but we
can define it, relative to the 1980s, as “not enormous.” Oh, the teasing, the
curling, the backcombing! The hugeness, regardless of hair type! I was too young
to date in the early 1980s, and too dorky to date in the late 1980s, but had I
been on the market, I’m honestly not sure how the whole hair thing would have
worked. Would he have broken a finger trying to run his fingers through my
hair? It would have been a real risk.
Title: The Fixer
Series: New Wave Newsroom #1
Author: Jenny Holiday
Genre: New Adult Romance
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Synopsis:
Jenny
Fields is a crusader. The editor of her college newspaper, she never met a
cause she couldn’t get behind. So when the administration announces it’s
tearing down the historic art building, she’s on the case All she needs to do
is get Matthew Townsend, the art department’s boy wonder, on board. They say he
his talent is unbounded. It turns out so is his ego.
Matthew Townsend cares about art. And that’s pretty much it. If he has a reputation for being moody and aloof, that suits him just fine. He doesn’t have a family worth speaking of, and as a scholarship student, he can’t afford to goof off like the preppy rich kids at his school. He certainly doesn’t care about the art building. Or about the relentlessly perky Jenny, who looks like she was barfed up by Rainbow Brite. What will it take to the preternaturally cheerful girl with the massive savior complex to leave him alone?
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Series: 49th Floor #3
Author: Jenny Holiday
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: September 13, 2016
What's a little blackmail between friends?
The black sheep of the old-money Rosemanns, advertising executive Marcus has made his own way in the world--and done extremely well for himself--but his family is still pressuring him to join their investment firm and settle down with a quiet, unobjectionable girl.
Which is why the sexy Rose Verma is the perfect date for his family's charity ball. A bleeding-heart lefty from the wrong side of the tracks, Rose has never met a stray dog she didn't love or a polka-dotted mini-dress she couldn't rock. Marcus has enough dirt on Rose to "convince" her to play along. And if he lets it slip that they're engaged, all the better.
But all's fair in love and blackmail, and Rose is ready to play a few cards of her own...
The black sheep of the old-money Rosemanns, advertising executive Marcus has made his own way in the world--and done extremely well for himself--but his family is still pressuring him to join their investment firm and settle down with a quiet, unobjectionable girl.
Which is why the sexy Rose Verma is the perfect date for his family's charity ball. A bleeding-heart lefty from the wrong side of the tracks, Rose has never met a stray dog she didn't love or a polka-dotted mini-dress she couldn't rock. Marcus has enough dirt on Rose to "convince" her to play along. And if he lets it slip that they're engaged, all the better.
But all's fair in love and blackmail, and Rose is ready to play a few cards of her own...
Available at: Amazon
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& Noble | Kobo
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Author Bio:
Jenny Holiday started writing at age nine when her awesome fourth grade teacher gave her a notebook and told her to start writing some stories. That first batch featured mass murderers on the loose, alien invasions, and hauntings. (Looking back, she’s amazed no one sent her to a kid-shrink.) She’s been writing ever since. After a brief detour to get a PhD in geography, she worked as a professional writer, producing everything from speeches to magazine articles. More recently, her tastes having evolved from alien invasions to happily-ever-afters, she tried her hand at romance. A lifelong city-lover, she lives in Toronto, Canada, with her family. She is represented by Courtney Miller-Callihan of Greenburger Associates.
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Jenny Holiday started writing at age nine when her awesome fourth grade teacher gave her a notebook and told her to start writing some stories. That first batch featured mass murderers on the loose, alien invasions, and hauntings. (Looking back, she’s amazed no one sent her to a kid-shrink.) She’s been writing ever since. After a brief detour to get a PhD in geography, she worked as a professional writer, producing everything from speeches to magazine articles. More recently, her tastes having evolved from alien invasions to happily-ever-afters, she tried her hand at romance. A lifelong city-lover, she lives in Toronto, Canada, with her family. She is represented by Courtney Miller-Callihan of Greenburger Associates.

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