updated May 23, 2013
Welcome to The Web Pages of Janet Wellington
and GRANTITUDE PRESS!
[= Grant + Gratitude]
Where every ebook includes a gift...
10% of my royalties are donated to a designated non-profit organization! My way to make a difference, one ebook at a time.
My latest ebook release is:
My latest reader contest ended May 13 and the
Winner of the "MEOW TIME" bracelet watch is
Megean B.!!!
MAX finally makes his choice!
Spring Bling Contest Winner:
Congrats to Leah O.
She won this super-cute bracelet watch....
...Max-the-office-cat picked her name!
PREVIOUS SPRING SPLASH BOOK BLAST CONTEST WINNER!!
Carole B. won this Spring-y Basket I gave away during the Spring Splash Book Blast event!
More Goodies:
EMAIL ME FOR A FREE 2013 CAT CALENDAR! mail@janetwellington.com
Here's the June cat:
Photo taken during a trip to Italy where I spoke at the
Women's Fiction Festival in Matera!
MORE ABOUT MY LATEST RELEASE:
She’s done everything to hide her past...
Angie Fletcher has worked hard to put her Midwest farmer’s daughter image behind her, happily replacing it with a move to San Diego and landing her dream job as a sophisticated up and coming TV reporter at KSUN. She even has a fiancé who totally understands her and her career goals. Everything is perfect until she’s assigned to cover a community gardening project--definitely not the hard news assignment she’s been hoping for. She does her best to grit her teeth and just get through it, but when she meets long-haired, devastatingly handsome and mysterious Jason Macdonald, owner of Green Zone--the subject of her assignments--he manages to get under her skin in a way she doesn’t want and can barely handle. But, hey, she’s a professional, right? So what if his casual touch makes her stomach do somersaults?
He’ll do anything to forget his past...
Jason Macdonald has thrown his heart and soul into his new business--helping urban neighborhoods reclaim land and create thriving community gardens. It’s a far cry from his former fast-paced life when he ran an exclusive landscape architect business. He’s done with working 24/7 and he’s especially done with women who are career driven over everything else. He’s buried his past, including some heartaches that will never heal...and he’s finally found his own patch of paradise and loves the new business he’s in. When he learns the new KSUN reporter is resisting covering his new business, he’s ready to set her straight. She’s everything he expects--type-A all the way...but he also suspects she’s hiding something. When she lets her guard down, he sees a glimpse of the real Angie. But what is she hiding...and why does he care so much?
As their attraction builds and they are forced to work together, will Angie and Jason each face their pasts in order to open up their hearts to an unexpected future?
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FIRST 3 CHAPTERS
The designated charity for UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
is the American Heart Association! www.heart.org
My debut ebook is:
HOMECOMING
...and, HOMECOMING was a Quarter-Finalist in the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest!! Though I didn't go further in the contest, I did receive a review from Publisher's Weekly....
ABNA Publishers Weekly Reviewer
"The author delivers engaging characters and a charming spin on an old plot in this mildly spicy contemporary romance. Hardworking Chicago advertising exec Jake Randall travels to his tiny hometown -- Faythe, Wisconsin, which he’d left years earlier after escaping his abusive father -- to help his elderly Aunt Tillie repair her aging Victorian house. Upon arriving, he finds Tillie has died and a familiar face is now living in her house: divorcée Cory Richards, a high school friend. Matchmaker Tillie has one more surprise in store: Jake and Cory both are inheriting half of her home, but to earn it, the two must live there together for three months. Soon, Jake’s feeling much more than friendship for the sweet nurse, but can he dare hope she feels the same? For her part, Cory’s been kicked in the face by love as an adult -- but believed Jake to be out of her league since they were high school students. The author deftly builds a believable plot and significant emotion as Jake and Cory struggle to define what their past means -- and what their future may be. While the prodigal son returning to his small town and garnering the local girl is a long-used and familiar strategy in contemporary romances, this author proves to be a master of rising above the usual stereotypical romance elements, creating a believable plot and characters readers root for from page one. Enjoyable and fresh."
Cory Wells-Richards left her cheating husband behind and headed straight back to tiny Faythe, Wisconsin, eager to create a new future for herself. First order of business, keep her promise to a dear friend and finish the renovation on the Victorian for dearly departed Tillie and find homes for her nine cats. How tough could that be? But when Tillie’s great-nephew shows up to help, it’s all she can do not to fall right back into his arms. She's been down that heartbreak road with him before, and coming off her recent divorce she's determined to guard her heart, no matter how sexy he looks with a hammer in his hand and his shirt off.
Jake is caught between a rock and a hard place. Well, between his party-hearty, successful big city life in Chicago and the sleepy hometown he was glad to see in his rear-view mirror at the tender age of 18. He plans to fulfill his promise to Tillie and help restore her house to get it ready to sell, then return to his comfortable life in Chicago. But how is he supposed to get any work done with pretty little Cory around doing her best to drive him crazy? Being in Faythe rekindles all those long forgotten memories, some bad and some good--including his desire for Cory, the one girl he couldn’t have.
As the sexual tension between Cory and Jake heightens and their emotional connection strengthens, will they let down their barriers long enough to find true love, or will the pain of the past keep them apart forever?
Click here to read the first 3 chapters
HOMECOMING's designation charity (to receive 10% of my royalties) is the Halo Pet Foundation, sponsor of the FreeKibble sites. Visit the site, answer a trivia questions and help feed shelter cats!! www.FreeKibbleKat.com
http://authormarketingclub.com
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the promotion and enjoyment of books...
to those who read,
and to those who write.
You will find encouragement on these pages.
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But mostly.......
I hope I can encourage you to identify your dream,
Find out what it will take to make it happen,
and.........BEGIN.
"If you are writing without zest, without gusto,
without love, without fun, you are only half a writer."Ray Bradbury, in Zen in the Art of Writing.