I was going to blast out a quick little email, reminding you all that Vacations Like This is available in Kindle Unlimited.

But instead I'm going to do a little soul-baring...(Feel free to skip this part. 😜)

Can I tell you a trade secret?

Release weeks are exhausting.

It's scary to share a book with the rest of the world. When it's your own book baby that you put out there, it's difficult to separate from the story. To realize that not everyone is going to connect with the same characters. That little quirks that one person LOVES is what annoys someone else.

I could happily sit in a tiny cabin and write to my hearts content. I ADORE writing. It's my favorite. But the soul-baring part comes when I tell you that reviews scare me, and publishing makes me want to cry almost every. single. time.

Did you know lots of authors are this way?

I don't know if it's because the majority of us are introverted, so it's difficult to put our words out there for the world to read, or if it's something else entirely. But publishing is scary. Waiting for reviews is frightening. Wondering if other people will love the characters as much as you did or not.

So why do I go through this stress? This hard part? Why don't I just write my stories in my tiny cabin and keep them all to me?

Because I want to make people smile. I want people to connect with characters and see that other people struggle with the same things they do. I know I've felt that connection many times as a reader.

In Vacations Like This, Mack struggles to tell people 'no' while Kimber has an over-active imagination and talks too much.

My characters will always struggle with something very real and relatable. And I think that's the beauty of stories. It's the connection we can feel. The joy and angst as we follow a character through their personal growth. It gives us perspective and hope for our own struggles.

And I guess you could say that's why I publish: to bring joy and connection to readers.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk. *quietly climbs off stage but probably trips on a cord*

Thanks for letting me be real and open with you. Now I'll be submerging myself back into that writing cabin now, and hiding from the big, scary publishing world. 😂

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Lots of love and awkward hugs,

Carina Taylor

P.S. I have two more fun romcoms for you to read! 😍 Both are in Kindle Unlimited as well.

Twice jilted, I’ve sworn off love forever.

But Miller James might be the one man to change my mind.

Newly un-engaged, I’ve returned to Sugar Creek to the welcoming arms of my family to make a fresh start. While I have a reputation for being unlucky in love, I’ve just scored the career coup of a lifetime—to work at Hope Farms, a therapy ranch for military veterans. The problem? The owner is the arrogantly handsome Miller James. He might be an old friend, but Miller’s all grown up now and made it clear I’m not welcome. I’ve got six months to make my program a success, but it’s hard to help others heal with Miller’s interference—and the return of someone from my past.

Miller’s got some secrets of his own. After a family tragedy rocked his world, the entrepreneurial genius left his first class life behind to open Hope Farms. And maybe everything Miller touches does turn to gold, but when my sisters recruit him in their pursuit of my next Mr. Right , Miller gets a little too involved. The lines are blurring between work and romance, and my boss has ideas that make me question his strategies—and his heart.

Can two broken people mend enough to heal together? Nothing’s fair in love and farming, but can Miller James and I harvest our own happily ever after?

Sweet Right Here is the first book in the hilarious, swoony Lost Story Bookshop series. Perfect for fans of laughs, sighs, and closed-door romance.

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Can you keep a secret? ... I'm in love with my best friend. 

There are three things you should know about me.

• I hate running. No, really. I only run when someone's chasing me, and thankfully that's never happened.
• My ideal Friday night includes pizza, The Princess Bride, and dancing with abandon.
• And, I'm madly in love with my best friend.

That right there, that's my secret.

Trevor, and I grew up next door to one another. Yes. He's the boy next door. Even now, we rent opposite sides of a duplex, and we work across the aisle from one another at the Corn Corners Tribune. Basically, there isn't a part of my life Trevor hasn't touched. I take that back. Me. He hasn't touched me.

He's made it clear we're in the friend zone and whatever feelings he had for me were a passing thing for him, while mine keep growing like a Chia pet on a humid summer day in the midwest. Unruly, and apparently pointless.

So, now I'm resigned to get Trevor out of my system once and for all.

If only Trevor would see me as more than a friend ... But, unless he shows me otherwise, I'm going to have to do what it takes to move on.

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