Take 5 With Liz Flaherty

Please welcome a long-time friend, Harlequin Heartwarming author Liz Flaherty.

About Liz Flaherty

Liz thinks one of the things that keeps you young when you quite obviously aren’t anymore is the constant chances you have to reinvent yourself. Her latest professional incarnation is as a Harlequin Heartwarming author, and she is enjoying every minute!

She’d love to hear from you at lizkflaherty at gmail.com, or find her online at: Website * Facebook * Twitter * Word Wranglers Blog * Gems In The Attic Blog

About Every Time We Say Goodbye

He had her at "hello again…"

After the prom night accident that had stolen the innocence of his small lakeside hometown, Jack Llewellyn had run. The guilt—especially facing his high school sweetheart, Arlie Gallagher—had been too much. Now he had no choice. He was back in town, and on Arlie's radar.

Arlie couldn't believe that after all these years, she still had him under her skin. He was such a changed man…a responsible business owner, a single parent. Would he understand the changes she'd gone through, the secrets she lived with? She was ready to forgive him but was he ready to forgive himself? And did they have to say goodbye this time?

Take 5 With Liz Flaherty

1. What kind of promotion do you enjoy the most?

I chose this question to answer because it’s so easy. My favorite promotion is guest blogging. I wrote a newspaper column for years, so my favorite way to write is still in a 400-word piece with a beginning, middle, and end. I’m not sure I’ve ever sold the first book this way, but it sure is fun.

2. What's your guilty pleasure when it comes to food and drink?

Pringles—and yes, I can eat a whole can if I’m not paying attention—and vanilla milkshakes from Steak and Shake. It’s easy to avoid the shakes, because the closest S & S is 35 miles away, but Pringles are everywhere.

3. What's the best review you ever received?

It’s on Goodreads for One More Summer. It starts with this: “This book had to be one of the most 'healing' books in my life. I related to it extremely, on a personal level. I had a lot of cleansing cries from it - that's for sure...” and goes uphill from there. Although I don’t read all my reviews, I have gone back and read this one more than once to give myself a “yes, I can” bump when I need it. (Click here to read the complete review.

4. What's the worst review you ever received?

I’m not sure it was the worst, but the most damaging was a 2 I received from RT for Back to McGuffey’s. I won’t offer a quote from it because as far as I could tell, the reviewer hadn’t read the book. I’m not one who thinks all reviews should be good (although I won’t leave a bad one), but I do think reviewers should be careful of what they say. I’ve never understood the need to be hurtful.

5. What's your guilty pleasure when it comes to books?

I had to think about this because I think guilt and books don’t belong in the same sentence, but then I realize sometimes they do. Because I will have a long list of TBR books on my Kindle and instead of delving into one of those shiny new choices on a rainy Sunday afternoon, I’ll read a Kristan Higgins or Mary Balogh or Kathleen Gilles Seidel that I’ve read before—more than once. (Not just them, but theirs are the names that jumped out first.) The reason I feel guilty is because when I choose a known quantity that I know will make me laugh, cry, and sigh with pleasure, I’m not giving a new author a chance.

Every Time We Say Goodbye is available at these booksellers: Amazon * B & N * Kobo * Harlequin

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