Charmaine Gordon
Romance, Suspense, and Adventures for All Ages
The creative mind never stops. Since I sleep write, stories come to me in the night and never let go. I didn’t know writing would be like this when I changed careers after I lost my voice and couldn’t perform any more. I loved the printed words playwrights created never changing a word the way many actors do. And now I sit in my small office crowded with toys for my granddaughter, the crib long gone but I still care for her when my youngest and only daughter, a teacher, needs me, almost a daily occurrence.
Instead of instant gratification with applause, fictional characters keep me company in the solitary world of writing. I’ve written six books and five long/short stories in a new genre for me. Mature Romance/Suspense with an attitude of life isn’t over “til it’s over. This is the most fun I’ve had in the few short years of being an author. With the encouragement of Kimberlee Williams at Vanilla Heart Publishing, I’ve come a long way. Thanks, Coffee Time Romance for this opportunity to bring my latest release, She Didn’t Say No to your widespread readership.
But first a short bio of a long life:
Charmaine Gordon writes books about women who Survive and Thrive. Her motto is take one step and then another to leave your past behind and begin again. Six books and several short stories in three years, she’s always at work on the next story. The books include To Be Continued, Starting Over, Now What?, Reconstructing Charlie, Sin of Omission and The Catch. And a new series of Mature Romances about Sexy Seniors under the umbrella title The Beginning. . .Not The End.
“I didn’t realize at the time while working as an actor in NYC, I’d become a sponge soaking up dialogue, setting, and stage directions. I learned many tools of writing during the years watching directors like Mike Nichols and actors including Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, and Billy Crystal. And would you believe, I was Geraldine Ferraro’s stand-in leg model, my first job giving me entrée into all the Unions needed to work. When the sweet time ended, I began another career and creative juices flowed.”
You can reach Charmaine at http://authorCharmaineGordon.wordpress.com
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She Didn’t Say No by Charmaine Gordon
Mature Romance/Suspense
Grace didn’t say no to the Big Man On Campus, Scott Dwyer. And then her life changed…
Grace makes her way to a new town and with the kindness of strangers, establishes a business called The Pet Emporium where she grooms, what else? Dogs and cats.
Years later, a too-close encounter of an unpleasant kind with a skunk and Scott’s German Shepherd reunites the former lovers.
What happens in between are their stories of beginnings and endings and love lost, then found.
1960
A year full of promise
I focused on studies; my goal to be a veterinarian required concentration and high grades. The library emptied most Saturday afternoons as the campus prepared for dates, parties and events that had nothing to do with me, a country girl from way upstate New York with ambition and parent’s expectations of greatness from their only child. One student, I’d seen him before, a guy called a BMOC, Big Man On Campus, glanced over from another table and grinned.
“Hey, you. I’ve seen you a bunch of times before with your cute little nose in the books. Don’t you ever come up for air?”
Me? He spoke to me? This handsome guy, captain of the swim team said my nose is cute.
in Print and Ebook – Coming Soon in Audiobook
http://www.amazon.com/She-Didnt-Say-Beginning-Not/dp/0615959865
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I1MRP9S
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-shedidn039tsayno-1404960-149.html
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/400933
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