COTT: Newest Clash Winner is Becalmed by Normandie Fischer
the season. Just look at that cover! If you haven’t had a get-away this
summer, Becalmed might be your ticket.
adventure!
broken heart finds herself falling for a widower with a broken boat,
sailing.
9781938499616
Carolinas
Tadie Longworth doesn’t spend much time worrying that
she’s
turning into one of Beaufort, North Carolina’s, spinsters. She has a gift
shop
full of her own jewelry designs and a sweet little sailboat to take her mind
off the guy who got away. But now he’s back—with the fashion-plate wife he
picked instead of Tadie—and he’s hitting on her
again.
widower Will Merritt limps into town with a broken sailboat and a perky
seven-year-old daughter, he provides the perfect distraction—until that
distraction turns into fascination when Tadie offers shelter during a
hurricane. Over candlelit games of SlapJack and Monopoly, Jilly becomes the
daughter she could have had and Will the man she always wanted. Only, he’s
sworn never to let another woman in his life. Any day now, he’s going to
finish
those repairs, and that ship’s going to sail—straight out of Tadie’s
life.
What COTT voters had to say:
Becalmed looks
Amazing! Can’t wait to get my own copy of it.
Keep Calm and Write
On!
My hat’s off to all of the
authors! Writing, publishing and marketing is a huge job. I LOVE Normandie
Fischer’s Becalmed cover!
I’ve
read Becalmed. Mature viewpoint and writing,
a real relief from the usual shallow offerings of CBA.
Becalmed sounds
like a book from which I could benefit right now.
I’m
reading Becalmed right now and am
enjoying it immensely. I’ve fallen in love with Jilly.
A wonderfully atmospheric novel
of coastal North Carolina. Feel the humidity without breaking a
sweat!
Having recently got to know
Normandie Fischer, it’s thrilling to find an author writing
books, Becalmed and
soon-to-be-released Sailing Out Of Darkness,
that authentically express their heart yet at the same time are
entertaining and accessible to many. Congratulations,
Normandie!About the Author:
Normandie had the best of several worlds: a Southernheritage, access to schooling in the DC area (which meant lots of cultural
adventures), and several years of sculpture studies in Italy. It might have
been better for her if she’d used all these opportunities more wisely, but
it’s possible that the imperfect and the unwise also add fodder for the
artist and the writer.
when she married the love of her life at an age when some would have said
she was over the hill and way past her prime. (Clichés often speak the
truth, don’t they?) A lifelong sailor, she was delighted to find that
Michael also longed to cruise lovely waters, which is what they did from
Northern CA to Mexico, spending too-few years in the incomparable Sea of
Cortez. Sea Venture, their 50′ ketch, is back home in North
Carolina now because Normandie’s mama needed care. Still, it’s gorgeous
there, too, and she can write and edit from home as easily as she could on
the boat.
son-in-law, and two step-sons are handsome (or gorgeous, as the case may
be), talented, and a delight. Normandie has a precious brand-new
granddaughter born August 21. She just wishes they lived a lot closer to
home.
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