Welcome to my feature where authors share about the hobbies, careers, or passions of their characters.
I’m pleased to introduce today’s guest, Kara O’Neal…
If My Book Was A Song It Would Be A Country One
I can sing.
Not like Whitney Houston or Patsy Cline, but I can sing. Music, for me, is my first creative love. I was singing before I was talking. When my mamma would rock me to sleep as an infant, I would hum with the beat of the rocking chair.
Here is me singing The Dress by Emily Scott Robinson. It’s a heartbreaking song, but it’s one of the more beautiful ones I’ve ever heard. https://youtu.be/IQBw5-NucHw
I listen to all kinds of music, but my favorite is country. Not the songs they play on mainstream radio. I’m a Texas Country fan, which is also known as Red Dirt music. The artists of this musical genre create masterpieces that lodge into your heart and speak in real and very raw ways.
These artists hack out a living just like the rest of us, because, let me tell you, streaming services don’t pay much. So they go from town to town, singing their hearts out, plucking the strings of their guitars till their fingers bleed, teaching the world that all it takes is “three chords and the truth” to move you to the depths of your soul.
My most recent release, FOREVER HOME, is my love letter to the artists who have created works of art through music. And I’m gonna share some of my favorites with you – love songs only.
Many of my favorite singers and bands are featured in FOREVER HOME. I wanted to shine all the lights I could on these artists, and I love how their music helps me tell Wyatt and Jessie’s story.
What’s your favorite love song? Please share and you could win an ebook of FOREVER HOME!
Here’s my list of some of my favorite love songs. Have fun listening!
My Love Will Never Change by Drew Kennedy
The Morning by Roger Creager
Before You Called Me Baby by Caitlin Smith
Ain’t Nothin’ To It by Cody Johnson
Everyday Kind of Love by Kyle Park
Shivers Down Spines by Zach Bryan
Every Damn Time by Drew Fish Band
Lady May by Tyler Childers
I Need Your Love by Charley Crockett
How Lucky Am I by Kaitlin Butts
Russell County Line by 49 Winchester
All Again by Charles Wesley Godwin
A heartbreakin’ cowboy meets a serious-minded shop owner and suddenly he’s got all the wrong moves.
Jessie Townsend is done with love. She has her family shop, Main Street Antiques, to run, and her sweet father to look after. She has plenty to keep her busy and fill the void her ex-fiancé left when he broke her heart.
Wyatt Davis, part owner of the Swinging A ranch, is feeling his age. He’s thirty. Still young, but…too old for the life he used to live. He’s done with one-night stands, with drinking all night and staying out until morning. Which irritates him. But what’s a cowboy to do when he begins to change?
Go after Jessie Townsend, that’s what. But she’s not interested. Which is a helluva thing. Because Wyatt’s pretty sure he’s in love and wants a “forever home”…with her.
Excerpt:
Wyatt excused himself from the group he’d been standing with near the exit and strode to Jessie’s side. He needed to get to her before someone else monopolized her time. When he pulled out the chair next to her, she didn’t look up.
He watched her take a bite of apple pie, and the action caused his skin to warm. Damn, this girl really had a good hold on him. “Afternoon.”
“Hello,” she responded before piercing an apple with her fork.
“Nice wedding. I didn’t realize you knew the bride.”
Still without making eye contact with him, she replied, “I didn’t know you were friends with Tucker. I was with them last night.”
When she didn’t expand and continued to eat as if his presence didn’t interest her all that much, his gut clenched in nervousness. She was going to turn him down again. He could feel it.
But that wasn’t going to stop him from asking. He cleared his throat. “I was wondering if you’d like to go out sometime. Maybe to a restaurant or…”
She stopped eating and looked at him.
His cheeks flamed with heat. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d been embarrassed or nervous around a woman he liked.
She opened her mouth to answer but paused. A few beats of silence passed between them as she studied him.
He had to work hard not to fidget. His heart thudded hard as he anxiously waited for her rejection. It’s not like he’d never been turned down. The difference was, if she said no, it would actually hurt. He resisted the temptation to rub his stomach where agitation sat like a rock.
“I don’t think it would be a good idea,” she finally answered.
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About the Author:
Award-winning author, Kara O’Neal is a teacher and lives in Texas with her husband and three children. She writes stories with strong family ties, lots of romance and guaranteed happy endings! Please visit her at http://www.karaoneal.com.
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