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I went to England to find Jane Austen.

To be honest, I also went to find Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, George Elliot, John Keats, William Shakespeare (or whoever wrote his plays), J.R.R. Tolkien, and Winnie-the-Pooh.

(Winnie-the-Pooh? Yeah, with some research, I figured out where the real 100-Acre Woods is located and spent a day wandering the fields, visiting Roo’s Sandy Place, sitting at the Enchanted Place, finding the north pole, playing poohstick on the actual poohstick bridge. As a kid who has fond memories growing up with A.A. Milne’s classic books, I was in children literature heaven. It is a magical and natural place, please don’t tell Disney!)

That was me at age 23, Scott the explorer, the new college…

Is there a better way to kick off the weekend than with SEVEN DIRTY WORDS? I don’t know about you but I’m all about giving it a shot! Let’s get to know our guest, Charlotte Howard, and her debut release, shall we?

Welcome, Charlotte! I absolutely have to ask about your intriguing cover. Are those unhappy tears, or is there something more behind her expression?

A bit of both.   Paige is overcoming a traumatic experience, and finds herself torn between two men who are completely different, and yet strangely similar.  She is also an active person and finds herself in lots of scrapes!  So the tears represent her pain physically, emotionally, and mentally.

And just like that … I’m hooked. Which one or two themes most accurately captures your story? 

I’m not sure.  At the end of the day, it is a love story.  But it’s also about a young…