The
Roche Hotel
Season
One
A serial romantic
comedy
After
her husband ditches her for a blonde actress wannabe, Jane Seymour needs a job
that pays the rent. The struggling Roche Hotel needs a miracle. With the former
owner’s wife butting her nose into the renovations and new owners who are in
way over their heads, Jane may be the answer to their prayers. Sure, she can
handle The Roche Hotel’s quirky staff. But, can this skittish divorcee keep it
all together when handsome Henry the Donut Guy makes his first delivery? This
collection of serial fiction stories is a Tudorific romantic comedy that will
leave you laughing out loud and hungry for more.
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1. My memory’s not shot.
While writing each episode, I remembered some specific
details from my real-life days as a front-desk clerk, along with more memorable
events like the dead body in Room 12. Other jobs I worked as young lady aren’t nearly so clear in my mommy
brain. Maybe because my hotel job was the first job I worked after moving to
Louisville and marrying my high school sweetheart. Or maybe it’s because it was
the first job I ever worked a graveyard shift. Either way, I not heading toward
Alzheimer’s just yet—yay me!!
2. The choices are endless.
Think about a hotel, even a struggling little mid-priced
one like the Roche. From my own experience working in such a place, I saw quite
the variety of people and situations. So, I’ve got a limitless supply of quirk
to choose from when it comes to the Roche Hotel’s cast. Like Carol, the
close-talking desk clerk, Jerry the sasquatch-like maintenance man, and Mrs.
Roche who can’t keep her nose out of the new owners’ business and is determined
to cover the nether regions of that naked David statue in the lobby. Throw them
all together in a 50-room hotel, and I’ve got tons of potential new episodes.
3. Donuts can be sexy.
Especially when delivered by a handsome fellow like Henry
Hermann. Just ask Jane:
He opens one of the boxes and holds it within my reach. I pick up a donut and take a bite.
Still warm and melt-in-your-mouth good.
“Mmm,
this is delicious.”
Henry
closes the box and takes a tissue from the Kleenex dispenser beside the wall.
Why hadn’t I noticed those before I sacrificed my poor sweater [to clean up the
spilled coffee]?
He reaches across the front desk and wipes the corner of my
mouth. Warmth crawls up my cheeks.
“You
had a little icing there,” he says with that knee-weakening smile.
See?
4. Serial fiction is not dead!
Today we live in the trilogy age. So many darn stories
out there come in sets of three, with the first two ending in cliffhangers.
Why??? Oh I’m sure it’s a good marketing technique—make the reader HAVE to keep
buying them. But, frankly that annoys the crap out of me, particularly when the
author isn’t done with the trilogy and you have to wait a year or more to read
the next installment. That’s why each book in my fantasy series is a standalone
story, and that’s why The Roche Hotel is written in collections (seasons) of
episodic stories that don’t leave us hanging on nail-biting cliffhangers.
There’s enough of an ending to be satisfying, but enough unresolved conflict to
keep us wanting to find out what happens next!
5. No sex, no profanity, no violence—no problem!
Besides my children’s stories and a few short stories,
I’ve yet to write a romance that doesn’t contain at least one of those Rated-R
items. Until now. Sure, there’s some sexual innuendo—Henry’s pretty darn hot in
those Levis after all—but The Roche Hotel can safely be read by young teens and
beyond with only mild danger of blushing.
Therefore, if I get any reviews complaining about how racy this series
is, they’re either lying or starring in an episode of Extreme Monkover.
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Other writing pursuits include serving as a class
mentor in Writers Village University's seven week online course, F2K. She finished
her first historical romance this spring and has one children’s book (Quentin’s
Problem) soon to be published, with one more waiting for illustrations, and
many more stewing in her head.
When she's not writing fiction, Mysti works as a freelance editor and copywriter. She also reviews books for SQ Magazine, an online specfic publication, and is the proud owner of Unwritten, a blog voted #3 for eCollegeFinder's Top Writing Blogs award. She resides in Buckner, KY with her husband and three children.
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Mysti
Parker (pseudonym) is a wife, mom, author, and shameless chocoholic. She is the
author of the Tallenmere standalone fantasy romance series. Her other writings
have appeared in the anthologies Hearts of Tomorrow, Christmas Lites, Christmas
Lites II, The Darwin Murders, Tasteful Murders and EveryDayFiction.
When she's not writing fiction, Mysti works as a freelance editor and copywriter. She also reviews books for SQ Magazine, an online specfic publication, and is the proud owner of Unwritten, a blog voted #3 for eCollegeFinder's Top Writing Blogs award. She resides in Buckner, KY with her husband and three children.
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There will be special prizes (including chocolates) and other items of interest.
Other books by Mysti Parker:
The Tallenmere Series - Fantasy Romance
Thanks so much for hosting me, Peter! This was fun to write :)
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