Please help me welcome Liese Sherwood-Fabre to the blog today. Liese is here to share her book Virtual Harmony and Other Short, Sweet Romances with us. Welcome, Liese! We can’t wait to hear more about Virtual Harmony and Other Short, Sweet Romances.
Virtual Harmony and Other Short, Sweet Romances
By Liese Sherwood-Fabre
About Virtual Harmony and Other Short, Sweet Romances:
Love can bloom in infinite ways.
Virtual Harmony and Other Short, Sweet Romances shares eleven tales of love through cute meets to taking friendship to the next level to rekindling a marriage. Feelings can be sparked by an errant computer file, a hunt for diamonds, or even a fortune teller’s tale. All that’s needed is to open one’s heart to let them in. Search, find, and deepen love along the way in these sweet romances.
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Excerpt from Virtual Harmony:
I slumped into an empty chair at the coffee bar around the corner from my apartment. I was ending this foolishness. Now. For two weeks I’d been on a wild goose chase and gotten nowhere.
Time to give up.
It’d all started innocently enough. After plugging in my new MP3 player, and booting up my computer to download my playlist, my finger froze just above the mouse. An unfamiliar file folder appeared along with the others: “George’s Songs.”
Who was George, and how did he get on my computer?
Having moved into the neighborhood less than a month ago, I didn’t know anyone in the area, and no one had access to my computer. Another new icon appeared at the bottom of my screen and blinked on and off. My new wireless system was working. I returned my gaze to the “George’s Songs” icon. Somehow, my computer’s system had picked up this George’s file and downloaded it to my machine.
Curiosity won out over caution, and without thinking twice, I opened the file to check out his playlist. Almost the entire list of songs I’d planned to download onto my MP3 player were already in George’s.
Whoever he was, George had good tastes.
About the Author:
From the time I first started penning fiction, I’ve written short stories. In fact, the first piece I sold was a short story. I’d been taking creative writing courses for a few semesters by then and entered some in various contests. When I placed second in one, the judge, who had her own literary fiction journal, quickly accepted my runner-up for publication.
Virtual Harmony and Other Short, Sweet Romances gathers a number of very short stories I authored over time into one volume. All of them examine the connection that can occur between two people. In some, it is the “meet cute” where a couple sees something in the other at their first encounter—a woman in search of the owner of a music playlist mysteriously appearing on her computer or two strangers sitting next to each other at the opera. Others take an existing relationship to the next level such as the temporary employee and her boss who obey company rules about dating between supervisors and employees or two neighbors who meet while one is in disguise. Finally, one shares a couple’s efforts to reconnect on a camping trip.
While all the stories have love in common, they also show how each couple’s story is unique. The spark between them can be initiated by an apparent apartment break-in, a snowball fight, or a flat tire. What follows after is where the magic lies.
Of course, I knew I was destined to write when I got an A+ in the second grade for my story about Dick, Jane, and Sally’s ruined picnic. (Really dating myself now.) After obtaining my PhD from Indiana University, I joined the federal government and had the opportunity to work and live internationally for more than fifteen years—in Africa, Latin America, and Russia. Returning to the states, I seriously pursued my writing career and published various pieces after that second-place win, with one garnering a Pushcart Prize nomination.
I am currently working on a series of novels based on the early life of Sherlock Holmes and hope to have the first out this year. You can follow my writing by joining my newsletter (and get a free short story to boot!) through my Website: www.liesesherwoodfabre.com
Thanks, Madison, for hosting me today!
I truly appreciate you allowing me to share about my short stories with you!
Liese