Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Jill
Blake and her new book, “Oh, Baby!” For
other stops on her Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the
banner above or any of the images in this post.
Be sure to make it to the
end of this post to enter to win a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!! Also, come back daily to interact with Jill
and to increase your chances of winning!
This book is on SALE
during the book tour for ONLY $0.99!!!
See below for more details.
Thanks for stopping
by! Wishing you lots of luck in this
fabulous giveaway!
Oh, Baby!
by Jill Blake
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
Lena
Shapiro. Successful surgeon. Dutiful daughter. She sacrificed her personal life
to build her career and take care of her mother and sister. Now thirty-nine and
single, she watches her peers pairing off and having kids, and wonders if she
missed out on her own chance at happiness.
Assigned
to mentor a visiting colleague, Lena finds herself falling for the man instead.
But Adam Sterling is all wrong for her: he’s too young, too arrogant, and too
willing to push personal and professional boundaries. And he’s leaving L.A. for
a job on the opposite coast.
With
the date of Adam’s departure looming ever nearer, will Lena retreat to the
safety of her familiar solitary life, or will she take a chance on an uncertain
future with the man who might make her dreams come true?
(Please note: This is a steamy contemporary romance that contains
mature themes and explicit content, meant for adults 18 and over. It is a
stand-alone novel, with no cliff-hangers, and a guaranteed HEA.)
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EXCERPT TWO:
Copyright © 2019 by Jill Blake
Adam
knocked on her office door. “Can I interest you in a lunch break?”
Lena
glanced up from the computer. “I usually work through lunch.”
“How
about I grab us something from the cafeteria and bring it here?”
“I’m
not hungry.” She turned back to the screen. “Thanks.”
Adam
studied her. So much for making progress. Good thing he wasn’t easily
discouraged. A quick scan of the room, and bingo!—there it was. Inspiration.
“Is
that the latest JACM?” He moved closer and reached for the journal topping a
pile of paperwork on the corner of her credenza. “You don’t mind, do you? I’ll just
sit and read quietly.”
“Help
yourself,” she said drily. “But don’t you have an office or something you can
use?”
“Sure.”
He shed his white coat and draped it over one of the visitor’s chairs, then
sauntered across the room, where he toed off his shoes and proceeded to make
himself comfortable. Or as comfortable as he could get, considering the love
seat fell far short of his six foot three inches, and Lena was still staring at
him, her expression now more irritated than bemused. “But it’s the size of a
supply closet, and there are three other fellows sharing the space. So…”
“Do
you always get this chummy with your attendings?”
Ooh,
now she was pulling rank. He hid a grin. “I wouldn’t call breathing the same
air on opposite sides of the room chummy.”
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GUEST POST:
Describe what steps you take to achieve and maintain a healthy
work/life balance.
As a
physician with a busy medical practice, and a mom of three very active
children, one of my biggest challenges is work/life balance. Some say that the
concept of balance is nothing more than a chimera—something we all struggle to
attain, and then just as we think it’s within our grasp, something happens, and
the entire structure collapses into a pile of toothpicks and dust.
In
medicine, we hear the term “burnout” bandied about. According to the latest
statistics, burnout among physicians and other medical personnel is at an
all-time high. Media outlets have dubbed it a national epidemic. I won’t go
into all the factors that contributed to this crisis (you can read more about
it on my website, and in my book The Burnout Cure), but I hope that shining light on the issue will lead to
a solution.
In
the meantime, we need to practice self-care and set boundaries. The key is
learning how to say NO. And that’s what I try to do. Do I want to join yet
another hospital committee? NO. Can I
volunteer at XYZ event next Tuesday? NO.
Can I bake cookies for the school fundraiser? No, but I’d be happy to pick up store-bought cookies on my way home
from work. Can I drive each child to and from every extracurricular
activity? No, but we have a perfectly
good bus system, and here’s a TAP card for each of you, my darlings. (Okay,
I haven’t quite implemented that last one, but the kids are still young…)
Anyway, you get the idea.
An
adjunct to saying No is learning to
delegate. I’ve started doing that, both at home and at work. I also cut back my
work hours. I am now officially working 80% time, which translates to about
50-55 hours per week, not including night call (about once every other week),
and an evening or weekend urgent care shift (also about twice a month).
I
exercise, though less than I should, and try to get enough sleep, though that
doesn’t always happen.
At
home, I’ve become good at consolidating activities (aka multi-tasking) for the
sake of efficiency. Like last week, hubs and I went on a “shopping date”: we
dropped off the kids at Taekwondo, then headed for the local Smart & Final
to do our weekly grocery shop. Picked the kids up on the way home, then opened
a bottle of wine to toast a successful outing, and retired to bed for the rest
of the date.
Last,
but not least, I write. This is my therapy. While in real life I can’t always
control what happens, when it comes to writing, I’m in charge. I get to have
fun and exorcise my demons at the
same time (multi-tasking!).
The characters
I write about face some of the same challenges I do. They aren’t perfect and
they don’t have unlimited resources. Sometimes they need to make tough choices
and hope for the best. Ultimately, though, I write contemporary romance—which
means that one thing I can absolutely guarantee: a happily-ever-after.
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AUTHOR BIO:
A
native of Philadelphia, Jill
Blake now
lives in southern California with her husband and three children. During the
day, she works as a physician in a busy medical practice. At night, once the
charts are all done and the kids are asleep, Jill writes steamy romances with
smart heroines, sexy heroes, and guaranteed happy endings.
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AMAZON BOOK BUY
LINKS & BOOK SALE INFO:
**Oh, Baby! is on SALE during the book tour for ONLY $0.99!!!**
Amazon Kindle:
Amazon Paperback:
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Jill will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC to
a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
**This post contains affiliate links and if clicked and a
purchase is made, I may receive a small commission to help support this
blog. This does not cost you anything,
it just helps pay for all those awesome giveaways on here.**
This contest is sponsored
by a third party. Fabulous and Brunette is a registered host of Goddess Fish
Promotions. Prizes are given away by the
sponsors and not Fabulous and Brunette. The featured author and Goddess Fish
Promotions are solely responsible for the giveaway prize.
Jill ~ Good morning! It is so great to have you here! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
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ReplyDeleteWhen do you think your next book will come out? Congrats on the release.
Thanks, Bernie. I’m working on the next book now, aiming for a release later this year. But as writing is one of the few things in my life that is *not* driven by deadline, please don’t hold me to that! In the meantime, readers can catch up on some of my previous work (Oh, Baby! is my 11th novel).
DeleteThanks, Ally! I really appreciate your hosting me today on your fabulous blog!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your book with us. I always look forward to finding out about another great read.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good book.
ReplyDeleteGreat post, I enjoyed reading it. Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyDeleteGreat cover.
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