Virtual Book Tour and Giveaway: The One Woman by Laura May

Welcome to my stop on the virtual book tour for The One Woman by Laura May. This book tour was organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. On my stop, I have an excerpt from the book as well as the author's inspiration behind the book. There's also the tour wide giveaway for a chance to win a $10 Amazon gift card. Be sure to visit the other stops on the tour for more content. Enjoy!

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Title: The One Woman

Author: Laura May

Publisher: Creative James Media

Publication Date: August 16th 2022

Print Length: 310 pages

Genre: LGBTQ+ Romance

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Right Person. Wrong timing.

Julie manipulates what the eye can't see as a graphic designer but no matter what lens she uses, her life and her relationship with her boyfriend Mark remain mundane. Until she meets Ann. Ann is successful, beautiful, and charismatic. Julie can't deny the spark during their chance meeting. When their present entwines once again in Barcelona the spark is impossible to extinguish. When tragedy strikes, Julie must decide between her devotion to Mark and her love for Ann. Can true love survive when the timing is all wrong?

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EXCERPT:

We took our seats towards the back. I was so nervous I was going to faint. Good, at least I would not need to endure this hell for long. I stared forward at the seat in front of me, paralyzed. I am going to die here, played on a loop in my head.

Something warm touched my hand, I looked down and through the fog I saw Julie's hand squeezing mine.

"Breathe," she told me. She was calm. "You are brave—"

And it started. Momentarily, I was pressed deep into the seat. Julie screamed but didn't let go of my hand. A great force made it hard to even take a breath.

As we rushed up, I glanced down. It was so high my poor hammering heart skipped a beat. Now we were on the top, and the wind was freezing here. In the next second, we were falling.

Now, I screamed. Everyone screamed. It made it easier. Julie was not holding me anymore; she clutched me. And we were down. My heart had never beaten so fast in my life.

I turned to Julie, feeling like we were running on pure adrenaline. Time stopped as I drowned in her pools of caramel. She was breathing hard, and I felt her grazing my hand up and down with her thumb. I looked down, but she quickly removed her hand.

"You did it," she said breathlessly.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Laura May is a pseudonym of a Ukrainian-American author. Laura lived in Kyiv till her mid-twenties. Now she can be found traveling around the world. The One Woman is her debut novel published by Creative James Media.

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GUEST POST:

- Who or what was your inspiration behind this book?

According to The One Woman dedication: To all the books that came before, the books that I read were my inspiration.

Since I was a young child, I have always made friends in books. Later, the stories were able to arouse such a range of emotions that I was left speechless and dreamed of one day penning something even nearly as moving as the book I was holding at the moment.

So instead of looking out when the pandemic struck and we were all trapped in our homes with no way to travel, I began looking in.

The One Woman started in my imagination as a woman walks into a bar…

Also, a great moving point for me was reading The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. I started doing the morning pages she describes there. It’s three pages of a handwritten thought train done first thing in the morning.

I recommend this type of morning journaling to anyone, artist or not, to dream, to plan, even to start a book!

The One Woman was written by hand in two and half notebooks. Later it took me about a month to type it, so after that the morning pages are staying in notebooks, and books have moved to the laptop. Thankfully, two of my next books were written on my laptop and will be out in 2024 with Creative James Media.

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GIVEAWAY:

Laura May will be awarding a $10 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter. Good luck!

(All the Ups and Downs is not responsible for this giveaway, its entries, or the prize. Goddess Fish Promotions and the author assume all responsibility over this giveaway.)

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