Book: Picture Imperfect
Authors: Alyssa Roat and Hope Bolinger
Genre: Christian Sweet Contemporary Romance
Release Date: November 5, 2021
Can a struggling career woman and a procrastinating artist save a beloved nonprofit?
Aspiring novelist Caroline Penn expected a promotion, not a picture book assignment. But when her employer, the non-profit Helping Hope, runs into financial trouble, this book might be the solution. With the company struggling to stay afloat, she and the illustrator will need to collaborate on a strict deadline—no problem for a workaholic like Caroline, right?
Andy Jackson, a “starving” artist, pays the bills by taking on graphic design gigs, but his perfectionism gets in the way. If only he could focus on a project for once, perhaps he could achieve his dream to make art for children for a living.
When the two are thrust together to create a book, Caroline can’t seem to write for children, and Andy can’t meet a deadline to save his life. As time ticks down to release day, the two must face their pasts and insecurities. If they can avoid strangling one another for long enough, they may just bring to the table what the other is missing.
If not, the fate of their careers—and a beloved nonprofit—hangs in the balance.
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Caroline Penn is an up and coming novelist. She has a "workaholic" flair about her and is looking to be successful in life. She receives an assignment that she wasn't exactly looking for, but she realizes the importance of this job. Her Employer, Helping Hope, is a Non-Profit and in financial trouble. They have asked her to work along side Andy Jackson, who is a up and coming Graphic Designer, to write a Children's' book. The pair begin working together and Caroline wants to go full speed ahead, but realizes rather quickly that Andy tends to get off focus on projects quite often. Caroline is struggling because she is finding that writing a Children's book is just not her style/genre. Andy is a perfectionist and it is making him slow down and not accomplish tasks in a timely manner. Can the pair complete the book by the deadline? Will they be able to save the Non-Profit from their Financial Troubles?
I must say I had a bit of trouble getting into the storyline, but once I did there was no way I was putting the book down before I finished. Caroline has been so focused on "making it" she was wearing herself thin. Andy was a struggling artist and this was his opportunity to bring himself out of the rut and achieve some dreams. I really like the how the "unlikely" pair used their strengths and weaknesses to help one another. Andy forced Caroline to slow down in life and Caroline helped Andy by showing him how to focus in life. I really LOVE how the Author bought out the best in both characters and made them very enjoyable to read. The Christian theme I am seeing throughout the book is that God doesn't expect "PERFECT" and both characters learn how to let go of Perfectionism. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking for a clean Christian Romance book. GREAT BOOK!
Hope Bolinger is the managing and acquisitions editor at End Game Press and the author of 25+ books. When she isn’t accidentally writing a book in seven days, she likes to model, do theater, and hike around northeast Ohio. Find out more about her at Hopebolinger.com
Alyssa Roat is a multi-published author and has worked in a wide variety of roles within the publishing industry as an agent, editor, writer, and publicist. When not reading and writing, she likes to swordfight, rock climb, throw axes, and generally engage in tomfoolery with her silly cats. Her name is a pun, so you can find more about her at alyssawrote.com.
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Alyssa and I never thought we’d write a sweet romance book together. Sure, we’d done a superhero romance during the summer of 2018, but we didn’t think we had the prowess or mastery of description to make a jump into the genre.
Long story short, we were perfectionists. We wanted everything to be just right. We knew that our publisher was in need of filling a hole that some romance authors had left behind.
So we tried.
We really struggled with the first draft of Picture Imperfect. We felt shaky about it at first.
But then we learned along with our characters. That there is beauty in imperfection. That there is hope for all of us.
We decided to let go and embrace the book for what it was. Messy, but still beautiful in its own way.
Looking back, as the final book for the series releases this week, I am so happy that we jumped into the world of Picture Imperfect. We learned a great deal from these characters, and it’s bittersweet to say goodbye to the world of Roseville.
If you’re looking to see a story of redemption, hope, and embracing life’s hiccups, I hope you absolutely fall in love with Picture Imperfect.
It was funny because we both took on characters that we felt reflected our coauthor. When I (Hope) wrote Andy, I saw many aspect of Alyssa in him. And when she penned Caroline, we saw many glimpses of “Hope” as well.
There was something so beautiful and emphatic about jumping into the shoes of characters who felt different from us. We could understand other creative processes and embrace people for all their intricacies.
Thank you for joining us on this journey, and hope that you love Andy and Caroline as much as we did when we first wrote them.
Sincerely,
Hope and Alyssa <3
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To celebrate their tour, Alyssa and Hope are giving away the grand prize package of a $25 Amazon gift card!!
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6 comments:
I like how the characters' strengths balance out the other's weaknesses.
Sounds like a good story. The cover is very nice.
Sounds like a really good
This sounds like a wonderful read.
This looks like a great novel. Thanks for hosting.
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed reading the review
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