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Chasing Fireflies: A Summer Romance Anthology (Fiction-Atlas Anthologies) Kindle Edition
From Janae Keyes: It was supposed to be an escape, falling in love was never part of the plan.
From Rebekah Dodson: A respectable woman left behind in war finds fulfillment in a forbidden man.
From Sarah Buhrman: Magic, mystery, and deceit surround a medieval woman's search for her lost love.
From Diane Morrison: A deep cover Elven soldier discovers that when you learn to think like your enemy, you might also learn to love them.
From Deliaria Davis: In real life, love is complicated and messy, but sometimes you just know it's meant to be, and this Alaskan teenager intends to prove it, despite the odds.
From A.C Jade: Two strangers discover that a one-night summer affair isn't all they have in common.
From Jay Michael Wright II: Can a cursed doctor find love with a gorgeous Demon before those hunting her find them out?
From Kayla Kirby: Home before he deploys, David runs into an old friend from high school. David quickly learns that Riley is harboring a dark secret and, in order to attempt to help her, he presents to her a challenge.
From C.L. Cannon: It's the eleventh hour, and he has to decide. Remain her friend, or take the chance at something more?
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 3, 2017
- File size556 KB
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- ASIN : B071FMRXY9
- Publisher : Fiction-Atlas Press LLC
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : July 3, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 556 KB
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 200 pages
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Part of series : Fiction-Atlas Anthologies
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,150,505 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #6,380 in Fiction Anthologies
- #10,135 in Literary Anthologies & Collections
- #12,933 in Romance Collections & Anthologies (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Sarah is an AuthorGoddess, one who embraces the divine honor of creating worlds with words in the hope of inspiring others. Sarah has been writing for more than 25 years, starting with poetry before moving on to non-fiction and fiction. She lives in the Midwest with two monsters (the kids), an ogre (the hubby), and whatever drama-llama is coming to visit this week. Sarah is the author of the Runespells series: Too Wyrd, Fluffy Bunny, and The Chains That Bind. She has short stories in several anthologies, including Counterclockwise: A Time Travel Anthology, A Twist of Fate: A Collection of 11 Twisted Fairy Tales, and Whispers of Hope: A Lexis Infinitum Charity Anthology. Sarah also has a blog via Patreon and makes funny videos about writing on her vlog, Practically Writing.
Rebekah Dodson is a prolific author of over 30 romantic suspense, fantasy, and science fiction novels. Her works include the series Postcards from Paris, The Curse of Lanval, Life After Us, California Express, and several stand-alone novels. She has been writing her whole life, with her first published work of historical fiction with 4H Clubs of America at the age of 12, and poetry at the age of 16 with the National Poetry Society. With an extensive academic background including education, history, psychology and English, she currently works as a college professor by day and a writer by night.
Connect with Rebekah:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/realrebekahdodson
Twitter: @AuthorRDodson
Website: www.rebekahdodson.com
Dark fantasy and horror author. Why? Because his first movie was his pregnant mother going to see The Exorcist in 1973. Hearing such terror in utero does something to a person. He grew up on all the classic black and white horror movies: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolfman. He then moved on to Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Hellraiser. His love for the dark and macabre consumed his imagination, and the first horror story he wrote was at the age of 12 (a creative writing piece for school where he described his friends and himself being slaughtered in a slasher movie type tale--yea, imagine doing that today and the trouble you'd get into). Luckily, his teacher found it creative, even if it was a tad disturbing. With that, he was off on the road to become a writer--not for the money nor the fame, but for the love of telling stories and giving people chills.
USA Today Bestselling Author, Deliaria Davis, grew up in the cold winters and mild summers of Anchorage, Alaska, where her heart remains to this day. She met her husband there and would return in a heartbeat.
She has five amazing kids, and when she isn’t writing she is helping her youngest son with therapy for his disabilities.
Currently, Del resides in Spokane, WA, where she is hoping to someday be able to afford a house big enough for each of her kids to have their own door to slam.
Until then, she will continue to write whatever pops into her head, edit in her spare time, and loves to interact with her fans.
Born and raised in the California Bay Area, Janae Keyes is an American mom, wife, and hopeless romantic living in Europe. She loves to explore various cultures coming together through the magic of love. Residing in a suburb of Brussels, Belgium, with her husband and daughter, Janae loves to share her passion for romance with others.
You can follow updates on Janae and her works on her facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/JanaeKeyesAuthor
Her website: http://www.JanaeKeyes.com
On twitter @JanaeKeyesWrite
Kayla Kirby was born and raised in Washington State, a place she has never really considered home. She dreams of traveling someday with her family to see new sights and discover the secrets of the world. She began writing when she was a young child and started with writing Harry Potter fanfiction.
When she isn’t writing, Kayla is either spending time with her husband, their young and active toddler, and their family including their dog Kodiak or working on her photography or, on a not-so-rare occasion, having arguments with her fiction characters inside her head.
About the Author
AC JADE was born and raised in the Island of The Philippines. She is a true romantic at heart. Her passion for traveling and exploring made her write her first novel. She loves to write steamy romantic stories with emotional roller coaster that leads to a happy ever after ending. Her sizzling stories will get you hook intellectually, emotionally and physically. Her greatest dream is to travel across 7,107 Islands in the Philippines. When she isn’t busy juggling a full-time job and family, you will find her reading whenever she gets a chance. She currently lives in the South Texas region where she enjoys the beach, waterpark and the warm weather in general.
Diane Morrison is a short and long-form fiction hybrid author and editor. She likes pickles and bluegrass, and hates talking about herself. An avid National Novel Writing Month participant and gaming geek, she is proudly Canadian and proudly LGBTQ. She manages the official SFWA YouTube channel, where she gets to interview some of her favourite authors and other interesting people in the SFF field. She's an Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future competition and a student and teacher at the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers. Under her pen name "Sable Aradia" she is a successful Pagan author, a musician, and a professional blogger. She lives with her partners and a three-legged rescue cat in Vernon, BC, where she was born and raised.
Twitter @SableAradia
Blog: http://www.dianemorrisonfiction.com
Worlds:
www.worldanvil.com/author/
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C.L. Cannon is a USA Today Bestselling Author, publisher, publicist, editor, designer, and lots of other occupations with the -er sound at the end!
She is a woman of many talents who never gives up or stops improving. She enjoys writing about love and friendship. She loves it even more when she can add fantasy and science fiction aspects to those themes!
She’s a self-proclaimed Harry Potter freak (Slytherin Pride people), lover of anything Joss Whedon (Spuffy forever), Tolkien fiend (who enjoys second breakfast), an addict of classic literature (Social class struggles turn me on… literally ;) yah see what I did there?)
She spends her days trying to #bookstagram (and probably failing), helping other authors grow and succeed (I love my job), and loving on her two babes (velociraptors), Seth and Petey.
She’s also sort of a social media enthusiast! You can find her basically everywhere on the net (man I just aged myself).
Or, you can visit her website for more content!
http://clcannon.net
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017Format: KindleVerified PurchaseAbsolutely loved these stories of reunited love, heartbreak,and happy endings. Especially enjoyed C.L. Cannon's 11th Hour about best friends that find their way to love, and the fantasy elements of Scarborough Fair by Sarah Burhman. No matter what genre you prefer, each of these stories will really hit home with anyone who has love, lost, and finally found happiness. Looking forward to more from these authors and this publisher!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2017Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI enjoyed reading these stories. I loved Janae Keyes' Summer Affair.
I'll recommend Chasing Fireflies to other readers.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017Format: KindleVerified PurchaseIn a time when love feels as though it's being left in the dust, these stories will warm your heart and make you feel like there's still hope in the world.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2017Format: KindleI received a complimentary reader's copy from Facebook's "Quill and Ink review team" in exchange for my honest review.
In general, this summer romance anthology wasn't terrible, nor excellent; for the price, if you're looking for something to pass the time, you could do far worse. Some of them left a great deal to be desired, some were wonderfully written and I lost myself in delight, and some, I had distinctly conflicted feelings about.
Amongst my favorites were the story by Diane Morrison (man oh man, I wished that were a full-length novel -- I'd buy it without hesitation!) and C.L. Cannon (high school crush through life, standing by his dream-girl in hopes that she'll finally un-friendzone-him), and (with a caveat) Janae Keyes. I'll get into that below.
I'd like to talk about the stories that left me conflicted.
The story by Rebekah Dodson is about a married professor teacher (whose husband is away at war) falling in love with her student, and their summertime affair. The story in and off itself not bad, but it's very clear that the affair is an "awakening" more relevant to the professor than of true love. The ending was "the right one," in light of that fact, but I will nit-pick here that the story is written in the 1st-person past-tense so that the readers don't "feel" the agony of indecision - it is a fate already decided. Therefore, all the foot-notes ("If I had only known," and so forth) seemed a bit unnecessary. I also couldn't help but feel like the main character made the right choice for the wrong reasons: her ultimate choice wasn't one of personal independence, but out of resignation because she prized others above herself. This is "wrong" to the storyline and character persona that led her to begin the affair in the first place. Ergo, it left me feeling unfulfilled.
(SPOILER - skip to next paragraph if wanted). Janae Keyes' story, however, made me passionately hopeful and angry. It is the opposite: first-person, present-day, very relevant, cute. Clear writing style, great dialogue, descriptions, character growth. I had happily let myself be swept away in the thrill of reading about a woman who was going to get divorced for the right reasons, seize a life of self-worth and happiness for herself and her daughter, and be brave. Inspired to do so by her lover, on the eve of her Departure, her "happy ending" vanishes in a stroke of miserably bad luck. After she processes this, what does she do? She returns to the *exact* same scenario that she began in, clutching desperately to the hope that her husband truly meant that he would change. This is textbook "the wrong decision for the right reasons," and it grated upon me like no other. The right decision might have been for her to leave anyway, buoyed by self-confidence and courage, or to perhaps give her husband a chance to date her as from the start. Her decision to sink back into the status quo without so much as a protest or conditional warning was repulsive to me from the core. So, I have mixed feelings.
The story by Deliaria Davis is, in some ways, the complete opposite of the above two. I don't think the writing style, character development, and setting were the best. In fact, I almost dismissed it as one of the aforementioned "not great," if not for one thing: the concept. The concept is that real life can be messy, painted in shades of gray, full of mistakes and imperfect people - and yet, sometimes two people can make something beautiful out of what is broken, and the strongest families can develop from dubious beginnings. I REALLY liked that message. I suppose my biggest complaint is that the reader is told the story through snapshots of the main character's diary. I understand that a diary is a place to write down secret feelings and desires that may not be the most noble of things, but I feel like it did the main character a disservice. The black sheep of the family, she never seemed to mature, discard her selfishness and petulance, or develop a sense of moderation. Then, all of a sudden, poof! The last entry is dedicated intentionally to another character, and it is revealed to the reader that her family is strong, happy, healthy, etc. I really wish Davis had been able to take a step back from the real-life story, and taken an editing eye to select "true sections" a little more strategically to demonstrate that her character has become the woman who fought for that happy ending. The best stories are ones based on the truth; but more than that, the truth must be conveyed well.
Hope that helps with your purchase! Cheers to all.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2017Format: KindleVerified PurchaseGood reading in this one. Worth a look.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2018Format: KindleVerified PurchaseI almost forgot I had this in my library. I thought this was a really well written anthology with all different types of writing styles.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2017Format: KindleChasing Fireflies: A Summer Romance Anthology
"Chasing Fireflies" is a truly heartwarming and captivating summer romance anthology from a group of inspiring authors. With nine stories each with their own version on love, this anthology is sure to heat up your summer. Whether looking for a short read, or wanting to get to know the writing style of new authors, or just because you love anthologies, "Chasing Fireflies" is a MUST read. It will resonate with readers far past the end story.
"Chasing Fireflies" stands out in the genre of sort stories/anthologies for many reasons including:
* It encompasses nine very different stories from nine very different authors. With variety being the spice of life, this anthology ticks all the boxes for a diverse collection. A create and eclectic composition.
* Summer romance is captured in all its shapes and sizes, from new love, second chance love, to love between aliens and much more. These reads will never get dull.
* The nine authors that have banded together to bring this summer romance anthology are all very different and write under many varied genres. This is one reason this book remains entertaining through out. Making it nine great new authors to add to my reading list.
I hope to read more stories from the very inspirational authors who wrote a story in the romance anthology "Chasing Fireflies". I recommend this anthology to all lovers of romance looking to heat up their summer and embrace some talented authors.
I reviewed this voluntarily from a free copy.
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- TL ClarkReviewed in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2017
3.0 out of 5 stars Eclectic romances
Format: KindleVerified PurchaseWith so many differing authors this is really hard to review comprehensively.
There's a good mix of male and female authors across a few romance genres.
But therein lies the problem too. Some stories were better edited than others.
And I didn't feel a common thread bringing them all together.
I appreciate the theme is supposed to be 'summer love', but I didn't feel that in all the stories. It was more a lot of summer flings.
There are several stories about affairs, and some of the stories touch on abuse. It's quite a heady mix.
Don't get me wrong. I really enjoyed some of these stories, and was left wanting more.
I don't want this review to sound negative. It just lacked...something.
Eye of the Storm by Diane Morrison stood out for me. I liked the elf/orc dynamic.
And The Doctor and the Demon by Jay Michael Wright II drew me into a wonderfully mystical world. I definitely felt this story wanted a whole book.
The 11th Hour by CL Cannon was beautifully told.
There were things I liked about them all in their own right, actually.
I'm just not convinced they all belong together in the same book as short stories.
The title 'Chasing Fireflies' itself really only applies to one of the tales.
This is of course, just my own humble opinion.
In summary; an eclectic mix.
There's some good stories, and some which could do with more editing.