{"id":579,"date":"2017-09-20T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T04:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/?p=579"},"modified":"2017-09-08T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:13:41","slug":"summer-sundaes-georgina-troy-contemporary-romance-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/2017\/09\/20\/summer-sundaes-georgina-troy-contemporary-romance-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"SUMMER SUNDAES ~ by Georgina Troy #contemporary #romance #competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-Tour-Banner.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-Tour-Banner.png?resize=474%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sundaes\" width=\"474\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-Tour-Banner.png?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-Tour-Banner.png?resize=300%2C118&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Summer Sundaes<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">by<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Georgina Troy<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-FINAL-COVER-large.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-FINAL-COVER-large.jpg?resize=474%2C727&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sundaes\" width=\"474\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-FINAL-COVER-large.jpg?w=1631&amp;ssl=1 1631w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-FINAL-COVER-large.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-FINAL-COVER-large.jpg?resize=768%2C1177&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-FINAL-COVER-large.jpg?resize=668%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 668w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-FINAL-COVER-large.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Summer-Sundaes-FINAL-COVER-large.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Series: The Boardwalk by the Sea, Book 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Author name: Georgina Troy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Genre: Contemporary Fiction\/Romance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Release Date: 15 July 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Publisher: Green Shutter Books<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wipe off your flip flops, it\u2019s going to be a bumpy ride&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0<strong>Sacha Collins<\/strong>, cafe owner and sundae-maker extraordinaire, meets Italian archaeologist,\u00a0<strong>Alessandro Salvatore<\/strong>\u00a0in Rome, she&#8217;s grateful to him for being her tour guide. Now he\u2019s turned up in the seaside village where she lives, known locally as,\u00a0<strong>The Boardwalk by the Sea<\/strong>\u00a0and is setting up a gelateria in direct competition to her retro\u00a0<strong>Summer Sundaes Caf\u00e9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s only been running her caf\u00e9 for two years since taking over from her father. Until now the only other shops on the boardwalk have been a wool shop, an antique shop and a second-hand book shop. These have helped rather than hindered her custom. How will her creative sundaes made from fresh Jersey ice cream compete with his delicious Italian gelato?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sacha<\/strong>\u00a0is worried. Is there enough custom for both businesses to thrive? Who is behind the strange changes being made on the boardwalk? And when the oldest resident on the boardwalk is threatened with eviction can\u00a0<strong>Sacha<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Alessandro<\/strong>\u00a0come together and find a way of helping her?<\/p>\n<p>For a peaceful little boardwalk overlooking one of the quieter beaches on the island, there&#8217;s an awful lot going on and some of it is going to lead to big changes.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><u>BUY LINKS<\/u><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Amazon.com: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Summer-Sundaes-Boardwalk-Sea-Book-ebook\/dp\/B071DCW79L\/\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Summer-Sundaes-Boardwalk-Sea-Book-ebook\/dp\/B071DCW79L\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Amazon.co.uk: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Summer-Sundaes-Boardwalk-Sea-Book-ebook\/dp\/B071DCW79L\/\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Summer-Sundaes-Boardwalk-Sea-Book-ebook\/dp\/B071DCW79L\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">About Georgina Troy<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545\" style=\"width: 1625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Debs-pic-USE-1625x2149.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Debs-pic-USE-1625x2149.jpg?resize=474%2C627&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sundaes\" width=\"474\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Debs-pic-USE-1625x2149.jpg?resize=1625%2C2149&amp;ssl=1 1625w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Debs-pic-USE-1625x2149.jpg?resize=227%2C300&amp;ssl=1 227w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Debs-pic-USE-1625x2149.jpg?resize=768%2C1016&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Debs-pic-USE-1625x2149.jpg?resize=774%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 774w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Debs-pic-USE-1625x2149.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Debs-pic-USE-1625x2149.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HyperFocal: 0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Georgina Troy is the pseudonym of author Deborah Carr. Her first book, A Jersey Kiss was a finalist in the Contemporary Romance Category of the Romantic Novel of the Year Awards 2016 (RoNAs) and finalist in the Joan Hessayon Award for New Writers 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Her WW1 historical romance, Broken Faces, written in her own name, Deborah Carr, was runner-up in the Good Housekeeping Novel Writing Competition 2012. She lives on the island of Jersey with her husband, two children and three rescue dogs. Her books are published by Accent Press and Green Shutter Books. Georgina is a member of The Blonde Plotters.<\/p>\n<p>Georgina\u2019s new series, The Boardwalk by the Sea, includes four standalone novels about friends, Sacha, Bella, Lexi and Jools. Each book is set in a different season. The girls live on or near a small seaside village known locally as The Boardwalk by the Sea and all of them make an appearance in the books throughout the series but each book will focus on one of the friends.<\/p>\n<p>Summer Sundaes (book 1)<\/p>\n<p>Autumn Antics (book 2) &#8211; due Spring 2018<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Facebook: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeorginaTroyAuthor\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeorginaTroyAuthor\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Twitter:\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorginaTroy\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorginaTroy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Goodreads Author Page:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7224225.Georgina_Troy\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7224225.Georgina_Troy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Instagram: <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ofbooksandbeaches\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ofbooksandbeaches\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Google+:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117042212386862550212\">https:\/\/plus.google.com\/117042212386862550212<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Website:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deborahcarr.org\/\">http:\/\/www.deborahcarr.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">COMPETITION<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>A character in Autumn<\/strong> <strong>Antics (book 2) named after someone the winner nominates, i.e themself\/family member.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"rcwidget_ab7v8yns\" class=\"rcptr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rafflecopter.com\/rafl\/display\/4be03017250\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-template=\"\" data-theme=\"classic\" data-raflid=\"4be03017250\">a Rafflecopter giveaway<\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/widget-prime.rafflecopter.com\/launch.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer Sundaes by Georgina Troy &nbsp; Series: The Boardwalk by the Sea, Book 1 Author name: Georgina Troy Genre: Contemporary Fiction\/Romance Release Date: 15 July 2017 Publisher: Green Shutter Books Wipe off your flip flops, it\u2019s going to be a bumpy ride&#8230; When\u00a0Sacha Collins, cafe owner and sundae-maker extraordinaire, meets Italian archaeologist,\u00a0Alessandro Salvatore\u00a0in Rome, she&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/2017\/09\/20\/summer-sundaes-georgina-troy-contemporary-romance-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SUMMER SUNDAES ~ by Georgina Troy #contemporary #romance #competition<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,179,202,201,3],"tags":[8,203,9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79kK0-9l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.ca\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}