Love Off-Script: The Surprising Romance Between a Star and a Single Mom with author Shelby Saville

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Shelby Saville, author of the book And They Had a Great Fall. Shelby resides in a suburb west of Chicago.  Despite her city living, she’s a small-town girl at heart. She grew up in a town of 2000 people where she spent her teenage years at her typewriter late into the night.  Her stories brought her to a world beyond the 1.6 square mile radius of her town.

 

Her first writing job was for the Lacon Home Journal, where she covered the news of the town. She particularly loved writing obituaries, taking great care to convey the life of someone’s friend … sibling … lover…. But still the city was calling.

 

She moved to Chicago when she got her dream job in the advertising industry. Throughout her career she realized she had an interest in digital media.  She’s spent the last 25 years at Publicis Media where she’s focused on media investment – quite simply – how advertising space is bought and sold. Most surprisingly, she found her career in numbers, not words.

 

She’s returned to the world of words with her debut novel, And They Had A Great Fall.  It’s a second chance love story, set in a foreign city with a dash of a celebrity secret romance.  Writing this novel has felt like coming home as the two sides of her brain merge.

 

When not at her computer, she can be found hanging with her husband, Scott, teenage daughter, three dogs and one mean cat.

 

In my book review, I stated And They Had a Great Fall is a wonderful romance that had me in all of my emotions. For me, it was particularly poignant since we learn early on that Kat lost her husband to cancer five years earlier - and she is having a heck of a time moving forward. Although she is much younger than me, has a young child at home, and was in the midst of an important corporate career, I still felt a kinship.

 

Kat's love interest, Jake, is someone well outside her norm. Everything about his life is what she claims to abhor - messy, emotional, spontaneous, and all-in. Jake sees that she offers a stability and sense of purpose he craves. But what happens when two broken people find one another and try to fix the other without first fixing themselves?

 

I laughed. I cried. I raged. I cheered. But most importantly, I connected. This book should be on your TBR.

 

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