One Moment Changes Everything: He Walked In.

Isn't it amazing how sometimes, just one moment with the right person, can change your life's direction?

Sarah Dupont, the heroine of Just a Kiss, the first book in The Single Girls Wine Club series, has just moved from San Francisco to Sonoma Valley. She's starting to get her life back on track after breaking up with her fiance and has opened a new business on the Sonoma Plaza called the Vine Cafe.

Somehow, Sarah has let her best friend talk her into training actor Jamie Santino how to bake. Here, Jamie Santino, (one of the infamous Santino brothers of Napa Valley winery fame), walks into Sarah's cafe.

This excerpt is from the first chapter of Just a Kiss.

Sarah is hiding behind the espresso machine here: -)

Read the full synopsis of my wine country romance novel Just a Kiss here.

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Until next time, Kate. 

Under the Sonoma Sun

Maybe I'm just one of those people who have an overactive imagination.

Perhaps I just expect ideas will come to me and they do. Or, maybe, I'm just comfortable with having several story ideas running through my brain at any given time.  I am. :-)

For me, ideas or the inspiration for them, can come from anywhere, at anytime, from anything:

An idea can suddenly come to me when I'm watching a movie and the title somehow changes in mind.

Or a when family comes to visit and I take them to some of my favorite local tourist destinations.

Sometimes, someone else's story, from a long time ago, inspires me,

 

My character Lulu Castilli, in Just a Kiss, is the great granddaughter of a renowned winemaker.

Or a song lyric gets stuck in my brain.

Here are a few of the songs I listened to while writing Sarah and Jamie's love story in Just a Kiss: Sarah Smile, Something, Edge of Desire. The playlist is here.

There is a flower in my story that a character uses to explain how she feels about Sarah Dupont. I took this photo right outside my kitchen door.

Maybe all my years in radio taught me that there is no "bad" way to find an idea, just as there are no "bad" ideas.  

Open your eyes, listen with your soul and see what happens. 

Until next time, Kate xo  

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