Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Kilby Blades!
Writes:
Kilby Blades writes 21st-century romance with fresh, witty characters grappling with modern problems. Cheesy dating apps? Check. Glass ceilings and drama at work? Check. A zero-tolerance policy for anything less than the real thing? Double-check.
About:
Kilby Blades is a USA Today bestselling author who probably should have gone to film school. Instead, she decided to become a diplomat. After getting a plum job offer in the music industry, she abandoned that plan, but at least she got to spend her college years gallivanting through Europe and dating great kissers with fabulous accents. When she’s not writing, Kilby goes to movie matinees alone, where she eats Chocolate Pocky and Skinny Pop and smuggles in not-a-little-bit of red wine. Her perfect match is someone who is smart, loves to laugh, and prefers the finer things in life. She is a cinephile, an oenophile, a social justice fighter, and - most of all - a glutton for a good story.
My ideal reader match for my latest book, LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER, must love…
- Traveling to amazing places–specifically, Italy’s Amalfi Coast
- Mouthwatering scenes with sumptuous food and old country charm
- Billionaire brothers who get themselves into a pickle with the heroine, because man logic
- The delicious anticipation of writing love letters (it’s an epistolary romance!)
- A teeny, tiny little bit of magic
- Family drama on the heroine’s side
- A happily-ever-after you’ll never forget
What to expect if we're compatible:
If we’re compatible, you’ll check my backlist to find out where you can find other stories like Looks Good on Paper - stories with strong heroines and swoony heroes. You’ll find firefighters, the guy next door, and grumpy architects and hot grocers–heroes willing to move heaven and earth for their woman’s love.
A fresh, hilarious take on the classic Cyrano de Bergerac from USA Today bestselling author Kilby Blades…
In today’s world filled with terrible dating apps and split-second hot takes, all Zuri Robinson wants is something real. And between her crap job, her family drama, and feeling like she completely missed out on her twenties, she’s pretty much done. Her only bright spot is exchanging letters with a ridiculously charming guy in Italy. Only Alessandro Fabricare has a teeeeeny little secret…
Nico Fabricare simply wanted to help his brother, Alessandro—who isn’t as eloquent with the English language—write a few letters. But with every letter that crosses the Atlantic, Nico is discovering that Zuri might just be the most incredible woman he’s ever met…except she thinks she’s falling in love with his brother.
Now Zuri is on her way to Italy—to meet Alessandro. And Nico is running out of time to win over the girl of his paper dreams before she finds out the truth.
Romance Contemporary [Entangled: Amara, On Sale: September 12, 2022, e-Book, ISBN: 9798849930459 / eISBN: 9798849930459]
Kilby Blades is a USA Today Bestselling author of Romance and Women's Fiction. Her debut novel, "Snapdragon", was a HOLT Medallion finalist, a Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize Semi-Finalist, and an IPPY Award medalist. Kilby was honored with an RSJ Emma Award for Best Debut Author in 2018, and has been lauded by critics for "easing feminism and equality into her novels" (IndieReader) and "writing characters who complement each other like a fine wine does a good meal" (Publisher's Weekly)
During her fifteen year career as a digital marketing executive, she moonlighted as a journalist, freelanced as a food, wine and travel writer and lived it up as an entertainment columnist. She has lived in five countries, visited more than twenty-five, and spends part of her year in her happy place in the Andes Mountains.
Kilby is a feminist, an oenophile, a cinephile, a social-justice fighter, and above all else, a glutton for a good story.
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