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My thanks to everyone who supported SECRETS WE KEEP to help it reach the Editor's Desk on Sept. 1, 2012.

I am grateful for the wisdom and teaching I have received from you, my virtual writing group. The work has definitely improved because of it.

I have written for newspapers, magazines, websites and Fortune 100 companies. In my spare time I restored old houses with my husband, had three babies and raised a pack of active boys with way too many friends who emptied the refrigerator every night. Now the boys are grown and have their own babies to feed.

I have been writing fiction full time for the past few years. There are three novels completed and several more in progress.

My first novel, DESTINED, a magic realism romance with a Tarot theme, was published in 2010. My second, SECRETS WE KEEP, has been revised thanks to the very useful suggestions of readers on this website, made the Editor's Desk on Sept. 1, 2012, and is out on queries. I LOVE CHOCOLATE, a Romance with Recipes, has recently been posted here and is seeking feedback and recipe testers.

I live on a farm in New England with my family and dogs, cats, chickens, black bears, blue herons, rushing streams and wide, windy skies.

You can follow my photo blog "Circle of the Seasons" at www.blipfoto.com/gcleare, Amazon.com, Twitter (@gcleare) or at Goodreads.

THANK YOU to everyone, I appreciate your reading and reviewing time and I'm so impressed by the deep pool of talent in this community.

favourite books

Anything by Paulo Coelho, Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, Luanne Rice, Susan Wiggs, Kristin Hannah or Elizabeth Strout. I just read all of Susannah Kearsley's books and especially loved The Winter Sea. I also liked The Help, by Kathryn Stockett. For sci fi/fantasy, it's the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders series and Stawhawk's novel "The Fifth Sacred Thing". And I adore mysteries if they're not too gorey, especially Laurie King's series about Sherlock Holmes, Dolores Stewart Riccio's Circle of Five witchcraft mysteries, Martha Grimes' Inspector Richard Jury books and the intense writing of PD James, who has the largest vocabulary of English words I have ever encountered. For the classics: The Great Gatsby, A Farewelll to Arms, Heart of Darkness, Pride and Prejudice and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

my websites

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my books

I Love Chocolate

Gail Cleare

A Romance with Recipes.
Sarah Westwood craves dark, decadent "Better Than CyberSex Brownies" almost as much as the real thing. Almost.


Raising her seven-year-old son alone on a waitress's salary is not something Sarah ever expected to do, but when her husband deserts her and she's downsized out of her executive job, Sarah goes to work at her family’s restaurant, The Three Chocolatiers.

Determined not to fall for the wrong guy again, Sarah tries to console herself with chocolate and cybersex. Blake Harrison wants to convince her the real thing is much better. Meanwhile someone is watching Sarah’s house, and her online lover knows a lot more about her than he should.

Her two lovers light a blaze in Sarah that is out of control, and she can’t stop daydreaming about what to do with that recipe for Orgasmic Chocolate Fudge Sauce....

Every chapter is accompanied by a recipe from The Three Chocolatiers cookbook.

 

Secrets We Keep

Gail Cleare

Nell and Bridget discover their mother has hidden a secret life for thirty years, with a cottage in Vermont and a Westie named Winston.


Sept. 1, 2012 - AUTHONOMY GOLD MEDAL WINNER!

98,000 words of contemporary women's fiction — a family drama about three generations of women, the sacrifices they've made and the secrets they carry.

If you ever wondered what your mother is really like, you should read this book.

Educated at the best schools and raised to live happily ever after, the Reilly sisters never dreamed their lives would only be perfect on the surface. Nell is a devoted mom and corporate wife who struggles to keep her demanding husband happy. Bridget is a glamorous interior designer who transforms herself for every new man, always attracted to the bad ones.

When their mother Mary Reilly turns up in a hospital hundreds of miles from home, the sisters find out how she has dealt with regret. Her lakeside hideaway is the vault for family secrets never suspected, and the gateway to change for all three women.

 

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Alice Barron wrote 5 hours ago

Hi Gail, Juli is getting great feedback, as in her book must be very....

Book Pike wrote 4 days ago

Hi Gail I didn't want to ask this in public lest it spark off a d....

Mitfordgirl wrote 5 days ago

Hi, sorry, thought reviews were due by end of month. Thanks for the r....

Book Pike wrote 6 days ago

Hi Gail Thanks for doing this. Best JT

Shaun Holt wrote 8 days ago

Hey, just to warn you & apologize, I am really, really out of it toni....

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I wrote 13 days ago

RCG Review - I found the start of this to be slow going, but once it got rolling along with the therapy scenes and then university, I was hooked and read through chapter 9. There are quite a few grammatical issues with the writing that I think are probably due to local differences... things like "... view book

I wrote 13 days ago

This is the best first line on Authonomy, LOVE IT. I know a small press and several agents who would kill for this ms., so let me know when you're ready to query and I'll send you their names. I read your blog about sex scenes...have you read the early Jennie Crusie books? She is one woman writer wh... view book

I wrote 90 days ago

Your writing is technically solid, but the characters and the story are depressing. I read for entertainment, so this is definitely not my kind of thing. Not clear on what you are trying to achieve, I guess it's just not for me. view book

I wrote 90 days ago

Your writing is technically solid, but the characters and the story are depressing. I read for entertainment, so this is definitely not my kind of thing. Not clear on what you are trying to achieve, I guess it's just not for me. view book

I wrote 124 days ago

Good job, Lauren! This is an exciting read, reminds me of Susanna Kearsley's books..several of them have a reincarnation theme. You would love MARIANA, if you haven't read it. I've read up through chapter three and am quite intrigued. I did notice something...she never pays, or offers to pay, the ps... view book

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