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Author Interview: Hannah Jordan

1. How did you choose your genre? What made you write this book?

This book began as a dare, specifically a challenge to write a romance in one month. I confessed to a writer friend that I’d always wanted to write a romance novel, a very different genre from my usual work. She had a partial draft of a paranormal romance she wanted to finish, so we dragged our third friend along for the ride.

I expected to be very busy that month. I didn’t expect to love every minute of it. I fell in love with the characters, the story, and the thrill of writing something I couldn’t wait to read myself. In short, I was hooked.

And just to be clear, the book went through over a year of revisions and rewrites, but the first draft came together in one calendar month.

2. Writers write what they know and must observe the world. Are you a firstborn, middle, or last child, and how does this shape your view of the world?

I’m the baby of the family, but I don’t fit the stereotype. I’m driven like a firstborn and like to take care of everyone around me. Growing up in rural Virginia and living my adult life in New Jersey have most shaped my view of the world. I think it’s given me a unique perspective of both places I carry with me when I venture somewhere new (imagined or IRL).

3. Where is your favorite place to write?

I have two main writing spaces. The first is my home office, which is a hot mess. I manage the HR, marketing, and accounting for my husband’s dental practice. My high schooler also likes to do her homework at the desk beside mine. So, there’s a lot going on. I only use the space to write when everyone is home and living loud.

When I have the house to myself, I go into the living room, where I have oversized, super comfy chairs and an ottoman. I switch chairs each week, so there isn’t a Hannah-sized butt imprint in only one (and for a slightly different view.) The room is usually tidy (not so much my office), which for some reason makes me feel more relaxed, and there are large windows where I can see both the front and back yards. My house has an open floor plan, which I love, but it means I can hear everyone when I’m in the living room, and people wander in and out asking what’s for dinner.

4. How do you feel about killing your darlings, and what do you do with the remains?

It’s a necessary evil. I keep a file called “Things Cut,” and sometimes they end up in something else. This happens a lot when minor characters take over the plot. Often, these characters will become major ones in later books. I wrote an entire scene in For You I’d Break describing Cal having a panic attack. Only problem: He doesn’t get panic attacks, but his best friend Theo does. I realized I’d written a scene for the second book in the series, so I cut it and saved it until I started working on For You I’d Mend.

5. You are introduced to your favorite author. Who is it, and what is that one burning question you must ask them?

I love Jane Austen. It should have been my first clue during my literary fiction phase that I might be in the wrong genre. Austen’s writing is masterful, and I will die on that hill, but when it comes right down to it, she wrote romances. Exceptional romances, but romances. I would ask her which of her characters are her favorite couple and why. I’m curious to know if it was the usual suspects (Elizabeth and Darcy) or a pair we’d never expect.

6. Inquiring minds want to know…tell readers something about you that no one knows.

Well, this is something readers wouldn’t know since most have never heard me speak. I spent my formative years in Appalachia and have unique pronunciations for certain words. My accent is so mixed between north and south that people always ask about it.

I’m proud of where I come from, so I’ll be saying “oil” and “crayon” in ways that make people laugh until the day I die. I have excised the word “boughten” from my vocabulary unless I’m talking with my brother because that one just confuses people.

7. You are stranded on a deserted island with only a backpack for company. What three items are in your survival pack?

I’d need my glasses and/or contact lenses if I wanted any chance of making it. I’d want some sort of water purification system to buy me a few days. Finally, I’d have a fully-charged satellite phone because I’m not a survivalist, and I’m getting out of there.

8. If you could have one superpower in your existence, what would it be?

I’d love to teleport. My parents and my brother’s family live in Georgia, and I live in New Jersey. My best friends are scattered around. It’d be great to just zip over for dinner anytime I wanted to visit and zip back.

9. Favorite snack?

Anything dark chocolate, bonus points if it’s also salty.

10. Indy 500 – Do you know how to get where you’re going, or do you drive the speed limit?

I 100% have no idea where I’m going, and I’m probably getting nowhere fast.

FOR YOU I’D BREAK

Hannah Jordan

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GENRE:  Contemporary Romance

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BLURB:

When Rowan’s two-year marriage ends with a crash, she returns home to Peace Falls, VA, riding shotgun in her sister’s 1990 Cadillac hearse. Everything about her is damaged: her heart, her pride, her bank account, and her spine—thanks to a tourist, a Segway, and finding her husband getting busy with her boss. But Rowan is determined to reclaim her career and city life as soon as she recuperates and lands a new job.

Caleb “Cal” Cardoso didn’t notice wallflower Rowan in high school, but the former football star, and Peace Falls’s newest physical therapist, can’t take his eyes off the stunning redhead now. Too bad he’s sworn off relationships. After his last hookup purposely tanked his online reputation, Cal stands to lose his job if a single patient leaves his care. Which is why he can’t let Rowan switch to another practitioner, despite the friction between them, and why he definitely can’t act on his growing attraction.

Rowan agrees to remain Cal’s patient if he helps her younger brother train for football tryouts. Though Cal hasn’t touched a football since the accident that killed his best friend, he agrees, and as Cal helps heal Rowan’s body, she begins to heal his heart.

For You I’d Break is a small town romance with a hefty dash of spice, a HEA ending, and a cast of memorable characters, including a goth sculptor who secretly loves to decorate cakes, a fearsome-looking felon with a heart of gold, a hothead with a sweet side, a karma-devoted barista who collects damaged pets and first dates, and a lovable dog with more emotional sense than everyone put together.

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Excerpt:

Just then, the second door opened and out walked Caleb Cardoso in a pair of slate gray scrubs. Years of watching him swagger down school hallways and sprint across football fields did nothing to prepare me. He’d added more muscle to his lean frame, his broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist. His dark, tousled hair looked styled to suggest he’d just climbed out of bed after an all-night sexfest. His jaw was sharper, his cheek bones more chiseled. When he looked at me with those rich chocolate eyes, all the air left my lungs.

“Mrs. Norris,” he said, glancing at the tablet in his hands.

The sound of my married name lifted the lust fog from my brain. “Please call me Rowan,” I said, relieved I’d finally managed to speak in his presence.

He studied my face, frowned, and looked back at his tablet. “Nice to meet you,” he said, studying my face again. “I’m Cal. Take a seat on the first table.”

Lauren would have politely told him that we were two years apart in school. Poppy would have flipped the embarrassment of being forgotten back onto Cal with a snide comment about his observation skills. Not that anyone ever forgot Poppy. I just turned my back to him and hoped he hadn’t seen my cheeks burn. People often didn’t remember me, but it still stung, especially when it was someone I’d spent so much time fantasizing about in my teens. As I crossed the room, I could feel him behind me, watching my every movement.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Hannah Jordan grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia but wound up in South Jersey after falling in love with her complete opposite. She’s got all the degrees of a “serious” fiction writer but only smiles when she’s writing romance.

She lives with her husband and two daughters in a picturesque town outside of Philadelphia where she enjoys reading in all genres, especially the spicy ones, and confusing people with her half-Southern, half-Northern accent.

The first book in her Peace Falls Small Town Romance Series, For You I’d Break, launched July 17, 2024.

Website: https://hannahjordanauthor.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hannahjordanbooks

Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/hannahjordanbooks

Amazon Buy Link:   https://www.amazon.com/You-Id-Break-Second-Romance-ebook/dp/B0D5VNSHF3/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top

Free to read on Kindle Unlimited.

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