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Find my books in New Haven

8/15/2020

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​Hey, guys! You can now get a selection of my books at Lizzy Lu Custom Wreaths in New Haven, Mo. AND they’re all signed!  New Haven, Detmold, Berger, Hermann and Washington are all inspirations for most of the settings in my novels. So, if you’re in the area, make your way downtown to the place my very first story began! And while you’re there, check out the store and snag some other really cool local finds you can only get in New Haven, Mo.!

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Have you read them all?

8/7/2019

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Have you read all eight of my novels?! They all take place in small towns and involve characters that will probably remind you of the people you know or used to know! If you haven't read any OR all of them, I've put together a cheat sheet below to help you choose where to begin! They're in order of how I wrote them, starting in 2012, but you can read them in ANY order. And the best part, they're suitable for all ages! But if you get to the end, and you're still not quite sure where to start, I recommend The Life We Almost Had! Find them all on Amazon! Happy reading! ♥ Laura

Butterfly Weeds
  • My debut novel about a girl who hears a song on a downtown Charleston, South Carolina street, only to realize it's about her.
  • Themes: High school sweethearts, music, forever love, songs, famous hero
  • Why readers like it: Main character Will Stephens, the story follows the life of the characters, the ending ​
"One of the most beautiful love stories I have ever read." -Jelena's Book Blog
My Butterfly
  • The same story as Butterfly Weeds, but told in the male point of view
  • Themes: High school sweethearts, country music, small-town life, fame
  • Why readers like it: More details about Will, revisiting Butterfly Weeds​
"I have never met a more swoon-worthy character than Will Stephens."
​-Romantic Reading Escapes
​For All You Have Left
  • Story alternates between past and present. Logan Cross secretly gets married at eighteen but is forced to start over soon afterward.
  • Themes: Love and loss, mystery, hope, sisterhood, second chances, secrets
  • Why readers like it: Old loves and new loves that are interconnected, falling in love for the first time
"It takes you back to the innocence and joy of falling in love." -She Reads New Adult
By Way of Accident
  • Told from the male point of view. A girl shows up at River Asher's creek one day only to disappear. Years later, when he finds a lost letter, he goes on a quest to find her.
  • Themes: Rural life, young love, second chances, fate, letters
  • ​Why readers like it: Young love in a rural, small town
"A classic, all-American, enchanting love story." -Southern Belle Book Blog
When Cicadas Cry
  • Fast read, told from both the female and male perspectives. When Ashley Westcott shows up in Remington Jude's small town, she's the talk of the town. When she abruptly leaves one day, rumors fly.
  • Themes: Mystery, small-town rumors, love and loss
  • ​Why readers like it: Love between family and friends, the twist
"Miller brings the small-town rumor mill to life." -Kathy Reads Fiction
A Bird on a Windowsill
  • New adult romance. Salem and Savannah have known each other since childhood. But now, at 23 and having spent the last five years apart, they both must navigate the delicate line of loving and letting go.
  • Themes:​ Young love, a hint of mystery, true love, letters
  • ​Why readers like it: Main character Salem Ebenezer, reminds them of their first love
"Captures the true essence of friendship and falling in love."
​-Two Book Lovers Reviews
The Life We Almost Had
  • Berlin and Iva grow up and fall in love in the small town of Sweet Home, Missouri. But when Berlin's family moves away, they lose touch. Now, years later, Berlin has a secret he's hiding from Iva.
  • Themes: Small-town life, young love, second chances, mystery, famous hero
  • ​Why readers like it: The small town of Sweet Home, inspired by my hometown; following Iva and Berlin's love story from the beginning
"The book that feeds my need for the perfect romance." -The Bookie Rookie
​The Dream
  • Not your ordinary romance. Everton and Daisy's love comes young and fast. And it's also forbidden. Five years later, they're standing face to face for the first time since high school, but one thing remains: their love is still forbidden.
  • Themes: Young love, forbidden love, family, sisterhood
  • ​Why readers like it:  The banter between the sisters, small-town family life, the revelation at the end
"Heart-breakingly beautiful." -Jenn and Books
"This one took a turn I didn't see coming." -Cyndy, Goodreads
​Find them all on Amazon!
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The Life

7/23/2018

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The Life We Almost Had is my latest book, but you can read it first! All my books are standalones!

The Life We Almost Had is about first love and a second chanc
e in a small, Missouri town—inspired by the town I grew up in! AND main character Berlin Elliot has a pretty cool job, too, but I can’t say what it is!

​Find Iva & Berlin’s story and all my books on Amazon! 💛 

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: The Life We Almost Had

9/27/2017

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READING GROUP GUIDE
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
The Life We Almost Had

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  1. In the prologue, we get a description of Sweet Home. What is your first impression of the small town?
  2. When Berlin first sees Iva again after seven years, he’s nervous. Do you think it’s possible to still have the same feelings for someone after so many years?
  3. We don’t know that Iva is leaving for New Zealand when she stumbles upon Berlin again, but she does. Does this fact make her hesitations more reasonable? Would you have been hesitant to start anything with Berlin?
  4. Iva’s father isn’t too keen on Berlin. Can you see his side?
  5. When Berlin takes Iva to the lighthouse on the bluff in Channing, he says he likes to believe it’s Mr. Keeper’s lighthouse. Why do you think this is? Why do you think he has a sentimental connection to Sweet Home?
  6. When Berlin asks Iva to stay and make a life with him, Iva agrees. Would you have made the same decision? Would you have agreed so quickly?
  7. When Berlin proposes to Iva, he also tells Iva her mom’s story about her first love. How does Iva’s mother's life parallel Iva’s life?
  8. When Iva and Berlin tell Iva’s parents that she is planning on moving to Channing with Berlin, Iva says that her father was swayed by the fact that Berlin looks a different way now. What part does appearance play in Berlin and Iva’s father’s relationship? Do you think living in a small town affects her father’s perception of Berlin?
  9. Was Berlin trouble for Iva in his youth or was he just being young? 
  10. How does Iva cope with giving up/postponing her dream after she moves to Channing? How would you have dealt with it? Did she finally make the right decision in going to New Zealand?
  11. Did Iva and Berlin try hard enough to make their relationship work after Iva moved to New Zealand? Did Iva give up too fast? Did Berlin? And did they ever really give up? 
  12. When Iva sees Berlin at Natalie and Isaac’s engagement party, she questions Berlin about his tattoo. What is the meaning behind the inked word on his arm? What does this say about their relationship?
  13. What do you think it means that Iva chose the art pieces that she did to give to Berlin?
  14. We learn that Berlin had bought a ticket to New Zealand? Would you have done the same—knowing Iva was already engaged?
  15. When Berlin is looking at the painting that Iva gave him, he is thinking about not having to look back on the life he and Iva almost had. Do you think that our paths in life are that close—that one decision can change everything? Or do you believe (like Iva) that it all ends the way it was intended?
  16. Iva tells Berlin that she couldn’t marry Adam. What do you think changed her mind?
  17. Do you believe that second chances, when it comes to love, are all they’re cracked up to be?
  18. In the epilogue, Iva says that she is finally home. What do you think she means by this?
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Thank you!

9/19/2017

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Thank you all so much for your kind words and support and thoughtful reviews ALREADY today! AND THANK YOU for helping to make The Life We Almost Had an Amazon best-seller. It means the world to me! I hope you have a chance to pick up Iva and Berlin’s story, if you haven’t already. And more importantly, I hope you enjoy!
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You can find THE LIFE WE ALMOST HAD here:
Amazon e-book ➟ https://goo.gl/WpVU6U
Amazon paperback ➟ https://goo.gl/3jDBA5
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Cover: The Life We Almost Had

9/5/2017

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In case you were curious about what the full, final cover of The Life We Almost Had looks like, here it is! Berlin's story will be here September 19! And don't forget, you can pre-order the e-book at its special price now on Amazon.
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First Look: The Life We Almost Had

7/14/2017

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In case you haven't heard, The Life We Almost Had will be here in a little more than two months! BUT you can pre-order the e-book now on Amazon and Barnes&Noble and have it delivered directly to your reading device Sept. 19!

I'm really excited about this one, and there are lot of reasons for that, but here are three!

 
One: This story shows glimpses into the past, so you not only get to see snapshots of just how these two fell in love, but you also get to grow up with these characters. They're happy. They're sad. They're embarrassed of their parents. They're embarrassed of themselves. They make the right decisions. They make the wrong decisions. But through it all, they love.

I look into his brown eyes, and I run my fingers through his long hair. He doesn’t fit in here; he never has. He doesn’t know anything about farming or small-town norms. He doesn’t know you don’t wear black everywhere you go. ...I think I love that about him best. 

“What the hell are you doing here?” Daddy says. His voice is stern and kind of scary.
“Um, I was just returning the hammer, sir,” Berlin says, eyeing the hammer on the hall desk.
Daddy glances at the desk in the hall. “Then how come the hammer is there, and you’re upstairs?
Two: These characters grow up in a little ghost town that has a post office and a corner store and a restaurant called Victor's...and that's about it. But they make the most of it, and I especially love their little town because it reminds me of a place that's near and dear to my own heart.
And life was quiet...until the day that he showed up. ...From that day and for a while after that, you couldn’t hear the sound of the water dripping in the kitchen sink or the branches scraping across the tin roof above my room anymore. Those sounds were all drowned out by the crack of Clearly Canadian caps hitting the concrete and his laugh and the high-pitched hum of an engine, as his dirt bike made little circles in the bottom land.
Three:  Lastly, I can't really promise you anything with this story. But I can tell you that where there is heartbreak, there's also a second chance. Now, what these two choose to do with that second chance AND just how fair life chooses to be with them, you'll have to see. But through it all, their journey is all their own, and it's one I'm hoping you'll be glad you took.
I cried for me. I cried for the little girl and the little boy who loved with everything they had in a little town that nobody cared about but them. I cried because I felt as if no one else would cry for them. 
♥Laura

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Coming Soon! Cover Reveal!

7/10/2017

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I'm SO EXCITED to announce that my next book will be here September 19! 
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I CANNOT wait for you to read The Life We Almost Had!
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I really don't have favorites when it comes to characters, but if I did, these guys would be up there! They and the little town of Sweet Home, Missouri, stole my heart.


I don’t want to say too much, in fear that I’ll give too much away. But I will say that The Life We Almost Had means a lot to me. It’s about two of my favorite things: young, wild love—the kind that will remind you what it's like to be fifteen again, and of course, second chances.
 
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The book starts out in a little, ghost town that reminds me a lot of a place that is very real to me. And along with that, this might just be the most real story I’ve ever written.        

So, I do hope you enjoy their journey. 
And you don't have to wait until September to secure your copy, either! The pre-order for the e-book is up on Amazon right now! And it's at a special price!  So, hurry over there to get yours!

And without further ado, here's the back cover summary:

Back before everyone left the little town of Sweet Home to the ghosts, she was the girl next door. And he was the boy, who could never get on her father’s good side. But none of that mattered. The only thing that mattered was that her heart had picked him.
 
But that was years ago. And now, Berlin’s sister is praying for someone to show up to take her brother’s mind off the girl from his past. And surely enough, that someone does. But will this girl be able to cut the chains of his first love or will she just make him fall harder for that little girl he left behind in Sweet Home, Missouri? 
 

One week is all they have.

♥Laura​

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    Laura Miller
    Inspired by my little,  Midwestern hometown, ​​​I write about rain on tin roofs, gravel roads, old trucks with holes in the floorboards, small-town summer nights, and most importantly, love. 

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     Laura Miller's first 
    contemporary romance novel, Butterfly Weeds, hit the Amazon Best-Seller's List and Top 100 in October 2012. The sequel to Butterfly Weeds, My Butterfly, released in June 2013. For All You Have Left, By Way of Accident, When Cicadas Cry and A Bird on a Windowsill followed. The Life We Almost Had debuted as a best-seller in 2018. Laura's latest small-town romance, The Dream, released in 2019 and is an Amazon #1 Best-seller. Also check out her books of poetry: Love Story, Old Flame, Pieces of You and Echo. And look for her children's book, Pay It Forward, available now!


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