Online for Authors Episode 4-15-25

​Love Off-Script: The Surprising Romance Between a Star and a Single Mom with author Shelby Saville

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Shelby Saville, author of the book And They Had a Great Fall. Her first writing job was for the Lacon Home Journal, where she covered the news of the town. She moved to Chicago when she got her dream job in the advertising industry using numbers rather than words. She’s returned to the world of words with her debut novel.  Writing this novel has felt like coming home as the two sides of her brain merge. When not at her computer, she can be found hanging with her husband, Scott, teenage daughter, three dogs and one mean cat.

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And They Had a Great Fall is a wonderful romance that had me in all of my emotions. For me, it was particularly poignant since we learn early on that Kat lost her husband to cancer five years earlier - and she is having a heck of a time moving forward. Although she is much younger than me, has a young child at home, and was in the midst of an important corporate career, I still felt a kinship.

Kat's love interest, Jake, is someone well outside her norm. Everything about his life is what she claims to abhor - messy, emotional, spontaneous, and all-in. Jake sees that she offers a stability and sense of purpose he craves. But what happens when two broken people find one another and try to fix the other without first fixing themselves?

I laughed. I cried. I raged. I cheered. But most importantly, I connected. This book should be on your TBR.

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