Our guest quit her job in Nashville and moved to North Carolina to become an actress. Three months later the world shut down…so she started writing about the Carolina coast instead.
This week we're joined by Courtney G. Foutz, who writes contemporary romance and women's fiction as Courtney Giardina.
We get into all of it. The journal she kept through a divorce, and what happened when she started sharing it online. Running an independent publishing house, and the cupcake crawl she booked across Toronto to launch somebody else's novel. How you fill a small town with liars when only one of them is a murderer. Why chasing a perfect first draft is the thing slowing you down.
ANDREW WAS ON VACATION AGAIN…so we have too much freedom to tangent!
STAY TO THE END…there is no book content, just some really…WEIRD…vibes.
FIND COURTNEY
Website — https://www.courtneygiardina.com
Instagram — @courtneygfoutz
TikTok — @courtneygwrites
Newsletter — https://courtneygfoutz.substack.com
Signed paperbacks and full collections are available direct through her website. Everything is also on Amazon, in Kindle Unlimited, ebook and paperback.
HER BOOKS
Tear Stained Beaches (Loving Carolina #1)
Holding On To Georgia (Loving Carolina #2)
Behind the Strings
Blue Haven Mysteries
The Women of Seaglass Bay
CURRENTLY READING
Holly — Book one of The Witcher
CJ — More Than Friends (Kat Singleton),Kiss of the Basilisk
Courtney — Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I've Cried About (Isabel Klee), and about to start
The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman)
ALSO MENTIONED
Elin Hilderbrand — The Five-Star Weekend · The Hotel Nantucket · Silver Girl · The Perfect Couple · the Paradise trilogy
The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton) · The Finley Donovan series · A Discovery of Witches · Atmosphere (Taylor Jenkins Reid) · Onyx Storm · Morgan Elizabeth · Windy City (Liz Tomforde) · Freida McFadden · Steve Higgs
TROPES: friends to lovers, second chance, single dad, billionaire, small town, cozy mystery. Enemies to lovers, discussed with suspicion.
SPICE: Low. This one is cozy.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Discussion of divorce and leaving a bad marriage; murder (but in the mystery sense).
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