My Love letter to kinsley mcintyre

​My love letter to Kinsley McIntyre.
I wrote you seven years ago when I was in a long-term relationship that, at the time, was endgame. You and I didn’t have the same issues when it came to relationships. At the time, you were so different from me, even though I learned a lot about myself through you. Your struggle with your friends moving on, succeeding without you. When I first re-read your story, I saw my own fear of failure when my friends were succeeding. You taught me that jealousy of my friend’s successes had no place in my life. Now, success for me, in some ways, has been achieved. In many ways, I still have a lot of room to grow.
 
Flash forward to today, that long-term relationship has since ended. Entering the world of being single and navigating what that looks like has been odd. After all, I had been in a relationship with one person for over ten years (since high school). Don’t get me wrong, I don’t regret that relationship, nor do I regret it ending. Sometimes, we outgrow the people in our lives, whether that’s friends or partners. That doesn’t have to mean that everything that happened with them needs to be looked upon as a negative.
 
One of my characters in The ‘A’ Word tells you that “Sometimes people leave us behind, and sometimes we leave people behind. I think that’s life. Maybe in five years, you’ll have something more to connect over. I lost a lot of friends. We just all moved around to different places. I lost friends to more than just drifting apart, too. It sucks, but do I still want every person I was once close with in my life? I don’t think so because I personally need to filter a bit to make room for people new. People like you.”
 
Sometimes I need to hear what my characters are telling me. Things like jealousy can change the way we see a specific situation, it can make the path unclear, and that’s scary as hell. While The ‘A’ Word does not have a main trope of “miscommunication”, it is there within the book. After all, we’re human, and it can be all too easy to willfully chose to omit something, not quite lying, but not telling the full truth. And how fast that can get messy. I’ve learned not only first-hand, but through Kinsley’s story as well… And honestly, I should have learned from you, Kins. How you get in your own head and overthink and believe you’re doing what’s right for everyone else and never putting yourself first… It’s no surprise I wrote you, let’s just say that. Your flaws are my flaws, and for that, I love you.
 
Anyways, if you want to read about Kinsley (AKA me), and enjoy any of the following tropes:
-Friends with Benefits
-Best Friends
-One Night Stand
-Sex First, Feelings Later
-Friends to Lovers
-Love “V” / Tug-of-War Triangle
-Slight Miscommunication
-Sex Positivity
-Secrets
 
Then sign up for an ARC below and I will provide you an e-Pub/PDF. Of course the expectation is that the book can be read by September 15th and an honest review to be published on Goodreads/Amazon.