Handbag and Book welcomes author Alana Lorens and her book - A Rose by any Other Name

About the Handbag:

Author Alana Lorens doesn’t care that much about handbags, just using what’s utilitarian. But the heroine of A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME, Marisol Herrera Slade, has this bag that she just loves. It’s purple, of course, which is one great thing about it. It has a few small pockets inside for her peach-colored lipstick. But the sequins!

She’s never used it out in public, just because she doesn’t live that life. But her blog avatar, Jerrika Jones? Now she’s got attitude, and she’d flash this bag around like a queen.

Marisol bought the purse at a secondhand store and has it hanging on the back of her closet door, right where she can see it while she’s creating her weekly columns at Mothering Without a Man. It’s such an inspiration! She hopes one day to be successful enough with her writing that she will always be invited to parties and events where she can take this glorious bag.

About the Book:

 Up-and-coming mommyblogger and single mom Marisol Herrera Slade returns to her old hometown in western Pennsylvania for her 20th high school reunion in 2005, reluctant and yet compelled to see her high school sweetheart, Russell Asher, who dumped her for the homecoming queen.

Russell's marriage to the golden girl, however, ended in a nasty divorce, and he has been systematically excluded from his sons' lives. In his Internet wanderings, he's found feminist blogger named Jerrika Jones, who glorifies single motherhood, essentially putting a stamp of approval on what's happened to him. His group of single dad advocates have vowed to take this woman down.

 What Russell doesn't know, when he thinks to rekindle what he had with Marisol, is that Marisol and Jerrika are one and the same. When his group discovers the truth, will their drive for revenge derail any chance the couple have to reunite? Or will they find they have more in common than they ever expected?

About the Author:

Alana Lorens has been a published writer for more than forty years, after working as a pizza maker, a floral designer, a journalist and a family law attorney. Currently a resident of Asheville, North Carolina, the aging hippie loves her time in the smoky blue mountains. She writes romance and suspense as Alana Lorens, and sci-fi, fantasy and paranormal mystery as Lyndi Alexander. One of her novellas, THAT GIRL’S THE ONE I LOVE, is set in the city of Asheville during the old Bele Chere festival. She lives with her daughter on the autism spectrum, who is the youngest of her seven children, and she is ruled by three crotchety old cats, and six kittens of various ages.

Answer these questions:

Red, White or Blue?   BLUE

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter?  FALL

Cake or Pie?  That’s a hard one….um. Pie. No, cake. No, pie. Yeah. Pie.

Coffee, Tea, or Champagne?  coffee

Country music or Michael Buble?  Jeez. Neither?

Pencil or Pen?  pen

 

Find the Book at: Amazon

Your Alana Lorens at: Website