Alrighty folks… here we have Linda Sienkiewicz … she has even included some reviews… (those things are like gold… and harder than heck to get outta the ground…) lol… I may be working in the wee hours again… but that doesn’t change that fact that Linda managed to get some awesome reviews…

way to go girl… (don’t forget the character interview, and excerpt for y’all) now I am off to force myself to sleep, it could get ugly…

Author Linda K. Sienkiewicz writes women’s fiction/ contemporary romance. Her debut novel In the Context of Love.

What makes us step back to examine the events and people that have shaped our lives? And what happens when what we discover leads to more questions?　In the Context of Love revolves around the journey of Angelica Schirrick as she reevaluates her life, and its direction.

Returning with her children from their first visit with her now imprisoned husband, she tries to figure out where it all went so wrong. Can she face the failures and secrets of her past and move forward? Can she find love and purpose again? Her future, which once held so much promise, crumbled like dust after the mysterious disappearance of her first love, and the shattering revelation that derailed her life, and divided her parents.　Only when she finally learns to accept the violence of her beginning can she be open to life again, and maybe to a second chance at love.

Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of #1 NYTimes Bestseller, DEEP END OF THE OCEAN, says: “With humor and tenderness, but without blinking, Linda K. Sienkiewicz turns her eye on the predator-prey savannah of the young and still somehow hopeful.”

Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Michigan Notable Book MOTHERS TELL YOUR DAUGHTERS, says “Sienkiewicz’s powerful and richly detailed debut novel is at once a love story, a cautionary tale, and an inspirational journey. It should be required reading for all wayward daughters, and their mothers, too.”

Eggcerpt from In the Context of Love:

What do you suppose my birthfather was doing at that moment? Getting a free meal from the Salvation Army? Lying on a grimy cot in a subsidy-rent apartment on Fifty-fourth, staring at a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling? What did he keep in his refrigerator? Salami? Eggs? A soft tomato with a cancerous black spot? He might have his own family, a basketful of smiling children with chocolate-coated grins, and a wife in a ruffled apron who served him barbecued ribs and mashed potatoes, knowing nothing of his illegitimate daughter.

I saw him with a swim cap of dark wavy hair, like mine, a fat stubby nose and eyes with the intensity of a quick moving summer storm. He focused on some distant spot, an invisible panorama, a sordid scene from his past, as he tore the meat from the ribs with his incisors, and his greasy lips moved in a silent monologue as he chewed. Suspicions, cold Midwest winters, bad city water, and clinging women made his teeth grind, no matter how many bones he sucked clean of flesh.

In the Context of Love can be purchased in paperback or e-reader

on Amazon　http://amzn.to/1IiVWEs　

or Barnes and Noble　http://bit.ly/1QFs340　

Here’s an interview with Angelica Schirrick, the narrator of　In the Context of Love:

1. What is your birthdate?
I came screaming into this world on June 30, 1958, delivered by a midwife, Rose Rumble, at my great aunt’s farm in Wisconsin.

2. Do you have a nickname?
　People have called me troublemaker, short stuff, hot stuff, cupcake (by my dad) Angel,　hure　(by my wicked German grandmother — don’t ask why), but most people call me Angie.

3. What’s your level of schooling?
I should say the School of Hard Knocks, but I have an associate’s degree.

4. What is your job?
I’m proud to say I’ve worked my way up to be the marketing and community service director for Safe Harbor, a non-profit women’s domestic violence shelter in Cleveland Ohio.

5. What is your most important goal?
To see my two children grow up to be happy and well-adjusted, despite having a felon for a father.

Author Linda K. Sienkiewicz　attributes her creative drive to her artistic mother, who taught her to sew, and her father, who let her monkey around with the gadgets in his workshop. Her poetry, short stories and art have been published in more than fifty literary journals. She has a poetry chapbook award from Bottom Dog Press and an MFA from The University of Southern Maine.

Website　http://lindaksienkiewicz.com
Twitter　https://twitter.com/LindaKSienkwicz
Pinterest　https://www.pinterest.com/lindaksienkwicz/
Instagram　https://www.instagram.com/lindaksienkiewicz/
Facebook　https://www.facebook.com/lindasienkiewicz.author