Blog Tour Guest Post: No More Tomorrows: A Confession From a Romance Author
Today I am taking part in the blog tour for No More Tomorrows by Olivia Lockhart and Hal Lambert. Today Olivia is sharing a confession: She loves writing sex scenes! I’m intrigued by this novel so I had to put in a pre-0rder for it! **And if you are lucky enough to live in the UK, there is a giveaway going on to win a signed copy of the novel!
No More Tomorrows is available now! It was just released on April 9th.
Book Description:
Two eras. One aching heart.
1917 – At Cambridge University, American scholar Harry Turchin never expects to lose himself to desire. But Annie Mackenzie—soft-spoken, grieving, and luminous—claims his heart from their very first kiss. Their love is swift, fierce, and intoxicating. Married just days before Harry is sent to war, their passion is ripped apart when the trenches claim everything he knows, and Harry is thrown into a future that should not exist.
1967 – The free-spirited sixties are alive with rhythm, rebellion, and possibility. Harry awakens to a world he doesn’t recognise—and to Annalise Taylor, as bold and captivating as the era itself. Brilliant, independent, and achingly alive, she rouses a desire he thought belonged solely to the past.
Caught between the love he was ripped away from and the passion he cannot resist, Harry is torn between two women, two lives, and two versions of forever. Because time will not bend twice … Or will it?
Sweeping from the blood-soaked battlefields of World War One to the fevered nights of the swinging sixties, No More Tomorrows is a sensual time-slip romance about desire, devotion, and the devastating power of love that refuses to be bound by time.
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Confession From A Romance Author:
I Love Writing Sex Scenes!
I love writing sex scenes. Maybe that has something to do with the kind of books I write. In my stories, the intimacy is never pointless. It isn’t there purely for titillation or shock value. It’s there because it reveals something deeper about the characters – their trust, their vulnerability, and the love growing between them.
To me, those moments are another form of storytelling.
Literature can be incredibly sensual when it’s done well, but I’ve read too many books that focus purely on the physical mechanics of it all. You know the type, insert A into B while stroking C, followed by a meticulous description of what D looked like in the moment. Technically detailed, perhaps – but for me, they miss the point entirely.
That kind of writing has never been what draws me in.
What I care about are the small, human details. The way someone’s breath catches unexpectedly. The way their eyes soften as they look at the person they love. The nervous hesitation before a first touch, the quiet wonder of discovering someone’s body and realising that they trust you enough to let you be there.
Those are the moments that make a scene feel real.
For me, intimacy in books isn’t about anatomy – it’s about emotion. It’s about the tension that builds between two people who have been circling each other for chapters, sometimes for an entire novel. It’s about the shift in their relationship when the walls come down and they finally allow themselves to be seen fully by another person.
When that connection is written well, the physical side of the scene almost becomes secondary. It’s there, of course, but it’s the emotional weight behind it that makes readers feel something.
That’s the kind of scene I love writing.
In many ways, it’s also part of the reason I started writing in the first place. I’ve always loved romance novels, but over the years I found myself frustrated by some of the ones I read. The relationships didn’t feel believable, or the intimacy felt disconnected from the story itself.
So eventually I did the slightly reckless thing many writers do.
I decided to write my own.
It feels like a bold statement to say that out loud, because the truth is that someone, somewhere, will inevitably think my books fall into the same category of “bad romance” that I once complained about. Taste is subjective, after all. What works beautifully for one reader might completely miss the mark for another.
And that’s okay.
At the end of the day, all any writer can really do is write the stories that feel true to them. The stories we’d want to read ourselves. The ones that make us excited to sit down at the keyboard and bring characters to life.
For me, that means writing romance that leans into the emotional side of intimacy – the tenderness, the anticipation, the quiet moments of connection that happen between two people who care deeply about each other.
Because when those feelings are on the page, the scene becomes about far more than sex.
It becomes about love.
And if I’m lucky, somewhere out there are readers who feel the same way. Readers who connect with those moments, who see the beauty in them, and who want to experience more stories where intimacy isn’t just physical – it’s emotional too.
Those are the readers I write for.
And hopefully, they’ll keep wanting me to write more.
About One of the Authors:
Olivia Lockhart (Livvie to her friends) is an English author who can’t quite decide if she wants to write contemporary romance, historical romance, or paranormal romance. So she writes them all, because it HAS to be romance!
She loves to write about the underdog, the one who got away, the bits of love stories we can all relate to.
When not writing she can be found drinking wine, cuddling with her beloved pooch, or with her head in a book.
**UK GIVEAWAY**
Win a signed copy of No More Tomorrows
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Audiobook Review: The Voice We Find by Nicole Deese
The Voice We Find: A Fog Harbor Romance
Series: Fog Harbor #3
Author: Nicole Deese
Narrators:
Stephanie Cozart
Nick Mills
Taylor Meskimen
Published: April 15, 2025
Audiobook: 14 hours 26 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: February 15-23, 2026
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
Two voices. One story. A chance to rewrite their future.
Sophie Wilder returns home to California with nothing more than a failed Broadway career and a geriatric cat. Stuck working at the family winery with her egotistical brother and desperate for a way to revive her acting dreams, she takes a side gig as an audiobook narrator with Fog Harbor Books. But getting mixed up in the life of her reluctant sound engineer was never a part of her plans.
August Tate is still reeling from taking on guardianship of his teen sister. Determined to find a solution to her degenerative hearing loss and to prevent his private recording studio from going under, he agrees to produce audiobooks part-time. When Sophie breathes new life into his creativity and forms an unexpected bond with his sister rooted in their common faith, he must confront the reasons he turned away from his own or risk losing the second chance he’s only just started to believe in.
The Voice We Find is the third book in Nicole Deese’s Fog Harbor Romance Series for fans of clean, faith-based stories, deaf and hard of hearing representation, workplace romance, books about books, found family, and sibling bonds.
Jessica’s Review:
The Voice We Find is a contemporary Christian Fiction novel that deals with some deep themes. All three of our characters: Sophie, August, and Gabby all have growth over the course of the novel. The reader also experiences the character’s traumas and the aftermath of family loss, family tension, struggles with faith, and as the title suggests: The characters finding their voice in the ways that they are meant to. In addition to these themes, we have God and He is also a central part of the story. There is also a little bit of a mystery with Sophie’s past..
In addition to the three main characters we also have Phantom, who is Sophie’s ‘geriatric’ cat. He is his own character as I saw my own cat Curry in Phantom. All my love to stubborn, older cats! Curry can be his own ‘stubborn old man’!
My favorite parts of this novel are the ASL and the hard of hearing/ deaf community representation! Disability representation is needed more of in books and it is a significant part of the novel due to Gabby’s degenerative hearing loss and eventual deafness.
The reader also gets some insight in theater performance and audiobook narration. I enjoyed getting a brief look at what working in those ‘worlds’ consist of. We also get a sweet romance that progresses slowly. We also get another form of love that is the sibling love between August and Gabby. They may not be ‘blood relatives’, but they are family and their love is definitely there!
You can’t help but grow to care about all of these characters in all of their realities. They are all far from perfect, but again we experience their growth over the course of the novel.
All of the narrators brought August, Sophie, and Gabby to life with perfection. They all enhanced the story. The Voice We Find is the third in the series, but each novel can be treated as a standalone. This one was a book club selection for February, and I enjoyed it and hope to experience the other two in the series soon.
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Book Review: The Accidental Pinup by Danielle Jackson
The Accidental Pinup
Series: Buxom Boudoir #1
Author: Danielle Jackson
Narrator: Jeanette Illidge
Published: July 19, 2022
Audiobook: 10 hours 11 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: November 10-15, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 3.5 stars
Book Description:
Rival photographers are forced to collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign, but they might have to readjust their focus when sparks fly.
Photographer Cassie Harris loves her job—her company Buxom Boudoir makes people look beautiful and feel empowered with her modern twist on classic pinup photography. Cassie’s best friend, Dana, is about to launch her own dangerously dreamy lingerie line and wants Cassie to shoot and direct the career-changing national campaign. But company politics and Dana’s complicated pregnancy interfere, and Cassie finds herself—a proud plus size Black woman—not behind the camera but in front of it.
Though she’s never modeled herself, Cassie’s pretty sure she can handle the sheer underwear and caution tape bralettes. She’s not sure she can work so intimately with the chosen photographer, her long-time competitor in the Chicago photography scene, Reid Montgomery. Their chemistry is undeniable on set, however, and feelings can develop faster than film…
Jessica’s Review:
After trying to find a book based on ‘stranger photo sessions’ and only finding a novella series that did not work for me (I gave the first novella 2 stars and DNF’d the second), this was the closest I could find. And that was thanks to my friend Yami.
Here we have photographer Cassie whose best friend Dana is about to launch a lingerie line for plus sized women. Dana wants Cassie to be the photographer and after a series of events Cassie ends up being the model (which Cassie has never modeled…) and the photographer is Reid. Reid has been Cassie’s direct competition and he has taken potential jobs from her. And there is some chemistry going on between model and photographer.
I really loved the body positivity and representation in the novel with Cassie. In addition to being a gorgeous plus sized woman, she is also a person of color. We are getting so much representation in this novel! And being this is a contemporary romance we also have the rivals/ enemies to lovers sub-genre.
It got a little bit much on the spicy side for me, but I was prepared for that knowing my friend Yami likes her books spicy! For the readers who read spice/ like the spice it’s most likely not too spicy. But ya’ll know I don’t need spicy, and prefer my romances sweet and closed door for the most part. It did seem as if the relationship was mainly based off of physical attraction, and I mean, Cassie is wearing just underwear around Reid, so he can’t help but see what she has to offer and like it or not!
Overall, I enjoyed this one. Of course there are secrets involved in the story. But there has to be some kind of angst! I really want a decent ‘stranger photo session’ novel! And guess what: I actually found a photographer who is local to me who does these sessions! And guess what else?!?!? I put in an application for a stranger session! We will see what happens, my guess is that mainly women put in for these sessions, but you also have to have men sign up. And the photographer actually attempts to make couples based on similar interests. Will I get a contact from that photographer about a match??? Only time will tell….
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