Sinclair Jayne is the pen name for one of my best friends. I met her nearly 17 years ago introduced by our husbands. Hers was my husband’s doctor and they suggested we talk to each other since we both wanted to be romance writers. We met, and became fast friends, and we would talk writing–as that was our dream–but we’d talk writing in between taking care of babies and husbands and prepping meals and doing errands.
The years passed and our dreams shifted and reshaped as the kids grew and our work tugged us in different directions but still, we remained fast friends. And then Sinclair moved from Bellevue, Washington to Oregon and I was at a loss. She’d been there through everything–including an IVF procedure–what would I do?
Years passed again and I went to California and then Tule brought us back together.
Sinclair’s version of our friendship is below, so there are two things to know about her: she is talented, loyal and extraordinary, and her debut book, is very special indeed!
Sinclair, welcome to my blog and my wonderful readers!
While writing and publishing my first book, Wrecked, this year with Tule Publishing has been a thrill and wish fulfillment of a childhood dream, what’s really hit home for me was how much my friendship with Jane Porter has shaped my adult life and my writing. We met through our husbands and clicked over our love of romance and challenges of trying to imagine and then write a sexy, romantic and emotional love scene in between diaper changes. I still remember listening to her problem solve a tricky happy-every-after-scene with an alpha hero who could barely apologize even when he was so wrong while I was trying to dodge spoonfuls of chocolate pudding flung by one of her sons (who’s now driving)!
Jane is one of the funniest, smartest and most driven women I know, and those qualities are reflected in her intense and engaging novels, the way she lives her life and her friendships. She has always been able to make me laugh, even when she made me cry, which was a lot when I first started writing because she could cut to the essence of a character, a scene, and the conflict with the precision of a neurosurgeon. She would adamantly tick off on her fingers what was wrong and what was missing in the scene I’d given to her to read over coffee at our neighborhood coffeeshop, but it was up to me to fix it, and because of that tough love (and I wanted to think she was at least sometimes wrong, but no such luck ever), I learned how to write. I actually started thinking GMC (goal, motivation, conflict) when people would tell me stories at parties. I now intone GMC and other Jane writing advice to my kids when I am proofing their papers, and not surprising, they are not appreciative. I was and am of Jane’s advice and one night over a lot of wine, I proclaimed my ever lasting loyalty, which turned out to be needed when she and her husband, Ty had fertility issues. He was often in Hawaii teaching at his surf school, but Jane needed daily hormone shots. Despite my needle terror, I said yes, and pressed down the plunger day after day, once even during a wine tasting party my husband and I were hosting.
When we lived close, we used to laugh about so much and many times during our rambling, excited, and imaginative conversations, Jane would take notes on napkins, tissues and scraps of paper during our conversations as inspiration for future characters and dialog so I always tried to be funny and clever even when I felt gloomy and crabby, which, in the Pacific Northwest, was often because I am still a So Cal girl at heart and every time I think of her writing in her beautiful home above the Pacific with all the doors and windows open so the breeze can bring in the fragrance of the ocean and flowers and the muse of inspiration, I am envious, but also grateful. I can visit. We can sit in the sand, dodging the sun, and talk about life and books and writing and the past and the future. You can’t pick your family, but you can pick your friends, and sometimes your friends can even pick your last name of your pseudonym.
Sinclair Jayne
More about Wrecked:
Hollis Remington is slinking home to San Clemente, California. Needing to hide out at her grandmother’s beach cottage to lick the wounds from her latest professional failure, she’s stunned to find her ex lover and professional surf god, Kadan Carson, lounging in the only bed. Naked. Hollis can’t afford a hotel, and no way will she let her family or friends know she’s broke, but Kadan’s refusing to leave. He does, however, agree to share…
Professional surfer Kadan Carson is recuperating after his third ankle and foot surgery, and while it’s highly possible his professional career may be over on the brink of his most lucrative corporate sponsorship deal, he’s determined to fight the inevitable effects of age, gravity, and injury on his body in private. No fans. No nurses. No distractions. Until Hollis shows up, who has always been one hell of a distraction. Six years after she walked out for the last time accusing him of infidelity, she’s still the one woman he hasn’t been able to exorcise from his heart, head or body. And he doesn’t really want to.
There’s no way Hollis can forgive, but she also can’t forget. Kadan was and is her first and only love. Can she help him to heal without losing her heart again?
Look for Wrecked at these online retailers:
Amazon | iBooks | Kobo | GooglePlay
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Thank you, Sinclair, for your time and for introducing us to a great surf god like Kadan! Love you, girl!! Readers, please help me get the word out about Sinclair’s new release, Wrecked. Be sure to download your copy soon and feel free to share your thoughts on Facebook and other reader websites too. I would love to bring Sinclair Jayne to the attention of other readers. And there’s more fun for you too! I’ve got an awesome I Heart Sinclair Jayne prize package that celebrates Sinclair’s and my Bellevue friendship for one lucky reader! For a chance to win, leave a comment here for Sinclair and you’ll automatically be entered to win. Contest ends Friday, with winner announced on Saturday.
Hi Sinclair I’m a Tile reader and Imshould get into your book this evening, looking forward to it.
Welcome to being a Tule-published author! May you write many books!
Hi Sinclair. I look forward to checking out your books. =]
Welcome, Sinclaire! I loved reading about the wonderful friendship between you and Jane. We all need “that friend” in our life and I’m glad you’ve found each other!
Oops, sorry for the typo … Sinclair! 😀
Thank you so much for introducing Sinclair and her book!
Fantastic! I can’t wait!
Sinclair, I’m so excited to read your debut book and thrilled for you that it’s from Tule! Huge congrats to you! You know I’m already a big fan of yours! Hugs Barbara
Any friend of my beloved Jane is a friend of mine… I can’t wait to read your book… good luck!!!
Welcome and congratulations!! Thank you for sharing your friendship with us!
Welcome Sinclair. What a talented author whose books I would enjoy. Best wishes.
I know the life of a writer can be lonely, but just who got to pick out that cover? It’s a winner.
Welcome to being a Tule-published author!
Sinclair, you and Jane are lucky to find such good friends in each other. Best of luck in your new novel and I can’t wait to read it!
I really enjoyed wrecked. If I hadn’t read this, I would have never known this was a first book. It’s fabulous.
Hiya Sinclaire, thanks for sharing. I enjoyed reading your book and looking forward to reading future ones.
Congrats on your new release and debut book. I will have to check out your book sounds awesome. I wish you all the luck with you book and future books.
Congrats on your debut release! I have it and can’t wait to read it! Love hearing about friendships like yours.
Sinclair is a new to me author. Welcome to Tule Publishing! I can’t wait to read your book.
Good luck Sinclair! I’m impressed with anyone who is able to write a book! And there’s nothing better than old friends!
Hi, Sinclair!!!! Everybody needs that one true friend and I think you two have each other!!! Can’t wait to get our book. Hope to see more of you!!!! xoxo
Hi, Sinclair!!!! Everybody needs that one true friend and I think you two have each other!!! Can’t wait to get your book. Hope to see more of you!!!! xoxo
Hi Sinclair! Loved this book and can’t wait for your next one. Keep them coming, please?
So nice to meet you! If you’re Jane’s friend and a Tule author, I know I’m going to love your book! I loved the excerpt and introductions. Good on you. Proud of you for carrying on…it ain’t easy!
Book sounds good. I am sure you will sell a lot.
New author to me
Hi Sinclair welcome to Team Tule where you will find lots of awesome readers and lovers of reading a good romance. I look forward to reading your story, which I will do after I get home from my travels with my hubby.
Hi Sinclair! It’s so nice to know you
Welcome Sinclair,
Your new book sounds amazing! Thanks for sharing it with us. Wishing you much success! Thanks!
Great news that you are on the Tule team, Sinclair. Can’t wait to read your story. Great cover by the way.
It’s nice reading about your friendship and that book sounds hot..I am checking it out. Thanks.
I love adding authors to my reading list thank you!!
Hi Sinclair, it’s great meeting you on Jane’s blog. Congrats on your debut. Love the cover.
I’m really looking forward to reading Wrecked.
Carol L
Hi Sinclair! It sounds like you and Jane have a great friendship! Congrats on your book, I can’t wait to read it.
WOW!!! What a cover!
And, what a true friend you are, Sinclair, to give those injections day after day. It’s very stressful and intimate to get those shots. For Jane to put her trust into you–and for you to do it–makes you a spectacular human.
Off to download Wrecked.
xoxoxox
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Hi Sinclair. you are a new author to be but I will be looking for your books
Hi Sinclair! your book sounds good and can’t wait to read it! So glad that you and Jane are true friends! thanks for the chance on this giveaway!
Hi Sinclair! I’m looking forward to reading your book! 🙂
Hello Sinclair, great Cover! Look forward to reading and reviewing it soon!
Congratulations!
Always love to read books recommended by Jane, and this one comes with extra special points! A dear friendship and love of writing. Congratulations on your debut novel! Hears to great sales and entertainment.
Jane has recommended many new authors and I always love them!
How exciting to get your book out there. Sometimes our dreams take the long way around but I think it makes it all the more special when realized. And friends? What would we do without them? Good luck with your book and for all the books to come!!!!
Congratulations on your debut! I hope the book sells well – it sounds really interesting!
Hi Sinclair,
I enjoyed reading about you and how you and Jane met. I wish you the best of luck with your first book! ☺️
Sinclair you are a new to me author. you have found a great true friend in Jane.
thanks for sharing.
Sinclair Congrats in your new book. Good luck with your book.
Hi Sinclair. Congratulations to you. I love meeting new authors. I’m looking forward to reading your book. I do post reviews after reading a book. I am a reviewer for many authors and help them get the word spread about new book releases. I wish you good luck.
Hey Sinclair, the book sounds awesome, I plan on getting it when I have some money. Here’s to your debut and hoping more books to come! Cheers!!
Well, Sinclair…. I think you’ve just claimed my weekend! Looking forward to reading your novel!
Sinclair, I really enjoyed reading the stories of how you ad Jayne met and became best friends. The synopsis of your book makes me want to follow the story to its conclusion. I wish you much success.
Welcome and Congratulations!!!
Cant wait to read your book.
Welcome and congratulations on your book!
Thank you for introducing Sinclair and her book. The cover is amazing!
Hi Jane and Sinclair – Your books are the best of both worlds. Meaning Washington and California. Where I live and where I am from! My Kindle app is on fire! Cheers!
Hi Sinclair
How wonderful to read of such a great friendship
I’m looking forward to reading your new book
Sounds fantastic !
Hi Sinclair. What an awesome friendship you two have. I am a Tule reader and can’t wait to read your debut book. Tule is the best!!
Best of luck with your debut novel!
Congratulations on your first book!
Sinclair I am so excited to read your book. I have a friendship like yours and Jane’s. Funny how God drops some of our greatest blessings in our lives disguised as friends. They challenge and inspire us and are our rock through rough times. May you have all the success as a writer you have dteamed of. Welcome to the world of a true author.
Hi Sinclair,
Sounds like a good read and a friendship for life. Congrats on your release.
Congratulations to #44 Tanya Loper. 🙂 You are the winner of the I Heart Sinclair Jayne prize!! Email me with your mailing details so you can enjoy the goodies soon.
And huge thanks to everyone for helping Sinclair feel so welcome at JaneBlog! I hope you all enjoy Wrecked.
Jane xoxoxo
congrats to Tanya!
Hi Sinclair, looking forward to reading your work. This prize package looks awesome. Thanks Ladies!