Ute Carbone

Cover Reveal: The Wedding Day Collection

The honor of your presence is requested to the pages of The Wedding Day Collection, an anthology of tales celebrating that love-inspired event. All of these short stories revolve around the romance of the wedding day. From an unexpected bump and an outspoken wedding crasher to a missing groom, we hope these stories will make you smile and warm your heart..

I'm honored that my story, Schroedinger's Cake, is included among these terrific stories.

The collection will be available June 9.

The Whisper of Time has been nominated for a RONE

One nomination was lovely. Two is lovely squared! The Whisper of Time has also been nominated for the 2012 Reward of Novel Excellence, this one in the novella/short story category. I'm so pleased that I haven't words to write. Except thank you. Readers are what make the whole of writing worthwhile.
Second round voting is done by readers. If you would like to cast your ballot for the book, you can do it HERE
Five finalists will be judged by a panel and the winner will be announced at the RNC convention in Las Vegas this summer.
For more about The Whisper of Time, including where you can buy your very own copy, please click HERE

The P-Town Queen has been nominated for a RONE

The P-Town Queen has been nominated for the 2012 Reward of Novel Excellence in contemporary romance. Nominations include all books receiving an excellent or exceptional rating from InD'Tale magazine.
Second round voting is done by readers. If you would like to cast your ballot for the book, you can do it HERE
Five finalists will be judged by a panel and the winner will be announced at the RNC convention in Las Vegas this summer.
For more about the P-Town Queen including where you can buy your very own copy, please click HERE

The book trailer for Searching for Superman
Here's the trailer for my upcoming romantic comedy. There's more about the book HERE

The P-Town Queen is Champagne Book's Novel of the Year!

Champagne Books has chosen The P-Town Queen for it's novel of the year. To say I'm excited would be an understatement. I'm chuffed, gobsmacked, tickled pink, ecstatic, and blown away!

For more on the book please visit The P-Town Queen page of the website.

Cover Reveal: Searching for Superman

The cover for my romantic comedy, Searching for Superman, was designed by Trish Fitzgerald.

Stephanie Holbrook has finally found a job she really loves: working as an assistant to Conrad Finch in a small regional theater that’s about three dollars and a power outage from being torn down. Stephanie wishes her love life would be as perfect as her job. She’ll be thirty on her next birthday and she still hasn’t found Mr. Right. According to Stephanie, Mr. Right has to be strong and brave, with great values and good looks. A guy a lot like Superman.

When Doug Castleberry shows up at her niece’s birthday party dressed as Superman, Stephanie is positive he’s not the real deal. Sure, he’s great with kids and he’s kind of cute. But he’s just a high school teacher making extra money by dressing up for kid’s parties. Hardly the strong, brave, and drop-dead gorgeous guy she’s looking for.

As the theater teeters ever closer to the edge of disaster, Doug proves to be a better man than Stephanie had ever imagined. Could he be the Superman she’s been looking for all along?

Searching for Superman will be available June 3!

Sweet Lenora Book Trailer
Here's the brand new trailer for Sweet Lenora.Read more about the novella below.

Cover Reveal: Sweet Lenora

The cover for my historical romance novella, Sweet Lenora, was designed by Petra K.

Lenora Brewer’s family owns the largest shipyard in Salem Massachusetts and Lenora, as her father’s only living child, is given free rein to learn the business. When Lenora’s father is killed in a carriage accident, her relatives arrange a marriage to a wealthy investor who is rumored to have beaten his first wife to death, Lenora devises a scheme to stowaway on The Sweet Lenora, a ship named for her.
The last thing Anton Boudreaux needs is a naïve young woman stowing away on his ship. The dark and daring captain has secrets of his own to protect.
When Sweet Lenora encounters a dangerous storm off the coast of Brazil, Lenora and Anton find in each other the courage and tenacity to brave the elements. As their love for one another grows it becomes a force to be reckoned with—and it will be sorely tested.

Sweet Lenora will be available in July as part of Champagne Book's Dark Heroes Series.

Afterglow has arrived!

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It's here! It's here! It's here!
As you can tell by my overabundant use of exclamation points, I'm a little excited! It's always exciting when a book comes into the world and I can share it with readers. I hope you'll love reading the story as much as I loved writing it.

India Othmar isn’t having a great year. Her husband of thirty-one years has left her for their son’s ex-girlfriend. Her grown children have moved home. Her best friend Eva seems determined to set her up with every oddball in their small Massachusetts town. And her most significant relationship these days is with Cherry Garcia.

But India is more resilient than she thinks. And though it will take a broken arm, a lawn littered with engine parts, some creative uses for shoes, and a scandalous love affair of her own, she learns, much to her surprise, that her life hasn’t ended with her marriage.

Upcoming Books

Searching for Superman
My romantic comedy, Searching for Superman, is coming to Champagne Books in June 2013

The Lilac Hour
A trilogy of love stories is coming to Turquoise Morning Press Summer 2013

Sweet Lenora
A historical romance novella is coming to Champagne Books in July 2013 as part of the dark heroes series.

Dancing in the White Room
A literary women's fiction novel is coming to Turquoise Morning Press March 2014

The Wedding Day Collection
My short story, Schoedinger's Cake, will be included in an anthology of short stories about weddings coming to Turquoise Morning Press in June 2013

Books Currently Available

Blueberry Truth
Beanie and Mac have nearly perfect lives. Blueberry Truth's life has been far from perfect. Together, they teach each other about love and family

The P-Town Queen
Nikki Silva is a shark researcher looking for a new grant. Marco Tornetti, AKA Parker Bench, is running from the mob. They meet in Provincetown and the rest is comedy.

The Whisper of Time
The farm Gwynn Powell buys is literarlly a step back in Time Slate Peck, the farm's caretaker, is tied to Gwynn's destiny in a way she never expected.

Afterglow
India Othmar discovers, much to her surprise, that her life is not about to end with her marriage

Shared Whispers Anthology
My short story, Life at Full Speed, is included in this anthology of sixteen authors showcasing short romantic fiction.

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Afterglow got Five Harleys from Harlee's review

This is a book I can recommend to all Romance lovers, who also likes a little touch of comedy, to keep the book entertaining to the end. With a support system like India’s, you knew she would eventually make the right choices and believe that she too can have another chance at love. Liberty Ann at Harley's review. Read the rest HERE

Review of Afterglow from Mimi Smith at InD'tale

"With three parts humor, one part romance, and one part drama, "Afterglow" is as delicious as India's beloved Cherry Garcia." Read more at InD'Tale

The P-Town Queen got five stars from inD'tale

InD'Tale Magazine gave P-Town five stars!
"Parker cooks his way into Nikki's family and steals her heart, making the reader beg for more." Victoria Z. Burg

Blueberry Truth is in Print

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Blueberry Truth is now available in paperback at Amazon and Barnes and Noble

The Whisper of Time got five hearts from Romance Book Scene

"Moving to get away from her husband and his betrayal and gambling, Gwynn decides to purchase a farmhouse unseen in Vermont. When she gets there she is mesmerized with her surroundings, everything seems like it is from another time.
She doesn't question why the old farmhouse doesn't have some of the modern comforts. She especially doesn't mind her new neighbor, Slate, who she is apparently not only sharing half the barn and half a herd of goats, but also the bathroom.
Soon she realizes something isn't quite right. And that is only the beginning of the changes in store for Gwynn." Roni at Romance Book Scene

5 stars for The P-Town Queen from reviewer Tracy Riva

"The P-Town Queen by Ute Carbone is laugh out loud funny. I was laughing so much I think my daughter who lives with me began to doubt my sanity, until I explained what I was laughing at and then she understood and was giggling along with me even though she had only heard about the antics within the pages of The P-Town Queen."
Read the rest here.

Dancing in the White Room
My upmarket women's novel, Dancing in the White Room, will be out in early 2014!

photo by Tina Phillips

Dancing in the white room is slang for skiing or boarding in deep powder snow. The dancer is PD Bell, one of the best extreme skiers on the planet. Mallory Prescott, the woman who lives with him and loves him, is used to Bell’s exploits. A patrol woman at Whiteface Mountain near Lake Placid, New York, Mallory is no stranger to risk. But this time Bell is taking on the West Rib of Denali, highest and most dangerous mountain in North America. It’s a descent that has never been done, though it’s been tried. Five years ago, Bell had tried it. The attempt nearly killed him. Five years ago, he promised Mallory he wouldn’t try it again.
    Over the six weeks in which he’s gone, Mallory begins to question her relationship with Bell. Does he really love her? Is he in it for the duration? What has loving him cost her? Mallory’s life choices are thrown into stark relief when her daughter Emily takes a terrible fall. Together with her life-long friend Creech Creches, she must work her way through a maze of uncharted territory at a hospital miles from home.
      Dancing in the White Room is the story of the love we keep, the price we pay for that love, and the forgiveness it takes to hold on to what is precious.

Dancing in the White Room will be published by Turquoise Morning Press as part of the After Happily Ever line in winter 2014