Curtis Edmonds

WREATHED is a humorous contemporary romance based very loosely on an old George Jones song. The song, of course, is the classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today," which is about a man who dies of sorrow and loneliness, but is redeemed at the end when his lost love shows up to pay her respects at the funeral. |

This is, you understand, perhaps not the most promising beginning for a humorous contemporary romance. But I think I've made it work by focusing on the next generation and the romance between the nephew of the deceased, and the daughter of the lost love. Whether it works or not is largely up to the reader, but I hope people will enjoy the book.

I started writing movie reviews twenty years ago, mostly because it was cool to have people read anything I'd written, and I thought I was getting good at it. I think I was good at it, but there are an unGodly lot of people out there writing movie reviews, and most of them are good, and the competition for an actual job doing that is just insane. I switched over to book reviews in about 2004, because it was easier to get free books than free movies.

I started writing novels in 2001. The first two weren't any good, and I didn't even try to self-publish them (and won't). I started work on the third one in 2010, I think, and self-published it (after a lot of delays and reworking) in 2012.