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: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
What Alice Forgot
Author: Liane Moriarty
Narrator: Tamara Lovatt Smith
Published: May 1, 2010
Audiobook: 13 hours 32 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: March 15-23, 2026
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (a gym! She HATES the gym) and is whisked off to the hospital where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over — she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade, and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks to her, and how is it that she’s become one of those super skinny moms with really expensive clothes. Ultimately, Alice must discover whether forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and whether it’s possible to start over…
Jessica’s Review:
Imagine this: You wake up in the hospital. Other than being unsure why you are there, you are thinking you are 29, have a happy marriage, and newly expecting your first child. And it is 1998. Then you are told it is actually 2008, you are 39 (No Way!?!?! That’s middle age!!!) with three children (Wait a minute..not one but three kids!?!?!), estranged from your sister, and in the middle of a divorce (WHAT!?!?). That’s what happens to Alice after she has a fall in the gym.
This is the basic premise of What Alice Forgot. The reader/listener goes on the journey with Alice to try and figure out the who, what, when, and whys over the forgotten last ten years. There are many mini mysteries that Alice must figure out, or does she even want to? This is a book about family misunderstandings, forgiveness, second chances, and love.
Can you imagine missing the last ten years of your life?!?! This was a book club read and called for a lot of discussions. The ten years that Alice forgot a lot happened in the world: She doesn’t even remember 9/11. And then all of the technological changes over that time including Y2K! Even going back from now in 2026 to back to 2016, I have gone through so many changes! It’s scary to think about.
I did have some issued with the narration. At times it was hard to distinguish differences in characters journals/homework, etc. I had to go back in my audiobook at the beginning of most chapters to figure out who or when the chapter was occurring. Maybe a second narrator or even just a change in her tone would have been helpful.
Other than the narration issues, I did enjoy this one!
Purchase Links:
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ALC Review: We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune
We Burned So Bright
Author: TJ Klune
Narrator: Kirt Graves
To Be Published: April 28, 2026
Audiobook: 6 hours 25 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: March 24-27, 2026
Jessica’s Rating: 5 stars
Book Description:
The road stretched out before them. No other cars, just the headlights on the blacktop. Above, the cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky….
Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world.
Now, the world is ending for real. A wandering black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they’ve ever known will be gone.
Suddenly, after 40 years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. They’re in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it’s all over.
On the road they meet those who refuse to believe death is coming and those who rush to meet it. But there are also people living their final days as best they know how—impromptu weddings, bright burning bonfires, shared meals, and new friends.
And as the black hole draws near, among ball lightning and under a cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky, Don and Rodney will look back on their lives and ask if their best was good enough.
Is it enough to burn bright if nothing comes from the ashes?
Jessica’s Review:
This book will be in my Top 10 of 2026 and I cannot see anything beating it. We still have many months to go for 2026, but it really seems like We Burned So Bright will be my number one read this year. What would you find yourself doing if you only had a month left to live? There is no doubt about this fact as a black hole is coming towards Earth and the rest of our solar system, destroying everything in its path.
Our story focuses on Don and Rodney, husbands who have been together for over forty years. Now in their mid-70s, with the end of the world rapidly approaching they find themselves on a cross-country trip with a final destination in mind. They are determined to complete it before Earth and everything on it says its final goodbyes. Over the course of their journey, Don and Rodney come across a variety of people each facing their grief of the inevitable end in a variety of ways.
We Burned So Bright is a compelling heartbreakingly emotional read. I listened to an audio copy and the listener feels a sense of urgency: Will Don and Rodney reach their destination and goal before the end comes? The urgency increases as the novel progresses as it becomes even more apparent that this is in fact the end. The reason for their cross-country trip is slowly uncovered over the course of the novel and it is ultimately heartbreaking.
The narrator Kirt Graves is seemingly a perfect fit for this novel. He helps the listener experience everything the characters do and as the novel progresses, with Graves narration I could visually see what Don and Rodney experienced in my mind. This is the sign of a great narrator and superb writing by Klune.
The listener does get some LGBTQ history as we learn about Don and Rodney’s past through flashbacks of their long history together. Given they are a gay couple, the listener experiences what life was like for the two during the chaos of the time that they lived which includes the AIDS crisis. We Burned so Bright is a deeply touching novel that will stay with me for a while. Though I did not cry, I can see some readers/ listeners shedding some tears. For such a short read, it creates a lasting impact and everyone should read this one.
Many thank you to the publisher for granting me an advanced copy to listen to and review. I am going to have to purchase the Barnes and Noble Exclusive Edition, as I will have to have that version on my shelf of favorite novels.
Purchase Links:
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Barnes and Noble Exclusive Edition
