Virtual Book Tour & Giveaway: Snowfall by Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe

SNOWFALL

by

Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe

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RomCom

Publisher: DCL Publications

Publication Date: March 13, 2025

Page count: 87 pages

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SYNOPSIS:

Melody is a simple woman with simple needs that include good clean books, safe and intelligible television, and a job that she loves. As far as she’s concerned, she has everything she needs, including a beloved gig as the assistant librarian of her local public library. When a Winter Reads program turns chaotic and Melody is caught in the crossfires of a massive child-induced food fight, her dream job becomes a nightmare – a nightmare that continues into a snow-covered, accident-prone next day. After waking up to a sudden massive snowfall covering her town, she becomes the unwilling victim of a snowball fight between two identical twin brothers. Melody must then decide if she has met her very own Mister Right, or if her perfect life can handle an imperfect interruption. Lighthearted laughs and endearing moments fill this modern romantic comedy by humorist Jennifer Patricia O’Keeffe.

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As she walked, she read. While there were a lot of people around, it wasn’t very crowded. She didn’t worry about bumping into anybody or tripping over anything as long as she stayed on the paved pathways that circled around and wound through the city park. The pathways had plenty of snow covering them, but the people who had arrived before her did good work in trampling through and stomping down the snow that covered them.

Soon, all thoughts of her surroundings faded away into the background as Sally and her tale of love and life took over. Melody was at a really great part too. Sally, the protagonist, was single and twenty-five – close enough to Melody’s own age to make her very relatable. And there was this guy named Eric who worked at the same clothing store as Sally. Sally had found him attractive, and she hoped the same from him. At the start of the current chapter, Sally received a dozen red roses with an unsigned note card attached that says, “You look beautiful today.”

Melody gushed and paused in her step to just take in the moment. And, in that very moment, she heard a man shout, “I got it! I got it, bro!”

Looking up just in time to see a snowball nearing her face and a man leaping in front of it to try and catch it, Melody squealed. The snowball splattered against the man’s hand. The man lost his footing on the snow and fell backward. This caused him to impact with a startled Melody, plunging into her and knocking her down to the ground. Her bottom plopped down into the deep snow, and her elbows helped prevent her from landing flat and making it worse. Had she not been holding on to Roses for Sally for dear life, she surely would have damaged the book in the snow.

The man who collided into her landed just a foot or so in front of her and was pushing himself out of the snow while laughing. She watched him as he wiped the snow off himself, oblivious to her existence on the ground behind him. More than a bit insulted by the moment, she glared up at him.

“I told you I got it!” he shouted and laughed again. “Dude, did you see that block?”

“Yeah, bro,” yelled another voice. “But did you see what else you hit?”

“Huh?” the man asked. “What’d I hit?”

Melody watched him look over his shoulder and finally see her there on the ground behind him.

“Oh…” he muttered, looked blank for a moment, and then smiled and said, “Hi!”

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Please welcome the author of our featured book, Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe, to the blog today!

‘Smiles Brighten Rainy Days’

 by Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe

The reason I write romantic comedies is because I love nothing more than to smile. To laugh. To be happy. That’s why I am a literary humorist. I believe that joy opens us up to receive the greater things out of life.

I wrote ‘Snowfall’ because I needed to smile. I needed to laugh. I needed to be happy, but I wasn’t. I was depressed, which is not very good for a humorist. Life around me had become different and chaotic. I’d stopped writing after just beginning to build a steady fanbase. I was simply going through the doldrums of each single day and into the next, off my path and forgetting my dreams of goals.

Then, in late fall of last year, I had a serious heart to heart with myself and reminded myself that the thing that makes me happiest in life is writing and bringing joy to my readers. I sat myself down, opened up my laptop, and wrote again for the first time in a long time.

That is how ‘Snowfall’ was born.

‘Snowfall’ is a book about a woman with a perfectly simple life who believe she has everything she needs and doesn’t need anything more. On one fateful morning, she awakens to a huge snowfall covering her city and throwing a wrench in her day’s plans. It is then that her perfect, simple life takes a series of heavy blows.

Her name is Melody, and she is strong and demonstrates this throughout ‘Snowfall,’ taking on whatever life throws her way.

Through it all is what I do best – incorporating humor into everyday life. Nothing feels better than a genuine smile, and the offer of that is what ‘Snowfall’ brings to the table.

If you’re expecting something along the lines of Amy Schumer style romantic comedies, you won’t find that here. My romcoms are cleaner, without the usage of foul language or explicit sex throughout. I believe in leaving some things up to the imagination, and I believe the language in my books shouldn’t offend my readers, no matter who they may be. I write light, safe romantic comedies, and ‘Snowfall’ embodies that.

I enjoyed romantic comedies when I was a teenager, and I’ll enjoy them when I’m old. That’s another reason my romcoms are appropriate for most ages. They’re entertaining, plot driven, and – especially in the case of ‘Snowfall’ – they offer a realistic look at today’s young every-woman and a glimpse of what today’s romance involves.

I can’t express how much I love this book, and I am appreciative of this opportunity to explain why. If you need a smile on your face… if you need to breathe a sigh of joy instead of a sigh of angst or boredom… if you need someone to root for and to love who would love you and root for you back, meet Melody. Enjoy her snowstorm adventure.

Thank you for enjoying this moment with me here at Guatemala Paula Loves to Read Blog! I do hope you’ll take a chance on my style of romantic comedies and read my latest release ‘Snowfall.’ I promise, it’ll put a smile on your face and a tickle on your funny bone!

If you’re interested in reading more of my musings, or my book reviews, movie reviews, or the occasional recipe or household tip I feel the urge to share, please follow my blog at: https://singlegirlsguidetohappiness.blogspot.com/

Much Love and Many Laughs,

Jenn. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jennifer Patricia O’Keeffe is a humorist fiction author whose works include the stories My Name is Not Cupid, The Scent of a Man, and the beautifully reviewed thriller about a mother who would stop at nothing to save her child, Hot Chocolate on a Cold Winter’s Night, among others. Known for her quirky romantic comedies that feature realistic women of various ages and races and the trials and tribulations of adulting and dating, Jennifer’s writings allow real women to see themselves in her characters. Jennifer is also a proud LGBTQ+ ally and often features gay characters in her stories, including the tale All I Want is to be Happy, which features a wonderful gay protagonist. Jennifer, herself, is a single straight woman, still looking for love, and living with her cats in an apartment in Nashville, Tennessee.

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