About the Author I'm Currently Reading - Isabelle Peterson

About the Author:

Straight from the mouth of Isabelle Peterson:

I'm the wife of a most fabulous man for twenty years.

I'm a mother of 2 busy teens.

I'm a dog lover.

I'm a serious drinker of coffee and wine.

I live near New York City.

My favorite place that I've visited is Monaco.

My favorite color is green (but I look best in pink/salmon).

My favorite food is chocolate.

My favorite kind of music is New Country.

Ive always been a creative sort of person...

I started with my college studies in Advertising Design and Illustration.

I'm good at drawing and coming up with clever ideas.

As for story telling - well, that's where I have the most fun!

Ditching The Dream is my first novel,

but I've been working on writing movies since, what seems like forever.

Way back in high school my friend Aimee and I started writing a movie and I was hooked.

We didn't know what we were doing, but we loved coming up with the story.

I also like to come up with stories about people I don't know.

Like the guy that cut me off on the expressway... 

He had quite a story - at least in my mind! Who knows?

Maybe I've come up with a story about you! ;)

Ditching The Dream is a story that came to me while I was helping two author friends of mine. I was helping them with their books and I would make suggestions to amp up their stories along the way. Bev and Amy encouraged me to write my own story and Ditching The Dream was born.  Is it auto-biographical? No, not in the least. But it sure has been a fun story to come up with (especially when my hubby gets involved with coming up with ideas).

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Books by Isabelle Peterson:

Book 1

Synopsis:

Feeling dead in her marriage, Elizabeth Fairchild ditches the dream of her seemingly perfect life with her husband in search of who she really is. 

She went from her parents' house to her husband's home and never really learned to stand on her own two feet. She decides to leave her comfortable life in Napa Valley in search of her inner fire in New York City. She certainly didn't leave her husband to find another man, but she soon finds herself involved with two: Jack Stevens and Kevin Parker. 

Jack is older. He has heart-stopping good looks, is wildly successful, and is very much in control of everything around him - especially Elizabeth. 

Kevin is younger. He is carefree with a heart of gold and loves Elizabeth's spunk. 

While Elizabeth's old life still calls to her, she also finds what she needs in New York. But which dream will she choose? 

 

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Book 2

Synopsis:

1979... When eighteen-year old Jack Stevens is spotted in his rural Colorado town by a scout from a New York City modeling agency, his life is flipped upside down. With little more than his looks, he heads to New York with a dream he didn’t know he had. Jack has a rough start, but finds his feet and embarks on an exciting life as a male model in the 1980s living in Manhattan. 

2013... Thirty-four years later, a confirmed bachelor, and very successful, Jack is satisfied with his life, until he meets a breath of fresh air—Elizabeth Fairchild. Never in his wildest dreams did he think he’d find a love like he does with 'Beth.' It’s an instant connection. 

Following wild dreams had worked for him in the past… Is this another wild dream he should follow? 
 

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Book 3

Synopsis:

Phoebe Fairchild didn’t have a great first year of college. In fact, it stunk! She realized she’d chosen a major, physics, that didn’t suit her. And worse than that, a boyfriend who was a first-class jerk. 

When she visited her mother in New York for Spring Break, Phoebe decided that a transfer to a new university, a thousand miles from her current one, and a new major were definitely in order. With a little assistance from her mother’s friend, Jack Stevens, Phoebe worked a transfer to NYU and better still, an internship at a major TV network. 

Phoebe moved into her mother’s old apartment, made a new friend, and figured out the Big Apple. But one of her biggest challenge was to be her internship assignment. Working in Public Relations, she had just gotten comfortable with the daily routine when she’s suddenly assigned to be the Personal Assistant to mega star, Chase Smythe. Since she was nine years old, Phoebe had been starry-eyed for the blond haired, blue eyed actor. Her room had been practically wallpapered in Chase Smythe pullouts from the teen magazines. 

But Chase Smythe wasn’t the charming, sexy actor on TV and in the movies he starred in. He was still as good looking as ever, but seemed that over the years, stardom had jaded him. In real life, Chase was full of himself, lazy and left a path of destruction in his wake that had been well concealed by his former ‘handlers.’ Now it was Phoebe’s job to rein him in. 

Nonetheless, there is a spark. Phoebe was warned to not cave into his charms, as fake as they are, but there’s more than just his charm. There’s chemistry. Is it real? Or is it an act? Will Chase let Phoebe in to see the real person, not the just TV personality? Did she even stand a chance with him? Especially as she faced new challenges herself? Or was being with Chase just a dream?

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Isabelle is currently working on a new, as of yet, untitled book:

Opening Lines, at this point.

Enjoy!!

“Mom,” Pete Jr., my eight-year old son called from the backseat while I was driving him to school. He’d missed the bus – again.

Sighing, I turning down the radio and glanced in the mirror at his scrumptious face. I prayed he wasn’t about to tell me he forgot something at home. “Yeah, baby. What is it?”

“When you and dad get divorced, I want to live with you,” he said with every ounce of seriousness as a surgeon delivers a tragic diagnosis.

Gutted. I was truly gutted with that sentence. What struck me so hard was that he said when not if. I found my voice and said, as sweetly as possible, “What would make you say that, baby?”

“Well, Alex’s parents got divorced over the summer. Alex said they were fighting all the time, just like you and Dad do. He said he likes living with his mom more than his dad.”

I thought back to the morning and why Pete Jr. missed the bus. Peter and I were fighting – again.

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Website:

http://www.isabellepeterson.com/

Blog:

http://www.isabellepeterson.com/blog

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