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COMFORT ZONE

A Comfort Stories Book

by

KIMBERLY FISH

Genre: Contemporary / Second Chance Romance / Women's Fiction

Publisher: Fish Tales Publishing

Date of Publication: November 1, 2021

Number of Pages: 289 pages 

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The award-winning author of Comfort Songs, Comfort Plans, and Comfort Foods digs into the life of single-mom Anna Weber, an appraiser who gives value to other people’s found treasures. On assignment to research a handwritten sheet of music, Anna helps a stranded motorist, only to discover she’s rescued retired NFL quarterback Jack Moses. His confidence and fascination for solving problems makes him impossible for Anna to ignore even as they both dart along separate deadlines to save the finances at an inner-city school. Little does Anna know that as she wrestles with secrets from her past and a suspicious approach to people, Jack is running too—dodging women, pro athletes, and a future with no definable end zone.

As a nemesis threatens Anna’s young daughters, these two unlikely partners discover that it’s in stepping back from years of self-sufficiency that Anna and Jack can find the best treasure of all: a series of sweet, second chances.

PRAISE & AWARDS

"Kimberly Fish's Comfort books are wonderful, charming stories set in the Texas Hill Country. Fans of small towns family relationships will enjoy these feel-good books. Two thumbs up!" - Jan Moran, USA Today bestselling author of Seabreeze Inn.

 

Comfort Zone is a Literary Titan Gold Award winner and a Reader Views Bronze Award winner in romance. It was also a runner-up in the regional fiction category of the New England Book Festival awards.

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Kimberly Fish has been a professional writer in marketing and media for over thirty years, with regular contributions to area newspapers and magazines. As an accidental historian, she wrote two novels, The Big Inch and Harmon General, both based on factual events in Longview, Texas that changed world history. Kimberly also offers a set of contemporary women’s fiction, based in the Texas Hill Country, that reveal her fascination with characters discovering their grit and sweet, second-chances; all four of these novels have won distinguished awards.

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Comfort Foods ~ Lone Star Book Blog Tours Guest Post & Giveaway!

   

COMFORT FOODS

A Comfort Stories

Stand-Alone Novel

by

Kimberly Fish

Categories: Contemporary / Second-Chance Romance 

Publisher: Fish Tales Publishing 

Date of Publication: October 7, 2020 

Number of Pages: 385 pages 

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From the award-winning author of Comfort Plans and Comfort Songs comes a story of two rising stars blitzed by social media. Lacy Cavanaugh and single-dad Rudy Delgardo live a hundred miles apart but meet in the worst possible way. Working at a weekly paper and creating social media for area businesses helps Lacy connect with locals who open her mind to a perspective beyond Instagram. In launching a food-and-wine festival to support Comfort’s new event center, she discovers surprising skills bubbling over, much like the food she’s attempting to cook. 

Rudy, on the brink of his restaurant’s takeover, struggles to improve time management so he can create a better relationship with his daughter. Distracted by Lacy and her invitation to the festival, he’s tempted by her beauty, wit, and courage, but as a chef, he rarely gets to enjoy life outside the kitchen. Enemies, illness, and exes add unwelcome spice to the dish they’re concocting—one that will teeter with misunderstanding until the very end. 

Will Lacy and Rudy embrace their second chances and discover the perfect seasonings of family, resilience, and grace to create a handwritten recipe of love that will stand the test of time? 

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THE DEVELOPING PROCESS BEHIND COMFORT FOODS

GUEST POST BY KIMBERLY FISH

This post originally appeared on kimberlyfish.com

 

In creating the character Rudy Delgado, the male lead in novel, Comfort Foods, I had to get into the head of a creative chef. Not knowing what that space would look like when I began writing, I decided a pan, a knife, and good ingredients would be a leaping-off point. Here’s a recipe for burger sliders and bacon jam that Rudy might approve.

Burger Sliders: 1lb. ground sirloin, 4 tablespoons salted butter (room temperature), steak seasoning/salt/pepper to taste. Mix all together by hand, and shape into slider sized patties. Indent the middle to allow juices to collect. Grill on a 350-degree surface, until cooked through. Serve with toasted Brioche buns (buttered and grilled) and bacon jam. 

Bacon Jam: 1 packaged thick sliced bacon, 3 large shallots, 2 cloves garlic, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar, dash of Worcestershire Sauce. Cook bacon in a hot skillet, remove when cooked. In remaining bacon fat sauce onions and garlic, until tender and liquid reduced. Add in brown sugar, and return cooked bacon to the mixture, stirring to coat. Add balsamic vinegar and Worcestershire Sauce. Let simmer for 30 minutes until thickened. Serve warm or room temperature over burgers.

To round out a menu that might be served from the grill, consider adding sweet corn on the cob and a potato salad. Enjoy!

 

Author Kimberly Fish resides in Longview, Texas, and enjoys writing contemporary fiction set in the Hill Country. During the seven years she lived in San Antonio, wandering in and around Comfort, Texas, provided endless space for her imagination to develop stories of women discovering their grit. She studied the small Texas town that had seemingly dug its heels into the limestone and refused modern development and thought that was fertile ground for stories about women remodeling their lives. It made a juxtaposition of place and purpose that was hard to ignore. Plus, anything that takes intentional effort has a much higher value than the things that come easily—Comfort personifies this, and the novels remind readers that anything worth having is worth the work. 

Comfort Foods is the third full-length novel in the set, Fiction from the Texas Hill Country, and follows behind the award-winning novels Comfort Plans and Comfort Songs. A novella, Emeralds Mark the Spot, is available as a free eBook download to subscribers of the incredibly sporadic newsletter at kimberlyfish.com and is the original story from which all other Comfort novels grew.

 

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