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10 Questions with Chantel Simmons
Chick Lit + editor Samantha Robey and Chantel chat about the inspiration for Love Struck, how to write a novel, working for a literary agent and travel. Read more… |
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Review of Love Struck
This fun book kept me laughing until the end! At times I wanted to yell at Poppy and Parker as they stubbornly refused to communicate with one another, but that was definitely part of the underlying theme of Love Struck: marriages without communication are bound to have problems. I really enjoyed this charming book, and loved that just underneath the surface there was a great lesson to be learned.
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Authors we love
Seven questions — from writing a first novel to writing Love Struck. Read more… |
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Sneak Peek at Chantel Simmons’ new novel, Love Struck
“Questions range from how far would you go to save your marriage to what changes are worth making for the one you love (and whether they even want you to) in a story that you won’t want to stop. (And for book clubs, Chantel’s personal site conveniently has a discussion list.)” Read more… |
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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide
For your gal pal who loves books: editorial director of Sweetspot.ca and author, Chantel Simmons’ latest novel, Love Struck, is the tale of an image consultant’s fight for her marriage. Read more… |
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Love Struck Review (Feb 15, 2010)
Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage?
There are some great issues that are included in this novel. Would you do what Poppy has done to save the relationship you are currently in? Would you defer confronting the person until you had more evidence to be able to back it up? Does jealousy factor in every relationship that we are involved with? Read more… |
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Makeover Madness: Chantel Simmons, Love Struck and more giveaways
What if you discovered your adored hubs was stepping out? What if, before you can tackle him about it, he gets struck by lightening and loses his memory? What if you manage to meet the other woman and discover she’s a whole lot of everything you aren’t? What if, to save your marriage, you put your image-consultant skills to work giving yourself a makeover to become that other woman so hubs has no reason to look elsewhere? Read more… |
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So you want to write a book
We’ve all thought at one point that we would like to write a book. So let’s take some advice from the professionals. Here are six tips for success as a writer from the author of Stuck in Downward Dog and Love Struck, Chantel Simmons. Read more… |
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Review of Love Struck (Feb 15, 2010, 4 stars)
“The author chooses to walk a very fine line – in using a very delicate and painful subject matter, but twisting it on its ear with humor. I am not sure how she managed it, but it worked.While I was seriously upset, on behalf of the main character, about her cheating husband, I also found myself kind of liking the “new man he becomes” and actually finding myself willing to “gasp!” give him a second chance.” Read more… |
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Rye grad meditates on chick-lit
When Chantel Simmons joined her first book club, she found herself with a massive copy of Jonathan Franzens The Corrections in hand. Read more… |
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#3 Stuck in Downward Dog by Chantel Simmons |
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ADVANCED PRAISE
“Quirky, endearing, wry and zeitgeist-savvy, Mara Brennan is a chick-lit heroine of the highest order. Too bad we couldn’t tell Mara right from the start that her foibles are her strength, and her curvaceousness, her beauty and her zaniness are her great organizing principles. Then again, that wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun. Chantel Simmons is an energetic young author with an admirably shameless sense of fun.
–Louisa McCormack, author of Six Weeks to Toxic |
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Stuck in Downward Dog named one of the best 50 books for the beach! |
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Reviewed by Gabrielle Giroday.
The advertising slogan on Torontonian Chantel Simmons’ yoga-themed chick-lit novel says it all: “It’s not about getting the guy, it’s about getting a life.” |
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The Vancouver Sun
Editor’s Choice: 8 Recommended Titles. |
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Upside-down and Inside-out
We’ve been caught in all sorts of positions: On our back, upside-down and even in doggie style. And that’s just during, erm, yoga class. So we could certainly relate to Mara Brennan when she got Stuck in Downward Dog. Read more… |
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Author Chantel Simmons explores the dueling worlds of cosmetic surgery and yoga, and finds they’re not as different as you’d think. Read more… |
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Mara Brennan is 28. This should be a good year for her, according to her mother that is. For Mara’s mother and sister, 28 was a brilliant age, a year in which everything seemed to fall into place for them and surely it will work out that way for Mara too. |
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Ever found yourself leaving yoga class feeling more stressed out than when you arrived? With career issues. |
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by Emina Gamulin (2005, Magazine World) |
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by Julie Cazzin (September/October 2003, Canadian Business) |
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WALK THIS WAY
By Shandley McMurray (October 2005, Chatelaine)
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Something to Write OM About
An interview with Chantel Simmons about the Danforth and its connection to her first novel, Stuck in Downward Dog.
By Katharine Watts (Spring 2009) |
