Romance author Elissa Bass offers a shallow dive into the ABCs of romance writing as well as details about her own writing experience and from her debut novel Happy Hour. The book will be available for purchase and signing.

About the book: 

KK Rhinehart finds an unfamiliar iPhone in her husband's car, and what she discovers on it ends her 25-year marriage. At the age of 55, and already feeling wrecked physically and mentally by menopause, she's ready to give up. Desperate to hide, she retreats to her family's Cape Cod summer beach house in the off-season.

But KK's two siblings and her two closest friends refuse to let her waste away on the couch. Their over-the-top support ranges from makeovers to hot yoga. Then, she meets bartender Jay. With beautiful eyes and big hands, KK calls the much younger man "Surfer Guy" and can barely string a sentence together around him, but what she thinks is a one-sided, silly crush turns into intense interest from Jay.

KK might be able to find her joy again, but before that happens, she must navigate viral TikTok videos, a national debate on reverse age-gap dating, heartbreaking loss, and a whole lot of kitchen dancing. In this hilarious, inspirational take on love with a younger man, mid-life changes have never been this much fun.

About the author:

Elissa Bass was born into a family of journalists and writers, which made dinnertime interesting. After a long and award-winning career in Connecticut journalism, she started her own communications business, continuing to tell others’ stories while attending her two kids’ high school soccer and basketball games. She lives in southeastern Connecticut with her journalist husband and texts memes to her now grown children every day.