Landra Graf Has Joined the Bash!

Greetings everyone! I hope folks are starting to get in the Valentine’s Day mood.

My name is Landra Graf (I’ll bore you with the details down below). I wanted to talk to you today about a multi-author series I’m part of called Cupid’s Café – we’ve got our own Facebook group, a website, and opportunities for more authors to join up.

What’s Cupid’s Café?

I’m so glad you asked.

Nestled in Louisville, KY's bustling Highlands district, a small cafe provides more than a delicious cup of coffee. Owned by the mysterious Mr. Heart, Cupid's Cafe offers people at the ends of their ropes one last chance at finding the love of a lifetime. ​

Cupid doesn't just strike alpha billionaires and the badass women who love them. Mr. Heart sees the growing need for less-than-perfect people—those with depression, bipolar disorder, or OCD; recovering addicts, and the ones who feel less than worthy—to find their soulmates. ​

And every couple has met before. They just didn't realize it. ​

Come take a risk and find a second chance at love via Cupid's Cafe.

Does that mean these are sad stories?

Nope, it means they are happy ones. We want ‘Happily Ever Afters’ for everyone, even the not-so-perfect.

What genre are these stories?

Contemporary romance, for the time being. We have a lot of folks interested in the café itself and reveals are in the works, since a lot of the wait staff are not exactly what a person would term as “human.”

Do I have to read all of these to be able to enjoy the newest release?

Nope, that’s the fantastic part. All the books are completely standalone.  All the authors working on this series are aware that some of the subjects and diagnoses our characters suffer may be a little difficult to read. We’re open to the idea that reading about a heroine with depression may hit too close to home, but a heroine with anxiety disorder might not. Our goal is to merely provide representation for characters who often don’t get the screen time in romance novels that they richly deserve.

I want to know more…

Check out our website, join the Facebook group, and let us know what you’d like to see. All three authors who released a Cupid’s Café story last year plan to write more in 2018. We are eager to hear what readers are looking for.  

You could also join us for Mr. Hearts Valentine’s Bash coming to Facebook on Monday February 10^th from 3pm-9pm EST. Here’s a link: https://www.facebook.com/events/218583938705593/

Oh, wait. You wanted to know more about my book:

Painting for Keeps

An invitation to Cupid’s Café will change your life. 

Agatha, Aggie, Kakos lost her boyfriend, her apartment, and now, is one brownie bite away from purging her binge when an invitation to Cupid’s Café shows up on her doorstep. Fighting bulimia and her mother’s constant verbal abuse has never been easy, but this nutritionist is determined to be stronger than her weakest link. She’ll meet a secret admirer at Cupid’s for a morale booster, if nothing else.  

Following a break-in and the destruction of his paintings, starving artist Murphy O’Shea finds himself at wit’s end. Not only does he need to create twelve more paintings, but in the midst of another manic depressive episode, the challenge seems impossible. He’s got two months or he’ll have to cancel his first show. The Cupid’s Café invite offers him a chance to find his muse. He doesn’t expect it to be the woman he’s mirrored the past two years’ paintings on, nor does he plan on being able to offer Aggie the help she needs.  

Can they find a way to conquer their inner demons or will they succumb to the idea they aren’t worth a happily ever after? 

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Who am I?

Landra Graf consumes at least one book a day, and has always been a sucker for stories where true love conquers all. She believes in the power of the written word, and the joy such words can bring. In between spending time with her family and having book adventures, she writes romance with the goal of giving everyone, fictional or not, their own happily ever after

What am I giving away?

A shot at Painting for Keeps print book and Cupid’s Café swag pack – contains coffee mug, sweet treats, and a Cupid’s Café Necklace.