Tracy Ewens is a recovered theatre major who writes contemporary romance.
When not working on her next book, she drinks copious amounts of tea, prefers an exit row seat, and reads well past her bedtime.
Every love tells a story.
Think about Pluto— how it continues to exist as itself, as always, oblivious to human categories.
No one else gets to define you or ...
A trip to Carmel and Point Lobos Natural Reserve. ☺️
I am days away from sending STAY off for edits and needed a break this week.
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Every damn time. Sometimes my spelling is so off I even confuse spell check. 🙈
What word do you often misspell?
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Congratulations to Katlyn and Taylor. It is so great to celebrate love and happy.
Wishing you both all the strength and joy of a lifetime ...
There's none so blind as those who will not listen.
#morethanthoughtsandprayers #literaryquotes
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We took a road trip to San Francisco this weekend by way of Monterey and Santa Cruz.
The video is Pebble Beach in Monterey County. ...
I am now three for three with Emily Henry. I loved BOOK LOVERS.
Her books are laugh-in-public funny and tender and thoughtful. I enjoy ...
There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Fun Fact: Lord Byron’s publisher, John Murray, offered Austen £450 to publish Emma ...
It's like they know I write romance.
Characters usually start to misbehave at the halfway mark.
Decisions have ...
I am 1985 Allison Reynolds lost on the set of Mean Girls.
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She was losing her mind. She had some kind of obsessive lust disorder. She was certified in scuba, instructor level, damn it. Women certified in ...
I confirmed I was pregnant in a dingy motel pretending to be an apartment in Tucson three months after my first legal margarita.
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Caffeine. Glorious Caffeine. That's it. That's the whole post.
I take mine with almond milk. What is your morning love ...
Men often ask me, "Why are your female characters so paranoid?" It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation.
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"I like that they bloom where they probably shouldn't."
CANDIDATE will be seven years old next month.
In ...
If I were a painter, I would wear a twist of string tied to my ankle long ago by a lover who never promised and left before I ever asked.
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Is it possible to fail the Myers-Briggs Personality Test?
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Drop Dead Red (2008)
The Huntington Library and Gardens is one of my favorite places, and the rose garden is unbelievable. All of the ...
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
How lucky we are for the many ways love finds us.
Happy Wednesday! Tell me...
"I should have been a tour guide."
Most of the settings for my book are places I have visited and loved throughout my life. ...
We moved to Venice, CA, when we left the desert.
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We moved to ...
Just kidding. I totally know what I'm doing. 🤨
It's Friday! What are you up to this weekend? Any plans, or are you just ...
Proof that it's Thursday evening, and my desk is still relatively clean.
It's the little things, right? Please tell me ...
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Stranded on a desert island– Oscar Wilde is in my top five. He was ...
"Hey, Girl. It's killing me that you have to frog all those rows. Let me make you a cup of tea."
From My Notes - ...
I haven’t listened to music in nearly two years.
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Good morning. 🌞
It’s Monday. Let’s start slow. What’s the weather like where you are today?
#happymondays
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This shouldn’t be difficult. I have lived with the damn things for years.
I should be able to wax eloquent at this point, but it is ...
Marisa!! This gorgeous candle arrived last night and is now happily burning on my desk today.
Such a lovely surprise and the scent is ...
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
There are quotes, and then there are quotes. This one is weighted and wonderful. ...
"I don't know." Logan shook his head. "Who knows why anyone succeeds or fails? I mean shit, Applebee's is still in business. ...
Jack has anxiety. He’s afraid of other dogs, which if I let it get to me, is sad.
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Coffee and Chai in a place, at a table. Grateful for every luxury these days.
How's your weekend? Have you started venturing out ...
My flowers are almost dead.
I'm changing the water every day and doing everything I can to help them hang on, but they're not...
In love there are two things - bodies and words.
Truth, Joyce Carol Oats, truth.
Writing a love story is a balancing ...
Petaluma, CA, was once known as the “Egg Capital of the World.”
From My Notes - BREW
In 1868, a Danish immigrant ...
While I was making my peanut butter and jelly crackers this morning, I decided I’m probably not going to own a yacht.
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The only upside to LA traffic is having the time to see the giant promotions. This morning it was The Bridgertons in all their glory.
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I really really wanted to like this one.
Library. Midnight. A woman pulling herself back from despair.
This ticks all my...
This quote is often attributed to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but it appears nowhere in his plays.
The closest thing to this line...
I knew this line from Shakespeare’s play would be somewhere in my book, but football proved more complicated than Macbeth.
Here’s ...
“Focus on small things like making tea. Be grateful and break things down to the tiniest piece until you can find good.”
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First poppy bloom from the patio planter box.
When we moved, I left all of my plants behind. It felt like they belonged with that ...
It was so cold I forgot to get a banana again.
Balboa Island, just off Newport Beach, is man-made, a little over a mile and a half, and...
Emily Dickinson is my jam these days.
I’m drawn to her when things feel yuck, which is well, let’s go with often.
Do you ...
That line is scrawled at the top of Samantha Cathner's character sketch. It embodies who she is at the beginning of the book and who I was ...
The maintenance guy thinks I’m a serial killer.
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We’ve had ...
