You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave | The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

Welcome to The Sun Down Motel, located in the small town of Fell, NY. There is cable TV and plenty of rooms available... as well as some "spirited" guests who have never left the motel since 1978. With a description like that, you wonder why would anyone want to stay at The Sun Down Motel let alone work there as a night manager. Well, what if there was a mystery related to the motel and the town of Fell that was keeping you there? Wouldn't you want to stay than leave?

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James follows two women in two very different time periods, trying to solve the mystery behind the motel's supernatural events and its connection to the unsolved murders of three women in Fell.

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Just a Screenwriter Standing in Front of a Boy Asking Him to Love Her | Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters

Can you fall in love like they do in the movies? Being a fan of movies and particularly romantic comedies, I would like to think so as fantastical as that sounds. 

In the film world, there is a term called the "meet-cute" that defines the moment when two characters meet thus beginning the romantic journey together. Often times they are quite "cute" such as John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale picking up the same pair of gloves in Serendipity or even Hugh Grant meeting Julia Roberts in his travel bookshop while absconding a book thief in the most British way possible in Notting Hill. Sometimes they are unconventional like Richard Gere picking up Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, or even years later when his character infiltrates her small town in order to write a story about her in Runaway Bride. Other times the meet-cute can begin on the wrong foot such as Renee Zellweger's Bridget Jones meeting Colin Firth's pretentious and ugly sweater-wearing Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones's Diary or Meg Ryan's aviophobia Kate being seated next to Kevin Kline's scruffy Frenchman Luc in French Kiss. Nora Ephron had also proven that the meet-cute could also be possible without any physical interaction at all through Meg Ryan and Tom Hank's characters in Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail. With all that in mind, who wouldn't like to meet like they do in the movies? The only question is if that is actually possible? Well, in Rachel Winter's novel Would Like to Meet she explores that idea.

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