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Heather Frances

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Back cover copy reveal!

CHASE ME IF YOU CAN is out 6.23.26!

If you enjoy:

💜 Road trips vibes
⛈️ He falls first
💜 Spicy photoshoots
⛈️ Eldest daughter core
💜 Tornadoes as a love language

This one might be for you! 🌪️🫶 Available to add to your Goodreads TBR now! 📚💕

A graphic of back cover copy reading:

Wedding photographer Sloane Michaels might spend most of her year running after brides, but she lives for the six weeks each spring she chases tornadoes instead. When the prestigious magazine Nature Shots announces a cover contest, Sloane knows that winning could be the chance she needs to break up with taffeta for good and establish herself in landscape photography.

The last thing she needs is a distraction in the form of reckless “Wild Wes” Talbot. A legend among storm chasers, he's been Sloane's close, personal frenemy for the last decade and is the man to beat for the cover contest.

Sloane isn't surprised when Wes gets in an accident that jeopardizes his season. But with an active weather pattern emerging, she doubles down on her need to beat Wes fair and square, and begrudgingly invites him to join her for the remainder of the season.

As they race through hail, high winds, and stormy skies, Sloane realizes that Wes might be more than the rich, flirty, Texas wildcard she thought she knew - and that the feelings blooming between them are more charged and dangerous than the storms they're chasing.

October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

Periodic reminder that I have a newsletter! This month I’m talking getting ready to head out for high plains storm chasing next week & and update on Chase Me If You Can! Interested? New uodate on Friday! heatherfrancesauthor.substack.com

June 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

I’m so excited to help share the cover of ROAD TRIP WITH A VAMPIRE by @jennalevine.bsky.social coming out October 14, 2025, with @berkleyromance.bsky.social !

Cover reveal of Jenna Levine’s “ROAD Trip” with the top half a couple in a convertible and the bottom a mirror image of the same couple where she’s a witch and he’s a vampire

Same cover with two tropes tags for vampires and a road trip

A vampire who can't remember his past and a witch with secrets of her own hit the road in this zany, cross-country romantic comedy from beloved author Jenna Levine.
Reformed bad witch Grizelda "Zelda" Watson had hoped to never see another vampire again when she moved to California for a fresh start. But when a vampire with amnesia shows up on her doorstep with a letter from her old friend Reggie, asking for help, she can't say no. Of course, it doesn't hurt that Peter Elliott is tall and gorgeous, looks great in yoga shorts, and has the kind of dark hair and surly expression Zelda's been a sucker for for hundreds of years.
Peter isn't completely harmless-he is fanged, after all-but he's harmless enough, and soon becomes the only person in Zelda's new life who knows the truth about what she is. If she can help him decipher the cryptic notes in his journal, the only clues to his lost memories, she might as well try before sending him on his way.
But when an alarming message from Peter's past coincides with a clear sign that Zelda can't keep running from her own, they embark on a cross-country road trip for answers-only to find what they're looking for in each other.

January 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

And so the sun sets on 2024.

It was a weird year. Some incredible highs. Some devastating lows. But amidst all of that, I’m still proud of myself for living this year by saying yes to more things that fill the well and no to more things that don’t.

sunset in the background of a lighthouse in maine

December 31, 2024 at 10:10 PM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

Watching it every Christmas makes it a Christmas movie. I said what I said.

December 24, 2024 at 11:46 PM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

If you see this, drop a pic from the last place your passport was stamped

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

A photo overlooking the Cabot trail headland in cape breton, Canada

December 13, 2024 at 1:23 PM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

As a spicy #romanceauthor, l've definitely had more than one
moment thinking about those closest to me reading ✨certain✨ scenes. But then my brother went and did this for our friend group's annual gingerbread house party. Suddenly I am much less concerned…

Three cookies from a mushroom kit decorated to look like phalluses

December 9, 2024 at 2:42 AM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

Hey #amquerying #writingcommunity check out the TK auction raising money for trans kids! I’m personally donating a critique of your manuscript or sub package (link below) but there’s a lot of cool stuff up for auction! 📚 www.32auctions.com/organization...

Graphic for TK auction stating the auction is live

December 2, 2024 at 4:07 PM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

Apple pie cheesecake > pie. I said what I said.

November 28, 2024 at 5:05 PM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

Sipping coffee from my fancy new mug courtesy of top tier CP @celiastgelais.bsky.social 🥰🌪️🥰

My perennial advice to the #writingcommunity remains: find your people who celebrate your wins like their own. This is a hard business. Surround yourself with the right energy from the start!

A coffee mug with donuts, tornadoes, and camera icons with a publisher’s marketplace debut announcement for a storm chaser romance with rival photographers

November 22, 2024 at 4:02 PM

Heather Frances

@heatherfrances.bsky.social

The 📚 news is out! I am absolutely ecstatic to share that Berkley will be publishing my debut novel, CHASE ME IF YOU CAN, in 2026! An enormous thank you to my fantastic agent Christina Miller at Nancy Yost & Mary Baker at Berkley for believing in me, this book, & the story that means so much to me.