

Summer on Blossom Street
Author: Debbie Macomber
Series: Blossom Street Series #5
Narrator: Delilah
Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/01/2009
Author: Debbie Macomber
Series: Blossom Street Series #5
Narrator: Delilah
Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/01/2009
How many people follow the dream they had as a child growing up? American Women's Fiction and Romance novelist, Debbie Macomber did just that. She realized that it was her dream to become a writer from the time she was in fourth grade. She did not act upon that dream (for fear of rejection) until she was 30 years old, and the mother of four children. She submitted many manuscripts, but all were rejected. She attended a romance writers conference, where one of her manuscripts, Heartsong, was selected to be critiqued by an editor from Harlequin Enterprises, Inc. Of course, that editor ripped her work to shreds with his criticism, and recommended she throw it away! Instead, she gathered the $10 fee and submitted the same manuscript to Harlequin's competitor, Silhouette Books. They published the manuscript, and Macomber's illustrious writing career began in earnest.
Debbie Macomber overcame her dyslexia to become one of the most prolific authors of romance novels. She sat in her kitchen, with four children, tapping out her work on an ordinary typewriter. At her peak writing, she was releasing two or three titles per year, with her first hardcover novel being released in 2001.
Most women today are very familiar with Macomber's current works, especially those that have been made into Hallmark Channel movies and series. The Christmas movies.......Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle, Call Me Mrs. Miracle, and Trading Christmas.....have become iconic Christmas features. The Cedar Cove series was also a hit with not only Debbie Macomber fans, but Hallmark fans in general.
Macomber and her husband raised their four children, and now have grandchildren. They still live in Port Orchard, Washington, but now winter in Florida.
This was a great book. I have loved all the Blossom Street books by Debbie Macomber. Hope she continues to write about these characters. It is just good simple everyday life stories that makes one feel good to read.
This is only the second book I've ever read by Debbie Macomber. Summer on Blossom Street is part of a series and seems to come in about the middle. It tells the stories of several people who work on Blossom Street near Lydia Goetz' wool store, A Good Yarn and people they know, meet, and love.......more
I listened to this one on audio. Great story but I don't think I could ever listen to another book read by Delilah. She got so many of the inflections wrong that I actually thought everyone in the book was a whiny jerk. I did cry at the end, but I am sucker for happy happy endings.......more
This was my first Debbie Macomber book and I found it to be pretty blah. The characters were not very well defined. They all spoke and acted as if they were over 50 and yet many of them were supposed to be in their 20's or even children. There were very few physical descriptions given so it was diff......more
Lydia Goetz owns a knitting shop on Blossom Street and decides to start a new knitting class. This one is geared towards people who want to "quit something or someone." Three people sign up: Phoebe, "Hutch", and Alix. Ann Marie Roche turns up again and has some drama turn up surrounding her adopted......more
An enjoyable read for fans of the series, otherwise skip it. This book was merely OK. There is too much carried forward from the earlier books to make this a good stand-alone, but those who follow the series should enjoy it. There are appearances from most of the earlier characters, and some of them......more