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Journals for Rocky

I designed these journals after Rocky had a series of seizures that left his back legs too weak to walk for a week. We sat on the floor together while he rested and healed. I worked on these journals during that time because my brain wasn't able to focus on writing, and I needed something to do other than worry. Now I use the money I make from the sales of these journals to help pay for Rocky's medicine.

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These templates are free to use and sized for my book journals. All you need is a free Canva account then you can use these templates to collect and print book covers to add to your book tracking journal. I just copy and paste the cover into each square then print when the page is full. I’ve used regular printer paper (cheapest option), photo paper (expensive and makes the book too thick), matte sticker paper using 8.5″ x 11″ labels (most convenient and looks pretty good), and semi-gloss paper that I’ve sent off for printing at Staples (looked the best of all the options, but can get pricy after a while).

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Coming Summer 2024

Carlisle Creek #1

Title TBD

Maya Parker has come a long way since the days of living in her car and listening to recordings of Alan Rickman’s delicious voice to drown out the noises of the street surrounding her. Between her job as manager of Bishop’s Books, running a Naughty Book Club full of the senior citizens of Carlisle Creek, and taking care of Nana Bishop, the bookstore’s owner and her neighbour, she has her hands full. Add to that cleaning up after Harold, the huge, grumpy shop cat she adopted who enjoys leaving mountains of dead mice by the back door, and she doesn’t have a lot of spare time.There is one thing thing she’ll make time for, though: telling Nana’s good-for-nothing grandson exactly what she thinks of him if he ever gets his butt back to Carlisle Creek to visit his elderly Nana. If there’s one thing she can’t stand, it’s people who turn their backs on family.When Liam Bishop finally makes it to Carlisle Creek after working night and day for the last three years to repay pay his debts, he’s surprised to find an attractive young woman working in the bookstore in place of his Nana. He knew his Nana was getting a little older, but the idea that she’d ever stop working in the store is crazy to him. That his Nana hired this woman and she’s been running the store, and making changes, for years and he had no idea? Well, let’s just say it’s a good thing the verbal tongue lashing he got from Maya when he walked in served to make him interested rather than guilty. Because he feels guilty enough on his own, and he’s determined to make it right.And if he gets to know Maya better in the process, well that’s alright too.

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Chantal Roome writes contemporary romantic comedies. She loves writing love stories with just the right mix of love, humour, and sex.When Chantal isn’t writing she’s drinking way too much coffee, binge reading, and living out her own second chance romance with her husband. She’s also a mediocre mom to two frustrating, but hilarious and endlessly loveable kids, one dog who has eaten every toy he’s ever been given, and another dog who wants nothing more than to chew everything with her tiny puppy shark teeth.Sign up for the newsletter to stay up to date on new releases and works in progress

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Would you take a second chance on your first love?

Would you take a second chance on your first love?
Alex is recently single, and NOT ready to mingle.
At all.
Too bad her first love just reappeared in her life after 20 years and the spark is still there. Oh, and did I mention he’s a super sexy rockstar with fans and groupies and everything? Yeah, he’s the last guy she should consider if she wants to find someone faithful.Not that she wants to find anyone at all.Nope.She’s fine being alone.Isn’t she?A light-hearted romance about love, trust, and taking chances.When a newly single chef afraid of being burned again reunites with a rockstar tired of always being used, can a second chance at first love heal them both?TW: mentions of past partners cheating, and attempted SA of the male lead character.
18+

Who's your daddy? Or rather, who's your baby daddy?

Face the Music is a full-length, stand-alone, laugh-your-butt-off romantic comedy, with a sexy, jaded, joker of a rock star, a serious control-freak of a band manager, and a happily ever after that will have you crying happy tears.Denise is a strong, successful woman whose job as band manager for Sleeping Dogs keeps her incredibly busy. Ryder, lead guitarist for Sleeping Dogs, is a party boy jokester and notorious womanizer. A match made in heaven, right?When two pink lines tell her she's pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's baby, right after Ryder confesses he's been in love with her since they met, she has to decide whether to give the ex another chance, or to find a way to co-parent and see what happens with Ryder.Throw in inappropriate grannies, a lot of laughs, some scorching hot sex scenes, and a bad boy's redemption, and you have a love story that hits all the right notes.TW: Mentions of pregnancy, domestic violence, abuse, childbirth.
18+

Sometimes doing the wrong thing is the only way to do the right thing

A disgraced ex-cop looking for a career change. A moody drummer trying to keep his demons at bay. Can vandalism and ill-conceived revenge plans be enough to mend their lives and bind them to each other?
When Rhea arrests a man with the right friends, her only reward is a pink slip and a goodbye. When she meets Aiden while exploring other job options, she can't help but be attracted to the athletic, yet slightly nerdy, drummer, even though he does everything he can to convince her otherwise.Aiden's past is always on his mind and it keeps him from living wholly in the present. When he finds himself falling for Rhea, a recently fired ex-cop, he pushes her away, because it's the only way he knows how to protect the people he loves.Friends' attempts to bring them together end with seemingly disastrous results. Will vandalism and ill-conceived revenge plans work to repair the animosity between them? Or are they doomed to be enemies while their friends try to make them fall in love?Grumpy grandpas, inappropriate grannies, quirky friends, rock stars, and pen!s graffiti abound in this journey to love for two very different people from remarkably similar backgrounds. It stands alone and has a happily ever after to keep your heart pumping.TW: mentions of child abuse, domestic violence, alcoholism.
18+

A fake relationship has to be better than no relationship, right?

A romantic, guitar playing, tattoo artist who believes in true love. An emotionally and physically scarred photographer who believes she doesn’t deserve love. If he wants forever, and she refuses to give anyone more than one night, can friendship ever be enough for either of them?
Johnny meets Becca after a Sleeping Dogs show that they've hired her to photograph, and he’s positive he’s finally found ‘the one’. Becca has other ideas, though, and hers are of the less permanent variety.For reasons she prefers to keep in the past, Becca doesn’t get intimate with a guy more than once.Johnny wants a fairytale true love like his parents have, and he’s gone through dozens of women trying to find it.When Becca’s mother gets it into her head that she’s going to find Becca a man, Johnny steps in with the perfect plan. He’ll pose as Becca’s boyfriend to get her mother off her back.Pretty soon, what’s supposed to be one friend helping another turns into more than just a fake relationship.Can Becca face her trauma and find the strength to trust Johnny with a real chance? Or will the childhood accident that left her scarred in more ways than one leave her settling for less love than she deserves?TW: mentions of past child abuse
18+

How hard could it be to build a new life while renovating an old house?

A regular guy who also happens to be a rockstar. A single mom struggling to rebuild her life. Can a case of mistaken identity help rebuild their growing attraction into something more? Or will the foundation of lies they're building on cause it all to come crashing down around them?Finding a stranger’s underwear in her husband’s car turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to Finley. Now that her divorce is nearly final, she couldn’t be happier. He’s free to live out his mid-life crisis dream of being in a crappy rock band and banging all the wannabe groupies he likes, and she can focus on building a stable life for their three kids.After a year of living with her parents, Finley has her own home again. All that’s left now is to renovate her rundown house and for that, she’ll need help. Maybe Travis, the sexy handyman she’s seen working across the street, is available?Travis is exactly the kind of man Fin is looking for. He’s nice, stable, and has a good job. And, most importantly, he’s not a musician. Sure, his brother is in the band Sleeping Dogs, and he plays guitar too, but he’s not in the band, so he’s safe. Right?TW: mentions of child abandonment, abuse, pregnancy.
18+

What happens when the spotlight is no longer enough?

The men of Sleeping Dogs have had their fair share of women, but now that they’re a little older, and a little wiser, they’re looking for something more meaningful than the one-night stands typical of what they’ve experienced in the past.This complete collection includes all five full-length, laugh-out-loud, cinnamon roll rockstar romcoms featuring the men of Sleeping Dogs and the women they love.

𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙮 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙮, 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖'𝙨 𝘽𝙖𝙗𝙮.

Phoebe Fox, media manager for a rock band and single mom to the surprise baby she conceived last Christmas, is spending this holiday season tracking down the Santa who got her pregnant and giving him the chance to know his son. And if she gets to replay the single best night of her life when she finds him, well, that's even better.Archer Fade, factory owner and sometime Santa Claus impersonator, is so focused on improving the culture at the toy factory he inherited that romance isn't on his radar, even if he can't get the runaway bride from that amazing night a year ago out of his head.When Phoebe finds Archer and a chance meeting makes her think he has a gorgeous model girlfriend, she leaves her hopes of a repeat rendezvous behind in favor of helping him be a dad to their son. So what happens when she finds out he's actually single and just as interested in repeating their one night as she is? And what will it mean when she learns he has a few naughty surprises of his own?𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 (𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘺) 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘳, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘥𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘤𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘴. 18+

Nick “Odd Duck” D’Onofrio is a thirty-eight-year-old retired, undefeated MMA fighter with four goals: open a gym in his hometown of Tuft Swallow, learn to play cornhole without embarrassing himself, amass the largest collection of rubber ducks the world has ever seen, and start a family. The first three are coming along nicely. It’s the last one he’s having a hard time with. No matter what he does, he just can’t seem to find “the one”.At least, he couldn’t–until he ran into the woman of his dreams. Literally. He slammed right into her in the middle of his morning jog, and it was pretty much love at first sight. For him, anyway.Tina Falcone has never wanted the responsibility that comes with a family of her own. For Tina, the key to happiness lies in running her own pizza place, listening to true crime podcasts, creating miniature cemeteries out of thrifted pottery, and staying single. No man-child husband or crapping babies needed, thank you very much. She doesn’t even mind that she’s bucking years of Falcone family tradition to live her life this way. (Just don’t tell her meddling mother that.)So what happens when one Odd Duck seems intent on breaking Tina’s spinster-streak? She has to admit, something about his giant grin, huge muscles, squishy belly, and tiny running shorts intrigues her. And the rubber duck tramp-stamp? Well, she’d be lying if she said she wasn’t at least a little intrigued by that, too.When random men start showing up at Wings and Pizza saying they made dates with Tina on apps she insists she doesn’t even use, Nick worries his time is running out. Can he get his ducks in a row before it’s too late? Or will this be the first fight he ever loses, leaving Tina to think he’s just another ugly duckling?

Content Warnings for Tit Me With Your Best Shot

This book discusses several difficult subjects with what can occasionally seem like callous disregard. I promise it’s not because I don’t think these are serious issues. Truthfully, it has more to do with being an adult child of an alcoholic who’s never addressed my own trauma beyond adopting a dark-ish sense of humor and denying the existence of my own feelings for far too long. So when you read about how Carson and Jared feel about their relationships with their parents, for example? Some (but not all, because I was lucky enough to have an amazing mom) of that is based on my own history with my dad.
My dad isn’t in my closet, though. He’s on my grandmother’s mantle.Anyway, read on for the content warnings. (And, in case it’s not clear, most of these are only mentioned in passing, but better safe than sorry.)Death of parents; house fires; death of parents in house fires; alcoholism and drug addiction; underage drinking; past child neglect; child abandonment; foster care and the foster system (I’ve done my best to portray this as accurately as possible within the limited scope and time-frame of this book. Despite all the research I’ve done for this book, I am not an authority on foster care or the foster system, and should not be looked to as a reliable source of information on the subject); past criminal activities of bumbling mobsters; sex trafficking; potential SA; serial killers and their crimes; references to incels, red-pillers, alphamales, and alpha doms; body shaming and fat shaming; theft and consumption of underwear by a goat; testicle mashing by that same goat; the world’s tiniest running shorts; so many rubber ducks (however many you’re thinking, it’s still more than that); what some may consider an excessive number of bird puns (but what the other Tuft Swallow authors and I have determined it to be the exact right number); and possibly more that I missed (if you come across something that you think should have been listed here, please email admin@chantalroome.com and we’ll do our best to add it)If a loved one’s alcoholism or drug use has affected you, al-anon.org or smartrecovery.org may have resources to help.

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Sleeping Dogs
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What happens when the spotlight is not longer enough?

The men of Sleeping Dogs have had their fair share of women, but now that they’re a little older, and a little wiser, they’re looking for something more meaningful than the one-night stands typical of what they’ve experienced in the past.Available individually in ebook or in paperback.
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