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Love On The Air (Avalon Romance)

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I'm not a big romance reader, but I got a real kick out of this. The setting -- a small-town radio station -- is very realistic, as are the characters and the situation. The outcome is especially well-thought out and quite unexpected. It's clean, it's well-written, it's clever and it's WELL worth a few hours of your time! Go get it!

I've been a romance reader for years, and I'm hard to please! LOVE ON THE AIR has all the components for a fulfilling read...engaging characters, exciting setting, lifelike dialogue, and a great cast of secondary characters. I fell in love with Rick and Christie from the beginning and was rooting for them to find "happily ever after."

Sierra Donovan has written a sweet love story that shouldn't be missed.

Sierra Donovan takes the reader inside the radio station for an up close look. The characters are well formed...the story entertaining. I can't wait for Yvonne's story.

Christine Becker finally achieves her dream of becoming a radio disk jockey. She has a great working relationship with her co-workers and also her boss Rick Fox (A disk jockey she heard while in college). They continue to find their working chemistry is great along with the attraction to each other. It is against company policy to have a relationship especially when one of them is the boss. To find out how it all turns out take time to read this great light hearted romance.

Straight out of broadcasting school, her teacher who just happened to be a good friend of the general manager of KYOR had arranged an interview to be the night person on the air. No experience on a real station, but that did not stop her. After debating in college what kind of career she could enjoy out in the real world, she thought she might give it a try. Like me, her first two years were not focused on one thing, just liberal arts. Not like me, she'd never had any desire to be on radio. I didn't make it, but she did almost overnight.

No hard work, no desire to play the music she loved and get paid for it. She couldn't see doing paperwork in an office eight hours a day, but that's what I ended up doing, for awhile. Radio is (or used to be) a twenty-four hour business, so we need a live body on the premises -- 24 hrs. a day. My favorite Music Of Your Life is taped. Westwood One is live, but the personalities playing the Fifties music and big band make a difference. They are not supposed to be 'hip.'

Christie was born with a good speaking voice, while I continued throughout my life with a young-sounding voice. She had determination to make this work and to show the program manager that she could succeed. Rick was not easy to persuade. Their first face-to-face was more of a confrontation. "There was a difference between being realistic and being sadistic."

Little did she know that the voice she'd depended upon to get her through late night school work would belong to her protaganist. He'd been in the radio business for ten years and had no time for a neophyte. After proving her mettle, she comes to realize that she has met the man of her dreams whose baritone voice had kept her company and solace as she was 'growing up.'

At my junior college, I was able to get a weekly news shot on the local station, WKSR, because I came highly recommended by an older student of my speech teacher who just happened to pull a few strings with the owner of the station. He was reprimanded for not going through channels, as the program manager preferred to interview and find the best 'voice.' However, I was on the air for a few months reading the news from the Martin campus every Friday afternoon prior to a high school boy taking over the evening music show. Later, after I was married to the speech teacher, I was able to repay the favor and help the person who went to bat for me to get a radio position on my favorite station back in Knoxville, my hometown. I knew a few of the d.j.s there as I had been a regular on local radio and t.v. as a natural singer (as opposed to trained), but not a news reader.

Ms. Donovan worked for seven years writing commercials at a radio station where Charlie was a d.j. (also her husband). LOVE ON THE AIR is her first novel, and we all know that debuts usually include personal experiences. She was the lucky one.