MJ Santangelo

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About MJ Santangelo
MJ Santangelo has always been an avid reader and wrote poems for a short period of time in her
late teens. Then life happened, college, marriage and kids, it wouldn't be until her early thirties
when she was able to pick up the pen again, and begin writing her first novella. She has yet to
put the pen down.
She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two sons and her pug named Boo. In 2011 when her
mom's chronic illnesses along with new diagnoses became too much for her mom to manage on
her own MJ became her primary caregiver. MJ's mom lived with her and her family for the last
five years of her life.
When MJ is not writing you can find her reading, cleaning, cooking or driving somebody
somewhere and listening to music while she does it all.
MJ is the author of multiple contemporary romance books that focus on strong women living life
and finding love sometimes when they least expect it.
She is also the author behind the Caregiver Collection which includes both non-fiction and
fiction books. All have the common themes of caregiving, chronic illness, end of life care and
grief.
MJ's short stories include a historical fiction about her experiences on September 11, 2001 and a
party planning guide.
late teens. Then life happened, college, marriage and kids, it wouldn't be until her early thirties
when she was able to pick up the pen again, and begin writing her first novella. She has yet to
put the pen down.
She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two sons and her pug named Boo. In 2011 when her
mom's chronic illnesses along with new diagnoses became too much for her mom to manage on
her own MJ became her primary caregiver. MJ's mom lived with her and her family for the last
five years of her life.
When MJ is not writing you can find her reading, cleaning, cooking or driving somebody
somewhere and listening to music while she does it all.
MJ is the author of multiple contemporary romance books that focus on strong women living life
and finding love sometimes when they least expect it.
She is also the author behind the Caregiver Collection which includes both non-fiction and
fiction books. All have the common themes of caregiving, chronic illness, end of life care and
grief.
MJ's short stories include a historical fiction about her experiences on September 11, 2001 and a
party planning guide.
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Books By MJ Santangelo
Puppy Love (Falls Village Collection Book 2)
May 18, 2020
$2.99
Puppy Love
Jenny Collins
My college life sucks, my non-existent love-life sucks and I'm tired of being the naïve little sister. My four older siblings are creating their dream lives with the ones they love, and I'm left staring longingly at their robust social media pages. I need change. I need to find who I am and what I want in life. I thought by bringing Beast, my chihuahua pug mix, with me to college that it would improve my shitty disposition; it did until my heartless roommate ratted me out for having
“contraband” living in the dorms with me. Maybe I need to leave, hit the road to start again somewhere new.
Somewhere like Falls Village.
Lucas Hart
My grandfather is dead, our family business, is failing, and my high-school sweetheart — now ex-fiancée — has left me. She claims that I’m depressed, and she ‘can’t deal’ with my melancholy mood any more. My life is falling apart, I mean, how else should I react? I need change. I need to start over. If I restart my life, I’ll feel more like me again. I need to ditch this place and start again somewhere new.
Somewhere like Falls Village.
Puppy Love is the second book to release in the Falls Village Collection. Kitty Berry’s The Rest of Forever is the first in the collection. This is a collection from authors of RomantiConn.
Jenny Collins
My college life sucks, my non-existent love-life sucks and I'm tired of being the naïve little sister. My four older siblings are creating their dream lives with the ones they love, and I'm left staring longingly at their robust social media pages. I need change. I need to find who I am and what I want in life. I thought by bringing Beast, my chihuahua pug mix, with me to college that it would improve my shitty disposition; it did until my heartless roommate ratted me out for having
“contraband” living in the dorms with me. Maybe I need to leave, hit the road to start again somewhere new.
Somewhere like Falls Village.
Lucas Hart
My grandfather is dead, our family business, is failing, and my high-school sweetheart — now ex-fiancée — has left me. She claims that I’m depressed, and she ‘can’t deal’ with my melancholy mood any more. My life is falling apart, I mean, how else should I react? I need change. I need to start over. If I restart my life, I’ll feel more like me again. I need to ditch this place and start again somewhere new.
Somewhere like Falls Village.
Puppy Love is the second book to release in the Falls Village Collection. Kitty Berry’s The Rest of Forever is the first in the collection. This is a collection from authors of RomantiConn.
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Before I Said Goodbye
Oct 8, 2020
$1.99
Before I Said Goodbye chronicles the hospital stays, decisions made, and associated emotional chaos of end-of-life care from the perspective of a daughter who had been the primary caregiver over the last eight years for her mother, a persevering woman who had battled illness her entire life.
MJ Santangelo’s honest and poignant story will have you wanting to cherish every moment you have with your loved ones, make you consider taking more pictures of yourself with family and friends, and give you the courage to have the difficult conversations with your loved one so that when the time comes to say goodbye, there is no doubt you are doing what your loved one wanted.
MJ Santangelo’s honest and poignant story will have you wanting to cherish every moment you have with your loved ones, make you consider taking more pictures of yourself with family and friends, and give you the courage to have the difficult conversations with your loved one so that when the time comes to say goodbye, there is no doubt you are doing what your loved one wanted.
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Complicated Kind of Love: Kinds of Love Series
Feb 23, 2021
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Complicated Kind of Love
You met Nurse Amy in Forever Kind of Love and Shameless Kind of Love, now it is time for her story. On the outside it looks as though she has it all together but that can’t be further from the truth. She may have a great job and a beautiful daughter but what about love?
Will she get her happily ever after like Izzy and Jade, or will her past get in the way?
Sometimes love isn’t the fairytale, sometimes love is complicated.
You met Nurse Amy in Forever Kind of Love and Shameless Kind of Love, now it is time for her story. On the outside it looks as though she has it all together but that can’t be further from the truth. She may have a great job and a beautiful daughter but what about love?
Will she get her happily ever after like Izzy and Jade, or will her past get in the way?
Sometimes love isn’t the fairytale, sometimes love is complicated.
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Forever Kind of Love: Kinds of Love Series
Feb 23, 2021
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Forever Kind of Love
Izabelle Carter’s life is a bit chaotic right now; her mother’s cancer is back, her writing career is going nowhere and her love life is non-existent. The only things going for her are her friends and her steady job at Cooper’s, the local bar.
Until her first love, Jon, shows up unexpectedly wanting to reconnect—causing all kinds of feelings Izzy has been trying to ignore for the last six years.
When Izzy’s world starts to fall apart will Jon stay or will he leave like last time? Is their love the fleeting kind or is it a Forever Kind of Love.
Izabelle Carter’s life is a bit chaotic right now; her mother’s cancer is back, her writing career is going nowhere and her love life is non-existent. The only things going for her are her friends and her steady job at Cooper’s, the local bar.
Until her first love, Jon, shows up unexpectedly wanting to reconnect—causing all kinds of feelings Izzy has been trying to ignore for the last six years.
When Izzy’s world starts to fall apart will Jon stay or will he leave like last time? Is their love the fleeting kind or is it a Forever Kind of Love.
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Shameless Kind of Love: Kinds of Love Series
Feb 23, 2021
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Shameless Kind of Love
Jade is bold, brash, and badass. Her life is going better than it ever has…ever; that is, until the person she thought she loved broke her.
Jade does the only thing she knows how to do, RUN.
But running away doesn’t work this time; running only leads her into the arms of another man whose love for her is shameless and all encompassing.
What will happen when what Jade is running from catches up to her?
What choice will she make between her past, her possible future, or will she run again?
Jade is bold, brash, and badass. Her life is going better than it ever has…ever; that is, until the person she thought she loved broke her.
Jade does the only thing she knows how to do, RUN.
But running away doesn’t work this time; running only leads her into the arms of another man whose love for her is shameless and all encompassing.
What will happen when what Jade is running from catches up to her?
What choice will she make between her past, her possible future, or will she run again?
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Kinds of Love Series Bundle
Feb 23, 2021
$2.99
Kinds of Love Series Bundle: Forever, Shameless, Complicated
One Group of Friends…Three Distinct Love Stories
Forever Kind of Love
Izabelle Carter’s life is a bit chaotic right now; her mother’s cancer is back, her writing career is going nowhere and her love life is non-existent. The only things going for her are her friends and her steady job at Cooper’s, the local bar.
Until her first love, Jon, shows up unexpectedly wanting to reconnect—causing all kinds of feelings Izzy has been trying to ignore for the last six years.
When Izzy’s world starts to fall apart will Jon stay or will he leave like last time? Is their love the fleeting kind or is it a Forever Kind of Love.
Shameless Kind of Love
Jade is bold, brash, and badass. Her life is going better than it ever has…ever; that is, until the person she thought she loved broke her.
Jade does the only thing she knows how to do, RUN.
But running away doesn’t work this time; running only leads her into the arms of another man whose love for her is shameless and all encompassing.
What will happen when what Jade is running from catches up to her?
What choice will she make between her past, her possible future, or will she run again?
Complicated Kind of Love
You met Nurse Amy in Forever Kind of Love and Shameless Kind of Love, now it is time for her story. On the outside it looks as though she has it all together but that can’t be further from the truth. She may have a great job and a beautiful daughter but what about love?
Will she get her happily ever after like Izzy and Jade, or will her past get in the way?
Sometimes love isn’t the fairytale, sometimes love is complicated.
One Group of Friends…Three Distinct Love Stories
Forever Kind of Love
Izabelle Carter’s life is a bit chaotic right now; her mother’s cancer is back, her writing career is going nowhere and her love life is non-existent. The only things going for her are her friends and her steady job at Cooper’s, the local bar.
Until her first love, Jon, shows up unexpectedly wanting to reconnect—causing all kinds of feelings Izzy has been trying to ignore for the last six years.
When Izzy’s world starts to fall apart will Jon stay or will he leave like last time? Is their love the fleeting kind or is it a Forever Kind of Love.
Shameless Kind of Love
Jade is bold, brash, and badass. Her life is going better than it ever has…ever; that is, until the person she thought she loved broke her.
Jade does the only thing she knows how to do, RUN.
But running away doesn’t work this time; running only leads her into the arms of another man whose love for her is shameless and all encompassing.
What will happen when what Jade is running from catches up to her?
What choice will she make between her past, her possible future, or will she run again?
Complicated Kind of Love
You met Nurse Amy in Forever Kind of Love and Shameless Kind of Love, now it is time for her story. On the outside it looks as though she has it all together but that can’t be further from the truth. She may have a great job and a beautiful daughter but what about love?
Will she get her happily ever after like Izzy and Jade, or will her past get in the way?
Sometimes love isn’t the fairytale, sometimes love is complicated.
Like Yesterday
Jan 3, 2021
$0.99
There are some major world events in life that affect us deeper than others. These events often catch us off guard, cause change in the world or within us and are imprinted on our brain so strongly that we can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when the event happened or when we heard that the event occurred.
It seems as if each decade has these events. In the 1960s, for some people that event was the day Kennedy was shot or when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his ‘I Had a Dream Speech’. In the 1970s, many can recall what they were doing when Nixon denied involvement in the Watergate scandal with the notorious words, “I am not a crook”. In the 1980s, some people remember when the Berlin Wall fell. Or in the 1990s when they learned Princess Diana was killed in a car crash.
For me, that major world event was September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center Twin Towers were attacked. No matter how long it has been since this event occurred, it is ingrained in my mental history. I was only a couple of blocks away when the attacks happened, attending my first year of college at Pace University in lower Manhattan.
In this short story I tell my account of what I experienced in the days leading up to September 11th, the day itself, and the days that followed.
This is my answer to where were you on September 11, 2001?
It seems as if each decade has these events. In the 1960s, for some people that event was the day Kennedy was shot or when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his ‘I Had a Dream Speech’. In the 1970s, many can recall what they were doing when Nixon denied involvement in the Watergate scandal with the notorious words, “I am not a crook”. In the 1980s, some people remember when the Berlin Wall fell. Or in the 1990s when they learned Princess Diana was killed in a car crash.
For me, that major world event was September 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center Twin Towers were attacked. No matter how long it has been since this event occurred, it is ingrained in my mental history. I was only a couple of blocks away when the attacks happened, attending my first year of college at Pace University in lower Manhattan.
In this short story I tell my account of what I experienced in the days leading up to September 11th, the day itself, and the days that followed.
This is my answer to where were you on September 11, 2001?
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Love Always : A book of Poetry
Jun 18, 2020
$1.99
Love Always:
This twenty-eight poem collection is about what I experienced in the few weeks leading up to my mom’s passing and the first six months after her death in July of 2019. Writing these poems became part of the grieving process for me.
My hope is that the poems in this book help you feel a little less alone on your journey with grief. I have learned that grief is a tricky beast that presents itself in a variety of ways and is different for every person. Even though we all grieve differently we are alike in the hurt that we experience is profound and valid. Talking to people about my grief made me realize I am not alone and that gives me comfort on the most uncomfortable days.
This twenty-eight poem collection is about what I experienced in the few weeks leading up to my mom’s passing and the first six months after her death in July of 2019. Writing these poems became part of the grieving process for me.
My hope is that the poems in this book help you feel a little less alone on your journey with grief. I have learned that grief is a tricky beast that presents itself in a variety of ways and is different for every person. Even though we all grieve differently we are alike in the hurt that we experience is profound and valid. Talking to people about my grief made me realize I am not alone and that gives me comfort on the most uncomfortable days.
A Caregiver's Perspective : From Hearing the Diagnosis to Healing From the Diagnosis and Everything In Between
Apr 18, 2020
$1.99
A Caregiver’s Perspective:
From Hearing the Diagnosis to Healing from the Diagnosis and Everything In Between
A Caregiver’s Perspective chronicles the diagnosis, recovery, and associated chaos of cancer from the perspective of a daughter who takes on the too-soon role of caregiver for her fifty-something mother, a courageous woman who has battled illness her entire life.
Part memoir and part how-to, MJ Santangelo's story will have you laughing and crying along with her while learning how to pull out fewer strands of your own hair if you find yourself taking care of a loved one with a serious illness.
From Hearing the Diagnosis to Healing from the Diagnosis and Everything In Between
A Caregiver’s Perspective chronicles the diagnosis, recovery, and associated chaos of cancer from the perspective of a daughter who takes on the too-soon role of caregiver for her fifty-something mother, a courageous woman who has battled illness her entire life.
Part memoir and part how-to, MJ Santangelo's story will have you laughing and crying along with her while learning how to pull out fewer strands of your own hair if you find yourself taking care of a loved one with a serious illness.
Unexpected Healing
Jul 8, 2019
$3.85
Unexpected Healing
Sonya Hope Jenson is on her way to the National Institute of Health to participate in a research study to hopefully provide better treatment for her and others with similar immune deficiencies.
While restoring Sonya’s physical health is in the hands of her new doctor, mending her fractured heart after the loss of her first love, Thomas, is all up to her. Unfortunately she has no interest in stitching it back together.
Maybe all Sonya needs is a little unexpected healing.
*This book picks up exactly where Unbreakable Hope ends, it is highly recommended you read Unbreakable Hope before reading Unexpected Healing.
Sonya Hope Jenson is on her way to the National Institute of Health to participate in a research study to hopefully provide better treatment for her and others with similar immune deficiencies.
While restoring Sonya’s physical health is in the hands of her new doctor, mending her fractured heart after the loss of her first love, Thomas, is all up to her. Unfortunately she has no interest in stitching it back together.
Maybe all Sonya needs is a little unexpected healing.
*This book picks up exactly where Unbreakable Hope ends, it is highly recommended you read Unbreakable Hope before reading Unexpected Healing.
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Finding Forever: A Companion to Precious Love
Feb 28, 2019
$2.99
FINDING FOREVER: A Companion to Precious Love
Parker Jones, the loyal childhood friend of Simon from Falling Apart: An Unconventional Love Story and the always-ready-to-lend-a-hand buddy of Sarah and Nikki from Precious Love, is now ready to tell his story. The stoic drummer of All-American Trouble with sky blue eyes, and a forever love he never saw coming or thought he needed, is knocked off his playboy game when he meets Emily Dawson.
Emily Dawson, the sophisticated, helpful friend of Sarah and Nikki from Precious Love, may have gotten more than she bargained for when she decided to take drum lessons from the infamous Parker Jones. She may have just found a love unlike any she has ever had, one with no rules and one she may want to hang onto forever.
*Please note, this can be read as a standalone.
Parker Jones, the loyal childhood friend of Simon from Falling Apart: An Unconventional Love Story and the always-ready-to-lend-a-hand buddy of Sarah and Nikki from Precious Love, is now ready to tell his story. The stoic drummer of All-American Trouble with sky blue eyes, and a forever love he never saw coming or thought he needed, is knocked off his playboy game when he meets Emily Dawson.
Emily Dawson, the sophisticated, helpful friend of Sarah and Nikki from Precious Love, may have gotten more than she bargained for when she decided to take drum lessons from the infamous Parker Jones. She may have just found a love unlike any she has ever had, one with no rules and one she may want to hang onto forever.
*Please note, this can be read as a standalone.
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How To Plan & Survive A Holiday Party Or Special Event without Losing Your Mind & Your Sh*t
Sep 24, 2018
$0.99
How to Plan & Survive a Holiday Party or Special Event without Losing Your Mind & Your Sh*t:
This is a short, funny, step-by-step helpful guide to planning your next holiday party or special event. Planning a party can be stressful but it doesn’t have to be. Follow these five easy steps to have the best party ever; one where your guests won’t want to leave, one where they will be asking you to host the event every year, and one where you will actually enjoy yourself.
This is a short, funny, step-by-step helpful guide to planning your next holiday party or special event. Planning a party can be stressful but it doesn’t have to be. Follow these five easy steps to have the best party ever; one where your guests won’t want to leave, one where they will be asking you to host the event every year, and one where you will actually enjoy yourself.
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