Spotlight and Giveaway: Light It Up

Now that Halloween is over, we can focus even more on the upcoming winter holidays. Today we have Evie Blum's Hanukkah romance, Light It Up. It sounds like a great way to warm up the winter months and is already receiving some great reviews. Evie has one copy to share with a lucky reader!

Some old flames just can’t be extinguished.

Gabby Feinman—artist, software engineer, overachiever extraordinaire—has studied hard, worked harder, and played just enough so she’ll have no regrets when she finds and marries her Nice Jewish Boy. The profile? Smart, sexy, and lovable, the standard first set by her brother’s best friend and her teenage crush, Ben Adler.

Ben has always been just out of Gabby’s reach—spinning into her orbit, lighting up her heart, then spinning right back out again. Despite the time and distance, Ben’s long-held attraction to Gabby hasn’t faded over the years. Unfortunately, his chosen path—a PhD in biology and proving himself to his father—means a relationship with Gabby just isn’t meant to be, especially since he doesn’t believe in the staying power of love.

But one steamy New York summer, years of attraction ignite. When Ben is forced to make a life-changing decision, though, they discover that love is a fire that can burn you like no other, and sometimes, you have to lose everything to understand what you just can’t live without. (Synopsis courtesy of Amazon.)

Evie Blum grew up on the beautiful Florida Gulf Coast, and after finishing her bachelor’s degree, she decided to explore the world and move to Israel, where she lived for almost a decade. While there, she earned a master’s degree in political science, worked in academia, founded her own translation and editing business, and married a pretty awesome guy. 

Their path led them to the San Francisco Bay Area, and Evie found her way into the world of high-tech. She has helped found and grow a hardware startup, been part of a successful software startup exit, and participated in an IPO.

After reading approximately a million romance novels during the COVID-19 pandemic, she tried her hand at writing contemporary romance. She published the first novel of her Startup Love series, Ship It, in 2022 and followed it up with a sequel, Pitch It, in 2023.  

Pivoting a bit with Light It Up, she set out to write a fun and endearing Jewish romance novel that expressed the beauty and meaningfulness of the Jewish experience with the hope that both Jewish and non-Jewish readers could connect to and enjoy it. 

Evie’s a friendly, always-supporting-bookish-endeavors kind of gal, so make sure to connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok or visit her website.

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Giveaway ends November 12th at midnight EST.

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