How to Fail Miserably at Love
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Giselle’s done everything wrong so you don’t have to!
Giselle Renarde is an award-winning author who’s been failing at everything since 2006. Her erotica and queer fiction have appeared in nearly 200 short story anthologies and published by two of the Big Five publishing house, but don’t let that fool you. Giselle is a writer who knows how to fail—consistently and thoroughly!
In this scandalous assortment of anecdotes from the writers’ blog Oh Get a Grip, Giselle confesses her many sins in the relationship department. From being an inconsiderate partner to throwing up at a fancy hotel during an anniversary getaway to flat-out adultery, Giselle’s been bad in more ways than one.
Don't let your love life get you down. We can all fail at relationships together!
Giselle Renarde
Giselle Renarde is a queer Canadian, avid volunteer, and contributor to more than 100 short story anthologies, including Best Women's Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, and Best Lesbian Romance. Ms Renarde has written dozens of juicy books, including Anonymous, Ondine, and Nanny State. Her book The Red Satin Collection won Best Transgender Romance in the 2012 Rainbow Awards. Giselle lives across from a park with two bilingual cats who sleep on her head.
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How to Fail Miserably at Love - Giselle Renarde
How to Fail Miserably at Love
© 2017 by Giselle Renarde
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The essays in this collection were originally published on the authors’ blog Oh Get a Grip!
Cover design © 2017 Giselle Renarde
First Edition 2017
How to Fail Miserably at
Love
Everything I’ve Done Wrong
By Giselle Renarde
Table of Contents
When We Were Jung
We Used To Wait
Make Room for Ruth
I'm Not Audrey Anymore
For the Forgiver
If at First...
Who is a gift for?
All's Well That Ends Well/Time to Say Goodbye
The Best Laid Plans
When We Were Jung
I'm not sure why I have this book:
I found it at the back of my bookshelf last week. It's some kind of journal, I guess, published by the University of Toronto's Undergraduate English Student's Union. I was a student at U of T, but not an English student. Nothing I wrote back then was ever published.
I was about to get rid of it when I had two thoughts: 1) I wonder if that's a painting of Lisa Kudrow; and 2) Hey, I don't think I ever even opened this thing.
So I opened it. I flipped through it. And one paper caught my eye:
Oh my god, Fifth Business! OH MY GOD, JUNG!!!
Let me