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    How to Fail Miserably at Love
    How to Fail Miserably at Love
    How to Fail Miserably at Love
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    How to Fail Miserably at Love

    By Giselle Renarde

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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!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGiselle Renarde
    Release dateOct 27, 2017
    ISBN9781370486700
    How to Fail Miserably at Love
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    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

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      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

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