by Kat Latham

My husband finished his PhD! And he passed without having to make any corrections!

Iā€™m clearly married to a genius, and that puts me in a celebratory mood. Iā€™ve asked several friendsā€”including the incredible Beverley Kendallā€”to stop by over the coming month and help me celebrate by giving away books.

After four looong years of hard work, and hours (hours HOURS) at the British Library, my husband can finally put Dr in front of his name.

Four years might not seem that long, but think about what the world was like in 2007:

  • Twitter (aka my best friend in the whole wide world) was only a year old.
  • The first Kindle was released on November 19, 2007 (yes ā€“ everyone read paper books).
  • There was still a chance Dennis Kunisich could be president (okay, admittedly it was a small chance).

This blog party will appeal to your hearts and your minds.

To celebrate, every week in August Iā€™ll have an interview with a brilliant romance novelist who debuted in the last four years. Weā€™ll be giving away some of their books, and Iā€™ll also be giving winners one of the novels my husband wrote about in his PhD ā€“ some of the best American literary fiction of the 1980s (yes, there was good litfic in the 80s. Promise.)

You donā€™t want to miss interviews with these amazing authors:

Ashley March

Kaki Warner

Beverley Kendall

Louisa Edwards

Rose Lerner

So make sure you subscribe to my blog, follow me on Twitter, or like me on Facebook.

And thanks for helping me celebrate! I hope to see you on my blog on Monday, August 1st!

 

Bev: I hope you’ll pop on over and help celebrate with Kat and her husband. šŸ™‚ But that’s not all for this post. You know me, I have to give somebody something.Ā  Today it’s an ARC for the September release of Leigh Michael’s THE WEDDING AFFAIR. Comment to enter to win. šŸ™‚

Kat Latham has been reading romance for a couple of decades. With degrees in English lit and human rights, she loves stories that reflect the depth, humor and emotion of real life. When sheā€™s not writing contemporary romance novels, she can usually be found blogging or tweeting overly personal information. She loves meeting other readers and writers online, so follow her on Twitter or check out her blog and say hello!

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  1. Congratulations to your husband! Glad that his hard work has paid off! I’m looking forward to your interviews with some great new authors.

  3. WOO HOO!! On your husband getting his PhD. Putting your heart and mind to hours and hours of hard word which paid off.

  4. Congrats to your husband & congrats to you, you are now married to a Doctor! Looking forward to the interviews coming up!

  5. Congrats to the new Dr Latham šŸ™‚ sounds like a wonderful celebration and well deserved.

  8. Congrats to the new Dr. Latham! How wonderful that he now has his PhD after years of hard work! I am going over to your website and Facebook to follow. Thank you for such great giveaways!

  9. Congrats to your husband! That is definitely something to be proud of. I look forward to all the great interviews coming up.

  10. Congratulations to your husband! I enjoyed my visits to the British Museum but doubt if I could put in that much research time.
    I will be interested to read the reviews of those authors coming to the blog since some of them are new to me as a reader.
    Your book sounds really good and I have added it to my TBR list.

  13. Congrats to your husband Kat! What an accomplishment. I know the feeling of getting the elusive degree, but never thought about taking as far as PhD.
    I’ll definitely be stopping by the blog for the interviews. Exciting!

  14. A big congratulations to you and your husband – I’m sure you were a big help in all kinds of ways. Looking forward to next week.

  16. The Wedding Affair sounds like the story of your life for the past four years! I would love to win this as an e-book. Congratulations to your husband.
    Now you can actually organize some “date nights”… hmmm…

  20. That’s a wonderful achievement for your husband! And I look forward to your celebration and appreciate the giveaway you’re providing us with today.

  21. Congratulations to you and your husband on his PhD. My son-in-law has his PhD in Astrophysics and it is nice having a smart /genius person in the family. Look forward to entering the contests.

  23. Congratulations to your husband, you and your family must be so proud. Way to Go!

  26. wow, That’s great. You ‘re so lucky women because of having a wonderful husband šŸ™‚
    I surely ‘ll see you on your blog on Monday, August 1st ^^

  27. Congrats to your DOH on his PhD. I know how hard they can be – my sister-in-law took 10 years and never got the degree! Her creditors expired while she was trying to defend her research. I think she just liked being a student. Does he already have a job? If not, good luck!!

  28. Kat, a BIG congratulations to your husband. It is no easy task to finish that doctorate. Our daughter is looking at starting hers, but it will be a few years. She finished her Masters a little over a year ago and just had a baby in June. She needs to recover from both, get on with her job, as well as pay down those college loans before she can seriously start that long, hard road.

    You have thought of a wonderful way to celebrate.

  29. Congratulations to your husband! That’s wonderful. My husband wrote his Master’s thesis on our first computer with the manual in his lap! This was in the early 80’s. I was proud of him, too. šŸ™‚

  30. Congratulations to your husband! That is something to be proud of and to celebrate.

    I’m looking forward to reading your blog and the interviews with those amazing authors!

  31. glad to know your husband is finished his phD, congratulations

    shall waiting to read the interviews with those great authors especially beverley kendall ^^

  32. Congrats on your husband’s PhD!

    Leigh Michaels is wonderful — I just finished The Mistress House and I’m still waiting to get my copy of her next book. ^_^

  33. Congratulations to your husband on that great achievement! It must be such an exciting time for you and your husband.

  34. wow… Dr. šŸ™‚ congrats to the hubby. Looking forward to the interviews

  39. Congrats to your husband. My friend’s daughter is getting her Phd and I hadn’t realized just how long it takes. It’s quite an accomplishment.

  40. Congrats Dr. Latham! That is such an awesome thing. My hubby has 3 more years on his PhD program. šŸ™‚

    What a great way to celebrate!

  41. Congratulation to Dr. Latham! It takes a lot of dedication (and a caring wife) to be able to reach the goal of a PHD! When I was attending college I also had a job in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Arizona working as a secretary and typing out texts written in German into English. The only reason I got the job was because I took 4 years of Latin in High School! The dedication, work and hours they all put in made me realize the dedication needed to reach one’s goals.

    I’m so excited that Leigh is writing historical romance now. Her contemporary books are wonderful and it wasn’t unitl I checked her website that I realized that she had released The Mistress’ House earlier this year. I’m definately picking up a copy before The Wedding Affair is released!

  43. Thanks, everyone, for your congratulations and kind words! It’s certainly been a relief to have his PhD finished so he can now concentrate on job-hunting.

    The first interview is up on my blog today! It’s with Ashley March, and she’s giving away a copy of her September release, so I hope you’ll stop by to visit. http://wp.me/pCtNR-pR

    And thanks so much to Bev for having me here every week. She’s truly amazing. šŸ™‚

  44. Hi Kat! Congratulations on your husband’s accomplishment! What a way to celebrate and a wonderful start to a new month.

  45. Congratulations to ur hubby Kat!!! I’m looking forward to reading your blog šŸ™‚

  46. Congrats Kat on your husband’s PHD. And I’ll be visiting your blog . Sounds like a great celebration not to miss.
    Carol L
    Lucky4750 (at) aol (dot) com

  47. Congratulations to Kat’s husband. Marvelous achievement. Thanks for the giveaway

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