Today I\u2019m delighted to feature debut author Tegan Phillips. Tegan\u2019s book Melting for You<\/em><\/strong> was published yesterday. It\u2019s a steamy, second chance hockey romance. As anyone who knows my reading preferences, it will come as no surprise that this went straight on my reading list. I\u2019m a sucker for a hockey player (despite never having seen a game) and a second chance with the one that got away has me eager to read Ellis and Liam\u2019s story. The good news is, it also appears to be the first in series, because having a team of swoony hockey players is never a bad thing!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am Tegan Phillips and I am 25 turning 26! I was born and raised in Liverpool and my debut novel Melting For You is out in May 2025. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia at 16 and spent a lot of time wondering what they hell I was going to do with my life. Before my diagnosis I wanted to be on stage but I also know my body wouldn\u2019t be able to support me doing eight shows a week.<\/p>\n When Covid hit I had recently lost my job and both my mum and sister were key workers still out of the house a lot of the day. That gave me a lot of time to myself to figure out what I was going to do next. I got back into reading, I had stopped for a few years due to schooling and just a major book slump where nothing sounded good until I started reading romance. After a while I started having these day dreams when I would be lying in bed and I wouldn\u2019t be able to settle until I wrote them down, so I did. For a few weeks every time I had an idea, I would write it down.<\/p>\n Eventually I figured out that I could link them into a story and that is how I wrote my first ever book. Four years later, I wrote the first draft of Melting For You and knew it was something special. Luckily the people at Hera Publishing saw something special in it to and now here we are. I can\u2019t wait for everybody to read it and to introduce myself and an author to the world!<\/p>\n Over to Tegan <\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n This is a hard one because I love music! There isn\u2019t a moment where some kind of music wasn\u2019t playing growing up and even now smooth radio is always playing in the back ground. Then there is the musicals angle, I did theatre in high school and fell in love with so many musicals. I think it\u2019s best to break this down into sections\u2026<\/p>\n To represent my working self \u2013 9-5 by Dolly Parton<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jillsbookcafe.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tegan-phillips-1.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n<\/div>\nWhich five pieces of music\/songs would you include in the soundtrack to your life and why?<\/strong><\/mark><\/h3>\n