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Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. First Sight by Laura Donohue. By Maura Sullivan Hill, staff writer Photo by Robin Ritoss for Ice-Dance.com. For the past three years, Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue have been the bronze medalists in the ice dance event at the U.S. Championships. They finished third in the short dance at Worlds in 2017 before a disastrous fall on a twizzle by Donohue in the free dance took them out of the medals. They have qualified for the Grand Prix Final three years in a row, but missed the podium by less than a point in December. This year, Hubbell and Donohue have had it with “almost.” “I’m not here to get third place for the fifth time at Nationals, that’s not an option,” Donohue told reporters in a U.S. Figure Skating media call on December 28. “Ultimately, our goal is to skate our best at the national championships and go into our first Olympic Games very strong and end up on the podium,” Hubbell said. “We think that the changes we’ve made going into this national championships set us up well to compete against these two other teams [Maia and Alex Shibutani and Madison Chock and Evan Bates].” Since their last outing at the Grand Prix Final in early December, Hubbell and Donohue have made some changes to their short dance. “At the beginning of the season, we decided to make this bold move of having our non-touching midline step transition directly into our rhumba, which maybe was a bit risky in some ways. We thought it was really cool and initially got a great reaction, but at the end of the day, there was nothing that the judges could give us in extra GOE [grade of execution] for connecting those two elements and it was hard physically,” Hubbell said. “So we decided that we would make a connection between, so we know we have a little more ice coverage in the midline step. We wanted to show more flow.” Throughout both programs, they are working on transitions that highlight their strengths. “We want to maximize that we are a bigger team than our competitors. We have more speed and longer lines,” Hubbell said. Their goal is the top step of the podium, and their plan to get there is by skating clean programs. An error on a lift was the difference between their fourth place finish and a bronze medal at the Grand Prix Final, and small mistakes making a huge impact is the story of any ice dance event. Donohue said that they are focused on “performing clean programs to the best of our capability.” “For us, it’s always a mental thing. We have a strength of really loving the spotlight, but with that comfort level, we’ve noticed that we can get a little too excited and a little too caught up in the moment,” Hubbell said. “I don’t think, most of the time, when we make a mistake it’s that we are nervous, but that the arena and the audience are giving us so much energy…we get ahead of ourselves. We’re working on skating with a lot of precision and managing our energy levels, trying to find a way to skate at our max performance while we are still present in the moment, so that those little things that are inevitably off don’t take us by surprise, the program doesn’t unravel. We are able to control everything.” This focus and attention to detail comes straight from their coaches, Marie-France Dubreuil, Patrice Lauzon, and Romain Haguenauer in Montreal, where they’ve been based since the spring of 2015. Hubbell and Donohue skate there alongside the two most recent world champions, Canada’s Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir and France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron. Donohue said that they have never trained harder in their lives than they do now. “We’re in a very positive environment where everyone pushes each other, and we have a team of coaches that works together seamlessly and selflessly,” he said. “There is no ego involved in the work. It is enjoyable for us to push ourselves and for our coaches to push us. We’re not afraid to go out on a limb and we really have a full opportunity to live and learn while we’re training here. Our partnership has improved, our communication has improved. We get on the ice and apply ourselves to what we’re doing.” This season, they’ve applied themselves to winning that first national title in San Jose, and they’ll put it all out on the ice when competition kicks off with the short dance on Jan. 5 and concludes with the free dance on Jan. 7. Welcome Laura Donohue to the Celebration of Chick Lit Tour! I’m excited to welcome author Laura Donoahue to the Celebration of Chick Lit to tell us why she loves chick lit. Sing it, Sister! (And PS, I have “First Sight” on my Kindle waiting to read ) Why I Love Chick Lit. One of the reasons I love reading is for the escape! It’s fun to experience someone else’s life for a while. Everyone loves a story where they can root for the heroine. What’s better than seeing the main character of a novel face many of the same struggles we do in real life—work, family, kids, relationships—with a little bit of humor thrown in? Although the character is relatable to us, the levity and dash of humor keeps the story light and interesting. While I do enjoy other genres, I love that chick lit focuses on the heroine. Everything is seen through her perspective—when we read the book, we’re quite literally stepping into her shoes. Whether it’s a coming of age story, a budding romance, a new marriage and baby, or a character simply coming into her own, the reader is along for the ride. And unlike in real life, the story is usually wrapped up nicely in the end. Reading provides an escape and an adventure. What better way is there to sit down with a cup of coffee or kick back at the beach than with a fun new chick lit book in hand? Happy reading! BIO. Laura Donohue is an author and freelance editor. She blogs at Love Chick Lit about books, fashion, and kid’s activities. Laura loves coffee, the beach, and reading. She lives in the DC metro area with her husband, daughter, and a baby on the way. Blog: lovechicklit.blogspot.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lovechicklit Twitter: https://twitter.com/lovechicklit. FIRST SIGHT. Maddy Smith writes for a trendy website in Washington DC, has two fabulous best friends, and her own apartment. When a girl’s night out ends with her locking eyes with the handsome stranger across the room, the last thing she expects is for him to show up at her office on Monday morning. Travis Emerson, her attractive and single new colleague, just moved to town. Although an immediate friendship between Maddy and Travis forms, she soon finds herself wishing for something more. After a misunderstanding between them occurs, not only is her hope for a relationship ruined, but their friendship is in jeopardy as well. Is any chance that Maddy had with Travis over? Or could he possibly be what she’s been looking for all along? Follow Maddy and Travis on a series of adventures that will quickly have you cheering them on. First date jitters? Not when you’ve been in love since First Sight! Novelista Girl – January 6, 2016. Readers first met sassy Kimberly Long in Blogger Girl, and now the feisty New Yorker is back in a sequel packed with quick wit, friendship, heartache, and, of course, romance. Kim runs the most popular chick lit book blog on the web, loves playing house with her sexy lawyer boyfriend, Nicholas, and is finally pursuing her lifelong dream to become a published author. At first glance, her life is five-pink-champagne-flutes worthy. But is there more to the story than meets the eye? After hearing the phrase “chick lit is dead” more times than she’s read Bridget Jones’s Diary, Kim is driven to desperate measures, seeking advice from up-and-coming chick lit author, Hannah Marshak, her high school nemesis and resident “mean girl.” As if Kim doesn’t have enough on her plate balancing her secretarial duties with her blog Pastel Is the New Black, shrugging off the growing pile of agent rejections, and keeping her best friend from turning green over Kim’s budding friendship with Hannah, Nicholas is so blinded by his career ambitions, he doesn’t see that their home sweet home could use more than a dash of sugar.