Just Got Real!

Yeah, I left off the "Shit." I'm trying to be good over here.

Happy Mother's Day to me! As of May 10, Take My Husband, Please! is available in print on Amazon. It's kind of cool to have your new novel in a print edition so you can hold it in your hands and pass it around. Talk about show and tell. Makes everything feel that much more real.

And now people are asking for autographs. Pfft. Guess I will have to perfect an illegible signature.

Meanwhile, you can win a free copy of the paperback edition—autographed!—by entering to win over on Goodreads. The giveaway runs from May 15 through July 15, just in time to take this baby with you to a sunny beach or the cool mountains. And don't forget, it goes great with an ice-cold brewsky, your favorite vino, or a steaming cup o' joe and your PJs.

Meantime, head on over to Amazon and check out this book!

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When Your Husband is a Pain in the Keister

If you could teach your ex a lesson, would you? Admit it. You would, right? I have contemplated such things in the past, even if I never followed through (that anyone has lived to tell). And when I got this big idea, I thought, if I can't do it in real life, I can sure as hell write about it.

Helpful tip: This is why you never piss off a writer because they will kill you or make you suffer in their next book. See how that works?

So the idea for this book came when I was having trouble in my marriage and my then-hubs had hired a gorgeous personal trainer who happened to have a crush on him. And I thought, in one of those crazy fleeting delusional moments, he's being such a pain in the keister, it would really help me if she just got her wish.

Well, the thought was fleeting, but the premise stuck with me: Please, take my husband. I'm done with him. What would that look like in a novel?

So I crafted this tale about a woman who was getting divorced and her husband was all for it at first, but then he goes through some trauma that makes him reassess his life and changes his mind. Because it's romance and comedy, this couple has to be thrown back together. I gave him a major financial meltdown so he would have to rely on her good graces to let him come home until he got on his feet. Meanwhile, she's moving on with her life, and he's in the way, right? Enter some unusual plot complications and ratchet up the tension. Then it became a really fun story to write.

Want to know more? You'll have to read the book!

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Matchbook Debuts

Looking for a good book to delve into? Matchbook by Desiree Prosapio is a new page turner in the mystery and suspense genre, laced with humor. Here's the brief:

Driven into a deep depression by the death of her daughter, Carol Lassiter has been homeless for three years. She's working out of her self-declared homeless oasis, a perfect place for collecting money while she nods in and out of an alcohol-inspired haze. As she gathers her box of "donations," she discovers a matchbook with a phone number scrawled on the inside cover. When she calls the number, she's hurled back into the nightmare she's been desperately trying to forget. The voice on the other end claims to have an answer to the question that savagely unraveled her world to begin with—the death of her daughter Ella, a death ruled by police as a suicide.

Desiree Prosapio is my writing buddy and BFF, and she's launching her new novel on Amazon at the same time I'm launching mine, which means NOW. So if you like mystery and suspense with a healthy dose of humor, check out Matchbook.

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