THIS LOVING FEELING on sale for 99¢ plus Giveaway
Get THIS LOVING FEELING on sale for 99¢ for a limited time here! 
This Loving Feeling is the third book about the Rushford family siblings (it’s Samantha Rushford’s book) but it’s also a crossover book–it introduces my first Greek brother, Lukas Spikonos.
These (hot) Greek brothers were separated as children and as adults, and come to find their lives and loves in the small town of Mirror Lake, Connecticut…and each other.
There are two other Greek brother books, the “CAN’T” books (see below), with the last brother coming later this year.
Also, check out my little summer giveaway over at Fresh Fiction. I’m giving away a plush beach towel, cute mesh beach bag, water bottle that says “Say Yes to Adventures,” a Starbucks card, and print copies of the first 3 Mirror Lake books. Check it out here!
Death by Side Effect
I’ve talked before about having migraines, that special plague that bestows itself upon the women of my family.
This week I had an entertaining visit with my migraine doctor, a patient, gray-haired neurologist I’ll call Dr. X.
Patient because I’m not the best patient. I was holding out on these migraines, not wanting to start a big-gun medicine, hopeful that they would burn themselves out, as they often do, in middle age. Well, I’m well into middle age and guess what? No such luck.
“I’d like to start you on a new medicine,” Dr. X says, after I describe the special hell deadlines wreak upon my poor head.”The way I see it, you have two choices.”
I look at him suspiciously, as if he’s said, “I want to give you a brand new type of poison.” Which, in effect, is a little true, because every medicine that really works for migraines seems to have a special side effect profile that’s enough to scare you to death if you think about it too much.
“You have two choices. Choice A works great. It shuts the headaches down for good. The only problem is, it makes one out of every ten people stupid.”
“Come again?” I say.
“Not being able to focus, confusion, that kind of thing.”
Oh, well, that sounds like something I can risk when I’m two weeks from turning a book in, yes?
“The good news is you usually know when you’re stupid.”
“That’s reassuring,” I say. Not really. Not at all!
“Patients come in knowing they can’t think or talk or function. It’s not like being drunk when you don’t know how stupid you are.”
“Oh. Any other side effects?”
“Weight loss.”
Weight loss at an age where looking at a pint of ice cream makes me gain a pound? The stupidity might be worth it! “I’ll consider it. What about Choice B?”
“Choice B works great too. But if we don’t titrate it quite right it has the side effect of apathy. Which could help with your deadlines.”
Not caring about whether not the book is going to be a piece of poo when I turn it in? That sounds stress relieving. But also scary in its own way. 
“But the flip side is, you may not care, for example, if the house is burning down, and it can also diminish sex drive.”
Does he know I’m a romance writer, for gosh sakes?
“Just bump up the dose of my normal medicine,” I say, referring to a common, tried and true medicine in the blood pressure medicine family that works…sort of. “And I’ll think about those other ones. See you next year.”
“Three months,” he said, frowning. “Come back in three months.” He looks over his bifocals at me.”You know, none of these medications are really that bad. You might just feel better if you give them a chance.”
I thanked him and told him I’d think about it. After I non-apathetically make my deadline without being too stupid and not gaining too much weight.
CAN’T STOP LOVING YOU is a National Readers Choice Finalist!
This week I learned CAN’T STOP LOVING YOU is a finalist in the National Readers Choice Awards in the Contemporary Single Title category. This book, while having some humor and laughs in it, was very heart wrenching to write and I’m so thrilled to have it be recognized as a finalist! Yay!
CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING Is on Sale May 5-11 for Just 99¢!
Just wanted to let you all know my latest release, CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING, will be on sale for 99¢ for a short time only (from now until May 12).
Check out the book and the sale on Amazon here.
This book is the second book in the Spikonos Brothers series but can easily be read as a stand-alone.
It has a 4.8 star rating on Amazon and here’s what people are saying:
“An emotionally charged, funny, sexy read.”–Goodreads Reviewer
“This couple was a bit messed up, they have baggage, hell their baggage has baggage, but together they manage to unpack it and find their way, and I LOVED every single minute of Can’t Fight This Feeling.”
–Guilty Pleasure Book Reviews
Book Description:
SHE WANTS TO MOVE ON…WITH SOMEONE BLAND AND BORING.
Widowed psychologist Maggie McShae is ready to find someone who won’t make her heart beat fast, her knees grow weak, or her body go hot and cold at the same time. No one she can really love, because love brings too much pain.
Drew Poulos, son of a billionaire, is hiding out in Mirror Lake, working at his brothers’ brandy company. He inspires those very feelings Maggie’s determined to avoid. The hunky businessman, who left his high society bride at the altar, is the last person she’d ever seriously date. But he might just be perfect for a fling…
HE NEEDS A DATE FOR HIS BROTHER’S WEDDING…WITH SOMEONE WHO CAN CALM HIS QUIRKY FAMILY.
Drew’s too heartbroken to ever trust any woman again, but the sexy psychologist is the perfect person to deflect his family’s attention as his brother marries the woman Drew once thought was his.
As sparks fly, two injured hearts might just find that true love can be even better the second time around.
How to read the Spikonos Brothers books:
–Lukas’s story is the last book in the Rushford Family/Mirror Lake series, THIS LOVING FEELING.
–Roman’s story is the first book in the Spikonos Brothers series, CAN’T STOP LOVING YOU.
–Drew’s story is the second book in the Spikonos Brothers series, CAN’T FIGHT THIS FEELING.
(You can read more about the books from my Amazon page or on my book page.)
My Cat Posey
The Notorious Posamunde
Moral dilemma: my (elderly, demented and also probably crazy) cat pooped in my son’s tennis shoe. To tell or not to tell?
I opted not to. I cleaned it up and sprayed Febreze in the shoe, hoping for the best.
I had other problems to deal with, namely that the cat ADORES my new desk chair. To the point of obsession. This makes me completely crazy!
Posey makes me completely crazy too. But alas, she had a very hard life before we adopted her right before the 2004 Presidential election. She was found matted, underweight, and roaming the streets, looking pathetically sad like a Dickensian orphan, until we fell for her sweet, pitiful expression and insatiable desire to be petted and took her in.
Boy, did she get lucky. For the past 13 years, I’ve been dealing with a psychologically crazy cat with a myriad of bad behaviors and a predilection for loving only one person in the family (my oldest daughter) and barely tolerating the rest of us…but her saving grace is she’s really cute. And she adores being petted. So she has stayed.
Messy workstation, lovely new chair, cat!
So back to my brand new chair.
At first, I’d be typing away sitting happily in said chair when she would jump up suddenly in a sneak attack and land behind me, scaring me to death. Then she’d settle in for a long nap between my butt and the chair back.
Aw, cute! I thought the first dozen times. But then she began to hog the whole chair. I’d return from getting coffee to find her sprawled out in all her furry glory. Then I’d think, poor thing, I hate to wake her.
So you can probably figure out who rules the roost in our house, yes?
Lately I’ve taken to covering the fabric seat of my chair with a towel to protect it from all the cat hair. And cat spit from when she sneezes.
Finally, the other day, I’d had it. “Posey, one of us has to go. And I’m on deadline!” She didn’t seem to care about that. So I picked her up and sent her on her way.
Off she went, flipping her tail at me. Probably to poop in MY shoes.
By the way…my son did tell me his tennis shoes smelled really fresh 🙂 And I’ll never tell!