C is for Coffee — A-Z Challenge

A long time ago I had business cards which said, “I don’t care if the cup is half full or half empty, I just want to know if it’s regular or decaf!”

That still pretty much sums up my life motto, lol.

Needless to say, I’m a coffee drinker.

If you FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM you’ll see it’s one of my recurring themes and you’ll be able to see what else I enjoy in my 100 Days of Happy challenge.

“C” also reminds me of  THE HITWOMAN AND THE CHUBBY CHERUB which opens with one of my favorite opening lines:

“You just know it’s going to be a bad day when you open an envelope filled with glitter. That shit gets everywhere.”

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Love and Murder are in the air.

In years past, Maggie Lee has not been a fan of Valentine’s Day, but this year, the holiday has warped into its own special hell.

She’s stuck working at her aunt’s lingerie shop during the busiest (and cheesiest) time of the year, someone volunteered her to help with the Valentine’s Day party at her niece’s school, and there’s a hitman in town, known as the Cupid Killer.

Maggie is up to her eyeballs in declarations of love, sex toys, and candy hearts, when all she really wants is to chase down leads pertaining to her missing sister.

Can Maggie survive a guy with a bow and arrow, the pain in the butt parents of school kids, and a romantic proposal?

Or will she succumb to her favorite fantasy?

The one where she runs away with her pets.

 

B is for Books — A-Z Challenge

Books! Glorious books!

Someone recently asked me which of the books I’ve written is my favorite.  An impossible question!!

Right now, since I’m excited to be working on it, my semi-secret PCM project (which will hopefully be out in June!) is my current favorite.

As for my published stories, THE HITWOMAN GETS LUCKY holds a special place in my heart.

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Meet Maggie, the queen of misadventures, in this light-hearted novella.

Maggie Lee’s a lot of things:

The daughter of a mom in a mental institution and a dad serving time;
The niece of three meddling aunts;
The aunt (and now legal guardian) of her beloved niece, Katie;
The friend of a snarky lizard, a dyslexic Doberman, and a semi-psychic co-worker;
A contract killer.

But one thing she’d never thought she’d be is a thief.

That’s about to change as she heads to the casinos of Atlantic City to
help her sexy murder mentor, Patrick Mulligan, steal something from a professional thief.

Maggie’s never been lucky in love or money. Will this gamble pay off or will she lose her shirt, her heart or even her life?

This was my third entry in the CONFESSIONS OF A SLIGHTLY NEUROTIC HITWOMAN series, and the first I self-published.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s fun and FREE!

A is for Armani – A-Z Blog Challenge

If you’ve read any of my CONFESSIONS OF A SLIGHTLY NEUROTIC HITWOMAN or MATCHMAKER MYSTERIES then you already know (and probably love) Armani Vasquez.

Things to know about Armani

— She’s rocks some psychic juju with her Scrabble tiles

— She once had a traumatic accident involving a zamboni.

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— She enjoys some REALLY weird (some might say disgusting) food combinations

— She is an amazing friend to Maggie Lee.

 

Things you might not know about Armani…

— She’s getting a love interest soon!

 

If you’ve been following my 100 Happy Days Challenge you can find today’s post by following me on Instagram or Twitter.

Too many ideas

I’ve decided that the reason I’ve been having such trouble with the 20th CONFESSIONS OF A SLIGHTLY NEUROTIC HITWOMAN story is that I had too many fun ideas I wanted to cram into it.  Unfortunately that meant I wasn’t giving any of them their due, so I’ve been on a slash-and-burn kick to pare things down to what is truly essential to the story.

Constraints don’t necessarily hinder creativity, they often enhance it. (at least for me)

Now it feels like I can finally move forward.

 

Oh and if you’ve been following along, here’s Day 4 of my #100HappyDays Challenge.  Little gifts I received from two friends.

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Coffee and writing

I’m writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting  a pivotal scene in the 20th story in the CONFESSIONS OF A SLIGHTLY NEUROTIC HITWOMAN series and I just cannot get it right.

The fact that I’m drinking too much coffee probably isn’t helping my writing process as much as I’d like to believe.

On the positive side, here’s Day 3 of my 100 Happy Days challenge….a friend just sent me the cutest socks. Obviously she knows me well, lol.

 

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100 Happy Days — Day 1

Ugh, I know, I’m terrible about blogging.  Sorry!!!!

I decided to take on the 100 Happy Days Challenge, where I’ll try to share something that makes me happy every day.

Here’s DAY 1 of 100

Hiking through a nature preserve…despite the fact my shoes ended up covered in muck.

Spending time in nature helps to recharge my creative juices. (Coffee does this too, but fresh air does it without the jitters.)

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Something else that’s making me happy is the work I’m doing on my secret PCM project. I’d been stuck on it for quite a while, but now I’m busy writing it.