Hey, hi, hello! Hope your May is off to a magnificent start! It’s time for another sip-pet (see what I did there?) from Steeped in Love!
Continuing from where we left off….
Addie and Gwen were friends, too. Addie…the woman who’d known him all of three seconds before insulting him six ways from Sunday. The woman he hadn’t been able to stop thinking about since she left. She’d already burrowed under his skin too much for him to pretend otherwise, but he couldn’t deny his disappointment in discovering her shallowness. There’s hardly anything worth reading anymore, she’d callously said. Whether it was an accusation or a challenge, he wasn’t sure. Self-publishing made the path to becoming published a bit easier, sure, but writing a book wasn’t easy. Anyone who’d ever tried and failed could attest to that.
He’d take it as his civic duty to correct her misconceptions about writing. There were interesting books out there; tons of ‘em!
Here’s the blurb:
Addie Mitchell is a pie-on-the-fly entrepreneur who’s finally ready to settle down in the big, empty house her late great-aunt Edna left to her. Frustrated with her lack of success in romance, Addie turns to another gift her great-aunt passed on to her—the art of reading tea leaves—to aid her in her search for the ideal mate.
Novelist Ethan Holtz is having a hard time sinking his teeth into his next project, but he finds Addie fascinating. Mainly for her ability to make her dates disappear in fifteen minutes or less. He can’t help but eavesdrop on her dates in the local coffee shop, his writing haven, and soon finds himself taking pointers on what not to do from her failed suitors.
Though her methods seem nothing short of mad, he falls fast and hard for the pixie-haired pie-pusher. She thinks they’re all wrong for each other, but Ethan teams up with the tea leaves to prove they’re so right.
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That’s all for now, folks! Have a wonderful week! 🙂
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I love the last two lines! He’s on a mission! 😀 Great snippet!
Ethan’s fighting the good fight for all of us! 😀 Thanks, Elyzabeth!
His back is up and that makes the story roll on. Fun ahead.
True dat, my friend! Thank you! 🙂
He’s persistent, I’ll give him that. I hope his “civic duty” doesn’t end up falling flat on its face!
Hee! I hope you’re right. 😀 Thanks for stopping by, Jacob!
All of us in WeWriWa land can identify with his civic duty!
Amen to that! He’s a humanitarian…or an author-itarian! 😀
I agree with Ed! Fun little snippet! I know I’m always going to smile after I read yours. 😉
Aww, thank you, Siren! I appreciate that! 🙂
Yes! He needs to rope Addie into a book group for two and set her straight.
Hee! Book club for two. That’s a rom-com in the making…or a prelude to a showdown. 😉
I always enjoy your author ‘voice’ and I love his self appointed mission to change her mind. Good luck to him on that! Great snippet as always…
Aww, thank you so much, Veronica! That means a lot to me! 🙂
I’m with him–them’s fighting words! Yes, there are books that aren’t for you out there–but there are also lovely books just waiting for you to fall in love with them. 🙂
Hear, hear! I think he’ll be able to talk some sense into her, or maybe he’ll kiss some sense into her instead. 😉
You go, Ethan!! Preach it, brother!
Ethan, an author, a hero…at least according to the WWW group. 😉
I LOVE his indignation at her implying that books are all crap now. lol. Well handled.
(Spoken as only an author can!)
Exactly! Ethan heard our cries of outrage and now he’s fighting for all of us. 😉
Challenge accepted! Self-pub still gets a bad rap, but I think it’s not done trying to meet the mark.
Love how he takes up the challenge to prove her wrong. But will that be enough to win her over or will it make things worse? You’ve got me wondering.