After a hectic winter of wine marketing prep at my day job, I finally had some time to trick out my book’s promotional information on Amazon, including the essential book reviews section. Here’s a collection of quotes from the most recent book reviews for The Exes in My iPod: A Playlist of the Men Who …
Book reviews for The Exes in My iPod chick-lit romance Read More »
Award-winning author, speaker, wine consultant and television host Leslie Sbrocco is joining me for a book chat and wine tasting this month at J Vineyards & Winery in Healdsburg. My first book launch party in California! This event is open to Club J members and guests of Leslie and me; if you are interested in …
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Paul would not leave my side. We shuffled forward to the red plastic line in the snow and turned to watch the four-person chair on the White Pine lift as it scooped us up. A middle-aged woman and a little girl in a puffy lavender ski suit scurried to my right to claim the last …
I sat down at my desk, picturing the moment I’d seen his face again. My fingers gripped the keyboard tray. The morning after our kiss, I’d worked a Sunday brunch shift at the Cheesecake bar, anchored behind the “well from hell” as we called it. I’d spun around to pull a peach puree carton …
Here comes another swing. Wait for it … I decided it was time to buy a new car. My Pontiac sounded like it had a black lung disease, and living in South Florida had opened my eyes to the world of wheels beyond General Motors and Ford. As an early Christmas present to myself, I …
Right before New Year’s Eve, the movie Titanic premiered, so we rushed to CocoWalk’s AMC Theatre for a Sunday matinee before my night bartending shift. Through the entire three hours of emotional highs and lows and laughs and tears, surreal thoughts were bouncing around in my head like a barista on an espresso binge. Jack …
Back when the book was a memoir, I wrote this About the Book overview for my book proposal. Lots of positive responses from agents, but it didn’t hook a big fish as I’d hoped. Some of this copy made it into the A Note from the Author introduction within the book, but not all of it. Why do you …
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Welcome to my blog–the home of ex-boyfriend stories that didn’t make the book–all served with a slice of humble pie and a glass of Champagne. “Cutting Room Floor” posts are raw text (not necessarily proofread or cleaned up) from scenes that were cut from the book. I also blog about book news, events, wine and …