#SweetSat: Afterglow

Since my last Sweet Saturday post, I've had some exciting news. My romantic comedy, Afterglow, has been contracted by Champagne Books for a Jan. 2013  release.

So, without further ado, my Sweet Saturday Sample, the opening of Afterglow:

My first affair with Cherry Garcia lasted nearly three weeks. It ended when my best friend Eva threw a shoe at my head. My Reebok sneaker to be exact. “Enough,” said Eva from the bedroom door. “You cannot wallow forever. Besides which, I am getting very tired of walking alone. I’ve started talking to myself, for God's sake. I’ve started talking to the dogs along the way.” She raised her arms like a conductor ready to strike up the band.   “Get your hiney downstairs in five minutes or I will dress you myself.”  She turned with runway model flourish and sauntered away. I do mean sauntered. Eva was nothing if not dramatic.

             I should never have given Eva a key to my house. But I had given Eva a key and she was repaying my trust by yelling up the stairs, “Five minutes India,” as though it were a curtain call. Knowing that there was not the slightest chance that she’d give up and go away, I got up, dug my oldest sweats from the bottom of the hamper and put on both sneakers.

            “You look like misery’s leftovers,” said Eva when I came down the stairs. I gave her what I thought was a smoldering look though in truth I don’t smolder well.

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