The Boston Brawlers Hockey Romance 50% Off Code has been corrected!

Dear ,

First, I want to welcome new subscribers to my newsletter. 💜 I promise to do my best to make every newsletter worth your while--starting with today's correction.

I'm afraid my shop had some growing pains last week and the 50% Off Code didn't work. But now it does!

I'd like to give a special thank you to those of you who sent me heads-up messages to alert me to the problem!! I truly appreciate it. ♥¸.•*´¯)

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Last week I posted a list of *romancy* questions and asked you if you would answer them. And WOW!

Thank you so much for your tremendous response! You were generous, fun and sincere and I enjoyed getting to know you a little better!

The upshot:

Other than the cat question--which turned out to be the big division LOL!--we share so many things and yet have a variety of perspectives to bring to our romance reading vocation hobby love obsession enjoyment.

Here's the breakdown in RED:

• Are you a chocolate lover? 90% Yes
• Are you a cat person or a dog person? 50-50
• Would your dream guy/person--who may be your real life lover/partner/boyfriend/spouse--make a grand public gesture on your anniversary or a surprise you with an intimate private evening? 90% Intimate evening
• Do you sleep in nightgowns or pajamas, an old ratty t-shirt or something more inventive? All over the place!!
• Do you like guys with tattoos on their arms? Chests? Face? or not at all? 80% like tattoos somewhere (There were some adventurous replies to this one!)
• And one more question I'd love to hear your answer to--When you read a romance, which do you like more--to cry or to laugh? 75% Laugh and the rest chose both because of course, we're romantics and we like to be happy.💕

Your generosity in sharing your thoughts warmed my heart💕

About my current work-in-progress, Lucky Puck--

The story is longer than I anticipated so I've delayed the release--but not too much.

In the meantime, I'm once again dying to share another Snippet with you from Lucky Puck! 🔥🔥🔥

Check it out below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

If you love supporting a great cause and steamy romance with a dangerous edge, then you will enjoy this anthology I'm a part of, Called to Love ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Also this week I have two featured authors for you below! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Again, I appreciate your time and attention to my newsletter, and your support, very much. 💜

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At SQ's House

My son is visiting from D.C. for a couple of weeks! That always makes me especially happy. (this pic was taken a while back, but it represents well) ➜➜➜➜

What's also nice is that he really appreciates coming home--and that he still thinks of visiting us as coming home. 💜 That just clenches my heart--in the best way.

In the meantime, the gym has come to resemble Mars in my mind. it's been forever (4 weeks) since I've been there and seems like a distant planet in my current universe (aka, story world). (This is a bad thing in case you were wondering, although I can see why you might think otherwise.)

But in a tiny glimmer of hope for my under appreciated utilized leg muscles, my husband and I did go for a couple of walks. (I do realize how pathetic this is since H points out that walking a mile around the neighborhood is barely enough to keep us from atrophying completely down to the bone.)

⬅️⬅️ Proof of life (of my under utilized leg muscles)

This week I can't even blame my outer-limits attitude about the gym on the hot weather. I actually blame it on my writing and being in my story-head so much--now that I'm closing in on the finish line and down to polishing the story.

Either way, I made a promise to myself to do better this coming week. I'll let you know how that goes.

We had a book club meeting this week and I don't even know what book we (were supposed to) read. But I had fun catching up with friends, as always--and it got me out of my story-head for a while!

For the meeting, each of us brings something to eat--there's always way too much food--and I brought vegetables with guacamole. I rate this contribution at a B+ at best. (though the host loves my guac and requested it)

Next month I'll have to do better because I'll be hosting book club! 💜

Any ideas for good book-club food?

💜

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The chance to get to know you better as part of the team would be wonderful.

Plus, you'll get sneak peaks at draft book covers--and have a say in the final draft.

We'll have exclusive contests and some behind the scenes writer stuff and of course, talk about romance books--and whatever else we want. 💜

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Work-in-Progress

LUCKY PUCK - a hockey rom-com

Word Count Goal: 75,000 85,000

Current Word Count: 77,388

Percent Complete: 91%

Closing in on the moving goal!

Once you lie about a thing like being married and it gets leaked to the public, creating an unexpected tsunami of attention, the biggest problem is figuring how you extract yourself from the lie, i.e., how do you get divorced from a marriage that doesn't exist?

Brody & Bianca realize the problem too late.

They never thought through the fake marriage exit plan...

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🔥WARNING: HOT DRAMA🔥

EXCLUSIVE 🔥 SNIPPET FROM LUCKY PUCK

Bianca

Brody is not sleeping. He’s standing in the living room--with a woman draped around him. Kissing him. I drop my bags.

“Bianca.” I recognize his sister’s alarmed voice coming from the kitchen as she rushes toward me.

The woman holding onto Brody as if she's climbing a pole, turns in my direction.

She’s stunning, with cat-green eyes and long silky auburn hair cascading around her shoulders and down her back. It’s a little messy, but that does nothing to detract from her beauty. In fact it makes her look sexy. The bitch.

I stop myself from touching my messy bun—which I’m sure is the opposite of sexy—but I can’t help taking off my glasses—possibly because what I’m seeing makes my stomach toss around the salad I had for lunch. More likely it's because I want to make myself more attractive in this woman's shiny presence, or at least less studiously plain.

The foolish urge to compete with her--as if I could--or more precisely, the urge to claw her eyes out for touching him, rises to an unbearable strain on my common sense.

Am I really feeling like the jealous wronged wife here? My reaction should be laughable. Because I’m not really Brody’s wife, wronged or otherwise. Brody isn’t mine and he's allowed to grope whoever he wants, right?

Except I notice he’s not groping her. He’s removing himself from the woman’s hold and walking towards me with a worried smile.

“Honey pants, I’m glad you’re home. You met my sister.” He gestures in Kara's direction without taking his eyes off me and stops when he reaches me. Leaning down, he slowly wraps his arms around me while I stand paralyzed, and lowers his mouth to mine.

My mind screams at me to demand who the other woman is, the one who was hanging on him like she has a right to, but I’m the one with no rights. Except aren’t I supposed to be pretending I do? Shit. I’m so confused.

Before I can sort out the tangled web, the sensation of Brody’s mouth on mine infiltrate my body and takes over. I reflexively kiss him back as if I’ve been doing it forever instead of the few admittedly long and memorable days. 

Wrapping my arms around him, I kiss him like I have a right, deeply, with my tongue and my teeth and all of my heart and soul. It’s a dangerous kiss—and based on Kara’s cough-laugh, totally inappropriate for an audience.

Brody lets up on his end of the kiss and his hold, flashing me a sexy dimple.

“Well, well, well,” the other woman says as she saunters over to join us. Her eyes glitter with amusement and something else, something not quite pleasant and my body reacts to her by recoiling.

Brody holds onto me with one arm around my waist, tightening it as I try to back away from the still nameless woman.

“I’m Nora Shade," she says. "I apologize for Brody’s lack of manners in not introducing us. He and I were once an item—a very hot item.” She aims a hot glance at Brody as if to prove it. “Maybe he was worried about you finding out. So sweet of him.”

This is just the beginning of the explosive drama! What follows may include a stinging surprise! But I can't give everything away--you'll need to read the story to find out.

Pre-Order Lucky Puck for Only $2.99

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Hockey Boys Series

Patrick: the Jennings Brothers

Patrick

Should I or shouldn't I...

kiss the sweetness right out of my secret crush, the forbidden and unforgettable treat, Carmella Rossi?

Not with my brothers watching from one side of the street and the Rossi brothers watching from the other.

Not while her old man wields the chain saw cutting the latest blue fin catch down to size.

Not when all of them, including my dear dad, aka coach, is within reaching distance of a hockey stick,

and NOT when every last one of them is capable of one-timing a puck straight through my front teeth....

Why are the Two most prominent families in the small town of Rye, New Hampshire, the Jennings and the Rossi's,

both known for success in the tough business of deep sea fishing, both prolific at producing epically talented hockey boys and both competitive to the point of obsessed--

Bitter Rivals and Sworn Enemies?

There's only one way to find out...

You can pre-order now!

More Jennings Brothers coming soon...

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Stephanie Queen's Featured Review

THE CHEERLEADER

"Great Book!--Loved going on this journey with Susie. It was an ea read that found very hard to put down."

--Chelsea

READ NOW!

Thank you to every reader who takes the time to write a review. They're all very much appreciated and I read them all.💜

Special thanks to my Stephanie Queen Team ARC Readers. You're the BEST!

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SQ's Featured Author

Puck the Halls - G.K. Grady

These close friends can’t wait to throw the confetti. But the fresh snowy mountain peaks don’t seem to be clearing the air…

The Colorado Blizzard hockey club needs some time off. So a weekend getaway for seven teammates and their significant others to celebrate a wedding sounds like the perfect opportunity for some Yuletide intimacy. But the holiday revels are hard to come by with tension brewing between each couple.

With the men heading out to work off their steam in a snowmobile adventure, the women lounge at the spa to soak away frustrations with a well-deserved glass of bubbly. But when the boys don’t return on time, the worried girlfriends, fiancées, and wives fear more than a few hearts could be broken.

Can they conjure up a Christmas miracle on ice to restore everyone’s Rocky Mountain high?

READ FOR FREE!

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The Fake Husband Play - Lili Valente

What’s a girl to do when her longtime hockey crush offers her a marriage of convenience?

Say YES. Obviously.

I’ve spent three years lusting after Grammercy Graves on my (supposedly anonymous) hockey romance podcast—breaking down his stats, his plays, that panty-melting Cajun accent...

The entire internet knows he’s my dream guy. What they don’t know? I’m a broke single mom who just lost her job—and the health insurance my daughter needs.

When Grammercy finds me crying in a supply closet at a team party, he offers the wildest solution:

Fake marriage. Real benefits. One year.

No strings. No S-E-X. Just shared coverage and a room with my name on it.

But he’s so good with my daughter. So generous, so funny, so kind.

And when it’s just the two of us? He treats me like I’m someone special.

Like I’m his.

Soon, every kiss for the cameras turns into a kiss we can’t stop, and it’s getting harder and harder to remember this is all pretend.

There’s just one secret that could ruin it all—my podcast, the one that proves I wasn’t telling the whole story when we first “met.”

When he finds out, will he walk away…

Or make my wildest fangirl fantasies come true?

BUY NOW!

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Thank you again for reading this newsletter.

When you have a chance, let me know what you think of the newest snippet from Lucky Puck. I hope you take advantage of the low pre-order price while it lasts.

In the meantime, enjoy your reading and know how much I appreciate your support. 💜

Warmest Regards,

p.s. For real, I need some book club snack ideas!