"Put the flowers in the vase and make me a cup of tea, Martha! I'm busy reading."

Hello !

Okay, so, you might not say that exactly, but since we're just meeting, you have to cut me some slack on my lack-lustre mind-reading abilities.

If you're wondering, "who is this woman and why is this naked-chested man giving me flowers?" the answer is that you entered a contest recently and clicked on my name, giving me permission to add you to my mailing list. You also indicated that you read romcoms, contemporary and steamy romance.

And don't you know, that's what I write!

Now, if you've decided that you don't want a fresh bouquet of cut flowers delivered by a bare-chested man once a week, the Unsubscribe button is at the very bottom of this message. Click it once and I will not darken your doorstep again with deals on romance books from my author friends, chances to get my books free, or silly stories from the writing trenches (which is really my little home office in a tiny village in southern British Columbia, Canada. Not very trench-like at all, actually).

If you want to know a bit about me and my books before you decide to keep me or toss me out like that first boy you kissed who—you learned too late—earned his nickname Goober, honestly... my website is danikabloom.com.

You can see the books I've published and find links to my socials on the home page. A five-second glance should tell you if you think we could be literary friends.

If you decide to hang around for a few emails, you know, to see if I deliver what you're looking for...

This is important—

Sometimes I'll send you emails with more than two links in them since I want to tell you about deals on free romance books from my author friends, and, there's a high probability that I'll use sexy words in my messages since... you know, steamy contemporary romance.

The problem is that some email services will assume this means my messages contain unsavory elements. So you need to whitelist my email address and it will be full steam(y) ahead! 😍

If you use Gmail, simply add danika@danikabloom.com to your Contacts or drag this email from your Promotions tab into your Primary folder.

If you use a different app or email client and would like some help to figure out how to whitelist my email, let me know! I'm happy to help since it would make me sad to lose you to an overzealous spambot detector.

Thanks for reading this far. I'm sorry you didn't win the contest you entered, but I hope that the consolation prize of flowers at least makes you smile.

If you write me back, just to say "Hello," I'll send you an unpublished short story I wrote last month that featured appearances from twenty of my readers and expressions they commonly use. That was a fun difficult ridiculous experiment! If you hang around, you'll likely see a crazy idea brought to life at least once a quarter.

love&stuff,

Danika

xo

PS - I'm all for judging books by their covers. Have a look at mine at www.danikabloom.com before you decide whether to stay or leave!