Voice recognition mistake of the day: "I hope you and I can have a ketchup walk sometime." (I'd relish that!)

It’s out!🎆💃🥂😁 Cupcakes and Confessions at The Cat Café: a Furrever Friends Sweet Romance book 6 is available in paperback. You can preorder the e-book and receive it tomorrow. I’ll post a brief excerpt at the end of this email.

I’ve already received six 5-star reviews from advance readers!

“Another Fantastic read by Kris Bock. This series is a great afternoon read. Glad this one was with an older couple. Very well written and the happy endings are believable.” – Jeanette 

"The Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series is one of my favorite series of all time… I read this book in one sitting and loved it! Such a light and wonderful read." – Nicole

Grab your copy here or visit the Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series page on Amazon US or Amazon UK. (For other countries click here.)

Will you help me spread the word? Here’s a blog post you can share on Twitter or Facebook, or by email to cat- and romance-loving friends (and you can learn more about the book there).

Panda and Bear Bear are also very excited, as you can see.

Fun fact: The first official cat café in the U.S. opened in 2014.

"It’s likely that purring has communication, appeasement, and healing properties," says Stephen Dowling, on BBC. Read “The complicated truth about a cat’s purr.”

New Mexico continues to be beautiful, if sometimes ominous.

Do you like coloring pages? Or want some for your kids? This page has a nice variety of cat designs you can download and print, from cartoony to more sophisticated.

Find New Books and Authors!

Second Chance Romance: If you love seeing a couple get a second chance at romance, check out these Second Chance Romance Reads. All are in Kindle Unlimited this month as well as for sale. See the options here.

Good Reads for Summer: This group has contemporary romance, mystery, literary fiction, and romantic suspense novels – all for $3.99 or less and many in Kindle Unlimited. Browse here.

Books on My Radar:

The Power of Ten: "A laugh out loud romantic comedy boxset," by Emily James: Three full-length romantic comedies about sassy women and the men that win their hearts. "All I can say is let the laughter begin." – Sexy Sirens Book Blog. Free in Kindle Unlimited.

My Heart Before You, by Laura Langa: A doctor struggling with grief and a nurse trying to start over. "My Heart Before You will tug at your heartstrings from the first page. Readers boast that you'll find yourself feeling their emotions deep in your soul." Free in KU.

A Millionaire's Love Story Box Set: A Clean Contemporary Romance Series, by Lottie Morgan: Two couples face the ups and downs of life and love. The women are a tech mogul and a world traveler who does geocaching. The men are a lawyer and a hotel clerk. Free in KU.

You Can Write for Children: My book (written as Chris Eboch) on writing for children and teenagers is on sale for 99 cents until May 20 (US/UK). Readers say, “If you want to write for children or the children’s market, this is the book for you.”

If you haven't yet gotten your copy of the free 35-page novella, Lions and Love at the Cat Café, you can get it here. For “13 of the recipes mentioned in Kris Bock's Furrever Friends Sweet Romance series,” go here.

A quick peek at Cupcakes and Confessions at The Cat Café as Sean thinks he sees someone he knows on a plane:

  Holly was still alone when he reached her row. Her dark hair swung across her face as she dug through a backpack on the floor between her feet. She hadn’t noticed him yet.

  This could be fun. Holly enjoyed his weird sense of humor.

  Sean dropped into the seat next to her. “The raven flies at midnight,” he muttered out of the side of his mouth, as if they were spies meeting in an old movie.

  The woman jerked up and twisted to stare at him.

  It wasn’t Holly.

  Sean’s face flamed. “Oh! Um. Sorry, I thought you were someone else. Wow, you really look like her. Except you’re a lot older.” He winced. “Not that you’re old.” Women could be sensitive about that kind of thing. “Only, I think she’s twenty-three, and you’re clearly …”

  He trailed off. What would be least offensive? She was probably around forty, a good decade younger than he was, but if he guessed at that and overshot – or even if he was correct – she might still be hurt. For some reason, most women hated to look their age.

  “Over thirty?” he suggested.

  She kept staring. He couldn’t blame her. He was socially awkward at the best of times, so if he recognized how inappropriate he’d been, it must be bad. An attractive woman like her probably got all kinds of weird pickup lines.

  Should he tell her he wasn’t hitting on her?

  No. That usually went poorly, one way or the other.

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