Please welcome Patricia Mason to my blog. Patricia is a talented, award winning author of both Adult and Young Adult novels.
I haven't read IN DEEP SHITAKE yet...but it's definitely going on top of my To Be Read pile today!
Happy Reading,
L. j.
The day I found myself IN DEEP SHITAKE, by
Patricia Mason
Are the aliens conducting experiments? Do they
have their own version of funniest home videos?
Or maybe God has a really good sense of humor. I'm not sure what the cosmic explanation is
for some of the ridiculous situations I get myself into. But I'm a big believer in turning lemons into
lemonade and sh....tuff into shinola. So.............
What did I do after being stuck in a car window
with my posterior embarrassingly exposed to the cold, winter wind? Used it for
inspiration in my writing, of course.
Well, that is what I did AFTER I extracted myself from the window, all
the while praying my neighbors didn't have a video camera....or it they did,
that it was broken, or....Anyway, you get the idea.
A few years ago, I was traveling a long distance
by car with my two dogs and was trapped in a sudden whiteout. My car spun 360
degrees on the highway and came to rest off the road in a snow bank. I was
towed out but by the time I got home a few hours later, the doors of the car
were frozen and I couldn't get them open to get out. By then the dogs were
desperate for a bathroom (or fire hydrant) break. I was able to get my window
down to about the half-way point. But I was forced to try to crawl out.
Since I was dressed for comfort in a skirt with
slouchy socks with clogs, by the time I got halfway out the window, the socks
and shoes had come off and my skirt was up around my waist.
I used this incident, in a fictionalized way, in
my new romantic suspense, IN DEEP
SHITAKE. My heroine is trying to break into the car instead of out when she
becomes stuck in a humiliating position. The hunky hero just happens to come
along and find her.
I'm not sure if I would have been happier if my
own embarrassing incident had ended with a sexy Brit rescuing me from my
predicament. Instead, I finally managed to fall out and land in the snow. If a
sexy man had found me stuck, I probably would never have been able to emerge
from my house ever, ever, ever, again dying from the humiliation. However, having
a guy like the sexy Ross from my book might have made the shame worthwhile.
Here's the overview of my story:
Take one devastatingly handsome movie star.
Add in one outrageously sexy female private eye
with a penchant for food-word obscenities.
Mix in a dose of mistaken identity and a handful
of Russian mobsters.
And they're all In Deep Shitake.
In Deep Shitake is FREE May 7-9th as part of the Spring Fling Free Par-Tay. Dozens of
other books (Romances from sweet to HOT. Thrillers, Mysteries, Horror and more.
Fantastic books, many by award-winning and best-selling authors.) Readers can
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I hope you'll all come and party with us at the Par-Tay!
In fact, the
heroine of In Deep Shitake is also featured in another Free Par-Tay FREE book,
A Thriller Anthology called Bullets,
Brass and Babes. http://www.amazon.com/Bullets-Brass-Babes-Anthology-ebook/dp/B007V69ZKC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1334852428&sr=8-1
Look for the story IT KEEPS GETTING SHITAKIER.
