In this month's Newsletter Spectacular:
- The One Month Boyfriend has a gorgeous new cover!
- NOW IN AUDIO: The One Month Boyfriend!
- The Two Week Roommate is coming in August!
- Apollycon preorders are closing soon!
- New releases you should read!
- Free books? Free books!!
And now, because these are fun to write: three things I liked this month.
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by K.J. Charles
I'm a huge KJ Charles fangirl (Society of Gentlemen might be my all-time fave romance series), and this one is GOOD. Reading KJ Charles feels kind of like being wrapped in a warm, comfy blanket (if your comfy blankets have a lot of murder and sex, I guess): you know from page one that she's gonna take care of you real good. This one's about a brand new baron who gets entangled with a smuggler in Regency England; it's fun and sexy and hair-pulling and I might die before the second book in the series comes out in September. (They're both standalones, I just really want to read it.)
Artichokes
You know the great thing about this list? I can put literally whatever I want on it and no one can stop me. Like artichokes.
Have you have an artichoke lately? The huge, size-of-my-head ones are currently in season and I swear I've eaten about fifty in the past few weeks. They're a food AND an activity, since you peel off a leaf at a time! You dip them in lemon butter! The heart is also delicious, and it makes everything else you eat for the next ten minutes taste a little weird! (I like that sort of thing, you may not.)
I highly recommend them, especially if you're both hungry and bored: pop that thing in a steamer for forty minutes, melt some butter, and go to town. You're welcome.
Composition Notebooks
(I almost made this one Cadbury eggs, but I talked about peanut M&Ms last month.)
I do a lot of long-hand writing when I need to get my brain going, so I go through a lot of notebooks. And are there fancy, classy, nicely-made grownup notebooks with nice paper and lovely covers? Sure!
You know what's better than those? Two-dollar wide-rule composition notebooks with neon dinosaurs on the front. (Or unicorns, or purple skulls, or avocados, like my current notebook.) They're cheap, they're surprisingly nice to write in, and they come in wide rule for anyone who has the handwriting of an excited fifth grader. I like to write on the right-hand pages at first, and then when I go back, read what I wrote, and add even more commentary, I write that on the left. In several different colors of felt tip pen, because that's just how I am.
Thanks for coming on this journey with me!
Love,
Roxie
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