Book Excerpt
My anger at
what Cotner had done to me earlier in the day came flooding back. “I got Honky
Tonk to your agent on time. He was very pleased with it.” I snapped at him.
“Good,” he
equally snapped back. I could tell he was surprised his agent Charlie hadn’t
rejected it. He hadn’t thought I could do the job in the time he had allotted
to me. The bastard! “I guess it must have been fine if he said so,” the Honky
Tonk genius begrudgingly told me.
“Yes, it is
all set for day after tomorrow, he’s already transmitted the column. Done
deal!” I said handing him the copy I had fudged so badly. “I think it came out
great.” I had handed him the two awful drawings.
He grabbed
them, and glanced down. His eyes went wide and his hands shook. “HE ACCEPTED
THESE!” His voice cracked, his face went red. “Is he crazy!”
Ellie ran
over to him. Les dropped the cooler and also ran over to the old man, taking
his arm. “Jeb, what’s the matter?”
Cotner
pushed them away. “You are the most incompetent artist I have ever seen!” he
yelled at me.
I smiled,
“And you are the biggest liar in Arizona!” I yelled back.
Les had
grabbed the papers from his gray haired fisherman friend. He looked at me.
Cal’s brother knew! A slow smile curved up on his face. “Jeb, this is a copy,
this isn’t the drawing you gave her this morning.” The younger man reached over
turning on the overhead kitchen light and pushed the papers on the old man.
“Put your glasses on. Look it’s copy paper. It’s the copy she made this
morning, it’s not the original.”
I took the
real drawings from behind my back and handed them to Cotner. “How does it
feel?” I pointed my finger at him. “That was the meanest thing anyone has ever
done to me!” I told him, spitting out my words.
“You are
fired!” his angry face said. “I should never have let Ben talk me into hiring
you!”
“Great!
I’ll be out of here quickly!” I shouted.
“Wait,
wait!” Les held up his hands. “Look at them Jeb. She’s the best you’ve ever
had. You both are wrong!” He pushed my finished drawings in the old man’s face.
About The Book
Author: Pauline Parson
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Buy the book on Amazon.
At 41 Paula finds herself on her own in
beautiful Arizona. She’s a talented comic artist – with a broken heart –
a widower that has a chance to discover if she can make it as an
cartoonist or fall flat on her face. Jeb Cotner accepts Paula as his new
finish artist for his famous Honky Tonk Man comic strip. She
has a chance of a lifetime to learn from the famous syndicated satirist.
This job holds the opportunity that could lead to her own comic strip
career. Yet, rumors fly that the 75-year-old artist is a cantankerous
old man who has an eye for the “young girls”.
With grave doubts, she leaves her quiet
life in New England and heads into “cowboy” country with her own comic
character, Abby Press, at her side. Her world is turned upside down by
two handsome brothers, neighbors of Jeb Cotner, who vie for her
attention. Her sexual desires awaken, something so new to the young
woman that it sends her to heights that she had long forgotten existed.
She plays a dangerous game of “Tug of War” as her heart is torn between
the two men.
Author Bio
Pauline lived in New England most of her
life. She grew up in the hills of northwest Connecticut, did her
college on Maine’s beautiful coast and spent her early-married years in
Massachusetts. She later returned to her Connecticut roots. She settled
in with her husband, two boys and a big Great Dane on a small
“gentleman’s farm” in the mountains (yes there are mountains in
Connecticut) for 33 years.
During those years, they raised goats,
geese, turkeys, chickens and a mischievous horse named Midnight Madness.
After the boys grew up and had lives of their own, Pauline and her
husband moved to Central Florida. Ever since the kids were little they
had loved Disney- they are now only 20 minutes from the parks and visit
often. She lives a quiet life writing fiction and motorcycling with her
husband whenever she can find the time. Her two cats and fun loving
miniature beagle keep life interesting.
This is Pauline’s first foray into a
Romance type genre. (Her SciFi, Fantasy, Racing and Motorcycling books
are published under a different pen name) “I always wanted to write
books about women coming into their own while fighting
adversity and finding meaningful relationships. My women characters are
always strong and independent and in “Tug of War” I continue with Paula
finding the courage and independence to find her own way.”
Don’t miss Pauline’s next romance, coming soon, “Love’s Passion Perfect”.
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