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THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME available today!

Wow, you can’t imagine how excited I am! (Uh, unless you’re having a book released today too)

Everyone involved in the whole process has been so super, and, of course, I must send out a special cyber hug today to my editor, Laurie. THANK YOU so much for all your help!

When I wrote The Role of a Lifetime, I started with one simple scene in my head. It came to me when I was at the playground with my daughter. There were kids going down this big tube slide and one of the mothers was having trouble showing her two year old how to slide down and not to be frightened. So she put her legs in (trying to demonstrate), then quickly turned to me and said, “Watch me get stuck.”

Well, I laughed, and then I thought it’d be even funnier if a father got stuck in the slide. Even funnier if he was single father, trying to “show off” to a woman. Even funnier if he wasn’t a father but a single man, with a large ego, trying to “show off” and got stuck in a slide. Even funnier if—uh, well, you get the idea.

Anyway, that simple encounter stuck with me—no pun intended. So I decided to work with it. I got out my handy GMC (Goal, Motivation, Conflict) book and began to play “what if” and then finally came up with Ben Capshaw, my hero. And the rest wrote itself. (Sort of)

I hope you love Ben as much as I do. :)

If you’d like a chance to win a free copy, please check out my website: HERE