Friday, October 25, 2013

My Muse

A few weeks ago my husband and I stopped by his parents for a few hours, and while we were there his mom handed me a photo in an envelope and said,"Maybe this will inspire your next book."

I pulled it out, took a look at it, and yelled "Holy shit!" right in front of my in-laws. Then I stared at it some more. It was a picture of my husband, aged 26, during a triathlon. He had just come out of the water and was running towards his bike when a photographer took his picture. The crazy thing is he looked like a typical romance hero – dark hair, strong law, broad shoulders tapering to narrow hips. All ripped, lean muscle. It's insane.

Don't get me wrong. He's still in great shape, but this is him in peak physical condition, and it's something to behold. On the way home I kept taking the photo out and looking at it, and I did the same for the next couple of days, dazed with lust over this younger version of my husband.

We've only been married three years, only known each other a little over four years, and I've sometimes wished we'd met each other when we were younger. But the truth is, if we'd met when we were a lot longer, we might not have hit it off. Sure, I would have still had the bloom of youth and he would have looked like the cover of a romance novel, but we're very different in a lot of ways, and I think those differences would have been starker when we were younger.

So instead I count myself lucky that we found each other at all, and I've put the picture (now framed) on my desk where he can inspire me with his never-ending hotness.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Get "Stirred Up" for 99 Cents

Stirred Up is on sale for 99 cents. It's normally $3.99, so what a bargain, right?