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Monday, 18 November 2013

Plus-size virgin finds love

Bargain read from Friday

Starting this Friday, 22 November, you can buy my e-book Love, Classified for even less than its current US$2.99.

It's a popular love-story about Virginia Brooks, a plus-size heroine who finds love for the first time.

Here's an excerpt from the chapter, when she's thinking about her life:
 
      "It was high time I grew up. Accepted that no amount of dreaming would actually get me any closer to finding myself any kind of man, much less the perfect stud who lived in my imagination. I could go on a diet. Join a gym. Buy some stylish clothes. Sign up for one of those dating agencies that do dinners for six or outings for twenty or discreet one-on-ones. Or even an online meeting site. But hell, I was close to forty. Thirty-five, actually, but heading for the big Four-Oooh.  I’d done the diets, lost weight for a few weeks or months and then put it all on again plus a few extra pounds for my trouble. If I had a dollar for every time I’d put my name down on a gym membership list over the last two decades I could buy myself a live-in personal trainer and feed him caviar and wagyu beef every night. I’d joined a social club for people my age but I was always the wallflower or the one that other women confided in. The men took one look at me and stayed away..."
 


This is my garden -- where I love to write, with friends like our puppy Max to keep me company
 

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