Cover & Blurb for December 09 Release

Could I get any more excited with the blog entry title? I didn't even give it the courtesy of an exclamation point. Probably because my editor made me take most of the exclamation points out of the text of What She Deserves, so I'm trying to break myself of my exclamatory habit. Yeah, that's EXACTLY what I'm doing.

Whoopie or no whoopie (okay, let's be honest, the book has some major whoopie in it, and I don't mean Goldberg), here is the cover by Samhain cover artist Natalie Winter:



Pen name on cover: check
Red dress on heroine: check
Hot dude: check
Bad dancing: you can't have everything
(But if you want to pretend the hero and heroine just got finished with a synchronized exhibition of cabbage patchy goodness, you go right ahead. I know I do.)


Here is the official blurb:

Then: Geeky science nerd. Now: Most Likely to Fall in Love!

At seventeen Winifred Sampson was sure of three things. She was a nerd, she hated Peter Duvall, and her crush on the quarterback would never be reciprocated. Ten years later, she can safely revise two of those constants. She’s a sexy, self-confident woman, more than woman enough to seduce a former high school football player. She doesn’t spare a thought for that turkey Peter…until she sees him at the reunion.

My, how he’s grown!

Peter never cared that he and Winnie were the class nerds. So they were smart. So they didn’t have dates. Big deal. Now they’re both smart and successful. She was always his fantasy girl, and he’s decided to make a few of his own dreams come true…in the most carnal way possible.

All he has to do is convince her he’s graduated—with honors—from dud to stud.

Warning: This title contains explicit sexuality, bad dancing and man-on-door violence.

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I got two exclamation points in the blurb. Frankly, I was surprised. I wasn't surprised!!! because I am not allowed, but I was surprised. I'm also supposed to work on my schizophrenic approach to the "toward" / "towards" conundrum and write the sequel to Survival of the Fairest faster; we'll see how much progress I make towardstoward those goals in October.

More details--the release date for WSD is December 22, 2009, so if you need to get yourself something hot and funny for the holidays and the famed stripper duo of Santa and Rudolph are booked, you could do worse than What She Deserves.

Jody W.
www.jodywallace.com * www.meankitty.com