CHERRY PIE CURE
Author: M. Jane Colette
Publisher: GENRES were made to be BROKEN (indie)
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Word
Count: 50,000 (45,000 novella + 5,000 words bonus material)
Genres/Categories: Contemporary
romance, rom-com, chick lit with bite
A woman scorned. A blog. An outrageously sexy stock boy.
A tribe of strange Internet friends. Flying packages of sex toys. And, a
to-die-for cherry pie recipe.
When Susan discovers her husband of twenty-two years is
cheating on her, she is sure her life is over. And she thinks her friend
Marcella’s advice that she work through her feelings in a blog is stupid. She
just wants to sit on the couch in her ex’s old bathrobe, feel sorry for herself,
and chain-smoke. But her growing blogging tribe and a delectable (“OMFG
how old is he?”) real life stranger have other plans for her… if Susan’s brave
enough to embrace them.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Susan as The Heroine. Baker extraordinaire, yoga-hater,
Luddite, and an innocent prude. “I don’t think an exercise routine developed by
half-starved men in India is particularly suitable to short, curvy, booby white
women. My breasts get in the way of everything. OMG, I just typed breasts. How
do I delete this post?”
Marcella as Her Best Friend. Entrepreneur, musician
and happily divorced self-proclaimed “slut” who has an opinion on everything
and a solution to everyone’s problems except her own. “Look, Susan, do what you
want, but either keep on with the blog or go sleep with a twenty-five-year-old
boy. Do you want to be a pathetic blob of goo in your cheating husband’s
bathrobe?”
Cody and Tyler as Her Adult Sons. “What were you
thinking, Mom?” “Jesus, how old is he, Mom?” “Have you no pride, Mom?” “Oh-my-god-what’s-wrong-with-you,
Mom?”
Nika as Cody’s Maybe-Maybe-Not Girlfriend. “I’m
totally trolling Tinder for Persian guys now. Just so you know, Mama Susan.”
sugar&spice76 as Susan’s First Fan. “Honey, we’re
not strangers anymore. We’re your strange Internet friends. We’re all mothers,
and we all do the dirty sometimes, ok?”
FemmeFataleFun as the Sex Toy Peddler. “Smooches.
Everything in that care package is therapeutic, kitten!”
mommyshidinginthebathroom3 as The Token Mommy Blogger.
“Let her smoke, Marcella. It’s been six weeks. You can kick her ass about the
cigarettes in six months.”
ilikeherbooty-full as The Porn Blogger Who Won’t Go Away.
“Is this what women really talk about when men aren’t around, or are you doing
it all for me?
Caspian00XO as His Friend Who Hears About the Pie.
“Susan? Do I get pie now? I’m emailing you my address.”
Reza as Susan’s Love Interest. “This is my telephone
number. As soon as I leave, you will type it into your phone. And you will send
me a text. It will say, ‘Reza, this is Sooo-zaaaahn.’ If you don’t send me this
text, I will assume I offended you and will need to quit my job so I don’t
offend you again, so it is very important that you send this text. Yes,
Soo-zahn?”
with cameos by
John as The Cheating Husband, Jewel of The
Not-So-Spectacular-Boobs as The Other Woman, an assortment of lurkers, trolls,
spammers, “Internet idiots,” and casual visitors, Reza’s invisible roommates,
and The Lawyer.
a “MISTRESS OF HER OWN DOMAIN” novella
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
M. JANE COLETTE writes tragedy for people who
like to laugh, comedy for the melancholy, and erotica for women and
men who like their fantasies real. She believes rules and hearts were made
to be broken; ditto the constraints of genres.
Sign up for Jane’s love letter/newsletter-- ROUGH
DRAFT CONFESSIONS—and
visit her at mjanecolette.com. She also hangs out on Twitter & Instagram
as @mjanecolette, and on Facebook @mjanecolette2.
In addition to Cherry Pie Cure, she’s the author of
the (unconventional) romances Tell Me, an erotic romance for people who
like a little bit of angst with their hot sex, and Consequences (of
defensive adultery), an erotic tragedy (!) with a happy ending. Her
non-fiction work includes Rough Draft Confessions: not a guide to writing
and selling erotica and romance but full of inside insight anyway, a
collection of essays about writing dirty, the power of words, taboo
language, the freedoms and limitations of genre, fulfilling your creative
drive, and the business of writing.
