Weekend treats like ice cream and fictional near death experiences❣️

Published: Fri, 07/16/21

Dear Reader,

This week was the calm after the book launch storm. To celebrate and to thank them for their continued hospitality, I took Ms Melinda, Mr Melinda, and myself off for a day of fun and frivolity on Saturday. We had a leisurely brunch at Canopy Road Cafe. Then we went back to Hourglass Escape Rooms and outsmarted a Victorian serial killer. In a particularly nice touch, I narrowly escaped death!

See the photographic evidence below...

Me, inhaling diet coke, on one of our shopping break.

(Look carefully at the headline on that paper and imagine the creeped out shiver that went through me when I found it.)

And then we went for ice cream at Lofty Pursuits, the local ice cream parlor. There are no photos of the three of us eating said ice cream because, honestly, who stops eating ice cream long enough to take a photograph?! Not Ms Melinda, Mr Melinda, or me!

By the way, if you're ever in the vicinity of Tallahassee and are looking for an ice cream rec, the Cherry Oblivion flavor at Lofty Pursuits ice cream parlor is divine. Ms Melinda and I both adore it. Mr Melinda swears by the Banana Cream Pie flavor, but his taste buds have been ruled highly suspect.

And then, triumphant and replete, we returned home to be scolded by the cats. They were only pacified by lots of petting and many treats.

(Her haughty highness demanding cuddles upon our return.)

All in all, an excellent Saturday! Anyone else got any ice cream flavor recs to share?

XoXo,

Edwina

BOOK NEWS

This week, I finished outlining The Quiet Prince, which is going to be Book 3 in The Prince of Manhattan series. This outline was more of a struggle than either The Wild Prince or The Ice Prince. It's the story of the second oldest Prince brother, Ash, and I was surprised to find that he's actually been in love for years.

The process of getting to know this particular couple has been really interesting. They're both brilliant and intensely loyal and met in high school. Cue a misunderstanding, a lot of hurt feelings, and some really poor emotional communication (a failing of a lot of highly cerebral people, I've noticed) and there's a second-chance romance I'm dying to tell you.

The fairytale influence for this one is Sleeping Beauty. I didn't realize it at the time I was building this series, but Sleeping Beauty is a really passive fairytale. No heroine of mine is just going to lie there and be rescued. So I've taken a bit... okay, a lot of liberties with the source material. But the eagle-eyed fairytale enthusiast will be able to spot a the Sleeping Beauty Easter Eggs when I'm finished... I hope, anyway!

In any case, it's shaping up to be a pretty fun ride. And just as an added bonus, a certain wedding is going to play a major part in the story. Come for the second-chance romance and stay to see Cameron and Cyn get hitched.

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