Monday, January 30, 2017

Blurb Blitz w/Giveaway: Paging Dr. Cupid by Nancy Fraser



Paging Dr. Cupid
by Nancy Fraser
GENRE: Vintage (1960s) Historical

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Nancy Fraser will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner and a digital copy of Only Yours (prelude to Paging Dr. Cupid) to two randomly drawn winners via rafflecopter during the tour. Please visit GoddessFish.com to follow the tour, remember the more you comment better your chances on winning.

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BLURB:

Newly appointed Chief of Emergency Medicine Dr. Garrett Langley can't seem to find a secretary to keep up with his demands. His love life isn’t going so well, either. He recently lost his long-time girlfriend to his older brother and saw a workplace romance end in disaster, leaving him with a busy career but no love life.

Piano prodigy Grace Valentyne forfeited the second half of her Julliard scholarship to come home to California and care for her mother. Now, with her mother gone, she must find a job in order to pay for the remainder of her education. When offered the opportunity to work for the physician nicknamed Dr. Cupid, she jumps at the chance.

Grace soon finds herself in over her head—and not just with the office equipment. But falling for the boss won’t get her back to Julliard. She needs to keep her focus and not let the sexy doctor derail her professional goals.

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Excerpt:

Santa Rosa, CA, January 1967

A half-hour later Grace tossed back the last mouthful of lukewarm coffee and closed the cover on the first of two instruction manuals. “Okay, new electric beast, let’s see what you can do.”

Tentatively, she rolled a piece of blank paper into place and poked at the stationery carriage. When she pressed the switch on the side of machine, the motor hummed to life. She’d barely placed her hands on the keyboard when the font ball began spinning wildly and spitting out the letter ‘j’ across the width of the page. Her heart hammered inside her chest in perfect time with the tiny metal device.

Jerking her hands back from the keyboard, she reached for the power button and flipped it to the ‘off’ position then drew a breath to calm her racing pulse.

She reached for the second manual. Obviously, there was more she needed to know.

The second manual held no information regarding the typewriter but, rather, was a set of guidelines for the perfect secretary. “The perfect secretary does not turn in a letter that is less than letter perfect. She does not smudge her carbon copies. She does not gossip.”

Grace pressed her fingertips to her lips and fought back an outright laugh. Were it not for the daily rounds of gossip, she doubted the secretaries she’d met thus far would make it through their work day.

Tracing the next few items on the list with her fingertip, she lowered her voice and continued. “She does not bring personal affairs to the office. She does not watch the clock. She will inquire if there is any little thing she can do before saying goodbye for the day.”

Closing the second booklet, she set it aside. It all sounded like common sense to her.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Like most authors, Nancy Fraser began writing at an early age, usually on the walls and with crayons or, heaven forbid, permanent markers. Her love of writing often made her the English teacher’s pet, which, of course, resulted in a whole lot of teasing. Still, it was worth it.

Published in multiple genres, Nancy currently writes for four publishers. She has published twenty-two books in both full-length and novella format. In November 2016 Nancy celebrated twenty years as a published author and will release her 25th book in mid-2017.

When not writing (which is almost never), Nancy splits her free time between her five grandchildren. She’s also an avid traveler with Las Vegas being her favorite destination. Nancy lives in Atlantic Canada where she enjoys the relaxed pace and colorful people.

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32 comments:

  1. Congrats on the new book and good luck on the book tour!

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    1. Thank you Edgar. This one was written from personal experience (yes, I'm that old). I remember my first electric typewriter vividly. It scared the crap out of me. :-)

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  3. Congrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)

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  4. Congrats on the new book Nancy! What's new in your neck of the woods today?

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    1. Thanks Andra. It's actually sunny and mild here in Atlantic Canada this morning ... the kind of day that might pry me from my computer and my work-in-progress.

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    2. Well good for you! You need a break sometime. Me, I'm bundled up here in chilly DC (likely less chilly to you...but hey, I'm convinced you Canadians have ice in your veins).

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  5. Thank you so much for hosting my stop today. For those who'd like to get ahead of the rush and read the first book in this two book series, ONLY YOURS, my publisher The Wild Rose Press has put it on sale for 40% off through Valentine's Day!

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  6. It just now dawned on me that my blurb doesn't include the timeline. This is a vintage story set in 1967 ... my favorite time period.

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    1. You're most welcome, Rita. Thanks so much for stopping by.

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  8. Great excerpt. Sounds like a really fun read. Can't wait to read.

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  9. Oh my, I remember my first encounter with an electric typewriter! It was like something possessed!

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    1. I agree. I think anyone (like me) who learned on a manual was scared to death of those electric models. Especially the ones with the font balls.

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  10. Great post. Thank you for hosting. I hope your book is a success. Bernie W BWallace1980(at)hotmail(d0t)com

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    1. Emily, it was definite that. AND it includes a recipe at the back, like a lot of my vintage-era books.

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    1. Thank you, Victoria. How can you not have fun writing the 1960s!

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    1. Patty,

      This is only my third cartoon cover and I love it too. I've been opting for the mood for my vintage novellas.

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    1. Thank you, Emily. Originally my heroine was blonde but then I received my cover half-way through edits so I went back and changed her hair color!

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  15. I stopped by to share the post. Have a good night.

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  16. Thanks for the great giveaway!
    I would relly like to read this book!

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