Martinis with Mom

Martinis With Mom is the only book I’ve written with a co-writer. Lori and I are a great team but Lori and her husband still run a very busy gallery and framing store in North Carolina and she doesn’t have the time to dedicate to our writing any longer. That’s why it took us 5 years to get to the end of Martinis With Mom! 

Well, that and the wine.  

The book actually started out quite differently from where it ended up. Jessie and Nicole were actually Frankie and Jonny. They had a brother they didn’t know about at the beginning of the story, and there were so many other quirks that I can’t even list them. We got rid of most of those early ideas as the book evolved into what it is today. 

It was our first foray together into a novel. I’d written several romances and Lori wrote for a magazine. We decided to pool our talents to see where it went and I have to tell you – it was the most fun I’ve ever had writing and I guarantee Lori would tell you the same thing! (We probably could have finished the book in 3 years were it not for the wine.) 

We’d write awhile then drink some wine, finish the book then celebrate with wine, re-write, revise and add wine for inspiration, polish the story and polish off the wine, and 5 years later, Voila! We had a book.  

Martinis with Mom is about two sisters who haven’t had much to do with each other since they were teens. Jessie is the down-to-earth sister that has her own personal struggles with romance. Nicole is the flamboyant drama queen that doesn’t understand Jessie’s need to stay in South Carolina. 
Thrown together for a year after the death of their mom, the sisters must find a way to make a go of it in order to inherit the millions their mother leaves them.  

It’s a fun book and I hope you’ll enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it – and don’t forget the wine. 

Martinis with Mom and Martinis at the Ranch are available on Amazon, Kindle, and Ibooks. 
Watch for An Unacceptable Truth to be released very soon on Amazon, Kindle, and Ibooks.
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