Today's guest: Cathy Yardley
Why we love her: We've been fans since we read her non-fiction book, Will Write for Shoes.
Her latest: Temping is Hell
The scoop on it: WORST. JOB. EVER. Kate O'Hara can't wait until this temp assignment is over. The woman who hired her is a psychotic pageant queen, her coworkers are convicts-turned-clerks, and it's so boringly corporate it makes her skin crawl. Even her sexy-as-sin boss, famed billionaire Thomas Kestrel, isn't enticement enough to keep her there. Once she makes enough to pay off her bills, she's out. Or so she thinks...
WHAT THE HELL? Next thing she knows, she's accidentally signed over her soul. Literally. And she's discovered Thomas's real mission: to kill thirteen bad guys in one year, in order to get his—now his and Kate’s—souls back.
IT'S NOT JUST A JOB. IT'S A MISADVENTURE. From learning to boost the morale of some paper-pushing demons to navigating her way through blood-red tape, Kate has to work closely with her super-hot supervisor and get her flaky act together, before somebody clocks her out—permanently!
Our thoughts: Such a fun and entertaining read! A perfect book for a cold, winter day!
Giveaway: 5 e-copies! Just leave a comment to be entered to win. We'll select the winners after 12pm PST on Sunday, March 3rd.
Where you can read more about Cathy: Her website, Twitter and Facebook.
CHICK LIT IS NOT DEAD PRESENTS...CATHY YARDLEY'S 5 BEST EVERS
BEST SONG: I think it’s got to be Block Rockin’ Beats, by the Chemical Brothers. It reminds me of my club days, in a good way – and it’s now something I can rock out to with my six year old son.
BEST BOOK: Ever read the quote by Neil Gaiman, who says (I’m paraphrasing) that choosing a favorite novel is like choosing which limb you’d most like not to lose? Still, if I’m going to say one – I’m still going to cheat! It’d be a series: specifically the Dresden Files series, by Jim Butcher. A little bit of a slow start, but by the time he hit the fourth book, SUMMER KNIGHT, I was sunk. Now, I rush out to buy them in hardback, muttering “My precious! My precious!” and stroking the dust jacket. The guy is frickin’ brilliant. He’s still unfolding a story/series arc, fourteen stories out, and you let him. He’s still developing characters, still raising stakes, still introducing new information while keeping old characters lively.
Genius. Jim Butcher is my homeboy. He’s also the main reason I decided to match my chick lit voice to Urban Fantasy in my latest novel, TEMPING IS HELL.
BEST MOVIE: The Avengers. It takes all the love I have for Joss Whedon, and mashes it up with my adoration for Marvel comics. It’s heaven.
BEST MOMENT: Part of me feels like I should say the birth of my son, but I’ll be honest – that was a twenty-four-hour drug addled thrill ride of doom, and while funny in retrospect, not so much “yeah, that’s my favorite! I’d do that again in a hot second!” (As in prescribed drugs. Wait… okay, I’m not helping my case here.)
Anyhow, my favorite life moment would probably be when I moved to Seattle – which is funny, since it was such a tiny moment. I was standing in the kitchen with my husband, it was midnight or so on our first night in the new house, and I just felt this moment of yes, here, I am finally home. Like I’d spent thirty-five years to finally find out where I was supposed to be.
BEST ADVICE: My grandmother used to always say “Don’t go to hell for a quarter.” Apparently she meant “don’t get in trouble over something stupid” but my brother and I always took it as “if you’re going to be stupid, be epic in your stupidity.” As a result, I have quite often found myself in some, shall we say, epic situations. :D
Thanks, Cathy!