Friends in Books

I've been reading Uptempo, Down aloud with my mom, and while doing this the other day, I stopped myself quite a few times to say things like, "Isn't that funny? I put that in there because of this one time Buddy set me up with a guy she claimed looked like Hugh Grant and who in fact didn't look anything at all like Hugh Grant and it was pretty much the worst date of my life -- even worse than the date with the guy who only wanted to talk about grocery stores!" (The grocery store guy also gets a reference, in case you're wondering.)

Buddy will, of course, read the book and laugh when she gets to the Hugh Grant reference because Buddy ALWAYS reads my books.

However, the other thing I stopped and said quite a few times while reading aloud with my mom was, "I put that in there because [insert hilarity here] and isn't it weird to think that so-and-so will never know she made it into my book because she doesn't read?"

Let that be a lesson to you: there's a possibility you're already "fiction famous" and don't even know it.

(Also, if you have Amazon Prime and don't mind reading on a tablet/Kindle/etc., all of my titles are available for free. Just sayin'. 🙃)