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Aug 02, 2021 4:21 am
College Hockey Romance on Sale!
💞Hello my wonderful reader friends!
I have a quick $0.99 special on a hot college hockey romance for you starting today until Thursday, August 5th! Bad Man on Campus is an intense second chance romance story.💞 See the book details below!
Ongoing Excitement:
NEW Episode #4 is out now on my Kindle Vella college romance, I Want to Know What Love Is, an age-gap older forbidden woman story. See the details below!
At SQ's House -
Actually, recipe is a strong word for what we're following.
Last week, my husband's friend told him they make pulled pork with coca-cola and I said, how about root beer? We thought it sounded interesting, so we impulsively jumped on it. By the time we got back from the store with our ingredients, we had two different rubs and some crazy label barbeque sauce neither of us ever heard of--but it looked good--called Rufus Teague Made Some Sauce - Smoky Apple.
Then my husband is looking at the bowl of fruit on our table and says, "I bet oranges would be good with pulled pork."
So this morning he got up before six am--I'm not sure exactly what time because I was sleeping and he didn't wake me (he had to do it himself because he's now obsessed with pulled pork)--and after adding brown sugar to the rub because some recipes on google mentioned it, and also some fresh basil because I picked some yesterday from our garden, he put everything together in the crock pot.
So now we're having root beer-orange-crazy rub with brown sugar, basil and Rufus Teague sauce pulled pork.
To be honest, though, it smells heavenly!
I'll let you know next week how it turned out.💜
What Am I Reading? This week I'm listening to The Cellist by Daniel Silva, an international thriller, an action break from romances. 😮😲
How about you? What do you think of thrillers?
If you need recs for new reads, make sure you check out the romance reading deal at the bottom!
What You Get in This Newsletter:
➜➜ SQ's Featured Book Special: Bad Man on Campus - $0.99 Until Thursday, August 5th!
➜➜ SQ's NEW Kindle Vella Story: Episode 4 Now Available! I Want to Know What Love Is - Try it for FREE!
➜➜ Featured REVIEW: Hot Shot Running Back!
➜➜ Exclusive Excerpt #2 from He Has a Baby - a single dad hockey romance! In the Irresistible Hot Single Daddies set available for pre-order!
➜➜ Book Fairs & Sales!
➜➜ My warm appreciation for your support 💞
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✍️My Writing Progress
2021 so far: 304,576 words, 3 Novels, 1.3 Novellas
2021 Goal: 515,000 words, 6 Novels, 2 Novellas
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Stephanie Queen Special Sale!
"Glory and Kace...My heart. Their story is tragic and magical. What the two of them have to work through to make it to the other side is inspiring. I loved seeing the path they took. This book was a delightful surprise."
--AwesomelyAmber, Amazon Review
$.99 For a LIMITED TIME
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KINDLE VELLA Story: Episode #4 Available Now!
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
by Stephanie Queen
Episode #5 in I Want to Know What Love Is will be releasing this week.
I'd really appreciate your feedback. If you enjoy the story, please click on the thumbs up!
This Kindle Vella story will be the first to kick off my new Big Men on Campus spin-off series, St. Paul U Players, late this year.
💜 A Special Thanks to Jess Reynolds for providing the name of Jasper Hightower to the Offensive Lineman in this story.
Jess will be acknowledged in the Kindle Vella story and also in the novel when it's released in November. Jess will also receive a $5 Amazon gift Certificate. 💜
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Featured Review: Hot Shot Running Back
✯✯✯✯✯ So Intense
"Izzy is George's kryptonite and the only one that can make him see reason and finally take a good look at himself. She is the girl behind the saying, "behind every good man is an amazing woman." She is George's one. Love the intensity of the story and the characters as well."
--Baby girl, Amazon Reviewer
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Exclusive Excerpt #2 from He Has a Baby!
Warning: MATURE CONTENT! 🔥 🔥🔥🔥
“You’re late,” Zoey says. She has a drink waiting for me. Something on ice. I walk inside the unfamiliar townhouse, trying not to feel the way she makes me feel, like we’re playing house. “Chelsea told me they kept you for a press conference, the big introduction. How'd it go?”
“Fuck that. How did it go here?” I take the drink from her hand and put it down on the kitchen island as I walk through the open space. “Where’s Lizette?” The minute I stepped outside the rink, Lizette was front and center on my mind. It was a struggle to not call on my way home to ask about my baby girl, but it’s only a ten-minute drive and I didn’t want to come off as a douche. So much for that.
But Zoey smiles and I get taken in by the brilliance of it, the pure pleasure of it.
“She’s napping. I didn’t realize you’d be this late.” She shrugs her apology as if it’s her fault. “Do you want me to wake her?”
“No. I’ll wake her if I need to.” I sound like a possessive dickhead, but I can’t help it. She laughs.
“Of course you will. You’re her daddy, her absolute favorite person in the world.” The knot of tension I didn’t know I had winding across my shoulders eases up and my mouth ticks up at the corners.
“You’re good at this,” I say. “I mean at knowing exactly what to say to an anxious parent. Maybe you should take up nannying professionally.”
She shakes her head. “No, I think the next baby I take care of will be my own.” Her smile falters. “I mean someday. Not necessarily any time soon.” She runs her multi-ringed fingers through her great mane of lush golden hair and I wonder what it feels like, what it would look like splayed out on a pillow—
Fuck. I turn away from her and go to the refrigerator and take out a bottle of Gatorade. I managed to arrange for regular grocery deliveries in my spare time since I arrived, so at least my fridge is stocked.
“So things went well?”
“Amazing. Lizette is a living doll. But you already know that. We went for a walk to the Boston Common.” She stops and looks down. “It was a good day. She gave me no problems.”
“What is it you’re not telling me?” Her face is like an open book and I can see why the camera loves her, why she’s a successful model. It’s not only her beauty—which is a fucking triple hat trick—it’s about her expressiveness. Her authentic emotions show at all times. She’s shockingly real.
She lifts her chin, pulls back her shoulders and looks me in the eye. “We ran into some… people who took pictures. They recognized me.” She pauses, but I know she’s not finished. She licks her lips, those luscious lips and I suppress my urge to go to her and bite them, to suck them into my mouth. Instead, I take a step back, to the other side of the island to hide because my dick wants the whole world’s attention now as it grows and twitches with impatience.
“What else?” I ask, keeping my voice calm and modulated. I’m not sure which has me more on edge, waiting for what she’s going to say next or having to hide my inappropriate fucking erection.
“They asked questions. But they didn’t listen to my answers exactly. I think they may have leapt to conclusions.”
“Spell it out, Zoey. What conclusions are you talking about?”
“They may think Lizette is our baby.”
“Our baby?”
“Yes. As in I’m the momma and you’re the daddy.” She looks so pained I almost want to smile because her concern charms me, makes me want to caress and comfort her. But of course I don’t because I have no standing. She’s not my baby mama.
“Shit.” The reality hits me. “You told them Lizette is my baby?”
She nods, her eyes big and beautiful and apologetic. “I didn’t realize—”
“So now they think we’re an item?”
“I’m afraid they might think we’re more than an item. When I last checked my social media accounts—”
“Your social media accounts?” I sound like an idiot parrot, but I can’t help it. The repercussions of having a fucking ex-super model for a nanny keep rolling out one after another like thunder booming in an endless summer storm.
Coming soon in the anthology Irresistible Hot Single Daddies. Pre-Order Now!
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Exciting NEXT Book in the BMOC series! Release Date September 26th:
Notorious Man on Campus
A broken boy faces his worst nightmare, his enemy, an irresistible forbidden girl.
She's the one responsible for almost tearing his family apart, for the rift between Brick and his older brother and father.
Somehow the idea that he can redeem himself and fix the rift in his family got all wrapped up in him being a football star and making it to the pros.
But it's all in jeopardy now, his shot at the pros and at redeeming himself with his brother and father, because Nyla is that girl, the one he has to hate so he can stay away from her--while they live under the same roof for his entire senior year...
I shouldn't be so excited about a book I've barely started writing, but I am!!
This one is going to be epic. It's a classic bad boy, enemies to lovers romance with a deep dark secret about what makes this bad boy, Brick, so broken and so untrusting of women--especially of her, Nyla Rhoades.
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