Donna Simonetta Author of A Sweeter Spot
Happy holidays to all! Give a big welcome to Donna Simonetta, author of A Sweeter Spot. Have a seat and grab an insulated mug. I’ve got hot chocolate, hot cider and coffee. Choose your pot, they’re labeled. Pick your choice of a Snicker-doodle, Chocolate Chip or Peanut butter cookie from the plate. Yep, I baked them myself. Lets talk a little with Donna then see what A Sweeter Spot is all about. Thanks for joining us!
Donna, tell us something no one knows about you.
I write contemporary romance with heart, humor, and a little steaminess. A native New Englander, I now live in Maryland with my husband, who is my real-life romance hero. I’m kind of an open-book, so I don’t know that there’s much that NO ONE knows about me––lol!––hmm…I guess, I love to travel by train, and greatly prefer it to flying.
Speed Round (one word only answer): Yep, I know torture for a writer!<evil laugh>
Favorite movie: Bringing Up Baby
Favorite book: The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer
Last book read: Southern Spirits by Angie Fox
Favorite color: Purple
Stilettos or flipflops: Flipflops
Coffee or tea: Coffee
Ebook or audiobook or paperback: ANY book!
Pencil or pen: Pen
Favorite song: Carey by Joni Mitchell
Streak or not: Not
Favorite dessert: Cake
Favorite junk food: Potato Chips
Favorite thing to do to relax: Read
Champagne or gin: Champagne
Paranormal or Historical: Both
Wonder Woman or Top Model: Wonder Woman
Favorite TV show: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Hot or cold: Hot
POV: 3rd person
I’d die if I don’t have: Phone
Review or Not: Review
Thanks so much for answers the questions, even though you could help yourself in using more than one word. Curse of a writer! LOL How I love to make them try!
You can find Donna at the social media spots below:
https://www.facebook.com/donnasimonettaauthor
https://twitter.com/donna_simonetta
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15422407.Donna_Simonetta
https://www.amazon.com/Donna-Simonetta/e/B06X415TWW/
https://www.bookbub.com/authors/donna-simonetta
What’s A Sweeter Spot all about?
Magda knows a 28-year-old shouldn’t run away from home, but Rivers Bend is the ideal escape. Helping out her best friend will get her away from her uber-wealthy, controlling grandmother and duplicitous ex. She doesn’t expect the quirky little town to feel so much like home. Add in hotter-than-the-sun Jeff and his daughter, and leaving seems as unthinkable as it is inevitable.
Raising Sam alone, Jeff knew he wanted her to grow up in his supportive hometown. The arrival of a feisty new tenant sends Jeff’s world spinning. Magda fills a void in his life that he’d like to make permanent.
Will love triumph over the most powerful woman in the country, and can they figure out how to make this happy-for-now in Rivers Bend into their happy-ever-after?
GIve us a peek between the pages of A Sweeter Spot.
An errant curl had escaped her grandmother- approved French Twist, and she tucked it behind her ear. She smiled and said, “I am. I’m Magda Horvath. Bethanne and her family are the only ones who call me Maggie. That’s how I know you are who you say you are. Even without the photo I.D.” She picked up the wallet and tossed it to him. He caught it one-handed and tucked it into the rear pocket of his shorts.
“Sorry. Do you prefer being called Magda?”
She rolled her eyes. “As long as you don’t call me Elizabeth, or any of its corresponding nicknames, I don’t really care.”
“Okay,” he drew out the word. “I don’t know why I would ever call you Elizabeth, but since it means that much to you, I’ll be sure I don’t. How about I go with Maggie? You look like a Maggie to me.”
He squatted and held out his hand to the dog. “Who’s this little cutie?”
Maggie readied herself to intervene in case Petunia snapped, as she sometimes did with strange men. “Oh! Don’t do that. She doesn’t like…” She abruptly stopped talking as Petunia walked to Jeff, sniffed his hand, and wagged.
Jeff seemed to realize the wagging was an invitation to pet her, and he scratched Petunia behind her ears. The little dog wagged so hard that Maggie was afraid her back end was going to break off, and her one eye was closed in bliss. As Magda watched her dog bask in Jeff’s attention, she had no doubt he could use those big hands to bring any woman to a state of bliss.
When he smiled up at her, his eyes crinkled, and Maggie could swear her heart stopped for a moment. He wasn’t handsome in the way Pierce was—all delicate bone structure and whippet thin. Combined with his baby-fine blond hair, Pierce was almost pretty. Jeff was all man. Tall and muscular with his messy brown hair that looked in serious need of a cut. He wore a sloppy T-shirt and olive colored cargo shorts, but the baggy clothes did nothing to hide the hard body underneath. His nose was just a little too big and a tad crooked, as though it had been broken. His tan skin stretched across strong cheekbones, but it wasn’t the kind of orange tan you got in a booth. It was the tan of a man who spent a lot of time outdoors. But it was those gray eyes, with the little laugh lines around them that really drew her to him. They were full of intelligence and kindness—now that he knew she wasn’t a trespasser.
“She doesn’t like what?”
Magda shook her head in amazement, “Men. She’d been abused before I got her, and she doesn’t usually like men.”
He grinned as the dog rolled on her back to reveal her belly for rubbing. He obliged, and winked at Magda. “Maybe she’s just been around the wrong men.”
Her and me both. Magda felt her knees go weak at his playful expression. Cold fish, indeed! Watching this man pet her dog had her hot enough to melt the zipper on her skirt.
Buy links.
Amazon, TWRP, Barnes & Noble, Amazon UK, and Kobo,
Author Links:
https://www.facebook.com/donnasimonettaauthor
https://twitter.com/donna_simonetta
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15422407.Donna_Simonetta
https://www.amazon.com/Donna-Simonetta/e/B06X415TWW/
https://www.bookbub.com/authors/donna-simonetta
It was wonderful having you with us today. Please feel free to stop by anytime. Good Luck with A Sweeter Spot! Have a safe and happy Holiday Season!
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Posted in Authors' Secrets Blog and tagged A Sweeter Spot, Contemporary, Donna Simonella, Romance by Tena Stetler with 26 comments.
It was REALLY hard to try to answer in just one word. I had a little something to say about every single question.
Thanks for letting me visit today to help spread the word about the 99 cent sale of A Sweeter Spot!
Happy Holidays to you, Tena!
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Donna
That’s why the speed round is some much fun! Happy to spread the word. Happy Holidays to you!
LOVELOVELOVE Bringing Up Baby!!! all those Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn movies were the best.Quick, witty dialgue, double entendres, lots of heat!!! I knew we were sisters from another mister!!!
Happy Holidays.
We are kindred spirits, Peggy! Only a little more earthy and Northeastern US woman than that phrase normally invokes! Hahaha! I love those movies too! I was torn between the Philadelphia Story and Bringing Up Baby. Love Katharine Hepburn…another Connecticut Yankee like me (and Magda, in A Sweeter Spot!)
Thanks for all your support in my sale!
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Best of luck with your sale! Tis the season for sales. LOL
Hey peggy! Thanks for stopping by!
Love finding out more about my author friends. Good luck with the sale!
Me too! I always love reading other people’s answers to the Speed Round interview, but it was hard…there is an unspoken story with every one of those answers above!
Thanks for all your support, Jennifer. And btw, people, I’m also over on Jennifer’s blog today:
http://jenniferwilck.blogspot.com
Happy Holidays Jennifer! Thanks for coming by!
Loved getting to know you better, Donna. I’m definitely a “Historical” and “Paranormal” gal, too. All the best with your sale.
Hey Mary, thanks for coming by! Merry Christmas, can you believe its only 9 days to Christmas?
Hi, Mary! I love the historical and fantasy elements in your books! Thanks for stopping by today! Happy holidays!
Great answers, Donna! I love historical and paranormal too. I also love Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, in that movie and in so many other classics. Good luck with the sale!
Thanks Judith for stopping by!
We have very similar taste in movies, Judith! Thanks for visiting today!
I enjoyed this interview…very interesting. The speed round is fun to answer and read. Good luck with your release.
Thanks so much, CB!
What is it that makes us love small towns? Everybody knowing everyone else can be a plus–unless you’re the black sheep and the target of negative arrows. Being supportive is huge. Even if you’re impaled with all those negative arrows, small towns pull together in a crisis.
I grew up in a small town, and I couldn’t escape fast enough. However, as I’ve “seasoned,” I can look back fondly and be grateful for the stability and support my small town gave me. And, yes, I write about small towns!
Rivers Bend sounds like an awesome small town for a romance to flourish.
It may be the fantasy of a small town that appeals to me, Sandy! I’m really introverted, so I probably would hate everyone always being in your business if I lived in one! Hahaha! Although we jokingly call our little block here in the city “Mayberry”, because it’s a small, dead-end street, and we all know each other! Thanks for coming today!
Sandy. I am a city girl but always wished to have grown up in a small town. I had to much fun writing about Lobster Cove. I agree River’s Bend sounds wonderful. Thanks for stopping by! Happy Holidays!
Flip flops all the way Donna! Your new book sounds awesome! Good luck on your promotions.
My stiletto days are long past, Claire! Flip flops women, UNITE! Now, if only I lived somewhere warm and beachy, where I could where them year-round! You live in CA, don’t you? I hope you’re nowhere near those terrifying fires.
Thanks for all your support!
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Hey Claire! Glad you stopped by. I think the speed round is so much fun. Love the answers.
I love to travel by train too, after that it’s driving, flying and never ever a cruise. It’s so good to learn more about you Donna!
Good luck with your sale.
A cruise seems like too many people in too small a space to me! But, I’m a hermit. Hahaha!
Thank you for stopping by today, Charlotte! I appreciate your support!
Hey Charlotte! Thank you for stopping by. Flying makes me nervous. Like driving. LOL