#MidWeekTease where Lottie is still very grotty

Welcome to this week's #MidWeekTease


Which is taken from my next #romcom, working title The Transformation of Lottie Botte, and due out next year...

Really excited about this one. We met Lottie in New Beginnings for Bryony Bennett where to put it politely she is not very nice. Or to be honest and not so polite, a right old bitch.

Now she's had a shock and is trying to turn over a new leaf. Which is easier than it sounds...



And just to give you an idea...


She hoped nobody recognised her.
How dare they?
The caption on the picture was as humiliating as the photo itself.
Local paper?
Local load of nothing better to do than embarrass upright citizens who knew—normally—how to comport themselves.
And it wasn’t my fault.
The horrendous headline.
“Lottie shows her Bottie.”
Then that awful picture of her in her underwear with her dress ripped and caught on a nail...
And the even worse stupid ditty. For goodness sake, it wasn’t even grammatically correct.
“Lottie Botte,
Showed a lot.
Ripped her dress on a nail,
Tugged to no avail.
The dress stayed caught,
Lottie was fraught.
And then it tore.
She turned scarlet, swore and swore.
Her holdy-in knickers went from bust to thigh.
Showing them off, might explain why.”
The scandal sheet Dario, her brother worked for. He must have known, and hadn’t thought to warn her. Or even threaten the journalists and make them pull the article. If Dario, had been anywhere in the vicinity she’d give him a piece of her mind. Probably better for him he wasn’t, Lottie could strip leather with her sarcasm if she put her mind to it. Or without much thought when she really tried.
The bugger. What happened to family solidarity?
Never mind she wasn’t exactly on friendly terms with Dario, not since he met the woman Lottie blamed for everything, but that wasn’t the point. He should have done something. It reflected badly on their family, didn’t it?
She refused to admit that in actual fact their family name—Monk—wasn’t mentioned, that wasn’t the point. He had done nothing about the article, or warn her.
Lottie glanced around. No one paid the slightest interest to her. Why would they? She didn’t usually frequent this supermarket—too downmarket for her—and she was dressed as unlike her normal attire as possible. Sniggering, nudging, locals had brought her to this.
And Bryony Bennett of course.


Hope that whets your appetite...

Catch all the other #MidWeekTease posts here

Enjoy your reading,

love Katy xx

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

#MidWeekTease Where new beginnings are almost about to happen

Image
Last tease from New Beginnings for Bryony Bennett (Next week I'll tease you with Lottie...Or Amanda...or... wink ) (Bryony is moving from the city to the countryside) The last lap - a tiny track - was not really designed for overloaded geriatric sports cars that were fondly called Milly. Named after her godmother, who had said the vehicle was as creaky as she was, the car protested with every ill-used spring grating like a fingernail on a chalkboard. Poor thing, it sounded as aching as her back felt. Long journeys in clapped out cars, especially one towing a trainer—albeit a small one—weren’t pleasant, but it was all she had. Hold on, I can buy a new one now. Not a sports car though. Stupid though it sounded, it would be like a slap in the face to Milly…or was that a thump on the bonnet? Either way, this lane, all half a mile of ruts and furrows, wasn’t suitable for much less than a four by four, or one of those things that had its chassis jacke
Read more

#MidWeekTease with a green van and an arsy man

Image
time to tease... It's so much fun, starting a new direction and still being able to hold onto the old. It's only a week now until my first ever Katy book is published, and I'm both excited and apprehensive. I mean I love it, and the previews have garnered some great reviews, but... finger's crossed. anyhow... it's up for preorder on Amazon, if you want to be one of the first to read it. the blurb. .. When Bryony Bennett’s godmother dies and leaves her a huge inheritance, Bryony jumps at the chance to get away from it all and start again. She packs up her life and moves into the (almost) idyllic Cliff Cottage…only to find that starting over is never quite as simple as you imagine. Faced with grumpy neighbours, hostile locals and more than her fair share of disasters, Bryony embarks on a mission to make sure her new life is everything she wants it to be…but will she ever win over the locals and truly be happy in her new life?  ~~~~~ and you
Read more

#MidWeekTease with a lady who wonders what's going on...

Image
Hi everyone,  I'm back in the groove again, and he's the first of what I intend to be regular posts. It's not easy finding a passage very week when you've only got one book out. New Beginnings for Bryony Bennett, and it's available from Amazon  here   (Thought I'd sneak that in.) However book two, working title, The Transformation of Lottie Botte is in edits and  my third book,  working title Maisie makes a move (or some such thing) had begun to take shape. so this week I'll give you a wee snippet from Maisie... Maisie saw her class of five year olds into the dinner hall, checked the contents of her purse and swore under her breath. Thirty three pence wouldn’t get her far. She’d started out with a tenner and change in her purse, with the intention of getting some cash on her way home. Only to be met by Maria, the school secretary with a cheery, ‘lottery money due. Tenner this week, tenner next.’ She’d handed the
Read more