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The entire Bootleg Springs Series is in audio production with the beautiful genius narrators Natalie Duke and Stephen Dexter! Claire Kingsley and Lucy are so excited! The clips from Whiskey Chaser have confirmed that Natalie Duke is the perfect Scarlett Bodine!

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Lucy announced today that the fabulous Erin Mallon and Sebastian York will be narrating the upcoming audiobook By a Thread! The audio is currently in pre-production, we’ll let you know when it’s available! Such exciting news, stay tuned for more updates!

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Here’s a teeny, tiny appetizer for you from the upcoming By a Thread (April 23, put it in your calendar!)…

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We were both quiet for a long beat. Him still gripping my wrist. Me still staring at him as if he’d just announced he had four testicles and dreamed of someday raising miniature donkeys.
“I wanted to clear the air,” he said, pressing on. “If Harry was picking up on something between us, then others will also. That’s not the kind of environment Label is. Not anymore.”
My brain was still wading through his speech. There was something real, something vulnerable in there, and I needed several uninterrupted days to process it all.
“Say something,” he demanded gruffly.
“Well, the first thing that comes to mind is: I look great naked,” I told him. The man put his head down on the table, and I almost laughed.
“Dammit. I knew it,” he said mournfully.

By a Thread (affectionately known as Grumpy Grump Face for several months) is a standalone, grumpy boss, forbidden relationship, slow burn, romantic comedy.

Coming to Amazon in ebook, paperback, and KindleUnlimited on April 23.

Because times are tough and money is tight, It will be on sale for $2.99. At 138,000 words, that works out to roughly $0.00002166 a word. A bargain!

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Against a cardinal. Yup. There is an all out assault against the Score household by a randy cardinal. So far Lucy has tried pictures of animals taped to her windows, an owl cookie jar set outside, and eating lunch outside on the patio.

This is Lucy’s latest update:

Cardinal update: I’m on to Plan W. I keep a spray bottle next to the door and every time I hear him peck his little face into the window, I run out and try to squirt him. So far it just makes him fly to the railing and give me the evil bird eye.

The bane of Lucy’s existence



This did nothing.



Neither did this.

Ever had this issue? Do you have any tips or tricks?

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Welcome to Fake Professor Lucy’s Life Hacks for Hermitting Amidst Chaos 101. (That title probably needs work) In my five years as a full-time author, I have achieved expert-level status in staying at home AND dealing with things that are terrible (though usually on a much smaller scale than what we’re currently dealing with. For instance, 1-star reviews and cat butts.

Please allow me to offer you my most helpful tips (that I only sometimes adhere to myself).

1. Build a structure. Not that chicken roost you’ve been meaning to put up in the backyard. I mean a loose schedule or a REALISTIC to do list of items for your day. This is the ONLY way I get crap done. I break my lists into Work, Home, and Personal. I try to make these lists the night before so I wake up with a plan already in place. (Helpful Hint: Don’t do what I do and decide you’re suddenly going to get up an hour early, write 8,000 words before noon, rearrange the laundry room, learn 100 signs in sign language, and teach Cleo to clean her own litter box in one day.)

2. Get some quality time. If you’re anything like me, this situation is aggressively stripping away all the things we thought were essential. If you’re hunkered down with your family, use this as an opportunity to have real conversations, to goof off together, to remind yourself of how lucky you are to have each other. (Helpful Hint: It doesn’t have to be eight hours of quality time. That would actually be quantity time, which is more annoying.)

3. Pencil in privacy. For those of you who suddenly find yourself surrounded by people in your own home, it’s also important to prioritize “me time” for each family member who needs it. You can attempt this in a couple of different ways. Have a “sanctuary” room that each person gets sole access to once a day. Or, like my brother and sister-in-law do, send the kids to their bedrooms for Quiet Hour, during which they aren’t allowed to ask for snacks.

4. Stay connected. Reach out when you feel like it. Video chat with family and friends. Give Zoom Happy Hours or Netflix Viewing Parties a try. Or check in with someone who lives alone. A neighbor. A relative. A stranger on Facebook (non-creepily, of course).

5. Don’t wear jeans. This tip is self-explanatory.

6. Give yourself permission to do nothing. This is a traumatic time on so many different levels. Don’t feel that you HAVE to get all of your house projects done or edit your inbox down to 0 or suddenly master 8th grade math. One of the most important things you can give yourself (and your family) is rest. It’s okay to sleep in. It’s okay to spend the day/weekend binging Parks & Rec episodes. It’s okay to take some down time after YEARS of being over-scheduled and under-rested. Rest is good for the soul and the immune system. Take the nap. Snooze the alarm. Burrito yourself in the blanket.

7. Ingest the happy. Okay. I’m definitely not saying begin binge drinking. And I’m not saying eat only deep-fried Twinkies. I’m also not not saying don’t drink or eat Twinkies (or maybe I am. I got confused by the double negative). What I AM saying is we are fueled by what we consume. This also applies to what we watch, listen to, and read. If you are following the news right now or drowning in negativity and just plain dumbness on social media, I highly encourage you to ALSO make sure you’re consuming beautiful, positive, happy things. Because as tough as this situation is, it has not erased baby giggles, sunrises, and fat puppies biting their own tails from this world. It is absolutely imperative that you give yourself the chance to be immersed in beautiful, happy things every single day. In fact, the worse your day is, the more important Tip # 7 is. So, cue up those sitcom re-runs. Make fart noises with your children. Curl up with your favorite happily ever after. Seek out the light, the happy, the funny. Because that is what fuels your spirit. That and alcohol and deep-fried Twinkies.

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Lucy got a little derailed writing her WIP (think Lucy-fied Stephanie Plum) so she started re-plotting! She told Tammy and I that she had to draw a diagram of who is getting shot at by whom! I can always tell when Lucy is excited about the book she’s writing, and I love getting some behind the scenes peeks at the process! Thankfully, the re-plotting worked and her current work in progress is back on schedule!

Old school plotting in a spiral notebook!




Who needs fancy white boards when you have yellow stick notes?

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As our lives shift significantly the past few days, we want to remind you, as Lucy mentioned in her newsletter,

“We’re in this together. And together, we can and will save the world.
When this is behind us, I have a feeling we’re all going to emerge with a greater sense of gratitude for things like hugs, teachers, going to the movies, sitting down in our favorite restaurants, happy hours, daycare, toilet paper, extended family dinners, full stocked grocery stores, libraries, cashiers, shelf-stockers, garbage services, health care professionals, retail workers, paychecks, insurance, shelf-stable foods, first responders, amusement parks, concerts, streaming services, and books.
We will be different. But we can be better.” – Lucy

While we practice safe social distancing and look for things to do inside, Team Lucy has put the bestselling Rock Bottom Girl on sale for its one year anniversary – .99 cents US/UK with a low whispersync price and it is on Kindle Unlimited for free!

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Almost two months after the release of Protecting What’s Mine, Chief Sexy Pants and Doc Dreamy are still heating up the Amazon charts! They’re hanging out in the top 50 with over 450 reviews!

I’m so proud of Lucy’s efforts to bring you this book. Lucy worried she might not be able to do justice to all the hard working first responders out there, so she created a Facebook group just for help getting all the details correct. I think she did okay, don’t you? My husband is a retired firefighter, and Lucy captured the life of a firefighter perfectly! Lucy loved Chief Lincoln Reed from the first moment she created Luke and Harper, and I think it shows that he’d been marinating in the back of her big brain for a couple years.

Haven’t read Protecting What’s mine yet? Here’s a snippet!

Between twisted metal and over broken glass, strangers helped strangers. Bystanders became heroes on someone else’s worst day. They fetched water bottles and corralled pets. Applied pressure to wounds, lent cell phones and shoulders. They offered strangers hard hugs and whispered promises that everything would be okay. 

A pretty young thing in a green dress gently cleaned blood from an elderly man’s face with a napkin while an EMT checked his vitals. The man’s wife clutched his hand to her chest. Silent tears tracked down her lined face. 

Linc didn’t care for the hero label when others applied it to him. He was trained for this. He had years of experience. He chose this profession. But the woman, probably on her way to meet a friend for lunch, hadn’t. The truck driver supporting a limping teenager and the teenage girl whispering jokes to the man on a stretcher? Those were the real heroes. 

Sigh. Wasn’t that great? Protecting What’s Mine is a stand alone, but best read after Pretend You’re Mine and Finally Mine. I call it the Benevolence Series! Linc, Mack, and Linc’s dog Sunshine will make your heart beat faster!

Joyce aka Lucy’s assistant/boss/wrangler

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Hello!  We wanted to introduce ourselves, you will be seeing more of Joyce (Lucy’s Assistant) and I (Lucy’s Admin) on Lucy’s Blog.  We wanted to tackle the Blog to further share the fun and events!  Joyce and I have been with Team Lucy for over three years and are influencers on her other social media.  To kick off our first post, we just want to make sure you saw that Lucy recently re-released her first ever book, Undercover Love, with a new cover and 5,000 new words – it is on sale for .99 cents and is on Kindle Unlimited!   

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My family has a tradition that prevents us from celebrating birthdays in public venues like restaurants. I don’t know when or why we started it, but it’s been going on for years. Seeing as how I hit 40 this week, I thought I’d give you a behind-the-scenes peek at Score family birthday shenanigans!

The kids pretend they hate the tradition, but their cute little voices really add a new level of horrificness to the song. P.S. That’s Mr. Lucy behind the paper plate