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The Cutting Edge, my new release, is a dark comedy with a sprinkling of suspense.

Blurb:
My name is Skye Summers. I’m a hairstylist and I can’t stop fantasizing about killing my clients. Not all of them, of course. I only want to kill the ones who irritate me, which, if I’m being honest, is most of them. My occasional fantasies have turned into chronic daydreams. They’re bloody and vivid, like watching a slice-and-dice movie on IMAX.

I also want to kill my husband’s ex-girlfriend. She’s not a client but she tops my list. Eighteen years ago, she gave birth to his daughter and she has tormented him ever since. I should be troubled by this growing desire to use my surgically sharpened shears for more than a haircut. Instead, I wonder how I can get away with it.
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You can read an excerpt on my website: www.QuietFuryBooks.com

Read it! This book is a scream. The wittiest novel I ever read, including mine; and I thought I write with a lot of wit, but I can't hold a candle to this gal. How can you pack so much humor into the life of a hairdresser? If anyone thinking of going into the profession was required to read this novel first, there'd be no more hairdressers, and we'd all be cutting our own hair with a Flowbee.

Wow, thank you! I'm truly humbled and also thrilled that you enjoyed it so much. I think I exorcised all my demons while writing this one!

I started your novel Twain last night and I'm loving it! Such an awesome concept!

Yes Darcia, you nailed it! I just read your excerpt and I think I worked with Skye in one of my salons;-)
Are you sure you weren't a hair stylist in another life? lol Still laughing over J's comment! adding it to my wish list, thanks for keeping it real.

Thanks, Pamela! There's definitely a little of me in Skye, on those frustrated days when I wanted to bop a client over the head with my dryer! I have a giveaway listed here on Goodreads if you'd like to enter.

So you are one of us, lol By the way your Cutting Edge link (at the top) sent me to a different book. Entered, thanks ;-)

Flowbee. Just hook it up to your vacuum cleaner, attach desired spacer, two-minutes done; you can't make a mistake. Perfect cut every time. And you don't have to risk suicide by stylist.
Laugh? Read, The Cutting Edge, and then tell me I do not speak wisdom.

Do y'all really pay $500 for surgical sharpened scissors? Jeez! I hate to ask what a blow dryer costs.

Gee J, and to think I paid all that money for advanced education and Vidal Sassoon... ;-) Scissors $500, Blow Dryer $150, not hearing the words "Don't worry, it'll grow out." Priceless. lol

Pamela, I love that line!

$500 is average for good scissors. I remember a rep coming into our salon with these scissors that supposedly never got dull. They were, at that time, $1,500. But they were fiberglass and broke if you dropped them!

I'm in the wrong bizzness. There's a fortune to be made in precision scissor manufacturing with cheap Filipino labor.

lol ;-)

Hi Darcia! Fabulous post. I LOL for quite a spell as I linked to your blog. I left a comment for you there.
Malika Bourne

Thanks, Malika! I just added your book 'The Secrets of the Unwritten Book: The Fate of a Planet' to my wish list. It sounds like a fun read!

The allure of a man who can create a feast from fowl, use simple solutions to elegant means, or build a city with his brawn is a tale woven in the evolution of our species.

The first Neanderthal to throw a mammoth steak on the fire got the carnal desserts. The first monkey to dip a stick in an ant hole surely raised the hairy brows of his female primates. And lord knows the playboys of the middle ages were the ones stoking fires and laying steel to the anvil.

Sadly though, in a society of pizza delivery, Google searches and Ikea assembly, today’s dudes have lost most of the skills that have perpetuated the human race. I believe it’s time for men to take back our identities as a provider, as imaginers, as musician, and as magicians. It is time to reclaim our inner connoisseur. Women deserve more on Saturday night then a hastily heaten pizza pocket and I intend to show you how to impress her with newly acquired skills in no less time.

Reading this book will be like the first time you had sex; It'll be over before you know it, you'll have your hand held the entire time and by the end of it we'll both be crying.

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