Author Provocateur: Flyin' High

Sunday, 13 June 2010

Target Gift Card Contest: And the Winner Is...

Hey, I picked the winner of my "Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives $200 Target Gift Card Contest" from these names, on Saturday, June 12 2010, at Barnes & Noble, N. Moorland Ave, Brookfield, WI.

(It was supposed to happen at Boswell Books in Milwaukee, but there was SUCH madness and mayhem that we forgot to draw....)

Sonia, one of the SWEETEST booksellers in the world, got to draw the name. (Frankly, all the booksellers there were sweethearts! Please stop in and tell them that Josie says hi!

PS: You'll find some autographed copies of SECRET LIVES OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES on one of the front tables...)

The lucky winner:

E. Lerner, Santa Monica, CA

Thanks, the rest of you, for entering! I'll be sure to keep your email addies to let you know about my next contest, too.

--Josie

Click here to read an excerpt of" Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives"

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Saturday, 05 January 2008

Hey! I'm a Single Minded Woman . . .

I'm now writing about tips and trends dealing with relationships at a fabulous new website for women, SingleMindedWomen.com.

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Wednesday, 25 October 2006

Flyin' High...

(Posted 8:58 AM PST, October 25, 2006)

Just came back from a weekend with our pals, Jean and Berney, at their getaway place in Lake of the Ozarks, MO. Great time of year to be there: crystal blue skies, colorful leaves, and more than a bit of a chill in the air...

To get there, I flew into Kansas City. I love Southwest. It's the easiest way to travel in the world! And since I'm not a great flyer, it's good to have happy-pappy people on your plane, and most of their staff is VERY easy going.

It helped, too, that the equipment we were on was brand spanking new, and that there wasn't a cloud in the sky. The woman welcoming us, though, wasn't dressed in the usual Southwest flight attendant garb (khakis and an Oxford button-down) but a white shirt...with stripes on the sleeve--

Yep, she was our pilot. And the co-pilot was a woman, too. As was the whole flight staff. Or as she put it in that sweet, calming tone of hers: "Yes, ladies and gents, you're on an 'un-manned' flight!"

At first my heart did a little hop, skip and jump. I looked around me, and since there was no mad rush out the door, I realized that I was possibly being the most chavinistic person on the plane. I mean, I write about strong women, so yeah, of course I should believe that strong women are everywhere --

Even up in the clouds.

In fact, I know one personally: Susan Grant, a saucy, sexy United pilot who also just so happens to write wonderful Sci Fi romance novels set in the future, about female fighter pilots who save the world--

And the guy.

Well, my pilot gave me one of the smoothest flights I've ever had. And if she detected even a tiny bump up ahead, we heard from her, in that soothing best-fifth-grade-teacher-in-the-world voice she has, that we were not to worry, because she was going to ensure that it didn't bother us one bit...

It just goes to show you that empowered women show the rest of us that even the sky is not the limit.

The right stuff,

Josie

You can email me at: JosieBrownAuthor@yahoo.com

Hey, and read my blog on Amazon.com .

And definitely check out my website, and read about my books: http://www.josiebrown.com

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