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Every year since I started doing this author thing I’ve received Christmas and holiday cards from readers and every year it’s been too nutso to send anything out. Well guess what? I’ve kept those cards! So this year my readers who have sent me notes in the past are getting owl mail. 🦉 Thank you to everyone who has reached out to me over the years!l. This authoring thing can be a lonely business but you make a difference. I appreciate you, and your messages and cards, notes and PMs. You are magical. ✨ #handcarvedstamp #owlmail #christmascards2019 #authorsofinstagram #thankful https://www.instagram.com/p/B58W3ReAZAU/?igshid=1q2ym50qhecuv

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Well. Hello there, Billy Winston. We’ve been expecting you. * * * 😉 #winstonbrothers #pennyreid #beardnecessities #bookworm #booklover #bookstagram #bookish #bookishlove #becauseofreading #bibliophile #bookaddict #bookfeature #bookcommunity #bookclub #bookgram #booksbooksbooks #booknerd #booklover #booksofig #bookstagramfeature #bookworm #epicreads #unitedbookstagram #featuredbooklovers #goodreads #prettybooks #igreads #bookstammer #readersofig #readingismagic https://www.instagram.com/p/B3x6gfDAFMG/?igshid=4fpls9c418gx

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I LOVED THIS SO MUCH!!!

Recommended for any Marie/Matt Dating-ish fan.

The Cocky Professor

Dr. Derek Merek was a sick, sick man.

Literally and figuratively. He’d come into the office this morning with a slight fever and what he’d described as “a tickle in his throat.” By eleven he’d progressed to a racking cough and chills. I’d tried to convince him that he was making a bigger deal out of it than it actually was because he had a deception study date this afternoon and he wanted me to go in his place.

I had done my fair share of deception study dates in the beginning of our research. We had both decided that it was best for the data I did not continue. The fact that Dr. Merek had asked me to go in his place was actually a very good indicator that he was quite ill, but I still resented him for it. He should be taking vitamins and eating kale. He has children after all, he should be taking better care of himself.  

But that is how I ended up outside a cafe that could only be described as “trendy” with a FindURPartner.com profile for Marie Harris open on my phone.

She fit the profile for the study precisely. Early thirties, an award-winning journalist, never married, but one serious relationship that had ended some time ago. She liked cooking, Audrey Hepburn movies, and spending time with her friends. I had seen literally hundreds of profiles exactly like hers. I had been on ten of these ‘dates’ and I’d read dozens of sets of notes from Dr. Merek’s ‘dates’ with women like her. I knew what to expect from this encounter:

1. Confusion. I did not look like Dr. Merek. He was taller than me and had a beard. His eyes were gray and mine were brown.

2. Either pleasure or disappointment. Many of the women who were expecting Dr. Merek were pleasantly surprised by my appearance. I was younger and fitter than he was and women were generally pleased about this. But many wanted the tweed jacket and beard and didn’t let go of that expectation just because I had bigger biceps.

3. We would engage in conversation. It would be awkward and stilted, as was expected from a first meeting.

4. I would ask her my questions and she would be confused, but amicable because people are generally polite and will choose the path of least resistance when they encounter something out of the ordinary.

5. I would inform her of the study. She would be confused and maybe a little upset. She would eventually sign my consent form and I’d be home before 5:00PM on weeknight, which was unusual for me, but not unpleasant. I’d probably be able to go on a run with my neighbor for the first time in a month.

I made my way inside and found her immediately. She was sitting alone in the middle of the cafe and seemed to be engrossed in the book on her lap. They were always reading a book, even the ones who made no mention of enjoying reading on their FindURPartner profile. I postulated that they thought it made them seem interesting. Dr. Merek said it was because of a scene in the movie “You’ve Got Mail.” Having never seen that movie, I stuck with my hypothesis.   

It wasn’t part of our research, but Dr. Merek had started keeping track of the most common books that were brought to these dates. Books by Jane Austen or Charlotte Bronte were the top five, but Zora Neale Hurston and Maya Angelou had both recently showed up multiple times. Occasionally it’d be a magazine like the Harvard Business Review or Psychology Today, but Dr. Merek didn’t track those as thoroughly, which I thought was pointless. He said it was just for fun and I knew that he’d appreciate the data point, so I was looking at Marie’s book and not her face when I approached her.

“You’re Marie.”

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Love this. So pretty.

“Today, her irises matched the color of the sky peeking through the trees, cloudless blue. And her hair, now unbound from its braid, was messy around her shoulders and echoed the deep golds and reds of the leaves covering the ground. She’s the colors of the forest, I realized with a fair degree of wonder. Her skin pale like the white birch, her freckles the rich tawny and light brown of new pinecones, her lips peachy pink and rust red like the river stones we’d used to encircle the firepit yesterday. She was beautiful and wild and genuine, and I could not stop staring at her.” — Scarlet as told by Billy

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If you had asked me back in 2014-when Ashley’s book came out and she fell in love with her Viking man pillow-if I could comprehend a future where HUGELY TALENTED authors of @karla_sorensen’s caliber would be willing to tell stories in my fictional Green Valley world, I would have said, “What the heck are you taking about, crazypants???” ONE WEEK! One week until the first book in the expanded Pennyverse publishes, and this book is so special. Levi and Joss helped heal my broken heart after writing ‘Beard With Me,’ I hope they help heal yours ❤️ #pennyverse #comingsoon #booklove #bakingmecrazy #greenvalley #smartypantsromance #winstonbrothers #booknerd #booklove #bookstack #bookstagram #bookworm #bookish https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Dij3DgSwQ/?igshid=1vihc3srfe63h

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How many of you have read Beauty and the Mustache? How many of you miss Drew? He is the most difficult of my characters to write due to the intensity of his thoughts. Honestly, he exhausts me, how he feels things so deeply. Writing for Billy has been shades of Drew. After I finish his chapters I always sleep really well... As an aside, how many of you would enjoy an Ashley/Drew wedding story? ... just curious. #knittinginthecityseries #knittinginthecity #winstonbrothers #pennyreid #amwriting https://www.instagram.com/p/B2XGFFBgk9q/?igshid=1xxlm5k1sp3er

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I am in the process of signing a backlog of orders!! So if you’re waiting on me for books, you can expect them to be shipped early next week. In other news, can you believe it’s almost September?? That’s totally nuts. The release of ‘Beard With Me’ is just around the corner and I’m . . . honestly terrified. I’ll be hiding in the writing cave as soon as it releases to avoid all the rotten vegetables thrown at my head until Billy and Claire get their happily ever after... #writingcavelife #authorsofinstagram #bookstagram #bookworm #booksigning #pennyreid #booklove #signingbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/B10gPOGAGfj/?igshid=124tui0x8i5t0

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If you could have me visit your book club, which of my books would you like to discuss?? I donated several “book club experiences” to an auction and the first of these lovely events took place in Dallas last weekend. I’ve never done anything like this before and it was so much fun. BIG THANK YOU to all the ladies who came out and put up with my no filter responses 😂😂. I’ve said it before, but it must be repeated often, I have the best readers!! 😍🥰😍 #pennyreidbooks #pennyreid #bookclub #signing #booksigning #bookclubwithlove #authorsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Zh761AlAf/?igshid=cpegqvs34kmo

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#SaturdayShenanigans PSSST... Do you hear that? It's the winds of change. Or perhaps it's just an audiobook... Did you know that Kissing Tolstoy is available on audiobook? AND it's narrated by Stephen Dexter and Fiona Fischer?! You can prepare yourself for Kissing Galileo (Coming June 11th!) by catching up and listening before the release <3 Grab it here: http://pennyreid.ninja/audiobooks/ Add Kissing Galileo to your shelf on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36558034-kissing-galileo

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#SundayFunday Ahhh! Part 13 of 'Nobody Looks Good Naked' is coming in my MAY newsletter which shall be coming... You know, eventually! ;-) If you have no idea what the heckerino I'm talking about, 'Nobody Looks Good Naked' is a FREE exclusive serial included in my monthly newsletter. If you can't handle the monthly installments I'll be bundling them together and expanding them into a novel releasing in June called 'Kissing Galileo.' June is VERY soon :-O As a reminder, you can finish reading all parts of Nobody Looks Good Naked in my newsletter for FREE. 'Kissing Galileo' will have all parts available before they release in my newsletter PLUS bonus content. Do the thing! ---> http://pennyreid.ninja/newsletter/

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** FEAST YOUR EYES UPON THE FUTURE ** I just want to remind you all what you can expect from me for the remainder of this year, besides the unexpected... I'm SO EXCITED about all these books! Art thou prepared?? June 2019: Dear Professor #2, Kissing Galileo Add to Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2CX7Nuy July 2019: Ideal Man #1, Pride and Dad Jokes Add to Goodreads: https://bit.ly/2R5F3Tg September 2019: WB #5.5, Beard With Me Pre-Order links: http://pennyreid.ninja/book/beard-with-me/ October 2019: WB #6, Beard Necessities Pre-Order links: http://pennyreid.ninja/book/beard-necessities/ Which book are you most excited for?! I better get back to that writing cave 0.o

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#MCM #ManCrushMonday Since we've been spending so much quality time together lately, it seems only appropriate to have Billy Winston be my Man Crush this fine Monday. If your life has been too happy, please feel free to check out Billy's letter! It is guaranteed to put you in the saddest of all moods. These two hit me right in the feels every time <3 Read the letter here:http://www.truestorybookblog.com/2017/02/14/love-note-billy-to-scarlett-winston-brothers-series-by-penny-reid/ Don't forget there's a sneak peek of Beard with Me in the back of TIME! Pre-Order Beard with Me:https://pennyreid.ninja/book/beard-with-me/ Pre-Order Beard Necessities:https://pennyreid.ninja/book/beard-necessities/

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#pennytries #falconry So... so so so, guess what I did? 😬😬😁 !!! Let me back up a moment. If you’ve been following me on social media, then you know I’ve been planning to force myself outside of my comfort-zone and share my comfort-zone-less experiences with all of you via a video segment entitled, 'Penny Tries.' Yesterday, we filmed my first episode, Falconry. Yes. That's right. Falconry. And we have video proof!! Which we'll be sharing on the Book Bonanza Facebook page and my youtube channel next week, so keep an eye out for that. Also on my list (coming up in May) #karaoke! I'm a terrible singer, but (apparently) I'm willing to try anything once. https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpcgrugPJm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v084lcncrfz6

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** MOTION IS LIVE! ** And available all across the interwebs for your reading pleasures! GAH I'm so excited!!! The day has finally come. And now, you may go forth and read. Or don't. You do you <3 ** ALL LINKS ** http://pennyreid.ninja/book/motion-laws-of-physics-book-1/

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** 2 DAYS ** Until MOTION is alive and available all across the interwebs! :-O :-* >:-( :-D I am in a glass case of EMOTION because I cannot wait for you all to read this book! AHHHHHHHHH! Don't forget that you can read the first three chapters on my blog and pre-order all three parts all across the internets (y) ** Read Chapter 3 ** http://pennyreid.ninja/2019/01/read-chapter-3-of-motion/ ** Read Chapters 1 & 2 ** http://pennyreid.ninja/2018/11/chapter-one-motion-laws-of-physics-book-1/ ** PRE-ORDER LAWS OF PHYSICS TODAY ** Part 1 MOTION: http://bit.ly/MOTIONLOP Part 2 SPACE: http://bit.ly/SPACELOP Part 3 TIME: http://bit.ly/TIMELOP

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** 3 DAYS ** Until MOTION is alive and available all across the interwebs! We are really in the home stretch now AND I CANNOT WAIT! I am so excited about this book. It's so strange... But you knew that already. Does anyone want to add an eARC to their shelf?! Just (y) and perhaps reveal to me your favorite Physics joke! Spread the weird word and double those chances. Check back in 24 hours! ** Read Chapter 3 ** http://pennyreid.ninja/2019/01/read-chapter-3-of-motion/ ** Read Chapters 1 & 2 ** http://pennyreid.ninja/2018/11/chapter-one-motion-laws-of-physics-book-1/ ** PRE-ORDER LAWS OF PHYSICS TODAY ** Part 1 MOTION: http://bit.ly/MOTIONLOP Part 2 SPACE: http://bit.ly/SPACELOP Part 3 TIME: http://bit.ly/TIMELOP

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** 4 DAYS ** Until MOTION is alive and available all across the interwebs! GAH! I'm so excited for you all to read this book and then curse me into oblivion. I'm going to take this opportunity again to tell you all that I still love you, I promise <3 ** Read Chapter 3 ** http://pennyreid.ninja/2019/01/read-chapter-3-of-motion/ ** Read Chapters 1 & 2 ** http://pennyreid.ninja/2018/11/chapter-one-motion-laws-of-physics-book-1/ ** PRE-ORDER LAWS OF PHYSICS TODAY ** Part 1 MOTION: http://bit.ly/MOTIONLOP Part 2 SPACE: http://bit.ly/SPACELOP Part 3 TIME: http://bit.ly/TIMELOP