THOUGHTFUL BUT FUNNY ~ ROMANTIC COMEDY ~ GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE.
I write Romantic Comedy because sometimes I think there is just too much sadness in life. So, whilst I do try to portray my characters as real people with all their rich eccentricity and emotional fragility, I like to think I leave the reader with a huge dollop of feel-good factor.
Rather than drone on and bore you to yawndom, I’ve posted a couple of blurbs below. Meanwhile, I am thrilled to reveal, I have a publishing contract with Safkhet Publishing!!! Announcing the upcoming project, Safkhet said: We have contracted Sheryl to write us a fantastic rom-com type cookbook! Should be exciting! Watch out for the news, the plan, the recipes, the heartbreak! To find out more, visit my website at www.sherylbrowne.com
Other Rom Coms (currently under consideration by a UK publisher):
PEEL ME SLOWLY: Divorced mum, Lisa O’Conner, would love to think happy endings exist, but after her turbulent marriage to a liar and an emotional bully, who walked off hand-in-offshoot with something resembling a twig, Lisa doubts they really can. She would quite like to find herself a coke-bloke with… pecs …and things. Alas, that’s not likely, when her only interest outside of her work at the respite centre is hopping her three-legged dog in the park, wearing green wellies and carrying a poop scoop. There’s also another small problem. Lisa isn’t sure she’d know what to do with a coke-bloke if she fell on one. When PC Mark Evans comes along, gloriously gift-wrapped blue, however, she can’t help wishing she did.
Announcing he has a child with autism spectrum disorder on a first date tends to ensure there isn’t a second. And, God knows, Mark would like a relationship that doesn’t end before it gets started.
Now Mark has a dilemma. Pretending not to notice the double yellow she’s parked on, or the “How to” sex guide she drops at his feet, he’s smitten with Lisa as soon as he sees her. Should he put his cards on the table at outset and risk not seeing her again? Or skirt around the subject of children, which amounts to a lie? When one lie leads to another, and another, can he ever win Lisa’s trust back? Admit that he didn’t trust Lisa enough to let her into his life?
NAKED FULLY CLOTHED: The scales are peeled from Leanne Curtis’ eyes more painfully a wax-strip whipped from her upper lip when she spots female footprints on the inside windscreen of her partner’s car. Giving her excuse-for-a-man his marching orders, Lee exits the car with as much dignity as she can muster. Standing shivering on a street corner thereafter, sadly wiser, but flat broke, Lee comes up with a plan. She’s no choice if she’s to keep her son in clothes befitting an emotionally charged punk rocker. Lee needs a lodger.
On patrol duty, Police Constable Paul Davis, is gloomily contemplating his impending divorce ~ his wife sleeping with his sergeant, a retaliatory affair precipitated by Paul’s own ~ is not helping his mood. His sergeant has a history, and Paul needs to gain custody of his son urgently. To do that he has to find somewhere better to live than a bedsit.
Does wrongfully arresting Leanne Curtis for soliciting, he wonders idly an hour later ~ whilst debating whether to do the decent thing and self-combust, mean they’re fated to be together? Will a subsequent blackmail plot ~ cooked up by Lee’s more man-savvy friends to persuade her ex to pay back his debts ~ force them apart? Can Paul risk his job and turn a blind eye? Or will his abhorrence of men who resort to abusive behaviour, drive him to do the honourable thing in Leanne’s eyes?
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