Goddess Fish: “Like Mom” by Cheryl Robinson Book Blast

By Ruth on December 2, 2013 in book, giveaway, promo
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Like Mom

by Cheryl Robinson

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Like Mom CoverBLURB:

 

Determined to lose weight, Nevada Pearson participates in a twelve-week clinical trial for a new diet pill. Nevada thinks if she’s slim, her life will be so much better. She won’t have to wear dark clothes to hide her big belly and can kiss the plus sizes good-bye. Her husband will stop ogling every skinny woman in sight, and she’ll stop accusing him of cheating. She won’t have to worry that he’ll leave her the way her dad left her mom. She can stop ranting on her YouTube channel about being fat. She’ll get promoted at work. Her fifteen-year-old daughter will want to lose weight, too, instead of staying holed up in her bedroom eating junk food and surfing the Internet for a cure to her social anxiety. But Nevada isn’t prepared for what happens next and how quickly her life changes—and it has nothing to do with her amazing weight loss.

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Excerpt:

 

Nevada

 

This upcoming year is the year,” Claude said. “If I don’t get promoted, I’m leaving.”

 

“And going where?” I asked. I had a right to know, unless he planned on going alone, and then I truly had a right to know.

 

“I don’t care where: wherever I can get a job. What, you want to live in Indiana forever?”

 

I shrugged. “I wouldn’t mind. I mean, it’s what I know.”

 

He rolled his eyes dismissively at me. “Let’s dissect what you just said—

 

I crossed my eyes after I turned my head to the side. No, let’s not. Sometimes, I just wanted to tell him to shut up with all of his change-your-life stuff. I had Oprah for that, and she was much better at motivating me than Claude was. Listening to her made me think I really could change my life. Listening to him made me think I’d made a mistake by marrying him in the first place, and that I’d messed up my life forever. But I’d felt the same way on our wedding day, so nothing had changed.

 

“I don’t want to dissect it.”

 

“But what you just said is how a lot of people feel. A lot of people stay with something just because it’s familiar. It’s what they know. May not even be something they want. Next year should be the year of the unknown. That could be the title for my first book; I need to write it down.” He searched the table for something to write on because once he sat down he wasn’t getting up until after he finished eating. “Do you have a pen and some paper?”

 

I got up and grabbed the first sheet of paper I saw and handed it to him along with a pen and then sat back down. Before he wrote on the paper, he turned it over. “Do you need this?”

 

“It’s just a blank sheet of paper, isn’t it?”

 

“It’s a shipping notice from Curl—.”

 

I snatched the paper out of his hand—close call; it was the shipping notice from Curl Junkie for the box of hair products UPS had delivered that day. Claude would have a fit if he saw that I’d spent over a hundred dollars on stuff for my hair. But I had to spend at least a hundred dollars to get free shipping, which made sense while I was filling my online shopping cart with more stuff, but the more I thought about it, I only wanted the Daily Fix and the Smoothing Lotion, which would’ve been forty-nine dollars, and the flat rate shipping was only seven dollars and twenty-five cents, so basically, I paid fifty-one dollars more to save seven dollars and twenty-five cents. But it made perfect sense to me at the time.

 

 

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Cheryl RobinsonAUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Cheryl Robinson is a native Detroiter currently residing in Central Florida. She started her literary career as an independent author, publishing two books before eventually landed a publishing deal with Penguin/NAL Trade. She published six novels with NAL Trade and two more novels as an independent author. She is currently working on her next novel. Visit her Website at cherylrobinson.com, where you can read her blog and enter her monthly blog contest.

 

 

 

 

 

Amazon purchase link:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Like-Mom-ebook/dp/B00FW6PYD0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1381848472&sr=1-1&keywords=Like+Mom

 

Her Website

 

Cheryl will be awarding a $50 Amazon Gift Card to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour, and a $25 Amazon gift card to a randomly drawn host.

Follow the tour and comment; the more you comment, the better your chances of winning. The tour dates can be found here:

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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” — Franz Kafka Ruth is an inspirational entertainment journalist who instinctively sees the best in all and seeks to share universal beauty, love and positivity. She is an artist who leads with her heart and gives readers a glimpse of the best of this world through the masterful use of the written word. Ruth was born in Tacoma, Washington but now calls Yelm, Washington her home. She lives on five acres with her parents, a dog, two miniature goats, cats and a teenage daughter who is a dynamic visual artist herself. Ruth interviews fellow artists both inside and outside of the film/television industry. At the core of all she does is the strength of her faith.

7 Comments

  1. Michelle Tucker December 5, 2013 Reply

    Sounds like a book I could benefit from. Thanks so much for the review!

  2. bn100 December 3, 2013 Reply

    Nice excerpt

    bn100candg at hotmail dot com

  3. Grace December 3, 2013 Reply

    Cheryl, good luck with the tour! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
    grace.coronado at ymail dot com

  4. Natasha December 3, 2013 Reply

    Thanks for the excerpt and the chance to win!
    Sounds really good!!
    natasha_donohoo_8 at hotmail dot com

  5. Rita Wray December 3, 2013 Reply

    Sounds like a good read.

  6. Cheryl Robinson December 3, 2013 Reply

    Thank you for hosting my book today!

  7. Thanks for hosting!

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