My most recent book, What's Cooking
Now, started out with an amusing list of food/sex
metaphors which when set to characters and place had my
critique group laughing shamelessly. Many of the
metaphors (stimulating as they were - ahem!) were cut so as
not to make the story a running gag line!
See excerpt below or click the book cover to read the first chapter.
Cliff pulled a small box from his pocket and set it in Kate's hands…
She looked at the gold box
tied with a tiny golden ribbon like it was too pretty to spoil.
“What is it?” she asked. The light flickered in her eyes.
“Open it.”
Her smile was filled with
pleasure and humor. “I can’t remember the last time someone gave me a present—at least one that didn’t
do strange things when you added batteries.”
Cliff wasn’t sure he’d heard her correctly. “What?”
“Never mind,”
she said as she tugged at the bow.
He puzzled over her blushing cheeks and bubbly chuckle as the ribbon fell away from the box. She
lifted the lid as if she were afraid a trick coiled snake might pop out at her.
The rousing scent of rich chocolate floated in the air between
them. He’d sensed the concoction would appeal to her. He hadn’t expected the aroma to make her more appealing
to him. The fragrant candy blended with her perfumed skin in a way he could not have imagined.
“Oh, my,”
she said. “I’ve never smelled anything like it.”
She lifted one of the small pieces from the box and inhaled
the succulent aroma, deep and slow. There were just four pieces. She looked at them like they were diamonds. He leaned
closer, wanting to lose himself in her heady scent, the brandied almonds, and chocolate.
