Hello everyone! I’m C.S. Poe, back for my monthly author post here at Love Bytes. I know, I know, usually I post a free read that’s a choose your own adventure sort of mystery called The Murder Collection. I promised last month we’d be back to Dean Stewart’s unfortunate mishaps in New York City, but… then I crushed my hand.
Anyway. I’ve learned that typing with a cast is slow and tedious work. Also it’s probably not great for my wrist, which got damaged in that fiasco too… so we’re going to have to keep this blog post short. I tend to have bad luck when it comes to the well-being of my fingers and wrists. Maybe I’m cursed? In my latest release, Joy, there’s a city boy name Gideon Joy with laughable bad luck, who gets stranded in the Great White Mountains of New Hampshire, and accidentally finds love. He didn’t break a wrist, but he did crash his car into a moose, which is pretty terrible.
So tell me, do you have bad luck? Are you accident prone? Have you been stuck in a cast before? I’ll be giving away an e-copy of Joy to one lucky winner, so join the giveaway below and leave a comment!
C.S.
xo
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Down on his luck is Gideon Joy’s default state. He doesn’t know why he expected anything different on his cross-country trip, but not surprisingly, the hits keep coming—literally this time. Gideon strikes a moose with his car in New Hampshire, not only totaling his own vehicle, but damaging one belonging to local construction worker Silas Bright. He has no choice but to stay in Lancaster and take a job that’ll pay for the repairs. And in a town so small, Gideon’s always running into Silas. What starts as annoyance between them soon blooms into something much more romantic. But when Gideon’s notorious bad luck rears its head yet again, how many disastrous dates will Silas be willing to weather before realizing Gideon’s not worth it?
Despite Gideon’s desire to remain in the quaint community that has accepted him as one of their own, past fears of inadequacy threaten the very joy he left Los Angeles to discover. If he’s to find a happily ever after with Silas, Gideon must learn that sometimes it’s okay to not be the best. And true happiness might be waiting in a small town nestled among the great White Mountains.
States of Love: Stories of romance that span every corner of the United States.
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About C.S.
C.S. Poe is an author of gay mystery, romance, and paranormal books.
She is a reluctant mover and has called many places home in her lifetime. C.S. has lived in New York City, Key West, and Ibaraki, Japan, to name a few. She misses the cleanliness, convenience, and limited edition gachapon of Japan, but she was never very good at riding bikes to get around.
She has an affinity for all things cute and colorful, and a major weakness for toys. C.S. is an avid fan of coffee, reading, and cats. She’s rescued three cats, including one found in a drain pipe in Japan who flew back to the States with her. Zak, Milo, and Kasper do their best on a daily basis to sidetrack her from work.
C.S. is a member of the International Thriller Writers Organization.
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You poor girl. I hope the cast won’t have to stay on long and you can get back to using your hand properly again.
I know from experience that having your right hand in a cast and being right handed isn’t easy, especially if you can’t use the thumb. Back in the days we didn’t have computers, so I had to write everything down. Well, I got fairly proficient in writing with my left hand.
I am definitely accident prone. I have broken my thumb, finger and toes in my younger years. Sprained ankles, Back surgeries, Knee surgeries. You name it I had it.
I hope you heal soon. I’m very much accident prone. I’m one of those people who can trip over air. Just this weekend I hit my head on the shed when I was out emptying my cat’s dirty litter. So now I have a nice bump & sore spot on my forehead. And I think I burn myself almost every time I put something in the oven. Last April I had to have stitches because I crushed my hand when my dad & I were moving an old large tv & it slipped & dropped on my hand.
I’m clumsy and not very flexible. I managed to fracture a bone in top of my foot attempting to do yoga. That one was pretty embarrassing! I am also really good at walking into walls.
I hope you have speedy healing!
Get better, C.S. I’m quite prone to accidents, but I’ve never broken anything, which is almost unbelievable, if you take into account that I’m of the clumsy sort… So I guess I’m quite lucky!
I hope you get better soon. I am somewhat accident prone. I have been since I was a kid. The most memorable would be when I was 8 years old. I was riding my bike on the gravel driveway when I slid sideways and fell off. Before I could get up, my younger brother who was riding his tricycle, ran over my left arm and broke it.
Eek, I’m so sorry! Yep, I tripped over a dodgeball in fourth grade and broke my foot…and I definitely have a tendency to trip, fall, bump into stuff, whatever.
I feel like I’m in such good company here!
As a child I was playing with my sister and I was supposed to be blind…so I was walking around with my eyes closed with my arms stretched out in front of me. Unfortunately, my sister wasn’t the best ‘mother’ and I fell onto some glass and cut a gash in the palm of my hand which needed stitches! (I never did find out where the glass came from.)
Since I attended a one-room-country school house all the girls were ‘allowed’ to play football so my knees have scars on them. No. Flag football wasn’t an option.
My most graceful entrance to a room was as a child when I fell down a flight of enclosed stairs in our house. After slamming into the door at the bottom of the steps I heard my mom tell a neighbor at the kitchen table say ‘Oh that’s just … . She does it all the time.’
I chipped my front tooth when I was walking on a wooden fence rail outside the hog house and landed on a container of fuel for heating. (I got a partial gold cap with that one.)
I ‘hopped’ up onto a curb only I didn’t clear it so down I went but popped up quickly. This was, of course, with an audience of friends along a busy street. That was good for a few laughs. (And blushes on my part.)
I came out of a building while my fiancé was waiting in the car for me. One minute I was there and the next I wasn’t. That disappearing act was due to ice. (The only thing injured was my pride.)
I broke my leg stepping ‘wrong’ off a curb and tore a ligament. I accomplished this while ‘herding’ dads who were parking illegally at the school I worked at as an assistant principal. (Surgery and physical therapy.)
I broke my collarbone tripping over bags of clothes I had collected for donations. (Physical therapy again.)
Oh, the latest and greatest was when I decided it was faster to step over the gas hose instead of walking around the car. (I was carrying a large ceramic pot to put in the trunk while the tank filled.) Needless to say, since I’m only 5’1″ I didn’t clear the hose. (I don’t know why I keep forgetting I have short legs?) That led to scars on my right wrist.
I think I’ll stop now. It mentally hurts each time I recall them!
I can’t decide if I’m accident prone or just dumb.
Oh, my. I hope you make a quick recovery! I’ve never broken anything but I am a klutz and have scrapped myself up pretty badly before.
Ow. Maybe see if you can get dictating working on your computer. it’s certainly becoming quite useful on apple devices. Maybe not so much for book writing, but for things like blog posts and emails?
Sorry to hear about your accident, and bad luck. I don’t think of myself as having bad luck or being accident prone. But I have found that if I’m really stressed, tired, upset, all at the same time, then accidents do happen. So I try to watch out. I liked Joy, but I’m not familiar with all your work. Have you tried the opposite, of writing about maybe someone who works toward good luck, say by using some positive thinking techniques (I think of the modern “mindfulness” self-help practices as an offshoot of that)? I hear that has helped some, and who knows, you might learn from your characters :-).