Love is in the Air Blog Hop!

Helloooooo, my friends! Welcome to the Love is in the Air Blog Hop hosted by Under the Covers! Make yourselves comfortable. I have rum punch, cinnamon hearts, and freshly baked peanut butter cookies waiting for you. If you're allergic to peanuts, coming within five miles of this blog is probably a bad idea. 

Valentine's Day...Is anyone else visibly shuddering? For single women, the date is like a giant neon flashing billboard sign of a reminder that you're dateless, you probably won't be getting any flowers or chocolate unless you buy them for yourself, and you probably won't be getting...well, any. ;) So slip into those stretchy sweats and settle in for a night of sappy chick flicks, you pathetic loser, you. 

Okay, maybe it's not that bad. And this year, oddly enough, I'm not exactly single. There's a certain fella in my life who may or may not recognize this date as a reason to celebrate our not single-ness. But I'm kind of hoping he doesn't. Because I think people are celebrating (or not celebrating) for the wrong reasons. Valentine's Day shouldn't just be about romantic love. It should be about love in general. About spreading love. Telling someone you appreciate them for all that they are. Love your friends. Love your family. Love your pets! And if there's a someone in your life who you wish would just wake up and notice you...well, use this day as a reason to make your move. Tell them how you feel. Write them a note. Plant a big, fat smooch on them. If they look at you like you've grown a second head, tell them I told you to do it. 

Often we find love when we least expect it. The same is true for my hero and heroine in my latest release, CHEAPSKATES IN LOVE. 

Here's the blurb: 

It’s couples' skating night down at the local rink and Elena Armstrong can’t seem to keep her cocky jock blind date around long enough to knee him in the balls. Sadly, she was too much of a cheapskate to pay for a membership to an online dating site and based everything on Leonard’s personality profile alone. Big mistake.

At the opposite end of the rink, Ben Kessel, another cheapskate on a blind date with Iris, the ice princess, is having a similarly miserable time. Elena, a hater of all things sports-related, inches out into the skating world butt-first and collides with Ben. After sharing their hilarious and horrifying dates-gone-wrong stories, the two disappear and make everything right again on the floor in the players’ dressing room. Almost everything. They forget to exchange numbers. Now these two cheapskates need to make the ultimate sacrifice: pay for a membership to the online dating site so they can track each other down. But is the possibility of love really worth the price of $24.95 per month?

FIVE lucky entrants will win an e-copy of this quirky, comical tale! To be eligible, tell me about the cheapest thing you've ever done. Be sure to leave your name and contact information in your comment! Thanks so much for stopping by! Take some time to visit the other participating blogs below! :)