Off to Finland!

Dear Reader,

First and foremost, I’d like to thank my brother (Full Time Audio Dan) for taking over the newsletter last week. The cat GIFs were top tier!

I’m in my happy place with my entire brain in a book on a challenging deadline. It makes me feel alive… and extremely stressed out. We Scores are not motivated by rewards. We are motivated by the fear of failing, letting everyone down, and ruining everything. So like I said I’m in my happy place.

The words in Riley Thorn 5 are adding up, which is good news for the November release date. It is less good news for my showering and socializing schedules. But hey, who has time to shower and socialize when Mrs. Penny is diabolically cackling in your head?

However, life hasn’t been all sweatpants-wearing and handcuffing myself to my desk. I did manage to sneak down to Maryland for a quick dinner with friends and loved ones in the author and reader community. Here’s photographic proof.

[Image Description: Here I am at dinner with some of my nearest and dearest as well as a few new friends! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again romance readers are the best people in the world.]

[Image Description: I was thrilled to find out that author Xio Axelrod and I happened to be at the same place at the same time. She graciously stopped by on her way to dinner so I could hug her and send Mr. Lucy a You-Missed-Out-On-Seeing-Xio selfie.]

[Image Description: My author gal pal, Avery Maxwell, was also onsite, and we got to catch up over dinner. I know I said I wasn’t wearing sweatpants, but looking at how nice Avery was dressed, I really should have rethought the yoga pants.]

[Image Description: My dear author friend Angi Hunter also happened to be in the building, and I was so happy to have a quick visit with her and her hubby Tim (not pictured but still loved), who were on their way to a pajama party.]

[Image Description: Finally, I also had the honor of interviewing Claire Kingsley for her new release when she came to Cupboard Maker Books on her book tour. It was so lovely to see her and all her excited readers!]

Okay, one other super exciting thing happened to me this week. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any photographic evidence of it. I was sitting on the deck having breakfast (Brekkie on the deckie is a tradition started by Cleo the cat that I still continue in her memory). I was just minding my own business, staring off into the woods, when I heard a loud buzzing. “That’s a damn big bee,” I thought to myself 0.5 seconds before A HUMMINGBIRD LANDED ON MY FOOT (which was encased in a bright pinkish-orange running shoe that must have looked like a flower).

I don’t know exactly what a hummingbird landing on you symbolizes, but I’m going to say it was pure, explosive joy because that’s what I felt.

On that note, I must leave you because Mr. Lucy and I are heading to Finland for some events with Finnish booklovers, and I could not be more excited! Helsinki, here we come!

Xoxo
Lucy

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LUCY IN THE WILD

[Image Description: Amy D. shares a shelf of Lucy titles at the oldest bookstore in Maine.]

[Image Description: Elizabeth B. found some Lucy books at the Columbia University bookstore.]

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GOOD NEWS

• Colleen Ferguson, from Kent, England, owes her life to her dog’s unusual habit.

• A school bus driver from Georgia saved a family after noticing their house was on fire early in the morning.

• A bronze statue was unveiled in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where strangers formed a human chain to rescue a drowning dog in 2016. 🥰

• James Prigioni of The Gardening Channel on YouTube documented his success with growing tomato plants from a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder.

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Next week’s newsletter is going to be whatever the Finnish word for “awesome” is! Mahtava. I looked it up.