Spreading cheer with Sue Margolis...plus a book giveaway

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Introduction by Melissa Amster

Sue Margolis joined me on my honeymoon. Well...she did in book form, at least! I spent some quality time with Apocalipstick while laying on the beach or relaxing by the pool during our stay at Sandals in St. Lucia. I found myself laughing out loud and madly blushing. From that point on, I devoured her other novels, starting with what was currently available and then getting each new one as it came out. When Sue joined the online world in 2011, I could not contain my excitement over getting a chance to virtually meet this talented and entertaining writer! Seeing that I'm such a huge fan, I'm so glad to have her back at CLC and to share a copy of her latest novel, Coming Clean, with a lucky US reader (thanks to Penguin).

September is "Happiness Month" here at CLC, and Sue is helping us kick it off with a top five list of things that make her happy. You can find her at her website and on Facebook.

Sue Margolis' Top Five Happy Things:


1. Top of my list has to be my new granddaughter. I became a first time grandma in February. That was the wonderful news. The not so wonderful news is that she lives with her mum and dad in New York City while her grandfather and I are in London. So we Skype every day. Just watching her playing with her toys or having lunch in her high chair, getting mashed banana all over her face fills me with more joy than I ever thought possible.


2. Having all my kids and their other halves gathered around the dinner table laughing and joking. It doesn't happen that often now that my eldest lives in the US, but it's truly wonderful when it does.

3. Being inside, cosy and warm and drinking tea when there's a downpour outside. I love standing at an open window watching and smelling the rain. Delicious.

4. Being alone in the house during the day in my pyjamas watching a trashy movie. Luxury. It's the best way I know to unwind.

5. Friends. The older I get the more I realise how important it is to have good friends and that spending time with them is precious and to be cherished.

Special thanks to Sue for visiting with us and to Penguin for sharing Coming Clean with our readers.

Synopsis of Coming Clean:
Eleven years ago, Sophie and Greg couldn’t get enough of each other. A pair of full-time jobs and two kids later, they’re in therapy asking themselves where all the sexy times went. Sophie thinks she knows: They’re buried under Greg’s mess. And even though her slob of a husband tries to make up for his shortcomings by cooking the occasional meal, Sophie is left to clean umpteen dirty dishes.

The last straw is when Greg uses some inheritance money to buy a World War II Sherman tank, which starts World War III in their marriage.

Sophie doesn’t so much surrender as retreat—right out of the relationship. While Greg almost immediately shacks up with someone else, Sophie finds herself facing even more uncertainty due to a job reorganization. And even though she begins to lose her heart to a high school crush, Sophie starts to realize that a shiny new relationship doesn’t always offer the softest place to fall…and she may find self-acceptance and love in the place she least expects it. (Courtesy of Goodreads.)

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US only. Giveaway ends September 8th at midnight EST.

Luxury Reading is also giving away a copy of Coming Clean. (US only. Ends 9/15.)