Guest Blogger: Rose Maybud – A Little Spice in the Daily Grind!

A Little Spice in the Daily Grind!
Guest blog post by Rose Maybud

Pop Quiz

Do you work in an office?

Is it (A) a nice place to work, full of friendly and competent co-workers – or (B) a cut-throat corporate arena, where every worker is fighting for their share of recognition and benefits?

I’ve worked in some law offices that were more like the second option. But considering how many hours we put in at our jobs, how nice it is to work in someplace like choice A!

Alex Poindextre, the hero of “Something in the Coffee,” just wants everyone in his law office to be nice to each other for a change. Is that so much to ask?  Senior partners Ann Sangazure and Duke Poindextre seem to get off on fighting with each other.  Duke’s assistant Zoe snubs the nerdy IT guy Kevin, even though she finds him strangely sexy. Pretty, timid Connie is secretly in love with the attorney she works with, Roger Daly, but he’s too shy to talk to her.

Alex’s solution: Hire a sorcerer—well, a Potions Account Executive—to slip a little something into the office coffee pot, something to make everyone friendlier to each other.

His fiancée, Eileen, doesn’t like it, but he goes ahead with it anyway.

And boy, do people get friendly…soon everyone in the high-pressure law firm is getting down and dirty with the first unattached person they see. Uptight lawyers cavorting with admin assistants, grim-faced paralegals stripping in the copier rooms…chaos reigns supreme, and it’s All. Alex’s. Fault.

Good thing Alex is a clever lawyer, because it’s going to take all his cleverness to fix this mess…and win back the love of his fiancée, Eileen.

Where did you get the idea for this book?

The surprising inspiration for this sexy contemporary comedy with a paranormal twist is a 139-year-old opera. It’s true!

In 1877, Gilbert and Sullivan’s first full-length comic opera, The Sorcerer,” premiered in London at the Opera Comique. It’s a fun story about an idealistic young nobleman, Alexis, who is so happy to be engaged to his beloved Aline that he hires a sorcerer, John Wellington Wells, to put a love potion in the village teapot at his engagement party. Love, says Alexis, can break down the artificial barriers of class, wealth and age and make everyone just as happy as he is. Against Aline’s wishes, Alexis goes through with his plan and it takes a lot more magic to set everything right again.

I thought the story was so funny it deserved to be updated. Human nature hasn’t changed that much. Of course, in the staid Victorian theater, nobody actually does anything more on stage than sing! But people still fall in love and are too shy to say so, or too concerned about what other people will think, or set up other barriers.

So what do you think? Have you ever thought about updating an old story – a fairy tale, an ancient myth, or maybe a work (like The Sorcerer) that is old enough to be in the public domain?

Please check out “Something in the Coffee” at amazon.com  http://geni.us/3Boz

You can also visit me at my blog,  https://rosemaybud.wordpress.com

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