{"id":5937,"date":"2016-02-20T01:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T05:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2016-02-13T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T21:24:07","slug":"guest-blogger-rose-maybud-a-little-spice-in-the-daily-grind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=5937","title":{"rendered":"Guest Blogger: Rose Maybud – A Little Spice in the Daily Grind!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Little Spice in the Daily Grind!
\n<\/strong>Guest blog post by Rose Maybud<\/p>\n

Pop Quiz <\/strong><\/p>\n

Do you work in an office?<\/p>\n

Is it (A) a nice place to work, full of friendly and competent co-workers \u2013 or (B) a cut-throat corporate arena, where every worker is fighting for their share of recognition and benefits?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve 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!<\/p>\n

Alex Poindextre, the hero of \u201cSomething in the Coffee,\u201d just wants everyone in his law office to be nice to each other for a change. Is that so much to ask?\u00a0 Senior partners Ann Sangazure and Duke Poindextre seem to get off on fighting with each other.\u00a0 Duke\u2019s 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\u2019s too shy to talk to her.<\/p>\n

Alex\u2019s solution: Hire a sorcerer\u2014well, a Potions Account Executive\u2014to slip a little something into the office coffee pot, something to make everyone friendlier to each other.<\/p>\n

His fianc\u00e9e, Eileen, doesn\u2019t like it, but he goes ahead with it anyway.<\/p>\n

And boy, do people get friendly\u2026soon 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\u2026chaos reigns supreme, and it\u2019s All. Alex\u2019s. Fault.<\/p>\n

Good thing Alex is a clever lawyer, because it\u2019s going to take all his cleverness to fix this mess\u2026and win back the love of his fianc\u00e9e, Eileen.<\/p>\n

Where did you get the idea for this book?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The surprising inspiration for this sexy contemporary comedy with a paranormal twist is a 139-year-old opera. It\u2019s true!<\/p>\n

In 1877, Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s first full-length comic opera, The Sorcerer,\u201d premiered in London at the Opera Comique. It\u2019s 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\u2019s wishes, Alexis goes through with his plan and it takes a lot more magic to set everything right again.<\/p>\n

I thought the story was so funny it deserved to be updated. Human nature hasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

So what do you think? Have you ever thought about updating an old story \u2013 a fairy tale, an ancient myth, or maybe a work (like The Sorcerer<\/em>) that is old enough to be in the public domain?<\/p>\n

Please check out \u201cSomething in the Coffee\u201d at amazon.com \u00a0http:\/\/geni.us\/3Boz<\/a><\/p>\n

You can also visit me at my blog,\u00a0 https:\/\/rosemaybud.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Or on Facebook at https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Rose-Maybud-147917451944448\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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