![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, and I sent a few of them to some book bloggers on Facebook that I follow. I hired a virtual assistant and paid her a couple hundred bucks to read all of them. “I’m saying that I’m working really smart here. “I mean the books got read, but you never said that I was the person who actually had to read them.” ![]() “No, but only because I didn’t know that I personally had to.” She slurped her coffee. “Have you read any of the front-list books, Penelope?” ![]() But this? This was bullshit and she was far worse than any of my other failed and fired assistants I always thought she was on the incompetent side from the very day she started, from the moment she said, “So, you’re a literary publishing company and you only publish books? Why not movies?” And somehow, I’d managed to look past that. “That’s what makes it a fucking romance.” “Every romance novel ends in a happily ever after, Penelope.” I felt my blood pressure rising. “It was a hard choice, and I do mean a really hard choice, but.Out of the amazing ones I was assigned, I think loved the one that ended in a happily ever after the best.” “Well,” she said, leaning forward and pouring herself a cup of coffee. “You were also supposed to read five romance novels. “We’ll come back to the thrillers,” I said finally. ![]()
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