Plotting Mr. Perfect by S.E. Babin

Author:S.E. Babin
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: androids, comedy romance, romance scifi, comedy and humour, romance adventure paranormal

Chapter 10

Almost nothing in the world smelled better than pizza. The aroma of garlic, yeasty bread and pepperoni permeated the restaurant. Even though they’d just had pizza last night, nothing was as stellar as Joe’s. A pretty brunette waitress led them over to their table and handed them red-checkered menus. They both ordered root beers and settled in to peruse the goods.

“Want to split a pepperoni and mushroom?” Katie looked up to see Mel sipping her drink.

“Yup,” she said after she swallowed. “As long as it’s the deep dish.”

“Is there any other kind?”

“Hells to the no,” Mel said. “Now, tell Auntie Mel about the pseudo-firing. Leave no detail untold.”

Katie relaxed into the booth seat and relayed the conversation she’d had earlier with Lucinda. She ended with how much she loved the book and how much she wanted to see it on the shelves.

Mel’s eyes glittered. “Then do it.”

“Do what?” Katie asked, confused.

“Publish it yourself.”

“I-I can’t,” she said, flustered at the thought of it.

“Au contraire, mu-fraire!” Mel waggled her finger at Katie. “Can’t or won’t?”

Katie thought about it. Self-publishing was feasible, but she never thought she’d do it herself. “I’m not sure I want to. It won’t get on the shelves if I do that.”

Mel shrugged. “And if you listen to Lucy, it won’t see the light of day. You have to think about what’s most important to you—money or readers.”

Katie looked at Mel in a new light. She was shrewd and intelligent—two traits Katie already knew about…but she also knew her like the back of her hand. “Of course the readers are more important to me.”

Mel smiled. “Well then, are you a man or are you a mouse? If you’re a man, write the damned book and get it in the hands of your readers. If you’re a mouse, sell out and write the sister saga with the unmarried bachelor sniffing after the older sister and all the secrets hidden inside of the beach house.”

Katie’s mouth twisted. Mel made her last bestseller sound silly. “That book was an international bestseller!”

Mel shrugged. “And it was like a hundred different books on any given day. Come on, kiddo. You know you’re better than that. Pick up the pieces of your bruised ego and turn that book out!”

Katie thought about it. Yes, her new book might be a light read—or at least it was starting out that way—but it was different than anything she’d ever written. Mel was right. And she knew Mel knew it by the satisfied smile on her face.

“You sometimes need to be knocked down a step on that high staircase you’re climbing.”

“You’re a complete jerk. You know that, right?” But she softened her words by picking up her soda and clinking her glass against Mel’s.

“I live to serve,” Mel said. She picked up her drink, and her gaze stopped to the right of Katie. Her eyes widened and Mel looked at Katie. “Katie, don’t look, but I think your neighbor is here.”

Katie felt herself break out into a cold sweat.

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