My friend Ann tells me I like it too much. My admin thinks its awe-inspiring. My sister-in-law Organza thinks it is unnatural. My best friend Deborah wont even discuss it. But I ask: What's wrong with desperately wanting your own husband? That sex with him becomes a goal each time we are apart? That he is my favorite smell and color and food? It is not all-consuming all the time. Instead, it is something that comes to me like a new idea, unexpected, quick, and completely inescapable. I want to worship at his temple. Then I want lightning to strike it."

And so begins my novel Imperfection coming to Lyrical Press in March 2009. This story is close to my heart and so are the characters which have becoming living, breathing, thinking, loving people in my life. A couple prepares to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, and we are invited. We get to see their love for each other, how it develops, how it helps them whether rough storms, how it determines the way they raise their daughter, the way it keeps them strong even during the times they don't like each other very much.

Imperfection is told from the perspective of Candy Russell, a design editor, who has a loving husband, and a twenty-three year old daughter. Candy is frank and conversational in her recounting of the life and love that has lead her to present day. She's also confident, funny, sometimes prickly, and possesses a hot-air-balloon-sized libido. She will invite you into her home, into her bedroom, into the lives of her family and friends, and even introduce you to her somewhat enigmatic and brooding daughter. She will also tell you, without qualm or apology, why she loves her husband.

The story is characterized as erotica, and that's OK. I don't know if I've written more erotic scenes than can be found in this book. I also don't think the book would be as intimate without them, but there is more, so much more if offers beyond sex. It's about love and all of the ways it manifests itself.

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