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Guest Excerpt: LIKE MOM by Cheryl Robinson

12/3/2013

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Today, I have guest author Cheryl Robinson here with an excerpt from her recent release, Like Mom.  Cheryl will be giving away a $50 Amazon gift card to one random commenter at the end of her tour, so make sure to leave a comment for your chance to win.  For more chances to win, stop by the other blogs hosting her.  You can find the list of links here.
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Excerpt:

Nicole

I stared across the booth at my mom with a blank expression on my face and told her what I felt she needed to hear, what I’d never heard her husband say. “You look pretty.” And she did—prettier than I’d seen her look in a long time. She looked like she’d lost a few pounds. Either that or bought a better girdle. And I had an instant vision of my mom losing half her size, like the people on The Biggest Loser.

We were at Red Barrel, celebrating their three-year wedding anniversary on Halloween with a bunch of people dressed up in costumes. Who gets married on Halloween? Better question: Why did they get married at all?
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Mom was wearing a long-sleeved purple and black dress that she got from Macy’s. I remembered when she got it last year, because as soon as she came home, she tried it on and asked me a bunch of times if I liked it. Each time I told her I did, but she didn’t believe me, so she took it off, put it back in the bag, drove to the store, and returned it. The next week she saw it on sale online and ordered it, but this was her first time wearing it.  I wanted a more glamorous mom, one who looked like she could be my sister. Someone who could teach me how to put on my makeup and do my hair and had a sense of style I admired—someone like Beyoncé. 

About the Novel:


Determined to lose weight, Nevada Pearson participates in a twelve-week clinical trial for a new diet pill. Nevada thinks if she’s slim, her life will be so much better. She won’t have to wear dark clothes to hide her big belly and can kiss the plus sizes good-bye. Her husband will stop ogling every skinny woman in sight, and she’ll stop accusing him of cheating. She won’t have to worry that he’ll leave her the way her dad left her mom. She can stop ranting on her YouTube channel about being fat. She’ll get promoted at work. Her fifteen-year-old daughter will want to lose weight, too, instead of staying holed up in her bedroom eating junk food and surfing the Internet for a cure to her social anxiety. But Nevada isn’t prepared for what happens next and how quickly her life changes—and it has nothing to do with her amazing weight loss.

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About the Author:

Cheryl Robinson is a native Detroiter currently residing in Central Florida. She started her literary career as an independent author, publishing two books before eventually landed a publishing deal with Penguin/NAL Trade. She published six novels with NAL Trade and two more novels as an independent author. She is currently working on her next novel. Visit her Website at cherylrobinson.com, where you can read her blog and enter her monthly blog contest.

Like Mom is available through Amazon.  For more about the novel, visit Cheryl Robinson's Like Mom webpage. 

7 Comments
Goddess Fish Promotions link
12/2/2013 08:38:34 pm

Thanks for hosting!

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Cheryl Robinson link
12/2/2013 10:45:24 pm

Thank you for hosting my book today, and good luck to all who enter the drawing!

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Leigh
12/3/2013 10:35:59 am

My pleasure, Cheryl!

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Rita Wray
12/3/2013 02:41:03 am

I'm looking forward to reading the book.

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Natasha
12/3/2013 05:16:42 am

Sounds like a great read!!
Thanks for the excerpt and the chance to win!
natasha_donohoo_8 at hotmail dot com

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Grace
12/3/2013 06:21:34 am

Cheryl, good luck with the tour! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
grace.coronado at ymail dot com

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bn100
12/3/2013 11:09:50 am

Interesting book

bn100candg at hotmail dot com

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