Spotlight & Giveaway: Announcing Trouble by Amy Fellner Dominy

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Amy Fellner Dominy to HJ!

Hi Amy and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, ANNOUNCING TROUBLE!

 
Hey! I grew up a Harlequin Junkie so it’s awesome to be here now.
 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

Josie grew up with a father in baseball and wants nothing to do with the sport–or the players. Then she meets Garrett, a player sidelined with an injury. When he convinces her to call games alongside him, the sparks heat up the booth. But if Garrett has a chance to play again, will be choose the game over Josie?
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

This little passage always makes my heart happy:

He takes a breath and steps close again, his fingers tugging at mine until our hands are laced together. “I just know that every minute we’re not together, I want us to be. And that kiss we didn’t have? It was the best kiss of my life.”

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

• I brainstormed a bunch of titles for this book. The working title was SPORTS ANNOUNCER GIRL. Not exactly catchy. Other titles in the running were:
  Love on Air and The Games Between Us
• I had to research a lot about baseball broadcasting but also Aromatherapy. I went to an essential oils party and asked so many questions I think the host thought she was going to make a HUGE sale. I did buy something, but mostly I took away a lot of details for the book.

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

Garrett is first attracted to Josie because she barges in to the broadcast booth and she knows her stuff. The girl can talk baseball. She’s also confident and that snarky sense of humor is a perfect match for his.
Josie isn’t blind–Garrett is gorgeous, but she’s not falling for the good looks and the flirty smile. But that quick sense of humor? His passion? His smarts? Those things get to her first.

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

This was the first moment when the feelings simmering between Josie and Garrett sparked to life. Sparked hot. It was that moment that changed everything. My heart was definitely beating faster as I wrote this.

His thumb moves over my cheek, but it’s not comforting. It’s questioning.
It’s wanting.
His eyes are so dark I think he’s boiling, too. “Josie,” he says, barely audible, and yet my name is a roar in my head.
My face lifts, my breath fast, but not as fast as his. Our lips are close. So close we’re sharing the same air. So close I can almost taste him.
Can taste how much I want to kiss him.
Want him to kiss me.

Readers should read this book….

Because they need an escape. They need a story that will take them to that happy place where smiles and sighs are joined by a quicker pulse rate and a smile that just won’t quit.

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

One of my favorite characters in ANNOUNCING TROUBLE is Josie’s best friend, Mai. She has a crush on another baseball player, Anthony, but she refuses to let it get out of hand. Mai is practical. Focused. Anthony is, well, not. But that doesn’t stop them from making the pages steam whenever they’re together. So I wanted to see what was going on with those two. That’s what I’ve been working on in a companion novel currently titled TWO WEEK FLING. I hope it’ll be my next book with Entangled Crush.
 

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Excerpt from Announcing Trouble:

(In this scene, Josie is leading story time with her kid’s group at the bookstore where she works. And where Garrett has followed her.)

“Who’s ready for snacks?” I ask. Again, they know the drill. They sit in their spots so I can hand out cookies. The bookstore crew usually leaves the package on an upper shelf. I look, but no cookies.
“Let me see if I can get Brandi’s attention,” I tell the kids. “Sit still for a minute.” I walk to the door, and something flickers in my peripheral vision.
Blue.
Bright blue raglan tee over blue jeans. Brighter blue eyes.
My pulse jumps. “Why are you still here?”
Garrett is half sitting on one of the tables meant for browsers. “I’m waiting for you. You’re very cute with the kids.”
Heat stings my cheeks. “You were watching?”
“It’s a bookstore. The door is open.” He grins. “Do you have a tiara, too?” He wiggles his eyebrows.
I refuse to smile. I’m not going to encourage him. An un-encouraged Garrett Reeves is as much as I can handle.
I point a finger toward the picture book section. “Go and find Brandi. Tell her I need cookies.”
“I don’t know who Brandi is.”
“You’ll figure it out.”
“Do I get a cookie, too?”
“You’re worse than the kids.” I point again. “Go!” I walk back in and tell the kids, “The cookies are on their way.” I hope I’m right. My heart is racing. I smooth my ponytail and then mess it up again when I realize what I’m doing. What is wrong with me? I don’t even like him. I take deep breaths until my pulse slows.
A few minutes later, he’s at the door, a stack of napkins and a package in his hand. “Sugar cookies, anyone?”
The kids clap and cheer, turning shining eyes on Garrett as he saunters in.
“You look like the prince in the book,” Ciera says.
“Are you a prince?” Kate murmurs, her eyes like Frisbees.
He tears open the cookies. “I am.” He walks around the circle, squatting beside each kid as he hands them a cookie and a napkin.
“You’re big,” Bryson says. “Are you a football player?”
“I’m a baseball player,” Garrett says. “You like baseball?”
“I like football better.”
“We’ll work on that.” He gives Bryson a wink.
Talia tugs on my leg. “Is he your prince, Josie?”
“No,” I say. “Girls don’t need princes, do we? We’re like Princess Pudding.”
“But who will kiss us?” she asks.
Garrett points a finger at Talia as if she’s asked a very good question. “Yes, Josie. Who will kiss you?”
I spare a second to glare at him and then smile at the kids. “I’m not old enough for kisses.”
“My brother kisses his girlfriend,” Ciera says. “Sometimes he kisses her on her boobies.”
“Ohhhkay!” I say, ending with a clap so loud my hands sting. “Well. That’s all the time we have for today.”
Garrett is trying so hard not to laugh, his whole body is shaking.
The parents are waiting near the door, so I excuse the kids. I’m surrounded by more hugs and thanks. Half the girls swarm Garrett, and he doesn’t seem the least bit surprised or uncomfortable. He’s probably used to female attention wherever he goes. He immediately gets into the swing of it, saying something sweet to each of them in turn.
Until it’s just the two of us.

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