Spotlight & Giveaway: No One Does It Like You by Katie Shepard

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Katie Shepard to HJ!

Hi Katie and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, No One Does It Like You!

 
Hello old and new readers!
 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

In the middle of a terrifying hurricane, a Broadway actor calls the ex-wife he hasn’t seen in ten years and asks for a chance to make things right if he survives. When she gets the message, she calls his bluff and asks him to repair the family B&B. He agrees…and brings his castmates, movie-star ex-boyfriend, and all their fangirls along to help him.
 

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

“Don’t take sex off the table when it’s too cold to play horseshoes or lawn darts.”

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

• Tom and Rosie haven’t seen each other in ten years, but they’re staying at the inn where they spent their honeymoon.
• There are two fangirls named Snow Wolf and The Great Puffin, and they have some ideas about the relationship between the FMC, the MMC, and his ex-boyfriend that they could have only learned about on Ao3.
• The perils of repairing a B&B in Martha’s Vineyard include bees, wild turkeys, and code enforcement.

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

Tom and Rosie met on the first day of college when he saw her in line at the registrar, looking like she knew exactly what to do (a foreign experience for him).

But when she bangs on his door to collect on his promise to make everything up to her, fifteen years later, he opens it wearing nothing but his skimpy boxers and the thirty pounds of muscle he put on for his newest role.

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

The scene where Tom discovers the fanfiction people have been writing about him and the WRONG ex made me cackle, because it will ring very true for those who know:

“The lowercase title of the book was embossed in gold foil on the cover: ‘you’re the one (who tried to burn it down).’ Although he should have known better, Tom flipped to the title page, which declared this work to have been composed by Snow Wolf for The Great Puffin. All rights were reserved to Boyd Kellagher, Tomasz Wilczewski, and the Toronto Maple Leafs. The author specifically and emphatically disavowed any infringement of the Maple Leafs trademark on the second page. The third page contained excerpted lyrics from a Phoebe Bridgers song. On the fourth page, there was a highly stylized, anatomically suspect, and beautifully colored illustration of Boyd and Tom engaged in a ménage-a-trois with a hockey stick.”

Readers should read this book….

If they love home improvement shows, theater kids, fandom culture, or the idea that love is worth growing for.
 

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

I’m working on a romantasy that hasn’t been announced yet! Stay tuned!
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

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Excerpt from No One Does It Like You:

“On the subject of presents,” Tom said, standing up and lifting his eyebrows.
He fished in his backpack and offered a Tupperware to her. When she was slow to accept it, he knelt next to her and made more of a flourish to present it.
“Um.” She hesitantly opened the lid. “Oh no. Did you pull that out of the walls?”
He had an entire, whole honeycomb in the bowl, shaved by the bee lady so that it oozed raw honey. Tom stuck his finger into the goop and then obnoxiously sucked it clean just to make Rosie shriek.
“You know those bees ate nothing but trash for months,” she squealed, scooting back. Tom followed her onto the loveseat. Something about the jerky way she’d scrambled away triggered memories.
“Are you drunk?” he demanded, equal parts delighted and affronted. He’d really missed out today. “Oh my God, you are.”
“I’m not drunk. Anymore,” she said, blushing furiously. “We were researching wine bars.”
“Is that what you call it?” Tom grinned at her. She was pink and embarrassed and beautiful with it. “You should have told me you were getting started. I’d have quit earlier.”
He stuck his finger back in the dripping honey and offered it to her. When she shuddered away, Tom sucked the honey from his finger and bent down to kiss her. He got one bare taste of her vanilla lip balm and wine-scented mouth before she pushed him away with another delicate squeal and flailed her hands at him.
“What?” Tom demanded with mock innocence. He put the Tupperware on the coffee table so he could catch her hands and loom over her.
“I don’t want any of your trash honey,” Rosie insisted with tipsy dignity.
“You looove my trash honey,” Tom sang. “It’s the sweetest.”
“It’s trash spit out by bugs.”
“I’m sure they were eating the clover next door too,” Tom said, leaning in to kiss her again. He got more of her this time, her mouth hot and wet against his for a three-count of heady seconds before she ducked her chin and pushed back with her hands.
“Don’t give me salmonella poisoning,” she said.
“The bee lady said it was perfectly safe.”
“The bee lady, who was taking them out with no protective gear and no smoke?”
“C’mon, Rosie, try the honey,” Tom said. “This is a moment of victory. You defeated the queen and drove them from your lands. Hear the lamentations of the bees as you eat the winter stores they were saving for their children.”
She snorted but kept her arms straight. Tom linked their fingers and balanced over her, letting her have the illusion she was holding him off.
“I’ll try the honey, but I’m not kissing you to do it,” Rosie said.
“Why not?” Tom said, wounded.
“We don’t have a kissing relationship,” she said, tilting her chin up stubbornly. “You can’t just come in and kiss me whenever you want to, all casual-like.”
Tom exhaled in disappointment. “So wait, I can’t kiss you at all, or I can only kiss you sometimes?”
Rosie gave him a heavy-lidded look of feminine secrecy. “That situation is subject to change. You’ll just have to check whether it’s a day I’m interested in kissing you.”
Tom let go of her hands long enough to scratch the back of his neck in performative consternation.
“Well, you’re the boss, of course, but I think all the fucking we’re going to do will feel real unfriendly if it’s on a day you don’t feel like kissing.”
Rosie bent her head back and cackled before she caught herself and remembered to glare at him, her mouth twisting from the effort of holding back her smile.

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Book Info:

College sweethearts reunite to restore more than just an old inn in this new romance by Katie Shepard, author of Sweeten the Deal.

When’s the best time to tell your ex that you want them back?

Probably not in the middle of a Category 3 hurricane. But when Broadway actor Tom Wilczewski is about to dive into the floodwaters to rescue his co-lead, he calls the ex-wife he hasn’t seen in ten years to swear he still loves her and ask for a chance to make things right.

Two months later, Rose Kelly is tired of seeing pictures of her ex-husband Tom rescuing Hollywood darling Boyd Kellagher. Not that she’s jealous. Of course not. She’s far too busy taking care of her elderly aunt and worrying about the storm damage to the family B&B on Martha’s Vineyard to miss the love of her life. But after belatedly hearing Tom’s voicemail, Rosie asks him to follow through on his promises for once by helping her fix the inn. Thinking this is the perfect way to win her back, Tom agrees.

When they get there, things are…less than ideal. Rosie expected the inn to be in better shape. She expected it to have more beds. And she expected more help from her actual family—not from Tom and the rest of his Broadway cast. But Rosie begins to wonder if maybe the life she expected isn’t the one she really wants. If she and Tom can repair the inn together, can they possibly repair the damage to the relationship they both thought was long gone?
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Meet the Author:

Katie Shepard is, in no particular order, a fangirl, a gamer, a bankruptcy lawyer, and a romance author. Born and raised in Texas, she frequently escapes to Montana to commune with the trees and woodland creatures, resembling a Disney princess in all ways except age, appearance, and musical ability. When not writing or making white-collar criminals cry at their depositions, she enjoys playing video games in her soft pants and watching sci-fi shows with her husband, two children, and very devoted cats.
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