Hump Day Hook - Post 5

My latest Hump Day Hook comes from my erotic sci fi, MESSAGE FROM VIOLA MARI. Best friend Jennifer is trying to persuade heroine, Marissa Jones, to take a science fiction novel writing class.

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It meets every Saturday morning, starting next week.” From the bubbly tenor of her voice, you’d have thought we were the latest winners of the California lottery. </span></span></div><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh, Lord, and I thought her plan to crash into working professionals on purpose, while pretending it wasn’t on purpose, was her weirdest idea yet. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12pt;">“Like I’d want to.” </span></span></div><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12pt;">“No I’m serious. It would be fun to go together, don’t you think? We could write a novel, meet some men…”</span></span></div><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12pt;">“Oh, no you don’t.” I saw my familiar Saturday morning routine of lounging in bed until ten washing away like a chalk drawing in the rain. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I can knock a guy unconscious with a tennis ball on Friday night, listen to strangers burst out laughing at my writing incompetence Saturday morning, and attend Sunday mass for the sole purpose of praying—</i>I don’t mind the sand trap, but please, oh please just let me finish all eighteen holes in the afternoon without knocking another guy in the nuts.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here's the short blurb for this book:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">The man who makes Marissa crazy is the only one she wants. But it's a bad time to let lust call the shots when a comet cloud is careening toward Earth and Marissa's the only one who can save everyone.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #ffaa56; font-size: 18px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Message-from-Vi..." target="_blank">Buy on Amazon </a></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XUeg5G7J7X8..." width="213" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: #ffaa56; font-size: 18px;"> </span> </span></div>