He gives her a warm glowing feeling in her stomach (or as I call it The Tingles all over). She meets Robert at her friend Dana’s Wedding and from the minute they meet they have chemistry. She has dumped her boyfriend(Man of convenience) of 2 years. Since she has not the best luck with men in the past she is throwing out the window all she knows about love and dating. She is trying choose a Man by using a Checklist that is very unrealistic from the Dater’s Handbook by Dr.Susie. I had a hard time putting the book down.(5 Stars all the way) I loved it and hated it at the same time. I'm married and live with a blended broad of seven near Chicago, where I'm hard at work on my next book! Except that it still feels weird to say, 'I'm a writer.' I keep expecting to wake up tomorrow and have to go cover another grass fire. That's when I started writing 'I Do (But I Don't).' A year later, I finished it, thanks to the help of my friend, Shannon, who wouldn't let me slack off and kept asking me for chapters.Īnd that's how I became a writer. I also decided that I would take advantage of that free time to write some fiction. I went to work for a marketing firm and discovered that most everyone else didn't stay until ten o'clock every night writing up their riveting story about grass fires. So, I decided after I had taken to hiding from my editor in the bathroom at the office anytime the police scanner went off, that journalism probably wasn't for me. But that was about it in terms of excitement. I think some mice may have lost their lives. I was actually sent to cover a grass fire on my 25th Birthday. I was working insane hours for next to no pay. After college, I spent four years as a newspaper reporter, working for an overly excitable editor who sent me running anytime the police scanner went off. Anyway, I majored in English, and because my dad said 'and just what are you going to do with an English degree?' I went to work for the school newspaper. I think these days they only accept students who can solve String Theory.

I went to school at the University of Pennsylvania, only I'm not sure how I got in. My Dad is a third-generation Japanese-American, and my mom is a second-generation Texan who's mostly English. No, I don't own a pair of cowboy boots, although I do own quite an impressive collection of black shoes. Ironically, Mesquite was named after Mesquite trees, only none of them now exist in the city, which is about fifteen minutes east of Dallas. I grew up in Mesquite, Texas, which for those of you who like livestock shows, is the home of the Mesquite Rodeo. My debut novel, I Do (But I Don't) was made into a Lifetime Original movie.

I've written more than 30 books in a number of genres: chick lit, romance, suspense, paranormal and young adult.

Dater's Handbook by Cara Lockwood