Let's Misbehave with Molly

AIN'T MISBEHAVING

Grand Central Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-4555-1572-1

Sometimes even good girls need to be a little bad...

Marla Jean Bandy might be down, but she's not out. Even though her no-good ex-husband left her for another woman--a Bookmobile-driving librarian twenty years her senior--Marla Jean won't settle for another lonely night. She's not ready for Mr. Right, but why not have a little fun with Mr. Right Now? The only wrench in her plan is her childhood crush. Jake-and the memory of the one toe-curling kiss they shared on a hot summer night years ago.

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“Stop it, Donny Joe.”

“Come on, Marla Jean. I thought you wanted to.”

An hour earlier she would have agreed with him. An hour earlier she wiggled into her tight red dress, tugged on her favorite cowboy boots, and headed out to the local watering hole sure of exactly what she wanted. An hour earlier she’d left her house with every intention of finding a willing man and having her way with him.

Lately she’d felt dried up, dustier than a ghost town in an old Western movie. The swinging saloon doors of her nether portal were rusted shut from lack of use. In other words, Miss Kitty hadn’t seen any action in a long, long time.

And now, because she’d decided to rectify the situation, she, Marla Jean Bandy, found herself sitting in the front seat of a Ford pick-up truck with Donny Joe Ledbetter’s hand stuck halfway up her skirt.

But it didn’t feel right somehow, and that really pissed her off.

Sex had always been something she’d embraced enthusiastically right up until the moment her husband dumped her for another woman. If he’d dumped her for some young bimbo, it would have been embarrassing and humiliating. She would have been mad, outraged even, but no — Bradley left her for Libby Comstock, the fifty-four year old never-been-married librarian who drove the Bookmobile. She’d started to wonder why he ran out the door like a kid who’d just heard the ice cream truck whenever it turned the corner onto their street. But she’d always told him he should read more, and this was the one time in their six year marriage he decided to listen to her.

Libby seduced him with the Russian classics, challenging him to stretch his mind and feed his soul. He tackled Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Brodsky, Pushkin, and eventually he tackled Ms. Comstock, too. The fact that he’d left her for someone twenty years older, frumpier, smarter, and fluent in five languages was something she’d never forgive him for.

But back to Donny Joe. He was a stud. A big fish in a small pond. A lover of all things female, and his ability to make the earth move was heralded far and wide by most every woman in and around Everson, Texas.

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GOOD GOLLY…WHO’S MISS MOLLY?

Molly Cannon lives a charmed life in Texas with her husband, Mr. Wonderful and her extremely large cat Nelson. When she's not writing, she spends her days reading, taking dance classes with MW, and watching every kind of sporting event imaginable. Molly has three grown children, all married to terrific people and two wonderful grandchildren. Life is good!

ARE YOU ROCKIN’ & A ROLLIN' with the Q&A?

ANGI: How often to you get lost in a story?

MOLLY: Every day that ends in Y! Either the story I’m reading or the story I’m writing.

ANGI: What’s the first book you remember reading?
MOLLY: I was reading before I started school. It must have been my sister’s first grade reader. I didn’t understand why Dick and Jane were running all the time and why I had to see it.

ANGI: What’s your favorite “love” word?
MOLLY: My favorite love word is “Wuv”. As in, I wuv you, sweetie pie, sugar pea, butter noodle. Man, how hot is a hero who talks baby talk? No?

ANGI: Can you tell us about a real-life hero you’ve met?
MOLLY: When our house burned down the firefighters and Red Cross volunteers were super heroes as far as I was concerned. And all our friends and family that stepped in to help were heroes, too.

ANGI: What’s your favorite fairy tale?
MOLLY: I always loved the Ugly Duckling. I remember as a child, my sisters and I sang about the poor little fellow at shows we performed at orphanages. Quack, Quack. That was my part. I like stories of transformation and acceptance. And any day now I expect to turn into a swan.

ANGI: What’s your favorite cartoon character?
MOLLY: All the characters on The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Sherman and Mr. Peabody, Natasha and Boris, Dudley Do-Right. Fractured Fairytales.

ANGI: What turns you off like nothing else?
MOLLY: Laughter at another person’s expense.

ANGI: Is there a playlist you’d recommend for reading your latest release?

MOLLY: I don’t listen to a lot of country music, but this book takes place in a small Texas town. So, with that in mind: Give in to Me – Garrett Hedlund, Anything from The Goat Rodeo Sessions by Yo Yo Ma, Jason Aldean with Kelly Clarkson - Don't You Wanna Stay, Sunny Sweeney- Please be San Antone.

ANGI: Where do you read and how often?

MOLLY: I don’t read in the shower. Everywhere else is fair game. Are you asking me how often I shower?

ANGI: What sound or noise do you love?
MOLLY: I enjoy the sound of a back-up alarm. I always go beep-beep-beep along with it just for fun.
ANGI: What’s your favorite movie of all time?
MOLLY: Gypsy. Natalie Wood, Rosalind Russell. Alas, my plans to be in Burlesque didn’t pan out.

ANGI:Fairy Tale or Action Adventure?
MOLLY: Fairy Tale

ANGI: What was the first story you remember writing?
MOLLY: It involved a raisin telling a story to a bunch of grapes. They were his grandchildren.

ANGI: Who’s your favorite villain?
MOLLY: Mags Bennett in the Justified TV series. That woman was creepy!

ANGI: What is your biggest vice?

MOLLY: Why? What have you heard?
ANGI: Shucks, I was sworn to secrecy.

ANGI: Is there a “Blooper” in your story (it may have been changed before printing)?

MOLLY: The dog in my book was originally a cat. I live in fear that somewhere in my book that dog will be purring.

ANGI: How is it working with hot guys and sexy women all day?

MOLLY: You call this working?

ANGI’S GOTTA ASK: Since we’re in the same writing chapter, Miss Molly…I know that you and your hubby are dancers. Ballroom and others… What’s your favorite couples’ dance and to what song?

MOLLY’S GOTTA ANSWER: You can probably guess just by looking at us that we like to Rumba. The sensual dance of love. Let’s Stay Together by Al Green is a great song. I-I-I’m so-o in love with you. Or Besame Mucho works, too! It’s all in the hip action.

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UP NEXT: CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE due to be released April 2013

MOLLY’S GOT A GREAT GIVE-AWAY TODAY !!

TWO copies of AIN’T MISBEHAVING

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