NEW RELEASE! Que Será, Syrah (PG Forte)

 

Que Será, Syrah

By PG Forte

https://books2read.com/Que-Sera-Syrah

They may be keeping secrets and telling lies, but a little white wine never hurt anyone.​

Allegra

It’s not every day that you inherit one-third of a winery. I should be on top of the world, floating on Cloud Wine, as they say. Instead, don’t you just know it? I’m about to make one of the biggest mistakes of my life. And that’s saying something. My family has always viewed me as something of a screw-up, not always fairly. But in this case? They’re not only dead right about me messing things up; they don’t even know the half of it. Yet.

Complicating my quest to redeem myself, earn my sisters’ respect, and help them turn our winery into a straight fire success, is my low-key relationship with Sheriff’s Deputy Clay Romero. Sure, there are risks involved in sleeping with the enemy, but ‘what’s meant to be will find a way,’ right? And whether Clay believes it or not, I know we’re fated. With a capital F.

Clay

We’re Capital F somethin’ all right; but I don’t think it’s fate. Ever since Legs (AKA Allegra Martinelli) blew back into town, I’ve been flirting with disaster. Literally. I doubt that woman’s ever met a rule that she didn’t want to at least bend. And, as luck would have it, it’s my job to try and stop her. I love my job, and I think I love her. But there’s not enough wine in Napa to convince me that I’ll be able to hang on to them both. 

Legs keeps likening us to Romeo and Juliet.  And as I keep trying to remind her; that kind of story tends not to end well. I’m sure there are exceptions, but are we gonna be one of them? I guess we’ll find out.

OR BUY THE SERIES:

POUR DECISIONS

https://books2read.com/Pour-Decisions

Meet the Martinelli sisters: Rosa, Bianca and Allegra. These partners in wine have just inherited a once-storied winery in the heart of Napa Valley. They’re living the dream, right?

Not so fast! Because, as it turns out, not everybody is happy for them. And that includes their Uncle Geno who’d assumed the property would come to him.

There are hoops to jump through, barrels to get over, and a mountain of regulations they'll have to scale. But these sisters are crushing it—and we don’t just mean the grapes. They’re making wine, falling in love, and working together to restore their inheritance to its former glory, one pour decision at a time.

Mug Shot: Probably Wine

I think we always knew I'd end up with at least one of these mugs, right? And given that it's an enamel camp mug that gets stupidly hot when you fill it with coffee or hot tea or cocoa or soup or oatmeal or whatever hot food/liquid you might actually want to drink while camping, I probably AM going to use it for wine ninety percent of the time. Or, some other cold liquid. Or ice cream.

I used to love camping. Haven't been in a REALLY long while, but I am romantically attached to enamel camp mugs. I LOVE the way they look and feel and hate that they get too hot to hold. So, yeah: WINE.

And, speaking of wine, Que Será, Syrah releases tomorrow!!

Que Será, Syrah

By PG Forte

https://books2read.com/Que-Sera-Syrah

They may be keeping secrets and telling lies, but a little white wine never hurt anyone.​

Allegra

It’s not every day that you inherit one-third of a winery. I should be on top of the world, floating on Cloud Wine, as they say. Instead, don’t you just know it? I’m about to make one of the biggest mistakes of my life. And that’s saying something. My family has always viewed me as something of a screw-up, not always fairly. But in this case? They’re not only dead right about me messing things up; they don’t even know the half of it. Yet.

Complicating my quest to redeem myself, earn my sisters’ respect, and help them turn our winery into a straight fire success, is my low-key relationship with Sheriff’s Deputy Clay Romero. Sure, there are risks involved in sleeping with the enemy, but ‘what’s meant to be will find a way,’ right? And whether Clay believes it or not, I know we’re fated. With a capital F.

Clay

We’re Capital F somethin’ all right; but I don’t think it’s fate. Ever since Legs (AKA Allegra Martinelli) blew back into town, I’ve been flirting with disaster. Literally. I doubt that woman’s ever met a rule that she didn’t want to at least bend. And, as luck would have it, it’s my job to try and stop her. I love my job, and I think I love her. But there’s not enough wine in Napa to convince me that I’ll be able to hang on to them both. 

Legs keeps likening us to Romeo and Juliet.  And as I keep trying to remind her; that kind of story tends not to end well. I’m sure there are exceptions, but are we gonna be one of them? I guess we’ll find out.

OR BUY THE SERIES:

POUR DECISIONS

https://books2read.com/Pour-Decisions

Meet the Martinelli sisters: Rosa, Bianca and Allegra. These partners in wine have just inherited a once-storied winery in the heart of Napa Valley. They’re living the dream, right?

Not so fast! Because, as it turns out, not everybody is happy for them. And that includes their Uncle Geno who’d assumed the property would come to him.

There are hoops to jump through, barrels to get over, and a mountain of regulations they'll have to scale. But these sisters are crushing it—and we don’t just mean the grapes. They’re making wine, falling in love, and working together to restore their inheritance to its former glory, one pour decision at a time.

Mug Shot: Textured Mug

 

This is currently one of my favorite mugs. It's the one I'm drinking out of right now, as I write this. I got is at the Dollar Store (!) of $1.25, but it's ADORABLE! It's very Whole Latte Love-esque. It's a very modern-meets-mud-cloth in a post-industrial, urban chic Coffee Haus vibe to it, which--to be honest-- sounds exactly  like Peet's Coffee, especially in it's original iteration on the corner of Vine and Walnut in Berkeley, CA. 

It has a dark (is it actually black? Or is it coffee colored--ie brown?) satin finish. The while lines are unglazed pottery, so it has a cool texture. 

NEW RELEASE! Gone With the Wine (Kelly Jamieson)

 

Gone With the Wine

Kelly Jamieson

https://books2read.com/u/38NroZ

Where there’s a wine, there’s a way.

Jansen

I’m trying to start over after a soul-crushing end to my hockey career and my marriage—so I buy a winery. I have no idea what I’m doing, but at least I have a reason to get out of bed in the morning. I hate asking for help, but when I meet the winemaker next door, I’m jacked to have an excuse to see her again. She’s gorgeous and full of life, with grape juice-stained hands, a sunburnt nose, and long legs in cut-off shorts. But Bianca’s not so eager to help a grumpy rich celebrity who thinks he can just buy a winery and become a winemaker.

Bianca

Holy crap, I’ve inherited part of the family winery. That should be a dream come true, but I left Napa to get away from my family baggage. I have no choice but to go home and help my sisters get through harvest season, but I’ll be making a quick exit back to my rising star wine career in Argentina. Meanwhile, our new neighbor is a tall, dark, and ripped temptation. He needs a winemaker, and I need a laboratory—so we make a business deal. But while we work together picking, crushing, and fermenting, the attraction between us is causing another chemical reaction. And with wine and with life, it’s not healthy to keep things bottled up…

OR BUY THE SERIES:

POUR DECISIONS

https://books2read.com/Pour-Decisions

Meet the Martinelli sisters: Rosa, Bianca and Allegra. These partners in wine have just inherited a once-storied winery in the heart of Napa Valley. They’re living the dream, right?

Not so fast! Because, as it turns out, not everybody is happy for them. And that includes their Uncle Geno who’d assumed the property would come to him.

There are hoops to jump through, barrels to get over, and a mountain of regulations they'll have to scale. But these sisters are crushing it—and we don’t just mean the grapes. They’re making wine, falling in love, and working together to restore their inheritance to its former glory, one pour decision at a time.

Mug Shot: Mother's Day Mug

 

Today's mug was a Mothers Day gift from my daughter way back when she was in Kindergarten. Her teacher collected a drawing from each kid in her class and had them made into mugs--or T shirts, as I recall. I guess we're not surprised that my daughter chose to make me a mug. lol

I know the images are small, and hard to see, but there are butterflies and birds in the sky at the top of the mug and frogs and fish in the water at the bottom. The frogs are especially masterfully rendered, in my opinion. 

Unfortunately, my daughter got hold of the idea that she couldn't draw shortly after this, so this--and a bunch of painted ceramic tiles--are the only examples I have to refute that conclusion. 

Anyway, Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers (and mother figures) out there. I wish you many happy memories!

Also, if you're interested I do have a free poetry collection all about Being Mom. You can find that here: https://claims.prolificworks.com/free/w0K512hM

Mug Shot: Galaxy Mug

 

So, several years ago, when I lived near my sister, she bought us matching coffee/tea/wine mugs in a rose gold or metallic Millennial pink shade. Although, obviously, the mug pictured here WAS NOT ONE OF THOSE.

But I digress...

She was definitely in her pink era, at the time, having also recently repainted/refurnished/remodeled her bedroom AND her home office (basically the entire upper story) utilizing A LOT of Farrow and Ball "Pink Ground" paint.

I've written about this before. It was amazing. But let's move on. At one point, during this time, she was at my house and she noticed my husband was using my pink mug and for reasons that I don't fully understand, she suddenly decided that, since he's a boy, he shouldn't have to use a pink mug, which, if you've seen even a small portion my mug collection, you'll realize that NO ONE in my household "has to" use ANY mug if they don't want to (because there are so damn many other options to choose from). 

HOWEVER, the upshot of this is that she bought my husband his own metallic, insulated, coffee/tea/wine mug (which, in his case, is really just a tea mug, since he doesn't drink coffee or wine), which is the mug shown below.