Rita Lakin

June 2008

NEWSLETTER FROM RITA LAKIN AND GLADDY GOLD

Hi loyal readers:
I get so many letters asking when the next book is coming out. It’s been so long, it even seems endless to me. Well, book five, GETTING OLD IS A DISASTER will be out between December 26th-Jan 10th, (I know, I know, right after Christmas.)
So what can we do while we wait?
Read about the book after that. Book number six- GETTING OLD IS TRES DANGEREUX.

No, alas, neither Gladdy and the girls, nor the writer, get to go to Paris. Paris comes to Ft. Lauderdale in the form of a gorgeous, younger ex-girlfriend of Jack’s. Someone wants to murder her. Jack and Gladdy get involved in trying to save her life (while Gladdy tries to hide her jealousy). Even worse, their lives are in danger, too.

Okay, here’s another thing. Writer Rita Lakin has finally written herself into a corner. There is no longer any excuse to keep the loving ones from getting married. However, Rita, the writer and Gladdy Gold, the beloved of Jack, have different opinions on this subject. What do YOU think? Should they get married? Or not? Here’s the argument:

GLADDY; It took you five books to get us into bed. Enough already. I’m a nice girl and I want to be married. Jack keeps begging me and you don’t let me accept.

RITA: Listen, Gladdy, I’m the boss here. I make all your decisions.

GLADDY: But you’re so unfair. And I can’t stand all this Jewish guilt.

RITA: Snap out of it! I’ve been a writer for more than twenty-five years. I know what sells. Single people being frustrated sells. Married couples don’t sell.

GLADDY: That doesn’t make sense.

RITA: Sure it does. If I let you marry Jack, then what?

GLADDY; Then what, what? What are you talking about? We’ll be happy.

RITA: Happy is boring.

GLADDY: Nonsense, love is beautiful. We’ll live happily ever after.

RITA: Ho hum. Watching TV together, then the ten o’clock news and then to bed. Boring! Where is the excitement, the tension, the danger, the drama? Your life will be like watching grass grow. Even the girls will get boring. No more Ida’s sarcasm and Evvie’s jealousy and Bella’s cuteness and Sophie’s malapropos.

GLADDY: But we’ll have our cases to solve.

RITA: Jack will be in the way and we’ll lose all the fun of the girls getting in trouble.

GLADDY: I think you’re very insulting to married people. Just because they’re married, they don’t have to be boring. Married people live interesting lives these days.

RITA: That’s in real life. Not in fiction.

GLADDY: (hmmf) A “good” writer would know how to keep her characters and plots interesting whether married or not.

RITA: Oh, really? And what books have you ever written?

GLADDY: Without me, you’re nothing!

RITA: (hand on hips) I just can’t talk to you!

GLADDY: And I can’t talk to you!

Gladdy walks out and slams the door.

RITA: (to herself as she pecks at computer keys) Watch out, Gladdy Gold, I can always delete you…

So loyal readers, you see the problem? I’m taking a vote. Marry them or let them suffer? Will marriage in fiction be boring? Please write in and let me know. Thanks.

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Rita Lakin




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