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Duffy Brown
loves anything with a mystery. While others girls dreamed of dating Brad Pitt,
Duffy longed to take Sherlock Holmes to the prom.
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| Spooky |
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| Dr. Watson |
She has two cats, Spooky and
Dr. Watson, and conjures up who-done-it stories of her very own for Berkley
Prime Crime. Iced Chiffon, out
October, 2012, is the first in the Consignment
Shop Mystery series. Duffy writes romance as Dianne Castell and is a USA
Today bestselling author.
And Now, Here's What Duffy has to say about her Consignment Shop Inspiration:
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Consignment
shopping is the fun of wearing designer clothes on the cheap. I could never
afford a Coach handbag or an Armani jacket but I do love the expensive look and
great quality. Most of all I love bragging to my friends how much I paid! The
conversation goes something like, “Oh, isn’t that a great Kate Spade purse.”
And my reply is, “I got it at the Snooty Fox for forty bucks!” instead of the
usual three-hundred and fifty!
For years I
shopped consignment stores then decided I needed to work at the Snooty Fox
since I was there all the time looking for deals. My kids were some of the best-dressed
on campus and I did it for K-Mart prices.
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Don’t you love the
name Snooty Fox! The Snoot is an upscale consignment shop. How many times have
you bought something, wore it once, decided it wasn’t your color or didn’t fit
the way you liked and you were stuck with it? Well, that’s where the Snooty Fox
comes in. You can sell your green plaid jacket that you just had to have but
then decided you hated at the Snoot. There is a customer out there who will
love that jacket and pay you good money for it.
How this works is
that you open an account and hand over your clothes. The Snoot chooses which
clothes they will take...it’s called Snooty for a reason, we only take the good
stuff. The clothes must be cleaned, pressed, on a hanger, gently worn, in very
good condition, and within a two-year style period. The price is a third to a
fourth of retail and you get half of that when the item sells. Not a bad deal
for something hanging in the back of your closet that you’re never going to
wear again!
Consignment
shopping is a lot like solving a mystery. It’s all about the hunt for the
perfect scarf, skirt or shoes. I think that’s why the Consignment Shop
mysteries seemed like a perfect fit. The hunt is on!
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I’m always amazed
at where someone’s hobby or special interest leads them. I have a friend who
loves to paint and is now doing murals on nursery room walls. Another friend
loves to dance, took lessons and met her future husband at an Arthur Murray
studio.
So what about you and your hobbies or special interests? Did
you meet a best friend? Your mate? Visit a new place? Get an award for
perfecting your hobby or even teach a class on it?
Hobbies enriched
our lives and often take us to places we never expected...like a murder mystery
series. Who would have thought.
I’ll give away two Iced Chiffon totes from the answers. Please leave your email address so you can be contacted.
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About Iced Chiffon:
To pay for rehabbing the dilapidated Victorian house she loves, Reagan
Summerside opens the Prissy Fox consignment shop on the first floor and gets
involved in the lives of her Savannah customers, neighbors, ex husband and the
attorney who screwed her over in the divorce.
Murder and mayhem at the consignment shop for the ex, his Cupcake and
the badass attorney
Amazon Link: http://amzn.com/0425251608
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Happy Reading.
Duffy Brown
Berkley Prime Crime
Mystery and Mayhem for Fun and Profit
