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Head Over Feet in Love - Book Tour and Giveaway

11/29/2018

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Head Over Feet in Love
by Patti F. Smith
Genre: Chick-Lit, Romance

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Rebecca Slater is running away from a stay in a mental health facility, a writing career that never got off the ground, and a dying best friend. She has nowhere to go, but nothing can stop her—until she crashes her car into a tree, possibly on purpose, but probably not. Without a cell phone and in a strange town, Becca starts knocking on doors, looking for someone to help her. The only person who answers her call is Mike Riley.

Becca and Mike begin a friendship that neither realizes they need. A firebrand feminist devoted to all things Generation X, Becca shares her unique life view with Mike and finds an ally in the reclusive and shy man. Becca tells him her story and the pair falls in love slowly, and then passionately, realizing that two lost souls have finally found each other.

When Becca thinks Mike is dead, she impulsively runs away again, this time to a place where she thinks no one will ever find her. She prepares for a life without her true love, but committed to remaining mentally healthy and strong, continuing her story that she now believes will have an unhappy ending.

But will it?



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​I’m driving away. I’m driving away as fast and as far as I can. I’m never going back. I’m going to drive until I get so far up north that no one will ever find me. I’m going to--
Except that I’m not. I can’t leave home now. Not with my best friend in a coma, not with my parents tripped out, not with all that’s going on. Not with bipolar disorder and anxiety and everything else. I’m still driving away, mind you, but I’ll have to go back. As soon as the rain lets up, I’ll turn around and head back to US-23. It’s really pouring though, and I don’t like driving in the rain, so I might have to find a hotel and stay the night. I’ll have to call my parents, except I don’t have a phone anymore, and with Rick in the hospital, it all means--
It means that I have no way to call anyone when my car hits the tree.
Goddamn it! My air bag merrily pops out at me, and I start to cough as I inhale the powder that comes out with it. Without thinking about whether or not I might be hurt, I throw open the door and climb out of my Jeep.
As the rain soaks me, I look at my Jeep and let out a groan. Goddamn it. Steam pours out of the engine, and the car wheezes. Shit. Don’t cars sometimes explode in the movies when steam is rushing out of them? This could suck.
I grab my purse and Red Wings jersey out of the car, cautiously backing away. I reach for my cell phone before remembering that it had been with Rick when his canoe upended on the Huron River, and it changed everything. Shit.
 


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Okay, Becca, don’t panic. Don’t panic. Think. Where are the nearest houses where you can--

The car burps, and smoke puffs from under the hood. I swear the Jeep looks mad. It belches again and then kinda rumbles at me. One headlight winks at me before it goes out. The Jeep makes a noise I have never heard it make before.
Okay, now we panic.
I turn and run up the nearest driveway. I pound on the door, but no one answers. “Help!” I call, before remembering the self-defense course my mom made me take in seventh grade, which had taught me that people respond well to shouts of “fire,” but not so well to shouts for “help.” “Fire!” I call helpfully.
“Well, screw you, too!” I say to the door before racing to the next house where again I pound and pound.
Finally, a voice says, “What do you want?”
I squint in through the window to see a tiny elderly man. “The phone!” I yelp.
“What do you want?” he repeats, as if I haven’t spoken.
“The—this!”  I mimic a phone by putting my thumb to my ear and my pinky to my mouth. He still looks confused, so I start talking into my pinky like a fool. I remember an improv teacher saying that you shouldn’t imitate a phone that way lest people think you are talking into your finger like a dork, so I pretend that I have an old timey Star Trek communicator and start talking in a Captain Kirk voice.
The man shakes his head and says, “You don’t make any sense, girly. You go away now.”
I wonder if I really don’t make any sense, or if he’s just offended by my James T. Kirk impression. I walk off the porch and feel something hit my face. I look up and realize it’s hailing. Oh, nice. I put the Wings jersey on, because surely this will stop the ice from hitting me.
I race down the hill and up the block. It takes eons to reach the next driveway. I’m out of breath, but I start to race up toward the house on the hill. I climb and climb before I realize that I have, indeed, picked the steepest driveway. Because of course I did.
Damn, this hill is steep. I wish I hadn’t decided to run away. I wish Ricky had eaten better and hadn’t screwed up his heart. I wish I had my cell phone. I wish I could call my parents. I wish. I know, I know, if wishes were horses ... a saying I never really quite understood, but whatever.
The house on the hill enters my line of vision and I stand, contemplating it. Big, dark brick. Two stories, with black shutters on all eight windows. If I had gone into architecture instead of law, I would know the style. As it is, my brain can only conjure up images like the enormous land contract or mortgage on the house. Hell, if that shit had cropped up on the Bar, maybe I would have passed it.
My thoughts of property law flutter away when I notice a curtain move in the big bay window, as if someone inside has just peeked out. Oh yeah, baby—the doctor is in.
I take a breath and run up to the door. One sign reads, “No Peddlers or Solicitors”, because peddlers are really a thing these days. Another warns of “No Trespassing! This means YOU.”
“Bite me,” I mutter, and punch the bell. Come on, my man! If you rustle that curtain, you can open that door. “I need help! I crashed my Jeep down the hill there. I need a phone.”
Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz. The hail picks up and blows onto the porch, pummeling me. The more I get hit, the more I want to ram in through the bay window like the Kool-Aid Man. The more I get hit, the more depressed I become.
Suddenly, I stop ringing the bell, knowing that I am being ignored. “Seriously? Really?” I announce to the empty porch. I have become a walking first-world problem, and I hate everything.
 


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Patti F. Smith is the author of two books: Images of America–Downtown Ann Arbor and A History of the People’s Food Co-op Ann Arbor (and of the forthcoming Forgotten Ann Arbor, which will be published in 2019). She has written for CraftBeer.com, Concentrate, Mittenbrew, The Ann, AADL’s Pulp blog, and the Ann Arbor Observer. A former legal aid lawyer and current special education teacher, Patti serves as a commissioner for the Public Art Commission and the Recreation Advisory Commission, as a storyteller in the Ann Arbor Storytellers’ Guild, volunteers for the Ann Arbor Film Festival and WCBN.
Patti lives in her favorite city on earth, Ann Arbor, with her husband Ken Anderson and their pets. HEAD OVER FEET IN LOVE is her first novel.


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34 Comments
Bea LaRocca
11/29/2018 03:24:00 am

Beautiful cover and I loved the excerpt. This will be a must read for me.

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James Robert
11/29/2018 06:02:49 am

Thank you so much for taking time to bring to our attention another great read. I enjoy these tours and finding out about many terrific books.

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Janet W.
11/29/2018 07:34:12 am

I love this beautiful and romantic cover! Sounds like a great read!

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latanya
11/29/2018 07:39:19 am

I like the darkness, but then the light shines on the couple

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Debbie P
11/29/2018 11:11:06 am

This sounds like a fantastic read. Very pretty cover.

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Kelly D
11/29/2018 11:45:44 am

I like the cover. It looks very peaceful.

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Calvin
11/29/2018 12:18:11 pm

Got a deep feel to it. Cool romance to read over the holidays

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Rita Wray
11/29/2018 01:25:56 pm

Sounds like a good book.

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Sherry
11/29/2018 02:49:25 pm

Sounds like a good read.

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Mary Cloud
11/29/2018 04:59:49 pm

No questions - the cover is very nice

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Patti Smith link
11/29/2018 06:53:11 pm

Thank you all so much!!

Isn't the cover gorgeous? I fell in love immediately!!

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wendy hutton
11/29/2018 09:06:21 pm

lovely cover and the book sounds interesting thanks

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Dale Wilken
11/29/2018 10:14:01 pm

Sounds great.

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lynn clayton
11/29/2018 10:14:09 pm

looks like a great read

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Amy F
11/30/2018 02:52:01 pm

Beautiful cover design!

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Kelly Nicholson
12/1/2018 12:33:00 pm

What do you think of the book or the cover?

i need some moonlight love myself

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Patti Smith
12/1/2018 04:02:12 pm

Again, thank you all so much! I hope the book goes over as well as the cover!
xo

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Corey Hutton
12/2/2018 02:48:01 am

Good luck with the book and Thanks for the giveaway.

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Ann Fantom
12/2/2018 07:11:25 am

I like the cover. Very nice!

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Mood Reader
12/2/2018 07:03:00 pm

Love the cover & it sounds like a good read! :)

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jan
12/3/2018 12:28:10 pm

i love the colour of the cover

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Marcy Meyer
12/3/2018 07:02:13 pm

Sounds like a great chick lit read. Thanks for sharing!

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Rhonda Platts
12/3/2018 07:38:45 pm

Like the cover and the excerpt is great. Thanks for the chance and giveaway

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Nancy
12/5/2018 10:11:52 pm

Nice cover

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Beyond Comps
12/7/2018 04:04:51 am

A really nice atmospheric cover!

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Denise Higgins
12/10/2018 05:39:45 am

Love the cover

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Serge B
12/10/2018 05:21:29 pm

I liked the lighting in the cover--very romantic

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heather
12/16/2018 04:57:55 pm

Love the cover of this one and it sounds like one that will keep me interested.

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Nikki
12/23/2018 09:41:27 am

I love the mystery shown in the cover!

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Connie Lee
12/25/2018 01:58:36 pm

The cover looks really romantic.

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Bridgett Wilbur
12/26/2018 09:58:16 am

I would love to read your book.

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Lavender
12/27/2018 03:22:53 am

I love the atmosphere, secret lovers! The font is so lovely.

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Daniel M
12/27/2018 08:01:38 pm

like the cover

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Jerry Marquardt
12/29/2018 11:08:40 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Head Over Feet in Love, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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