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Once upon a time I sat on the deck of a cruise ship looking up at the stars. My partner sat across from me, a cup of tea in his hands while I clutched my coffee. It was close to midnight on a Saturday night, late January of 2009. As we sat enjoying the cool, Caribbean breeze, I remember looking up into the black sky and thinking, very powerfully and with all my energy, “I like this feeling of being untethered.”

         Less than a week later the call center where I worked was shut down. Eleven people lost their jobs just like that. There were no warnings, no sings of impending doom. Just BOOM! The funny thing is that a few weeks prior, at New Year’s, I’d made a resolution to look for another job -- or at least a part-time one -- where I could work from home and finally devote time to writing. I’d decided it was time to shit or get off the pot. After all, what’s the point of having a dream if you don’t chase it?

         At first, getting laid off was a relief. I’d been with the company for 8 years doing a job I hated but was good at, earning just enough to get by. I needed a break, something different and new. But as time progressed and both my severance and unemployment ran out, I began to doubt my passionate plea to the universe. Yet, deep down inside, I had faith and believed that what happened, NEEDED to happen and I simply had to move past the grief, the ups and downs, and the nauseous feeling in my stomach that was a direct result of free-falling.

         Over the next two and a half years, I went back to school and finally got my A.A. in Liberal Arts. It was a great sense of achievement and a long time in coming. However, as exciting as it was to finally get my diploma, my greatest and proudest moment since being pushed forth into a new life, was the publication of my very first e-book, “Casa Rodrigo.”

         “Learning To Samba” is about a 48-year-old romance novelist who returns to Brooklyn after many years abroad. He’s been trying to find himself after the loss of his life partner and realizes he can’t move forward without first reconnecting with his estranged sister; the only family Brian has left. While there, he meets João da Silva, a 25-year-old Brazilian stud muffin who knows how to push Brian’s buttons. And I do mean all! The young man’s got charisma, a big cock, and a rockin’ bod to go with all that kinky sex. What more can you want in a DILF lover?

         However, looking past the sex -- which is basically there to titillate and, hopefully, get you all hot and bothered -- the book is about more than finding love again. To me, “Learning To Samba” is about letting go and listening to the sounds of the universe to better flow with the rhythm. It’s about opening up to new possibilities and trying new things. It’s about love; of family, of place, of self. Ultimately, I think it’s about placing your trust and faith and knowing that everything will be all right in the end.

         “Learning To Samba” was an emotional journey for me. It dragged me through dark places but it also showed me there was light at the end of the tunnel. Like Brian, I’ve learned that our time on this beautiful planet is very short. We spend way too much time worrying about bullshit rather than grabbing life by the balls and jumping into that roller coaster of life, screaming at the top of our lungs.

         I’m very pleased with the way “Learning To Samba” came out. I hope you do, too.

Blurb: Learning To Samba

After traveling through Europe trying to recover from a loss, reclusive romance novelist Brian Oliver returns to his childhood home in order to find himself and re-establish a severed relationship with his sister. What he unexpectedly discovers, however, is that even an old dog like him can still learn new tricks. Especially if the one teaching is João da Silva, a 25-year-old Brazilian hot-ass with a major thing for Daddies.

Brian soon realizes that with forgiveness and acceptance comes great emotional freedom if he and João can rekindle the deep and burning lust for life he'd once had. Do love, sex, and passion have an expiration date, or can Brian Learn to Samba?

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Thank you for joining me today, Johnny. I hope your new book is a smashing success and that you'll come back to Romance With SASS again very soon.

Margie