Doesn't get any better than an Underwood No. 5

I saw it as soon as my feet hit the driveway, and my breath caught in my chest as I fell deeply, madly in love...there, gleaming in the morning sun of a local garage sale was the instrument every writer covets:

An Underwood No. 5 typewriter.

I played coy, pretending to examine the other sale items. Yet all the while my eyes darted over to the Underwood. It was in mint condition, all her keys intact, a piece of bond typing paper rolled in, black, blocky type evidence someone had tried her out. It had no price tag--a bad omen. As the saying goes, if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.

Giving myself a once-over, I grimaced. Damn. I was in a flop sweat from my kickboxing class, and let's just say standing downwind of me would NOT have been pleasant. My post-workout look, combined with the fact I only had $20, made the likelihood of me scoring this Writer's Holy Grail right about 2%.

But I had to try. I mean, look at her! Innit she purty?

The Fates were smiling that day--the wonderful woman found out I was a writer (a teeny little fact I let slip as we chatted), and felt I just HAD to have it for...wait for it...

FIFTEEN DOLLARS!! :)

I'm on Cloud 9! I officially own an Underwood No. 5--the same typewriter that Arthur Conan Doyle and F. Scott Fitzgerald used.

Happily TYPING my way to Ever After...
Dylan

I am a book trailer VIRGIN NO MORE!

After hours of collaboration with R the Great Production Studios, I'm thrilled to present my first-ever book trailer! A labor of love, it is amazing how many hours went into this 58 second video for my paranormal romance, DESPITE THE GHOSTS.

I'd love to hear what you think!

Cashing in her V-card (for book trailers)...

Happily My Ever After,

Dylan

Winner-Winner! Prize-A-Palooza is over and...

Congratulations to Darcy Lanphere! 

She won the grand prize drawing in my February Prize-A-Palooza contest and in addition to an autographed bookplate, she will have the option of having...

 a character named after her in my next novel. 

Tentatively titled, "Despite the Fangs," my next paranormal romance features a tough female werewolf who happens to fall for probably the only human with a life and back story more bizarre and deadly than her own. 

Congratulations to Darcy, as well as the other winners of my first-ever Prize-A-Palooza! If you would like to be notified when I'm doing my next major giveaway, just follow me on Facebook (Dylan Newton Author), or simply put your email in at the below right (where it says to enter your email to have Happily My Ever After sent to your in-box), and you'll be among the first to know!

Thanks for following as I Happily My Ever After,

Dylan