Hello! It’s me, the fabulous Jaunty P. Quills, Porcupine Extraordinaire. I’m here with guest blogger Shana Galen to—

Shana: Um, Jaunty. Excuse me.

Jaunty: Shh! I’m trying to introduce you.

Shana: I know, and that’s great, but I’m not a guest blogger. This is my blog—well, mine and the other Jaunty Quills’.

Jaunty: Of course it is, Shana (patting her shoulder). You keep believing that.
But, as I was saying, my guest today is Shana Galen. We’re here to talk about her new book, GOOD PORCUPINE HUNTING.

Shana: Jaunty, that’s not the title. It’s GOOD GROOM HUNTING. See, here’s the cover.

Jaunty: Right. So tell me a little about the book.

Shana: It’s the second in my Misadventures in Matrimony series. The first was NO MAN’S BRIDE, and it was about Catie. This story is about Catie’s cousin Josie. She’s the one who always wanted to be a pirate. Her grandfather was a pirate, and she has half of a treasure map he gave her—

Jaunty: No, no, no! Not that boring stuff! Tell me about the parts with the porcupines.

Shana: What parts with porcupines?

Jaunty: Wait a minute! Are you saying you’ve written another book without any mention of porcupines in it? (quills stand menacingly on end) You promised me that this book had porcupines!

Shana: Okay, okay! Don’t get so close with those quills. The book does have porcupines. Yeah. It does. See, the porcupine heroine, Josie, has half of a treasure map, and her arch-enemy Stephen, the porcupine hero, has the other half.

Jaunty: What does this Stephen look like? Anything like me?

Shana: Um—exactly like you, Jaunty.

Jaunty: Really?

Shana: Sure.
So anyway, as I was saying, Josie decides the best way to find Stephen’s half of the treasure map is by becoming his mistress. That way she can search his house. Plus, their families are enemies (her pirate grandfather allegedly shot his pirate grandfather), so she won’t have to worry about marrying Stephen and losing her independence. Josie doesn’t count on him telling her that he doesn’t want her for a mistress.

Jaunty: How humiliating! Did her quills droop?

Shana: Her quills were very depressed—for about 5 minutes. Josie’s pretty spunky, so she comes up with another plan, and before you know it, she and Stephen are running around London and then on their way to Cornwall in search of the treasure.

Jaunty: Do they find it?

Shana: I can’t tell you that, Jaunty. I can only say that they find something far more precious.

Jaunty: (gasps) The golden quill?

Shana: The what?

Jaunty: Oh, oops. Forgot I’m not supposed to mention the golden quill—bit of a porcupine secret. Erase that when we edit this, okay, Shana?

Shana: Sure, Jaunty.

Jaunty: So this is Jaunty P. Quills signing off. Thank you to Shana Galen for being my guest—

Shana: Jaunty!

Jaunty: —and don’t forget that her new book, GOOD PORCUPINE HUNTING—

Shana: GOOD GROOM HUNTING

Jaunty:–goes on sale today!