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Melanie Bennett Jacobson is an avid reader, amateur cook, and champion shopper. She consumes astonishing amounts of chocolate, chick flicks, and romance novels. After meeting her husband online, she is now living happily married in Southern California with her growing family and a series of doomed houseplants. Melanie is a former English teacher and a popular speaker who loves to laugh and make others laugh. In her down time (ha!), she writes romantic comedies for Covenant and maintains her humorous slice-of-life blog. Her second novel, Not My Type, hits shelves in September.
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10 Things About Me

  1. I own a lot of shoes. A LOT.
  2. I could live on French fries and ranch dressing...
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Not My Type - Chapter One

A fistful of mayonnaise makes a decent projectile in a pinch. If I'd been thinking more clearly, I would have grabbed a handful of jalapenos instead, but my vision did this red blurry anger thing and when I ran after Brady Willardson's black Jeep, what I threw was . . . mayo. It's probably harder to clean up and it's better that way, really. Less damage, bigger mess. Dumb kid. I owe him twice that for the way he trashed Handy's. I only wish I didn't mean that literally.

I trudged back inside the sandwich shop, and the door swept aside approximately a thousand of the napkins Brady and his lame friends had strewn all over the floor... (read more)

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