New readers’ pets are posted every Monday on evanovich.com.  We won’t offend you by posting cat pictures… even though we know you have a cat, and we know you secretly talk kitty cat talk to it.  Instead we’ll post the most manly pet of the week here.  To have a shot at getting your manly pet featured, send your pet’s picture (jpg or gif) along with the pet’s name to webmaster@evanovich.com.

How manly is this? Jack the dog has his own pet goat. He named him Henry.

** If a signing store or event hotline is telling you something that doesn’t seem right, please let us know.
webmaster@evanovich.com

• Tuesday, June 19 – Moorestown, NEW JERSEY

Signing starts at 6 PM
Barnes & Noble
1311 Nixon Drive
Moorestown, NJ 08057
For more information, call 856-608-1622

• Thursday, June 21 – Skokie, ILLINOIS

Signing starts at 6 PM
Barnes & Noble
55 Old Orchard Center
Skokie, IL 60077
For more information, call 847-676-2230

• EVENT & SIGNING: Friday, June 29 – St. Louis, MISSOURI

9-11 AM
Stages St. Louis
111 S. Geyer Road
Kirkwood, MO 63122

Live broadcast with audience and Janet on KMOX-AM, Fontbonne University Charlie Brennan Book-of-the-Month Club show
Reservation (FREE) for space required at www.kmox.com
Books will be sold onsite by Left Bank Books, 314-367-6731, www.left-bank.com
For more information, call 314-444-1827

• EVENT & SIGNING: Monday, July 9 – Traverse City, MICHIGAN

7 PM
National Writers Series and the National Cherry Festival present:
“An Evening with Janet Evanovich: NWS Annual Summer Scholarship Fundraiser Benefiting Student Writers”
City Opera House
106 E. Front St.
Traverse City, MI 49684
For more information, call 231.941.8082 or visit www.cityoperahouse.org, www.nationalwritersseries.org

**This is a fundraising event**

Tickets go on sale June 4 to the general public, and May 29 for Friends of the National Writers Series. Tickets can be purchased at the City Opera House box office, online and by phone at 231-941-8082.

Tickets will be available at the following levels:

• $15 – Balcony level reserved seating; books available for purchase at the event
• $40 – Balcony and orchestra level reserved seating; includes a new hardcover copy of Wicked Business
• $100 VIP – Premium orchestra level seating; includes a new *pre-signed* copy of Wicked Business, plus a private pre-event reception with Janet that includes one complimentary drink ticket and an opportunity to meet-and-greet with Janet.

More information can be found at:

http://www.nationalwritersseries.org/2012/05/an-evening-with-janet-evanovich-2/
and
http://www.cityoperahouse.org/shows/info.php?id=105

This week’s Wicked Business scavenger hunt item:
IN A MOVIE, WHO WOULD YOU CAST FOR
DIESEL, LIZZY, WULF, GLO AND/OR ANY WICKED CHARACTER?
You can either post (Facebook.com/WickedAppetite) or E-mail (webmaster@evanovich.com) your casting choices to us.

Our casting choice for Diesel: The manly Brad Pitt

This week’s Wicked Business scavenger hunt prize:
A RANGEMAN TOTE BAG!

1. You have one week to either post your casting ideas on our Wicked Appetite/Business Facebook page or e-mail it to us (webmaster@evanovich.com), and we’ll post it on the scavenger hunt page.
2. On the following Friday, before we post the next item to find, we will pick one winner at random, and that winner will receive the prize.

So get down to business and post your casting ideas on Facebook.com/WickedAppetite or e-mail it to webmaster@evanovich.com.

Check out the Scavenger Hunt page for some of last week’s Wicked Appetite quotes, this week’s casting ideas and more scavenger hunt details. Last week’s winner was Lois. Lois won a Morelli T-shirt.

“What do you think of this dress?” she asked me. “You think it’s too flashy?”
Grandma Mazur was seventy-two and didn’t look a day over ninety. I loved her dearly, but when you got her down to her skivvies, she resembled a soup chicken. Tonight’s dress was a fire-engine-red shirtwaist with shiny gold buttons. “It’s perfect,” I told her. Especially for the funeral home.”
– Two For the Dough

Manly sports factoid of the day:  Joe Salter placed 147 out of 246 in Florida’s Flora-Bama Mullet Man Triathlon.  So-so, you say?  Well, not when you consider that he performed all three events — running, bicycling and swimming — while juggling.

Give a friend the business… Wicked Business.  Head over to the Facebook page for Janet and send a friend another fun quote from Wicked Business (non-spoiler and not in this month’s excerpt.)  Virtual gifts are friendlier to your wallet than real gifts.

Manly sports factoid of the day:  In a sign of the times, city officials in Indianapolis say the city lost $1.1 million hosting the 2012 Super Bowl.  The biggest expense was $3.6 million for extra police and fire protection.

Today, both the mass market paperback version of Explosive Eighteen as well as the DVD and Blu-Ray versions of One For the Money, the movie, go on sale.

New readers’ pets are posted every Monday on evanovich.com.  We won’t offend you by posting cat pictures… even though we know you have a cat, and we know you secretly talk kitty cat talk to it.  Instead we’ll post the most manly pet of the week here.  To have a shot at getting your manly pet featured, send your pet’s picture (jpg or gif) along with the pet’s name to webmaster@evanovich.com.

Oliver Twisted is a ferret who knows his own mind -- especially when he's jacked up on the extra caffeine found in Mountain Dew. Very manly!

This week’s Wicked Business scavenger hunt item:
YOUR FAVORITE QUOTE FROM WICKED APPETITE.
You can either post (Facebook.com/WickedAppetite) or E-mail (webmaster@evanovich.com) your quote to us.

We got as far as the produce aisle with Carl in the cart, and a guy stacking grapefruits stopped me.

“Is that a monkey?”

“Are you making fun of my child?” I asked him.

“No, ma’am, but he’s kinda hairy.”

“He gets that from his father.”

The produce guy looked at Diesel.

“Not my bad,” Diesel said.

“Well, you gotta have clothes on your kid,” the guy said. “We don’t let naked kids in here, no matter how much hair they got.”

This week’s Wicked Business scavenger hunt prize:
A Joe Morelli T-shirt!
**We have OFTM, Rangeman and Wicked Appetite shirts for any men that win.

1. You have one week to either post your favorite Wicked Appetite quote on our Wicked Appetite/Business Facebook page or e-mail your quote to us (webmaster@evanovich.com), and we’ll post it on the scavenger hunt page.
2. On the following Friday, before we post the next item to find, we will pick one winner at random, and that winner will receive the prize.

So get down to business and post your quote on Facebook.com/WickedAppetite or e-mail it to webmaster@evanovich.com.

Check out the Scavenger Hunt page for some of last week’s Diesel and Wulf photos, this week’s sticker photos and more scavenger hunt details. Last week’s winner was Ilse, who is from Holland and we don’t think the DVD/Blu-ray version we have will work over there. We’ll let Ilse pick a different prize, if she wants. Honorable mentions go to Margie and Ivy. Both Margie and Ivy will receive a Blu-Ray or DVD of One For the Money .

Ivy sent in this homemade sticker attached to a Butterscotch Krimpet Tastykake box. We're sure Diesel would approve.

Margie went high-tech and created this incredible Diesel desktop wallpaper. Looks great!

Grandma Mazur came out of the kitchen. “I smell throw-up.”
“It’s Stephanie,” my mother said. “She was in a Dumpster.”
“What was she doing in a Dumpster? Was she looking for bodies? I saw a movie on TV where the mob splattered some guy’s brains all over the place and then left him for rat food in a Dumpster.”
“She was looking for her keys,” my mother told Grandma Mazur. “It was an accident.”
“Well that’s disappointing,” Grandma Mazur said. “I expected something better from her.”
– One For the Money

Manly sports factoid of the day:  Washington, DC — A juror in former MLB pitcher Roger Clemens’ perjury trial was kicked off the jury Wednesday for falling asleep.  Prosecutors claim the all-star lied to Congress in 2008 when he denied taking performance-enhancing drugs.

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