I’ve had some mildly panicked emails lately so I thought I’d better check in – yep, still alive! Here’s little holiday story for your enjoyment. xx
Charlie: What size shoe is your dad?
Adam: Please don’t buy him more arch support thongs.
Charlie: Really? But they have some great Christmas ones. Red with fluffy white straps!
Adam:
Charlie: Did you just send me a blank text?
Adam: Yes. I thought it was the best way to convey my current facial expression. You fill in how you think I’m looking at the phone screen right now.
Charlie: Fine, I won’t get him the Santa thongs.
Adam: I appreciate it.
Charlie: OMG.
Adam: I don’t like the sound of that.
Charlie: They do a range of close-toed shoes. He could wear them to work!
Adam: Not if they’re still made of plastic.
Charlie: Oh, come on. They’re so classy you could wear them to a funeral.
Adam: I have strong doubts about that.
Charlie: I guess we’ll see next time someone your dad cares about dies!
Charlie: Wow, I didn’t mean to get that dark.
Charlie: Maybe I won’t buy the shoes. I don’t think they’re bringing out the best in me.
Charlie: Maybe they’re cursed.
Charlie: ???
Charlie: Are you ignoring me?
Charlie: Fine. I’m sending a picture of them to Eli to get his input.
Adam: Please don’t. We both know the uglier they are the more likely he’ll tell you to buy them.
Charlie: Aha! You were ignoring me on purpose!
Adam: Obviously.
Charlie: Rude.
Charlie: I don’t know what to get Harry if not these shoes.
Charlie: Except possibly another pair of Dungeons and Dinosaurs budgie smugglers.
Adam: You’re going to buy my father underwear for Christmas?
Charlie: Of course not.
Adam: That’s a relief.
Charlie: Mum’s already got him some.
Adam: I really regret the day our parents became besties.
Love it. When is the next book coming out? Soon, I hope!
😁 I promise I’ve been writing, but no release date for the next book yet!
Hello Ms Kauter,
Love your work. The world needs more laughter.
Not the mocking, hateful kind posted on Instagram by people whose pastime is break-enter-steal-cars-and-wreck-‘em.
I’m sorry that you’re kinda bored with writing entertaining, wildly improbable Charlie mysteries (they cool my desire to plan Instagram murders), but keen to see what you’re doing with Nessa; that was an uncomfortably long silence from you in the entertaining, wildly improbable world of magics.
I’ll take what can get, but I miss Charlie et al already. Love your work, thank you.
Aww, thank you so much!! 💛🐷 It’s so funny. I posted this whole long thing about how I was going to be focusing on fantasy stuff… and spent the next day working on a Charlie Davies project. Hahaha. But I’m back to writing my magical books now and having SUCH a great time! I adore Charlie and the gang and love writing about them (it really is much more the ‘mystery’ part of the thing that I need a break from), but I’ll be back – like Arnold (heheh).