by Amy Andrews
Chocolate topping—this is what we call chocolate syrup and you put it on your ice cream. Although I’m fairly sure it gets put on other things as well, none of them food.
Lolly—Americans call it candy, the Brits call it a sweetie, we call ’em lollies.
Arvo—in that long tradition of shortening everything and sticking an O on the end, this is Aussie for afternoon, e.g., “Hey Robbo, whatcha doin’ this arvo?”
Wank—to wank is to masturbate. Pretty much always referring to a guy. Although, we embrace all terms for this biological process. Jerking/jacking/tossing off are well known, as is spanking the monkey and choking the chicken (or chook, as we say here). There’s also the term “wanker,” which is actually rarely used to describe one who wanks. We much prefer to use this as an insult for someone who is a bit of a jerk, e.g., “That Johnno is a wanker.”
Acknowledgments
My thanks, as always, go to the team at Brazen. A hell of a lot of work goes on behind the scenes to get these fabulous books into your hands, and it’s much appreciated. Special thanks to Kaitlyn Osborn for doing all that publicity stuff, and to Liz Pelletier for her editing insights, her collaboration, and her cheerleading.
To Heather Howland for the fabulous cover, and Lindee Robinson, photographer, for shooting it. A cover shoot has long been on my author bucket list, and I am beyond thrilled that this has finally come to fruition.
My undying gratitude to David Grice and Jon O’Brien for their continued help with all the rugby stuff I don’t understand. There’s Google, but these guys are better.
About the Author
Multi-award-winning and USA Today bestselling author Amy Andrews is an Aussie who has written fifty romances, from novellas to category to single-title in both the traditional and digital markets for a variety of publishers. Her first love is steamy contemporary romance that makes her readers tingle, laugh, and sigh. At the age of sixteen, she met a guy she instantly knew she was going to marry, so she just smiles when people tell her insta-love books are unrealistic because she did marry that man and, twenty-odd years later, they’re still living out their happily ever after.
She loves good books, fab food, great wine, and frequent travel—preferably all four together. She lives on acreage on the outskirts of Brisbane with a gorgeous mountain view but secretly wishes it were the hillsides of Tuscany.
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