Phi Beta Bimbo
by Trish Jensen
Love Spell
January 1, 2005
ISBN-13: 0505525852
Available in: Paperback
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Phi Beta Bimbo
by Trish Jensen
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Who fares better in the workplace: the brassy bimbo or the plain Jane? Do blondes really have more fun? For her doctoral dissertation, sociologist - and lifelong nerd - Leah Smith intended to find out. Trading in her mousy brown hair and flat chest for bleached locks and gravity-defying cleavage, she planned a little experiment. And mile-high stilettos, a pump-up bra, and one very sexy - and very suspicious - company man weren't going to trip her up.
Security specialist Mark Colson had been hired to ferret out corporate spies, and the newest employee at Just Peachy Cosmetics was Suspect #1 - posing as two different women, she was a total fake. Well, ditz or scholar, blonde or brunette, well-endowed or not, he would expose her. Except she managed to stay one step ahead... until Mark realized to catch the brainy bombshell he'd have to reveal a few secrets of his own.
Trish Jensen's Bio
Some people claim to be born writers. Some claim to have an epiphany that led them to the writing life. Me, I figured it was more fun than a desk job.
In 1990 my life was undergoing some drastic changes. First, I realized that seven years in the corporate world was six years and twelve months too long. So like the true brainiac I am, I quit my job at a political consulting firm with no clear vision of what came next. Since I had no clear vision and no “next” on the horizon, the obvious choice was to return to school. Why not get an MBA? Initials behind my name would be good, right? One semester and several BORING courses later, I came to the stunning realization that all an MBA would get me was another desk job and some actual income, but who wanted that?
So the next semester I went for my first love. English and creative writing classes. Voila! A writer was born. What could be more fun than making up stories for a living? Ever since I began writing, I feel like I’m eight years old again, spinning fantasies. Who knew that getting published and paid to do it would be tougher than going for a doctorate in quantum physics? It’s a satisfying, terrifying, thrilling, heartbreaking life. I wouldn’t change it for all the double fudge chocolate brownies in the world. But as I sit here staring at my computer screen, a horrible thought occurs to me: It’s a desk job.
Plus, I have the joy of calling it work when I “have” to critique with the likes of published author Sandra Hill, aspiring Regency author Eve Homan (who also happens to be an editor and computer specialist), and aspiring Fantasy author Karyn Sypes who also happens to be a psychologist. Okay, you’re thinking that one could get me in trouble, except that the psychologist also happens to be a bellydancer....
They all keep me on my toes and give me lots of inspiration.
I live in the mountains of central PA, smack-dab in the middle of Amish Country, with a rather large dog.