Have you read the article about the matchmaking cabbie who calls himself the Cupid Cabbie?
I think the whole idea is adorable…but I also think it’s been “done.” By me! And Vicki Lewis Thompson and Kate Hoffman!
So in honor of this news story, I’m offering the following:
I found some of my promotional items from when I wrote the novella, “Chasing Charlie” in the A FARE TO REMEMBER collection. There are two Taxi Cab mugs, a Taxi Driver’s Cookbook and of course, a copy of the book! I’ve also thrown a few more books into the box, including a copy of THE DOMINO EFFECT because my heroine is involved in a cab accident (that might have been an attempted assassination) and a copy of Julie Kistler’s Blaze, SCANDAL, because I was sent five copies by accident and I’m sharing the love.
You know the drill…post a comment, US residents, blah, blah, blah… And don’t forget to come back Sunday to find out if you won! We don’t contact winners personally…you have to come back to the blog. (We’re evil that way.) 
Oh! And as promised…here is an update of my kitchen renovation.
Before:
Day 10. Amazing progress, yes? They’re not done…but we’re VERY close.
(The ketchup bottle in the foreground just makes the picture, don’t you think?)
By all reports, Julie Leto was a sweet child once, somewhat shy, preferring to play quietly in her room making up stories. However, being raised with three brothers in a loud, primarily Italian household did have its influences and Julie discovered her inner tough girl. That’s probably why most of her heroines kick serious butt. Writing sassy heroines has worked out, as she’s sold over forty books to four publishers featuring strong, confident women. Julie lives in Florida with her daughter, a spoiled dachshund, a haughty lynx-point Siamese and a wide range of relatives all within driving distance.
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Once Upon A Valentine
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Wow, I love the updated picture Julie – it looks fabulous! Warm, inviting, spacious. The ketchup bottle makes it all “homey”.
Have a great weekend!
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I’d love the chance to read “A Fare To Remember”!! Cute idea Love VLT & Kate Hoffmann’s Mighty Quinn series!! I haven’t read much of hers lately. Glad to hear & see that your kitchen make over is moving right along!! Have a wonderful weekend!!
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Wow. Now I’m jealous. That really is an after pic isn’t it?
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I’m a sucker for promo material and the NYC connection just makes it cooler.
Wow, you changed your pninsula from the left to the right and it almost looks as if you have pushed the wall back?
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What beautiful kitchen. I’m sure you are dancing with joy at the progress. I’m jealous. LOL
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I am soooo jealous of all the counter space. I am lucky if I have 12 square inches to work on, I have so little. It looks wonderful!! Think you will actually cook in it???
Nice prizes!!
And thank god it’s finally Friday!!
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Love the kitchen Julie! Great idea on this week’s prize.
Have a great weekend everyone!
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Wonderful prize, Julie. The kitchen is coming along beautifully.
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The kitchen looks beautiful, lots of light to see the lovely and tasty dishes that are fixed to perfection. Ohh la la.
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the kitchen looks Fantastic
Score one for the remodel team. 
I thought I had known of a cab driver book.
Cute promo cups.
Count me in on the draw. :monkey :monkey :monkey :monkey
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Kitchen looks great! Awesome prize!
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Your kitchen looks HUGH now, I’m so jealous. My kitchen needs major everything.
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Kitchen’s looking great!
Hope everyone has a great weekend and stay warm!
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Your kitchen is just gorgeous!! Have a great weekend everybody!
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Does this mean y’all get to sue the AP for copyright infringement? :grin1:
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Great prize.. I love the lighting in the kitchen wow ..
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I love the new kitchen! Have a great weekend everyone!
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Your kitchen is gorgeous..i wish i could redo mine..its awful…
I would LOVE to win this . you all have the best fridays here…
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Great prize! Your kitchen is a dream. Have a wonderful weekend.
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Your kitchen is beautiful Julie! Great job! Now you’ll have to go out to eat so you don’t “mess it up”.
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The renovation is coming along very nicely. So happy for you! Wonderful prize package. Have a great weekend everyone!
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Wow! Great job on the new kitchen.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day! :love:
I hope I win
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Julie, I wish I could do that with my ktichen it sure could use it, looks great.
The prizes are great as well.
Good luck all and enjoy your weekend.
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I love your new kitchen! Great prize as always. Hope everyone has an awesome weekend.
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:wave: Everyone,
WoW! Julie I love the new kitchen update looks very nice
Ooo great prizes and those mugs look cute. I would love to be enter thank you.
Have a wonderful & safe weekend everyone. Good luck.
Hugssss
LindaH
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Love the open look to your kitchen. While I’m not a great cook – the kitchen is still my favorite room in the home. Yours looks lovely.
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The kitchen is looking wonderful!
The taxi “theme” items are really a cute idea.
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wow! your kitchen looks amazing!! great prize, btw.
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Wonderful prize. Your kitchen is coming along nicely. Have a great weekend everyone.
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Nice remodel, I would love to remodel mine. Cool prizes, promotional stuff is so much fun. Hope everyone had a good Valentine’s Day.
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The kitchen is gorgeous I am soooooo jealous ! The prize pack is awesome . Have a great weekend ! Tammy
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Love the new kitchen! It’s really pretty. :)
And you’re right, the ketchup bottle totally makes the picture, lol.
TGIF!
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What a difference in your kitchen! Where did you put the appliances? Off to the right where we can’t see them? It looks like you’ll have lots of cupboard and counter space.
Cute prize this week. A DVD of the show “Taxi” would have fit right in with this theme.
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Julie the kitchen looks fabulous!! You’re so funny about the ketchup bottle, I would not have noticed it. I was too busy looking at the cabinets and flooring.
Love this weeks prize, but then coffee mugs are my thing. I can’t seem to have enough of them.
So here’s :pray: praying it’s me. 
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What a wonderful kitchen! It looks so open and inviting!
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Julie, I’m drooling over your gorgeous new kitchen! Wooo!! Great way to head into the weekend!
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the ketchup bottle reminds me of when you look at houses, how they look so sterile (I always thought, c’mon there have GOT to be people here). Cool prize since I was recently cleaning and realized I don’t have any signed books from Julie (I have one from the other PM).
Great weekend everyone…we are all pretty sick here.
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Wow, Julie! Your kitchen looks so BIG now!!!!
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Wonderful new kitchen & great prizes too.
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Great kitchen! Can’t believe you did that in ten days.
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Love the new renovated kitchen! So much more room.
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Wow your kitchen looks great!! We are geting ready to do the same thing with our kitchen. I am now trying to clean out the kitchen.
Have a good weekend!!!
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Your kitchen looks fabulous.
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Wow I just love your kitchen. What amazing progress. Now I want it too!
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Hope everyone had a wonderful Valentine’s Day :heart1: Enjoy your weekend…Keep on a lovin’ :wub:
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Love the kitchen re-do! A FARE TO REMEMBER was such a fun read that I passed my copy on to DIL, who passed it on to her mother, who… :flower4you:
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That looks so cool!! And I did just so happen to miss that book too. . .
LOL Have a great weekend folks! :wave:
Lois
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I got everything I wanted for Valentine’s Day and more.
The kitchen looks great. The only thing wrong with it is-you still have to cook!
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Good Morning Plotmonkeys and Jungle Bunnies,
Julie, the kitchen looks awesome! Wow, what a makeover. It is warm, spacious and just invites you in. You should be on the House and Garden channel. :-)) It would not only be fun but just think of the publicity for your books. :-))
What a great prize! I love it.
Have a stupendous Friday all,
Cher, who slept late this morning because her daughter didn’t have school.
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Maybe the cabbie read your novella? Kitchen looks much bigger. How nice!
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Have a wonderful weekend. .What a great prize. Your kitchen looks fabulous.
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Great prizes today! Count me in!!
Love the pix of your new kitchen too. I’ll bet you are so-o-o-o happy to have the construction over and done! But all the inconvenience is really worth it.
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The new kitchen looks so spacious! My MIL had her kitchen/dining room done last year and it went from two tiny rooms to a bigger more comfortable single space. From looking at your two pictures, the new space looks like you can have the entire party in the kitchen and still have room for the dog.
Have a kitchen warming party. Tell your friends to bring a new recipe for the new kitchen.
The promo pack is adorable!
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cool prize. have a great presdeints holiday
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I love kitchen renovations. If your home is like ours, that is where we spend the most time together! Yours looks a lot bigger than ours. Please enter me in your wonderful drawing. The “Taxi” items remind me of the old television show! I loved it……Thanks,Cindi :flower4you:
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Hi, everyone! thanks for all the compliments on the kitchen. It’s still not done, but the progress they made in just ten days is mind boggling.
The electrician has to come back and fix a few things, the plumber and floor guy, too…but it’s all finishing stuff. Same on the cabinets, that will have crown moulding, but it can’t go in until after the tile and paint. I’m hoping that will all be wrapped up by next week. When it is, I’ll post more pics!
The only appliances you can see now are the range and the microwave. The dishwasher and fridge are now on the other side. I’ll take pictures from that direction once it’s all through. And as you can see, I only have 2 of my 3 pendant lights…and one doesn’t work.
Little stuff.
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This looks like a great prize! Hope everyone has a terrific weekend. Congrats on the kitchen!
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This looks like a great prize! Hope everyone has a terrific weekend. Congrats on the kitchen!
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Happy Day after Valentine’s Day – great prize as always from you guys!!!I was promised an updated kitchen 2 years ago – good thing I wasn’t holding my breath lol.
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I actually had a cab driver try to fix me up two years ago. He had picked me up and had another guy already in the cab, which I don’t think is legal, but I needed to get to Greenwich, so I didn’t care. I had a boyfriend at the time and the guy was meeting a girl he admitted he wasn’t crazy about. So we drop the guy off at his class at the Empire State building and my driver proceeds to almost hot somebody who then attacks the cab. My driver ended up getting beaten up, while I explained things to an unsympathetic 911 operator. In the end an undercover cop broke up the fight and I was out a huge cab fare (the meeting was left running during the fight) and I still had to walk and try to find where I was supposed to be dropped off in the 1st place. And people say the subways aren’t safe!
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I loved “A Fare To Remember”! What a great prize!!!
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Wow Julie, thats an amazing transformation in just 10 short days!! Its beautiful and so open and big!
I love todays prize, very cute idea!
Hope the romance continues into the weekend for everyone :love:
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WOW I wish I had your unfinished kitchen my kitchen is huge but when I moved it the lay out sucks when you walk it you have the sink and counter on the left all the way across the room is the stove in the corner and in the center of the room its the fridge :wallbash: its torture just to cook a meal!
HAPPY FRIDAY ALL!!
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Wow, the kitchen is really looking great! I’m jealous! We plan on re-doing ours in the next year or two. Have a great weekend.
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I still remember those big, checkered taxis that could seat five passengers.
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WOW! What an amazing kitchen…I wish I had one like that!! Oh and great prize as well *Crosses fingers*
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WONDERFUL PRIZES–I DON’T COOK MUCH BUT KNOW WOULD ENJOY
SOME NEW RECEIPES. LOVE THE WORK THAT IS BEING DONE ON
YOUR KITCHEN AND WILL HAVE LOTS OF LIGHTS TOO.
ALICE IN TEXAS
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Julie, your kitchen remodel is beautiful!! We just went through the same thing ourselves and will contest it’s completely worth the trouble. You’ve done a fantastic job with it! Enjoy!
Lori
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My kitchen is so out-dated!
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Your new kitchen looks looks warm and welcoming.
Great prizes.
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Your kitchen looks great!!!! Congrats on almost being finished.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
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I love your new kitchen. I just love wood cabinets. That’s what I have. They really give the kitchen a warm feeling. Just light an apple struesel candle and you’ll be set. Enjoy the weekend everyone! :banana:
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Great prizes :banana: I just love New York cabbies – there is nothing that can beat them. Have a great weekend everyone.
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Very nice work done on your kitchen! And in just 10 days – that’s wonderful!!
I have to be honest and tell Mr. Cupid Cabbie that he is absolutely the last person in this world
that I would as a matchmaker! In fact , I would nevr use his advice, if I needed it, which I
do not!
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TGIF!!!
Have a great weekend!
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What a transformation, your kitchen looks great.
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Oh my goodness. Haha, I didn’t post a comment today because I was running late… and look at the explosion!
Julie, your new kitchen looks amazing! I’m jealous.
Have a terrific weekend!
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I read the article about the Cupid Cabbie it was so sute!! The kitchen looks great. Have a great weekend.
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I’ll have to show that to my husband. It is lovely.
Have a great weekend!
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The new kitchen looks awesome! Have a great weekend.
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Love the after pic! It’s so roomy! Happy weekend
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What a fantastic difference in the kitchen area. It totally transitions the area into a whole different place. The cookbook & cups are a wonderful package give-away. i bet the recipes are excellent.
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Thanks for the chance to win a wonderful prize!
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Great kitchen. Thanks for sharing!! Have a great weekend!
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Your new kitchen looks great. I loved Fare to Remember, I read it a while ago…but wouldn’t mind reading it again!
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Great updated kitchen!
Happy Friday
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The kitchen looks fabulous, Julie! Happy cooking!
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The kitchen looks GREAT!!!! The taxi idea is fabulous, and would be great to win. Hope you enjoy your new kitchen.
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I love the new kitchen! My in-laws are remodeling their house too, so their kitchen is currently in the garage. Luckily it’s heated in there because it would not be fun since it’s winter in South Dakota. :cold:
Great prize this week too! You can never have enough romance novels or coffee cups!
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!
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Awesome prize this week Julie! I have been wanting to buy this book like forever! The cups are fantastic! Very cool! They would be great for my hubby and me as we sip our morning starbucks coffee. Yum! The cookbook would be a great addition to my evergrowing cookbook collection! The extra books you are throwing in sound great also!
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I love your kitchen. It’s beautiful and it’s not even finished.
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I read about the cabbie, too. Nice kitchen.
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love the kitchen julie! I hope everyone has a great day.
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I love renovation shows with before and after. Your kitchen is so different and such an improvement. Great job. Have a great weekend all.
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Great job on the reno, what a difference.
Have a great weekend everyone!
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Hi, I would love to win this prize. Love all you are offering here.
Happy weekend.
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I wish I could have my kitchen redone, I am sooo jealous! I would kill for more counter space, new sink and new cabinets at least.
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Glad your kitchen is progressing looks nice everyone have a great weekend
Donna
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Wow! Your kitchen is starting to look really great. I am sure you will really love it once it is done.
Great prize! Please count me in.
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Niiice prizes. Count me In. Isn’t fun when the renovations are done and you see the nice changes?
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Being No. 101 may get me a prize…a great prize since i L-O-V-E cookbooks and finished renovations! Hope you have many great moments in your new kitchen and always include the ketchup! Mick Mac
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Great story and the prize is fabulous as always.
Have a great weekend.