Author: paulahouseman

A sassy, self-aware heroine; an entertaining, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that will have you screeching, hooting, holding your splitting sides, and maybe damning your pelvic floor! Apoca[hot]lips has been retitled to Cupid F*cks Up. Why? Because he does!Ruth Roth is a straight shooter. Pity Cupid isn’t.Smart-mouth Ruth is an inspirational humour columnist for a popular women’s magazine. … inspirational humour columnist for a popular women’s magazine. Recently divorced, she has found the love of her life. Without any help, mind you, from the little fat love god. Ruth has decided she herself is her one and only.And she’s in a comfy…

A tut-tutting, big-breasted, modern-day gorgon; a humourless schoolmarm with an unfortunate name and freakishly long, yellow incisors (yeesh)—these are the kinds of people Ruth Roth regularly encounters. Add in daily dealings with an acerbic mother who squawks like a harpy, a father with a dodgy moral compass and a God complex, a bitchy mirror, and Ruth’s existence feels like a Greek tragicomedy. … tragicomedy. The idiocy of daily life makes sense to Ruth when she develops a fascination with ancient mythology. She learns that the deviant gods and spectacular monsters of bygone myths are alive and well in the backwoods…