Need a virtual PA? Then Polly Jones is your girl!
Polly Jones is taken aback when a new client asks her to investigate the Robertson family business in Devon, after all, a âvirtual assistantâ doesnât usually leave their home office! But she needs the work â and less proximity to an endless supply of tea and biscuits can only be a good thing right? So she sets off, with energetic puppy Rosie close by her side.
Pollyâs new job isnât quite in her comfort zone⦠Arriving in the small fishing village where everyone knows everyoneâs business, any upsides (all those yummy scones and clotted cream) of course have their downside - sheâs completely forgotten to pack her sea legs, and the temptingly handsome Will Robertson is making her job difficult at every turn.
Itâs so much easier to keep things strictly professional in the virtual world â but with no e-mail to hide behind Polly must admit that Willâs smile is incredibly, deliciously distractingâ¦
Iâm Virtually Yours
Jennifer Bohnet
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JENNIFER BOHNET
is a West Country girl now living in the wilds of rural Brittany, France. Sheâs still not sure how she ended up there! The saying âLife is what happens while youâre deciding what to doâ is certainly true in her case. Sheâs always written alongside having various jobs: playgroup leader, bookseller, landlady, restaurateur, farmerâs wife, secretary/p,a. â the list is endless, but does provide a rich vein of inspiration for her stories.
For three years she wrote a newspaper column in The South Hams Group of Newspapers (Devon) where she took a wry look at family life. Since living in France it is her fiction that has taken off with hundreds of short stories and several serials published internationally.
Allergic to housework and gardening, she rarely does either but she does like cooking and entertaining and wandering around vide greniers (the French equivalent of flea markets) looking for a bargain or two. Her children currently live in fear of her turning into an ageing hippy and moving to Totnes.
To find out more about Jennifer visit her website:
http://goo.gl/xviqQp
or chat to her on Twitter: @jenniewriter
To my husband Richard for encouraging me to keep going in the face of rejections.
CHAPTER ONE
Daniel Franklynâs e-mail arrived late Thursday afternoon just as Polly was about to stop work for the day.
âHi. I need a VA for 7â12 days in the West Country starting Monday. Interested? DF.â
Irritated, Polly looked at the computer screen. Of course she was interested in taking on a new client and more work but didnât âDFâ, whoever he was, understand the whole point of a Virtual Assistant was that they didnât have to be physically present to do the work? She could stay right here in Carmarthen and do the work in her office.
Briskly Polly typed her reply:
âDear DF, am interested in being your VA but question the necessity of going to the West Country â particularly at such short notice. Have attached my business brochure detailing the services I offer and my charges. Regards, Polly Jones.â
Polly sighed, looking across at the growing pile of bills on her desk. Electricity, rent and car tax were currently top of the pile. She knew without looking, too, that her not very generous redundancy money in the bank was on its last double figure. She could definitely have used the extra money âDFâ would have paid this month.
âYou wait, Poll,â Marty, her best friend since forever, had said only last night. âVirtual Assistants are just taking off. I reckon youâve chosen the best time to go it alone. A couple of months from now and youâll be so busy youâll be looking to employ someone to help you with all the work.â