Hey
everyone, Aidan Wayne here! Wanted to welcome you to the blogtour for my latest
release, Making Love. Throughout the week I will be sharing behind-the-scenes
information about Making Love, and the inspiration behind it. Please feel free
to participate in and comment on the tour. By doing so, you also get the chance
to receive a $15 Riptide gift card!
About Making Love:
Carla the cupid is an excellent shot,
but her chemistry is so bad that most of her matches don’t last. Her dream is
to shoot a True Love pair, but until her scores improve, she’s relegated to the
Puppy Love division of Aphrodite Agency.
Leeta, a succubus, is looking for a
True Love match. Which is highly unusual, as most succubi are aromantic. But
Aphrodite Agency—her only hope—turns her away because the receptionist can’t
believe she’s not just looking for an easy meal.
Carla agrees to take Leeta’s case on
freelance. She figures it’s a win-win: Carla gets to put a succubus’s True Love
match on her résumé, and Leeta gets to find her True Love! Except as Carla
tries to find a match for Leeta, she finds herself maybe . . . relieved when
the matches don’t end well. And Leeta seems to be getting pickier and pickier.
Things will never work out until Carla learns enough about chemistry to figure
out who’s truly best for Leeta, and until Leeta can admit what—or who—she truly
wants.
Excerpt:
Chapter
One
Carla hopped
out of the elevator, black curls bouncing, as she pulled open the door to the
central office. She practically skipped up to the front desk.
“Morning,
Tristan!”
Tristan looked
up from his computer to grin at her. “Morning, sweetheart. Ready for your
quarterly review?”
Carla blushed.
“Don’t jinx me! I’m not a Sweetheart yet. But I’ve got a good feeling this
time! At last check-in, one of the couples I hit made it to the two month mark,
so . . .”
“Two, huh?”
Tristan nodded encouragingly. “That’s—that’s good. I mean, two, hey, that’s
great. That’s practically years, in high school time.”
“I really like
the Puppy Love division,” Carla babbled on, trying to cover the flip-flops
she’d felt at Tristan’s response, “but I’ve been in it for so long. I’ve been dreaming of being a Sweetheart cupid
for ages. It’s so much more romantic, and it’s better when
you’re working with older targets, and that’s just one step behind True Love,
and there’s so much overlap anyway—”
“Breathe,
Carla.”
Carla
obligingly closed her mouth, taking a deep breath through her nose. Her wings
fluttered anxiously.
“You’ll be
fine,” Tristan said, with a warm smile. “You’re a hard worker, and you love
what you do. That counts for a lot here.”
“Yeah . . .”
Tristan glanced
back down at his computer. “Looks like Angel’s ready for you. Remember, think
cupid: caring confidence—”
“—because we’re
confident we care,” Carla finished. She gave Tristan a thumbs-up. “Wish me
luck!”
Tristan matched
her, then nodded his head toward Angel’s office. Carla skipped to it, trying to
make herself feel as positive as she could, and went inside.
“Good morning,
Carla,” Angel said. The head of Aphrodite Agency waved her to a chair. “Please
take a seat.”
Carla hurried
forward and sat in the low-backed chair, her quiver just brushing the top of
it. “Morning, Angel! I’m here for my quarterly review.” And possible promotion. Please, please, please, possible
promotion!
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About Aidan Wayne:
Aidan Wayne is a big believer in
character-driven stories with happy endings. This is not to say that stories
can’t contain a little (or a lot) of grief, just that at the end of it all
expect there to be bandages and hugs. They particularly like to write about
minority characters because damn it, they deserve happy endings too.
When not writing, Aidan enjoys
practicing aerial, martial arts, and ASL, and watching reality cooking shows.
They are probably in the middle of twelve projects as you read this.
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Giveaway:
To celebrate the release of Making Love,
one lucky winner will receive a $15 Riptide credit!
Leave a comment with your
contact info to enter the contest.
Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on
February 4, 2017.
Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. entries.
Thank you for the excerpt! Good luck with the release!
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Congratulations Aidan on your book
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This is where it all started. Feels like your first job interview---the rush, the nerves, the excitement. *chuckles* Only that your interviewer is a calming presence not a freakin' mean bastard. Oops.
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Loving the excerpts!
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Congratulations on the release of “Making Love”
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