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MY WORST PICK-UP LINE EXPERIENCE
by Sarah Castille
The pub was unlike anything the Canadian girl had ever seen. Dark and dank, with a low ceiling, crooked floors, dark wooden beams, a roaring fire in a massive stone fireplace and a worn, polished bar at least fifteen feet long. A lazy hound with gastric problems lay on a braided rug in the middle of the pub, adding a distinctive aroma to the already pungent scent of yeast and stale beer.
Several grizzled old men played cards at a table in one corner. An elderly couple dozed in front of the fire. And a group of guys sat at the bar chatting up the female bartender who sported multiple facial piercings and two full sleeves of tattoos.
The Canadian girl slid onto the last seat at the bar and asked the bartender for a pint. Almost immediately, one of the guys broke away from the group. Tall and broad, with a chiselled jaw, shaved head and a pillowy abdomen, he approached her with slow, measured steps. His piercing blue eyes slid over her leather-clad body like a soft caress, lingering over the swell of her breasts crushed beneath her tight leather jacket. He leaned into her, his voice low and husky.
“Ya're so Peas in a Pot I could Tu'penny Post me meat on ya, Basin Of Gravy.”
Very eloquently, and in her best Canadian, she said, “Eh?’
With a sympathetic smile, he drew closer, his fetid breath a whisper in her ear. “You don’t have any Cockney in ya, luv?”
“No.”
“Do you want some?”
My latest release is Beyond the Cut, the second standalone book in the Sinner’s Tribe Motorcycle Club series. It was inspired by my motorcycle adventures across Europe, and it’s got all the hard riding, fierce loving, outlaw bikers you could want, plus a feisty heroine, a villainous villain and two little kids who can melt an outlaw hero’s heart.
SHE'S HOLDING ON TIGHT.
As a teen, Dawn ran from a life on the
streets straight into the arms of Jimmy "Mad Dog" Sanchez, a biker
who promised to be her knight in shining armor. But his love was just another
cage. Years later, Dawn's former life still has its hooks in her and she'll do
whatever it takes to break free. When Cade "Raider" Tyson, a member
of a rival club, makes her an offer, Dawn finds herself in a different, hotter
kind of trouble with one irresistible Sinner...
WILL HE GIVE HER THE RIDE OF HER LIFE?
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Hello! I’m Patty Blount,
author of young adult and contemporary romance novels. But I also have a
fulltime job in IT in addition to my writing career. IT stands for Information
Technology. It used to be the computer department, but as technology advanced, so
did the term. My job is to write the instruction guides people need in order to
correctly use their computer systems. I’ve been doing this work for about
twenty years now, so in a very real sense, I’ve watched the industry grow up.
When I was just starting
out, Windows hadn’t been born yet and the internet was still reserved for
government or scientific use. It was also a man’s world – still is, to a large
extent – but most of these guys were Big Bang Theory characters and not exactly
the stuff of romance novels.
Until now.
In A Match Made at
Christmas, my first contemporary romance, I thought it would be cool to make
geekiness a hot and heroic character trait, so I gave my heroine my day job and
made the hero an executive in the same field. Here is a passage from the story
based on actual pickup lines once used on me. In this scene, hero Lucas is
quite attracted to heroine Elena, but trying to play it cool. Except his
friends, Al and Debbie, won’t leave him alone.
"Oh, you're in IT, too?" Al's grin got wide and just a
little bit wicked. "Luke's head of development at Burke & Kirk. Lucas,
you have to try out some of those software developer pick-up lines on someone
who gets them."
"No."
Elena's lips twitched and she groaned just for form. Inside, she
was grateful for the change of subject. "Okay. Gimme one. Let's see what
you got."
"No."
"Come on, Luke! Don't be such a dick." Al elbowed him.
"No. And don't call me a dick."
"Please? I want to hear these, too." Debbie patted the
table between them.
"Okay, okay. You asked for it." Luke rubbed his hands
together and gave Elena a smoldering look, dropped his voice down an octave.
"I hope you're broadband, baby, because I really want high-speed
access." He wiggled his eyebrows.
Elena rolled her eyes. "That's terrible."
"Yeah, man, that was awful," Al agreed.
"I warned you."
"Come on, do another one," Debbie said.
Elena put out a hand. "Please don't use the obvious puns on
RAM or motherboards."
Lucas looked at her sideways. "Please. This isn't my first
program."
She snorted and let him continue. Luke took her hand and leaned
in real close. "Baby, you overclock my processor but trust me, there's no
part of my body that's micro or soft." He delivered the final words with
his eyes locked on hers.
Elena stared into his dark eyes and felt herself melting,
weakening, and might have leaned over the table to fuse her mouth to his…
What
do you think? Is this a hot geek? I will admit these lines made me giggle but,
no – they did not work on me!
The
sequel to A Match Made at Christmas was released on June 30th. It’s
called His Touch and is about Elena’s sister, Kara, and her second chance at
love. I also have a new young adult novel coming out in August called NOTHING
LEFT TO BURN. It’s about a boy named Reece who joins the fire department’s
junior squad to win his father’s respect. Pre-ordertoday.
Dear Dad,
I promised Matt I'd do this-become a Junior Cadet. That I wouldn't let you break me down. I know you hate me. Blame me for everything you lost. But that day I lost my brother and my dad. You could never be proud of me, could you? I was too "different." So, just in case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm saying goodbye. Maybe someday, you'll miss me.
Reece
I promised Matt I'd do this-become a Junior Cadet. That I wouldn't let you break me down. I know you hate me. Blame me for everything you lost. But that day I lost my brother and my dad. You could never be proud of me, could you? I was too "different." So, just in case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm saying goodbye. Maybe someday, you'll miss me.
Reece
Reece's words
make her ache. Amanda understands wanting to belong. As a foster kid, the
firehouse where she volunteers is the only place that feels like home. She wants
to help Reece, but his dad is her boss. And she won't risk her place as a
Junior Cadet-it's all that she has. But when a string of arsons suddenly point
to Amanda, her whole world is about to go up in flames. And the only way to
save themselves is to risk getting burned.
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