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Online
Mating
Evelyn
Jules
Genre: Erotic Romance
Publisher: SilkWords
Date of Publication: December 27, 2014
ISBN: 978-1-941847-34-3
ASIN:
Word Count: Reader-vote story
Cover Artist: Indie Designz
Book Description:
After joining a sexual
compatibility site, Sydney finds herself at a coffee shop awaiting her first
date.
When bachelor number one makes a
bizarre and slightly alarming entrance, will she stick to Plan A or choose the
sympathetic stranger?
Hi, everyone! I’m so excited to be here
today to talk about my new SilkWords release, Online Mating! This isn’t your
typical online dating story, my friends. My hero and heroine are matched on a
site called Sexcapades.com, a sexual
compatibility site that matches members based on criteria such as: favorite
position, how often you feel horny, and whether you’re a cuddler or a love ‘em
and leave ‘em type.
You may be wondering how I was ever struck
by such an idea for a story. Well, I’m what you might like to call a serial
online dater. I’ve eHarmonized myself, mingled with a Christian or two, swam
with Plenty of Fish, and set sparks to Tinder. There are SO many choices out
there, not just in terms of who to date, but which dating site to use. And even
when you’re out on a date with Mr. Potential Life Partner, in the back of your
mind you’re thinking, “Hmm, I wonder if Tommy got my message on Tinder.” Or
“That Hank guy from eHarms was totes adorbs. I’m totes gonna send him a smile
tonight. YOLO.”
Yes, the world of online dating is
ever-evolving, or devolving, depending on how you look at it. But maybe
everything could be made so much simpler if we took our most basic instincts
and used that as the main formula in matching people. I’m talking about sex
here, FYI. Some might say that sexual compatibility is just as important as
common interests, values, and religious beliefs. Maybe even more so.
And thus, Online Mating was born.
Here’s an excerpt:
Sydney Montrose
slid into her favorite booth at the coffee house, her eyes darting from one
corner to the other. Tensed up and nervous, she tapped her fingernails on the
Formica tabletop a whole twenty minutes before her date with Charlie was
supposed to begin.
If you could even call this a date.
Too many shots of tequila and a very
convincing best friend had coerced her into joining an online sexual
compatibility site, Sexcapades.com.
Not a dating site. She was sick of dating. All that ‘getting-to-know-you’ crap,
the fake smiles and feigned interest. Up till now she’d been taking the
traditional route to a relationship right along with every other sucker. Yes,
she wanted to find love. Eventually. What woman didn’t? But all the other sites
out there focused on finding that love through communication and common interests
and blah, blah, blah. Sexual compatibility, in her honest opinion, was a
critical, too often ignored component.
There was a reason why they called
it the ‘lusty thirties’. Okay, maybe that was just her. Once she reached that
particular milestone, though, something inside her shifted. It was a sexual
awakening, punctuated by a voracious desire to ‘get off’ that drove her batty
most nights. She crossed her legs, feeling that familiar tingle between her
thighs that she could never quite shake. An overwhelming urge to visit the
ladies’ room took root, but she mentally glued her ass to her seat. She was fed
up with servicing herself.
A smile flitted over her features as
she recalled her last failed relationship. Trevor was a spanker. He also played
the trombone in the same orchestra Sydney
played the piano for. Proximity could be a pain in the ass sometimes. He’d
whispered to her during rehearsal one evening that she gave him a tromboner.
That should have been a red flag, but one glance at his trousers and all
sensibility was lost. Until she found out he was doing the second chair piccolo
player. Cheeky bastard.
Since then she’d been through the
entire woodwinds section and most of the brass, in part to seek revenge against
Trevor, but mostly because they were the only guys she knew. Quite frankly, she
was tired of dating men full of hot air. She was done with guys who were all
talk. She needed action. Sexcapades.com,
she hoped, was the answer.
Some of the questions the site asked
when she created her profile would be qualified as shocking to most. By the
time she’d paid the registration fee, she’d shared her favorite positions, how
often she felt horny, and whether she was a cuddler or a love ‘em and leave ‘em
kind. Depended on the guy. Sex toys: yea or nay? Yea-ish. Screamer or a silent
type? Screamer. Definitely a screamer.
Though every picture she posted on her profile
was of her fully-clothed, she’d never felt more exposed. Or empowered.
Option 2:
Sydney giggled at the absurd man in blue
jeans and clown make-up. She had to admit, he had a nice little wiggle to his
walk. Maybe he was a wannabe Wiggle. Despite all his quirks, one thing was
undeniable: Charlie was a good guy. If she could get past the make-up and the
alarming amount of energy, he could even be the
guy. Plus, all that energy could be put to excellent use.
Her fingers beat out a steady rhythm
against the tabletop. She’d always had an ear for music, but ever since her
first piano lesson it was nearly impossible to keep her hands still, especially
when she was anxious. She eyed the other patrons in the coffee shop, anyone and
everyone but the man sitting at the table next to hers.
“You going for it?”
The little voice in her head
flat-out forbid her to do so, but she was stubborn and prone to curiosity. Once
more she turned in his direction. “Excuse me?”
“You and John Wayne. The hook-up.”
She took a sip of her drink.
“Eavesdrop much?”
“You can’t really blame a guy. I
mean, when you see a gorgeous woman sitting at a table with a clown, you kind
of want to know the whole sordid story.”
She grinned as she lowered her mug.
“It’s not so sordid...yet.”
He took a drink from his own mug
then folded his hands on the table. Dark, penetrating eyes fixed on her. “I
think you’re going about this...hooking up thing all wrong.”
“Is that so?”
“For starters, you shouldn’t dress
so well for the first meeting.”
She glanced down at the summer dress
she wore and the cute, strappy heels. “No?”
“Don’t flirt. Don’t smile. And
whatever you do, don’t look at him with those eyes of yours.”
Those very eyes lifted to his in a
hurry, sparkling with awareness. “If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were
trying to sabotage my…date.”
“That’s exactly what I’m doing.” A
slow smile followed his words.
Thanks so much for having me here today!
Hope everyone gets a chance to read Online Mating!
If you’d like to get to know me better,
please come and visit me at my blog: http://evelynjules.blogspot.ca/
Like me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EvelynJules
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