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Today, my book is featured on Friday Night Romance. This
site has one of the sexiest landing pages I’ve seen on a book blog. I’d like to
imagine myself reading a book that way: dressed in a sequinned dress with an
icy martini on a Persian rug. There’s undoubtedly a guy or multiple guys admiring
me as I read, because I don’t put on those false eyelashes for nothing. Am I right?
The reality would be me, lying on the couch in yoga pants
and a t-shirt, reading a book. I am being admired by a cat, who is actually wondering
when I might feed him, or failing that, die so he can eat my corpse like that
episode of C.S.I. I once saw.
Okay, enough morbid digressions. You may be wondering how I
got my book on a sexy book blog. Especially one that usually reviews paranormal
and fantasy romances.
Easy peasy, the blog is written by a woman named Kelly Matsuura.
See the parallels to the heroine of Hockey Is My Boyfriend? Kelly first-name,
Japanese last name? Coincidence? I think not. Kelly (the real person) jokingly
thanked me for naming my heroine after her! Truth was I found Friday Night
Romance ages ago, noticed the similarities and decided that when I finally
published this book, I would approach her.
So although Kelly Matsuura does not read hockey romances,
she does like multicultural heroines, and here we are. I confess that my heroine
isn’t really that Japanese—much to the disappointment of Dave Vanderhauf.
(That’s an in-joke. You have to read the book to get it. Chapter 35? Anyone? Anyone?)
So, promotional lesson learned: make sure your book heroine
has a similar name to a cool blogger. Check out Friday Night Romance here.