DATING ON THE DORK SIDE
by Charity Tahmaseb and
Darcy Vance
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BLURB:
Stung
by an epic betrayal, Camy Cavanaugh relies on the sure things: her best friend,
her job as peer tutor, and her safe spot on the sidelines of life. But when she
hacks into a secret, trash-talking website, it ignites a war between the sexes
that won’t end until the whole school is turned upside down–and Camy’s world is
turned inside out.
Now the hottest girls
in school refuse to date the A-List boys. But with the Homecoming dance
looming, everyone from the queen bee to the girl “most likely to” pushes Camy
to hook them up with guys from the nerd herd.
And then there’s
quarterback, A-lister–and former crush–Gavin Madison. He hasn’t spoken to Camy
in three years … but he’s talking now, begging her to pair the guys on the
football team with girls from the Honor Roll.
It’s a contest of
wills and everything is on the line–even Camy’s heart. Will she retreat to the
sidelines, or will she find the courage to get back in the game?
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I’ve had
eleven years to think about this (twelve if you count kindergarten) and if you
ask me, the first day of school should come with a checklist:
• Your best guy friend manages to wear
matching socks?
A good sign.
• Your homeroom teacher turns out to be
a drama king?
Proceed with
caution; hilarity may ensue-- but so may humiliation.
• You find a jock in the tutoring room?
A sign of the
apocalypse.
On my last
first day of school, I counted the minutes to the final bell, then took the
stairs to the third floor tutoring room two at a time. I paused at the
threshold and sucked in a breath.
The monitors
inside the room, at least the ones that I could see, were spotless. I had new
pencils sharpened to deadly points. My notebooks were filled with blank pages
and promise. Everything was still first day fresh. Everything was still
possible. And through the open windows, came the wondrous sounds of the Olympia
High School football team warming up, “O-L-Y-M-P-I-A!”
“Switch!”
Coach Cutter’s voice, amplified by the megaphone, rode the breeze through the
windows. The trip seemed to soften all the hard edges, making him sound like
someone you might actually want to talk to.
“O-L-Y-M-P-I-A!”
the siren song came again. I loved it when jocks spelled. I loved the first day
of school. I really, really loved my view of the football field from the
windows of the tutoring room.
But Jason
“The Ab” Abernathy was ruining all of it.
GIVEAWAY INFORMATION:
Charity
and Darcy will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to one randomly drawn winner,
a print copy of "Dating on the Dork Side" to another randomly drawn
winner (US/Canada only) and a print copy of "The Geek Girl's Guide to
Cheerleading" to a third randomly drawn commenter (US/Canada only) via
rafflecopter during the tour.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Charity
Tahmaseb has slung corn on the cob for Green Giant and jumped out of airplanes
(but not at the same time). She spent twelve years as a Girl Scout and six in
the Army; that she wore a green uniform for both may not be a coincidence.
These days, she writes fiction (long and short) and works as a technical writer
for a software company in St. Paul.
Her short
speculative fiction has appeared in UFO Publishing’s Unidentified Funny Objects and Coffee anthologies, Flash Fiction Online and Cicada.
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/charity.tahmaseb
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/geekgirlx2
Mail
list/newsletter: http://eepurl.com/RGffv
Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/charitytahmaseb/
Darcy Vance
is the slacker half of the author duo of Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance. She
didn’t start writing seriously until she was 40, and didn’t publish her first
novel until she was 50. Even then, she needed a co-author to get the job done.
While Charity
was busy slinging corn for Green Giant and jumping out of airplanes for the
Army, Darcy was busy making out with boys and perfecting the art of the doodle.
She only makes out with one boy now (her husband) but she still doodles
wantonly.
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/darcy.vance.3
Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/edeevee/
Wattpad:
https://www.wattpad.com/user/DarcyVance
(there is a free story there)
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