Welcome Guest Blogger Avery Beck!

First and foremost, many thanks to the Sizzling Pens for letting me host a party here. I’ll try not to spill too many beverages on the carpet.

Truth be told, this is a very good date—my first book, Sexy by Design, releases from Samhain Publishing this week!

*cheers* *fireworks* *confetti*

And to celebrate the plight of my heroine, I want to talk about bad dates, something most of us can relate to. Maybe you had the prom date from hell, or the frat boy of your dreams threw up on you after having too much party juice. Perhaps you approached a hot groomsman at a wedding only to discover he had eyes for your best friend…or your brother.

I’ve had a few winners. There was the one I spent a really fun weekend with only to get home, do some online surfing, and uncover his personal ad—seeking his first experience with a man. Or consider the guy who went out with me one night and then greeted me at our next meeting with, “If I didn’t already have a girlfriend, I would ask you out!” And nothing says “I’m in this for the long haul” quite like the genius who asked (begged) me to do something obscene for him because it would be good practice for my future boyfriends. (For the record, all he got was an answer something along the lines of, “Up yours.”)

Somehow I ended up happily married, but I kissed a lot of frogs on the way to the altar. Is it any wonder I wrote a book about a humiliating one-night stand that ends up being the Best Thing Ever? Wouldn’t it be great if our mistakes always turned out that way?

So, ‘fess up. I want to hear your bad date stories! I’m giving away a (digital) copy of Sexy by Design to one commenter, even if you don’t reminisce about the, uh, interesting old days.