Z.A.Maxfield Says GRIME DOESN’T PAY with Goodies for YOU!

Hi everyone–

If you’re here for the Thankfully Naughty Blog Hop, Click HERE! Nowwwwww, drum roll please,  welcome my good friend and all-around inspiration, Z.A. Maxfield, to the blog! ZAM has a great new book plus some goodies for you on a Rafflecopter, so be sure to check out this whole delicious post. (I should mention that ZAM will be back on Friday with another new release for the holidays, so be sure to hang around!) Here’s ZAM —

Hi Tara! It’s a terrific pleasure to be here Chez Vous for the day.

Readers, you should know any chance I get to spend with Tara Lain, I take! It’s my great good fortune that we have our local RWA chapter in common and also, we attend many of the same conference events together. We even flew on the same plane to GRL. Tara is one of my very favorite people ever.

I know how much Tara enjoys her beautiful boys and I’ve got to say Andrew Daley, the teacher my protagonist Eddie has fallen in love with in Grime Doesn’t Pay, fits the criteria. He and Eddie have been dancing around some very, very serious chemistry, uncertain how to go about things because Eddie’s niece is in Andrew’s class at the elementary school. They let Christmas come and go without making a love connection, even though they were both interested. So I’d like to imagine a christmas top ten in which I give them a GREAT BIG NUDGE!

This list is five things I’d like to give my guys  from Grime Doesn’t Pay (countdown to the MOST IMPORTANT):

5. Eddie spent a lot of December filming the kids’ christmas pageant. He spent the whole time valiantly trying not to focus the camera on Mr. Daley’s amazing er… assets. For his discretion, I think he needs a giftcard for dinner for two at Mr. Daley’s favorite restaurant. (That way Mr. Daley could say, “That’s my favorite place. I sure wish I could go.” Hint, hint.)

4. Andrew thinks he’s a klutz because he can never relax enough to dance. I want to give Andrew a series of ten tango lessons AND, a tight-fitting black T-shirt that says, “I survived Ballroom Dance Academy: Ask Me To Tango”.

3. If I were Santa Claus, I’d come down the chimney and change Eddie’s ringtone to  “Hot For Teacher”. That way if someone calls when Eddie chaperones a field trip, it will be Andrew who gets the message.

2. I’d really like to buy Andrew a book on how to start conversations, because Andrew’s go-to method is referencing the books he has been reading. Eddie is profoundly dyslexic, and even if he knows better, he has some issues being unable to read in the conventional way. Of course, while this is probably a really great idea, Andrew is bound to start the next conversation by referencing the book he read on starting conversations.

1. The best gift I could give Andrew and Eddie is a reason for contacting each other outside the context of school. I’d love to give them someone they can help out together as an ice-breaker and then, I’d like to give Andrew a problem that Eddie is uniquely qualified to help solve…Oh, wait…

Okay. Here’s my list of five things I think they should give each other:

5. Massage oil, because Eddie needs to relax (and oil will make his big muscles glisten.)

4. Candles, because firelight shows of the highlights in Andrew’s negligently tousled hair.

3. Waterproof lube, for good clean fun in the shower.

2. Patience, because it will be a while before they get things absolutely right between them.

1. And finally, faith, because sooner or later Andrew and Eddie will realize that all the months they danced around their attraction were like foreplay for when they finally acted on it, and wow. The fireworks. Good things really are worth the wait!

Get ready for The Brother’s Grime 2: Eddie’s story, Grime and Doesn’t Pay

 

Grime Doesn’t Pay
(The Brothers Grime, Bk #2)
By Z.A. Maxfield

Blurb: 

Eddie Vasquez is hot for his niece Lucy’s third grade teacher, B. Andrew (call me Andrew) Daley. Eddie can’t wait to take Andrew dancing to show him his moves. The only problem is, Andrew keeps talking about books Eddie hasn’t read, that he can’t read — at least not in the usual way — because Eddie’s dyslexic.

When the two men find Eddie’s favorite teacher, Mrs. Henderson, wandering the school grounds confused and smelling of human decomposition, they come together to help her. Eddie’s fiercely loyal, and this is the teacher who uncovered Eddie’s learning disability and helped him regain his self-esteem. He’ll do anything, even take on a massive cleaning job pro bono to pay Mrs. Henderson back for the support she’s given him.

Andrew and Eddie come from different worlds, Eddie can’t read, Andrew can’t dance. Andrew’s father is a horrible snob and if all Eddie’s secrets are laid bare, he’ll have plenty to feel superior about. But Eddie and Andrew have taken on a massive project together, and their growing attraction can’t be denied. They learn the trick to forming a lasting partnership in dance and in life might be finding a partner whose weaknesses you can live with and whose strengths make you look good, in Grime Doesn’t Pay.