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Hi everyone — If you’re here for the Equal Rights Blog Hop, please click HERE! Now, welcome Aidee Ladnier, my fellow Dreamspinner Press author, on her first visit to the blog! She has a new sexy, MM sci-fi called The Break-In and a great Rafflecopter giveaway! I’ll let her tell you all about it.
Waiting for the One
by Aidee Ladnier
Thank you so much for inviting me to guest post, Tara! I hope everyone will sign up for my rafflecopter giveaway. I’ve got some really cool stuff to give away.
If you put the words “song” and “waiting” in Google you get almost 215,000,000 hits. The songs range from staples like Richard Marx’s “Right Here Waiting For You” and Greenday’s “Waiting,” to classics like The Kinks’ “Tired of Waiting for You.”
It’s estimated that the average person spends 45 minutes to an hour waiting everyday for mundane things like elevators, for software to download, in lines, and for the red light to change while driving. That means by the time you die, you’ll have spent around three years of your life just waiting for something insignificant.
In my new novella, THE BREAK-IN, recently published by Dreamspinner Press, roboticist Forbes Pohle is waiting for his lover to show up on his doorstep, because a time traveler ten years before, promised he would.
It’s a trope in romance. You wait for the ONE, the only person who’s your destiny, the perfect lover that fits you just right. Of course, that doesn’t always happen. The one true love is a nice fantasy, but not that common in the real world. And yet, when I was little, that’s what I dreamed about. I bet you did, too.
Waiting with regards to love is a curious thing. Psychologists are well aware that romantic love requires impatience as well as patience. When lovers first meet, it’s intense. Every minute spent with a lover is important. Every touch is a caress. During the first bloom of love, you want to get as close to that other person as humanly possible. Sexual tension and the need for intimacy are at its highest. That first meeting, first date, first day, is the one that you remember. It’s where those initial connections are made that mean love, sex, and intimacy in a relationship. Sexual desire is impatient; your whole body is on fire. But that urgency can’t be maintained forever.
As lust cools and romantic love deepens, patience comes into play. If the promise of real, solid, lasting love is within our grasp, then it’s something worth waiting for. If a lover is called away out of town or even out of the country, you might pine but you wait for that lover to return. A temporary delay is just an obstacle to overcome. After all, love conquers all, even time and space.
I chose to write about waiting for love because I know someone that waited, waited twenty years before I consented to marry him. If someone in the real world can wait that long, surely my characters can wait, too.
Enter the Rafflecopter Giveaway!
About Aidee Ladnier
Aidee Ladnier began writing fiction at 12 years old but took a hiatus to be a magician’s assistant, ride in hot air balloons, produce independent movies, collect interesting shoes, and amass a secret file with the CIA. A lover of genre fiction, it has been a lifelong dream of Aidee’s to write both romance and erotica with a little science-fiction, fantasy, mystery, or the paranormal thrown in to add a zing.
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The Break-in
Author: Aidee Ladnier
ISBN-13: 978-1-62798-736-3
Pages: 56
Cover Artist: Christy Caughie
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Blurb: Ten years ago, roboticist Forbes Pohle received a visit from time-traveler Oliver Lennox. “Wait for me,” Oliver said. Now a decade has come and gone, and Oliver has returned. However, Forbes never dreamed Oliver would reappear as the point man for a gang of technology thieves breaking into his lab. He finds the younger Oliver just as sexy and even more annoying; still, he must convince him their happily-ever-after is meant to be—but he only has the time it takes his robotic cat Jeepers to thwart the thieves to do it. After waiting so long, he could lose everything in the span of seconds.
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Excerpt:
OLIVER PULLED the sleeve up on his jacket and checked the cheap watch strapped to his wrist. He needed to get the door to the lab open before Wilson did something stupid.
“Is your cat gonna give me back my gun?”
The metallic chunk drew his gaze back to the robot cat as it bit through the gun’s cylinder, and the two pieces of the revolver clattered uselessly to the floor.
Oliver smacked the ground, sending a burst of pain up his arm.
“Come on. Guns don’t grow on trees. That was an expensive piece. I had to trade two laptops and a password for it.”
“What was the password to?” The Doc toed the gun pieces to the side, away from the robot pretending to wash its whiskers.
Oliver sighed. “Porn site. ’Course, he didn’t realize it was a gay porn site.”
Thanks so much for hosting me! I love visiting on your blog!
Sincerely,
Aidee
Hi Aidee, I really enjoyed your post on waiting for love. Congratulations on your book. Thanks for the giveaway.
Thank you, Hannah! I really enjoyed writing it.
Great post. I never thought about how long we do spend waiting and I Love that about your husband. WOW! Awesome. Lots of luck with the book.
Thanks, Jillian. He’s definitely a keeper. 😉
Your husband was a very patient man. Congrats on the new book!
Thanks so much, Jen. He is amazing.
Congrats on your new release, Aidee! Love the cat on the cover. 🙂
That’s Jeepers! He’s a robot cat but he looks like a black and white tuxedo. Sort of has a cat personality, too. 😉
I enjoyed your post, Aidee. Waiting is the hardest part. 🙂 Thanks for summing it up so nicely. Best wishes.
Thanks, Meda. I was blown away when I saw the stats on how much time we spend waiting for inconsequential things. The least we can do is expend a little energy waiting for something important. 🙂
Thanks for a great post!
Thank you for reading!
Great post, Aidee! Waiting is so hard. It’s good to have friends to help pass the time.
Thanks, Larynn!
This is a great post, with such continuity! Waiting…..hmmmm. Makes me think! Congrats on your release. And I love the bit about your husband. LOVE. IT.
I know, Ali. I never realized that we spend so much time waiting.
I admit that the waiting does kind of strike a chord with me! It’s not so much about “the one” (well, maybe a little bit) as not wanting to force things with the WRONG one! Can’t wait to read this…
I totally get where you’re coming from, hence his need to wait for me. I hope you enjoy the story!
Hi Aidee, when I ever find myself in a situation which could be called waiting and as I have quite a good imagination I make lists of things I need to do, I think of story plots, or call/text a friend or read an article/book so that time is not considered wasted. The only time that plan does not work is when I am in a traffic jam and then you have to concentrate on all that is happening around you, so consequently I get a bit more stressed in that situation. I have much admiration for your husband, who proves the adage correct that good things come to those that wait 😀
I have this book on my wish list, my very long list. I especially love the cover and the robot cat Jeepers 🙂
Thanks for a great giveaway and I really want that little kitty USB stick!
Waiting in traffic is the worst! I admire you for having the presence of mind to make lists. I’m usually just standing there wishing I wasn’t waiting. 🙂
A new author for me.The excerpt got my attention and I look forward to giving this a read.
I hope you enjoy it! Forbes and Oliver are dear to my heart and were tons of fun to write.
Thanks for the giveaway!
You’re welcome! I love giving away cool stuff. 😉
Oops. I answered the wrong. You studied theater in college
Thanks for the giveaway.