Book & Author Details:
The Single Game by Amanda Black
Publication date: July 15th 2015
Genres: New Adult, Romance
Publication date: July 15th 2015
Genres: New Adult, Romance
Synopsis:
In this third, stand-alone installment of Amanda Black’s Apartment Novels series, sparks fly during a sexy party game.
When Eden Foster’s parents tell her they’re moving from Chicago to the Illinois suburb of Aledo, Eden is crushed. That is, until she runs crying to her jock boyfriend, who she finds on top of her so-called best friend. Moving’s not looking so bad anymore.
Now a senior at Mercer County High, Eden is ready to re-enter the dating scene. Still burned over the betrayal of her ex, she’s looking for someone sweet and innocent. With the help of her two new friends, Zoe and Amy, Eden makes a list of what she’s looking for: an eager virgin, ready for training—and no jocks.
Eden thinks she’s found what she’s looking for in Logan Black, a shy and geeky classmate. But why are Zoe and Amy convinced that the answer to her search is a party game…with kissing?
Eden better get ready, because she’s about to play the Single Game.
The Single Game is the latest addition to the erotic Apartment Novels series, which began with Lily and Ethan in The Apartment and The Blank Canvas.
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Blog Post
I’m
so excited for the release of my new book The Single Game! It’s my first
venture into NA territory and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed
writing it. While it is a continuation of my Apartment series that gives us a
glimpse into the future of some of the main characters, it can easily be read
as a standalone novel featuring the next generation of the Foster family. So if
you haven’t read the first two books but this one sounds interesting to you, go
ahead and jump on in! If you really like this one you can always go back and
see how it all began.
The
idea for this story actually came to me in a dream a while ago. It was just a
fleeting image of two random teenagers making out for the first time in a dark
closet during a party game that was sort of like spin the bottle. The boy was
very nervous and the girl was the one putting him at ease. For some reason that
one scene kept replaying in my mind over and over again after I woke up, which
I found totally weird because I can never remember my dreams. I always feel
like they must have been awesome, but damn if I can ever recall one single
detail the next morning. That’s why when I realized that I was building on that
scenario in my head the more that I thought about it, I knew I had to write it
down or it would drive me crazy. As the story unfolded, I realized that I was
drawing on a lot of my own experiences from when I started dating my husband,
so this one ended up being very near and dear to my heart.
I
really hope you check out this sweet and sexy story and let me know what you
think! -Amanda Black
Q&A
1.
What elements of your own love life
influenced this story?
More than I
should probably admit! My husband and I were both very young when we started
dating. Not quite as young as Eden and Logan, but there were still plenty of
bets that we would never make it.
2.
There is less angst in The Single Game than
in your previous books (The Apartment and The Blank Canvas), can you talk about
that a little bit more?
That was
most definitely on purpose. By the time I finished writing those books I was
absolutely drained from all of the emotions I had dredged up, both personal and
fictional. Once I started getting the idea for The Single Game I saw that as an
opportunity to just sit back and have some fun. It sounds funny to say that I
was avoiding melodrama while also writing about teenagers, but I just wanted it
to feel genuine, sweet and loving. Life has enough angst. I wanted to give me
and my readers a small break.
3.
What motivated you to write a New Adult
Erotica?
I was
already used to writing erotic romance after the last two books, but I was just
really drawn to the story that was growing in my mind of these two teenagers on
the verge of graduating high school. It’s such a big milestone in everyone’s
life and I wanted to see how this couple would deal with a budding relationship
in the middle of all of that.
4.
I was so intrigued by the characters in this
story. Logan is a shy, geeky, male virgin whereas Eden is a beautiful,
confident, and sexually active HS senior girl. What made you reverse these
typically male/female roles?
I’m
always up for a good role reversal! Honestly, some details of their
relationship were drawn right from my own and other people I’ve known. There
were plenty of girls who got burned by dating a player and they were much
happier once they gave the shy guy another look. Plus, how many of us have said
at one time, “I’d love to find a guy with no relationship baggage who I could
teach exactly what I like.” Eden takes that idea and runs with it, exploring
and discovering brand new things that she and Logan both like.
5.
What character in The Single Game is most
like you and why?
Definitely
Eden. I had the proverbial burning by the ex. Not quite as dramatic as hers
was, but that scene came from my ugliest high school memories. I wasn’t back in
the saddle until early college but by then I knew what a treasure I had when I
found my own shy guy.
AUTHOR BIO:
Amanda Black was born and raised in the Midwest, where she still lives with her husband and spoiled-rotten dogs. She earned a bachelor's degree in Studio Art before deciding that she actually needed to pay some bills, which is when she took a position as an ophthalmic technician.
For the past few years she's been a closet romance writer in her spare time and would love nothing more than to make it a full-time career. When she's not writing her next steamy love scene, her interests include reading, sketching, and annihilating her friends and family in movie trivia.
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