Welcome to Love Bytes, E.J. Russell! Thanks for stopping by to talk about your newest release, Single White Incubus.

 

Fish Out of Water

The Fish Out of Water trope is one of my favorites, so it’s no surprise that in Single White Incubus, I plopped poor Quentin, who’s used to the refined lifestyle of his New England family and their wealth, into the Oregon wilderness without even electricity. I mean, what better way to shake him out of his antiquated notions and get him to see what would make him truly happy?

But while I relish the trope as an author and a reader—as a person? No, no, no. I hate not knowing how to navigate my environment, uncertain what’s acceptable and what’s not, unable to know the safest and best way to maneuver without making an absolute fool of myself or doing myself irreperable bodily harm.

So it’s understandable that I’m more than a little concerned about my Lovely Daughter’s plans for her next vacation. She and her Canadian Boyfriend will be spending three weeks in Argentina.

Take a look at a map, if you will, and note that Argentina is an extremely long country, extending most of the way down the southern part of South America. If you overlaid it on top of North America, it would stretch from Juneau, Alaska, to halfway down the Baja peninsula in Mexico.  LD and CBF are starting in Patagonia—LD is very excited to see penguins—and ending up north of Buenos Aires.

Remember that bit about how long the country is? Yeah, they’re gonna be traveling from winter to summer in the space of three weeks. And the best or most alarming, depending on perspective) part?

They’re going to be backpacking and camping for at least part of the way.

When I told this to CH, his first response was to slap his forehead.

LD has never been camping (if you don’t count when the kids hung out in a tent on our front lawn). She’s definitely never been backpacking. This is a woman who normally travels with suitcase that explodes with clothes, shoes, and makeup—and she’s going to have to carry clothing for multiple seasons on her back, along with food and sleeping accommodations. Uh…

Now she’s very fit—she’s a workout fiend, and has run several half-marathons—but she is not outdoorsy by any stretch of the imagination.

After his facepalm, CH said, “CBF and I should go backpacking in Argentina, and LD should come here and go to Nordstrom with you.”

So we’re awaiting events. After this experience in extremes, I figure they’ll either come back and break up, or else they’ll be together forever.

 

About Single White Incubus

Does a bear shift in the woods?

Well, partially. That was what got grizzly shifter Ted Farnsworth into trouble. He wasn’t trying to break the Secrecy Pact. He just wants people to see the real him. So he signs up with the mate-matching service Supernatural Selection — which guarantees marriage to a perfect partner. Not only will Ted never be lonely again, but once his new beaver shifter husband arrives, they’ll build Ted’s dream wilderness retreat together. Win-win.

Quentin Bertrand-Harrington, scion of an incubus dynasty, has abstained from sex since nearly killing his last lover. When his family declares it’s time for him to marry, Quentin decides the only way not to murder his partner is to pick someone who’s already dead. Supernatural Selection finds him the ideal vampire, and Quentin signs the marriage agreement sight unseen.

But a mix-up at Supernatural Selection contracts Quentin with Ted. What’s Ted supposed to do with an art historian who knows more about salad forks than screwdrivers? And how can Quentin resist Ted’s mouthwatering life force? Yet as they work together to untangle their inconvenient union, they begin to wonder if their unexpected match might be perfect after all.

Available from Riptide Publishing.

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E.J. Russell holds a BA and an MFA in theater, so naturally she’s spent the last three decades as a financial manager, database designer, and business-intelligence consultant. After her twin sons left for college and she no longer spent half her waking hours ferrying them to dance class, she returned to her childhood love of writing fiction. Now she wonders why she ever thought an empty nest meant leisure.

E.J. lives in rural Oregon with her curmudgeonly husband, the only man on the planet who cares less about sports than she does. She enjoys visits from her wonderful adult children, and indulges in good books, red wine, and the occasional hyperbole.

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