Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining me on blog tour for Demon on the Down-Low, the third (and final) book in the Supernatural Selection trilogy! Follow along with the tour and comment for a chance to win the tour grand prize, a $25 Riptide gift card and your choice of either Single White Incubus or Bad Boy’s Bard. Winner chosen randomly at the end of the tour from comments across all tour stops.

Matchmaker, Matchmaker

When I met my Curmudgeonly Husband—good grief, almost forty years ago—the dating landscape was very different. This was 1982. The internet wasn’t even a gleam in Al Gore’s eye yet. The two of us worked at the same summer theater in Vermont: me as box office manager, and CH as technical director and lighting designer. In other words, we met in our workplace (albeit a temporary one), so we had a shared vocabulary, shared interests, shared investment in the success of the theater company.

Because our contracts included room and board, we also saw each other at meals, and despite the fact that he lived in one of the company’s houses and I lived in the other, and despite our opposite work schedules (he worked nights before the shows opened; I worked nights at the box office during the run), we managed to spend enough time together that we figured out our mutual compatibility by the time the third (of six) show closed.

Looking back, I can see that we had a huge advantage. Once people graduate from school, whether high school or college, the pool of people they’re exposed to on a regular basis shrinks exponentially. From a student population of hundreds or even thousands, you’re suddenly reduced to a coworker pool of maybe dozens? Even if you work for a large company, the internal management structure usually restricts you to a subset of fellow employees. And how much time do you actually spend with them?

CH and I, along with the rest of the theater company, essentially lived together for three months, which gave us a chance to get to know one another after our “organic” meeting. Nowadays, who has that kind of opportunity outside of college dorms (or, presumably, summer stock)?

For the supernatural folks in my Mythmatched universe (the Fae Out of Water and Supernatural Selection trilogies), the dating options would be further curtailed because of the Secrecy Pact. The supe community is forbidden from revealing themselves to humans, so that rules out most of the dating pool on the planet. The supe population isn’t enormous in the first place, so if you want to find a compatible date…well, you have to find them.

When you think about it, David and Alun, Mal and Bryce, and Gareth and Niall from the Fae Out of Water books were damn lucky to find their mates without outside intervention. A matchmaking agency that takes the randomness out of the equation seems like the perfect solution for supes looking for companionship.

Of course, if you’ve read Single White Incubus or Vampire With Benefits, you know that the course of spell-facilitated love doesn’t always run smooth. In Demon on the Down-Low, Supernatural Selection counselor-in-training Zeke has to contend with the fallout from his rather, er, unconventional matches that occurred on his watch in the first two books.

And witches (at least the ones who run Supernatural Selection in my stories) are all about natural consequences!

 

About Demon on the Down-Low

After decades of unrequited love, this kangaroo will jump at the chance for a date. Any date.

Lovelorn kangaroo shifter Hamish Mulherne, drummer for the mega-hit rock band Hunter’s Moon, waited years for the band’s jaguar shifter bassist to notice him. Instead, she’s just gotten married and is in a thriving poly relationship. How is Hamish supposed to compete with that? But with everyone else in the band mated and revoltingly happy, he needs somebody. Since he can’t expect true love to strike twice, he signs up with Supernatural Selection. Because what the hell.

When Zeke Oz was placed at Supernatural Selection through the Sheol work-release program, he thought he was the luckiest demon alive. But when he seems responsible for several massive matchmaking errors, he’s put on notice: find the perfect match for Hamish, or get booted back to Sheol for good. The only catch? He has to do it without the agency’s matchmaking spells, and Hamish simply will not engage.

But Zeke starts to believe that the reason all of Hamish’s dates fizzle is because nobody in the database is good enough for him. And Hamish realizes that his perfect match might be the cute demon who’s trying so hard to make him happy.

Now available from Riptide Publishing!

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About Supernatural Selection

Are you a shifter who’s lost faith in fated mates? A vampire seeking a Second Life companion? Or perhaps you’re a demon yearning to claim a soul (mate)?

Congratulations! Your search is over!

Welcome to Supernatural Selection, where our foolproof spells guarantee your perfect match.

Until they don’t.

Check out Supernatural Selection today.

About E.J. Russell

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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To celebrate the release of Demon on the Down-Low one lucky person will win a $25 Riptide Publishing gift card and an ecopy of either Single White Incubus (first in the Supernatural Selection series) or Bad Boy’s Bard (the book from the Fae Out of Water series that influences this one). Leave a comment with your contact info to enter the contest. Entries close at midnight, Eastern time, on March 2, 2019. Contest is NOT restricted to U.S. entries. Thanks for following along, and don’t forget to leave your contact info!