Donโt you love a good double meaning? Iโve always been a sucker for puns. The
cheesier the better. But add some hidden sexual connotation and youโve got me.
Hook, line, and sinfully amused.
In THE WRONG KIND OF
COMPATIBLE, Cassie and Drew take sexual innuendo in a somewhat unusual
direction. Both are brilliant, but socially awkward with it. She blurts out
everything that comes into her head, and he is the strong, silent type who says
the wrong thing when he tries too hard. Between the two of them, they get into a
(hopefully) hilariousโat first inadvertentโback and forth of geeky sexual innuendo.
For example:
Cassie looked up at the ceiling, doing her level best to return to the sane,
rational woman she usually was. โActually, grab your laptop. Youโll want to take
notes, and possibly work through a few things on your own.โ
โWill I need my dongle?โ
She froze in the middle of taking her seat and checked his expression. Had he
meant the double entendre, or was her dirty mind taking her there on its own?
โThatโsโฆup to you,โ she said slowly. Then bit her lip as the possible
implications of her response sank in.
I had a ton of fun researching and coming up with different phrases that
screamed geeky sexual innuendo. One of the best sources is here. Way more than youโd think. Computers really do use a
lot of funny words. Sadly, I wasnโt able to include everything I ran across.
What I did discover is that once you start actively trying to think of and list
phrases with sexual innuendo, I started to hear it in everything. Imagine trying
to explain laughing out loud at a phrase by telling people youโre writing a book
with lots of innuendo and what they just said was loaded with it? Awkward at
best, I promise. But I refuse to give up my wicked amusement about these. A
little awkwardness never bothered me.
Here are a few of the funnier ones I ran across while writing Drew and Cassieโs
story:
Maybe we should do some penetration testing.
Iโd like to unzip your files.
I hack you in my dreams, baby.
Would you like my attribute on your property?
You can talk to me in binary all the way home, baby.
It's not the bandwidth, it's how you use it.
You had me at data.
Just being around you sets my synapses on fire.
You just made my floppy a hard drive.
You have the hottest multi-touch interface.
You auto-complete me.
I think you crashed my server.
Would it be easier to embed you if I show you my plugins?
You should see the size of my keyboard!
Thatโs just a handful and I still crack up every time I read them. Like any
pick up line, theyโd be terrible if delivered straight. But delivered in
awkward, inadvertent moments might just be adorable. What do you think? Would
any of these lines catch your attention? Which ones do you think made it into
the book?
Data analyst Cassie Howard may be brilliant (and, okay, a little awkward),
but sheโs worked hard to get where she is. She definitely doesnโt need some sexy
new analyst coming in and taking credit for her work. Or the inappropriate
thoughts that keep popping out of her mouth sheโd rather he not hear.
For undercover FBI agent Drew Kerrigan, computers have always made more sense
than people, but heโd better develop some slick social skills in a hurry if heโs
going to win over the too-tantalizing-for-his-sanity Cassie. Hacking their
systems was easy. Now heโs just got to hack the one person in the company most
likely to see through his ruseโฆ
Romance Contemporary
[Entangled Lovestruck, On Sale: May 8, 2017,
e-Book, ISBN: 9781640631205 / eISBN: 9781640631205]
Award-winning contemporary romance author, Kadie Scott, grew up consuming
books and exploring the world through her writing. She attempted to find a
practical career related to her favorite pastime by earning a degree in English
Rhetoric (Technical Writing). However, she swiftly discovered that writing
without imagination is not nearly as fun as writing with it.
No matter the
genre, she loves to write witty, feisty heroines, sexy heroes who deserve them,
and a cast of lovable characters to surround them (and maybe get their own
stories). She currently resides in Austin, Texas, with her own personal hero,
her husband, and their two children, who are growing up way too fast.
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