Authors Interviewing Characters: Avery Flynn

Avery Flynn interviews Hadley Donovan, the protagonist in her new rom-com, The Wedding Date Disaster, about snipe hunting, evil twins, and surviving family get-togethers. 

Giggles, slow dances, hot kisses and happy sighs, that’s The Wedding Date Disaster. It’s a romance about embracing yourself (warts and all) even when your life isn’t as picture perfect as social media (and texts to your family) would have anyone believe.

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Avery: Hadley, you’ve been lying to your family about life in the big city.

Hadley: I wouldn’t call it lying so much as duding the details.

Avery: Really? So did you tell them you got fired?

Hadley: And ruin the run up to my baby sister’s wedding? No way. She deserves to have her moment to shine!

Avery: So the boyfriend you’re bringing to the wedding is out on the ranch?

Hadley: Okay, I see where you’re going. Yes he’s not really my boyfriend because I don’t have one, but who wants to tell your family that? So I asked my best friend to do me a solid never knowing that he’d send his evil twin instead.

Avery: Oh yes, Will Holt. Billionaire. Total hottie. Looks great in a pair of tight-fitting jeans.

Hadley: You forgot evil. He is totally the evil twin and he hates my guts for reasons I cannot even begin to fathom.

Avery: If that’s the case, then why did you kiss him?

Hadley: I tripped! It wasn’t on purpose.

Avery: Really? That’s the story you’re going with? 

Hadley: I mean, I’ll admit it was shockingly good and more than a little hot but it was not on purpose and it will never happen again.

Avery: And that’s why you decide to pull a fast one on him and take him hunting the mythical snipe.

Hadley: How was I to know that city boys didn’t know they were fake? Anyway, we’d woken up that morning and he was all warm and snuggly and I was discombobulated.

Avery: So you’re sharing a bed?

Hadley: There’s only one in the cabin!

Avery: Seems convenient.

Hadley: You know, he’s only there to be a buffer so my family doesn’t get a chance to find out the truth about my sad sack life in Harbor City.

Avery: So what are your tips to surviving a family get together?

Hadley: Bring a fake date. Make sure that fake date isn’t your absolute nemesis. And whatever you do, no matter how good it is, do not—in all caps DO NOT—kiss him, or fall for him, or even think that maybe just maybe he’s the one for you.

Avery: That’s oddly specific advice.

Hadley: You get what you get. Oh! And always make sure you don’t miss out on the homemade enchiladas!

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USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling romance author Avery Flynn has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip.

She fell in love with romance while reading Johanna Lindsey’s Mallory books. It wasn’t long before Avery had read through all the romance offerings at her local library. Needing a romance fix, she turned to Harlequin’s four books a month home delivery service to ease the withdrawal symptoms. That worked for a short time, but it wasn’t long before the local book stores’ staffs knew her by name.

Avery was a reader before she was a writer and hopes to always be both. She loves to write about smartass alpha heroes who are as good with a quip as they are with their ahem other God-given talents. Her heroines are feisty, fierce and fantastic. Brainy and brave, these ladies know how to stand on their own two feet and knock the bad guys off theirs.

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Find out more about Avery here https://averyflynn.com/

THE WEDDING DATE DISASTER

Hadley Donavan can’t believe she has to go home to Nebraska for her sister’s wedding. She’s gonna need a wingman and a whole lot of vodka for this level of family interaction. At least her bestie agreed he’d man up and help. But then instead of her best friend, his evil twin strolls out of the airport.

If you looked up doesn’t-deserve-to-be-that-confident, way-too-hot-for-his-own-good billionaire in the dictionary, you’d find a picture of Will Holt. He’s awful. Horrible. The worst―even if his butt looks phenomenal in those jeans.

Ten times worse? Hadley’s buffer was supposed to be there to keep her away from the million and one family events. But Satan’s spawn just grins and signs them up for every. Single. Thing.

Fine. “Cutthroat” Scrabble? She’s in. She can’t wait to take this guy down a notch. But somewhere between Pictionary and the teasing glint in his eyes, their bickering starts to feel like more than just a game…

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