Guest Post & Giveaway ~*~ Kiss Me Goodnight by Michele Zurlo

Music=Love?

Music plays a huge part in Kiss Me Goodnight, and not just because the band plays a title role. Lacey and her friends, Jane and Luma, love to see local bands perform. It’s something they do quite regularly, and it’s how Lacey gets her friends to see Kiss Me Goodnight with nothing more than a “Hey, let’s go see a band tonight.”

When Lacey first spies Dylan, she likes his looks, but she loves his shirt. He’s wearing a vintage AFI shirt from the Black Sails in the Sunset album. She’s impressed with his vintage clothing, and they bond a bit over their love of the band, bantering lyrics from “Endlessly, She Said.” Those lyrics carry through to the end of the novel and provide insight into both Lacey and Dylan’s characters.

Why did I choose a band that has been around for almost as long as my characters have been alive? Simple—I love them, and they have some profound lyrics that can resonate with just about anybody. They’re also old enough to be considered an alt-rock staple and obscure enough for it to be a connection she can’t have with just anybody. Lacey even named her favorite vibrator after the lead singer—Davey. (Her other vibrator is named Jared, and then Jared Leto went and won an Academy Award the weekend before KMG came out. What can I say? She definitely can pick them.)

Music even forms part of the connection she has with Thomas (her other love interest) and with her mother’s husband. It’s an important part of her life, so anybody who wants to love her has to understand that.

What song/band is special to you?

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I’m Lacey Hallem, and I have a few secrets. These aren’t them: I wash my hands a lot and lie when I’m stressed. Also, I have horrible taste in men. That’s how I knew Dylan was trouble the first time I saw him…

Life can be challenging for Lacey, especially when things don’t come in sets of six, but she’s smart and funny and able to keep her demons at bay—most of the time. She might have sensed trouble when she set eyes on Dylan, a delectable musician in a vintage T-shirt, but that doesn’t stop her from thinking about him, or spending more and more time in his company.

Enter Thomas. Wealthy, handsome, and completely adoring of Lacey (flaws and all), he’s everything a man should be. So why can’t she convince her heart to fall in love?

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Excerpt (Lacey meets Thomas for the first time)

I was in high school ten years ago. I wasn’t sure about B.J. We stared at each other in an odd silence. The air should have crackled with tension. After all, I was pretty sure he was firing me, but the room did not grow heavy with the weight of my impending doom. I think we both found this development odd. If I had to pinpoint anything developing in the air between us, I’d to go with a different kind of friction. That unsettled feeling in my tummy returned, though it was not as acute as it had been earlier with Dylan. Based on the way B.J. looked at me and then away, I guessed he was experiencing the same malady.

As we studied one another, I became aware of him as a man. I shifted and put some serious energy into resisting the urge to play with my hair or smile coyly. If we’d been in the coffee shop, I think he would’ve struck up a conversation culminating in a request for my phone number, and I would’ve given it to him.

B.J. rubbed his thigh, drawing my attention there, and picked at some lint on his sock—again, not very boss-like. “We’re downsizing to make the company salable. The alternative is to just close up shop.”

His tone was closer to “Hey, I like you. Want to grab coffee?” than “You’re about to lose your job.” I had no idea how to take that, so I ignored his tone and responded to the meaning behind his words.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

I’m Michele Zurlo, author of over 20 romance novels. During the day, I teach English, and in the evenings, romantic tales flow from my fingertips.

I’m not half as interesting as my characters. My childhood dreams tended to stretch no further than the next book in my to-be-read pile, and I aspired to be a librarian so I could read all day. I’m pretty impulsive when it comes to big decisions, especially when it’s something I’ve never done before. Writing is just one in a long line of impulsive decisions that turned out to showcase my great instincts. Find out more at www.michelezurloauthor.com or @MZurloAuthor.

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Michele will be awarding an autographed paperback of Kiss Me Goodnight and choice of T-shirt or travel mug to one randomly drawn Rafflecopter winner (US only).

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