DATING ON THE DORK SIDE
by Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance
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GENRE: Contemporary Young
Adult
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BLURB:
Stung by an
epic betrayal, Camy Cavanaugh relies on the sure things: her best friend, her
job as peer tutor, and her safe spot on the sidelines of life. But when she
hacks into a secret, trash-talking website, it ignites a war between the sexes
that won’t end until the whole school is turned upside down–and Camy’s world is
turned inside out.
Now the hottest girls in school
refuse to date the A-List boys. But with the Homecoming dance looming, everyone
from the queen bee to the girl “most likely to” pushes Camy to hook them up
with guys from the nerd herd.
And then there’s quarterback,
A-lister–and former crush–Gavin Madison. He hasn’t spoken to Camy in three
years … but he’s talking now, begging her to pair the guys on the football team
with girls from the Honor Roll.
It’s a contest of wills and
everything is on the line–even Camy’s heart. Will she retreat to the sidelines,
or will she find the courage to get back in the game?
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EXCERPT
I’ve had eleven years to
think about this (twelve if you count kindergarten) and if you ask me, the
first day of school should come with a checklist:
• Your best guy friend manages to wear matching socks?
A good sign.
• Your homeroom teacher turns out to be a drama king?
Proceed with caution;
hilarity may ensue-- but so may humiliation.
• You find a jock in the tutoring room?
A sign of the apocalypse.
On my last first day of
school, I counted the minutes to the final bell, then took the stairs to the
third floor tutoring room two at a time. I paused at the threshold and sucked
in a breath.
The monitors inside the
room, at least the ones that I could see, were spotless. I had new pencils
sharpened to deadly points. My notebooks were filled with blank pages and
promise. Everything was still first day fresh. Everything was still possible.
And through the open windows, came the wondrous sounds of the Olympia High
School football team warming up, “O-L-Y-M-P-I-A!”
“Switch!” Coach Cutter’s
voice, amplified by the megaphone, rode the breeze through the windows. The
trip seemed to soften all the hard edges, making him sound like someone you
might actually want to talk to.
“O-L-Y-M-P-I-A!” the siren
song came again. I loved it when jocks spelled. I loved the first day of
school. I really, really loved my view of the football field from the windows
of the tutoring room.
But Jason “The Ab” Abernathy
was ruining all of it.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Charity Tahmaseb has slung
corn on the cob for Green Giant and jumped out of airplanes (but not at the
same time). She spent twelve years as a Girl Scout and six in the Army; that
she wore a green uniform for both may not be a coincidence. These days, she
writes fiction (long and short) and works as a technical writer for a software
company in St. Paul.
Her short speculative
fiction has appeared in UFO Publishing’s Unidentified
Funny Objects and Coffee anthologies, Flash
Fiction Online and Cicada.
Darcy Vance is the slacker
half of the author duo of Charity Tahmaseb and Darcy Vance. She didn’t start
writing seriously until she was 40, and didn’t publish her first novel until
she was 50. Even then, she needed a co-author to get the job done.
While Charity was busy
slinging corn for Green Giant and jumping out of airplanes for the Army, Darcy
was busy making out with boys and perfecting the art of the doodle. She only
makes out with one boy now (her husband) but she still doodles wantonly.
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(there is a free story there)
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