Here’s a little bit of advice for you – it would be better for everybody if you didn’t fall in love with your incredibly hot (and very, very dead) editor. Ashley Poston, author of the heartwarming and hilarious new romance novel The Dead Romantics, joins us on the blog to tell us why…
- He’ll ghost you.
Picture this: you’ll be talking with him, having a laugh, and suddenly—he’s gone. Nowhere to be found. He’ll walk through walls and accidentally surprise you. He’ll say he loves you in the quiet of midnight, knowing that words will not make his heart beat, even though yours knocks against your chest so loudly it might just wake the dead.
- He will probably give you the cold shoulder.
At first, anyway. It sort of fits his image. Tall, broody, dark hair and soft blue eyes that are so magnetic, you can’t help but to fall into them. And then he’ll turn away, and he’ll tell you that this won’t work out. Not only are you crossing an ethical boundary because he’s your editor, but it’s also because, you see, it’s a tale as old as time that a ghost and a living person? They can’t be together. You know this, he knows this. It’s a star-crossed love. Fated to end in tragedy. You know this because you’ve written hundreds of thousands of words creating Happily Ever Afters. You’re a romance author. You know what a tragedy looks like—and this?
This is very, very tragic.
- He’ll expect you to meet your deadline.
THE WOOOOOOOOOOOORST. Your father just died! You have to return to the small town that shunned you ten years ago for being that weird girl who can see ghosts! And how he expects you to finish a deadline? On time? Well, maybe in the meantime you two can flirt a little bit, and maybe he can teach you how to finish properly.
- He’ll be there in spirit.
Literally.
- He might just be your soulmate.
This is, perhaps, the worst reason of them all. Because what happens when you do fall for him? What happens when he falls for you? When your weird meets his weird, and your weirds work well together? You’ve dealt with so much heartbreak already—taking a chance on a living person is one thing, but this love? It might just be six feet under.
But it’s totally worth it, because you realize this is a romance, and romances end in Happily Ever After.
The Dead Romantics is available in eBook and audio now, and is out in paperback September 29th! Get your copy here.
