Samantha Ann King
Thanks for hosting me today and for participating in the Summer eReader Giveaway. I’m
looking forward to chatting with everyone about the best and worst pickup lines they’ve
heard…or used! Especially since I don’t have much experience with them. It’s true. I can only
remember one from all my years of dating. I don’t know what that says about me. That I led a
sheltered life? That no one wanted to pick me up? That my memory sucks?
My heroes don’t use pickup lines, either. They tend to have a friendship with the heroines before
they fall in love, or they’re thrown together by circumstance.
But back to my one and only experience with the pickup line.
Imagine a bar. It’s in a college town, so it’s crowded with students. Dancing. Drinking. Shouting
above the pulsing, pounding bass of the sound system.
I’m standing at a table, taking a break from the dance floor with my drink of choice, a G&T. Don’t
ask what kind of gin. I wasn’t particular back then, couldn’t afford to be. Probably couldn’t afford
to be drinking. But it was Saturday night.
A guy—dark curly hair, dark eyes, a little older—asks me to dance with him. And since that’s
why I’m there…
When we return to the table, he raises his voice above the music. “I wrote a song about you.”
I laugh. “Yeah. Right.”
“I’m a musician. I’m in a band. Used to play with (insert your favorite rock musician here,
because for the life of me I can’t remember the artist.).”
“Sing it for me,” I say.
“Too loud.”
We talk. Dance a little more. He walks me to my car.
“Sing it for me.”
“Not now. Let’s go to dinner tomorrow. I’ll bring my guitar.”
I say, “Okay.” (In my defense, I was young and naïve. Besides, I really wanted to believe he’d
written a song about me. I mean, how cool would that be?!)
At dinner we talk. He and the waiter compare notes on how to cook baked potatoes. (I know.
Weird, right?)
When he takes me home, I say, “Sing me the song.”
“I forgot my guitar. Next weekend.” (I wasn’t that naïve or that desperate for a song of my own!)
Unfortunately, I can’t come up with an excuse quickly enough. I’ve never been fast on my feet,
literally or figuratively. We make another date. A messy cold causes me to cancel the day of.
(The only time I’ve been thankful for a cold.)
I’m sprawled on the nubby plaid couch in my apartment. Red, runny nose. A box of tissues
clamped in one hand and an overflowing trash can within reach of the other.
There’s a knock on the door. My roommate answers.
It’s him. “You really are sick.”
“Uh, yeah.”
“I thought you were lying.”
Such a charmer. I never heard from him again, and I never got to hear “my” song. I wasn’t
crushed.
Sooo, “I wrote a song about you.” Memorable? Yes. It’s the only line I remember a guy using on
me. (Probably because it was the only line a guy ever used on me.) Best or worst? I’ll let you
decide.
I’d love to hear your best or worst pickup line. Share it here, and you could win one of four
Kindles. In the meantime, if you’d like to see how a real man picks up a woman, check out
Sharing Hailey, the first book in my Lovers and Friends series. No pickup line needed.
Sharing Hailey Blurb
Hailey Anderson’s deep, dark secret? She’s been madly in lust with her overprotective brother’s
two best friends for years. Gorgeous woodworking artist Mark Allen and sexy doctor Tony
Adamo have no idea they star in her fantasies every night.
After a nasty breakup with her abusive boyfriend, Hailey’s looking for a little distance. Headed
for a two-week Hawaiian vacation with her brother and his hot friends, Hailey can’t wait to feast
her eyes on Mark’s and Tony’s rock-hard, ocean-slick bodies. Even if she can’t touch.
But instead of treating her like their little sister, Mark and Tony have a surprising proposition: a
monogamous ménage à trois. The three of them—and no one else. Both men want Hailey and
have agreed to share her. The red-hot reality is even better than the forbidden fantasy. Until
Hailey’s ex threatens their newfound happiness…
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About Samantha Ann King
USA Today bestselling author Samantha Ann King was born and raised in Houston, Texas.
After receiving her BBA in Finance from Texas A&M University and marrying her high school
crush (notice she didn’t say sweetheart), Samantha relinquished her “native Texan” status and
moved to Baton Rouge. She has called Albuquerque, New Mexico home since 1985. The
mother of three has volunteered in the community as an advocate for children’s issues ranging
from education to healthcare. In 2010, as her nest started to empty, she began writing erotic
romance. Thanks to her win in Passionate Ink’s Stroke of Midnight Contest, Samantha signed
her first publishing contract in 2011. Her first book was nominated for RT’s 2012 Reviewers’
Choice Award.
Learn more about Samantha at her Website, on Facebook, or on Twitter.