Carly's Book Reviews: Empty Nests by Ada Maria Soto #GuestPost #NewRelease #Giveaway @adamariasoto

Friday, June 12, 2015

Empty Nests by Ada Maria Soto #GuestPost #NewRelease #Giveaway @adamariasoto

Cover Artist: Paul Richmond

Empty Nests

(Nested Hearts, Book One)

by Ada Maria Soto

Length: 68,835 words

Genres: Contemporary, Gay (M/M), Romance

Neither James nor Gabe has ever had a real relationship. They might make a connection if they can get past their differences—and their fears.

At age fourteen, James Maron decided to prove he wasn’t gay despite vast evidence to the contrary. Now at thirty-two, he’s getting ready to send his son to college and wondering what he’s supposed to do next. Outside his son, his life consists of an IT job he hates and watching telenovelas with the women in his apartment building.

Gabriel Juarez is the CFO of a technology giant. He has looks, charm, fantastic wealth, a workaholic personality, and a string of boyfriends who only stick around because he’s too busy to tell them to leave.

A bad laptop/projector interface causes James and Gabe’s paths to cross. Friends, family, and coworkers jump to match Gabe with a nice guy, and James with anyone. But are they too different? Everyone will have to tread very carefully to keep things from ending before they start.

Carly: Today I’m welcoming Ada Maria Soto author of Empty Nests. She is stopping by to tell us a little bit more about her herself and her current book.

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Hi, I'm Ada. I'm a born and raised Californian Mexican-American currently living as an expat in the South Pacific with a toddler and my partner. I have studied and worked in theater, film, and television with all the usual crummy side jobs of a struggling artist. I have dysgraphia and phonological dyslexia but I try not to let that slow down my writing. I love sports and am dedicated to the Oakland A’s, San Jose Sharks, Auckland Blues, USA Rugby Eagles, New Zealand All Blacks, New Zealand Black Caps, and the Chennai Super Kings.

Empty Nests is about James Maron and Gabe Juarez. At age fourteen, James decided to prove he wasn’t gay despite vast evidence to the contrary. Now at thirty-two, he’s getting ready to send his son to college and wondering what he’s supposed to do next. Outside his son, his life consists of an IT job he hates and watching telenovelas with the women in his apartment building.

Gabriel Juarez is the CFO of a technology giant. He has looks, charm, fantastic wealth, a workaholic personality, and a string of boyfriends who only stick around because he’s too busy to tell them to leave.

A bad laptop/projector interface causes James and Gabe’s paths to cross. Friends, family, and coworkers jump to match Gabe with a nice guy, and James with anyone. But they might be too different. Everyone will have to tread very carefully to keep things from ending before they start.

10 things you didn’t know about me.

1. I can light a fire by rubbing two sticks together. Insert all manner of juvenile jokes here. We'll see who's laughing after the zombie apocalypse when all the matches run out.

2. I have set my own bones and performed minor surgery on myself. I am now a big fan of public healthcare.

3. I took ballet for most of my childhood. I was the least coordinated and inflexible kid ever to squeeze into a leotard.

4. I can knit lace but I can't crochet to save my soul. I've had my sister try to teach me. I've read all kinds of books and watched the videos on YouTube but anything past the most basic chain just doesn't work. My sister is the opposite; she's great at crochet but just can't work out knitting.

5. I attended the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. And before you ask, yes it was cold. So very cold.

6. I only graduated high school because my chemistry final was canceled due to a bomb threat. No, I had nothing to do with it. I would have been fine not graduating.

7. I only saw Frozen for the first time last month because my partner was convinced it was about a girl bitten by a radioactive ice spider. Personally I would have preferred the radioactive ice spider plot.

8. The only time I have had proper alcohol poisoning was when I was trying to outdrink some guys who edit reality television for a living.

9. I'm allergic to marijuana.

10. I cannot make a pie crust. I can make breads, cakes, cookies, all kinds of yummy things but I cannot make a pie crust. Every time I try it either disintegrates or comes out rock hard.

“So,” Dylan started as he scraped the last of the noodles from his plate. “Remember that conversation we were having about the new AP English teacher?”

“If you pull a piece of paper out of your pocket right now, I will never forgive you.”

Dylan grinned and pulled a tightly folded piece of paper from his pocket. “Saturday after next, if you want, you have a date.”

James was pretty sure teenagers were not supposed to be as hung-up on their father’s love life as Dylan was. “No. No, I do not.”

Dylan pushed over a printout from his school’s faculty webpage. There was a phone number handwritten at the bottom. “Thirty-five, no kids. He likes music.” Dylan had highlighted that line. “You like music, he likes music. He said he’d love to take you to see a band he likes.”

“Goddammit, Dylan! I do not need you setting me up with strangers.”

“He’s not a stranger, he’s the school’s AP English teacher, and I wouldn’t have to if you’d get out of the house once in a while. Seriously, Dad, I’m out of here in less than a year. I don’t want you moping around this place alone. I worry about you turning into a crazy old cat lady.”

Ada Maria Soto is a born and raised Californian, Mexican-American/WASP, currently living as an expat in New Zealand. She got her Bachelor’s degree in Theater Directing at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, which she attended in a fit of stubbornness. She got a Master’s degree in Film and TV Producing from the University of Auckland in New Zealand which she applied to on a manic whim. Nine years later she’s still in Auckland with a partner, kid, and mortgage.

She has dysgraphia and phonological dyslexia which can lead to some interesting typos.

She is a sports fan dedicated to the Oakland A’s, San Jose Sharks, Auckland Blues, USA Eagles, New Zealand All Blacks, New Zealand Black Caps, and the Chennai Super Kings.

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