About the Book:
All Jessy wants is to figure out what to do with her life. She hates her job, lives in a crappy London apartment and her love life is non-existent. . .That is until her twin sister begs her to join her newly launched dating app, Butterflies.
Lead singer and front man of These Exiles, Patrick just wants a break after coming off tour. But when he’s mistakenly arrested, his record label insists on doing damage control. Their latest scheme? Getting Patrick on the dating apps and into a relationship.
When Jessy and Patrick match on Butterflies, neither plan to actually meet. . . but then they literally bump into each other and chaos ensues. With their faces plastered all over the internet, and Patrick’s record label jumping on the publicity, the two find themselves unexpectedly ‘dating.’
Can they keep up the farce in front of the whole world, or will they start to believe their own lie?
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About the Author:
Emily is a Brit writing happily ever afters with heart and humour. As Emily E K Murdoch, she is a USA Today Bestselling Author with over 70 romances published across four languages. As Emily Murdoch Perkins, her non-fiction debut—a feminist exploration of what the British monarchy would have looked like if eldest daughters not sons inherited the throne—will release in October 2024. As Emily Murdoch, she teaches and speaks on the craft and business of writing, for which she won the Regency Academe Teacher of the Year Award in 2024.
How many is too many dating app disasters?
Online dating. The apps. They were strange, and then they were exciting, and then they were cliché, and now—now absolutely everyone has anecdotes about the disasters they’ve suffered when matching with strangers.
When I started to write Famously in Love, featuring a celebrity on a dating app he really doesn’t want to be on and a woman only on there as a favour for her sister, I asked around my friends to gather the most awkward, excruciating dating app disasters.
Some of them were so wild, I couldn’t put them in the book: no one would believe it was plausible. Like when my friend matched with a set of identical twins (separately, she promises me), and took two weeks chatting with each of them trying to see which she liked better…only to discover it was just one guy, ‘testing’ different personalities.
Or that time my friend matched with a man who seemed hilarious—only for him to send her a questionnaire to fill out entitled ‘Application for Wifedom’. And it wasn’t a joke.
Or one of my poor besties who, during the pandemic, hooked up with a guy who seemed so sweet she organised a second date…when he dined and dashed, leaving her with a huge bill.
As I said, none of these particular disasters appear in my book, Famously in Love. Honestly, I couldn’t fit them in: not when there’s already fake dating, rage-ordering desserts, best friends meddling (with promises of violence if a certain person’s heart is broken), and impulsive tattoo parlour visits.
Because that’s the wild thing about dating on the apps. You literally never know who you’re going to meet. And although the real world is overflowing with these kinds of unbelievable anecdotes (send me yours!), I wanted to write something perhaps even more unexpected: about when dating apps can turn out a bit better. I wanted to put romance back into the apps!
You might meet a guy who can entertain you for a while, and you get bored of quickly.
Or you might meet a celebrity who’s nothing like his online persona, makes your whole body tingle every time he has to pretend to be taking you out on dates, and kisses like it means something.
Even if it can’t. Right?
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