In honor of a royal boatload of you getting ARCs of ON ROTATION (& my starred booklist review)- I’d like to introduce the Love Interest: Ricky Gutiérrez.
Ricky is blatantly inspired by my high school crush (a Mexican-American dancer who I fell in love in with 2.5 seconds after meeting because he told me I was “beautiful & talented” & suggested that because he too was beautiful & talented, we procreate, you know, for the good of the world. Which. Uh. Was quite the proposal for 15 y/o Shirlene.) He’s also inspired by every single guy I’ve loved, platonically or otherwise, who has an incredibly good soul but inexplicably does f*ckboy shit. Most of the time, though, Ricky is kind, thoughtful & grounded, a good foil for my boneheaded MC.
An earlier draft of OR actually had Ricky’s perspective, & though the final version no longer has this, I really wanted the ML to be a fully realized character with his own agency & complications. This means that he’s, um… been quite polarizing as a male lead! Swipe for some laughs 😂😂
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