If you missed my Kickstarter in the fall of 2022 for The Taming Of April and want to know MORE about April Bender – in the book The Taming Of April, you’ve come to the right place!
Back in 2021, at the Gem City Comic Con in Dayton, OH someone came to my booth and asked, “Do you have anything that’s NOT for kids?” That’s when I decided to turn one of my old screenplays into a romance comedy novel.
I still love Tercona and I’m going to continue the comics series but I thought it was about time I tried something different. After all, I am an adult and on occasion, I do like rated R comics, movies, and TV shows too.
I miss movies like The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Wedding Crashers. I like to call them ‘raunchy rom-coms.’ lol
If “The Taming Of April” was a movie it would be a rated R romantic comedy. It’s definitely NOT for kids, not “young adult” and it’s not quite spicy enough to call it a – hot and spicy – romance novel. It fits somewhere in between.
Here is what the story is about…
Adam King must pick up the pieces from a hard breakup. He’s overweight, working as a farm hand and he knows his life doesn’t have a destination. As he slowly makes some changes to better his career goals and move forward with his dating life, he gets a haircut and encounters a hairdresser named April Bender.
Adam slowly finds out that April has a bit of a wild streak. She enters wet t-shirt contests, loves to skinny dip, and has sex with men on the first date.
Shocked and yet also thrilled by April’s erotic zest for life Adam realizes she doesn’t need a boyfriend; she needs a true friend. April is tormented by the demons of her past. Bad breakups, being raised by a single biker mom who loves to party, and having too many sexual partners before the age of 25, April has a very tough time letting go of her carefree promiscuous lifestyle. When her sexual outlook on life finally catches up with her, she realizes she must also make changes to better herself but is it too late? April fears she might lose the only man that has ever truly treated her with respect and dignity.
Entertaining, funny, deeply moving, with just a pinch of sensual erotic fun The Taming of April is a romantic comedy story of how a man who was once a cowboy uses his skills to tame a wild woman.
Here is April as she answered her apartment door naked in front of the pizza delivery guy.
There are 3 main characters in this book. Adam, April, and April’s best friend Dani. The book is told in first person perspective so each character is telling YOU their story and on occasion, breaking the 4th wall.
If you’re wondering how I came up with the idea for this well…before I met my wife (before 2004) I lived in Findlay, OH. There was this girl who lived in the same apartment complex as me. We only went on 2 dates. We figured out we were better friends than boyfriend/girlfriend. I’m not going to tell you her name but this story is very loosely based on her. I remember she called me to pick her up at 1 am because she lost a wet t-shirt contest and she was so flipping drunk I had to carry her to her apartment! She told me stories about all the sexual stuff she did like giving a guy a BJ is just ‘fooling around.” So yeah, April is based on a girl I knew a long time ago.
If you’d like to order The Taming Of April go to the STORE page or click on the cover of the book.
