Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Stella Hayward to HJ!
Hi Stella and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, My Brilliant A.I Boyfriend!
Hello Hj readers, thank you for having me!
Please summarize the book for the readers here:
MY BRILLIANT AI BOYFRIEND is about socially awkward STEM genius Ava Green, who has created an ethical AI designed to help the world. Persuaded by her best friend, Rani, she enters a tech funding competition held in the local castle. Although Ava loves staying in the definitely haunted castle, she is not so keen on AI hating but very handsome poet Forrest, and they get off on the wrong foot from the start. On the other hand, the mysterious Hal Babbage seems like her perfect man, not least because he looks exactly like her first fictional crush from the series of novels she loved as a teen….
Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:
The trouble with having Forrest Faulkner as a nemesis is that
he is distractingly handsome, in very much a romantic lead sort
of way, and I do have a soft spot for those types. If I had a penny
for every time I have had a lengthy, all- consuming, totally unre-
quited crush on a devastatingly good- looking romantic lead type,
I’d have about eight pence by now. Also, I am no stranger to the
whole enemies- to- lovers fantasy. The very last thing I need right
now to is get that trope stuck in my head and start thinking I
fancy my mortal foe. Avoiding looking at him is a sensible tactic.
Please share a few Fun facts about this book…
- Castle Beaumont, where the book is set in based on Castle Howard, which is close to where I live n Yorkshire, and its where 1990s Pride and Prejudice and the first series of Bridgerton were filmed!
- One of the scenes in the book takes place in The Shambles, a medieval lane in the centre of the historic city of York, where you can visit the York Ghost Merchants. York has a reputation for being the most haunted city in Europe.
- I invent my version of AI, FreeThought, from my imagination, as a tool to help all of humanity instead of making money from us! Ethical AI doesn’t exist yet.
- There might be a couple of ghosts in this novel, I have seen three ghosts so far, and heard one. That was my least favourite encounter.
What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?
What first attracts Forrest to Ava is that she is incredibly clever, and he loves this in a woman, even though as an artist his is apposed to AI.
Ava loves to read romance, and Forrest does that that romance hero look. But thought she finds him attractive she has decided he is her nemesis. Awkward.
Hal thinks Ava is the most perfect person he has ever known, and she shouldn’t be alone.
Ava is a bit worried about exactly how perfect for her Hal is, almost like she designed him…
Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?
I had so much fun writing a scene where socially awkward Ava runs away from a scary conversation and gets lost in the castle maze. Ava feels embarrassed and a bit dramatic about her predicament, but things are about to get worse when it’s her nemesis, Forrest who comes to help and they both get lost!
‘The answer to your question is, no, I don’t know what I was
thinking when I ditched my shoes and ran off into the garden,
and no, I wasn’t thinking about where I was going, and yes, I do
seem to be stuck in the middle of the Elizabethan maze. I didn’t
see that coming. Well, not until I ran full tilt into an eight- foot-high
privet hedge, that is. Privet hedges are actually a lot harder
than they look.
Rubbing my forehead vigorously, I take a look around. Hedges
everywhere.
It’s obvious when you think about it, really. It’s obvious that I,
in a blind panic over answering a simple question that I was more
than prepared for, would end up lost in the famously difficult
maze of a grand country house, just as darkness falls.
Not to be overdramatic, or anything, but I expect this is how
I die.
They’ll find me one day, years from now. A skeleton in a nice
lilac dress, propped up against the hedge, having starved to death
on a diet of grass and despair. Fine, yes, that is a bit over the top.’
Readers should read this book….
If they love a slow burn romance full of yearning.
If they like enemies to lovers stories.
If they like to wonder what’s going to happen in a love triangle situation!
If they like socially awkward but charming STEM genius heroines.
If they want to find out more about my home county of Yorkshire, locally known as God’s Own Country!
If they have ever wondered about AI and the impact it is having on the arts.
If they like really wonderful vintage dresses
If they would like to read about Ava making the most embarrassing wedding speech ever.
If they love to laugh!
What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?
I am currently writing a top secret project that I can’t tell you about yet, but hopefully it will be coming your way sooner rather than later!
Thanks for blogging at HJ!
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Book Info:
As a top scientist in her field, Ava Green doesn’t spend much time outside of the lab. But when her best friend Rani suggests she present her innovative work in AI at a big competition to win a funding prize, Ava finds herself attending a ceremony in a ridiculously fancy castle—wearing an equally ridiculous dress—as one of the four finalists chosen.
For the next three weeks, Ava will live at the castle (which is totally haunted, by the way) with the other contestants for the prize. Even though all Ava wants is to continue working on her AI program, FreeThought, in peace, she’ll have to do things like attend dinners and actually interact with people. To make matters worse, one of the other contestants is the surly and aloof poet, Forrest Faulkner, who’s had a huge chip on his shoulder since the moment they met. What’s so great about poems that don’t even rhyme, anyway?
When a handsome stranger—who literally looks like he’s stepped out of one of Ava’s pre-pubescent dreams—arrives at the competition, suddenly socializing doesn’t sound so bad anymore. He seems too good to be real… and maybe that’s not so far from the truth. As the competition progresses, Ava is suddenly confronted with a monster problem of her own creation, causing her to reconsider her life and work in a new light. She might also need to rethink some bad first impressions she’s been holding on to as well. Maybe Ava’s idea of perfection isn’t what’s perfect for her, after all?
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Meet the Author:
Stella Hayward is a pseudonym for Rowan Coleman, the internationally bestselling and award-winning author and screenwriter of sixteen novels, including The Memory Book, The Summer of Impossible Things, and The Girl at the Window. A lifelong Bronte fan, under the Bronte inspired pen name Bella Ellis, Rowan also writes the Bronte Mysteries—a carefully researched series of novels that imagine that before they were famous the Bronte Sisters were amateur detectives.
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