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Q&A
What has been your best experience since the release of your book?
Ashley
Poston: Definitely all the support on Twitter and
Facebook! I never thought I’d have so many people out of the blue just tweeting
me to tell me how much they loved my story! It means a lot to me. I think every
author has one story that’s their “baby” and mine is The Sound of Us.
While it’s a very funny, very light-hearted YA/NA crossover (think Fangirl),
its tackles some heavy-hitting stuff that’s pretty personal to me. And it’s
surreal and wonderful and thrilling to read how much other people enjoyed it!
Caroline Dunford: I
loved seeing the face of my heroine Sharra on the beautiful cover. She is just
as I imagined her.
Cat Kalen: I am thrilled with
reader response. I heard from students who were using my book for their school
reports and it thrilled me.
Christine
Duval: Really it is more than one moment. It is all
the times women have come up to me, written to me, tweeted to me about how
Positively Mine reminded them of their own situations. Many are women who were
teen moms or who found themselves unexpectedly pregnant in college. I am so
moved that something I created has had meaning in another person’s life.
Frankie
Brown: Meeting
so many wonderful people! The Sparkies are a wonderfully sweet, vivacious
group, and the online YA book community is a ton of fun.
Jen
McConnel: Listening to the amazing audiobook for
the first time! My narrator, Carolyn Bonnyman, has the perfect voice for the
story, and I could listen to her all day long. It’s funny, too; when I was
revising the sequel, I heard it in her voice. She’s become an integral part of
my story, and I’m so glad!
Jenny
Kaczorowski: The moment my book popped up in my
local library’s eMedia collection! More than any other publishing dream, I’ve
always wanted to have something I wrote in libraries. I stumbled across it by
accident and nearly screamed.
Jenny
Morris: Reading people’s reviews and knowing they
totally got our story. It’s still crazy to me that a total stranger is reading
something that I wrote and relating to it.
Judith
Tewes: My title isn’t out in the world yet
(releases in July), but I’ve had a blast supporting my fellow Bloomsbury Spark
authors as each new title has launched.
Kate Jarvik Birch: It might sound a
little sadistic, but hearing that my book has brought someone to tears is one
of the best feelings EVER—it’s also pretty awesome to hear that I’ve made them
yell and cheer, but for some reason the tears feel like the biggest payoff.
Kelley
Lynn: Fans (Eep! I still can’t believe I have fans…haha) contacting me wanting to talk
about the book. I actually had one twelve-year-old girl somehow get a hold of
my phone number. She called me and in this really sweet, shaky voice, asked how
she could get a signed copy of my book. It was just so flattering and is
totally the reason I do this.
Marie Langager: It’s an awesome
feeling when you connect with readers. Especially when they’re in a country
you’ve never been to!
Theresa
DaLayne: Since my book doesn’t release until
mid-August of this 2014, I probably haven’t had it yet. THE EDGE OF YOU is my
new adult debut, and although Ron and Lilly’s story isn’t full of rainbows and
gumdrops, it’s real. I think my favorite part about writing the story was
reliving my years spent in Kodiak Island, Alaska, where I grew up. A few
characters, like Lori for example, play a small but beautiful role, and are
depictions of real people. It was an honor to incorporate part of my life into
the story that will be shared with so many others.
THE SECRET OF ISOBEL
KEY, by Jen McConnel, excerpt
“All
right, you folk. Today we’ll be
travellin’ out to Skye, the loveliest island anywhere in Scotland, or the world
for that matter.” The soothing accent of
their handsome tour guide carried through the small bus via the microphone, and
Lou sat back in bliss, letting the words roll over her. The accents here in the Scottish Highlands
almost made up for the dreary, damp weather, and she loved listening to the
locals say just about anything. Admittedly,
she would listen to Brian say anything, even
without his accent. The
tall, red-haired Scot reminded Lou of the men on the covers of the romance
novels she’d sold at the bookstore, and she kept her eyes pinned on him as the
bus bounced along. His khaki cargo pants
rested casually on his hips, and he looked like a cross between a fashion model
and the boy next door with his navy blue fleece zipped partway up. The green collared shirt he was wearing
underneath the jacket was plain and simple, but Lou kept staring at the
neckline, watching for any telltale curls of chest hair. Did his body hair match his flaming red head? Lou blushed at the thought and closed her
eyes, wondering what it would be like to run her hands across Brian’s broad
chest. Would he feel like sandpaper or
satin under her fingertips?
A
cymbal-shaking jolt of thunder abruptly pulled Lou out of her fantasy, and she
blushed, glancing at Tammy. Her best
friend seemed oblivious to her daydreams; Tammy was reading furiously in her
guidebook, probably trying to learn everything about wherever they were
headed. Lou glanced at Brian once more
and then turned her attention to the window.
The landscape was a brilliant emerald green, but the sky had begun to
resemble heavy slate waiting to crush the unsuspecting earth beneath it. “It would be really beautiful, if it weren’t
always raining,” Lou muttered to herself.
Tammy looked up from her guidebook, her green eyes unfocused.
“What’dya
say? Is it raining again? Aw, Lou, you remember what Brian said on the
first day of the tour; everything’s more dramatic in Scotland!” Tammy sounded annoyingly perky for someone
who would soon be hiking across a muddy landscape toward whatever rustic
destination the tour would take them on today.
Not only did she sound perky, Lou considered, but she looked perky:
perky and perfect. Her silken blonde
hair looked tousled just enough to be sexy, and her skin seemed to be drinking
up the moisture around them; her cheeks were dewy and soft. Lou wished she looked half as at ease as
Tammy, but she knew that her lumpy hat and wild hair made her look more like a
hobo than a hot college student on vacation, and she sighed. Traveling with Tammy wasn’t as much fun as
she’d thought it would be.
Shifting
in her seat, Lou gazed out the window at the rivulets of water cascading down
the bus. “What would they call it if the
sun came out? Just for a minute.”
“We’d
call it a miracle,” a deep voice beside her shoulder answered. Lou’s heart sped up as she whipped around,
red in the face. Brian, the tall, ruddy tour guide, was standing in the bus
aisle beside her, smiling.
Buy Links for all the books:
DELIVER ME
The Sound of Us
The Art of
Falling
Nook
- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-art-of-falling-jenny-kaczorowski/1117666258?ean=9781619634695
Positively Mine
Until We End
Pride’s Run
Secret of Isobel
Key
Nook
- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-secret-of-isobel-key-jen-mcconnel/1117666254?ean=9781619634640
Her Secret
Inheritance
Nook
- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/her-secret-inheritance-jen-mcconnel/1119563643?ean=9781619635357
Road to Somewhere
Beyond Our Stars
My Soon-To-Be-Sex
Life
Nook
- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-soon-to-be-sex-life-judith-tewes/1119856111?ean=9781619635388
MapMaker’s
Daughter
GIVEAWAYs
Blitz-wide giveaway
Open to International
A Kindle Paperwhite loaded with all of these titles (also please use image attached with all the covers included):
1) The Sound of Us by Ashley Poston
2) The Art of Falling by Jenny Kaczorowski
3) The Secret of Isobel Key by Jen McConnel PLUS its sequel
4) Her Secret Inheritance
5) Positively Mine by Christine Duval
6) Deliver Me by Kate Jarvik Birch
7) Pride’s Run by Cat Kalen
8) Road to Somewhere by Jenny S. Morris and Kelley Lynn
9) Beyond Our Stars by Marie Langager
10) The Mapmaker’s Daughter by Caroline Dunford
11) Until We End by Frankie Brown
12) An ARC of My Soon-To-Be Sex Life by Judith Tewes
There are so many good titles there. I will have to check some of them out. I think digital imprints are the next big thing. They are so good for authors! :)
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing & for the giveaway lovely! Hope you are having a good week! :) xxx
Alex @ The Shelf Diaries
Hi Alex. I totally agree!! Im after adding most of these to my wishlist. Good luck in the giveaway, its an awesome prize :) xx
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