Miss Dawn Pendleton came up with a cool Q&A for authors. She posts them once a week on her blog and I’m taking part on it. I’ll be posting the Q&A here every Saturday.
Today is MY turn!
Cheers,
Miss Dawn Pendleton came up with a cool Q&A for authors. She posts them once a week on her blog and I’m taking part on it. I’ll be posting the Q&A here every Saturday.
Today is MY turn!
Cheers,
ABOUT THE ONLY ONE:
Honor student, manager at the campus coffee shop, owner of an impressive sweater collection – Melanie Wilder has it all together. Then John “John Boy” Walden strolls into her life wearing nothing more than an impish grin and all-too-revealing loin cloth.
Soon, make-out sessions replace homework, lust triumphs over work. And to further crumble her perfect world, an unexpected phone call threatens to take away everything she’s worked for.
Now, as Melanie struggles to pick up the pieces, she realizes that John may be the only one to put her life back together…unless he shatters it first.
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ABOUT MAGAN VERNON:
Magan Vernon is a Young Adult and New Adult writer who lives with her family in the insurance capital of the world. When not writing she spends her time fighting over fake boyfriends via social media.
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Excerpt:
I looked around the basement, sipping whatever concoction some guy poured out of a cooler. He called it a ‘magic potion’ and I hoped that didn’t mean he rufied it. I don’t know how Monica talked me into this.
A horde of girls clad in nothing more than lingerie pushed past me as if I were nothing more than another one of the paddles on the paneled wall. I tried to pull back but then I came face to chest with a set of abs and felt all of the magic potion cascade down my cardigan.
I gasped once the cold liquid soaked through both my layers and hit my skin.
“Too bad, that was such a nice sweater…” A deep voice said.
I looked up, all the way past the chiseled six pack and to a pair of cool blue eyes. “Maybe you should just take it off up in my room and I can help you dry off.” He leaned in, his full lips right on my ear. “Or make you wetter.”
My breath caught in my throat, rendering me speechless. Luckily my best friend Monica jumped between us, pushing the guy back so I got a full view of him and realized he was only wearing a loin cloth and a large smile.
“Down John Boy.” She scowled at him and then turned to me, almost knocking her beret off. “What the hell happened to you?”
“I-I-I spilled my drink.”
Monica’s eyes narrowed as she looked down at the red liquid soaking through my gray sweater. She whipped her head around to the loin cloth clad guy. “Was this your fault? Are you trying to get my friend naked?”
He held up his hands, a cockeyed grin on his face. “Purely an accident, Lib.”
Ah, now I knew where I’d seen him before. He had come into the coffee shop we worked at a few times. I don’t think he even glanced in my direction more than to hand me his student ID to pay, but was always calling Monica ‘Lib.’ I’m guessing because she was an extreme liberal.
Monica’s boyfriend, the governor’s son Trey Chapman, pushed through the crowd. When I usually saw him he was polished in dress pants and a dress shirt, but his Halloween costume was nothing more than a pair of American flag boxers, a dress shirt, and some gray hairspray. He looked ridiculous. I still don’t know how Monica talked him into the Clinton and Lewinsky couples costumes.
“Hey, I’ve been looking for you.” He slipped his arm around Monica’s waist. “What’s going on here?”
“Your big brother here spilled a drink on Melanie to try and get her naked.”
“Hey!” John yelled.
“It wasn’t his fault,” I piped in. “It’s crowded here and he just ran into me. It’s fine.”
“Fine?” Monica raised her eyebrows. “That Hermione costume you’ve been wearing since middle school is covered in ever clear and Kool aid. That’s not fine.”
“I haven’t worn this since middle school!” Okay, truth was, it was my go-to costume. I bought it for the first movie’s midnight showing and wore it for every movie opening and Halloween since.
“Whatever.” Monica turned her head to Trey and tugged on his shirt. “You can just wear Trey’s shirt.”
Cheers,
Cheers,
… just not so daily.
That’s the name of my new feature. If you guys saw NA Alley today, you read The NA Alley Gazette. What I’ll be doing here, is almost the same, but I’ll include not only news and upcoming events from the NA Alley members, but also from my friends and whatever they are writing/doing, even if it’s NA.
– Reese Monroe (aka Lynn Rush) signed with agent Nicole Resciniti, and snatched a 3-book deal with Entangled Publishing for her Bound by Hades trilogy.
– Summer Lane’s State of Chaos released last month! (Click here for buy links)
– My own Destiny Gift is the Featured Book of the Month at NA Alley – you can enter for a change to win a copy here (only 7 days left!).
– Carrie Butler is re-releasing Strength in August – read more about it here. The sequel Courage will be out October 15th. You can sign up for the blog tour here.
– Victoria H. Smith has two books releasing August 12th – The Bringer’s Quest and Incandescence. You can sign up for the blog tour here.
– My own Breaking the Reins is almost here too (August 18th). You can still sign up for the Release Week Blitz!
– Jaycee DeLorenzo plans on releasing A Love Less Perfect (Riordan College #2) late this fall.
– Magan Vernon’s Life, Love & Lemons (YA) releases August 20th.
– L.M. Augustine’s Two Roads (NA) releases August 26th.
– Alyssa Rose Ivy’s Enduring Light (The Afterglow Trilogy #3) (YA) releases August 20th.
– Sawyer Bennett’s Off Course (NA) releases August 4th.
– I’m writing Everlast #2 (still untitled). The cover reveal will be in September, and the blog tour is already scheduled for December – but the sign up post should go live only around October.
– I’m participating of a signing with other 35 authors Aug 10th, in Stamford, CT – it’s called Stamford Author Event and it’s free! Check more about it here.
– The New Adult Sleepover Weekend is scheduled for Dec 6-8 in Savannah, GA. You can read all about it and sign-up for it here.
Cheers,
It’s impossible to focus on college biology when your family believes doomsday is imminent and the government is out to get you.
All Pete Wilson’s ever wanted is to become a veterinarian, but those dreams are going up in flames. Commuting to an urban college and helping his parents with their apocalyptic prepper crap is more than he can handle.
Worse, Pete’s asshole neighbor is stirring up trouble, his family’s stockpile has been destroyed and farm animals are turning up dead.
Lindsey Linger is the tomboy sister of his best friend. Now a sexy spitfire, she and Pete are liable to set the barn ablaze as their romance finally heats up. But she’s hiding a terrible secret, and rural life isn’t all bonfires and hayloft romps. That becomes clear one icy winter night when the survival of everyone Pete loves hangs in the balance.
Can Pete be the hero they need, or will this be the end of the world as he knows it?
A lover of all things gothic, she can often be spotted photographing old cemeteries, historic buildings and, ironically, the beautiful beaches of the Gulf Coast. She also has a tendency to psychoanalyze people, which comes in handy when creating character profiles.
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Cheers,
Breaking the Reins reached 400 adds on Goodreads. So, as promised, here’s the 5th pic teaser:
AH! ONE MONTH UNTIL IT’S OUT! I CAN’T FREAKING WAIT!
*clears throat*
Hope you like it!
You can see pic teasers #1 and #2 here, pic teasers #3 and #4 here.
Want another pic teaser? Help Breaking the Reins reach 500 adds on goodreads and you’ll have it!
Cheers,
Anna Cruise has been writing and drooling over boys since middle school. Lots of years have passed but some things never change…
Her books include the best-seller IT WAS YOU (New Adult) and IF I FALL (Mature YA). Additional titles releasing in 2013 include MAVERICK (May 2013) as well as a follow-up to Abby and West’s story from IT WAS YOU.
Anna loves to hear from readers and authors. Email her at authorannacruise@gmail.com. You can also like her Facebook page, find her on Twitter @AnnaCruiseBooks or friend her on Goodreads.
Cheers,