Tuesday, October 28, 2014

UNTIL NOW (Just You #3)







UNTIL NOW (Just You #3) is available (almost) everywhere today! 

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Only two things are keeping Robin Calvert on the right track: the support of her best friend Taylor, and Drake and Lila, her three-year-old twin siblings. Former party girl turned dedicated college student, Robin strives to be a good role model for her younger brother and sister. But when her mother disappears, and her stepfather ships the twins off to live with their grandparents, the stable life she's worked so hard to maintain comes crumbling down around her.

Without her siblings around to motivate her, she backslides to her old reckless ways--vodka, hangovers, and bad boys who give her nothing but trouble. One bright spot is Jane, the grandmotherly stranger who takes Robin under her wing and welcomes her into her big, loving family. There, she forms an unexpected connection with Jane's son, Ryan, a divorced single dad whose pale blue eyes make her question her policy against dating guys with kids.

Ryan has baggage of his own, but the closer Robin gets to both him and his family, the more she understands what it truly means to be home.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

FAKING PERFECT

Two days ago, the cover of Faking Perfect was revealed on the Barnes and Noble blog. In case you missed it, here it is again:





Isn't it gorgeous? *pets it*

You know how authors talk about "the book of my heart"? Well, this is probably mine. I started writing it in the fall of 2012, after a whirlwind few months of ABNA stuff and getting an agent. I set a goal to finish it before May 2013, and I did. The first draft was done in April 2013.

Why is it the book of my heart? I'm not sure. Maybe because it's the first book I've written that didn't give me writer's block even once. The words just kept coming and coming. Maybe because it's different than anything I've ever written before. Maybe because I worked harder on it than the others (I cut almost 15k words from first draft to last, changed/added/deleted many scenes, and even axed a character). Maybe because it's the book that got me three offers and a book deal. I don't know, but I think it might have something to do with the characters.

I've always written such nice, sweet book boys, but Faking Perfect has the first "bad boy" I've ever created. And I had SO MUCH FUN with him. Tyler is by far my favorite boy character, probably because he's so flawed. But he's not the only boy in this book. There are three of them, all very different, all of them important to Lexi in different ways. This book is about discovering new sides to people, even the people we think we have pegged. And, like with all my books, it's also about family and overcoming your past.

I've written six books to date, but Faking Perfect (Speaking of the title, it took my agent Carly and me months to come up with it! It was worse than naming a baby or a cat), is probably the book I'm most proud of, and the one I absolutely can't wait to share with you all.


Faking Perfect will be released in Summer 2015 by Kensington Publishing.


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Thursday, October 9, 2014

UNTIL NOW (Just You #3)

Wow, it's been a long time coming, this book. I started the Just You series about five years ago, published them two years ago and, until a few months ago, was pretty damn adamant that I'd never write a third Just You book.

Then I wrote a third Just You book.

Not only did I say I'd never write a third Just You book, I also said I'd NEVER write a New Adult romance. YA is my thang, not NA. I'm not a big fan of NA, to be completely honest.

Then I wrote a NA.

New Adult involves college-aged characters (usually) between the ages of 18-25 (usually). I can relate to YA, because I was a teen once and went through typical teen things. I read a lot of YA. I write YA. I love YA. But NA? When I was 21, I had a baby. When I was 22, I got married. When I was 25, I had another baby. These are not typical New Adult experiences, so I wasn't sure if I could even write a NA book about typical NA people.

But I did. And I loved it. And here it is:


Only two things are keeping Robin Calvert on the right track: the support of her best friend Taylor, and Drake and Lila, her three-year-old twin siblings. Former party girl turned dedicated college student, Robin strives to be a good role model for her younger brother and sister. But when her mother disappears, and her stepfather ships the twins off to live with their grandparents, the stable life she’s worked so hard to maintain comes crumbling down around her.

Without her siblings around to motivate her, she backslides to her old reckless ways—vodka, hangovers, and bad boys who give her nothing but trouble. One bright spot is Jane, the grandmotherly stranger who takes Robin under her wing and welcomes her into her big, loving family. There, she forms an unexpected connection with Jane’s son, Ryan, a divorced single dad whose pale blue eyes make her question her policy against dating guys with kids. 

Ryan has baggage of his own, but the closer Robin gets to both him and his family, the more she understands what it truly means to be home.


UNTIL NOW officially releases on Amazon, Kobo, and Smashwords on October 28!


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