Title: My Soon-To-Be Sex Life
Author: Judith Tewes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark, (July 24th, 2014)
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NOTE: This is a "New Adult" novel. Due to mature content this title is recommended for ages 17+

Synopsis: Charlie is down to her absolute. Total. Last. Resort.

Despite a thoroughly comprehensive list of potential cherry poppers, er…suitors, and careful plotting, Charlie is three weeks into her devirginization campaign, still untouched, and getting desperate. In the movie of her life, this aspiring screenwriter is giving herself a PG, for please, get some.

Her project goes into freeze frame when her mom checks herself into rehab and packs Charlie off to live with her estranged, or just plain strange, grandfather, Monty. How is she supposed to get a date when she has to go pick up his Depends?

Enter Eric, a hot rehab grad on the road to redemption, and the only one who can make Charlie rethink her strategy. The more she gets to know him, the more convinced she becomes that is the one, and not just another to add to the list of people who will abandon her.

In this hilarious and heartbreaking story of one girl’s detoured road to womanhood, Charlie’s list develops a life of its own – right when she realizes there’s so much more to lose.

Review: 4 Stars - My Soon-To-Be-Sex Life by Judith Tewes follows high school student Charlie through her crazy thoughts and ideas as she is on a mission all while trying to come to terms with some unexpected  life changing events.

In a nut shell, Charlie wants to lose her virginity on her own terms. She wants to make a plan, find the guy and just get the first time out of the way. She’s a budding screenwriter so she has the scene all planned out, down to just about the last detail. Well, minus the guy.

The rest of her life is kind of stressful. Her mom isn’t the same since Charlie’s dad passed away and throws a massive spanner in the works when her mom comes clean about a prescription drug problem and off to rehab she goes. Without anywhere else to go Charlie moves in with her absent Grandfather, who just so happens to live down the street and quickly that new relationship becomes strained even further.

While reading you feel bad for Charlie and you want to sit her down and tell her that she’s trying to choose things for the wrong reasons. Her best friend is there for her, but she has her own way of thinking about Charlie’s choices but the two are interesting together and make sense.

When Charlie least expects it, in walks Eric. He’s trying to overcome his own issues and has a lot to prove to himself and his family. So when the two keep bumping into each other you can see that they don’t know what to expect. And when someone tries to take Charlie down for retaliation over something she did in anger, you can’t help but cringe for both characters.

Eric… what can I say about this guy. He feels a lot older than he is. To be honest I can’t remember if his age was ever mentioned but he feels so much older than Charlie is. He is a flirt and smooth and mysterious. I couldn’t get enough of Eric! And when we finally find out more about him and about the choices he’s made you can’t help but love the guy even more.

There’s a few laugh out loud moments along with all the serious sides that the characters face from beginning to end. And watching Charlie grow from who she was at the beginning to who we see at the end of her story was great. I liked watching her come to terms with all the issues she’s facing with her mom and grandfather and when she finally figures out that some things are more important than a list can hold.

While this title is about a teen in high school and does in fact deal with normal teen issues, I’d recommend this for older teens and above. There’s discussion of drug use, drinking, language and lots of conversations of sex so readers should consider this before reading. However, I really loved it because it’s about serious issues sprinkled in with touches of humor to lighten things up through the rough times. I loved the characters and can’t wait to read more from Judith in the future. Happy reading.

About the Author:

About Judith Tewes: Multi-published, award-winning author, screenwriter, and playwright, Judith Tewes resides in small town Alberta, where she: writes, sings, plays bass guitar in an all-woman band, walks her three crazy labs, and suspects she's living the life of a superhero's alias. A commercial writer writing under several pen names, Judith’s work includes: paranormal, steampunk, and contemporary young adult fiction, as well as thriller, horror, and dramatic comedies for the stage and screen.

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Title: My Soon-To-Be Sex Life
Author: Judith Tewes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark, (June 24th, 2014)
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NOTE: This is a "New Adult" novel. Due to mature content this title is recommended for ages 17+

Synopsis: Charlie is down to her absolute. Total. Last. Resort.

Despite a thoroughly comprehensive list of potential cherry poppers, er…suitors, and careful plotting, Charlie is three weeks into her devirginization campaign, still untouched, and getting desperate. In the movie of her life, this aspiring screenwriter is giving herself a PG, for please, get some.

Her project goes into freeze frame when her mom checks herself into rehab and packs Charlie off to live with her estranged, or just plain strange, grandfather, Monty. How is she supposed to get a date when she has to go pick up his Depends?

Enter Eric, a hot rehab grad on the road to redemption, and the only one who can make Charlie rethink her strategy. The more she gets to know him, the more convinced she becomes that is the one, and not just another to add to the list of people who will abandon her.

In this hilarious and heartbreaking story of one girl’s detoured road to womanhood, Charlie’s list develops a life of its own – right when she realizes there’s so much more to lose.

About the Author:

Multi-published, award-winning author, screenwriter, and playwright, Judith Tewes resides in small town Alberta, where she: writes, sings, plays bass guitar in an all-woman band, walks her three crazy labs, and suspects she's living the life of a superhero's alias. A commercial writer writing under several pen names, Judith’s work includes: paranormal, steampunk, and contemporary young adult fiction, as well as thriller, horror, and dramatic comedies for the stage and screen. 

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Hey everyone! Welcome to the last day in a week long event - Heartbreakers Blog Tour!

Over the last week I've be one of SEVEN blogs featuring a bunch of amazing authors and their characters throughout.

Today is the last day of the Heartbreakers Blog Tour! I have FOUR amazing authors today -

Eileen Cook, Brenda Hiatt, Jenny Kaczorowski & Jen McConnel!!!

Please be sure to come back and check out each day during the week for more chances to WIN!


Title: Year of Mistaken Discoveries
Author: Eileen Cook
Publisher: Simon Pulse, 272 Pages (February 25th 2014)
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Synopsis: Friendship is a bond stronger than secrets in this novel from the author of The Almost Truth and Unraveling Isobel.

As first graders, Avery and Nora bonded over a special trait they shared they were both adopted.

Years later, Avery is smart, popular, and on the cheerleading squad, while Nora spends her time on the fringes of school society, wearing black, reading esoteric poetry, and listening to obscure music. They never interact...until the night Nora approaches Avery at a party, saying its urgent. She tells Avery that she thought she found her birth mom but it turned out to be a cruel lie. Avery feels for Nora, but returns to her friends at the party.

Then Avery learns that Nora overdosed on pills. Left to cope with Nora's loss and questioning her own actions, Avery decides to honor her friend by launching a search for her own birth mother. Aided by Brody, a friend of Nora's who is also looking for a way to respect Nora's legacy, Avery embarks on an emotional quest. But what shes really seeking might go far deeper than just genetics.

About the Author:

Eileen Cook spent most of her teen years wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a writer.

You can read more about Eileen, her books, and the things that strike her as funny at www.eileencook.com. Eileen lives in Vancouver with her husband and two dogs and no longer wishes to be anyone or anywhere else.

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So many of your titles include Love and Romance. If you could choose two characters from one of your previous titles and set them up on a date – could even be a blind date between characters from two different books, who would you set up and what type of date would they go on?

I have a hard time setting up characters from different books for some reason. I think because I picture them so perfectly with whom they meet in their own book.  In my last book, THE ALMOST TRUTH, the main character, Sadie, is a teen-age con artist who fights feelings that she has for her best friend Brendan. She worries that falling for him means staying in their small town and never escaping; by the end of the book she realizes it isn’t true.   I would love to see Brendan and Sadie have a chance to have a really swanky date, walking through museums in New York City and then going to a small café where they could talk for hours while watching people wander by outside and then maybe go ice skating at Rockefeller Plaza.

What can you tell us about your next title – The Year of Mistaken Discoveries?

I am really excited for this book to hit the shelves. It deals with coping with how friendships change and what do you do when that happens, and also a big interest of mine- how do you figure out who you are separate from who everyone expects and wants you to be?

Here’s the back of the book summary:

Friendship is a bond stronger than secrets in this novel from the author of The Almost Truth and Unraveling Isobel.

As first graders, Avery and Nora bonded over a special trait they shared—they were both adopted.

Years later, Avery is smart, popular, and on the cheerleading squad, while Nora spends her time on the fringes of school society, wearing black, reading esoteric poetry, and listening to obscure music. They never interact...until the night Nora approaches Avery at a party, saying it’s urgent. She tells Avery that she thought she found her birth mom—but it turned out to be a cruel lie. Avery feels for Nora, but returns to her friends at the party.

Then Avery learns that Nora overdosed on pills. Left to cope with Nora’s loss and questioning her own actions, Avery decides to honor her friend by launching a search for her own birth mother. Aided by Brody, a friend of Nora’s who is also looking for a way to respect Nora’s legacy, Avery embarks on an emotional quest. But what she’s really seeking might go far deeper than just genetics…

Title: Starstruck (Starstruck #1)
Author: Brenda Hiatt
Publisher: 328 Pages (August 2013)
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Synopsis: Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, has never been anybody special. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict “aunt,” she’s not even sure who she is. M’s dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her. As Rigel turns his back on fawning cheerleaders to spend time with M, strange things start to happen: her acne clears up, her eyesight improves to the point she can ditch her thick glasses, and when they touch, sparks fly—literally! When M digs for a reason, she discovers deep secrets that will change her formerly humdrum life forever . . . and expose her to perils she never dreamed of. Yes, the middle of nowhere just got a lot more interesting!

About the Author:

New York Times bestselling author Brenda Hiatt has published 18 novels to date, her first 15 with Harlequin and HarperCollins. Her novels include six traditional Regency romances, one time travel romance and eight historical romances, most set in Regency England, as well as one humorous mystery and a new young adult series. She has indie published her backlist and is currently writing more books in her young adult SF romance STARSTRUCK series. In addition to writing, Brenda is passionate about embracing life to the fullest, to include scuba diving (she has over 60 dives to her credit), Taekwondo (where she recently achieved her 2nd degree black belt), hiking, traveling, and pursuing new experiences and skills. She is an active member of Romance Writers of America, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and Novelists, Inc, an international organization of multipublished novelists, where she served as President in 2006. For the past dozen years, Brenda has also collected data on writers' earnings, which she shares at her website. http://brendahiatt.com.

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Could you ask M and Rigel both separately, kind of “Newlywed” Style what they think the other would say would be the perfect Valentine’s date would be?

What fun! Sure, I’ll ask them. M, what do you think Rigel’s idea of a perfect Valentine’s date might be?

M: If it weren’t February, he’d probably say a private hour or three in our secret clearing in the cornfield near the school! But since sitting in a snow-covered field of stubble wouldn’t be very romantic, maybe a night on the town in Kokomo or even Indianapolis? He should be getting his driver’s license soon…

How about you, Rigel? What would M think is the perfect date?

Rigel: M sure does like the hot chocolate at Dream Cream, our favorite place to hang out here in Jewel—publicly and in winter, anyway! So maybe an afternoon at a cozy table in the corner there. But knowing her, she might say something about a cornfield, even if it is twelve degrees and snowing right now!

Since Starstruck is the first in a series by the same name, could you tell us if the series will continue with the same characters or will future titles be about different characters within the same world?

M and Rigel are still the main characters in Starcrossed, which just released a couple of weeks ago, but I also introduce a couple of new characters who become increasingly important as the series continues. These new characters will end up testing M and Rigel as a couple and individually. It’s a good thing their bond is so strong!

Title: The Art of Falling
Author: Jenny Kaczorowski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark, (December 19th 2013)
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Synopsis: For seventeen-year-old Bria Hale, image is everything. She’s a militant vegan with purple hair, Doc Martens and a permanent scowl. Kissing captain of the football team Ben Harris? Definitely not part of that image.

Now with each secret kiss, she’s falling deeper for the boy every girl at Oceanside High is crushing on. Throw in a few forbidden bacon cheeseburgers and she’s facing one major identity crisis.

Ignoring Ben should be easy, but when a flashy display of artistic spirit lands her in close quarters after hours with the boy she’s too cool to like, she can’t keep pretending those kisses meant nothing. With her reputation and her heart on a collision course, Bria must either be true to herself or to the persona she’s spent all of high school creating.

About the Author:

Raised in Avon, Ohio, the duct tape capital of the world, Jenny began her writing career as a featured columnist for her hometown newspaper. After earning a degree in photojournalism from Kent State University, she vowed to never spend another winter in Ohio and moved to Los Angeles, where there is far too much sunshine.

Amid working as a grant writer for Sound Art, a non-profit that teaches music in inner-city neighborhoods, and raising two kids, Jenny decided to do something with all the snippets of stories she wrote during microeconomics and began writing for young adults. She likes her heroines smart and quirky, her heroes nice, and her kisses sweet. Her debut, THE ART OF FALLING, is coming from Bloomsbury Spark in Winter 2013.

Apart from writing, Jenny is still an avid photographer, loves music despite no discernable musical talent and reads the dictionary for fun. She lives near Los Angeles with her husband, son and daughter. The four of them are always looking for their adventure.

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So, could you fill us in on what Bria and Ben will be doing this Valentine’s Day? 

Ben and Bria are hopeless romantics, so they have plans to relieve their first date at the Santa Monica Pier. Dinner at The Albright, a ride on the Farris wheel at sunset, and funnel cake for dessert.

Could you ask Bria and Ben each if they could describe the other in 3 words?

Bria: Steady, strong, and patient.
Ben: Only three? Bria is smart, beautiful and bold.

Title: The Secret of Isobel Key
Author: Jen McConnel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark, (December 2013)
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NOTE: This is a "New Adult" novel. Due to mature content this title is recommended for ages 17+

Synopsis: Lou is in the middle of a quarter-life crisis. Fresh out of college, she’s unemployed and unsure of herself. But when she gets the chance to escape to Scotland with her best friend, it could be the answer to her quest for self-discovery. The trip is not at all what she expected, especially when her tour guide turns out to be the dreamy historian Brian, and together they embark on a hunt for information about Isobel Key, a woman accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century.

They set out to learn the truth of the condemned witch, but Lou isn’t prepared for the knowledge that awaits her. She must face her own demons if she has any hope of righting the wrongs of the past.

Flashing between seventeenth century Scotland and a contemporary romance, THE SECRET OF ISOBEL KEY is a mystery that will please readers of all ages.

About the Author:

Jen McConnel first began writing poetry as a child. Since then, her words have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals, including Sagewoman, PanGaia, and The Storyteller (where she won the people’s choice 3rd place award for her poem, “Luna”).

She is also a former reviewer for Voices of Youth Advocates (VOYA), and a proud member of SCBWI, NCWN, and SCWW.

A Michigander by birth, she now lives and writes in the beautiful state of North Carolina. When she isn't crafting worlds of fiction, she teaches writing composition at a community college. Once upon a time, she was a middle school teacher, a librarian, and a bookseller, but those are stories for another time.

Follow Jen on Twitter @Jen_McConnel, and visit www.jenmcconnel.com to learn more.

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Could you ask Lou and Brian both separately, kind of “Newlywed” Style what they think the other would say would be the perfect Valentine’s date would be?

Gladly! :)

Brian: I’d like to spend St. Valentine’s with someone special, curled up in front of a fire. Now, my flat’s too small for a fireplace, but that doesn’t stop a fellow from dreaming, right?

Lou: I’ve never really been big on Valentine’s day. I guess I’d like to do something quiet, like a nice dinner in. It would be good to just be with somebody I care about, you know?

What are three things you can share with us about Isobel Key?

Hmm. Three things? I’ll share three about the character herself, if that’s okay!

1. Isobel is no stranger to heartbreak.
2. She’s also no stranger to betrayal.
3. At the core, she’s a woman who longs to be needed.

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Hey everyone! Welcome to the third day in a week long event - Heartbreakers Blog Tour!

Over the next week I'll be one of SEVEN blogs featuring a bunch of amazing authors and their characters throughout.

Today, day #3 I have -

Judith Tewes & D.G. Driver!!!

Please be sure to come back and check out each day during the week for more chances to WIN!



Title: My Soon To Be Sex Life
Author: Judith Tewes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark YA (2014)
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Synopsis: Charlie is down to her absolute. Total. Last. Resort. Despite a thoroughly comprehensive list of potential cherry poppers, er…suitors, and careful plotting, Charlie is three weeks into her devirginzation campaign, still untouched, and getting desperate. In the movie of her life, this aspiring screenwriter is giving herself a PG, for please, get some. Her project goes into freeze frame when her mom checks herself into rehab and packs Charlie off to live with her estranged, or just plain strange, grandfather, Monty. How is she supposed to get a date when she has to go pick up his Depends?

Enter Eric, a hot rehab grad on the road to redemption, and the only one who can make Charlie rethink her strategy. The more she gets to know him, the more convinced she becomes that is the one, and not just another to add to the list of people who will abandon her. In this hilarious and heartbreaking story of one girl’s detoured road to womanhood, Charlie’s list develops a life of its own – right when she realizes there’s so much more to lose.

About the Author: 

Judith Tewes resides in small town northern Alberta, where she: writes, sings, plays bass guitar in an all-woman band, walks her three crazy labs, and suspects she's living the life of a superhero's alias*.

*This may be due to the fact that she also writes young adult paranormal fiction under the pen name, Judith Graves, as well as screenplays for film and television. Repped by Anna Archer of Lucas Talent. 

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What can you tell us about your up and coming title from Bloomsbury?

Here’s the official blurb for MY SOON TO BE SEX LIFE:

Charlie is down to her absolute. Total. Last. Resort.

Despite a thoroughly comprehensive list of potential cherry poppers, er…suitors, and careful plotting, Charlie is three weeks into her devirginzation campaign, still untouched, and getting desperate. In the movie of her life, this aspiring screenwriter is giving herself a PG, for please, get some.

Her project goes into freeze frame when her mom checks herself into rehab and packs Charlie off to live with her estranged, or just plain strange, grandfather, Monty. How is she supposed to get a date when she has to go pick up his Depends?

Enter Eric, a hot rehab grad on the road to redemption, and the only one who can make Charlie rethink her strategy. The more she gets to know him, the more convinced she becomes that is the one, and not just another to add to the list of people who will abandon her.

In this hilarious and heartbreaking story of one girl’s detoured road to womanhood, Charlie’s list develops a life of its own – right when she realizes there’s so much more to lose.

If you could celebrate Valentine’s day with any fictional character who would it be and why and what would you do on the day?

Since I adore chocolate and one of my favourite “sweet” novels is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I’d love to spend Valentine’s Day at the factory with Willy Wonka, inventing (and eating!) all sorts of heart-shaped, fantastical goodies.

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Title: Cry of the Sea
Author: D.G. Driver
Publisher: Fire & Ice Young Adults Novels (February, 2014)
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Synopsis: Juniper Sawfeather is choosing which college to attend after graduation from West Olympia High School next year.  She wants to go to San Diego to be far away from her environmental activist parents.  They expect her to think the way they do, but having to be constantly fighting causes makes it difficult to be an average 17 year old high school student.  Why do her parents have to be so "out there?"

Everything changes when she and her father rush to the beach after a reported oil spill.  As they document the damage, June discovers three humans washed up on the beach, struggling to breathe through the oil coating their skin.  At first she thinks they must be surfers, but as she gets closer, she realizes these aren't human at all.

They're mermaids!

Now begins a complex story of intrigue, conspiracy and manipulation as June, her parents, a marine biologist and his handsome young intern, her best friend, the popular clique at school and the oil company fight over the fate of the mermaids.

About the Author:

I always liked writing, but what I really wanted to be was a performer.  I grew up in Southern California and got my degree in Drama.  I wrote a lot, but it was just a hobby.  Well, a really time-consuming hobby.  While in college, thanks to a summer of ghost-hunting with a group of friends after graduating from high school, I spent every Winter Break, Spring Break and Summer writing a horror novel on a lap top my dad would bring home from work.  Technically, this was my first YA novel, as all the main characters were teenagers.  Alas, it pretty much stinks, so I never did anything with it.  Plus, as you recall, I wanted to be an actress/singer, so I was doing back to  back shows all through this time and never really put much thought into how to fix the darn thing up and get it published.  It's still in a box.  Maybe someday I'll come back to it.

I've written a number of novels as I slowly learned that I actually liked writing more than acting.  In 1995 I had my first story published in Catalyst Magazine, and then I was all about moving my career in that direction.  I did act professionally for a long time, and now I do community theatre in Nashville with my family for fun.  I joined SCBWI a while back, and it is because of a couple workshops I took with them that I decided to rewrite my fledgling mermaid catastrophe of a novel into something that a publisher decided to put into print.  I'm a big fan of looking back into that box of good but poorly written ideas and trying again.  I'm doing that now with another book about a young surfer who encounters a dragon hidden in a cave at the beach with the best waves.

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What can you tell us about Cry of the Sea?

Cry of the Sea is about Juniper Sawfeather, the daughter of environmental activists that are pushing their careers on her.  When she is helping her father at an oil spill, she discovers three mermaids washed ashore.  Do these mermaids get up, start talking to her and take her on adventures?  No.  It’s not that kind of story.  It’s about Juniper and her attempts to figure out how to save them.  She meets a handsome college intern named Carter who tries to help her, but things keep going wrong.  Thanks to her meddling best friend, a video of the mermaids gets leaked on the internet and people come flocking to the beach to go mermaid spotting.  Her parents are being difficult because they want to use the mermaids for their causes.  The scientist at the marine rescue center wants to use the discovery of mermaids to become famous.  Then the mermaids disappear.  The oil company may have had something to do with it.  Now, along with Carter and the unlikely group of popular kids from her high school, she’s going to try to find the mermaids and rescue them.

If you could celebrate Valentine’s day with any fictional character who would it be and why and what would you do on the day?

Willie Wonka (the Gene Wilder version).  I think it would be fun to spend the day making and eating Valentine’s candy in his wacky factory.

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Hey everyone! Welcome to the second day in a week long event - Heartbreakers Blog Tour!

Over the next week I'll be one of SEVEN blogs featuring a bunch of amazing authors and their characters throughout.

Today, day #2 I have -

Janet Gurtler & Christine Duval!!!

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Title: 16 Things I Thought Were True
Author: Janet Gurtler
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire, 304 Pages (March 4th 2014)
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Synopsis: Heart attacks happen to other people #thingsIthoughtweretrue

When Morgan's mom gets sick, it's hard not to panic. Without her mother, she would have no one—until she finds out the dad who walked out on her as a baby isn't as far away as she thought...

Adam is a stuck-up, uptight jerk #thingsIthoughtweretrue

Now that they have a summer job together, Morgan's getting to know the real Adam, and he's actually pretty sweet...in a nerdy-hot kind of way. He even offers to go with her to find her dad. Road trip, anyone?

5000 Twitter followers are all the friends I need #thingsIthoughtweretrue

With Adam in the back seat, a hyper chatterbox named Amy behind the wheel, and plenty of Cheetos to fuel their trip, Morgan feels ready for anything. She's not expecting a flat tire, a missed ferry, a fake girlfriend...and that these two people she barely knew before the summer started will become the people she can't imagine living without.

About the Author:

Janet lives near the Canadian Rockies with her husband and son and a little dog named Bruce. She does not live in an Igloo or play hockey, but she does love maple syrup and says “eh” a lot.

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Let’s play two Lies and one truth - #thingsIthoughtweretrue style. While growing up, or even yesterday what are TWO lies and one truth and see if we can figure out the truth.

I recently applied to be the editor of a lifestyles magazine in the town I live in.
I love red licorice. When I was younger, I was a competitive swimmer.

I’m looking forward to “meeting” your character Adam. What would be his ideal Valentine’s Day date?

Adam is a cute nerdy boy. He’s the kind of guy who would really pay attention to a girl and do something really unique that appeals to what she really likes. He notices details. I think for Valentine’s Day he would do take a girl on a gorgeous scenic hike, and bring along a delicious picnic lunch, (which includes chocolate). This would involve a deeply satisfying conversation and lots of kissing. Plus he’d give his date a really gushy card with something touching and personal written inside, along with a charm bracelet with a girl’s favorite activity as a charm. In Morgan’s case, he’d give her a charm of an iPhone. :)

Title: Positively Mine (Freshman Forty #1)
Author: Christine Duval
Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark (December 19th 2013)
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Synopsis: It is four weeks into her freshman year of college, and Laurel’s first test was unexpected. Discovering she’s pregnant isn’t exactly what she had planned for her first semester, and while she intends to tell her emotionally-distant father, being away at school makes it all too easy to hide.

An imperfect heroine plagued by bad choices and isolated during what should be the best time of her life, readers are sure to identify with Laurel as she confronts teen pregnancy, in secret.

About the Author:

Christine Duval is an author and freelance writer who lives in New Jersey with her guitar-playing husband and two children. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, New Jersey's Women Who Write, and the Authors Guild. When not creating fictional characters, she writes for an upscale real estate company and has overseen online content and social media for several well-known magazines.

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If you could sit down and have a before and after discussion with your character Laurel, what would words of advice would you say to her before she found out she was pregnant and what would you tell her after she found out?

This is a good one. Well, I would tell her to get herself some birth control before doing what she did! But since she did it anyway, and ends up pregnant, I would tell her exactly what every other person told her throughout the story: tell her father; tell the baby’s father; stop hiding. There were several points when I was writing Laurel’s story when I wanted to reach into my computer and slap some sense into her.

And what do you hope readers take away from Laurels story?

I never set out to write a pregnancy story but more a coming of age story with a main character who just happens to be pregnant. In many ways, Laurel could have been hiding anything but the pregnancy just worked so perfectly with a typical college calendar. Is it a cautionary tale about teen pregnancy? Some reviewers have made that statement but if it comes across that way, it wasn’t intentional. My goal when creating this was to write a good story with characters who are real and flawed and who make mistakes but are still likeable. It’s a book about growing up, forgiveness, moving on. I hope people walk away feeling good, connected to the characters, and the story.

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