Foreplay by Sophie Jordan

Sophie Jordan’s New Adult novel FOREPLAY will be hitting shelves tomorrow. Are you ready to head over and grab your copy? Being a lover of the New Adult genre myself, I am so incredibly excited for what I know will be an excellent new addition! Oh and guess what? I’ve got the book trailer for you!

Here’s a little snippet about the book:

Before she goes after the life she’s always wanted, she’s about to find the one she needs.

Pepper has been hopelessly in love with her best friend’s brother, Hunter, for like ever. He’s the key to everything she’s always craved: security, stability, family. But she needs Hunter to notice her as more than just a friend. Even though she’s kissed exactly one guy, she has just the plan to go from novice to rock star in the bedroom—take a few pointers from someone who knows what he’s doing.

Her college roommates have the perfect teacher in mind. But bartender Reece is nothing like the player Pepper expects. Yes, he’s beyond gorgeous, but he’s also dangerous, deep—with a troubled past. Soon what started as lessons in attraction are turning both their worlds around, and showing just what can happen when you go past foreplay and get to what’s real…

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to read this! Interested in more books by Sophie? Check them out at her website: http://www.sophiejordan.net/newadult/news.html

The one about New Adult

So a while back I was in the gym shower thinking about how my writing wasn’t quite YA, but wasn’t quite fiction for adults either and I began to wonder: where the heck would I fit in? As I lathered, rinsed and maybe repeated, though i’m not sure because my focus started wandering to different genres and wouldn’t it be great if there was something in between? 

Well…hello there New Adult! When I finally discovered books that are fitting into this “new” category, I quickly started devouring them and I have to admit…I think i’m in love. 

Shame shame…

Huge shame on me. I did exactly what I said I wasn’t going to do. I haven’t blogged in quite some time. However, in my defense I have been participating in NaNoWriMo and am hoping to actually finish it at 50,000 words this year. Who else is participating?

Define crazy…

Question of the day: Does it make me crazy if I have arguments with fictional characters in my head? The main character in my WIP decided to pipe up in my head yesterday with something that she wants to happen, I am not sure necessarily that I agree with it. It is her story though, so I may have to let her win on this one.

 

I hate losing!

Writing Frenzy

Harper opens up submissions for two weeks in October…my first thought…Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! [Insert very excited, very girly dance here]. Second thought is that I need to kick my manuscript into submission. That being said, I am spending the day writing today. I’ve made some pretty good progress actually! Big question is: Will I finish in time for the October submissions? Only time will tell…Tick.Tock.

Camping serenity

Worth a thousand words…

I took the plunge!

No I didn’t get married this time, I already did that in 2010 when I finally married Dan. I’m talking about the book. You heard it right, I finally started it! Pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard I guess! AND it wasn’t nerve wracking, it felt really good! Now to keep on writing and not keep up with distractions. Here goes…

Face off with the creepy and crawly

Story of the day:

You know how when you are home all alone and you see a nasty bug in your house, you are faced with a tough decision? You either are immediately on the defense, like a whole SWAT team in one person. pr maybe you just hop around and squeal a lot? (I admit I do this sometimes too). Today however I was home all alone and heard the distinct buzzing noise of a bug in my house. After wandering all over the house for 10 minutes in search of said bug,  I finally found it swarming around a recessed light in the ceiling. It’s like the bug knew that because I am only 5’1″ and there’s absolutely no chance I could reach it up there,  it would sit up there and taunt me until I gave in and let it co-habitate with me. I had other ideas.After what seemed like a very long stare down, I was able to stand on my couch and swat if off the ceiling. It flailed around ultimately landed on the floor where I quickly inspected it to see how hard I would have to hit it in order to kill it. Seeing a hard shell, I knew I would have to hit it fairly hard. I swung the fly swatter back and smacked the gross bug. I did succeed in killing it, though yes I did feel a little bit bad, until it squished clear gunk out all over my floor in retribution.

Disgusting.

Writers anxiety and such

There is something about sitting down with a fresh new idea that has been bubbling up to the surface waiting to be hashed out that is liberating and freeing and quite frankly…just plain awesome. You know what I am talking about…that feeling you get when you can make something be anything that you want it to be? How cool is it, that you can take a teeny little idea and make it into a huge world that works exactly the way that you want it to? Is there anything better than that? I’m not sure that there is. However I’ve run into a bit of a dilemma. I haven’t recently realized that there is a little possibility that I might be an itty bitty bit of a control freak. Really! Who knew? I start panicking when the story starts taking over…you know sweaty palms, constant editing and re-editing every little word that makes it onto the page due to my irrational fear that somebody someday (probably my mom and maybe even my husband) might actually read it? What will they think? I start obsessively asking myself…is this part too unbelievable, or is that part just flat out boring? This leads me in to my new realization… I think I have writers anxiety. Seriously! I do… if there is such a thing. How can I have something that may not exist you might ask? Well, I don’t really know actually, but i’m 99.9% certain that I do. Is it curable? Let’s hope so. I am going to do something I haven’t done for a long time, I employ the rules of writing I did when I was a kid…I am going to write for myself, what I want to see on the paper! What a novle idea.

 

Sometimes kids just know best.

[Insert brilliant idea here] ;)

I woke up this morning with the urge to get writing! This is great considering some other mornings I just wake up with the urge to go back to sleep. The ideas are flowing and I think they might be starting to come together a little bit more (maybe? possibly?)  and if all goes well, maybe I can start getting some of them down on paper…assuming they continue to turn themselves into full fledged ideas that is.

 

In other news my writing companion isn’t quite as roaring to go today as I am

Let’s see if we can’t wake him up with a quick trip to the doggy park.