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Whoopa! The day is finally here. My Soon-To-Be Sex Life is out in the world. So amazing. :)
If you're so inclined, you can purchase MSTBSL at these fine vendors: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chapters, Bloomsbury.
And get the audiobook, narrated by Dara Rosenberg (who gives an engaging performance as Charlie) HERE.
To celebrate, the brilliant Elana Johnson and a group of amazing bloggers have signed on to help organize a fun blog tour / giveaway contest.
The good times begin on Monday, July 28th!
Here's where I'll be appearing during the tour:
If you're so inclined, you can purchase MSTBSL at these fine vendors: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chapters, Bloomsbury.
And get the audiobook, narrated by Dara Rosenberg (who gives an engaging performance as Charlie) HERE.
To celebrate, the brilliant Elana Johnson and a group of amazing bloggers have signed on to help organize a fun blog tour / giveaway contest.
The good times begin on Monday, July 28th!
Here's where I'll be appearing during the tour:
| July 28 | Literary Chanteuse |
| Coffee Books & Art | |
| July 29 | YA Book Madness |
| July 30 | Bibliolatry Me |
| July 31 | A Life Bound By Books |
| August 1 | Medeia Sharif |
| August 4 | What Elizabeth is Reading |
August 5 | Insane About Books |
| August 6 | Bookish Things & More |
| August 7 | Books eater |
| August 8 | Ramblings of a Daydreamer / Bottles and Books |
| August 11 | Books and Needlepoint |
| August 12 | I Heart YA Books |
| The Phantom Paragrapher | |
| August 13 | Downtown YA |
| August 14 | Ebony and Ivory's Book Harmony |
| August 15 | Fictional Men's Page For Book Ho's |
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The Bloomsbury Spark authors have joined forces with Giselle from Xpresso Book Tours to celebrate Spark's 6th month anniversary. We're having one hell of a giveaway party and I know you won't want to miss it. We are raffling off a brand new Kindle Paperwhite pre-loaded with all these amazing titles. Including an ARC of MY SOON-TO-BE SEX LIFE:
If you have a blog, consider signing up for the tour, or just join us on June 26th for some Spark madness.
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Writers, musicians, artists - creators of any sort - must be FEARLESS. We're going to feel self-doubt, uncertain at trying something new, want to bow under the pressure of expectations - our own and those of total strangers.
But giving into the fear? Giving up? Not an option.
This includes the fear of "killing our darlings". Not everything we write or create is post-on-the-fridge worthy. Especially not first drafts. Revise. Revisit. Rethink. Rewrite. Make mistakes and learn from them, then give the thing another go.
Yeah, edit without mercy, and you'll be amazed at what you can ultimately achieve.
No fear, people!
No.
Fear.
Charlie, the main character in my novel, MY SOON-TO-BE SEX LIFE aspires to be a screenwriter. That bit of her is based in my reality, as I'm both a fiction writer and a screenwriter. It was fun to work in a few screenwriting terms / tropes.
I recently came across an image on Pinterest and as it relates to a current feature film project I'm working on, I thought it worth posting here.
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| http://www.abccopywriting.com/ |
Writers, musicians, artists - creators of any sort - must be FEARLESS. We're going to feel self-doubt, uncertain at trying something new, want to bow under the pressure of expectations - our own and those of total strangers.
But giving into the fear? Giving up? Not an option.
This includes the fear of "killing our darlings". Not everything we write or create is post-on-the-fridge worthy. Especially not first drafts. Revise. Revisit. Rethink. Rewrite. Make mistakes and learn from them, then give the thing another go.
Yeah, edit without mercy, and you'll be amazed at what you can ultimately achieve.
No fear, people!
No.
Fear.
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In the midst of a potential move, spring cleaning, and prepping for the mother-of-all garage sales, I found out MSTBSL is available on NetGalley. Things are shaking down around here! If you'd like a review / advance copy - click your way to NetGalley to request one: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/show/id/47536
Annndddd if you're keen to help spread the word about my quirky little love story, please consider signing up for the MY SOON-TO-BE SEX LIFE Blog Tour: http://blogtoursbyelana.blogspot.ca/2014/04/blog-tour-signups-for-my-soon-to-be-sex.html
Now...time to tackle the many bookshelves in my house and figure out which titles are worthy of hauling for miles and miles. This is PAINFUL, my friends! ;)
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Will The Real Abi Saunders Please Stand Up by Sara Hantz is now available!
I loved having Sara join us for the Heartbreakers Blog Tour and now her novel is finally out in the world. Congrats, Sara!
About the book:
Abi Saunders might be a kickboxing champion, but when it comes to being the center of attention, she’d rather take a roundhouse kick to the solar plexus any day. So when her trainer convinces her to audition to be the stunt double for hot teen starlet Tilly Watson, Abi is shocked—and a little freaked out—when she gets the job.
Being a stunt double is overwhelming, but once the wig and makeup are on, Abi feels like a different person. Tilly Watson, to be exact.
And when Tilly’s gorgeous boyfriend, Jon, mistakes Abi for the real star, Abi's completely smitten. In fact, she’s so in love with her new life, it isn’t long before she doesn’t have time for her old one.
But when the cameras are turned off, will she discover running with the Hollywood A-list isn’t quite the glamorous existence she thought it was?
You can buy the book here:
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Book Depository
What Others Are Saying:
"Abi Saunders is a kickass heroine with a story full of action and heart." ~ Melissa Walker author of Ashes to Ashes and Small Town Sinners.
"Will the Real Abi Saunders Please Stand Up delivers the good stuff - kickboxing stunt double, Hollywood A-listers, mistaken identity, romance. This one is a contender!" ~ Linda Gerber, author of the Lights, Camera, Cassidy series.
"Will the Real Abi Saunders Please Stand Up packs a delicious punch of realism and Hollywood magic in one hit." ~ Allison Rushby, author of Being Hartley, the Living Blond Trilogy and Shooting Stars.
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This month is all about discovering new blogs, meeting new friends, and spreading the word about the launch of my young adult novel, MY SOON-TO-BE SEX LIFE, (Bloomsbury Spark, June 2014) by participating in this mega, 26 posts blog challenge.
Since Charlie, the main character in my novel, is an aspiring screenwriter who has plotted her own devirginization campaign - one that doesn't go as scripted - I thought an appropriate theme for this month would be: an alphabetical romp through the good, the bad, the ugly, and the downright scary representations of virginity in film. Warning - be prepared for adult content / strong language if you follow my posts this month.
Join me over the next 26 days for some swoonworthy and/or cringeworthy cherry popper moments on the big screen. Check out the multitude of amazing A to Z bloggers via the challenge main page, HERE. And don't forget to enter the GIVEAWAY at the end of this post!
Thanks for joining me on this journey through virginity on film. Let's wrap up with ZEE musical ode to the V card - Madonna's, Like a Virgin...
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This month is all about discovering new blogs, meeting new friends, and spreading the word about the launch of my young adult novel, MY SOON-TO-BE SEX LIFE, (Bloomsbury Spark, June 2014) by participating in this mega, 26 posts blog challenge.
Since Charlie, the main character in my novel, is an aspiring screenwriter who has plotted her own devirginization campaign - one that doesn't go as scripted - I thought an appropriate theme for this month would be: an alphabetical romp through the good, the bad, the ugly, and the downright scary representations of virginity in film. Warning - be prepared for adult content / strong language if you follow my posts this month.
Join me over the next 26 days for some swoonworthy and/or cringeworthy cherry popper moments on the big screen. Check out the multitude of amazing A to Z bloggers via the challenge main page, HERE. And don't forget to enter the GIVEAWAY at the end of this post!
Y is for The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Honestly, all I remember about this movie is laughing my ass off every time Steve Carell swore. Which was a lot. Which is probably why I loved the film. Bonus, this script was co-written by Steve Carell and he probably swore a shitload while cranking up the word count.
The premise: "Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother."
Great monologue while riding a bike: "Yeah, well, virgin's not a dirty word. You know what's a dirty word, is asshole, and that's what you guys are. You know, I may not have had sex, but I could fuck you up."
Check out the trailer...
Check out the trailer...
