Release Day! The Write Stuff - Tiffany King

Are you ready for some Tiffany King release day awesomeness???  I absolutely cannot wait to read this new project from one of my favorite authors!  Eeeek!

Available August 25, 2014

Twenty-two-year-old historical romance writer Nicole Blake, or N.S. Blake to her readers, hasn't taken an official poll, mind you, but she is convinced she may be the only romance author on the planet who is still a card-carrying member of the virgin club.

Not that she hasn't tried to end her membership. Life just keeps finding pesky ways to interfere. With no prospects on the horizon, Nicole begins to feel like the closest she will ever get to experiencing a man is within her own stories.

Opportunity presents itself in the form of hot-as-sin-on-a-lollipop-stick bartender/premed student Alec Petropoulos, who agrees to be the cover model for her upcoming book. Sparks fly instantly between them, and Nicole begins to entertain the possibility that she's finally found the right guy to hand over her tattered V-card. Alec has all the makings for a perfect one-night-stand candidate except, much to Nicole's surprise, he seems to be the only man in existence not interested in bagging a virgin.

Stuck between a rock and a stubborn male, what's a virgin to do? Seduce him, of course. How hard could it be? If it works for the characters in her stories, why wouldn't it work for her?
After all, what happens under the cover…stays under the cover.

You can purchase The Write Stuff here:

Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MQ8YYHE?ie=UTF8&at=aw-iphone-pc-us-20&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links

iBooks:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-write-stuff/id908755678?mt=11

Barnes and Noble: 
http://m.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-write-stuff-tiffany-king/1120184865?ean=2940150537804


About Tiffany King

USA Today Bestselling author Tiffany King is a lifelong reading fanatic who is now living her dream as a writer, weaving Young Adult and New Adult romance tales for others to enjoy. She has a loving husband and two wonderful kids. (Five, if you count her three spoiled cats). Her addictions include: Her iPhone and iPad, chocolate, Diet Coke, chocolate, Harry Potter, chocolate, zombies and her favorite TV shows. Want to know what they are? Just ask.

For information on any of Author Tiffany's titles, visit her blog at www.authortiffanyjking.blogspot.com

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"Dreams do come true...Dream big."

The Giver - Lois Lowry

I have absolutely no idea where I was in school when it was time to read this book.  Obviously I wasn’t there because I have never read it until now.  Maybe my teacher did not assign it to be read?  Doubtful.  Anyway, The Giver is this month’s book club book and I absolutely loved it. 

The Giver is a great dystopian book written before the dystopian craze.  I wish I had read it back when I was a kid, though I don’t think I would have fully appreciated it then.  Jonas lives in what he thinks is a utopian society.  Everyone looks the same, everyone does the same daily activities.  Then when the children reach a certain age, they are chosen to train for their future contributions to society.  Jonas is chosen to train to be the next “Giver,” which is really just a fancy name for the keeper of memories.  Every memory.  Ever had.  By anyone.  From the beginning of time.  When Jonas is given these memories, he can feel them – he experiences them.  Some are happy and some are excruciating.

Now, I first thought, “Why didn’t they just write the memories down.  You know, in a book?” But I guess that would have defeated the whole purpose of keeping the rest of society in the dark about the way things had previously been.  In the society they lived in, there was no love, no color, no diversity.  Everything was black and white and writhe with sameness. 

This book did a great job of telling the story of how Jonas received the memories and how he handled knowing the truth of what was life could be like.  While sometimes I felt he made some pretty boneheaded decisions, he was a pretty admirable character.  I cannot wait to read the remainder of the quartet.  I even went out and bought the really pretty hardbound copy of the quartet for my collection.

I am also pretty excited to see the movie.  I have high expectations, so I hope I am not disappointed.  Plus, Alexander Skarsgard is in it.  You know, Vampire Eric from True Blood . . . my main fictional character crush.

If I Stay - Gayle Forman

This was a book club read.  I have been overly critical of the last few books we have read for book club because frankly, I did not care for them very much.  It was refreshing to finally have a book that I did not have to struggle to get through.  It was good enough to where I will probably watch the movie when it comes out.

If I Stay is about Mia, who ends up in a coma after a tragic accident that kills her entire family.  While in her coma, Mia has to decide whether to stay and live, or go and die with her family.  To tell the story of Mia’s choice, the chapter goes back and forth between present time, with Mia in the hospital, her spirit or whatever watching everyone as they struggle with what happened to her family, and the past, with Mia narrating her relationship with her parents, her brother, and her boyfriend.  In the beginning, I was not sure that I would like the back and forth of the chapters because it seemed that just as soon as I was into what was happening in the present, the author would take me back a couple years or more and start telling a different story.  It frustrated me a little at first, but eventually the narration of the past helped me to understand the choice that Mia was making of whether to stay or die.

At book club, we talked about what a difficult decision that would be.  I have no idea what I would choose.  If my whole family was gone, I am not sure I would want to stay.  At the same time, I don’t particularly want to die either.  Weighing your reasons to live versus your reasons to die is very difficult.  I’ll admit I had very low expectations for this book, but the things that it made me think about really impressed me. 

The ending of the book came rather abruptly.  The way it ended left me unfulfilled.  I remember thinking, “That’s it?  That’s how it ends?”  But there is a second book to read, so I guess it had to end that way to entice readers to read the second book.  We all know I’m a sucker and I will end up reading the second book eventually.  

The end of my Hiatus; Plus: My UtopYA Experience

Hello, my blog readers.  I have neglected you for far too long, and for that I am so incredibly sorry.  I have had a rough couple of months.  I mean, I haven’t even had a chance to talk about the awesome time I had at UtopYA or all the awesome people I met while I was there.

A couple days before we left for UtopYA, I came down with mono.  Some luck, huh?  I was pretty sick and when the mono started to subside, my doctors realized that I actually had something else wrong with me besides the mono, but nobody could figure out what it was.  After many scans, blood draws, x-rays, and tests, nobody can figure out what this mystery illness is or how to fix it.  All I know is, I feel like crud most of the time.  Then, I had a death in my family and my grandma had a heart attack.  So it’s been a really rough two months.  But I’m ready to put all that behind me and get back to doing what I enjoy:  reading, writing, and blogging.

Before I launch into my posts about the few books I have read in the last two months, I do want to talk a little bit about how much fun I had at UtopYA.  If you have never been and you love YA and NA fiction, I really recommend that you try to make it next year.  This was the first time I had ever been to any form of reader/author con and I met so many amazing people and I learned a lot of great information that will help me as I plug away at my own novels.  I really liked that even though my work is not published yet, the people I met did not treat me as if I were any less of a writer.  They encouraged me to keep at it and they seemed honestly interested in the ideas behind the projects that I am working on.  Confidence is something I lack in all areas of my life, and talking with these authors and hearing that they support me and believe in me did wonders for my confidence as I go forward with my writing projects.  I left, sick as I was, feeling really great about myself and my ideas.

Of course UtopYA wasn’t always about the business.  We had epic fun at karaoke, the awards, and the after party.  I had my fangirl moments.  Like on Day One when my friend and I were waiting for the morning’s keynote speaker to begin and Tiffany King walked past me.  I squealed and almost passed out.  Or how I could barely form a sentence when I asked Quinn Loftis to sign a book.  I got to talk to the absolutely amazing Tammy Blackwell, who is just as awesome in person as you would imagine she would be.  I discovered that Megan Curd would be the absolute best zombie apocalypse partner.  Shawn McGuire is so fun and sweet.  And oh my gosh I bought SO. MANY. BOOKS.  I have no idea when I will ever be able to finish reading everything that I purchased while I was there, or what I am going to do with all the swag I came home with.  I have more rubber bracelets and bookmarks than I can count. 

It was the best time I have had in a long time.  I am not sure if I will be able to make it back for next year’s festivities, but I will be attending again and I know that it will just keep getting bigger and better.  To all my new UtopYA friends, I miss you and can’t wait to see you again soon!