The Cutting Edge meets Friday
Night Lights in a sizzling new hockey romance from bestselling authors
Kelly Anne Blount and Lynn Rush!
In the Penalty Box by Lynn Rush and Kelly Anne
Blount Genre: YA Contemporary Release Date: January 5, 2021 Entangled Teen
Summary:
Willow: Figure skating was supposed to be my whole
world. But one unlucky injury and now I’m down…but I’m definitely not out. I
just need to rehab—a boatload of rehab—and who’d have thought I could do it on
the boys’ hockey team? Of course, the infuriatingly hot captain of the team
seems to think I’m nothing but sequins and twirls. What’s a girl to do but put
him in his place? Game on.
Brodie: Hockey
is my whole world. I’ve worked my tail off getting my team in a position to win
the championships—hopefully in front of major college scouts, too—so what’s a
guy to do when a figure skater ends up as our new goalie? Of course, the
distractingly sexy skater thinks I’m nothing but a testosterone-laced
competitive streak. And surely she’s only biding her time to heal, then she’s
gone. Game over.
Lynn Rush: New York Times &
USA Today Bestselling Author, Lynn Rush, is a full-time writer, wife, and trail
runner living in the Sonoran Desert, despite her fear of rattle snakes. Known
as #TheRunningWriter, Lynn can’t resist posting epic sunrise pictures while
running in the desert with her trail sisters, even if she has to occasionally
hop a scorpion.
When she’s not running or writing, she’s watching movies that fuel her
everlasting love of superheroes, vampires, and all things Supernatural. The
books she reads usually carry the same theme, but this former college athlete
loves reading sweet sports romances as well.
She’s madly in love with her Ironman husband of 20+ years who is the inspiration
for what true love is. You can find her on social media as @LynnRushWrites and
her website is: www.lynnrush.com
Kelly Anne Blount:USA Today Bestselling
author and Wattpad Star Kelly Anne Blount has more than seventy-three-thousand
followers on social media. Her Wattpad stories have been read more than
twenty-million times. She’s contributed to Tap, Wattpad’s new app for
chat-style stories, where her work has been “tapped” more than fifty-million
times. She is a writer and reviewer for SpoilerTV,which has allowed her to develop an incredible network
of film and TV stars.
Two of her Wattpad works, including Captured
(seventeen-million reads), have been optioned for film by Komixx Entertainment,
and she is regularly invited to present seminars about social media at author
events.
Stop by any of Kelly’s social-media platforms
(@KellyAnneBlount) and stay tuned to this website for announcements and
information about upcoming releases and events. Kelly Anne Blount is represented by Jennifer
Wills (jennifer@theseymouragency.com) and Nicole Resciniti
(nicole@theseymouragency.com) of The Seymour Agency.
I am delighted to spotlight the upcoming release, Skunk and Badger. This is an adorable and delightful read! I highly recommend that all readers grab a copy when it publishes September 15, 2020.
Wallace and Gromit meets Winnie-the-Pooh in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship, from Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake with full-color and black-and-white illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen.
No one wants a skunk.
They are unwelcome on front stoops. They should not linger in Important Rock Rooms. Skunks should never, ever be allowed to move in. But Skunk is Badger’s new roommate, and there is nothing Badger can do about it.
When Skunk plows into Badger’s life, everything Badger knows is upended. Tails are flipped. The wrong animal is sprayed. And why-oh-why are there so many chickens?
“Nooooooooooooooooooooo!”
Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake spins the first tale in a series about two opposites who need to be friends.
New York Times bestselling author/illustrator and Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen completes the book with his signature lushly textured art. This beautifully bound edition contains both full-color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations.
Skunk and Badger is a book you’ll want to read, reread, and read out loud . . . again and again.
Amy Timberlake’s work has received a Newbery Honor, an Edgar Award, a Golden Kite Award, and the China Times Best Book Award. She grew up in Hudson, Wisconsin, but now calls Chicago home. She is a proud alumna of Mount Holyoke College, where she majored in history, and holds an MA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Illinois. You can find her walking on Chicago’s Lakefront Trail on cool, crisp fall days.
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Jon Klassen is a Canadian-born author/illustrator. He has written and illustrated three picture books of his own (I Want My Hat Back, This Is Not My Hat and We Found A Hat) and illustrated many other author’s texts, including Sam & Dave Dig A Hole by Mac Barnett, The Dark by Lemony Snicket, and Pax by Sara Pennypacker. His books have won a Caldecott medal and two Caldecott honors and other international awards. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and son.
I
am so excited that SOURCES SAYby
Lori Goldstein is available now and that I get to share the news!
If
you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Lori Goldstein, be
sure to check out all the details below.
This
blitz also includes a giveaway for an awesome prize pack courtesy of Lori &
Rockstar Book Tours. So if
you’d like a chance to win, check out the giveaway info below.
For fans of Becky Albertalli and Morgan
Matson comes a funny, hearfelt novel about fueding exes running for class
president and the scandal that makes the previously boring school election the
newest trending hashtag.
At Acedia High School outside of Boston, student
council has always been nothing more than a popularity contest. Nobody pays attention.
Nobody cares.
But all that changes when the Frankengirls show up.
During the very first week of school, someone plasters the halls with
Photoshopped images of three “perfect tens”–images of scantily clad
girls made from real photos of girls at school. The student body is livid. And
the two presidential candidates, Angeline Quinn and Leo Torres, jump on the
opportunity to propose their solutions and secure votes. After their messy
break up, Leo and Angie are fighting tooth and nail to win this thing and their
constituents are mesmerized as they duke it out.
As if things couldn’t be more dramatic, the school’s
two newspapers get involved. The Red & Blue is run by Angie’s sister Cat
and she prides herself on only reporting the facts. But her morals are tested
when The Shrieking Violet–written by an anonymous source and based less on
facts and more on fiction–blatantly endorses Leo. Rumors fly, secrets are
leaked, and the previously mundane student election becomes anything but
boring.
Excerpt:
Chapter 4
When
Angeline’s Every Day Becomes Epic
29 DAYS TO THE ELECTION
Angeline stared at the little blue dot at the top of
her inbox. A new message. She hadn’t changed the settings on her computer, but
she swore the sender’s name was bigger than usual.
She sat up straighter in the nubby tweed chair—the
last thing she’d let her sister pick out—behind the desk they shared in their
bedroom.
All those hours in front of her laptop studying
every YouTube channel from GamerGirlz to Car Builderz DIY to Bette’s Books to
Bet On. Every grasshopper-topped sushi roll she ate, every chocolate laxative
cleanse, every questionable and disgusting concoction she’d lathered on her
body, all came down to this.
Her hand hovered over the mouse, but she couldn’t
bring her- self to click. Instead, she kicked off the pointy-toed loafers she’d
worn to school that day, wincing as the air hit the raw pink welt on the back
of her ankle. She’d said they were comfortable.
They weren’t.
But the endorsement had paid for her new laptop so .
. . trade-offs.
She pressed her toes into the white carpet she’d freshly
steamed before the school year began and fixed her eyes on her computer screen.
“Ask an Angel” leapt from the subject line, the
YouTube chan- nel Angeline had grown into a brand over the past two years. In-
fluencer? Please. She was so much more. Part advice giver, part
counselor, part confessor, she served her viewers by listening to and answering
their daily dilemmas—even if that meant boots- on-the-ground research.
Okay, so truth?
She’d never admit it to Cat, but that elephant dung had
nearly made her pass out.
Her sister thought it was easy. But had she ever
tried to squeeze herself into the trifecta of compression underwear?
High-waisted capri britches . . .
Tummy cincher . . .
Hip slimmer . . .
After eating two pints of caramel gelato.
Angeline had come this close to dialing 911.
But her lack of circulation had surely prevented others from asphyxiation. Turn
blue, and the followers would come. She hadn’t read that in any influencer
guide. But it had worked.
As had a modest display of cleavage and pink
lipstick. Pink, not red. She’d lost ninety followers before she’d realized that
mistake.
Now she had more questions than she could answer,
and her ad revenue crushed whatever she’d make working round the clock as a
barista. But she was determined to take it to the next level.
Evelyn’s Epic Everyday: Make Every Day an Epic Day.
The pinnacle of lifestyle YouTubers, promoting
positivity, following one’s dreams, and making each day an extraordinary one.
An extraordinarily profitable one. Evelyn had raked in half a million dollars
from her YouTube channel alone last year—a pit- tance compared to what she’d
snagged from endorsements and book deals. Her second book, Girl, Talk like
Everyone’s Listening, hit the bestseller list, joining her first, Girl,
Match Your Bra and Underwear and Other Life Secrets, which had never
dropped off.
And here she was: Evelyn’s Epic Everyday in
Angeline’s inbox. Angeline took a deep breath and clicked.
Her heart stopped.
And jump-started.
“Bring! It!” she screamed, and Tartan, Gramps’s
orange-and- white cat, sprang from her lap.
She’d gotten the invite. The, all caps,
underlined, circled, high- lighted, invite. When Evelyn’s Epic Everyday
had given her video on “5 Ways to Know He’s Interested” a thumbs-up over the
summer, Angeline had known what it meant.
Evelyn was watching her. Her.
Ask an Angel.
Which meant she had a shot. At this.
And she got it.
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Hey girl!
Evelyn’s Epic Everyday has her epic eye on you!
As you may have heard (wink, wink), she’s putting
together her very first YouTube up-and-comers boot camp. only!***
Those she thinks are ready to break out big will
make her annual “Top 10 to Get Behind or Be Left Behind” list. And you know
what that means! But still, I’m gonna tell youuu! Because it’s that freaking
fantastic: every single previous lister has gone on to be a Star of the Super
sort.
Think: a million subscribers, two, three . . . five?
Not yet, but you could be Evelyn’s first!
So welcome, Ask an Angel, to your every day being an
epic one. But remember: keep it hush-hush! We’ll be doing a big reveal in the
lead-up.
See you in December!
Don’t forget to send in that deposit!
(Nonrefundable!)
Kiss kiss!
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Angeline vaulted out of her chair and pumped her
fists in the air.
“Evelyn’s!”
“Epic!”
“Everyday!”
She spun around and snatched her phone off the bed.
She had her messages open to her last text with Leo before she remembered.
They were broken up.
He had broken up with her.
Because of all this.
The one person she wanted to share this with was the
one person she couldn’t.
Is this what they call irony?
About
Lori:
Lori Goldstein earned her BA in journalism but
eventually found her true writing passion in the world of fictional people.
She’s never met a beach she didn’t love, a book she wouldn’t read, or a strange
food she wouldn’t try. She is the author of SOURCES SAY, which Kirkus calls
“Entertaining, thought-provoking, and heartwarming”; SCREEN QUEENS,
which Kirkus calls “a fun and uplifting story that celebrates female friendship
and empowerment”; and the VOYA-starred young adult contemporary fantasy series
BECOMING JINN.
Find her on Twitter @loriagoldstein and Instagram
@lorigoldsteinbooks.
Today we have the blog tour for Ashley R. King’s PAINTING THE LINES! Check it out and be sure to grab your copy today!
Title: Painting the Lines
Author: Ashley R. King
Genre: Sports Romance
About Painting the Lines:
Amalie Warner wants another shot to prove that she can be a successful writer. After hitting the bestseller’s list nine years ago, she’s lost her spark. Feeling pressure from her father to leave her writing behind and to work for her family’s lucrative hotel business, she’s desperate to find inspiration for her next big idea, something that challenges and excites her, something real.Enter Julian Smoke, a failed tennis player making a dream run for the US Open. After a chance meeting at a bar, Amalie hates him instantly. He’s cocky and arrogant, but Amalie knows his story could be her big break. Could he be more?Everyone knows that in tennis, love means zero, but these two are about to change that.Perfect for fans of The Hating Game and Wimbledon.
Ashley R. King is a middle school English teacher whose love of the written word began when her mom took her to the public library, letting her check out stacks of books taller than she was. She’s the least athletic person you’ll ever meet, but that doesn’t decrease her love for her favorite sport, tennis.She loves swoony romances and is addicted to sweet tea. When she’s not teaching or writing happily ever afters, she can be found snuggled up with a book, travelling, or quoting obscure lines from her favorite movies and tv shows. She lives in a small town in Georgia with her favorite person in the world—her husband, and their sweet and chatty spoiled cat, Cleo.
Julian grabbed the donuts and pointed the remote at the TV, turning Parks and Recreation back on. “Can we start from the beginning? I’ve never watched this show.”
“What?” Amalie gaped at him. “Never?”
He shook his head and bit into a donut. “Never.”
“Then yes, we can totally watch from the beginning.”
They sat side by side, shoulder to shoulder, thigh to thigh as hilarity unfolded onscreen. But at some point, Amalie’s eyes grew heavy, and before she knew it, she was startled awake by the feel of a gently calloused hand running up her arm.
When she opened her eyes, Julian stared back at her, his beautiful face mere inches from her own. She was nestled against his side, held against his body in an even more intimate way than before. The backs of his fingers played along her jawbone, and she couldn’t help but inhale the scent of his cologne that lingered on his wrists.
She had to be dreaming.
But then Julian leaned forward and pressed a delicate kiss to her cheek. The warmth of his lips seared her skin and heated her from within. She closed her eyes, hardly able to think. If she just turned her head, their mouths would meet, and it would be over. Any restraint she’d had before would be no more than a memory.
Her heart pounded like a drum as desire stirred through her like a living thing. She ran her hand up his arm and twisted her fingers in the fabric of his shirt.
Julian pulled back, staring her in the eyes again. “It’s almost midnight, princess. I couldn’t let Valentine’s Day pass without you getting a kiss. Even if it was from a jerk like me.”
The corner of his mouth curled, and she tried desperately to mirror the action, her mind swirling back to the reality that this night wasn’t going to go any further, which was for the best. She knew that, even if her body hated her for it.
Julian slipped from her grasp, grabbed his tie, and slipped on his shoes. He snatched one last donut, then Amalie walked him to the door. Even still she ached to feel him against her one more time, which seemed wild now that she was waking up.
“See you tomorrow, princess,” he said, “and Happy Valentine’s Day.” He leaned forward in the doorway, kissing her on top of her head. “Don’t say I never gave you anything.” He winked and gestured with his donut, and then he was gone.
Amalie pressed a hand to her chest to steady her fluttering heart, thinking he’d given her more than he knew, and it terrified her.
Today we have the release day blitz for Ashley R. King’s PAINTING THE LINES! Check it out and be sure to grab your copy today!
Title: Painting the Lines
Author: Ashley R. King
Genre: Sports Romance
About Painting the Lines:
Amalie Warner wants another shot to prove that she can be a successful writer. After hitting the bestseller’s list nine years ago, she’s lost her spark. Feeling pressure from her father to leave her writing behind and to work for her family’s lucrative hotel business, she’s desperate to find inspiration for her next big idea, something that challenges and excites her, something real.Enter Julian Smoke, a failed tennis player making a dream run for the US Open. After a chance meeting at a bar, Amalie hates him instantly. He’s cocky and arrogant, but Amalie knows his story could be her big break. Could he be more?Everyone knows that in tennis, love means zero, but these two are about to change that.Perfect for fans of The Hating Game and Wimbledon.
He dipped his head as he pocketed the undies. “I’m so sleepy.” Amalie pinched her lips together at the sight of her bright red thong sticking out of his pocket. She made herself remember the reason for all of this, the reason she was even putting up with this mess. She knew Julian was drunk, but there was something she had to ask.“Hey, how badly do you want to get to the US Open?” She edged closer to him, hands wringing.He propped a hand on the back of the couch, his eyes even heavier lidded than before. “I…I want it more than anything, but it’s impossible,” he slurred. “What if I can get you there? What if I can make it happen?” She cocked her head to the side, realizing she was quickly losing him. He was minutes from passing out. Again.“You can’t. You live in this tiny, itsy bitsy,” he held his pointer finger and thumb together, “house or hotel or whatever this place is. Tennis is expensive, more than I can afford.” He shuffled to the front of the couch.“But what if I could? What would you be willing to do for me?” She regretted the words instantly. A sexy smirk tilted his lips and then his hands went to the button on his jeans, his thumb tracing that sexy trail of hair right above it. “Are you propositioning me?”Amalie forced herself to look away. “Oh, no you don’t,” she said while blindly smacking at his hand, ignoring that little bit of drool pooling at the corner of her mouth from his impromptu show. “You are not about to completely undress here.”Suddenly her hand smacked at emptiness and she turned to see that Julian had fallen onto the couch haphazardly, one hand still on his fly. He was out cold. She growled in aggravation as she dug her underwear from his jeans, careful to keep her eyes averted even though those traitors wanted to look their fill.After rearranging him as best she could, she looked down at his unconscious form, still feeling a little breathless. She’d found out what she needed to know. Julian could be bought.“You don’t know it yet, “but you’re going to save me from a life I don’t want, Julian Smoke.”She stepped out of the pool house into the cool night air and wasted no time seeking out her father.Processed with VSCO with j1 preset
About the Author:
Ashley R. King is a middle school English teacher whose love of the written word began when her mom took her to the public library, letting her check out stacks of books taller than she was. She’s the least athletic person you’ll ever meet, but that doesn’t decrease her love for her favorite sport, tennis.She loves swoony romances and is addicted to sweet tea. When she’s not teaching or writing happily ever afters, she can be found snuggled up with a book, travelling, or quoting obscure lines from her favorite movies and tv shows. She lives in a small town in Georgia with her favorite person in the world—her husband, and their sweet and chatty spoiled cat, Cleo.
I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the HOW TO LIVE LIFE ON THE
EDGE by Sarah Lynn Scheerger Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
Eighteen-year-old Cayenne barely
remembers her mother, who died of breast cancer when Cayenne was four. The
women in her family have a history of dying young. Cayenne figures she’ll meet
the same fate, so she might as well enjoy life now, engaging in death-defying
risks like dodging trains and jumping off cliffs with her boyfriend.
When Cayenne receives a series of video
messages her mother made for her before dying, she isn’t sure she wants them.
Her aunt Tee has been her true mother figure. But then Aunt Tee tests positive
for a BRCA gene mutation–the one that doomed Cayenne’s mom–and decides to get
a mastectomy to reduce her chances of developing cancer. As Cayenne helps her
aunt prepare for the surgery, she finds herself drawn to her mother’s messages,
with their musings on life, love, and perseverance. For the first time, Cayenne
starts to question what it truly means to live life to the fullest, even when
death might be written into her DNA.
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About Sarah:
Sarah Lynn (Scheerger) works as a clinical social worker with
at-risk youth, helping them figure out who they are and who they want to be.
She also provides counseling to adults and couples. She lives in southern
California with her husband and children. Sarah started out writing under her
first and middle name (Sarah Lynn) because she thought having a pen name seemed
mysterious and cool. However, over time she’s transitioned to writing under her
real name as well (both Sarah Scheerger and Sarah Lynn Scheerger). Sarah loves
reading, watching movies, and spending time with her family and friends.
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