The Freefall blog tour is going on NOW

Freefall is coming out in less than a week! In celebration, Kari and Kelsey at Teen {Book} Scene were kind enough to set up a blog tour for me.  What this means is that there will be fifteen "stops" at fourteen blogs over the next few weeks offering up different promotional content including interviews with me, character interviews, a deleted scene from the manuscript, an excerpt, contests, and more!

Here are the stops  so far:

The book trailer at Erika Breathes Books Kelsey's review of FREEFALL at The Book Scout An interview with me by Hattie at DeRaps Reads

Blog: Old enough to be your mother!

I was always young-looking for my age.  When I was 13, I looked 11.  When I was 21, I looked 16.  My face could never keep up with my real age, it seemed.  Which wasn't a bad thing.  It was mostly just annoying in my early-20s when bouncers would try to turn me away at clubs and tell me that my I.D. was fake.

I'm now a few days away from being 33.  I'm not sure how old I look to most people (and seriously, no need to tell me!), but apparently I look at least 33 to one woman in my town.

On Friday, Dwayne and I went to the high school football game (which we LOVED).  On our way in we passed various adults giving out thingamajigs:  A pamphlet for a woman running for judge, golden-yellow signs that read "GO SHORECREST"  on one side and had info regarding a voting initiative on the other, etc, etc.  After we grabbed our sign and rushed past the others, a woman called out, "Excuse me, Shorecrest parents!"

She was addressing us, and she wasn't phrasing it as a question.  She seemed certain that we were parents.  Parents of high school students! 

Technically, yes, we could be.  If we'd hooked up with I was 17 and he was 19 and then I got pregnant and had a baby when I was 18 and he was 20, we could totally have a 15-year-old son or daughter right now.

And that?  Is just alarming.  I mean, I've pretty much known since I was 16 that I'll never be an actor.  But now that people think I'm grown-up age and not teen-age--that I would play the mom in a movie -- my world is a bit askew.

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As promised:  The most recent stops on the FREEFALL blog tour with Teen {Book} Scene are:

The book trailer at Erika Breathes Books
Kelsey's review of FREEFALL at The Book Scout
An interview with me by Hattie at DeRaps Reads

I also wrote a guest blog about "The Call" for the We Do Write blog.

New Vlog: "Author Fashions"

In all the book trailer excitement, I almost forgot that it's Vlog Day, today.  But it is! 

Fun facts about this video:

1.  The lighting is a little horrific, despite my efforts to make it otherwise.  I had the overhead light and FOUR lamps on room to try to brighten the room up.  Sigh.

2.  I keep feeling paranoid that I pronounced Maggie Stiefvater's last name wrong.  But I'm pretty sure she's said it's "STEVE-Otter."  Which is what I said.  I think....

3.  As with most of my vlogs, previewing this one caused Dwayne cover his face with what might have been discomfort at least once.  I understand the feeling.

This is a link to the official Freefall book trailer!

My blog tour with Teen {Book} Scene started TODAY!  Which means that my book comes out in eight days.  Eeeeek!

There will be fifteen stops over the next few weeks with contests, interviews (with me and with a character), guest blogs, an excerpt, and a deleted scene.  I'll be sure to link to the next stop here every day.  I'm also going to have other interviews popping up, so I'll link to those as I find out about them.

The very first stop on the tour is at Erika's blog, Erika Breathes Books.  And there! 

You can view the book trailer for FREEFALL! 

(I'll embed it on my website later in the week, but I wanted Erika to have the exclusive today!  :-))

Fun facts about this trailer:

1. Madison at M² Productions put it all together based on my notes about the characters.  I'm not really visually artistic, so it was cool to get to see someone else's take on the things in my book!

2.  I originally didn't want Seth's face to be shown, like, AT ALL.  I thought it would ruin my vision of him or something.  But there is one quick, kind of full-on face shot and I didn't freak out about it, so I decided it could stay.

3.  I really love the song Madison picked.  I sometimes have the trailer playing on my computer so I can listen to it.  (I do also have the full-length song now, too.)  I'm not really sure if "Gentle Steel" is a real thing or if it entirely makes sense, but I like the idea of it.  "Your soul is gentle steel:  strong enough to take the blows, but soft enough to remember to feel."

4. I hope you like it!!!!

New Events Page

Hooray!  I added an Events Page for this website which lists all my author appearances for October.  Who knows, maybe I'll even have events after October that I can add later! :-D