L.C. Kanon's Blog, page 130
December 25, 2012
Christmas Carnage, AKA your Free Copy of Spring Break
You are special, do you know that? So special, that we are giving you a free e-book of LC Kanon’s coeds-meet-cartels romp through Mexico, Spring Break, a $6.99 value, if you Sign up for our Email Newsletter. TODAY ONLY! Additionally, if you post a review on Goodreads and Amazon, please let us know as we have been known to reward fair and honest reviews with a Starbucks gift card.
But the treats don’t end there-read below for a personal story from the author, LC Kanon, on where she got the idea for the book. Kinda makes you happy high school is over, right? In closing, we want to thank you from the bottom of our SGP hearts for all your support and enthusiasm you’ve given us this past year. We couldn’t have done it without you.
-SGP
The Original Mean Girl
When I was in high school, there was a beautiful, blonde girl that basically ruled the school. She wasn’t very nice, but she was incredibly popular. She never once spoke to me, but she was incredibly mean to a few of my fellow classmates. I’ll never forget the time she spread the most horrid rumor about one of my friends. It wasn’t very original, but it spread like wildfire. I remember wondering what my friend had done to her to make her such a target of derision.
When I moved on to college, I remember feeling intense relief at having essentially a clean slate. No one knew me. For all they knew I was one of the most popular girls in school, with a string of boyfriends and bouncy, never-flat hair. In my first writing class, I remember feeling a dawning horror when I saw carbon copies of that mean girl appear in the door way of the overly air-conditioned lecture hall. Walking down the aisle of chairs, they took seats in a cluster in the back, where the cool kids were firmly ensconced. It was then I knew I would never truly escape high school. Wherever I went, that popular girl was never far behind. Though her form would change with the passing trends, the hair would always be pin-straight, the laugh a practiced chorus.
It was clear to me that I’d better figure out how to deal with this girl now, or risk a life of forever being relegated to the “weird girl” end of the spectrum. So I mimicked their slow drawl, their exaggerated inflections. I took careful note of their clothes, and became a perfect carbon copy. I felt like one of those moths they talked about in your bio course. The one that evolved to suit her surroundings. I knew deep inside, that the friendships I had with these vapid creatures weren’t real. And I also knew that the way they cut down our mutual friends could, and would one day, be just as easily turned on me. But I played the game, and for the first time feel into a “popular” clique. Instead of feeling like I ruled the school, as I had assumed all of these girls felt, I was instead incredibly insecure. There was no telling what one ill-timed comment or bad hair day would do to my reputation. It was like walking a tightrope around people who were waiting for the right moment to push me off.
It was an experience that I brought back when writing my new novel, Spring Break. I thought about how nasty some of these girls were, and how often we cannibalized our own for a bit of fun. I took our hyper-sexualized appearances and funneled them into a story of four girls that went to a university in Arizona. I thought about these beautiful, nasty, and insecure girls and I took them on a crazy trip to Spring Break. I put them in a suite, gave them lots of booze, and introduced them to a few cartel kingpins. You’ll have to read the book to find out the rest, but let’s just say tensions between the girls reach a breaking point, and a few of them don’t make it back home.
I wonder about that girl in high school, the one that started this whole crazy journey. Would she ever pick up this book? If she did, do you think she would recognize herself in Gia? Thanks for reading…
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December 24, 2012
To our readers, much love this Christmas!
To our readers, much love this Christmas!
Merry Xmas Eve folks!
Merry Xmas Eve folks!
December 21, 2012
SGP has no better message for you this Friday.
SGP has no better message for you this Friday.
December 20, 2012
100% Christmas (no dieting).
100% Christmas (no dieting).
December 19, 2012
December 18, 2012
Someone almost crashed trying to get this photo.
Someone almost crashed trying to get this photo.
December 17, 2012
Quotes to think about.
Quotes to think about.
December 14, 2012
"I can’t remember a better year of reading. I particularly enjoyed books where women or girls were..."
- Roxane Gay’s Year in Reading. (via millionsmillions)
