The Problem With Forever Pre Order Prize Pack
We’re less than two months out from the release of The Problem With Forever, a Young Adult Contemporary Romance, coming out from HQN Teen on May 17, 2016
The team at HQN Teen has thrown together an amazing pre order swag pack for you! It’s currently open to U.S. residents (sorry guys, there’s a lot of legal hoops they have to jump through for other countries. Hopefully the publishers in other foreign territories will also offer something).
Just click on this picture below to enter your pre order. You have until May 20th to submit your order! Not only do you get a swag pack, but you get to read an extended excerpt from The Problem With Forever!
Don’t forget, you can pre order a signed/personalized copy of The Problem With Forever by going HERE
This past week, I made a quick trip to Chicago to meet with a few people at the Anderson’s Bookstore warehouse who had read an early copy of The Problem With Forever. It was super fun and I got to chat about the book, answer questions, and eat Chicago deep dish pizza for the first time.
Toward the end of the meeting, Angie who ran the meet and greet said she had an review to read from a teacher in the St Louis school district. I immediately tensed up, and all I could think was “Oh my God, I hope he didn’t hate it.”
He didn’t.
We did get permission from Steve to share this email. It got me in the feels. Hard core feels.
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“Maybe it was best I couldn’t make the trip to Anderson’s today. With what I have to say, I might have gotten a bit emotional concerning Jennifer Armentrout’s The Problem With Forever.
Jennifer takes a very tender, yet revealing look at foster-care and loss of life in a teenager’s enclave. I see it too often on the faces of the students who sit before every day. Too many funerals have been attended by myself of students and former students not even making it past the age of 25. Whether a drive-by shooting, a car accident, or a drug overdose, life when it is ended at such a young age seems to be a greater loss. So many of my students have expressed to me their fears of being a teenage African-American in today’s society.
I could not help but tear as I read the pages that surprisingly described the lives of those in my class, in my school and across my district. As a teacher, it is difficult to know the lives of everyone sitting at our desks. We try to create an environment where students are comfortable enough to share what is going on in his or her life. Sometimes it is not always successful. As Jennifer says to her readers, yes, you have a past, it may shape you in some way, but it does not define you.
There were so many humorous lines in Ms. Armentrout’s book. I really could not point them all out. One of the most poignant lines in her work was on page 419 as Mallory said “You can’t fail if you don’t really try, right?” So many students are so afraid of failing in today’s public school system that they do not try in the first place. Each day, I ask my students to try. If they fail, then learn from the failure and succeed the next time. You will succeed.
I found The Problem With Forever a beautifully written work for today’s youth. I also found it to be a book which every teacher working in today’s public education system a must to read. A teacher may never know what is happening behind the eyes of the quiet unassuming student, the overly talkative student, the brooding artist or the bolstering athletic student. This book will help the adults to pause before jumping to any foregone conclusions.
Thank you for allowing me to read this wonderful work.”
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I can’t wait for you guys to read TPWF, and hopefully you find it as moving as Steve did.
I also have a contest for you guys!
Up for grabs is a signed Covenant Series (all the books), signed copy of Don’t Look Back and The Problem With Forever
Katie McGarry’s Crash into You, Nowhere But Here, and Dare You To
Audio book of White Hot Kiss
Stickers and bookmarks and a 2016 Calendar (random prize, I know)
Contest is International
Author is not responsible for lost or damaged prizes
Winner must claim prize within 48 hours of notification via email provided upon entry
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