Next Big Thing Blog Tour!

Hi, guys!

The lovely Cat Grant tagged me for the Next Big Thing Blog Tour. I appear to be the Last Author On The Internet to get tagged, so I fear this is the end of the line for the tour.

But at least we’re going out with a bang, right bitches?

Let’s do this…

1. What is the working title of your book?

Right now I’m working on a four-novella series called Ivory Towers, and my WIP is the third book. It’s tentatively called Junior: Undirected, but I’m thinking of calling it Junior: Undone.

Though each 20K novella will be it’s own story, these four books are really all part of the same journey of my young couple Shane and Angel. So in my mind, the series as a whole is my WIP.

2. Where did the idea come from for the book?

I wanted to write another Holsum College title, but once I started writing, I realized the story I wanted to tell didn’t fit the Holsum College universe. Angel and Shane needed more than a single book to reach a happily ever after, and I loved the idea of choosing snippets of their relationship to highlight what they go through in their journey to be together.

More books=more sex. And who doesn’t want that?

3. What is the genre of the book?

M/M contemporary romance, BAYBEE!

4. Which actors would you choose to play your characters in a movie

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I don’t always picture actors when creating characters, but this time I did.

My film TA Shane is modeled after Canadian actor Marc-Andre Grodin. I will say, though, the image of him in my mind has morphed, so that the longer I write Shane the more differences he has from the actor.

My closeted freshman Angel is played by British actor Wayne Virgo.

5. What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?

A tough-but-vulnerable freshman and a jaded grad student fight to stay together through college, graduation, the tribulations of the outside world.

6. Will your book be self-published or represented by an agency/publisher?

Ivory Towers is coming out this Spring/Summer from Total E Bound.

7. How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?

I’m still working on it! Books one and two of the series are finished and submitted, and I’m working on book three.

8. What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?

Ivory Towers is a little like Holsum College, and also like some of the other college-age romances out there such as the Cal Pac Crew series by Christopher Koehler and the Theta Alpha Gamma series by Anne Tenino. The main difference is that this is something of a serial, with four snapshots of the same couple.

I adore novellas, but with college age heroes I feel it’s hard to reach a satisfying Happily Ever After. I wanted to create a couple who found their true love in college, but had to hold on tight to that feeling while they grew up and changed.

9. Who or what inspired you to write this book?

My heroes! Marc-Andre Grodin and Wayne Virgo are two of my favorite actors ever. Once I had a clear picture in my mind of Shane and Angel, nothing could stop me from writing their story.

10. What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest?

Gosh. I don’t know. Just, if you like Holsum College, you’re guaranteed to enjoy Ivory Towers. It’s more of the sweet love, hot guys and great sex that Holsum fans have grown to expect. Ivory Towers is maybe a little higher on the angst-o-meter, but still light enough for a beach read.

I hope you’ll all give it a try!

 

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