Blogoversary: Interview with Natalie D. Richards

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We have another of my favorite author that you might have "meet" her through our Fantastic Flying Book Club. Natalie D. Richards is the author of Six Months Later, a YA Mystery Thriller that I simply love. 

I am beyond happy to have her in my site once again and even more for our blog anniversary. We have an interview with her and a giveaway. Have fun!

Six Months Later

Natalie Richards

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Release Date: October 1st, 2013
Read my review for Six Months Later

Synopsis:

Chloe didn't think about it much when she nodded off in study hall on that sleepy summer day. But when she wakes up, snow is on the ground and she can't remember the last six months of her life. Before, she'd been a mediocre student. Now, she's on track for valedictorian and being recruited by Ivy League schools. Before, she never had a chance with super jock Blake. Now he's her boyfriend. Before, she and Maggie were inseparable. Now her best friend won't speak to her.

What happened to her?

And why can't she remember?

Hi Natalie! We are beyond happy to have you once more in our blogs and even better for our blog anniversary. Thank you so much for celebrating this event with us! :)

I can't say enough good things about the way bloggers have impacted my publishing journey. So many amazing bloggers have embraced me and supported me through this journey and of course I've read some lovely and insightful reviews about Six Months Later. Reviews are critical for writers so I'm so grateful for those who take the time to leave them.

Hermione Granger. I think she's amazing. She's initially sort of this nerdy, annoying, know-it-all, but she works hard, fights her own short-comings and becomes this truly exceptional woman. I love that her mind really is her super power. 

Way too many to think of off the top of my head! Truly, YA is full of insanely talented writers. I will say, you should take the time to read anything put out by Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green, Rainbow Rowell, Romily Bernard, and Barry Lyga, though there are certainly others to add to that list that I'm not thinking of right this second. 

Well, it's gone through a name change!! It's actually GONE TOO FAR :-)

I'm SUPER excited about this book, which is due out in January 2015. This book is chock full of morally questionable choices and explores what motivates people and how we decide what's good and what's bad. In a nutshell, it's a vigilante story about what a girl does when she finds a book of sins and has the chance to make the sinners pay. ;-)

And this would be us when we get our hands into a copy of Gone Too Far

I have no doubt that every single genre presents its own unique challenges, but thrillers can be brutal. You're constantly trying to figure out how to make everyone seem suspicious and every page electric with "what's going to happen???" which can be tough to pull through an entire 300 page manuscript. LOL! That said, I adore it and really love writing them.

Actually, no. LOL! It's so overwhelming, really. I totally prefer life behind the keyboard, because seeing my book in the stores just feels so crazy. For a long while, I was in the Top Teen Picks section in Barnes & Noble RIGHT next to Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Rainbow. Rowell. I'm such a fan, I'd probably squeal and maybe cry if she walked near me, so seeing my book next to hers? Just too nuts. ;-)

That I wouldn't feel one bit different than I did before getting published. I thought I'd know All The Things once I finally got published. Things about the industry and marketing, etc. I know nothing. Less than nothing. I don't learn things every day, I learn things every fifteen minutes. ;-)

I'm reading The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson. It's awesome, which is absolutely what I expected. :-)

Thank you so much for having me -- I can't tell you how much I love being with you guys and how happy I am for all that you've accomplished. I wish you SO MUCH success. You absolutely deserve it! :-)

She's the best! And guys, you have to read Six Months Later 'cause Natalie brings mystery and suspense to another level. I couldn't sleep until I know what truly happened to Chloe! Definitely a must read.

At seven, Natalie D. Richards wrote about Barbara Frances Bizzlefishes (who wouldn't dare do the dishes.) Now she writes about awesome girls, broody boys, and all things dark and creepy. Natalie lives in Ohio (Go Bucks!) with her techno-wiz husband, three amazing kids, and a seventy pound dust-mop who swears he's the family dog. Her psychological thriller, Six Months Later, will be released in October 1, 2013 by Sourcebooks Fire. Until then, you'll probably find her writing her next book or trying to wade through the towers of dog-eared paperbacks that have taken over her bedroom.

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Release Day Launch: Four Years Later (Drew + Fable #4) by Monica Murphy

We're so excited that Monica Murphy's FOUR YEARS LATER is finally here! FOUR YEARS LATER is a New Adult contemporary romance and is the final book in the Drew+Fable Series! Check out the excerpt below, then enter to win the fabulous prizes she has for you!

Four Years Later (Drew + Fable #4)
by Monica Murphy
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: March 4th 2014

Synopsis:

New Adult bestselling author Monica Murphy winds up her sensational series with this sexy story of two college kids with nothing in common but a bunch of baggage and a burning attraction.

Over. That about sums up everything in my life. Suspended from my college football team and forced to cut back my hours at The District bar because of my crappy grades, I can’t keep turning to my sister, Fable, and her pro-football playing husband, Drew, to bail me out. I just can’t seem to find my own way. Weed and sex are irresistible temptations—and it’s messed up that I secretly hand over money to our junkie mom. A tutor is the last thing I want right now—until I get a look at her.

Chelsea is not my type at all. She’s smart and totally shy. I’m pretty sure she’s even a virgin. But when she gives me the once over with those piercing blue eyes, I’m really over. But in a different way. I won’t deny her ass is killer, but it’s her brain and the way she seems to crave love—like no one’s ever given her any—that make me want her more than any girl I’ve ever met. But what would someone as seemingly together as her ever see in a screwed up guy like me?

Four Years Later

by Monica Murphy

“Anything else?” I ask them minutes later as I drop the check on their table.

Owen slaps his hand against the piece of paper and drags it toward him. “I think that’s it.”

“Great.” I smile but it feels brittle. “I can be your cashier or you can pay at the register.”

“Hey, what else can you be for us, huh?” one of Owen’s friends ask, making the other one laugh.

My cheeks are hot again and my mouth is open. I’m gaping at them like a dying fish and thankfully Owen rushes to my defense. “Shut the hell up, Des.” He glances up at me, all traces of the buzzed foolish boy who first walked in here gone. “He’s drunk. He doesn’t know what he’s saying.”

“I know exactly what I’m saying,” drunken Des mumbles, clamping his lips shut when Owen shoots him a deathly stare.

“It’s all right,” I say, backing away from them slowly. “Take your time.”

I turn to flee from their table when I hear someone slide out of the booth, strong fingers curling around my upper arm and stopping me from leaving. He’s standing directly behind me, the warmth from his body seeping into mine and I go completely still. Willing myself not to react, not to say something stupid and embarrass myself.

Look what he’s doing to me just by touching my arm. This sort of thing doesn’t happen to me. I don’t care about boys. I’ve been kissed a measly three times in my life, once by Cody Curtis the tongue thruster and he definitely doesn’t count.

So twice. Twice I’ve been kissed and I’m a virgin. A freaking virgin. Owen Maguire has player written all over him. I’m nothing to him.

So why is he touching me? Talking to me in that husky low murmur of his that slides over me like slow, warm honey?

“…need to talk to you. About this tutoring thing,” he’s saying and I wrench myself out of his grip, irritated that I didn’t pay attention to what he said at first.

“Just meet me Monday afternoon as scheduled and we should be good to go.” I turn to face him, a fake smile plastered to my face and he stares at my lips for a long, breath stealing second before he finally lifts those too pretty green eyes up to meet mine.

My lips are tingling like he actually kissed them. God.

“I don’t even know your name,” he murmurs.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Monica Murphy is a native Californian who lives in the foothills below Yosemite. A wife and mother of three, she writes New Adult and contemporary romance for Bantam and Avon. She is the author of One Week Girlfriend and Second Chance Boyfriend.

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