Today I'm over on author Nadia King's blog talking about my high school experience and how going to my class reunion made me flash back to my first day of ninth grade. It almost caused me to hightail it out the front door!  You can find the post here: nadialking.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/if-i-could-go-back-to-high-school-by-krysten-lindsay-hager/

Dating the It Guy by Krysten Lindsay Hager
YA contemporary romance

Blurb:
Emme is a sophomore in high school who starts dating, Brendon Agretti, the popular senior who happens to be a senator's son and well-known for his good looks. Emme feels out of her comfort zone in Brendon's world and it doesn't help that his picture perfect ex, Lauren seems determined to get back into his life along with every other girl who wants to be the future Mrs. Agretti. Emme is already conflicted due to the fact her last boyfriend cheated on her and her whole world is off kilter with her family issues. Life suddenly seems easier keeping Brendon away and relying on her crystals and horoscopes to guide her. Emme soon starts to realize she needs to focus less on the stars and more on her senses. Can Emme get over her insecurities and make her relationship work? Life sure is complicated when you're dating the it guy.

Book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HdfnUqZPKU

Excerpt:
“By the way, did you hear Lauren got into Senator Agretti’s old school?”

“Seriously? I wonder if she applied there because Brendon did,” I said.

Margaux snorted. “Duh, of course. Seriously, she might as well just pee on him to mark her territory.”

“Margaux, shut up,” Kylie said.

“Whatever. Anyway, the important thing is if Brendon knew she was applying there,” Margaux said. “Em, do you think he knew?”

I hoped Lauren was just trying to follow Brendon, but what if they had planned this whole thing while they were dating? What if he convinced her to apply there so they could go to college together, wear matching American flag sweaters with big scarves while drinking hot chocolate, and jump into leaf piles just like a preppy clothing catalog. At least now I didn’t have to worry about them reciting poetry to one another in South Bend, but still, what if they had made plans to go to school together?

“Don’t worry about it,” Kylie said. “She was probably trying to follow him—like she always does. She’s so pathetic.”

Kylie was trying to make me feel better, but Lauren was far from pathetic. After all, she was pretty much the “Most Likely to Succeed” poster girl. While she was out overachieving and saving the world without messing up her perfect, bouncy hair, I was trying to get through each day. I tried to push away the image of Lauren and Brendon holding hands and drinking hot chocolate under a stadium blanket.

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Bio: Besides mining her teen years and humiliating moments for her novels, Krysten is also a book addict who has never met a bookstore she didn’t like. Krysten writes about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, frenemies, crushes, fame, first loves, and values. She is the author of True Colors, Best Friends...Forever?, Next Door to a Star,  Landry in Like, and Competing with the Star (The Star Series: Book 2). Her debut novel, True Colors, won the Readers Favorite award for best preteen book. Krysten's work has been featured in USA Today, The Flint Journal, the Grand Haven Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the Bellbrook Times and on Living Dayton.

Praise for Dating the It Guy:
“A sweet, endearing story—you’ll fall in love with Emme just like I did!” --Kimber Leigh Wheaton, YA/NA author

 "Hager's authentic characters will resonate with readers of all ages as they are immersed in the story  - complete with teen drama and angst, but also the relationships which make it all worthwhile." --  Leslie L. McKee, book reviewer, Edits and Reviews by Leslie
 
What people are saying about Krysten’s work:
From Teenage Book Recommendations in the UK: "This is a fantastically relatable and real book which I feel captures all of the insecurities and troubles which haunt the modern teenage girl. It is about a young model who has to go through tough times when she is torn between a life as a model and managing her friendships. You learn which friends she can most trust and which will create the drama typical of teenage life. Follow the life of Landry and try to see if you can find out which are her true friends before their true colours are revealed. This book is all about relationships, hopes and truth. I loved this book!"
From Books & Authors Spot: “This book is such an inspiration for those who just care about their looks and are tensed about them. This thing is looks aren't everything. This book is related to every teen's problem. Hager has written a very inspiring novel.”

“Krysten captures the teenage girl today. The struggles are real, the issues are something children have been dealing with since before I was a teen, and oddly-Krysten captures the readers! I was prepared for another "Mean Girls" story. This is NOT that. This is the real story of teenage girls! You watch Landry flower into a young woman who finds out trust is an invaluable item to find, and friendships are hard to seek genuine realism in. You will learn about relationships with not just friends, but peers, boys, and others. The details put into the book will draw you, and make the story so much more realistic. Krysten expresses emotions beautifully through her writing, and the story flows flawlessly…” By Candice J. Conway Simpson

“True Colors, is just a dazzling story of how middle school kids show their true colors of jealousy, drama, loss and gains of friendship. However, the way Krysten wrote her story; she wrote it with passion, creativity and honesty that this story line could be placed in anyone's life at any age.” Review by Double Decker Books

 “Krysten Lindsay Hager understands what it means to be a teen today, and she writes with an authentic voice. Landry, the main character, is funny, lively, and very real. Readers will relate to her struggles with friends and family, self-esteem and self-discovery, boys and school and life in general. It's fun to read about Landry's blossoming modeling career and the changes it brings.” Review by Author Diana Jenkins 

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Love the new trailer for Dating the It Guy! Videos by O did the trailer. The book comes out on March 21st, but you can pre-order it here and paperbacks are coming soon!

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Sweet Surrender by Wendy May Andrews
 
Sweet Surrender is a 92,000 word sweet, regency romance novel.

Tagline: 
Can a lost love be rekindled?
​
Blurb:
When Lady Julianna ended her engagement to Lord Ackerley, Viscount Beaumont, during her first Season, she left London vowing never to return.
Seven years later she returns as chaperone to her niece and unfortunately Lord Ackerley is also in Town for the Season. Moving around the small circle of the ton stirs up feelings she has kept hidden. Embarrassed and ashamed that she made a mistake in ending their previous relationship, she tries to avoid further contact. Ackerley, stunned by her second rejection, pursues her to discover the truth. Is it ever too late for a second chance at love?

Short Excerpt:
Julianna made a graceful curtsy and finally managed to raise her eyelashes and survey the room. It was not playacting that caused her sudden intake of breath as she saw her old beau again. In fact, it took all the force of will she possessed to keep her reaction within bounds. At that first brief encounter, she had been too surprised to take in his splendour. No one had told her the viscount had grown even more handsome in the ensuing years, the strength of his jawline more pronounced, and just the very slightest of grey at the temples in his nearly ebony hair. Forcing her jaw not to drop open in shock, Julianna felt her stomach flutter with nerves as she gripped tightly to her friend’s hand and tried not to cause an ill-bred scene in Catherine’s parlor.
 
About the Author:
Wendy May Andrews has been in love with the written word since she learned to read at the age of five. She has been writing for almost as long but hasn’t been sharing those stories with anyone but her mother until recently. This is Wendy’s fifth book with Clean Reads.
Wendy can be found with her nose in a book in a cozy corner of downtown Toronto. She is happily married to her own real-life hero, who is also her best friend and favorite travel companion. Being a firm believer that every life experience contributes to the writing process, Wendy is off planning her next trip.
She loves to hear from her readers and can be found at her website, on twitter or Facebook.
 
Website:
www.wendymayandrews.com
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Today we meet author Ellen Read to the blog. I've really enjoyed getting to know her and so glad she and I connected! You might have read my interview with her recently. You can find that here: bit.ly/2lSLgWK

And now you can hear from Ellen herself! 

I’m so thrilled to write a post for Krysten’s blog about my recently published debut novel, The Dragon Sleeps.
 
When I first started writing it, I intended it as a stand-alone novel. It was only when I’d finished that I knew I had to write more. I’m working on the second book now and a third will follow. Each will have a totally new mystery but will follow the lives of the main characters, Alexandra Thornton, Edith Blackburn her best friend/adopted sister and Benedict Archer, manager of Thornton Antiques.
 
The Dragon Sleeps is an historical murder mystery. There is a love story but it isn’t the main focus. It’s set in the 1920s in Victoria, Australia. A Chinese Antique’s dealer and his son deliver a Ming dragon statue to the Thornton family home. The Thorntons are antique dealers and collectors and have an antique store in Melbourne.
 
Most of the story unfolds at the Thornton’s lavish and magnificent mansion and grounds. I wanted the house as a backdrop to the story but really it’s almost like another character. So much of the mystery revolves around the mansion, in such places as the tower and the mysterious muniment room.
 
I wrote the book through Alexandra’s point of view. She’s a modern woman. At the beginning, she has not long turned 21 years old. She and Edith have returned from Finishing School and Alexandra spent the next year as Melbourne’s new darling of Society. It was fun while it lasted but she wants more to her life. In the late 1920s, after the Great War (World War I) times have changed and she wants to work. With Benedict Archer’s help, she convinces her father to allow her to work in Thornton Antiques.
 
Before Alexandra has time to start her new job, there’s a murder at Thornton Park, and everyone is afraid for their lives.
 
Alexandra decides she must discover exactly what is happening. In her search, she finds herself, and uncovers an eighty-year-old secret.  The trouble is that this knowledge places her life in danger.
 
The question remains: What treasure is worth killing for?
 
Thank you so very much, Krysten, for welcoming me to your blog. It’s been a pleasure.
  
My book can be purchased at:
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Ellen Read is the author of The Dragon Sleeps - an historical murder mystery romance novel, and Love The Gift - an eBook Novella, a time slip romance, a story to heal grief.
 
Ellen was born in Queensland, Australia.
 
She loves to read, fiction, non-fiction, poetry. She particularly loves history and stories of ancient myths and legends. Authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Victoria Holt, the latter of whom wrote gothic mystery/romances, have influenced her own work.
 
Other interests include photography, music and musical theatre, and dance. Ellen was a ballroom dancing teacher for many years and has also worked in Performing Arts administration.