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Friday, August 10, 2012

WANT BLOG TOUR: Guest Post & Giveaway

I'm excited to be the next stop on the WANT blog tour. Today I've got a guest post from author Stephanie Lawton along with a GIVEAWAY!


Stephanie's Dream Cast and Why:

Aside from seeing your book cover for the first time, there’s little more fun for a writer than putting together a fantasy cast, and I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t thought about it often. 

There are three main characters in Want: Isaac, Juli and Dave. 

I’ve known who I’d want to play Isaac since early on—I even started a weekly blog post to pay homage to his ridiculous perfection. Isaac is tall, well-built, has dark wavy hair and blue eyes. I originally meant for him to be pretty average-looking, but then I found HIM. Matt Bomer, aka Neal Caffrey on White Collar, one of the hot strippers in Magic Mike, and Cooper Anderson on an episode of Glee. And let me tell you, seeing him up on a stage singing in that episode? Yeah, my husband had to check on me due to all the squealing. *swoons* 

Juli is harder to pin down. There’s a Swedish model named Ebba Zingmark who looks the part, and I think she may even be the model on the cover of the book. I have no idea if she can act. I’m totally open to suggestions! 

Dave. Gosh, if someone found an actor who embodied Dave, I’d stalk him and make him mine. (Don’t tell my husband. Oops.) Little-known South African actor Sean Else looks a whole lot like Dave—blond hair, big, easy smile and a little on the short side. Someone mentioned Kellan Lutz, and that’s a possibility, but I’m not sold. Another friend suggested Alex Pettyfer, but he’s way too pretty to be Dave. 

Although he’s not a main character, I know who I’d want to play Robert Cline. From Day One I’ve pictured David McCallum, best known these days as Ducky on NCIS. He’d have to lose the British accent and replace it with a mellow Southern drawl. 

I picture R.J. as a younger Ryan Kwanten.



WANT Synopsis:

Julianne counts the days until she can pack her bags and leave her old-money, tradition-bound Southern town where appearance is everything and secrecy is a way of life. A piano virtuoso, she dreams of attending a prestigious music school in Boston. Failure is not an option, so she enlists the help of New England Conservatory graduate Isaac Laroche.

Julianne can’t understand why Isaac suddenly gave up Boston’s music scene to return to the South. He doesn’t know her life depends on escaping it before she inherits her mother’s madness. Isaac knows he must resist his attraction to a student ten years his junior, but loneliness and jealousy threaten his resolve.

Their indiscretion at a Mardi Gras ball—the pinnacle event for Mobile’s elite—forces their present wants and needs to collide with sins of the past.

Will Julianne accept the help she’s offered and get everything she ever wanted, or will she self-destruct and take Isaac down with her?


Author Bio:

After collecting a couple English degrees in the Midwest, Stephanie Lawton suddenly awoke in the deepest reaches of the Deep South. Culture shock inspired her to write about Mobile, Alabama, her adopted city, and all the ways Southern culture, history and attitudes seduce the unsuspecting.

A lover of all things gothic, she can often be spotted photographing old cemeteries, historic buildings and, ironically, the beautiful beaches of the Gulf Coast. She also has a tendency to psychoanalyze people, which comes in handy when creating character profiles.

On her thirtieth birthday, she mourned (okay bawled) the fact that in no way could she still be considered a “young adult,” so she rebelled by picking up Twilight and promptly fell in love with Young Adult literature.

She has a love/hate relationship with Mardi Gras –where does all that money come from?–and can sneeze 18 times in a row.

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The Giveaway:

As part of the today's blog tour, I have a lovely e-Book copy of WANT to giveaway to one lucky blog follower! To enter, please leave me a comment along with your email address to enter! Open INTERNATIONALLY!!  Don't miss your chance to enter more giveaways by following the blog tour here

Thank you to Stephanie for stopping by and to Ink Spell Publishing for hosting the tour and for the giveaway!

ONYX Trailer Reveal!

Thank you to Entangled, I've got a fabulous little treat for you guys to watch... I know some of your may have seen some of the behind the scenes of the making of this video, but wait till you watch the entire video! It's smokin' hot! I'm pretty sure Daemon would approve!

 

Be sure to stop back by the blog next TUESDAY to read my review of ONYX and enter to win a copy for yourself! Don't miss following the blog tour here.




Published by: Entangled Publishing
To Be Released on: 8/14/12
Pre-Order from: Amazon | Barnes & Noble


Being connected to Daemon Black sucks…
Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I’ve sworn him off, even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But we’ve got bigger problems.
Something worse than the Arum has come to town…
The Department of Defense are here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we're linked, I’m a goner. So is he. And there's this new boy in school who’s got a secret of his own. He knows what’s happened to me and he can help, but to do so, I have to lie to Daemon and stay away from him. Like that's possible. Against all common sense, I'm falling for Daemon. Hard.
But then everything changes…
I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. And I have to tell Daemon, even though I know he’s never going to stop searching until he gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them—from me?
No one is who they seem. And not everyone will survive the lies…

Will, Will & more Will! CP2 Teaser & The Infernal Devices manga Cover

In celebration of Will's recent match win (against Jem), Cassie has treated fans to a Clockwork Princess snippet featuring Will. 


Will won his YA Crush Tourney round, so — a Will snippet! Simon and Alec didn’t win their rounds, but I’ll be snippeting them anyway in the upcoming week.

“By the Angel, Bridget’s depressing,” said Henry, setting down his newspaper directly on his plate and causing the edge to soak through with egg yolk. Charlotte opened her mouth as if to object, and closed it again. “It’s all heartbreak, death and unrequited love.”

“Well, that is what most songs are about,” said Will. “Requited love is nice, but it doesn’t make much of a ballad.”


AND as promised earlier, Cassie received more than 500 shares on FB tonight for this image:



and posted the cover for The Infernal Devices manga! Check it out:



Yes Will, you were made for manga. I can't wait to check out the rest of this book when it's out in October!

TMI Movie Casting News: Valentine

Via Cassie's (exciting post) we officially have VALENTINE *jumps up and down with excitement* He's going to be a little hard not to like, don't ya think?!



So this is not me posting news so much as confirming the rumors: YES, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is going to play Valentine. http://www.themortalinstrumentsmovie.com


I’ve liked JRM since he was in Velvet Goldmine and I have to admit that image was what sprang immediately to mind when the producer called me and said “…Jonathan Rhys Meyers?”
I was like, “Velvet Goldmine!”
And Robert, who is German and very practical, was like, “I hope you have seen things he is in since then or I will assume you do not go to the theater.”
So yes I should probably also mention that JRM plays Henry the 8th on The Tudors, and does a very good job of being charismatic, power-hungry, and cold.

Did Henry the Eighth own unbuttoned white shirts? *see Cassie's post to see the picture* And unlaced pants? Either way I suppose we now see why Valentine got so many people to follow his crazy schemes. I suspect by the end of the movie everyone will be going “Just do what that good-looking guy tells you to do, you crazy kids!”
I should probably also mention that he was great in Match Point and Bend it Like Beckham and lots of my other favorite movies. So, in sum: Ireland, we have cleaned you out of   your hot men. Sorry about that. You can have them back in three months when they’re done filming. In the meantime, Sarah Rees Brennan has offered to go onset and paint shamrocks on all the trailers.
[Also I apologize for my absenteeism these past few days. I hate it when there are rumors and I can’t confirm them so I decided to pretend to be dead until I got the confirmation letter news, which was very good for Clockwork Princess, on which I got a lot of revision work done, if not necessarily for my sanity.]
And because I still love Velvet Goldmine (watch it if you haven’t)

Now we can let the fan girls screams and dancing around with excitement begin! 

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