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.

Links:

GoodReads | Stephanie's Website | Facebook | Twitter | Publisher Site

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!