Good Morning! My name is KC Sprayberry. S.D. Grimm of
Naturally Grimm has let me hijack her blog today. The purpose is to tease all
of her very dedicated readers with information about my soon-to-be-released YA
coming of age novel, Take Chances.
Today, we're interviewing Julie's best girl friend in Landry,
Heather Billings.
1. Introduce yourself to our readers. What
should we know about you?
I'm Heather Billings. Saturday, I graduate
high school, and I'll also turn eighteen with the other parts of the cosmic
triplets – Julie Bond and Lukas Miller.
It was so cool when I met Julie. I mean, I
hadn't had a BFF ever before, and we clicked from the first second we laid eyes
on each other. I was part of a great group, but the rest were all guys. Imagine
that! Julie was as into having fun as much as me, but we also shared another,
far more horrible secret – her mom and my dad just couldn't keep their hands
off each other. How nasty is that?
2. What do you think about the author? Tell us
everything. We want to know.
She did a really amazing job showing the
whole world what jerks my dad and Julie's mom are. Those people didn't care who
they hurt, and they hurt me a lot. They caused my mom to move away six months
ago. I've never stopped missing Mom, but she's coming to graduation. I told her
that she had to come. No one can keep her away from me.
3. What are your feelings about this story?
Up and down is how I feel about this story. I
mean, it was happening long before the total loser got into our classroom, but
no one would do anything about him. He had us really scared. I tried to get
help, but I never knew if that worked. And he … he … (bows head, sobs) that's
too hard to talk about.
4. How do you feel about being a character in
this book?
No way anyone was going to make a book about
Julie and not include me. That would be like to tell her story and leaving
Lydie out. Not happening. I don't like what happens to me, but it wasn't
something I could stop. Can you believe my dad actually helped that creep? I
mean, aren't fathers supposed to protect their little girls?
5. What do you see in your future? (No spoilers
please!)
Watching my friends from up on high. I don't
have any other choice. That creep destroyed my future.
6. Is there another Take Chances in the future? Will you be part of it?
I'd love to see how Julie, Michael, Hugh,
Tom, and Lydie cope in the future. They're such great people, but this … this …
it can just eat a person up.
7. Say a movie producer comes knocking. What
actor/actress would you want to play you and why?
Oh, I'd
love to see this as a movie. I'm betting Julie said she wouldn't. She's such a
scaredy cat about some things, but I can talk her into it. Yeah,
Who do I want to play me? Oh, that's so easy.
Absolutely Emma Stone. She's cool. She's amazing in just everything, but I love
her most in The Amazing Spiderman!
Blurb:
Julie Bond grew up in Europe as a military brat. She found her
very first permanent home in Landry, GA as a teen going into high school.
Almost four years later, she's having pre-graduation jitters and flashing back
to an incident of school violence she experienced in Europe. She attempts to
convince herself that it can never happen again, but continually finds herself
flashing back to that day no matter how hard she tries.
The people around her present any number of problems for
Julie, and she's hard put to keep from drowning under all the issues. Then Michael--a cool guy she's had
a crush on for the last three years—returns
from traveling the US as a photographer, and
Julie now has one more thing to distract her as she prepares to leave high
school. One thing she firmly believes in: no one
will ever invade her classroom with violence again.
Once again, the impossible happens.
Once again, she's in a classroom with a madman holding a gun. Once again, she must survive.
Teaser Excerpt:
She turns away from me, and I have a chance to control my pounding
head and drive the memories back where they belong.
In an effort to forget, I scribble a to-do list
in my notebook:
1.
Call Lydie and find out
when she's coming.
2. Find out if Dad got my graduation announcement
and if he's coming. Please don't let him
be out of the country!
3.
Figure out a way to make
WWE quit screwing around with Charles.
4.
Talk to Heather and make
sure she still isn't freaking 'cause her mom won't come to graduation.
5.
Figure out what she
meant about Robert Jackson last night.
6.
Stop keeping secrets.
Bio:
KC Sprayberry started writing
young, with a diary followed by an interest in English. Her first experience
with publication came when she placed third in a Freedoms Foundation at Valley
Forge contest while in the Air Force, but her dedication to writing came after
she had her youngest child, now a in his senior year of high school.
Her family lives in Northwest
Georgia where she spends her days creating stories about life in the south, and
far beyond. More than a dozen of her short stories have appeared in several
magazines. Five anthologies feature other short stories, and her young adult
novel Softly Say Goodbye, released in 2012. During 2013, more young
adult stories have been released: The Ghost Catcher, Who Am I?, Family Curse
… Times Two, and Amazon
Best Seller, Canoples Investigations Tackles Space Pirates.
You
can find her on the web here:
Stick around for the full
tour. Why? On September 26 through September 29, 2013, you can pick up my other
YA coming of age books, Softly Say Goodbye and Who Am I? free on Amazon:
Thank you S.D. Grimm of Naturally Grimm for hosting me today. Tomorrow you will find the next Teaser Tour on Penelope Anne Bartotto of The Library at the End of the Universe.
1 comment:
Thank you for hosting me, Sarah. It looks wonderful!
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