Abandoned Blog Tour - Guest Post from Elisa Dane

Today, I'm delighted to welcome Elisa Dane to my blog as part of the blog tour for the release of her latest book - Abandoned. As a writer myself, I'm always fascinated by the process of other writers and so I opted to ask Elisa a question about her writing. I will review the book at a later date, but trust me, this book is to the author's usual incredible high standard.

Summary 

Abandoned by Elisa Dane

Publication Date:  February 15, 2016

Publisher:  Swoon Romance

My name is Tierra Owens, and I like to kiss. A lot. It numbs the hollow ache in my chest and—for a few minutes—makes me forget how truly alone I am. My mother is an alcoholic. She hates me and insists I'm the reason she's not married to my father, whom I have never met. My best friend, Kaylee, is the only person who knows the real me. Everyone else sees what I want them to: a happy, confident, popular girl who has the world at her feet.

I am a fraud.

Relationships are forbidden. I avoid them at all costs. Sex? Emotions? Those things make a person vulnerable, and vulnerability always leads to heartbreak. When my childhood crush, Mattie shows up at school my world tumbles off its axis. The shell I surround myself with feels more like a pathetic crutch than a protective barrier, and I find myself wanting things. Daydreaming about what it would be like to have a boyfriend, a relationship—love.

The sad fact is: I'll never have any of those things. I am unworthy—trash. Which is why my mom abandoned me.

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My question 

You don't seem at all shy about tackling difficult subject matter in your books, such as relationship abuse among teens and teen drinking. Can you explain a little about how you do your research?

Hi, Carol! So excited to be hanging out with you today! Okay, so you’re interested in knowing what type of research I do to tackle the tough subjects I write about. Two words: my hubby. I’m married to a police officer that worked in a high school for eight years. He’s also an active shooter instructor and owns his own company, which goes into schools and assess their safety, while training them how to deal with critical incidences, such as active shooters. While I’m never told specific details about any of his cases, I do glean a good deal of information from him as to what types of problems and situations are plaguing today’s teens. I’ve gone to him on a number of occasions while plotting, and asked what types of negative behavior he’s seeing at the schools. He’s dealt with all kinds of bullying, both online, and in person, as well as sexual extortion, substance abuse, physical abuse, etc. My guy is a fountain of information.

He was exceptionally helpful to me while I wrote each of my YA novels. In general, I’ll explain the situation my character’s are in, then ask him if that situation is believable, and if the police happen to be involved, how would they respond? My main character, Tierra, did her level best to keep the police out of her situation, which was not the smartest decision on her part. With my other books, In The After in particular, I pretty much ran every aspect of the book by him while I was writing. I consider myself extremely lucky to have a police officer for a hubby!

Thanks so much for having me on your blog today! I hope you and your readers enjoy Mattie and Tierra’s story!

Give Away 

Ends February 26, 2016

·  One (1) winner will receive a $10 Amazon gift card and a digital copy of Abandoned by Elisa Dane (INT)

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About the Author 

Elisa Dane loves books, chocolate, reality television, her family, and All Star Cheerleading. Not necessarily in that order! She writes contemporary YA romance with cheerleaders. Yep. She writes what she knows, and it’s her hope that her stories will not only take you on a romantic journey that will warm your heart, but that you’ll find a new respect for the sport of All Star Cheerleading you may not have had before. She’s represented by Brittany Booker of the Booker/Albert Agency, and has published a NA paranormal series under her real name, Lisa Sanchez.

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Thank you, Elisa, for joining us today and Chapter by Chapter for arranging the blog tour. 

Catch Up

Hey Guys, it’s been a busy couple of week at Omnific Publishing. The latest must read, Tangled by Emma Chase shot up the Amazon charts and is collecting more rave reviews by the minute. Omnific Publishing is gearing up for Book Expo America and created a Facebook group where readers and bloggers can find out all the latest goings on and come chat with all the authors.

Meanwhile, the authors of Omnific Publishing have been working behind the scenes on upcoming promotions.

Cherie Coyler has a book cover reveal for Hold Tight, the sequel to Embrace. You can sign up here.

A Tale of Many Reviews Blog Tours is hosting ARC tours for Kate Evangelista’s Romancing the Bookworm and for Shani Sturthers’s debut The Runaway Year. Both sign ups are open now.

Nicki Elson also has a tour coming up for her New Adult College Romance, Three Daves. This book is lots of fun and I highly recommend.

Speaking of Nicki, we’ve been working on a special event for August along side Patricia Leever and Debra Anastasia. It’s The Omnific Angels Event. We are organizing guest posts, excerpts, a twitter chat, a special Goodreads group and of course, lots of prizes. Sign ups will be coming soon.

Before all that. There’s this:

All the authors are excited for this and we’ve been chatting non-stop for days. Keep a look out for more information about the Scavenger hunt and book prizes over the next few days. Just to get you in the mood and get the ball rolling. Let’s have a giveaway.

        

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Win ~How to Look Like You~ by Rose McClelland

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Who does love a free book? Especially when it’s one getting praise like, How to look like you.

Today I bring you a heads up on an exciting new release. ‘How to Look like you’ by Rose McClelland, author of  The Break Up Test (US link),  releases from Crooked Cat Publishing on the 5th July 2012. You can be one of the first to read it by entering the competition below.

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Have you ever had a frenemy? Someone you smile at sweetly but secretly you are filled with jealousy? Meet Chloe and Ella.

While Chloe sees herself as dowdy, quiet and going nowhere, Ella is brimming with talents: acting, singing, and outward-sitting, bronzed boobs.

Yet, Ella envies Chloe’s steady relationship with Aidan, her stick-thin figure and her perfectly poised style. As a result, Ella feels overweight, over-single and over-the-hill.

As Ella begins to work alongside Aidan, she develops feelings she shouldn’t have. When he invites her to join his band, it’s no surprise Chloe reacts by slamming the door off the handle.

Then Chloe begins a strategy of her own: Operation Simon. If she starts to go out more often with the bloke from work, surely Aidan would take notice?

Will Aidan smell Simon’s advances? Will Chloe and Aidan’s shared plans go ahead?

Will Ella become a friend or an enemy?

Find out How To Look Like YOU.

PRAISE FOR ‘HOW TO LOOK LIKE YOU’

“Once picking up How to Look Like You I had a difficult time putting the book down. To be completely honest I wanted to stay home from work to read! This is a definite for your TBR list. Who needs Sleep? Gotta finish this book!” - Forget the Housework, I’m reading!

"This is by far the best book I have read this year.... I can't wait for her next novel. 10 out of 10" - Minxemoo Book Review

“I loved every page of the novel. Every woman can relate to the insecurities both Ella and Chloe show. I recommend this amazing story to every person looking for a novel to suck you in from the very beginning. It is a captivating and easy read.” - Charlotte Lynns Reviews

About the Author

Rose McClelland lives in Belfast and writes chick-lit/women’s fiction.
Her debut novel ‘The Break-Up Test’ received lovely reviews on Amazon including: “Rose McClelland’s voice reads like the younger sister of Marian Keyes with a more streetwise but vulnerable edge.”
She is delighted to see her second novel ‘How to Look Like You’ also published by Crooked Cat.
Rose wrote a short play which was directed by Rawlife Theatre Company and performed in The Black Box Theatre, Belfast. She writes book reviews for ‘Judging Covers’ and writes a mixture of theatre reviews and author interviews for her blog.
Rose has been writing creatively since her twenties. She started writing her first novel six years ago and is currently writing her fourth book.

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Now for the Fun!! This is open to UK and US with an ebook prize for the person selected at midnight, 5th July, 2012.

What is your guaranteed cheer-up past-time for you and your best friend:

a/ Phone-a-thon - We can chat for an hour easily!

b/ We hit the shops! Clothes shopping and lunch - that is our treat!

c/ A night on the razzle! A few cocktails and then on to a club for a boogie!

d/ Coffee and sumptious cakes! A good natter in our favourite cafe!

e/ Skype - we live too far away now so we skype to have our catch ups!

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World Book Night

Have you heard of World Book Night? If you haven’t, you will. It’s an initiative launched across the UK in 2011 and in 2012, it will be celebrated in the UK, Ireland and America. The aim of World Book Night is for passionate readers to introduce their love of books to the people around them in their community and to get a book they love into the hands of someone, who otherwise, may never have picked it up themselves.

The best bit – And this really is fantastic, April 23, 2012, International Book Day, WBN  is giving away one million books across the UK and Ireland and one million books in the US.

In the US there is 30 books and in the UK and Ireland, 25. These include, Winter Girls, The Hunger Games, the Time Travellers Wife, Misery and many, many more.

How can you get involved? Well, you can become A Giver. A Giver is someone who will receive a number of copies(depending on your country) of a book they are passionate about from the list to hand out to readers.

For More information on World Book Night and how to get involved, please visit the relevant site for your country:

 US Site 

UK and Ireland Site

Speaking of free books, Omnific Publishing is offering a $100 Amazon gift card to one lucky winner and there is still time to enter. Entry closes 16th December. For more information on how to win, visit the Omnific Publishing Blog.

Still more free books here! I’m giving away 2 e-copies of Shades of Atlantis and 2 e-copies of Ember. Enter before midnight EST 16th December. Click on the image to enter.