Spotlight On: ROADIE by Denise Jaden

ROADIE

by Denise Jaden

Genre: YA Contemporary (with romantic suspense elements)

Publication Date: May 1^st, 2018

Hosted by: Lady Amber’s Reviews & PR

Blurb:

She's not welcome.

Guarded and angry at humanity, Kass has nowhere to go for the next three weeks. She recoils from Eli's gentle patience, while accepting his not-quite invitation to join their band tour. He gets her, though, and he is the only person to ever make it past her cutting back talk.

But she’s a life-hardened punk who won't get along with the rest of the band. He’s a sensitive guitar player. Sparks will fly as they try to meet in the middle on their rock and roll road trip.

Roadie, Track Two in a new upper YA Series, features page-turning band drama, sizzling romance, and nuanced characters. If you like Rainbow Rowell and Gayle Forman, you’ll love Denise Jaden’s new series.

Buy Roadie today and hit the road with some unforgettable characters.

Denise Jaden’s novels have been shortlisted or received awards through the Romance Writers of America, Inspy, and SCBWI. The first draft of her debut novel, Losing Faith, was written in 21 days during NaNoWriMo 2007 and she loves talking with writers and students alike about her Just-Get-To-The-End fast-drafting process. Jaden’s other young adult novels include Never Enough, Foreign Exchange, A Christmas Kerril, and Avalanche. Her non-fiction books for writers include, Writing with a Heavy Heart, Fast Fiction, and Story Sparks. In her spare time, she homeschools her son, acts with the Vancouver film industry, and dances with a Polynesian dance troupe. Find out more at denisejaden.com.

Author Links:

Amazon: http://amzn.to/2Ge6uID

Twitter: https://twitter.com/denisejaden

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisejadenauthor/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2919206.Denise_Jaden

Website: https://www.denisejaden.com/

Buy Links:

Outcast: http://amzn.to/2Gikqlf

Roadie: https://amzn.to/2Ghfn0Y

Pusher (Pre-Order): https://amzn.to/2JJh8p7

  

It's Release Day!! ROADIE by Denise Jaden

ROADIE

by Denise Jaden

Genre: YA Contemporary (with romantic suspense elements)

Publication Date: May 1^st, 2018

Hosted by: Lady Amber’s Reviews & PR

Blurb:

She's not welcome.

Guarded and angry at humanity, Kass has nowhere to go for the next three weeks. She recoils from Eli's gentle patience, while accepting his not-quite invitation to join their band tour. He gets her, though, and he is the only person to ever make it past her cutting back talk.

But she’s a life-hardened punk who won't get along with the rest of the band. He’s a sensitive guitar player. Sparks will fly as they try to meet in the middle on their rock and roll road trip.

Roadie, Track Two in a new upper YA Series, features page-turning band drama, sizzling romance, and nuanced characters. If you like Rainbow Rowell and Gayle Forman, you’ll love Denise Jaden’s new series.

Buy Roadie today and hit the road with some unforgettable characters.

Denise Jaden’s novels have been shortlisted or received awards through the Romance Writers of America, Inspy, and SCBWI. The first draft of her debut novel, Losing Faith, was written in 21 days during NaNoWriMo 2007 and she loves talking with writers and students alike about her Just-Get-To-The-End fast-drafting process. Jaden’s other young adult novels include Never Enough, Foreign Exchange, A Christmas Kerril, and Avalanche. Her non-fiction books for writers include, Writing with a Heavy Heart, Fast Fiction, and Story Sparks. In her spare time, she homeschools her son, acts with the Vancouver film industry, and dances with a Polynesian dance troupe. Find out more at denisejaden.com.

Author Links:

Amazon: http://amzn.to/2Ge6uID

Twitter: https://twitter.com/denisejaden

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisejadenauthor/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2919206.Denise_Jaden

Website: https://www.denisejaden.com/

Buy Links: 

Outcast: http://amzn.to/2Gikqlf

Roadie: https://amzn.to/2Ghfn0Y

Pusher (Pre-Order): https://amzn.to/2JJh8p7

  

Cover Reveal: ROADIE by Denise Jaden

ROADIE
by Denise Jaden
Genre: YA Contemporary (with romantic suspense elements)
Publication Date: May 1st, 2018
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s Reviews & PR

 

Synopsis:

She's not welcome.

Guarded and angry at humanity, Kass has nowhere to go for the next three weeks. She recoils from Eli's gentle patience, while accepting his not-quite invitation to join their band tour. He gets her, though, and he is the only person to ever make it past her cutting back talk.

But she’s a life-hardened punk who won't get along with the rest of the band. He’s a sensitive guitar player. Sparks will fly as they try to meet in the middle on their rock and roll road trip.

Roadie, Track Two in a new upper YA Series, features page-turning band drama, sizzling romance, and nuanced characters. If you like Rainbow Rowell and Gayle Forman, you’ll love Denise Jaden’s new series.

Buy Roadie today and hit the road with some unforgettable characters.

Denise Jaden’s novels have been shortlisted or received awards through the Romance Writers of America, Inspy, and SCBWI. The first draft of her debut novel, Losing Faith, was written in 21 days during NaNoWriMo 2007 and she loves talking with writers and students alike about her Just-Get-To-The-End fast-drafting process. Jaden’s other young adult novels include Never Enough, Foreign Exchange, A Christmas Kerril, and Avalanche. Her non-fiction books for writers include, Writing with a Heavy Heart, Fast Fiction, and Story Sparks. In her spare time, she homeschools her son, acts with the Vancouver film industry, and dances with a Polynesian dance troupe. Find out more at denisejaden.com.


Author Links:
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2Ge6uID
Twitter: https://twitter.com/denisejaden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/denisejadenauthor/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2919206.Denise_Jaden
Website: https://www.denisejaden.com/


Purchase Links:
Outcast (Pre-Order): http://amzn.to/2Gikqlf
Roadie (Pre-Order): https://amzn.to/2Ghfn0Y

  

Cover Reveal: AVALANCHE by Denise Jaden

AVALANCHE

by Denise Jaden

Published by Leap Books

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

Release Date: November 21, 2016

Blurb:

When Ellis and Dylan’s resort world and all of their hopes crash – literally – around them, they’ll need to depend on each other to survive.

Goodreads | Leap Books

About Denise Jaden:
Denise Jaden is the author of the critically-acclaimed young adult novels Losing Faith, Never Enough, and Foreign Exchange, as well as two nonfiction books for writers: Writing With A Heavy Heart and Fast Fiction. When she’s not writing, she’s usually homeschooling her son (who is also a fast drafter of fiction) or dancing with her Polynesian dance troupe. Find her online on Twitter, Facebook, or on her website at denisejaden.com.

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Exclusive Cover Reveal and Giveaway: A CHRISTMAS KERRIL by Denise Jaden

I am honored to host the EXCLUSIVE Cover Reveal for Denise Jaden's new YA novel, A CHRISTMAS KERRIL. 

Isn't it lovely?! 

I've loved ALL of Denise's books and am looking forward to this holiday read. 

Synopsis:

In this modern take on a holiday classic, high school junior, Kerril, faces her past, present, and future to be reminded of the good in others, and in herself.

Haunted by the memory of the worst of her divorced parents’ public Christmas blowouts, Kerril, will do almost anything to avoid the upcoming tinsel-filled season. Unfortunately, a teacher with a grudge casts Kerril as the lead in the school’s holiday production. To add to the misery, she will star alongside ultra-awkward Adam as her love interest. Wanting to ditch the play, Adam, her parents, and Christmas altogether, Kerril accepts an invitation to take off to a cabin with her ultimate dream crush, Perry – only Perry may not be the guy she hoped he was, and it’s not until she’s left Adam behind to fend for himself onstage that she realizes he might just be the guy of her dreams.

An Early Reader Raves:

“Denise Jaden’s talent for creating believable and compelling characters shines in A CHRISTMAS KERRIL. I stayed up way too late reading this contemporary YA take on the classic Christmas story, completely caught up in the characters’ challenges, secrets, friendships, and romances. Highly recommended!”

-          Shari Green, author of Following Chelsea

*****

www.denisejaden.com

Out Now: Fast Fiction for writers, and Foreign Exchange for readers.

Look for A Christmas Kerril and Avalanche coming in 2015/2016!

Giveaway:

One Winner will receive an early digital copy of A CHRISTMAS KERRIL and a digital copy of Foreign Exchange

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FOREIGN EXCHANGE Cover Reveal and ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER Giveaway!

Today I am pleased to participate in the cover reveal of Denise Jaden's Foreign Exchange. Denise is the author of Fast Fiction and Writing with a Heavy Heart and young adult novels Losing Faith and Never Enough.

Here are a few of Denise's thoughts on Foreign Exchange and its cover...

I'm so incredibly excited to share my cover of Foreign Exchange with you! This book holds a very special place in my heart. I wrote it during a very difficult year of my life, and the characters and their stories were a real bright spot for me.

Because this book is so important to me, I'm giving away something VERY important to me to go along with this cover reveal. I was fortunate enough to receive an early copy of the highly-anticipated Isla and the Happily Ever After by one of my all-time favorite authors, Stephanie Perkins. ISLA and Foreign Exchange are both romances with swoon-worthy boys, and they're both set partially in Europe. So I want one lucky person to receive my advanced copy of ISLA in to get you excited for Foreign Exchange!

Read on, check out my cover, and read the first chapter of Foreign Exchange below. It'll all help you in earning extra entries to win my copy of Isla and the Happily Ever After!

And here is the beautiful cover...

Jamie Monroe has always played it safe. That is, until her live-for-the-moment best friend, Tristan, jets off to Italy on a student exchange program. Left alone with her part-time mother and her disabled brother, Jamie discovers that she is quite capable of taking her own risks, starting with her best friend’s hotter-than-hot older brother, Sawyer. Sawyer and Tristan have been neighbors for years, but as Jamie grows closer to the family she thought she knew, she discovers some pretty big secrets.

As she sinks deeper into their web of pretense, she suspects that her best friend may not be on a safe exchange program at all. Jamie sets off to Europe on a class trip with plans to meet up with Tristan, but when Tristan stops all communication, suddenly no one seems trustworthy, least of all the one person she was starting to trust—Sawyer. 

 “Foreign Exchange is a fresh contemporary YA that will keep readers compulsively turning pages until the very end. Combining international intrigue with a steamy forbidden romance makes for a can’t miss read.”

 - Eileen Cook  Author of Year of Mistaken Discoveries. 

"A pitch perfect voice and delicious chemistry kept me turning those pages!"

- Tara Kelly, author of Amplified and Encore

"Foreign Exchange is heart pounding and suspenseful...the teenage dream of escaping the boredom of suburbia by travelling Europe and spending quality time with a hot guy shifts into a dangerous nightmare."  

 - D.R. Graham, author of Rank and the upcoming Noir et Bleu MC series.

Read the first chapter of Foreign Exchange here! Enjoy!

One of the entries in the Rafflecopter below will ask you a question from the above chapter!

This contest is open internationally!

Don't forget...this copy of ISLA could be yours...

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Waiting on Wednesday: Fast Fiction by Denise Jaden

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Fast Fiction: A Guide to Outlining and Writing a First Draft Novel in Thirty Days
by Denise Jaden
Published by New World Library
Expected Publication Date: February 11, 2014
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 Writers flock to National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) each November because it provides a procrastination-busting deadline. But only a fraction of the participants meet their goal. Denise Jaden was part of that fraction, writing first drafts of two subsequently published novels in that tight time frame. In Fast Fiction, she shows other writers how to do what she did, step-by-step, writer-to-writer. To insure success, her program begins a month before the month of drafting. This prep period is when plot, theme, characters, setting, etc. are thought through. Then Jaden provides day-by-day coaching for the 30-day drafting period. After reader / writers race to the finish, they are not left high and dry. Jaden’s "After the Draft" revision tips allow readers to determine if a draft is not just workable but compelling, so that they don’t waste months or years in development. Her camaraderie and skill allow Jaden to both instruct and inspire.

Why I'm Waiting 

 Not every reader is a writer, but I know that there are many of us who have a story in us that we want to tell. Some of us need a little help and this book offers step-by-step, day-to-day coaching to get that story out. It sounds exactly like what I need.

March Madness Writing, Reading, and Blogging Challenge

image by Kelsey Macke

IF YOU ARE like me AND you need a boost, a kick in the pants, want to get real with yourself, or want to be a part of a fun community setting a common goal, then March Madness is for you! Author Denise Jaden invites Writers, Readers, Illustrators, and Bloggers to challenge themselves all month long to do more by setting goals and being accountable. Denise says, "Accountability is our main aim and the more support we have, the easier it will be to sail on through the month of March, bouncing along on each others successes!" 

To find out all of the details of March Madness #WIPMadness, go to 
http://denisejaden.blogspot.com/2013/02/march-madness-writing-reading-and.html
 
For my March Madness Challenge, I want to write more reviews (I usually write 3 a month) and make some long overdue updates to my blog. 

Here are my goals:

Write 4-6 overdue reviews, including but not limited to:

• The Goodbye Quilt
• The Namesake 
• Scarred Lions
• Thrill Seekers

Review:

• Live Through This
• What Boys Really Want
• Geography Club
• The Elephant of Surprise 

Schedule Blog Tour Posts (5 pending)



Make some blog updates:

• Redesign!!
• Fix comment reply option
• Add Follow Me options
• Write new Love My Indie invitation post