tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11781638934097128862024-03-05T05:52:51.278-08:00Author, Jenn Cooksey's BlogThe one-stop shop for everything related to author, Jenn Cooksey's ranting, HTML/web design deficient skillz, & writing including Landslide, and the Grab Your Pole series. Represented by Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-8036302283224773872018-06-10T11:48:00.000-07:002018-06-10T11:48:45.775-07:00A Word (or several) On #GYP4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A word (or several) about <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/gyp4?source=feed_text" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">GYP4</span></span></a>...<br />Many upon many GYP readers have been foaming at the mouth for quite some time and have been asking about when the 4th book is coming out. The answer is simple: I don't know yet.</div>
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This particular book is different than the others in the series, it's very tricky to write, it's thrown me and beta readers for some quite unexpected, crazy-ass corkscrew loops, and I want to get every part of it as perfect as I can so as to do the characters, the book, and the overall GYP story justice while staying true to myself and what I envision and will be satisfied with when all is said and done, which means it's taking a while.</div>
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I appreciate everyone's unending love, unconditional support, and extreme patience in regard to this project, but I have this to say as well... If you find yourself getting overly antsy and impatient (which I totally get, because I'm RIGHT there with you, believe me), consider yourselves somewhat lucky that you've only been waiting a few years. To help you with that, here's a little-known fact: I've been writing this 1 book for roughly 8 years now. You read that right. EIGHT years.</div>
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Yes, I've taken breaks to publish the 1st 3 books in the series, to write and release Landslide, to go back into the 1st book I ever wrote and get it edited and killer-awesome cover art so that it's ready to go for release (which I'm not going to do now until I'm closer to being done with the GYP series or finished with it completely), as well as having started work on myriad other writing projects. I've only done those things, however, because it has been necessary in order for me to not get burned out on this one book, because it's an intricate, leviathan of a book, one that won't be available in print in one single volume if I stick with the print parameters of the other books in the series—it will most likely have to be printed in at least 2 volumes unless I can sweet-talk Amazon Publishing or Create Space into making an exception on their max-page, either that or I'll have to go with a larger format, which means the series won't be uniform in size, and that'll quite frankly really fucking piss off my readers who buy print books for the sheer purpose of them looking pretty on their bookshelves, and the vast majority of the readers I know are those people (<a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nojudgment?source=feed_text" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="font-family: inherit; unicode-bidi: isolate;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">NoJudgment</span></span></a>).</div>
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So, to recap; 8 years is a long fucking time for me to be writing 1 book. It has thus far been a long and arduous journey fraught with trials, tears, revelations, compromise, sleepless nights, and some laughter at my expense from betas. I know there's light at the end of the GYP4 tunnel, although I still can't quite see more than a faint glimmer of that light yet, because again, it's a long fucking tunnel. But, I'm getting there. I promise. Once it's done and I'm bathing in sunshine, cover art is good to go, and I'm comfortable with how I'm set up for the remaining books in the series, I'll pick a release date, I'll shout the announcement from the highest rooftops of social media, and then I'll give it to you. And just FYI, the announcement of a release date will also be the cover reveal, and with that, the title will be revealed as well. It'll all be done in ONE shot.</div>
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Also, once the info is out, please don't request an ARC. I hate saying no and sounding like a self-important bitch who's too big for her britches (because I'm nobody really and I know this), but I do have my reasons and I don't give out ARCs when it comes to this series; however, with that said, I might get a wild hair up my aged ass and decide to do a single ARC giveaway in the FB group JC & The Apostles, but I don't want anyone holding their breath.</div>
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And one other thing I'm going to do...or, not do...I'm not going to fuck around. I'm not going to drag out the time between the announcement of the release date and publication just so that I can do a lot of pre-release promotion. I'll make 2 announcements. The first will be when I'm done writing it and it has gone into the editing and cover art phase, and then once I have a release date based on how long that might take, I'll make the second announcement (cover/title/release date reveal) which will give people a heads up with hopefully enough time for everyone to get a re-read of books 1-3 in. Then I'm just going to give book 4 to you guys.</div>
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Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-56473314275821733732015-01-26T14:42:00.000-08:002015-01-26T14:49:10.426-08:00Landslide's Release Day Giveaway Extravaganza!!<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #073763;">This giveaway is in celebration of Landslide's long-awaited release and will run approximately two weeks beginning tomorrow (Release Day) and ending the day after I get home from Wicked Book Weekend (February 10th). There are some things you can do to be prepared for a handful of entries though. For instance, choose one of the pictures below to use as your own profile picture (#Solidarity), write up an honest review for Landslide once you've read the book that you will post in various places, making teasers and emailing them to me, and taking screen shots of your Landslide e-book proof of purchase (which can of course include pre-purchases—just make sure you take a screen shot with the fully purchased copy in your device library once the sale goes through).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">Below you'll find sales links, the Rafflecopter, as well as some photos to choose from to use as your profile picture, and other than that, all I have to say is thank you for your interest and support, and GOOD LUCK!!!</span><br />
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With this reveal, you music whores are in for a treat! What makes this reveal different from any of the others is that not only are you getting to lay your eyes on Landslide's GORGEOUS cover for the first time, but you're also getting a sneak peek at its playlist! (Notice the listening link above for <a href="http://grooveshark.com/s/Landslide/55dMxb?src=5" target="_blank">"Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac</a>)<br />
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I've used some really incredible songs as chapter titles in this book, as well as for inspiration and the occasional reference within it, and everyone participating in the reveal has picked an individual song from my playlist, not knowing if the song they chose is a chapter title or not mind you, and they will be sharing a listening link for the songs they chose along with the cover.<br />
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Not only that, but in addition to some of my fave bloggers sharing the cover and songs throughout the day today, some of my fave AUTHORS are participating too! So, if you're keen to see what I might have in store for your listening ears, you can see the list of bloggers, authors, and some #TeamGYP peeps who are participating and then travel to their pages in your quest! And maybe, you'll discover a new blog to follow and/or another author to add to your list of favorites, because I'm telling you, this is an all-star list composed of many INCREDIBLY talented authors, some of whom are <i>New York Times</i> best sellers and others who deserve to be!<br />
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Also, I'll be giving away up to 25 ARCs of Landslide (link to the request form is below), and make sure you check out the Rafflecopter giveaway posted below the list of participants! And if you're on Facebook and want to make sure you stay up to date with the latest on Landslide, join the Facebook Group, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/LandslideByJennCooksey/" target="_blank">Landslide, A Novel by Jenn Cooksey</a>!!<br />
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<a href="http://experimentinterror.com/" target="_blank">Author Karina Halle</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Karina-Halle/140649372629593" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.kendallgrey.com/" target="_blank">Author Kendall Grey</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KendallGreyAuthor" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a></div>
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<a href="http://melissabrownauthor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Author Melissa Brown</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MelissaBrownAuthor" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a></div>
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<a href="http://wanderdusttrilogy.com/" target="_blank">Author Michelle Warren</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MichelleWarrenAuthor" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a></div>
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<a href="http://authortialouise.com/" target="_blank">Author Tia Louise</a> - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorTiaLouise" target="_blank">Facebook Page</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.aloveaffairwithbooks.com/" target="_blank">A Love Affair With Books</a></div>
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<a href="http://littlereadridinghood.com/" target="_blank">Little Read Riding Hood</a></div>
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<a href="http://seekingbookboyfriends.com/" target="_blank">Seeking Book Boyfriends</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.smibookclub.com/" target="_blank">SMI Book Club</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. People in the book community who've never read my work or even seen me on FB are still somehow able to recognize me and will say things like, "Oh! You're Jenn Cooksey! You're the shark chick!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. No matter how loud you yell or annunciate, there's a 99% probability rate that Tara Sivec and I will still confuse words like drink for things that don't sound anything like it. For example; drain and train, or, um...brown sugar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. There're so many wonderfully talented and amazing authors out there that if I keep falling in love with them when I meet them like I did this weekend, I'm gonna need a bigger boat. Er...bookcase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">6. I REALLY need to start wearing waterproof mascara because tears brought on by laughter or sentiment are inevitable at events like this, and mascara dripping into your eyes...well, that shit fuckin' hurts, you know?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7. No matter where you are, a member of the Sivec family will stalk--I mean find you, but you'll be cool with it because they genuinely make you feel like you're family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">8. If you put your freshly shaven legs in the Atlantic Ocean, it'll burn just as much as it does when you do it in the Pacific Ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">9. Dawn Robertson might be more into My Little Pony than my girls were back when they were all still under the age of 10, and can rock a kimono, MLP underoos, and tube socks like no one's business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">10. Vibrator races are real. And witnessing them should be on every self-respecting person's bucket list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">11. If you don't wake up at 1:30 in the morning on a Sunday to party with your drunk neighbors, there's a good chance they'll leave a calling card in the form of a penis shoved under your door.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">12. There will never be enough time to meet, talk to, and hang out with all the people you want to. (Like you, Tiffany King, Adam Kunz and Amanda Jason, C.C. Wood, Jasinda and Jack Wilder, Aleatha Romig, Jillian Dodd, Laurel Curtis, R.K. Lilley, and Kendall Gray. Not to mention all the fucking amazing volunteers, bloggers, and readers who came out.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">13. A full grown man can easily be caveman-tossed over a woman's shoulder and carried onto a stage when free books are on the line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">14. Even grown-ass adult women can get giddy over rubber duckies and will wear a unicorn headband proudly in public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">15. If I'm asked to pose for a picture with a "flat dom.", my first impulse will be to spank my own ass with a stranger's face, and I also apparently won't hesitate or question biting someone's nipple ring, faux or not, if a camera is involved in any way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">16. Signings make a girl parched so it's best to pretend you were a Girl Scout and be prepared in whatever way you can be; i.e., have on hand at all times The. Most. Fucking Awesome (and now tax deductible). Unicorn Flask. EVER.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">17. You know you have phenomenal fans when they love and know you well enough to give you more than 2 hours to come up with something special to write in a book and then sit down with you and flip through said book looking for a good quote to use when after 3 hours have gone by and you STILL haven't been able to make a damned decision. Oh and they bring you licorice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">18. 20,000+ women and I don't even know how many men would give their eyeteeth to be me in the below picture even though I clearly haven't learned the lesson that I CANNOT get away with making the duck face. Seriously, do the planet a favor and set up an intervention or tackle me to the ground the next time it looks like I'm about to pucker for a camera instead of saying cheese, regardless of whose boobs I have my hands on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The NOLA Event weekend started out on Thursday for me. I flew out of hell on a jet plane and landed in New Orleans a few short hours later, where a horde of us spontaneously threw a party in baggage claim. From there I was take to Baton Rouge where a fan who has become a dear friend opened up her home to me for the night. We celebrated her husband's Jesus Birthday at a Brazilian steak house and not only can I now personally attest to the fact that every single bite of food is fucking mouthwatering at that place, but also believe me when I say that "meat sweats" are real. After dinner, I "helped" my amazing friend wrap approximately 200 homemade bourbon caramels and bake up about 12 dozen chocolate chip BACON cookies that I would eventually hand out at the signing. So any of you who experienced and loved the fruit of that awesomesauce labor, you can just thank Laura and hope and pray that I do more signings close to NOLA, because she's offered to make them for me again. ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">From there she chauffeured my ass all over Baton Rouge, aiding me in my search for some significant snacks to include in my exclusive swag bundle and once that was over, I made it to the W Hotel in New Orleans, where I promptly felt justified in ripping the beer bottle out of Tara Sivec's hand and totally draining it. It's cool though because it'd been a longass day and Tara is like, my fave author aside from myself, and she's also a great friend so I wasn't too terribly concerned that she'd jump on my back and wrestle me to the ground in a balls-out rescue mission for her stolen alcohol. </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">(Word to the wise...I'm a professional and stealing Tara's booze should not be attempted without the proper training and education, because she'll totally cut a bitch. Fact.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Trinity Higinbotham is completely amazeballs in every way
and I want to keep her for my very own. Also, if you send Trinity away, they
will come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* There really are no words to describe what it’s like to be
friends with someone as genuine, giving, and compassionate as Tara Sivec,
although I think we might’ve shared a womb at some point, and if so, she
clearly stole all the good genes from me. And just so you know, if you’re
taking a picture with her and she tells you to mount her, you do it. No.
Questions. Asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Meeting Buffy will make you feel like you’re meeting the
best friend you always wished for. And seeing her with her husband, Chuck, is
akin to seeing what true love looks like in real life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Partying on Bourbon St. is like partying in Tijuana. Smell
and solicitation included. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* James Sivec is like a two-year-old when it comes to touching
people and other shit he shouldn’t, and he should probably look into getting
tested for Hep. C...at minimum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Kristen Proby will introduce herself by modestly saying,
“Hi, I’m Kristen,” which subsequently makes you look like a ginormous asshole
when your blank expression forces her to follow up her introduction with a woebegone
smile and saying, “I’m an author,” because you suck and didn’t realize that
she’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the</i> KRISTEN FUCKING PROBY.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Even if you don’t want one, Karina Halle will make you do
shots. Partly because she’ll just shove it in your hand anyway, and partly
because it’s next to impossible to not be captivated by her and not do anything
she might tell you to do. (I’m almost afraid to go to Vegas with her this
month. Almost.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Melissa Brown has the most joyous laugh I think I’ve ever
heard, and Tiffany King, is one of those people who just emanates kindness, making
them two of THE sweetest people on the planet...they’re like the sugar cookies
of people in the jar that is the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Unless you want to look like an asshole (AGAIN), don’t ask
Jamie Sager Hall why she’s not signing, because contrary to what you might
think, she is NOT an author. Neither is Tressa Sager. They are both, however, a
hoot and a half to hang out with and are awesomesauce people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Meeting the “swagalicious motherfucker” (<—moniker
bestowed by my husband), Fred LeBaron, is on a plethora of people’s bucket
lists for a reason, and that reason is; he can make a girl feel beautiful
inside and out by just smiling at her and saying her name, and he’s one of the
most genuinely good-hearted people anyone can ever hope to meet. Plus, he
really IS swagalicious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* I somehow completely missed out on knowing that Madison
Seidler was there. (Asshole item #3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* If you have to share a table, share one with Erin Noelle.
She’s super sweet and doesn’t look at you like you’re an escaped mental patient
when your shit totally overflows onto her side. Bonus points for sharing a name
with not one, but two of my minions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Sharing a 15 minute taxi ride with Sandi Lynn told me that
she’s truly a first class lady who puts her family ahead of what she wants, and
her generosity of spirit is something to aspire to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Even if I’m on my best-ish behavior, Lindsay Sparkes will
still blame me when the fire trucks and ambulances show up. (It wasn’t my
fault, I SWEAR!!!!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Beth Ehleman is a kick in the pants and also puts the Tooth
Fairy to shame. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> * When Shelly White
Collins gets her fangirl on for you, it makes you feel like a legitimate
celebrity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Tarryn Fisher really is as gorgeous as her pictures make her
look.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Every time you see her, Happy Driggs is happy. Like, all the
fucking time. It’s not natural.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Barbie Bohrman will try to get you to spill super secret
details about your WIP. And you’ll be uber-tempted to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* When it comes to NO Mardi Gras beads, CSI does NOT stand for
Crime Scene Investigator so make sure you read all the beads carefully before
you get home and present them to your 13-year-old aspiring forensic medical
examiner as a souvenir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* In New Orleans, Arby’s is open until 4am on Saturdays. Thank
GOD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* A $1 bottle of Dr. Pepper will cost $4 at the airport.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Regardless of others’ success, I can’t pull this shit off so
I should NEVER take selfies OR make the duck face. EVER.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* I have some of THE most phenomenal readers ever and some of
them, like Laura Agra, will bend over backwards for you, giving new meaning to
what a diehard GYP fan is. (Everyone who was lucky enough to get in on the
Bacon chocolate chip cookies and bourbon caramels, you all have Laura to
thank!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* When you fly home on a sold out flight that is making 2
other stops after yours, it’s not impossible that you’ll end up having to take
the last seat available and squeezing in between 2 rather large men in the very
back of the plane, who also happen to be a super nice gay couple who literally only
live 5 miles from you and take their dogs to the same dog park that you take
yours to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">if you're a member of #TeamGYP on FB, wear your wristband to the signing & show me—this will demonstrate to the world how utterly cool and fashionable you are (live entry)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-size: large;">Oh and for those attending the NOLA event, be sure to take part in the "Name Jenn's Voodoo Doll Contest"!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">New Orleans... The Big Easy and reportedly the most haunted city in America. So yeah, of course I'm excited about participating in a book signing there! And because I'm so excited, I want all of YOU to be as well! So, to that end, I have a little incentive for EVERYONE, including my #TeamGYP members, those of you coming to see me, and those who sadly can't make it this time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Up for grabs is the above pictured swag collection and maybe one or two other goodies not shown. Rafflecopter is <strike>coming soon</strike> posted below, but because of their nature, not all opportunities to enter will be available that way, and just so that you have a heads up, entries will be in the form of things like Tweeting about the giveaway and sharing it on FB, coming to my table during the signing, following me on Twitter and liking my FB page, being a *current member of the #TeamGYP group on FB, leaving Amazon reviews for GYP books, wearing your #TeamGYP wristband to the signing and showing it to me, purchasing books at the signing, answering trivia questions about the GYP books and yours truly correctly, stalking me in NOLA outside of the signing and worshipping at my not really dainty feet, etc...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The giveaway will begin some time on Thursday, roughly around the time my plane touches down in New Orleans, and it'll run until approximately until Tuesday morning—this will give all you Broncos and Seahawks fans time to stop cussing each other out like little bitches after Sunday's big game so that you can write all kinds of beautifully glowing things about me and my genius on Amazon if you haven't already done so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, are you excited yet?!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You should be. There's some epic shit in this prize and if you don't get excited and play along, the spirits of New Orleans will haunt your lame asses for eternity. I promise. I was given an authentic NOLA voodoo doll for Christmas and I'm not afraid to use it!!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small;">See? I told you, this bitch is real. I should probably come up with a name for her, though, huh? Maybe I'll hold another contest to name her. Hmm... ;-)</span><br />
<span style="color: #45818e; font-size: small;">*UPDATE: ^^This is SO happening! Stop by my table at the signing for details and to enter, and for you #TeamGYP members, you're gonna have the chance to get in on this shit too, but we'll talk about that later and in the group. ;-) *</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There’s no possible way I can cram all the amazing of an
entire year into one single albeit lengthy blogpost—I mean so many incredible people were met,
new friendships forged, and buckets of awesome things happened, so not even
trying to name everyone I’ve met and/or owe sloppy kisses of gratitude to this
past year, and include pictures of awesome shit like my eldest minion's first college football game, the shark hat I was given and wore during SOoW Shark Week Shenanigans, the BACON cookies and brownies I was sent, Jenn Sterling randomly twerking, or Tara Sivec's breasts overflowing with cash, and leaving out the many automobiles that came and went from our
garage due to Dave’s suspected car buying addiction, I’m gonna try to hit the
highlights if I can, starting with a year ago January...</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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oldest minion turned 16. SIX-FUCKING-TEEN. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbnfuiq7WY1DLiuUi81bCrF0ljwWny8ZJ-al-KLwuXBzOKRAe678D-4RynBVV_Ra9LbHE25fG9-j0rXWDO66ULH5y2AQhyphenhyphenl-fPETVYO3At5iy2TNU0ReYB_DfbDMVhGKkIxfyMENZNCzU/s1600/IMG_3257.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbnfuiq7WY1DLiuUi81bCrF0ljwWny8ZJ-al-KLwuXBzOKRAe678D-4RynBVV_Ra9LbHE25fG9-j0rXWDO66ULH5y2AQhyphenhyphenl-fPETVYO3At5iy2TNU0ReYB_DfbDMVhGKkIxfyMENZNCzU/s200/IMG_3257.JPG" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">Yes, I realize that this also means the
girl who’s currently getting her groove on to “Little Brown Ants” by The
Wiggles for fuck’s sake will be turning 17 very soon here, but I have 2 whole
days left to swim in the river denial and I plan to do just that until Saturday rolls around and I have to sing the dirge of Happy
Birthday to my baby who’s growing up way too fast, but we couldn't be more thrilled to watch her as she does it. We also found out that in her
16 years, she’s developed a deadly allergy to peanuts, making yet one more
thing I’ve written about in fiction become a reality in my life. Our middle
minion followed in her older sister’s footsteps and became a cheerleader, we
said goodbye to our beloved, 16-year-old cat, Chloe, and Dave and I celebrated
our 17th wedding anniversary, which obviously means we’re coming up on 18 years
of wedded bliss, and all I can say is, holy shit. Who knew a dare could last
this long?! Oh, and what happens in Vegas, doesn’t necessarily stay there, just
FYI...we’re clearly living proof.</span><br />
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girls and I saw P!nk in concert, and if you haven’t had the pleasure, I highly
recommend seeing one of her shows live. She’s a phenomenal performer. We also
ventured home to San Diego for a Friday the 13th/President’s Weekend of
shenanigans and fun spent with our cousins and the Fair Glen Crew, where
Karen’s house became the site of one of the biggest non-summer camp sleepovers
in the history of ever. February also saw Shark Bait getting a facelift, going
from a homemade cover featuring a rubber ducky to one that was professionally
designed and GYP branded by a chick I’m blessed to now call friend.</span><br />
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stocking up on cinnamon and tuna for our previously forgotten about imaginary
4th daughter, Gracie. We made another trip back to San Diego so that Alison
could attend Valhalla’s Sweethearts dance with her lifelong friend, Tyler, who’s
cool & mysterious factor of course went up several notches for importing
his date and keeping her a secret until they walked in together. He was
apparently also voted by the varsity baseball team as having the hottest date
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always, April was filled with celebrating, and this year we not only celebrated
the births of Davey and Faith, who finally became an official teenager and celebrated her birth with a movies in the pool party (we couldn't find a copy of JAWS, so she and 2 dozen or more of her friends settled for Sinister), but also my second published book in the Grab Your
Pole series, The Other Fish in the Sea, was released, hitting Amazon’s Top 100 in 3 genres
within the first 2 days of publication. In our month of celebrating, we also partied it
up and wished the husband and father of our military family a safe and as
boring as possible 8 month deployment to Iraq.</span></div>
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kidlet, Erin, was inducted into the National Junior Honors Society for the
first time, while Faith was re-inducted, and Alison gained entrance into the
National Honors Society, and I also shed joyous tears in a moment with a dear friend in baring witness to her graduating high school amongst much pomp and circumstance. My entire family joined with the cousins once again
to spend a fabulous time at the river over Mother’s Day weekend, where Alison
drove a jet-ski for the first time, Faith and Erin along with the boys covered themselves
in mud like strips of pre-Bacon, and I went to work on editing and putting the
finishing touches on GYP#3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">May also brought with it the flurry of excitement
of being nominated and voted into being able to participate in the YA
Sisterhood’s 2013 YA Crush Tourney, which is an incredible honor and where I
was given the blessing of not only having all 4 of my fictional boys be
nominated in every category that they were eligible for, but also seeing
Tristan make the tournament and even win his first round. That event also gave
me some amazing new friends, both in the bookish world and real.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">June:</span></b> <span style="font-size: large;">My youngest
turned 12 in June, giving her dad and I just one last year before our home is
filled entirely with teenage girls. We also welcomed into our family, Kripke
and Buffy, sister kittens who’ve thus far provided us with many, “awww, they’re
just so stinkin’ cute” moments and a few, “oh my God, you’re making me fucking
crazy” ones as well. Also in the birthday world, my first published novel,
Shark Bait, celebrated its first birthday among some blogosphere fan-fare and
hoopla, which lead to conversations taking place in Orlando, Florida at Book
Bash where I <i>wasn’t</i> in attendance, but where my writing was notably recognized by an industry professional at Atria, a publishing division of one of the Big 7 Publishing Houses, Simon & Schuster, which of course had me blushing profusely behind my computer screen and inwardly screaming and doing the Snoopy happy dance on mental tables where I was at home reading the enthusiastic and overwhelmingly positive emails from the aforementioned editor.</span><br />
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GYP series was felt to be a little too YA for Atria’s list, their enthusiasm
and interest brought a jaw-dropping development in my professional life
anyway...literary representation by one of the foremost literary agencies in
the business, Dystel & Goderich, who represent some of the biggest and
brightest new names in contemporary fiction such as Colleen Hoover, Abbi
Glines, Jamie McGuire, and Tara Sivec, just to name a few. July also saw the
highly anticipated publication of my third novel in the Grab Your Pole series,
Shark Out of Water, which hit Amazon’s Top 100 in multiple genres before the
sun even went down on its release day, and yet one more trip back to San Diego
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<span style="font-size: large;">We attended Discount Tire's annual Rising Starr event and banquet (this year's theme was sports, where all the children of employees are recognized for the their academic achievements of the past school year with awards including trophies, backpacks for the coming year, cash, and t-shirts. After that and all set to go, the girls
went back to school; Alison a junior, Faith a top-dog eighth grader, and Erin
in seventh, and the month was relatively quiet with all of us settling back
into our regular routines. That is until I received an email that sparked a
stressed out frenzy of excitement and frenetic designing of and ordering bookish
swag along with dozens of print copies of my books for the event that was
suddenly coming up the next month, and what I really could’ve used more than
the 3 short weeks I had to plan for.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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First. Author Event. Oh my God, I can’t even begin to describe what an
incredible experience my first book-signing event was. To make it even more
epic, I finally got to lick <a href="http://www.tarasivec.com/" target="_blank">Tara Sivec</a>, one of my first real beta-readers, a
best-selling author, friend, and all around fantastic person. In addition to
finally meeting Tara in person, I got to squeeze <a href="http://experimentinterror.com/" target="_blank">Karina Halle</a> (yes, she’s just
as beautiful in real life as she is in pictures), as well as hang out and most
importantly, eat, drink, and be merry with some of my favorite book bloggers and
readers; people like Ali from <a href="http://ginger-read.blogspot.com/?zx=633b4491154c4613" target="_blank">Ginger-read</a>, Janice from the <a href="http://www.thedemonlibrarian.com/" target="_blank">Demon Librarian</a>,
Laura of <a href="http://littlereadridinghood.com/" target="_blank">Little Read</a>, and my loveable Megan of <a href="http://readingbookslikeaboss.com/" target="_blank">Reading Books Like A Boss</a>, and
of course Emily, Brenna, and Stephanie, all people who’ve become cherished
friends in my everyday life. I also got to meet a the very sweet <a href="http://www.theoccasionalist.com/" target="_blank">Trish Brinkley</a>
who organized the event among others, and I got to know several other incredibly
talented and best selling authors such as fellow 7th Ring inhabitants as <a href="http://www.aljacksonauthor.com/" target="_blank">AL Jackson</a>, who’s new
book “Come To Me Quietly” is releasing in freaking Target stores on my
anniversary this January 7th (so you know where I’ll be...) and <a href="http://chelseafinebooks.com/" target="_blank">Chelsea Fine</a>
who has THE cutest shoes and the greatest sense of style ever and I think has a
closet crush on Giles from BtVS. Other authors I was finally able to meet
face-to-face included <a href="http://www.helenboswell.com/" target="_blank">Helen Boswell</a>, <a href="http://www.rainemiller.com/" target="_blank">Raine Miller</a>, <a href="http://www.katieashleybooks.com/" target="_blank">Katie Ashley</a>, <a href="http://jasindawilder.com/#&panel1-1" target="_blank">JasindaWilder</a>, <a href="http://jessicasorensensblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jessica Sorensen</a>, and <a href="http://aleatharomig.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Aleatha Romig</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the</i> yummiest food and sheer epic company, the best meal of my 2013 has
to go to dinner at the Arrogant Butcher with my bitch, Tara, <a href="http://writing.jennster.com/" target="_blank">Jenn Sterling</a>, who
is an all-out riot even when no one is watching, <a href="http://jilliandodd.net/" target="_blank">Jillian Dodd</a> who might be one
of the most business savvy and kindest people I’ve met, and <a href="http://www.authoramandabennett.com/" target="_blank">Amanda Bennett</a> who
has a smile that matches her personality and can light up a room like the
fourth of July. Not only that, but just simply being able to meet some of the
people who’ve read my work and thank them in person was just...mind blowing.
And, it made what I do very REAL for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every single time someone would stop
by my table and tell me they read one or all of my books and couldn’t wait for
the signing so they could meet me was just such an incredibly humbling
experience that I’m getting weepy simply remembering it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">September also
included another homecoming dance and the addition of a new boyfriend for my
eldest child, and at the time of this writing, they’re still together and going
strong.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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tour and I celebrated my Hitchhiker Birthday by getting my 6th piece of mobile
art, that would coincidentally end up taking 6 hours to be permanently inked
onto my body, causing other customers who would come and go during the duration
of my time in the chair to say things like, “Wow, you’re getting it all done in
one sitting? You’re badass!” I don’t know about that, but I’m definitely in
love with what I did on a whim and am happy that I gave myself a gift that’ll
keep on giving (I'll get a picture up of it all completed at some point I'm sure) and following it up with eating an entire red velvet cake by myself while watching a marathon of Supernatural. Another gift given in October that’s still giving on a daily
basis is the Siberian Husky puppy, Cuda (Barracuda abbreviated to save space),
that I gave Dave as an early Christmas present. With that, I think I’m exempt from
giving him gifts for the rest of our marriage, as his precious angel leaves us
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mBedtrIBk-FcKT_3JdAmf6lbyqf9iYtJe_RHBqH5vZUwpU4M4tLHSc4pzZUpsABULgA7fA_y-z5SVuI-SjvI06othvgxC90vObW2_2BLqioxjzuHHuJKn6QJW2PmR6We6SGjKqF3A90/s1600/IMG_3051.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mBedtrIBk-FcKT_3JdAmf6lbyqf9iYtJe_RHBqH5vZUwpU4M4tLHSc4pzZUpsABULgA7fA_y-z5SVuI-SjvI06othvgxC90vObW2_2BLqioxjzuHHuJKn6QJW2PmR6We6SGjKqF3A90/s200/IMG_3051.PNG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">It was another somewhat quiet month; if you don’t count life, the bookish giveaways I was honored to be a part of, the pre-release screening of Catching Fire that I was lucky enough to get tickets for the girls and me to attend, the antics of the puppy colliding with those of the kittens, welcoming our friend home safe and sound from his many months in a war zone and celebrating his daughter’s first birthday, house guests in the form of Karen and John who joined us for Thanksgiving this year, Black Friday shopping, and me jumping back into the writing game with a brand spanking new book that I hope to finish and subsequently release some time in 2014.</span></div>
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climbing and making our Christmas tree their preferred play place, Faith
incredibly setting the bar even higher than years past with being voted VP of
her school, President of NJHS, maintaing a regular position on Principal’s list for straight As,
and now being named a school Hero by her peers yet again, more shopping and
family coming together filled the month of December.</span><br />
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the first-ever #TeamGYP Secret Santa gift exchange and on a much more tear-stained
note, the news of cancer wreaking havoc in the lives of loved ones was
excruciatingly prevalent. The mother of one of my most favorite people in the
world is now home and recovering from her double mastectomy, but others haven’t
been as fortunate and they’re either still coping and desperately clinging to
hope, or have had to say their heartrending goodbyes to those who were called
home. For one family, hope is about as far away as the East is to the West and
2014 will no doubt bring about absolute and utter heartbreak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For information
on how you might be able to help them make it through the coming year, a year
that unlike most of us who are looking forward to it, won’t be bringing 2015 or
a happily ever after to a twelve year old girl, please either contact me by
email at contactjenncooksey (at) gmail (dot) com or message me on FB, and keep
your eyes peeled for a FB fundraiser event that I’m hoping to put together in
the next week or so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-79153390308262577662013-09-10T18:31:00.000-07:002013-09-10T19:03:29.534-07:00Because I Feel Like Giving Shit Away<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was in a deep, dark funk earlier and talking with a friend who endeavored to pull me out of it, and so I've decided to capitalize on her success of cheering me up by doing a giveaway! I mean really, I'm a gift giver by nature so I figure a completely spontaneous giveaway that will go until the end of September will keep me smiling until the Best. Month. Ever. rolls around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All you have to do to enter is read Shark Bait, leave an HONEST review for it on Amazon when you're finished, and then copy the link to your review into the Rafflecopter below.</span><br />
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Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-41831343136891244302013-08-26T12:54:00.001-07:002013-08-27T07:25:48.901-07:00My FIRST-EVER Author Event!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll be at the Renaissance in Phoenix Arizona with a SLEW of other amazing authors so if you haven't already gotten your ticket, please visit <span style="color: #990000;"><a href="http://theoccasionalist.com/signingEvent/info/10" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">Phoenix Author Signing</span></a> </span>to register!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now here's some exciting news! The print editions of Shark Bait (new cover) and The Other Fish in the Sea are almost available for purchase!! I'm currently awaiting the proof copies and once I confirm them, I will be placing my order for the signing event. Be advised though, I will only be bringing a limited amount of copies to sign at the event, so for a very short time, I'm taking pre-orders for those attending the signing! The pre-order price for each book will be $10.00 and the vintage edition of Shark Bait (old cover, which will no longer be available after the new cover goes up), will be $11.00. Keep in mind, these are discounted prices for pre-orders only!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember, these discounted prices are for <u><b>event attendees only</b></u> and will only be available until <b>THIS</b> Thursday, so for those who are planning to come see me in a few weeks and want to ensure you get signed books, place your orders NOW! To do that, email me at contactjenncooksey(at)gmail(dot)com with your order and what time slot you're registered for, and I'll email you back with how to pay using Pay Pal. Once your payment has been received, I will include your order to mine which will be placed no later than Friday morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's not really a secret that I'm horrible at blogging, but if there was a support group or AA thing for bloggers that I could join, this is how I would have to introduce myself:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Hi, I'm Jenn. I'm an author and I suck at blogging."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then I'd hang my head in shame while giving the following supporting evidence...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't have design skills and HTML and I are not friends even in the loosest terms, I don't know how to link back to other blogs aside from inserting a hyperlink in a post, I don't know how to follow via RSS feed (or even know what an RSS feed is exactly) and I have yet to actually sit down to utilize that nifty little blog roll thing in my blogger dashboard that tells me what blogs I follow and then READ those blogs, that is, if I actually remembered to follow them when I stumbled upon them in the first place. But worst of all, I don't regularly write my own blogposts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I know. I feel so inadequate and ashamed of myself. I don't know that I've ever really taken myself seriously as a blogger because I've always considered myself to be an author first, but the fact remains, I'm a professional <b>writer</b>. Writers write and blogging can be just as important and gratifying as publishing a book. That's why I've decided to make a change, but I need some help. Starting in September I'm going to take on the challenge of becoming a better blogger by reading other blogs AND posting on a regular basis. Here's where you come in... Some of my ideas are participating in regular features like Top 10 Tuesday posts and easy-peasy stuff like that, but I'd also like to support and engage more with the reader/author/blogger world by conducting regular interviews with book bloggers, authors, and plain ol' regular readers—anyone and everyone in the bookish community actually.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I'm asking from all of you is to let me know if you're interested in being interviewed by me on my blog (if you're an author or blogger I'll feature either your blog or your latest writing project as well as any giveaways you have going on at the time, and if there isn't one, we can set one up if desired, etc...), and if you're a non-blogging, non-writing reader or someone else in the literary community like a cover artist, editor, or agent, I'll figure something out for you guys to make it worth your time, like maybe an e-book from your wishlist or some such thing. I'd also like to hear what kinds of things you want to know from people. It's doubtful that many people really care to know what someone's favorite color is, and I think I'd like to get a little more insight into who makes up our beloved world of books, so let me know the kinds of things you'd ask if you could.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's it! Either comment here or email me [contactjenncooksey(at)gmail(dot)com] to express your interest and/or let me know the things you'd like to know about folks! And if you have anyone you'd like to see interviewed, feel free to let me know who they are and how they can be contacted and I'll see what I can do!</span><br />
<br />Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-60861343752266525702013-08-15T11:50:00.000-07:002013-08-15T11:52:06.822-07:00I suck, I know, but in my defense...<span style="font-size: large;">My apologies if I've seemed distracted, uncommunicative, or simply non-existent the last several days. I'm not intentionally ignoring anyone, I promise. I know I have emails, texts, and personal messages to read and probably respond to as well as a bunch of bookish tasks and obligations to see through, but in my defense, shit has been rather chaotic and emotionally draining the last couple of weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, <i>Shark Out of Water</i>, book 3 in the Grab Your Pole series and possibly my fave book ever, finally released after having the writing of it completed for about 2 years. I can't tell you all how elated I am that you can all read that book now and possibly share my feelings of love for it, although I will admit to having a certain amount of "Ha! Take that, bitches. You all can suck it" sentiments drifting through my head when I think of the many "I hate you, you evil bitch monster from hell" reactions there were to the ending of TOFitS. Sorry, but it's true.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then my three minions went back to school. That in itself has my world in a topsy-turvey sort of upheaval. (God, I almost miss homeschooling...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next let me explain what is atypical but has had a hand in my flakiness of late and that is that my husband and I drove for hours and spent a day saying farewell to a man who lived an incredible life and will be dearly missed by people across the globe, for he touched the lives of so very many. I went straight to bed once we got home and the following morning I learned of the shocking passing of my next door neighbor, another great man, husband and father who left us Monday evening. His wife is not only a neighbor and friend, but she works at the school two of my minions go to and she's one of my big GYP fans too. I read the news, made one phone call, and set my coffee on the counter without having taken more than a few sips of it, and then with unbrushed hair and teeth and in my jammies, I padded barefoot across the property line and the rocks in the front yard to give my friend a hug. Her adult daughter whom I hadn't met prior answered the door and when I asked if her mom was home she sort of looked at me askew and said something to the effect of, "Mom, there's a [crazy] barefooted woman in pajamas here to see you." Yeah, I really know how to make a first impression, huh? I must because her mom answered something like, "Oh, it must be Jenn..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that's what's been happening in the real world and although I would love to not be affected by events such as those by maybe living on a deserted tropical island or be able to say that they're the product of my imagination, they're sometimes painfully real and there's no hiding from life and its counterpart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In moving on in my excuse for being anti-social and the sucky friend that I am, I'll just go ahead and admit that my head has also been off in other planes of reality, which is what tends to happen when writer me gets a vague new story idea in her head—I spend countless hours in bed in that semi-conscious, dreamlike state of being, watching the idea evolve and seeing scenes play out, indistinct at first until they're solid and tangible enough for me to grasp onto and put what I see into words. Then comes the massive amount of time I spend mentally working out the details of how, why, and where. Scenario after scenario is dreamt up until I latch onto one I like and feel is workable, but with something so new and fresh, establishing a connection with the characters and story takes buckets of time for me to do effectively. So, if I'm not around much in the next few weeks, just think of it as my way of easing you all into my more complete absence when I'm able to go back to the GYP world full bore, because even though that world is developed and I know the characters inside and out, I've spent almost a year away from living in the GYP gang's world so there will most definitely be a period of getting reacquainted with everyone and reestablishing the intimacy I once had with them, which will take time and as few distractions as feasibly possible, which means little to no facebooking, tweeting, and blogging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And in closing, just a little heads up for all of you; last night I followed through with a challenge I accepted back in May that came via a humbling invitation to take part in something very unique and special, but although I completed my assignment on time, I failed utterly and epically in keeping myself from spewing less than a few hundred written words. Shocker, right? Thus I don't know if my contribution will pass muster and ultimately be included, or if I'll be asked to edit the fuck out of it or write something entirely new, but regardless, the blogosphere has an uber-fun and entertaining treat coming this Saturday which I'll encourage you all to read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In any event, now that I'm sort of back in the real world for a bit, I'll try to be better about keeping up with everyone, and if I fail yet again, please know that I'm not ignoring you intentionally and understand that it's not you, it's me. I hope we can still be friends... :-p</span>Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-39788728325050746152013-08-09T14:49:00.000-07:002013-08-09T14:57:24.656-07:00Sex in YA — Part 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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been talking about sex in YA this week, and specifically about how it applies
to the Grab Your Pole series thus far. In this post I want to discuss the
actual writing of sex in a Mature YA book, or rather, how and why I’ve written
it the way I have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">For anyone
who’s read my work, it’s most likely apparent that the Grab Your Pole series is
hugely character driven. With that in mind, let’s look quickly at <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shark Bait</i>, the first book in the GYP
series. Aside from some expositional conversation implicating that certain
characters were doing it, there really wasn’t a whole lot of sexual situations
written about. Why? Well, mostly it’s because of the POV the book was being
told from. The narrator if you will of that story was just getting her feet wet
in that she was new to...well, pretty much everything, as was the reader. She
and the reader were just getting to know each other and everyone else, which
takes some time to do. So while the topic of sex may have been a driving force
in terms of conflict between characters, it was in no way the over arcing theme
or plot of the story. It was just simply one of many elements used in setting
the scene and developing the characters. Relationships were observed, conversations
were had, situations were presented and subsequently handled, all going towards
establishing the learning curve for one character and the growth and
development of the others through which the reader was hopefully able to
establish a connection with each one; to begin to know them personally as they
know themselves and each other.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Other Fish in the Sea</i>, book 2 of the
series, that foundation is still being built and character development is
considerably furthered, but in addition to that, the reader gets to know a few of
the other characters more intimately through POV shifts. True, there were only
a few shifts, but they each gave insight into another character’s mind as well
as the opportunity for seeing the other characters from a different point of
view; helping the reader to connect a bit more and on a different level to a
somewhat large ensemble cast. So because the bulk of that book was still being told
by the original new girl with not a lot of sexual experience, there were few
opportunities to bring in the actual act of sex, as the written depiction of
the characters who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">were</i> having sex in
that book didn’t go to furthering their character development, meaning that
there was no need to describe in detail those specific characters getting their
jollies; just knowing they’re doing it, who they’re doing it with, and/or why
they’re doing it was enough and to add in the details of their experience
would’ve been somewhat superfluous and wouldn’t have advanced the story being
told at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">However,
when it came down to the innocent making progress on the sexual learning scale,
I got a little more descriptive simply because it was necessary. To gloss over
those first experiences of the lead voice and the events and decisions that led
up to them would have taken away from not only the connection between her and
the reader, but it would’ve also hindered the growth and development of both
her and the characters she was interacting with. But here again, depicting a
sexual act in detail—graphic or otherwise—from the point of view of an innocent
was unnecessary and quite frankly, I believe to do so would’ve been unrealistic
and could’ve even compromised the integrity of the character’s voice, because
that’s not who the reader had come to know her as. Sure, there were a couple of
instances where it could possibly be said that I got a little graphic, but it
wasn’t the innocent doing the detailing our outlining in any of those moments;
she was more or less a conduit and through her the voices of other characters
was heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">When it
comes to the third book in the Grab Your Pole series however, all bets are off.
Why is that? Again, it’s simply due to POV. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shark
Out of Water</i> is told entirely from the points of view belonging to the GYP
guys. And even if you haven’t read a single book in the series yet, I’m sure
you’ve guessed that some of these guys are far from innocent. Now although it’s
true what Autumn mentioned in a comment on Part 1 of this blog series—an author
has more freedom in a Mature YA or NA novel than in a true YA book—I still feel
the need to be careful. I understand that readers (adult readers especially)
understand and see the need for sex to be incorporated into these books and many
also want to read it happen; to experience it vicariously as the characters do,
but again, I’m not writing a How-To book, so it’s my belief that I need to walk
a fine line when writing from a sexually experienced character’s point of view.
And with regard to a specific character in the GYP series, that line is
sometimes razor thin...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">There was
one small-ish section in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shark Out of
Water</i> that when I originally wrote it, I didn’t just put a toe over that
line; I did a fuckin’ triple lindy over it. Although I didn’t personally object
to it per se, I rewrote it and cleaned it up a smidge. Then, after more than a year
later, while thinking about it and feeling more comfortable with letting the
character be free to be himself, I rewrote it again, but this time I ramped it
up. I also, however, left out some of what was there originally, as I honestly
did and still do feel the original details weren’t called for and had they been
re-added, they wouldn’t have done a single thing for his character development
or the reader’s connection with him. What was published though absolutely did,
and it also is now probably one of my favorite “scenes” in the third book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now
although I had the freedom and ability when writing the specific act of sex in
the third book to be more detailed in the physical sense and to make it hot and
steamy, I still veered away from really and truly doing so. And not because I
don’t have the skill or because I’m uncomfortable writing a steamy scene,
because trust me, I do and I have, and anyone who cares to keep reading this
series will probably raise an eyebrow, shift in their seat, and maybe even feel
like pulling at their collar a few times before all is said and done. However,
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shark Out of Water</i> I simply chose
to go the other route and put the focus during sex where it was appropriate for
the specific characters and where they were specifically in the story at that
time. In other words, I put the focus on the emotion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">I mean
let’s be honest here, you don’t have to be reading pumping, pounding, and
probing or even a moderately graphic sex scene to get worked up; when done
well, even a simple kiss can be written to leave a reader panting, and although
that might indeed be the outcome of some scenes I’ve written both already read
and as of yet unread, getting the reader all hot and bothered wasn’t my aim in
this particular book. My goal was to get across to the reader the depth of
emotion experienced between two characters during an act of sexual intimacy,
because that was what was right for them and the story at that moment. Not
because they aren’t turned on and hot for each other in every way, but rather
their journey and development thus far has been more on the emotional
waterfront with the physical aspect of sex simply providing a platform if you
will for them to accrue emotional growth because without it, they either
regress or worse, become stagnant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">So in a
nutshell, I feel as though sex is mandated by these characters to be there and
it’s hugely important overall even though sex isn’t necessarily a plot point of
the series. Could I have written the Grab Your Pole series without sex and all
it encompasses being so prevalent? Sure. However, I sincerely doubt that it
would be even remotely realistic. Could I have written certain scenes to be
more graphic and hot? Of course, although to do so, while probably fun for me
and the reader alike, it would’ve just been writing gratuitous sex for the sake
of gratuitous sex. That said, I personally feel as though I hit a happy medium,
and it’s my belief that the addition of sexual situations, innuendos,
interludes, and the actual act of sex itself being written in the different
ways I’ve chosen to depict it in this series thus far furthers the growth and
development of the characters, it helps to more firmly establish the reader’s
connection with the individual characters as they read and learn about the GYP
gang on a more personal level; the whys and wherefores of a character’s
motivation for being who they are, and most importantly, it’s my belief that
sex advances the story as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">So now you
know why I wrote some of the things I wrote into the Grab Your Pole series and
why I wrote them the way I did, but now I’m curious so I have a few
questions...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">1) Do you
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reading a GYP book did you ever feel as though you were left wanting due to
lack of detail and/or was there a time when you thought, “Wait...what the fuck
is she thinking writing that? Kids are gonna be reading this shit for Christ’s
sake!”?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">3) How
many of you zeroed in on the implication that might’ve left you not caring
about the rest of this blogpost, but instead has you either scared to death or foaming
at the mouth to see how I might possibly turn up the GYP heat? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Optima;">(Sex in YA Parts <a href="http://jenncooksey.blogspot.com/2013/08/sex-in-ya-part-1.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">1</span></a> and <a href="http://jenncooksey.blogspot.com/2013/08/sex-in-ya-part-2.html" style="color: #990000;" target="_blank">2</a>) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Alright,
so now that <a href="http://jenncooksey.blogspot.com/2013/08/sex-in-ya-part-1.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">part 1 of Sex in YA</span></a> has helped us to firmly establish what genre
the Grab Your Pole series actually falls into—okay, so it’s more like a
befuddled uncertainty still, so for the sake of this post let’s just split the
difference and say the GYP series is mature young adult—now we can better
discuss the good stuff. The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sex</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">In this
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a series of books primarily aimed at high school-aged teens. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Teens are being
exposed to sex in some way everywhere, whether it’s on a TV commercial, in a
movie, a sitcom, a joke, a magazine, the news, at school (i.e., the teaching of <i>Romeo
& Juliet</i>, <i>The Scarlet Letter</i> and the like), on a
street corner, or on the radio etc... Here’s a fun little tid-bit of useless
information for you, I have 58 songs in my music library alone with the word
sex in the title. That’s just in the title; it’s not counting album titles or
what a song is actually about. And, most of those songs have been or currently
are being played by popular radio stations everywhere. So, unless they’re being
continually and consistently monitored or live like the Amish (which I have no
problem with—they’re your kids, raise ‘em how you see fit) teens are being
inundated by sex. And guess what, whether they're in a mature relationship that
can honestly withstand the added pressure and complication that sex adds and
whether they should be or not, and regardless of whether or not it’s
condoned by parents or their religious beliefs, many teens are having sex.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">If you’ve
read my stuff, you know that I’m not one to really pussyfoot around with the
reality of things like that, but I also feel that for a story about more or
less average high school teenagers to be realistic, sex has gotta be there.
Somewhere. Because the fact of the matter is, if a teen isn’t already doing it,
they’re most likely thinking about it in some way even if it’s in the abstract,
and sooner or later, they’re going to be faced with having to make a decision.
And let’s not forget, the GYP series is just that. A <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">series</b>. It’s not a standalone book in which a moderately short
story of only a couple of characters is told. That said, it also features a rather large
cast of characters, a couple of whom sort of dictate the protocol here as it
pertains to sex just by simply being who they are, and you’ve all heard the
term birds of a feather, right? Well, chances are that a person is going to be
likeminded with the group of friends they’re closest to, so if a good handful
of friends are doing it, it probably won’t be long before the others who aren’t,
are. Of course that’s a generalization and not all BFFs are gonna be of the “if
my friends jump off a cliff, I will too” mindset. All I’m saying is that it’s
more typical than not that close friends are going to be on the same page when
it comes to activities and behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">So sex is
everywhere and a lot of teens are celebrating hump day – check – sex is relevant
and prevalent. Sex also sells though and people <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">want</i> to see it and read about it. Although that might be true, by
including sex in this particular series of books it is not my intention to up
my sales <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or</i> write a How To manual for
underage horndogs. It <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> my intention
however to make the series relatable to a wider range of readers (hello, I’m
perfectly aware that most of my readers are long past their high school years)
while also incorporating a variety of very real hot topic buttons for teen
readers and parents to ponder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">As it is
one of those hot topic buttons I write about, teens might not know how to
broach the subject of sex with their parents or have another reliable, mature,
and trustworthy source they feel close enough to discuss it with, and there are
more parents out there than you might realize who don’t quite know how to talk
to their children about it either. Many parents have the fear that their teen
will either shut them out, become secretive and/or rebellious, or simply not
listen or take their parent seriously, and I cannot tell you how many friends
of my teens have personally told me how lucky they think my girls are to have
parents like my husband and me because they could <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">never</i> talk to their mom or dad about the stuff my kids feel
comfortable talking to us about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now I
fully admit that aside from being a parent myself and having survived my teen
years relatively unscathed, I am not an expert nor am I a trained guidance
counselor and what I might say on the subject certainly shouldn’t be taken as
professional advice, but by portraying realistic teen relationships and the
relationships fictional parents have with their teens, I feel as though a
possible jumping off point of discussion might be provided for use in real life
application. If nothing else, readers can at least see what some plausible
outcomes and effects certain decisions on sex can have in a young person’s
life. Now that’s not to say that I believe parents should adopt any one of the
GYP parents’ style of parenting or that teens should use this series of books
as a model when it comes to making their own life choices, just that in the
books XYZ happened, this is how so-and-so handled it, and _____ was the result.
Whether that handling is right or wrong, or the outcome could’ve been something
else entirely is neither here nor there; it’s just one of many possibilities to
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">So what’s
your take on it? Is the depiction of main characters having sex in YA books
such as the Grab Your Pole series warranted or do you feel as though it goes
more to encouraging and condoning teen sex? And please, I understand this might
be a touchy subject for some and no one should feel as though their morals or
parenting styles are being called into question by participating in what I’m
hoping will be a (non-spoilery) discussion, so let’s not incite a riot with
nasty or judgmental comments. And not that I think anyone who might happen by
this particular blog would actually be disrespectful to me or another
commenter, but just so everyone knows, any and all such comments will be
deleted summarily so play nice. And don’t forget to check back for Sex in YA Part
3, where I’ll get into the actual writing of the deed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-66111646521724419522013-08-05T00:00:00.000-07:002013-08-05T00:00:08.792-07:00Sex in YA — Part 1<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Just a little theme music...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">This is a
subject I’ve been wanting to discuss for quite some time and something that’s
recently come up in regard to the Grab Your Pole series and its genre. Herein
lies a problem though; one that needs to be addressed before we can even broach
the subject of sex within the GYP series and its genre, and that problem is:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">What,
exactly, is that genre? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">I’ve been
over that question myriad times with a slew of people including my agent, and
we’ve all come to the same conclusion. We don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">How can
that be? You’re the author for goodness sake, don’t you know what genre your
own books fall into, you ask?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Well, not
necessarily because as it turns out, genre is rather subjective when it comes
to the broader category of young adult. A reader of the GYP series mentioned
that in her writing class it is believed that actual sex between the main
characters doesn’t occur in YA books, but that authors have been seen breaking
that “rule” lately. That’s probably because there is no hard and fast rule as
it pertains to pigeonholing a book into the YA genre. Everyone from authors and
readers to literary agents and publishing houses seem to have their own criteria
for deciding what a title should be listed as. Additionally, the burgeoning
genre of new adult appears to have made for even more smudging of already blurry
lines. Not only that, but depending on the presentation, the criteria isn’t so
black and white as one might think either, all making it tricky to list certain
titles. Titles like mine that fall squarely in the gray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Here, take
a look at some of the criteria many use in determining genre nowadays (Yes, I
said nowadays. Shut up, I’m old.) and maybe you’ll understand what I mean about
the gray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Characters 18 or younger — YA or
NA?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Characters 18 and up — YA or NA?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Characters in high school — YA or
NA?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Characters in college — YA or NA?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Characters having sex — YA or NA?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Strong or adult language — YA or NA?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">The use of drugs and/or alcohol — YA
or NA?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Adult and/or mature life issues
dealt with — YA or NA?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now for
those of you who have read my work, look at that list and how you would
categorize the determining qualifications, and then based on your determined
criteria, where does the Grab Your Pole series fall? By my math the GYP series
falls into NA. BUT, some of those criteria aren’t exactly black and white so depending
on how they’re presented and written in a story, an argument could be made that
with the way I’ve chosen to write the GYP series thus far that it’s more YA
than it is NA. However, for some people the age of the characters weighs
heavier than the other qualifications listed, so it could also be said that
it’s a tie as according to that list.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Do you see
where I’m going with this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">There is
no possible way to stick this particular series of books into a hard and fast genre
that everyone will agree on across the board based on subjective criteria. I’ve
had readers claim the series is very YA. I’ve had readers say the exact
opposite. My agent has said that she would <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">maybe</i>
call it NA, but like others I’ve spoken to, she’s not firm in her position at
the moment either. Personally, I feel like it starts off relatively YA, moves
into mature young adult as the series progresses, and then sort of straddles
the fence but maybe hasn’t <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">quite</i> put
both feet across the thin line into NA yet. Maybe. Because book 3...? Well, it
might be seriously teetering and that’s where maybe comes more heavily into
play. Here again, though, it’s subjective and this is coming from a woman with
friends who wouldn’t let their children watch certain Disney movies like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hercules</i> because it was on the dark and
scary side, but who raised her own child on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Buffy
the Vampire Slayer</i>. A child, mind you, who wholeheartedly wanted to dress
as Buffy for Halloween when she was 3 fucking years old. Let’s just say I tend
to lean towards being less conservative in my opinion on certain subject matter
than others are. Shocker, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">I’m sure there
will be people reading this who *gasp* haven’t read the 3 published books that
make up the Grab Your Pole series thus far, so how about we break it down and
see if we can’t figure this shit out together, okay? We’ll call it teamwork. And
yeah, I’m usually one of those type Z personalities; you know, a lazy kind of
person who can’t seem to manage to do things for herself and would love for
others to step in and take over until her brain explodes because she just
watched someone put a bowl in the top rack of the dishwasher when everyone
should know that bowls always go on the bottom rack, goddamnit, but I’m not
opposed to doing a little teamwork in this case.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">The GYP
gang is made up primarily of 16 to 18 year olds in high school with varying
levels of life experience, but Jillian, who you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">absolutely cannot</i> leave out of the equation here, starts off being
12 in junior high, but turns 13 and goes into high school. She’s obviously by
far the youngest of the gang, but she’s also probably the most <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">aware</i> and mature of them as well. That
in itself poses a conundrum, doesn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Are the
characters drinking and partaking of the occasional recreational drug? You
betcha. Are they talking like most teenagers in high school, vulgarity and
sexual innuendo included? Fuck yes. Have they come up against certain
situations and obstacles in their lives that people usually associate happening
in the lives of adults? Absolutely. Life doesn’t look at a person’s age and
say, “Eh...I don’t know. That one is a little young to have to deal with XYZ. I
think I’ll give him or her another couple of years to learn some more coping
skills.” Yeah, bullshit. It’s more like, “Hey kid! Here comes a tidal wave! Hope
you know how to swim, ‘cuz if you don’t, you’re fucked.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Are some
of the GYP gang members having sex? Duh. Of course they are. Whether parents
and other adults want to admit it, an assload of teens are having sex in high
school. Some of them started when they were in junior high school, and there
are even a few whom, shockingly and sadly, have their first, full-fledged
sexual experience in elementary school. Does that mean that every teenager banged
someone before they could vote or legally buy booze? No, of course not. I’m
just saying, let’s not kid ourselves. Premarital sex amongst teens isn’t a new
trend by any means. Fact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">And then
for kicks, let’s throw in this little bit of trivia: 3 out of the 8 main
characters in the GYP series are 18 by the end of book 3, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shark Out of Water</i>. They’re still in high school, true, but according
to the U.S. Government, they’re old enough to be contracted and paid to commit
murder in the name of freedom and in the protection of our country and all it
holds dear. With that being the unobjectionable truth, I still can’t fathom why
the legal drinking age in most states is 21. I mean if you’re old enough to
legally kill someone while doing your duty for the good ol’ USofA, you should
sure as shit be able to legally buy yourself a goddamned beer afterwards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: 14.0pt;">Alright so
we have a mix of underage and adult-age high school students, who are partying
it up and misspending their youth like many teens have done for centuries and
will continue to do, while at the same time, they’re being confronted with
having to make life choices and being forced to deal with some things even
adults wish they didn’t have to face. They’re making decisions, they’re making
mistakes, they’re learning who they are, what they want out of life and how to
get it. They’re growing up; something that doesn’t happen over the course of a single
birthday, and something that not all “adults” have done yet themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tell me, are the characters in the Grab Your Pole series part of a young adult
story or a new adult story? I know, right? Feel free to talk amongst yourselves
and get back to me with your answer, then join me in the continuation of Sex in YA later this week with parts 2 and 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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just in time for the SW shenanigans, a bunch of my GYP Bitches and I thought it
would be a blast to participate in Shark Week but do it SOoW style. So here’s
what I’m proposing: We do a live video read-thru of <i>Shark Out of Water </i>with
people who have already read it, and we’ll do it via Google Hangouts (thus the
live on video). We’ll also include our own SOoW infused adaptation of the below
Shark Week drinking game. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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order to pull this off and make it fun and open to as many of you as I can, I
need to know what kind of time-table works best for those interested in playing
so that we can get through the whole book. Once I have that information, I can
create a schedule that works for the majority. Originally I was thinking we’d
do it with Shark Week playing in the background, but that means everyone would
need to be available every night of the coming week and be able to not only be
able to read and follow along without many distractions, but also be cool with
possibly getting tanked every night for a week. I’m kinda thinking that plan
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that said, take a look at your calendars for the coming month and chime in on
the below polls. And then if you’re definitely interested, either comment here,
email or message me your interest and make sure to include the best email
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most of you are aware, the second book in the Grab Your Pole series, The Other
Fish in Sea, saw my sister, our friends, as well as myself in some difficult
and tumultuous situations, and it left many individuals dangling off a rather grim precipice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jenn Cooksey spirited Tristan away within a matter of minutes of that book’s
release, and no one aside from our creator has seen or heard from him since. Soon
after Jenn had Tristan safely underground, the rest of us were put in lockdown.
Although there were one or two successful prison breaks over the last few
months, they were </span><span style="font-size: 26.363636016845703px;">incredibly</span><span style="font-size: 20pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 26.363636016845703px;">brief</span><span style="font-size: 20pt;"> and we have been, for the most part, unable to interact with readers, or
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<span style="font-family: "Pea Hannah Vanilla"; font-size: 20.0pt;">Naturally I've become overly bored and well, I’ve decided I don’t care to be in lockdown any longer. I mean season 8 of Supernatural isn't out on Netflix yet and there's only so many card games a girl can play and beat herself at before she has to take matters into her own hands, you know? Not only that, but
there are a few messages I need to get to some people as to encourage and inspire them. </span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla';"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">So, if you'd like to join me in </span><span style="font-size: 26.363636016845703px;">exploiting</span><span style="font-size: 20pt;"> Jenn's usual pre-publishing frenzy in which she will most likely be neglecting social media in the coming days, in addition to </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 26.363636016845703px;">taking advantage of</span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 26.363636016845703px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 20pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 26.363636016845703px;"> skill set of mine that I used to swipe Jenn's book playlists, </span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 20pt;">you're more than welcome to follow along and share everywhere you're able to as I help those poor souls still sitting in solitary gear up for what's coming on July 30th.</span></div>
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links can be found <a href="http://jenncooksey.blogspot.com/p/connect-wthe-gyp-characters.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #45818e;">HERE</span></a> and on behalf of the gang and myself, we'd like you to know how inordinately blessed we feel to be able to share our journey with you, and </span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 26.363636016845703px;">we thank you for</span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 20pt;"> h</span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 20pt; text-align: center;">anging in there with us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 26.363636016845703px;">We’ll see you on the 30th!</span><span style="font-family: "Pea Hannah Vanilla"; font-size: 20.0pt;"><o:p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: large;">*Please note that songs will not be posted in any particular order and although certain songs are mentioned in the book and </span><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: large;">are indicative of what’s occurring in the GYP gang’s lives at any given time, some are not. There will be selections associated with individuals,</span><span style="color: #76a5af; font-family: Pea Hannah Vanilla; font-size: large;"> and some that were simply used as inspiration in Jenn's writing. Not to mention that I plan to use a few songs to communicate directly to my GYP family and friends.*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 14pt;">For Your Listening
Pleasure selections posted thus far</span><span style="font-family: 'Pea Hannah Vanilla'; font-size: 14pt;">:</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03156527786448688570noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-7398316512810690522013-07-16T12:05:00.000-07:002013-07-16T12:05:48.975-07:00Spoilers & the Infamous End of TOFitS<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the release date for <i>Shark Out of Water</i> looming ever closer, there are publishing things I've realized that I've put off (shocker, right?) so I'm probably not gonna be on social media sites much in the next couple weeks. However, my announcement of that seemed to pick at the barely scabbed-over wounds that I left on most everyone who read <i>The Other Fish in the Sea </i>and since 99% of readers screamed and yelled, cussing me out mentally, privately to friends, while some did so publicly as well, and asked WHY and HOW COULD YOU, I figure now might be a good time to address those rantings, in non-spoilery fashion of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Which brings me to another topic you all might be wondering about. Although the ARCs went out weeks ago, not a single review of SOoW has been posted. Any guesses as to why that is when it's standard operating procedure to release ARCs so that reviews can be posted and buzz can be generated well before a book is published? Mmhm, it's simply because I requested that ARC readers not post their reviews or ANYthing even remotely indicative or spoilery in their reading updates. And I did that <b>BECAUSE</b> of how TOFitS ended. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's no secret that I abhor spoilers, not only terms of my work but in others as well, and I want everyone who can be called a diehard GYP fan—those who've chosen to ride this series out with me and have been patiently (or not-so patiently) waiting for each and every release day—to not have a single aspect of these books spoiled or ruined for them by someone else, even if that someone doesn't think of what they've said in an update or a review as a spoiler. People think of spoilers in different ways so even knowing POV beforehand could potentially take away from someone's experience. That's why I'm so vague and non-committal when asked questions about even the smallest details, like the timespan of the series for example. It's not that I'm trying to be a bitch or frustrate readers on purpose; on the contrary, it's incredibly difficult to keep my damned mouth shut so that <b><i>I</i></b> don't inadvertently say something that gives something away or could potentially spoil the story in general for even ONE person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I work extremely hard to make these stories as detailed as possible and most of you know that although I'm verbose AF regardless, almost every single thing I write is written for a reason. Not only that, but the GYP series is highly character driven and for me to write it that way, I feel like even knowing the mundane is most often necessary for people to really and truly connect with a single main character, and I have <b><u>EIGHT</u></b> of them. That means a reader is gonna be getting a lot of seemingly unimportant content that some might term as "page filler," and if a reader isn't a fan of that sort of thing, no biggie. I don't expect everyone to be a fan or even like my work. However, there are a lot of you who are indeed fans and who actually want that filler, like I do when reading a book, so that's primarily why I'm as wordy as I am. Additionally, I don't like to see everything coming, I want a story that keeps things interesting and can even throw me a curve ball every now and again, because I personally enjoy trying to figure out the ending before I get there to see how <strike>amazing</strike> perceptive I am. So, I include a little bit of mystery in my books for those readers who are the same as me. I call the extraneous shit that most people think the books would be better without, breadcrumbs. Like in a mystery, they're clues as to what might or might not happen; some are meant to be misleading, and more often than not, they <i>will</i> come back up, if not in the same book, in a future one. I also don't personally care for loose ends, so it's a safe bet that if something is brought up in one of my books and is left unresolved, it will be addressed at some point in the future, when I feel it's <i>supposed</i> to be resolved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All of that means is that if you read with an eye for the future, chances are you'll pick up on clues and be able to piece things together on your own, and if you've spent precious time doing that already and someone comes along and shoves a spoiler in your face, you're gonna be pissed. I know I am every time I see a spoiler in a status update or a review of my books, and it's not because I've just had the book ruined for me, because you know, I already know what's gonna happen when all is said and done anyway. I'm pissed about it on behalf of my fans. So, that's why I tip-toe around questions and why no one will see a review of <i>Shark Out of Water</i> until next week at the absolute earliest. Actually, I'd prefer ARC readers hold their reviews until release day, but that's just me. If anyone does want to discuss anything that's happened in the series thus far, there is a fan-organized and ran group on Goodreads called <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/102203-grab-your-pole-group-therapy" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Grab Your Pole Group Therapy</span></a> and it's set up so that those wanting to talk,discuss, theorize, or just cry on the shoulders of others can do so without the risk of running into spoilers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With all that said, let's move onto how, for fuck's sake, could I end TOFitS the way I did...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Put simply, it's because if I didn't, SOoW wouldn't be the book I wanted it to be and the GYP story as a whole would've suffered. It's not because I was trying to up my sales or generate a lot of talk by including a nasty cliffhanger like that because honestly, in my experience people love ranting about them, but a lot of times hearing of a cliffhanger in a book will deter people from reading until a later date, however they rarely ever remember to once the follow-up book(s) are out, so cliffhangers are notorious for being a double-edged sword in terms of buzz and sales. And that's why I didn't intentionally set about trying to incorpoarate because it doesn't exactly work out for an author when a handful of people are talking about the book, but no one's buying it and/or reading it, you know? Plus, I know what I did to you all and although I'm not exactly sorry for doing it, I do empathize.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The fact of the matter is though, I ended it that way because I <b><i><u>HAD</u></i></b> to. It wasn't fun for me; I feel everything you all feel when you read, except as the author of these particular stories, I experience them on a different level in order for me to write them and write them even moderately well. The heads and lives of the characters in these stories aren't always the easiest or happiest of places to be mentally or emotionally, and yeah, some of my fictional children have royally fucked shit up, so I get it, but that's life and we all have to deal with unpleasantness in life. That's also why I was okay with slamming everyone the way I did by ending of <i>The Other Fish in the Sea </i>like that<i>.</i> I know what's coming and the ending was all because of <i>Shark Out of Water</i> and maintaing that book's integrity, not to mention the integrity of future books in the GYP series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I understand that's probably not much of a consolation to those of you with freshly bleeding hearts and nauseous tummies upon finishing TOFitS, but hopefully it'll help more to know that everyone I've spoken to who has read SOoW has universally agreed that if TOFitS hadn't ended the way it did, SOoW wouldn't be the book that it is, which in my mind really is pretty flippin' epic. I mean I can't promise that it's perfect and everyone will love it like I do, or that everyone's questions will be answered in this book, but just so you all know, I had about six beta readers for SOoW, and I even brought on one at the last minute because aside from ONE beta reader almost a year ago who I agreed with about ONE small scene, not a single other beta reader could find anything in book 3 that they felt could've been written better. That's not me being self-righteous either, in fact that consensus makes me <i><u>exceedingly</u></i> twitchy, but honestly, the beta feedback was little to none aside from those folks telling me it's perfect in their opinion and/or that they didn't take notes because they couldn't find anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, do yourselves and me a favor, just hang tight a little while longer, <i>pay attention</i>, but don't read reviews until you've read the book, and hopefully you'll agree that on July 30, I delivered what I now laughingly refer to as a masterpiece...</span>Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-58804010086229204462013-07-09T16:14:00.002-07:002013-07-11T16:28:13.108-07:00Bona fide, legit, whatever... They both = me celebrating!<span style="font-size: large;">Without making you watch more than 5, albeit comical minutes of video, I'm choosing to share this uber-quick snippet just so that you have an idea of what's been playing non-stop in my head for a whole week now...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So <b><i>why</i></b> do I have this scene from <i>O Brother Where Art Thou?</i> playing in my head, you ask? Well, it's because I've had a very exciting week beginning last Tuesday that has resulted with me being signed by literary agent rock star, Jane Dystel of <a href="http://www.dystel.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Dystel & Goderich Literary Management</span></a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Words like legitimate and bona fide naturally spring to mind as Jane is the literary agent for some folks like...oh...I don't know, <a href="http://colleenhoover.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Colleen Hoover</span></a>, <a href="http://www.heatherbrewer.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Heather Brewer</span></a>, <a href="http://www.abbiglines.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Abbi Glines</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.tarasivec.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tara Sivec</span></a>. I know, right? Hopefully you can now fully appreciate my glee and get on board with this whole "I'm bona fide" thing that I've mentally got goin' on at the moment. Truly though, I'm humbled and feel inordinately fortunate in this turn of events, and I'm BEYOND tickled to be part of the DGLM team, as well as super excited to work with everyone and get to know all the folks who make up this literary agency powerhouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, you might be wondering what this means to you as readers, and the answer is; aside from crush tourney winners having to wait just a teensy bot longer for me to get their prizes in the mail, not much at the moment. Me becoming bona fide and having representation just means that I have people who know what the hell they're doing and will go to bat for me if someone <b>does</b> become interested in purchasing the rights for the GYP series. And because I know this all most of you really care about at the moment you all can relax...with the way everything stands right now, <i>Shark Out of Water</i> is still scheduled to release on time, so no panicking. Leave all that stuff to me, because trust me, I excel at panicking and if anything of import <i>does</i> arise that might affect the release of SOoW, you can bet your sweet bippy I'll be not only panicking like a damned pro, but I'll also be running for cover and hiding from the angry mob who'll no doubt be organized by a couple of my friends and biggest fans. That'll of course be after I let everyone know what occurred to make me go into protective custody. Again.</span></div>
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Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-11887254209975328472013-06-26T09:28:00.002-07:002013-06-27T09:44:59.916-07:00YA Crush Tourney Giveaway WinnersWith the number of giveaways running in each match of the tournament, I decided to make the actual tourney post a little more manageable by moving the Rafflecopters from past matches to a separate post. So, that's basically it. If you see your name on the list of winners in any given giveaway and have not heard from me, by all means, please email me at contactjenncooksey(at)gmail(dot)...I do my best to contact everyone, but sometimes things get lost in the ether or buried in a spam folder. ;-)<br />
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<script src="//d12vno17mo87cx.cloudfront.net/embed/rafl/cptr.js"></script>Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-68848441589996013002013-06-20T22:18:00.004-07:002013-06-28T15:25:14.230-07:00Pimp & Vote #TeamTristan in the #YACrushTourney & You Could Win Cool Shit!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">(You might wanna grab a snack cuz this is gonna be a long-ass post, as I'm longwinded to begin with and <u>all</u> updates, giveaways, and incentives earned will be posted here. Just sayin'.)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.com/2013/06/match-16-kaidan1-vs-tristan5.html" target="_blank">VOTE HERE</a></span></b></td></tr>
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Clearly, the YA Sisterhood's YA Crush Tourney is a big deal. Not just for me, but for all the participants, whether they be the authors, the fantabulous bloggers hosting the event, the most-excellent crush advocates, the dedicated fans who tirelessly pimp their fave book boyfriends, or even the Twitter lurkers who just like to silently giggle at all the previously mentioned folks who flail about over <strike>REAL</strike> fictional guys who can only be found in the pages of some choice reading material.<br />
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However, the 3rd annual YA Crush Tourney is super special to me because unlike many of the authors, books, and yummy crushes who've been fortunate enough to really be a part of something like this, this is my first time. That's right, I'm a Tourney Virgin. And, I couldn't be more excited about losing my maidenhead (<—Yeah, that's what it used to be called way back in the day. I know...) in this whole thing because the peeps who are helping to pop my cherry are truly some of the most selfless bitches I will ever be fortunate enough to have known.<br />
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Now, there are <i>several</i> of them but I want to mention a handful specifically and they are:<br />
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<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Allura</b></span>—the unabashed Twitter whore whose GYP dedication is as appreciated as it is deep and everlasting.</li>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Nicole M.</b></span>—an enthusiastic fan and newbie videographer. (You can see her trailer for Shark Bait below the Rafflecopters, and let me just say OH MY GOD.)</li>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Val</b></span>—a friend, a great blogger, a GYP fan and GYP Street Team member who also happened to have advocated against Tristan in the first match of the tourney (I know, right? Needless to say there was much usage of words beginning with F when the tourney schedule was posted and I saw who we had to beat in order to move forward.).</li>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Erin W.</b></span>—a GYP fan, blogger, and button making fiend.</li>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Kylee</b></span>—a gung-ho GYP fan and blogging teen.</li>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Ellen</b></span>—another friend, blogger, and GYP fan & Street Team member who's advocating for another crush in this thing (Seriously, I really don't envy the advocates in having to choose sides like they've had to and I wish them all the best of luck.).</li>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Christine</b></span>—yet another blogger and fan with some Photoshop skillz of her own.</li>
<li><span style="color: #45818e;"><b>Ashley</b></span>—my bitch in shining armor. 'Nough said.</li>
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These chicks have given me advise, kept me in the loop, and worked ever so hard at introducing my books to others, promoting Tristan and the tournament, and creating ways for all GYP and #TeamTristan fans to pimp and show their support. Without them, #TeamTristan wouldn't have been possible because chances are, neither Tristan nor any of my other GYP guys would've ever been nominated or won a spot in the tourney to begin with. So, thanks, you guys, Tristan and I owe you, and he and I have a little something for you and the rest of the Team Tristan Bitch Slaves. :-*<br />
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Yes, even with getting a small glimpse at who some of my supporters are, it's safe to say that I am very fortunate and blessed indeed, although there is one person without whom Tristan wouldn't stand a chance; his advocate extraordinaire, Angela. And you know, I'm not entirely convinced it's purely coincidence that the person fighting for Tristan in this whole thing; his guardian if you will, comes from a blog entitled Reading Angels. If people only knew half of the tireless effort, hard work, dedication, and <i><u>heart</u></i> Angela has put into her esteemed position and in seeing that Tristan is represented with style, class, and in the manner befitting not only his character but a champion as well, they'd understand why I couldn't be more tickled and grateful to share this experience with her. And to you, Angela, I thank you for everything from the bottom of my heart. It has been my utmost pleasure to work with you in addition to having the opportunity to get to know you better and I can only hope that our friendship will continue to grow for many years to come.<br />
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Okay, so now that the mushy stuff is out of the way, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that if you're here reading this particular blogpost, you've already read at the very least <i>Shark Bait</i>, if not <i>The Other Fish in the Sea</i> as well and are sufficiently fiending for the release of <i>Shark Out of Water</i>, and if that's the case, you're probably already a fan and subsequently don't need to be convinced to vote for Tristan in the tourney. <i>However</i>, I'm not delusional (mostly), nor am I entirely presumptuous enough to believe that there aren't people who might be undecided and/or haven't read and fell in love with my books and therefore don't even know who the fuck Tristan is. So if you're one of those undecided people, Angela has prepared a seriously kick-ass advocate post <a href="http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.com/2013/06/match-16-kaidan1-vs-tristan5.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> where you can read for yourself why Tristan deserves to be the victor, and you can vote for Tristan there as well. But she also has a nifty little post up on her blog <a href="http://www.readingangel.com/2013/06/vote-team-tristan-win-shit.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>, featuring testimonies from the people who know Tristan best; his peers, friends, and a couple other assorted people in his life.<br />
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So, what is this post about, you ask? Well, it's all about incentives, bitches!<br />
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Like I said before, I have been blessed to be supported by everyone on #TeamTristan as well as many others who find themselves in opposing camps, and I've decided you ALL deserve a chance at some fun rewards for your kind words, support, hard work and effort to help make the Grab Your Pole series successful!<br />
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For each match Tristan is in, I will do the same giveaway and up the ante with more and more teasers from different characters when Tristan's votes reach certain amounts in each match. I will also do another giveaway for some AWESOME & TRULY EPIC prizes for each match Tristan actually wins! I'm not going to tell you what they all are, but just know the more matches Tristan wins, the bigger and better the prize! Here's what's up for grabs in match #1 on June 21st:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>TEASERS FROM SHARK OUT OF WATER!!</b></span></div>
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When Tristan's votes reach 300, I'll release a teaser from Kate. When Tristan's votes reach 600, I'll release a teaser from Dear Jeff. And if Tristan reaches 900, I'll give you all that unreached teaser from Brandon from last week's match! :-p</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>AND ALL THIS:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Yep, bitches, all of that is what I'll give away in each match that Tristan is in! And what's better is that I'm splitting them up into 6 separate giveaways so if you don't particularly want to win one of the prizes offered, you don't have to enter that giveaway! But wait! There's more! If Tristan wins his second match on June 28, I'll do ANOTHER giveaway for the following prize:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">FIRST & FOREMOST — <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.com/2013/06/match-16-kaidan1-vs-tristan5.html" target="_blank">VOTE!!!</a> </span>You have to in order to enter the Rafflecopters below and you'll find the link within the mandatory option! Good luck, everyone, I love you all mucho! Now go forth and pimp the ever loving SHIT out Tristan and this tournament!!</span><br />
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*NOTE: A winner the commerorative 2013 YA Crush Tourney T-shirt will only be chosen if Tristan wins the June 28th, 2013 crush tourney match.*<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-size: x-small;">So, it was insanely difficult (like bathing a cat difficult) to pick non-spoilery teasers from Shark Out of Water for you all, so while they might not seem like much to begin with, keep in mind where we left off in The Other Fish in the Sea and all the questions you hope to have answered, and then, let your imaginations scamper off to do what it does best!</span><br />
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Round #2, Tourney Match 16 vs. Kaiden—June 28, 2013<br />
300 Tristan votes reached at roughly 2:30 pm PST<br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">“</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">So what the hell, Tristan?
I got Camie in the divorce so you and I aren’t friends anymore?” Kate - Mediation of Custodial Friendship</span><!--EndFragment--><br />
<br />
Round #1, Tourney Match 10 vs. Chase Williams—June 21, 2013<br />
250 Tristan votes reached at roughly 10:15 am PST<br />
This SOoW teaser is from Melissa:<br />
<br />
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One year ago <strike>today</strike> yesterday, I published my first novel, <i>Shark Bait</i>. It was insanely emotional and the result of more than two and a half years of writing. Writing that began roughly in late December of 2009. Although what I began writing was nowhere even in the same vicinity as what I published, none of it would've ever made its way out of my brain without my BBF (Bibliophile Best Friend, abbreviated to save space), Kelly. Or as the members of my household call her, K-E-L-L-Y.<br />
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Now, one of the reasons I make special mention of Kelly in my publishing anniversary is because not only did she play an integral role in the advent of the whole Grab Your Pole series, but <i>Shark Bait</i> also happens to share its special date with Kelly, as June 15th is her birthday. And yes, I planned it that way. Here's why:<br />
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From my research, it looks like I began writing <i>Shark Bait</i>, what would eventually become the first book in the Grab Your Pole series, somewhere in the realm of January 29, 2010, and what was that research? Well, it involved pouring through and scouring the thousands of emails I have <strike>hoarded</strike> archived between two laptops and Cox Communications's webmail server. The treasure trove of correspondence between Kelly and me however, was on my old PC laptop, the one that is behaving as if it's just about ready to join the dinosaurs. I'll be uber-sad when it does though, because the emails on this thing...? Fucking epic AND priceless!! So much so that I'm extraordinarily tempted to start printing them out so I have them forever and ever amen. Which is probably where my tendency to screen cap all kinds of shit has come from, because seriously, stumbling across something like this —><br />
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Kelly and I used to email CONSTANTLY. <—That ain't bullshit or even a small exaggeration, folks. Before she took a new job that had her working in the field, Kelly and I emailed each other back and forth about ALL kinds of nonsense (mostly books, Buffy, and...well, mostly that stuff) many upon many times throughout the day and not only that, our email titles very rarely had ANYthing to do with the content of said email. It was fun for us to come up with amusing and giggle-worthy subject lines and if you didn't have a guess before now, Kelly and I can on occasion, be very creative. It was our habit that every single word I ever wrote in the beginning was copied and pasted into an email and she would then read it and give me feedback immediately (instant gratification FTW!) via email. Now what I find sort of funny about all of that is that the email documenting the honest to God beginning of the GYP Series was titled, new story. That's it. It wasn't even capitalized.<br />
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Also, if you happen to be able to read the actual email, you'll see that not much was changed from this very first draft to what made it into publication. Not only that, but according to the email history, I had the entire first chapter completely written by the following day at 2:30 in the afternoon. Although it underwent several rounds of editing afterwards and prior to publication, the first draft of <i>Shark Bait</i> was completed on April 1st, 2010 when Kelly very sweetly yelled at me in email, essentially telling me to leave it the fuck alone.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Thanks to the hard work of the <a href="https://twitter.com/GYPStreetTeam" target="_blank">@GYPStreetTeam</a> (pimping ain't easy you know), and the support of readers and fans alike, our GYP boy, Tristan, made it into the </span><a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=226486264083585&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/YA-Sisterhood/226486264083585?directed_target_id=0" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;">YA-Sisterhood</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">'s <a href="http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">YA Crush Tourney</a>!!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Thank you all SO much for your time and support, but it's not over! Now, Tristan along with 28 other drool-inducing guys (once the wildcard entrants are chosen) are in need of a "Book Blogger Advocate" to r</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">epresent them and fight for them in the head-to-head rounds of the tournament which will begin on June 10th. So, if you're a book blogger and want to represent #TeamTristan or another guy in the tournament, keep your eyes peeled for the opportunity to do so! Advocate sign-ups will start this coming week after the 28th (I believe sign-ups are slated to run from May 28th thru June 1st) so make sure you apply QUICKLY—doing that will help you have a better chance at the yummilicious crush of your choice!! And, I know in the past there have been co-advocates, so if that's something you're interested in check with the YA Sisterhood now to see how you would go about doing that!! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I would also like to strongly urge you to join in the crazy-fun shenanigans that Twitter can be home to, and not only that, encourage all your friends and followers to do so as well! If you're not yet on Twitter & are concerend about not having followers, don't fret, you can follow all the Twitter peeps who follow The GYP Street Team and I'd be willing to bet a lot of them will follow you back, which also happens to be an excellent way to make new reader friends! Plus, Twitter is an excellent resource to find some of THE best book bloggers and reviewers in the blogosphere who might turn you on to a book you've never heard of or one that you've been putting off and want to kick your own ass for not reading sooner, AND they do some fantstic giveaways as well! Once you're on Twitter, make sure you follow <a href="https://twitter.com/GYPStreetTeam" target="_blank">@GYPStreetTeam</a> in addition to <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenn_Cooksey" target="_blank">me</a> and use #YACrushTourney as well #TeamTristan in your crush tourney tweets!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">Again, for those who are familiar and have participated in the shenanigans in the past, there are some changes this year to nominations and where and how it's all going down and you definitely should read the rules (especially in regard to the categories), but to make it easier on you, I've sort of broken it down below to ensure no one's votes are summarily thrown out.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Tristan and Jeff qualify for the Debut category with Shark Bait (you have to cite the book they're representing) which is at Page Turner's Blog: </span><a href="http://www.pageturnersblog.com/2013/05/yacrushtourney-ya-sisterhood-ptb-are.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://www.pageturnersblog.com/2013/0...</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">ALL 4 guys qualify in the categories of Realistic and Indie, but if you vote for Pete and/or Brandon in either of these, make sure you're citing The Other Fish in the Sea as the book they're representing b/c neither of them really had much to do in Shark Bait. If you nominate Tristan and/or Jeff in either of these categories, you can choose either book. The blog for Indie nominations is:</span><a href="http://www.stuckinbooks.com/2013/05/indie-crush-nominations.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://www.stuckinbooks.com/2013/05/i...</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">The blog for Realistic nominations is: </span><a href="http://fictitious-delicious.blogspot.com/2013/05/ya-crush-tourney-realistic-fiction.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://fictitious-delicious.blogspot....</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">You can only nominate each guy once in each category so for example, I'll show you how I voted:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Debut:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #1 Tristan/Shark Bait</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #2 Jeff/Shark Bait</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #3 </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #4</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #5</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #6</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Indie:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #1 Tristan/Shark Bait (I might've cited TOFitS, but can't remember—both books qualify but you can only vote with one)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #2 Jeff/The Other Fish in the Sea</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #3 Pete/The Other Fish in the Sea</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #4 Brandon/The Other Fish in the Sea</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #5</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #6</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Realistic:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #1 Tristan/Shark Bait (I might've cited TOFitS, but can't remember—both books qualify but you can only vote with one)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #2 Jeff/The Other Fish in the Sea</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #3 Pete/The Other Fish in the Sea</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #4 Brandon/The Other Fish in the Sea</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #5</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Crush #6</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">(Yeah, even though you can nominate up to 6 Book Boyfriends in each category, I left all the others blank b/c I'm selfish and don't want to create anymore competition for my guys. :-p How you fill in your form is totally up to you though, as long as it's only one vote/reader/qualifying character/qualified category.)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">I know many of you aren't happy with a certain character right now, but think big picture and try to put the good of the series before your what your personal feelings might be at the moment. Plus, there's a reason why the GYP Street Team is pushing him. Not only has he been the Main GYP Book Boyfriend thus far in the series, but the new rules stipulate that although you can nominate several characters from the same author, only one character per specific author will be able to make it into the tournament. That means that if Tristan makes it into the top 6 of a given category with 76 votes and Jeff for example gets 68 in another, they'll place Tristan and not Jeff. So, in looking at the possible competition, we were strategizing and are thinking the Debut category will be the easiest way to get into the actual tournament and Tristan is *the* Book Boyfriend in the debut of Shark Bait. And by the way, getting into the tournament at all is HUGE. This thing trended worldwide on Twitter last year, so it's a really big deal (and a lot of fun)!! However, after some initial numbers updates, the 3 categories the GYP boys fit into is really pretty much anyone's game at the moment, so if you have the time and/or inclination, go ahead and vote them where they're qualified to be nominated and we'll see what happens.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Right as of this minute (according to the last update), Tristan is sitting at #3 in the Debut category, which is excellent, however he can get booted easily by Friday (May 25th) when the nominations close, so don't put it off! None of the guys are showing in the top 10 in Realistic at the moment, but the #1 dude is there with only 25 votes so if we really want to and pimp HARD, we can crush this shit! Also, there is no public listing of top 10 for Indie right now, but it would be nice to see if we can get someone to place there as well, again with the understanding that only one of the guys will be able to make it into the actual tournament regardless of how many categories he's nominated in. I know I've outlined it fairly well here, but just make sure you all read the rules for each category, and be sure to use a real name and a valid email address when you nominate/vote, and keep in mind that anyone with an email address can participate including your moms, dads, aunts, uncles, spouses, children...you get the point, which is that literally anyone can nominate and vote as long as they're real, have a valid email address, and fill the nomination forms out correctly. ;-)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">If you do decide to participate and are on Twitter, make absolutely sure you're pimping with the hashtag #YACrushTourney (this goes for Instagram as well), and if you can, think about following and then tagging @GYPStreetTeam in your tweets so that they can help. Plastering Facebook is awesome too, and using any other social media outlets like Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram, and so on to rally support and votes is encouraged as well. You can even simply get on the phone or drive your ass over to your BFF's house and make them get on the bandwagon as well. And don't forget, this is YA—meaning <b>Young Adult</b>, so if any of you have NA/Adult author friends you feel comfortable enough to ask for their support, I say do it. This is the kind of thing where I myself and the Street Team will be pimping with #NoShame and we can use all the support and backers that we can get our newbie/greedy little hands on. We also had someone make a button/avatar that's on my FB fanpage and here on my blog up on the righthand side for anyone who really wants to show their #TeamTristan support!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Additionally, if we get one of our boys in the tournament, we'll be needing everyone to continue to vote in the March Madness-style head-to-head rounds, AND we'll need a blogger advocate for him, so if you're a die-hard fan and a blogger, think about whether this might be something you'd like to do! Sign-ups for advocates will take place May 28th—June 1st, after the nominations for the crushes are over, which is this Friday, May 25th.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">If you'd like more info on the tournament you can go to the YA Sisterhood and read up on it a bit! </span><a href="http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.com/2013/05/ya-crush-tournament-nominations-begin.html" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #666600; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">http://ya-sisterhood.blogspot.com/201...</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Again, I just want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for what will hopefully be a bonafide <b><u>deluge</u></b> of #TeamGYP/#TeamTristan crap flooding your personal posts and your feeds, as well as all of your encouragement and support of me and this series. Really, I'm truly humbled and honestly, I'm uber-giddy about the possibility of being in this tournament with some of the authors I'm up against...it's an incredible honor and I wouldn't even have the chance if it weren't for all of you, so seriously, thank you. :-* </span></span>Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-15253618928530314952013-04-23T10:59:00.000-07:002013-06-03T15:39:52.402-07:00The 8th Member of the GYP Gang Character RevealOkay, all the GYP guys are yummy, yes? Tristan, I mean, uh helloooo? Holy fuck. That's all I got. Jeff...? Black hair and green eyes, with a smile that could melt an iceberg being continually worn? Yeah. And Pete...*sigh* Pete is just...I don't know. I mean he's good looking, but that's not what it is. He's just so laid back but when a situation truly <i>means</i> something to him, he's <i>so</i> very intense that you just know without a doubt that if he were to find you worth the effort to kiss, your lips would never recover.<br />
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Although you were introduced to him in Shark Bait, that introduction was at the most, brief. However, with The Other Fish in the Sea, be sure in the knowledge that I remedy that and allow me to formally introduce you to the 8th member of the Grab Your Pole gang; a SA-WOON-worthy guy to pant over and make sure you have a decent supply of clean delicates on hand after you have yourself a licentious fantasy or seven. He's what Camie and I (and pretty much every female on the planet) would call "Dirty-Hot." Here's a description straight from Book 2 in the Grab Your Pole series, The Other Fish in the Sea:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">...looks pretty much like what you’d expect a guy who’s in a working rock band to look like. He has, actually, kind of pretty, icy-gray eyes and super dark brown hair that’s on the longer side in the middle because it’s still growing out from the Mohawk he had the first time I met him in October. His hair also perpetually looks like he just rolled out of bed, but it looks good<span class="s1">,</span> if that makes sense. He’s not especially tall and even though he’s not especially muscular either and his upper body is depicted with art that I gather wasn’t drawn on with Crayola washable markers, you can see he <i>does</i> have well-defined muscles—all of which was noticed when he was shirtless this afternoon. Both his ears are pierced two or three times each and there’s a <i>very</i> definite edge to him, like you know without a doubt that he totally walks on the wild side of life and probably always will. Like a dark, untamable horse. So yeah, he’s totally what I would call the epitome of “dirty-hot.” And yes, in my opinion he’s pretty damned nice to look at, although I do still get that “tread carefully here” feeling about him.</span></blockquote>
Yeah. He's in a band. He's pierced. He's inked. And, he's a little unnerving and potentially a ticking time bomb. Ladies and any gentleman who might so happen to swing that way, I give you...<br />
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Oh yeah. Did I mention that he's sort of based off of someone I personally know and dated for a short time way way back in the day? Yeah. I know, right? The real-life guy honestly isn't too much like my character, and I wrote Brandon with a lot of J's physical attributes without even realizing I was doing it until one of my OBs (Original Bitches, abbreviated to save space) pointed it out. I was like, "I did wha—?*facepalm*" J is actually in not one, but something like three rock bands and I have had the good fortune to see him live more than once. He's also an uber-sweet guy; someone I told once that he deserves to be loved with reckless abandon, and I truly hope that he's finally found that with his new wife. But don't let knowledge of his relationship status keep you from drooling over him to the point where you have to guzzle Gatorade to rehydrate. I mean he *is* something of a rock star, and after all...that's part of the gig. ;-)<br />
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Along with the rest of the GYP gang, you can now follow Brandon either on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/BrandonBAD/405712366158039" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or on <a href="https://twitter.com/BAD_Shredz" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. Enjoy!<br />
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Jenn Cookseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08605568460233899403noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178163893409712886.post-72426732640458316852013-04-16T08:05:00.000-07:002013-06-16T21:13:24.331-07:00Why? What? When?<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I have a few announcements for everyone today...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first is that at some point this week, you all should expect to start seeing reviews of The Other Fish in the Sea popping up. This is extremely exciting for me, but I'm also a little petrified. Knowing my work is being read and will subsequently be reviewed, sometimes freaks me the fuck out and I chain smoke and become an unbathed basket case. Truly. It isn't pretty. However, even with that being the case, I would like to beg everyone and their mother's fourteenth cousin twice removed to please write and leave a review for Shark Bait on Amazon and even Barnes & Noble if you can, and then when you finish reading TOFitS, please do the same. <b>Why</b>? Because reviews are what power the book industry in all manner of ways. Even if you don't particularly care for a book, leaving a review whether negative or positive helps the reading world to know whether a certain book might be to their liking or if it's something they probably shouldn't spend their hard earned money on. Additionally, the more reviews left for a book on buy sites like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, the more exposure a book will receive. Reviews also drive best seller ranking—again, regardless of whether the review is positive or negative. So, if you're one of the people out there who feel like traditional publishers should be banging down my door so you can see and even purchase my titles in brick and mortar bookstores, or if you would get a giggle out of seeing Shark Bait or any of my other books on Amazon's Top 100 in overall books or even *whispers out of ultimate respect* the NYT Best Sellers List, you HAVE to leave a review on Amazon first and foremost. I'm an un-agented Indie author with inadequate funds to do a lot of pimping, book signings and appearances at big book events, and uber-cool giveaways, not that any of you need to hear about my financial standing, but my point is, there's only so much book bloggers and I can do to bring word of my creative genius to the rest of the world. (<—Digging deep for this godawful showing of egotism this morning, aren't I? Ugh.) And not only should <i>you</i> leave a review, but you should encourage everyone you know who has read the books to do the same. And this goes without saying of course, but I would be grateful if you were to encourage everyone you know and even perfect strangers to buy and read the books if they haven't yet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This brings me to announcement number two... In the coming week, I believe, everyone who wants to become a tried and true Grab Your Pole pimp will have the opportunity to do so while also having the opportunity to win fun and unique GYP paraphernalia by joining <b>what</b>? Well, the GYP Street Team of course! Members of my Street Team will earn what I like to call "pimp points" for completing certain tasks and then those points will accrue over a designated time frame where at the end of that time, people with points will be entered to win something. There will be more info about this in the next week or so as well as when you can begin signing up, however, I wanted to give you all a heads up about this now because one of the things you'll be able to earn points by doing will be submitting proof of purchase to the GYP Street Team officials via either a forwarded email receipt or an original screen shot of your receipt for your purchase of The Other Fish in the Sea. And guess what? You'll get double points for purchasing TOFitS on release day! So, even if you don't have a chance to sign up to be a member of the GYP Street Team the day it launches, screen cap your purchase or save your email receipt so that when you do join, you can maximize your points earned, but be sure to sign up quickly as the first giveaway is set for one month after The Other Fish in the Sea releases, I believe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yeah, I know, you're all thinking that none of this information is all that helpful to you right now because you don't even know <b>when</b> in the fuck the damned book is coming out, right? Well, despite still having quite a bit of work to do and knowing I'm going to be a raging bitch monster to those closest to me, have zombie-like bags under my eyes, and I'll have to be a horrific wife and mother to make it happen, here's announcement number three:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That will conclude the announcements as well as this blogpost. Let the universal celebration and widespread chatter about the date of release for #TOFitS commence.</span></div>
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