This week I'm joining with other young adult authors to promote our joint online Facebook Party that's coming up this Saturday. We also have two Twitter chats scheduled. We join Kate Tilton's twitter chat #K8chat this Thursday night from 8-9pm CST and on Friday we will have our official Twitter chat. During my hour of hosting duties for the Facebook Party, I plan on doing some book trivia and some character interviews with characters from Skid and my new upcoming paranormal romance novel My Girlfriend Bites. Details for the Twitter chat and the host schedule for the Facebook Party are at the bottom of this post.
Today is my turn on our group blog tour so I wanted to give some of you a little insight into Samantha Sutton, the main character of Skid.
Today is my turn on our group blog tour so I wanted to give some of you a little insight into Samantha Sutton, the main character of Skid.
1. Samantha is a
passionate yet stubborn teen girl with a temper she always struggles to
control.
2. Her mother hates the
fact her daughter races cars. She wants Samantha to go to Junior College since
it's much safer.
3. Samantha is the
middle sister and the only daughter who shared her father's love for racing. He
died in a car crash. Samantha vows to make those racing dreams they both shared
come true.
4. The girl doesn't
think about death. It's bad luck to think like that when you're racing a car
over 200 miles per hour. Fear can freeze you up and make you lose your edge.
And your nerve.
5. Her parent's farm is
near a small town in Oklahoma. When she travels to Europe to race in Formula 1,
Samantha has to adjust to a new world with new pressures, new expectations, and
new problems.
6. Samantha hides a
secret that could rip her family apart. A family that means everything to her.
7. Boys and Tomboys can
be a tricky mix. When Samantha befriends the nephew of the racing team's owner,
she struggles with trying to hold on to a friend who wants to be so much more.
8. Samantha loves
Amsterdam. The canal boat rides are her favorite. Especially when you can share
it with the right boy.
9. Samantha hates it when it rains. Especially
when she has to race a car in it.
10. She meets her
all-time racing hero and must race against him. Samantha finds that heroes can
sometimes be the greatest enemies.
Thank you so much for
stopping by and reading. Please feel free to say hello on Twitter, visit my website, or shoot me an email. I would love to hear
from you!
If you'd like to give Skid
a spin, you can purchase the ebook for 99 cents on Kindle and Nook. But if you download it free on Kobo, ITunes, and Smashwords. Or if you prefer, you can buy the paperback on Indiebound, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon.
More about Skid:
Samantha drove the car that killed her dad. Now racked with guilt, the 17-year-old girl racer from Oklahoma promises to fulfill the racing dreams they shared. Even if it kills her. Samantha sneaks into a private testing session and impresses the eccentric owner of Formula 1 racing team who takes a chance on the outspoken, yet crazy-talented girl.
Samantha pushes herself, pushes her car, pushes her luck at 200 miles per hour. She battles a seven-time world champion and Ferrari racing god who was once a crush-worthy hero to a girl, but now a dream-crushing rival to a young woman. Samantha befriends the nerdy-cute nephew of the team's owner who she leans on for support and to keep her sanity. Yet his gentle advances beyond friendship clash with Samantha's racing goals. How does a girl manage all this?
More about the author:
Growing up in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, Doug went to college at nearby Oklahoma State where he earned a B.A.
in Radio/TV/Film production. Doug started writing screenplays in 1998 and
became a 2001 semi-finalist in The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and
Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting for his fifth screenplay, Father
Figure. His tenth script, Rail Fan, became a quarter-finalist in 2009. Soon
after, Doug made the switch to writing young adult novels. Skid, a young
adult novel set in the world of Formula 1 racing, is his first.
Party
Host Schedule – Saturday, May 18th, 2013
3pm-4pm (EST) Kymberlee Burks-Miller
4pm-5:30pm (EST) Emma Michaels
5:30pm-6pm (EST) LM Preston
6pm-7pm (EST) Linda Foster
7pm-8pm (EST) Doug Solter
8pm-9pm (EST) KaSonndra Leigh
9pm-10pm (EST) LM Preston Party Close Out
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