At What Cost Blog Tour featuring Review and Promotional Post by J. Anderson

You guys! I am so excited to be a part of the super awesome and truly amazing AT WHAT COST BLOG TOUR! When I got the chance to read this wonderful ya contemporary, I was totally beyond thrilled and jumped at the chance to get to see what was all about.


Okay, so confession time, maybe ... a little bit ... I'm not exactly thrilled when it comes to ya books that involve young girls pregnant, but I did really end up enjoying this book a great deal. The emotion that J. Anderson manage to evoke through the story told, was simply amazing. I was wholely impressed with how she tackled such a sensitive subject matter and felt myself sympathizing with Maggie almost the entire time she was trying to decide what she was going to do.


I'd like to say that I'm all about the freedom to make a choice and to stand by the decision that you've made, but even sometimes the situation may seem a bit less black and white than most. Fortunately, J.Anderson has a wonderful understanding of that and has written Maggie in such a relatable way, with an intelligent sense of self.

"What to expect when you're not expecting?"


Here’s the scoop on AT WHAT COST by J. Anderson!

There was so much to enjoy about this book as J. Anderson brilliantly captivates readers with such a real and relatable story of dealing with the consequences of actions, dealing with parents who act as if they're almost non-existent, and then the pressure of her boyfriend (Justin's) easy-fix solution to their problem. At What Cost is definitely a novel that will take readers on an epic journey of drama and turmoil, leaving them sympathizing with Maggie and what she has ahead of her. J. Anderson portrays Maggie in such a way that she's a wonderfully realistic, strong, intelligent, and likable character that they'll be likely to forget any time soon. Over the course of the novel, she begins this journey of searching her heart and her mind deeply, to get to the core of who she really is. She's such an honest and realistically developed character, who is just as compelling as the story she has to tell.


Overall, this book was filled with some truly fantastic character development, wonderfully intriguing characters who will manage to tug at heart strings (Evan, in particular), and a realistically honest and raw look at what options and choices are out there for most girls facing the situation that Maggie finds herself in. It is such an incredibly touching story that I personally don't think anyone should miss out on and I would definitely suggest giving it a read.

In AT WHAT COST, during her junior year, sixteen-year-old Maggie Reynolds expected to shop for prom dresses not maternity clothes. Now, instead of studying for the SATs, she’s reading, What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Maggie’s ‘Mother Dearest’ lives in fear that Maggie will somehow taint the family name, so Maggie can’t turn to her for help. Meanwhile, her father is oblivious to anything but his 9-9 job. And her boyfriend, Justin? She’s pretty sure he’ll stay by her side.


While Maggie wrestles with her options, Justin offers a solution: abortion. It would solve all her problems quickly, easily, and effectively. And her parents would never know, which means they won’t throw her out and cut her off like they’d always threatened if she got herself knocked up. Now Maggie must decide which choice she can live with: abortion or teenage motherhood. Either way, it’ll be a tough road to travel.

The giveaway details consist of 3 e-book copies of At What Cost by Jessie Andersen (open Internationally).

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ABOUT J. Anderson

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Jessie Andersen lives in a small town in Western New York with her husband and three kids. A former English teacher, she now spends her time writing while the kids are at school and the baby is sleeping. She volunteers at the local library and sings in the church band. You can find information about her books at jandersenbooks.com, and you can follow her blogs at Therabidwriter.blogspot (Personal blog) and Readbetweenthelinesbookclub.blogspot.com (Book blog).

Author information taken from her Goodreads.

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Release Day Blitz featuring Derailed by Alyssa Ivy Rose

You guys! I am super incredibly excited to be a part of the amazing Derailed Release Blitz!

Here’s the scoop on DERAILED by Alyssa Ivy Rose!

In DERAILED, when you're lost, sometimes the only place you can go is home.

Broken over the death of her fiancé, Molly leaves law school to return to her childhood home in North Carolina. Expecting to lay low until she can figure out what else to do with her life, she finds herself in the arms of her high school sweetheart, the boy who represents everything from the past she tried to leave behind.

Looking for an escape, she instead finds a way back to the girl she almost forgot existed and a future she never dreamed possible.

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The giveaway details consist of one print copy (U.S.) and then 2 e-books (open internationally) of Derailed by Alyssa Ivy Rose.

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ABOUT ALYSSA IVY ROSE

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Alyssa Rose Ivy is a Young Adult and New Adult author who loves to weave stories with romance and a southern setting. Although raised in the New York area, she fell in love with the South after moving to New Orleans for college. After years as a perpetual student, she turned back to her creative side and decided to write. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two young children, and she can usually be found with a cup of coffee in her hand.

Author information taken from her Goodreads.

The Sundering Blog Tour featuring Guest Post & Giveaway by Megg Jensen

You guys! I am super thrilled and doubly excited to be a part of the THE SUNDDERING Blog Tour!

Ashley of Bookish Brunette was incredibly awesome enough to put this tour together and organize it, with her fierce stiletto-wearing super powers of wow! You guys....this is an I N C R E D I B L E series and you should definitely check it out. I mean, what's not to love about it, right?! Right.

Megg Jensen will totally hook you with this series right away. It is just a thrilling, fast-paced, ball of epic adventure, cloud prophets, and twists and turns that you won't be expecting. I mean, how on earth do I sell this series?!

I mean, really...except to say: READ IT!!!


And just to give you all incentive, because everyone loves incentive don't they?! Today, I have a special guest post on how Heroines Can Kick Butt to share with you and a super duper awesome giveaway that you don't want to miss out on!

Here’s the scoop on THE SWARM TRILOGY!

There is so so so much to love about this series as Megg Jensen brilliantly pens an intriguing mysteriously suspsenseful adventure full of love, danger, and beautiful imagery that any fantasy lover is sure to fall in love with.


In SLEEPERS, an adoptee raised in a foreign land, sixteen-year-old Lianne was content with her life as handmaiden to the queen, until a spell cast on her at birth activated. Now she's filled with uncontrollable rage and access to magic she thought had been bled from her people years ago. Even her years of secret training in elite hand-to-hand combat and meditation can’t calm the fires raging inside her.

Her heart is torn between two boys, the one she’s always loved and the one who always ignored her. But when the kingdom threatens to tear itself apart due to rumors surrounding the queen’s alleged affair, who will Lianne protect and who will she destroy?


The fire inside Lianne threatened to consume her in AFTERLIFE, but she fought back and won. Unfortunately the collateral damage of her decisions won’t stop haunting her. She embarks on a secret trip to find Mags and return her son, but her search leads her into another nest of lies.

Everyone’s safety is in Lianne’s hands as the Malborn, an enemy more fearsome than her own people, looms over them. Will Lianne be able to unravel the secrets in time to save the ones she loves the most? Or will her lack of faith in her own decisions lead to disaster?

Afterlife weaves some of the favorite characters from the Cloud Prophet Trilogy (Anathema, Oubliette, and Severed) into The Swarm Trilogy as Lianne comes face-to-face with a character introduced at the end of Severed.


Now in THE SUNDERING, After defeating the Malborn and losing the person she loved most, Lianne escapes to Chase's homeland. With her appearance forever marked by death, Lianne feels like a monster both on the outside and the inside. She retreats into herself, fearful of what she's become.

But she can't hide forever.

The Malborn, damaged but not broken, send a deadly message to Lianne. They are coming for her and now she's brought danger to a peaceful land that believed they'd driven the Malborn from their shores forever. Lianne must force herself to trust again and make the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone she loves. In a world ruled by whoever harnesses the most powerful magic, no one can be trusted – no one is safe.

Heroines Can Kick Butt!!!
 By Megg Jensen

When I set out to write Lianne, I knew I wanted a girl who wasn't afraid to fight back. Her upbringing was hard because so few people loved her. She found her only solace learning how to spar. It wasn't a way to fight back. For Lianne, it was the only place she found peace.

It seems contradictory, doesn't it? How can someone find peace in fighting? It's a question I always had in the back of my mind until my daughter took tae kwon do. Every Saturday morning I schlepped her to a tiny, dingy, one-room park district building on the other side of town. The kids crammed into the 1970's tiled room, bare feet scooting across mats the instructors laid out and held together with duct tape. It wasn't exactly a high-class operation, but we would soon find out this one little class would forever change our lives.

Her instructor taught them on the first day that while tae kwon do was fighting, it wasn't ever to be used to hurt anyone. We parents saw the confusion on our kids' faces. It was a ragtag bunch of kids - some boys who wanted to be tougher, older kids who thought maybe this was their ticket to being sporty, and creampuff girls, like my daughter, who could use a little bulking up of their toughness.

Master Chen taught these kids that if someone insults them, they bow, and say, "Thank you." If they are insulted again, they walk away. If that bully attacks them, they use their skills only to protect themselves.

How did this class change my family's life? All four of us have achieved belts in TKD. I'm a yellow belt (but I've practiced enough with my kids to have gone just as far as they have), and my husband, son, and daughter are all blue belts. My daughter has since retired as other sports have taken precedence, but my son and husband are set on getting black belts.

Sometimes readers get frustrated with Lianne (and probably me too) because she has these incredible fighting skills, but she almost never uses them (except when she gets angry with Chase, but that's more hormonal than anything else). Why? Because I based her training, and her mentor Aric, on my kids' TKD instructor. Fighting isn't done for fighting's sake. It's used to protect yourself and the ones you love.

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ABOUT MEGG JENSEN

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Megg Jensen has been a freelance parenting journalist since 2003 and began writing YA novels in 2009. She co-runs DarkSide Publishing, is currently a member of SCBWI, and blogs about writing while juggling freelancing, volunteering, and her family life. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, two kids, and their miniature schnauzer, Ace.

Author information taken from her Goodreads.

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Transcend Blog Tour featuring Book Excerpt by Christine Fonseca

You guys! I am super thrilled and definitely excited to be a part of the THE TRANSCEND Blog Tour!

Heather of SupaGirl Book Tours was incredibly awesome enough to put this tour together and organize it. You guys....this is an A W E S O M E book and you should definitely check it out. I mean, what's not to love about it, right?! Right.

Christine Fonseca will totally hook you with this book straight away. It is just that thrilling, and adventurous, with twists and turns that you won't be expecting. I mean, how on earth do I sell this faubulous book?!

I mean, really...except to say: READ IT!!!

Here’s the scoop on TRANSCEND BY CHRISTINE FONSECA!

There is so so so much to love about this book as Christine Fonseca brilliantly pens an intriguing mysteriously suspsenseful adventure full of beautiful dark gothic romance, danger, and amazing imagery that any reader is sure to fall in love with.


In Transcend, all seventeen-year-old composer Ien Montgomery desires is an escape from his family's rigid expectations for his life; someone to inspire his music. When he meets a beautiful violin-prodigy, Kiera McDougal, his life music takes on new life. With her, he imagines a future outside of his parents’ control. That is, until a horrible accident tears them apart.

Sent to die in a sanatorium, Ien’s obsession for Kiera grows unbearable. Tortured by thoughts he can’t escape and the truth of his monstrous disfigurement, he flees, desperate to exact revenge on the people that ruined his life – his parents. But, vengeance is empty. Betrayed by those closest to him, Ien discovers that the price for his happiness may be his sanity.

Set amidst the landscape of New York's Gilded Age, and inspired by Phantom of the Opera, TRANSCEND exposes the fine line between love and madness.

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When Transcend was in its infancy, I played around with different stories and different points of view before really shaping the story into what it is now. One of the earliest versions featured a dual first person POV, alternating between Ien and Kiera. In this scene, we see, from Kiera’s POV, Ien’s accident and her reaction when she arrives on scene.

(**Note, author split the scene into three posts, see the link at the end for the next post).

Transcend Book Excerpt by Chrstine Fonseca

Stop by My Head Stuck In A Book for the continuation of Kiera's scene.

Praise for Transcend Includes...

“So powerful, so deep, and dark. It took me on an amazing journey into places most people fear to go...leaving me breathless.”
~ Heather McCorkle, Author of To Ride A Puca

“…hauntingly dark and achingly beautiful. A story of love, loss and obsession set against the decadent backdrop of historic New York that sucked me in and wouldn't let go, from the first page until long after I'd finished.”
~ Michelle McLean, Author of Treasured Lies (Entangled, 2012)

“The story is disturbing and intense and utterly unique…”
~ Ali Cross, Author of Become

“…thought-provoking and emotionally heart wrenching. I haven’t felt this way after reading in quite a while!”
~ Jen from Geekygamergal's Musings

“It is such a powerful and deep story; it will leave you completely breathless.”
~ Brooke from The Cover Contessa

Novel Availability

Publisher: COMPASS PRESS

ISBN: 9780985180478



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ABOUT CHRISTINE FONSECA

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Critically acclaimed nonfiction and YA author Christine Fonseca is dedicated to helping children of all ages find their voice in the world. Drawing on her expertise as an educational psychologist, her nonfiction titles address issues of emotional intensity, resiliency and giftedness. Her titles include Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students, 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids and The Girl Guide, releasing April 2013.

In fiction, she explores the darker aspects of humanity and delivers gothic thrillers that take you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions not to be missed. Recent titles include Dies Irae and Lacrimosa, from the Requiem Series, and the recently released thriller, Transcend. For more information about Christine Fonseca or her books, visit her website – http://christinefonseca.com or her blog http://christinefonseca.blogspot.com.

Author information taken from her Goodreads.

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