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FINDING IT Blog Tour
Schedule
October 13th
K-Books-Author Interview
October 14th
October 15th
October 16th
I Heart Big Books-Character Interview (Jackson Hunt)
BookGoonie-Review Only
Rumpled Sheets Blog-Review Only
BookGoonie-Review Only
Rumpled Sheets Blog-Review Only
October 17th
October 18th
October 19th
October 20th
October 21st
October 22nd
October 23rd
October 24th
October 25th
October 26th
October 27th
FINDING IT Synopsis:
Sometimes
you have to lose yourself to find where you truly belong...
Most girls would kill to spend months traveling around Europe after college graduation with no responsibility, no parents, and no-limit credit cards. Kelsey Summers is no exception. She's having the time of her life . . . or that's what she keeps telling herself.
It's a lonely business trying to find out who you are, especially when you're afraid you won't like what you discover. No amount of drinking or dancing can chase away Kelsey's loneliness, but maybe Jackson Hunt can. After a few chance meetings, he convinces her to take a journey of adventure instead of alcohol. With each new city and experience, Kelsey's mind becomes a little clearer and her heart a little less hers. Jackson helps her unravel her own dreams and desires. But the more she learns about herself, the more Kelsey realizes how little she knows about Jackson.
Most girls would kill to spend months traveling around Europe after college graduation with no responsibility, no parents, and no-limit credit cards. Kelsey Summers is no exception. She's having the time of her life . . . or that's what she keeps telling herself.
It's a lonely business trying to find out who you are, especially when you're afraid you won't like what you discover. No amount of drinking or dancing can chase away Kelsey's loneliness, but maybe Jackson Hunt can. After a few chance meetings, he convinces her to take a journey of adventure instead of alcohol. With each new city and experience, Kelsey's mind becomes a little clearer and her heart a little less hers. Jackson helps her unravel her own dreams and desires. But the more she learns about herself, the more Kelsey realizes how little she knows about Jackson.
GUEST POST STOP
Behind
the Book: What Kelsey’s Story Means to Me
From the moment I decided to write a book
about Kelsey, I knew it was going to be about her traveling. It’s something I
love to do and my own travel experiences were a defining moment in my life.
I grew up in a miniscule town, and while I
can now appreciate that upbringing, as a teenager I only dreamed about getting
out. As soon as I was able, I wanted to escape Texas for New York. More than
that, I wanted to see the world.
Now, I’m a very determined person. When I
want something, I go after it full force, which is why in the months before I
published Losing It, I found myself working three jobs, getting my Masters in
Creative Writing, and running a book blog. My travel dreams were the same. I kept
at it until my junior year of college when I snagged a study abroad scholarship
that would allow me to go to school in the Netherlands for roughly the same
price it cost to attend my Texas university.
So, at twenty-years-old, having never been
out of the country (and only having left Texas on a handful of occasions), I
left for a semester abroad in Maastricht, Netherlands. I went to classes four
days a week and traveled on the weekends. And after my classes ended, I
backpacked with a new friend for a month.
At the time, I fully believed it would be
my only chance in my life to travel. I was readying myself for a life in the
theatre as a starving artist, and I thought of that trip as my one chance to do
something memorable that I would always be able to look back on with pride. I
was still resenting the small town I grew up in, and I thought traveling abroad
would be my way of proving that I was more
than a small town girl. That I was special.
So, it’s no wonder that the very first
lines of Finding It are, “ Everyone deserves one grand adventure, that one time
in life that we always get to point back to and say, ‘Then… then I was really living.’”
Of course, now I’ve gotten older and
learned a bit more, and I’ve realized that traveling to new and exotic places
can’t make you special. Checking destinations off a map doesn’t do jack for
your self-worth. It’s not where you go, but what you do that matters. Ironically,
I don’t think I really learned that lesson until I sat down to write Kelsey’s
story.
In the end, I got so much more out of that
trip than just a memory to pull up when I was feeling small.
Sure, I came home with a ridiculous number
of Facebook photo albums and some fantastic stories. But more importantly, I
gained a very dear friend who challenged me to be more open and to really own who I was.
I learned that I could survive out in the
world and that being from a small town didn’t mean I was small.
And perhaps most importantly, that trip was
when I started writing. As a actor, I’d always felt more connected to the text
than anything else. So, I had contemplated and even tried my hand at
playwriting. But in my first week overseas, during a trip to Istanbul, I
received news that my grandmother died.
I’d been unreachable for days so by the
time I found out, it was too late to contemplate going home. I wouldn’t make it
in time for the funeral. Worse still, I got the news in a room full of
strangers as they waited for their turn on the one computer that our hotel had.
My adventure of a lifetime wasn’t turning out quite like I had hoped.
That night, I retreated alone to my room,
while my classmates when out to explore Istanbul. And when sleeping proved too
difficult, I started to write. Not a play, as I had always thought, but a book
about a girl whose life was spinning out of control and she could do nothing to
stop it.
That book has never been published and
probably never will be. But it set a precedent for me.
Writing is how I react to the world, how I
process the things that I feel and the things that I don’t. It took me a long
time to deal with my grandmother’s death, but when I did, it began through a
character. As I helped her puzzle out my grief, I became acquainted with my
own.
And I learn something about myself with
each new book that I write. And my biggest hope as an author is always, always that I’m not the only one to
learn a lesson or two from my characters.
Cora Carmack Bio:
Cora Carmack is a
twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters.
She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like working
retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching),
and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most
awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out
of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, is a New York
Times and USA Today bestseller.
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FINDING IT Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16172638-finding-it?ac=1
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