Skip to main content

Last List Blog Hop: Q&A + GIVEAWAY: Tear You Apart by Sarah Cross

Welcome to the Last List Blog Hop which is being hosted by the fabulous folks over at Cuddlebuggery!

http://cuddlebuggery.com/blog/2015/02/09/the-last-list-blog-hop/

What is the Last List Blog Hop? 
It's a way to help promote the MG and YA authors affected by the recent announcement that Egmont has closed it's doors!

To follow the rest of the hop, click HERE.



Tear You Apart 

Author: Sarah Cross
Series: Beau Rivage #2
Publication: January 27, 2015
By: EgmontUSA
 
 Tear You Apart
  If you want to live happily ever after, first you have to stay alive.

Viv knows there’s no escaping her fairy-tale curse. One day her beautiful stepmother will feed her a poison apple or convince her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Henley, to hunt her down and cut out her heart before she breaks his. In the city of Beau Rivage, some princesses are destined to be prey.

But then Viv receives an invitation to the exclusive club where the Twelve Dancing Princesses twirl away their nights. There she meets Jasper, an underworld prince who seems to have everything—but what he really wants is her. He vows to save her from her dark fate if she’ll join him and be his queen.

All Viv has to do is tear herself away from the huntsman boy who still holds her heart. Then she might live to see if happily ever after is a promise the prince can keep. But is life as an underworld queen worth sacrificing the true love that might kill her?






~ AUTHOR Q&A ~

Hi Sarah! 

Thanks for joining me here on the blog. 

*offers you a cupcake* 

Like you, I grew up on the Disney version of fairytales--all of which left me with unrealistic expectations of hair and romance. However, when I learned the truth behind most of those stories, I decided maybe frizzy hair and clueless boys weren't so bad after all! :D 

If you had to spend one day in any of the non-Disney fairy tales which one would you choose? 

Do I get to choose which day it is? If so, I'd want to be the princess in "The Traveling Companion" on a day when she's decorating her garden with the skulls of the suitors she's had killed. (A princess with a garden of skulls! Okay, so maybe she's not very nice, but I love that combination. Can you imagine what the Disney version would look like?) If not, I'd pick "The Princess and the Pea," because the worst thing that princess has to deal with is insomnia.

Which character in TEAR YOU APART was the most fun to write and why? 

Probably Luxe (girl with a Goldilocks curse) because she's always complaining. She is so bitter about those bears.

If Viv had her own theme song, what would it be?

"Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" by Ke$ha or "Criminal" by Fiona Apple (and not because of the apple connection).

The best piece of writing advice you ever received was...

This is really basic, but: when you're tagging dialogue, don't worry about overusing "said." You don't have to mix it up just for the sake of variety. If your characters are exclaiming, pontificating, bellowing, and ejaculating every line it gets distracting. "Said" is unobtrusive. (In middle school I wrote an entire novel without using "said." I thought I was fixing a problem. So you can see why I value this advice.)

I ask all of my blog guests this one...brownies, cupcakes or ice cream? 

Cupcakes! I've probably eaten more ice cream in my life, and I'm definitely more likely to try weird ice cream flavors (wasabi cupcakes? Um . . . no), but there's something about the cuteness of cupcakes that makes them so much more appealing. Also, my Snow White and Rose Red e-short story "Twin Roses" takes place in a cupcake cafe, not an ice cream shop, so my loyalties must lie with cupcakes.



~ ABOUT THE AUTHOR ~

Sarah Cross is the author of the fairy tale novels Kill Me Softly and Tear You Apart, the superhero novel Dull Boy, and the Wolverine comic "The Adamantium Diaries."










~ GIVEAWAY ~
One Singed HC of TEAR YOU APART 
U.S. Only 
Must be 13 years old to enter


a Rafflecopter giveaway

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Best Of 2012 Blog Hop

  Thanks for stopping by Jenuine Cupcakes! 2012 has been an epic reading year for me and wh ile h aving to choose the BEST of anything is never easy , I pre sent you with a sampling of my Best of 2012. (You'll notice, I've made up a few of the categories to fit my needs but all of these books are fantastic . ) Best Fantasy Shadow and Bone (The Grisha #1) by Leigh Bardugo Best Dystopian/Sequel/People Forgot The MC Was Grieving Insurgent (Divergent #2) by Veronica Roth Best Sci-Fi /A ction /Made Me Beat My Husband U p I n My Sl eep False Memory ( F alse Memory #1) by Dan Krokos  Best Dystopian/Sci-Fi Mashup /I Sa w The Other Hot Boy First Defiance by C.J. Redwine        Best P sychological Thriller /This Book Might Kill Me Be fore It Ends The Evolution of Mara Dyer (M ara Dyer #2) by Michelle Hodkin Best Scared T he Jelly Belly's Out of Me (Because it could happen) Ashen Winter (A shfall #2) by Mi ke Mullins Best Boo

BLOG TOUR: Frazzled by Booki Vivat (GUEST POST + GIVEAWAY)

Meet Abbie Wu! She’s about to start middle school and she’s totally in crisis. Abbie Wu is in crisis—and not just because she’s stuck in a family that doesn’t quite get her or because the lunch ladies at school are totally corrupt or because everyone seems to have a “Thing” except her. Abbie Wu is in crisis always. Heavily illustrated and embarrassingly honest, Frazzled dives right into the mind of this hilariously neurotic middle school girl as she tries to figure out who she is, where she belongs, and how to survive the everyday disasters of growing up. With Abbie’s flair for the dramatic and natural tendency to freak out, middle school has never seemed so nerve-racking! Packed with hilarious black-and-white illustrations and doodles throughout, Frazzled takes readers through Abbie Wu’s hysterical middle school adventures. Amazon | B&N   My Thoughts This book is so freaking adorable! I can't wait to see the finished version with all of Booki's (

BLOG TOUR: Gemina (The Illuminae Files_2) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

Welcome to Jenuine Cupcakes, this is my stop on the Gemina blog tour! Gemina (The Illuminae Files_2) Author(s): Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff   Illustrator: Marie Lu   Publication: October 18, 2016 By: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Reader Amazon | B&N | Listening Library | Kobo | Book Depository | Google Play | Goodreads  The highly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller that critics are calling “out-of-this-world awesome.”  Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna’s social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed. The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout bestseller Illuminae continues on board the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault.  Hanna is the station captain’s pampered daughter; Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling