Good Morning! My name is KC Sprayberry. Sabina
Bundgaard of Sabina's Adventures in Reading has let me hijack her blog today.
The purpose is to tease all of her very dedicated readers with information
about my soon-to-be-released YA coming of age novel, Take Chances.
Hang on, ladies, we're interviewing Julie's secret crush,
Michael Taylor today. I'm told he's a pirate hottie. Let's see.
1. Introduce yourself to our
readers. What should we know about you?
Hey, Michael Taylor here. I'm a
photographer – of kids in action. Kind of like I was back in high school. Give
me a raging river and a boat, the side of a mountain, hitting a home run, or
making an end zone run, and I'm there. Love what I do, but tell you what.
You'll never believe this. There's this girl I've loved since I was a senior,
and she was a sophomore, but I didn't dare get close to her until she was
eighteen.
The reason for that? Oh, you
really want to know? Well, it was her mom. She caught me watching Julie one day
while we were all playing basketball in Tom's driveway. You would have thought
Lacey caught me undressing Julie in a public park, the way she went on and on
about men like me. I'd just graduated Landry High, didn't have a clue what I
wanted to do next, and well, I was just hanging out with my buds.
Now, Lacey, she decided that she
didn't want me around, so she told me to get out town or go to jail. It took me
two years to come back, but I'm glad I did.
2. What do you think about the
author? Tell us everything. We want to know.
Did a fab job. I'm not much of a
writer, but this lady is like Julie – just loves writing. And calling me a
pirate hottie. Wow! I'm blushing just thinking about that. Never thought of
myself that way. But all is good now. Julie called me her pirate guy just last
night, while were having steaks at this great place in Wyoming. I guess being a
pirate hottie is good.
3. What are your feelings about this
story?
It's about time someone told this
story. I really hated abandoning Julie, really hated losing her to Lukas … but
well, I guess I never did lose her to Lukas, but that's why Julie is the way
she is - being a good friend to everyone but herself. Then there's all the crap
Charles and Lacey put on everyone, making them feel like pond scum just 'cause
they didn't go around stabbing everyone in the back. I'm so glad those two will
never hurt Julie again.
4. How do you feel about being a
character in this book?
There I am, taking pics at the
Little League World Series in Pennsylvania, and I got this urge to go home to
Landry. The final game had just finished, everyone was celebrating, but not me.
I booked onto the first flight to Atlanta, grabbed my SUV from where my folks
live, and drove up to Landry. Then I had to come up with this lame story about
stopping off to say goodbye to everyone before I went to Germany. That totally
freaked Julie. Now that I know why, I'll make sure I don't freak her out again.
All this means that I absolutely love being a character in this book. I might
not have got a chance to be with Julie if I wasn't.
5. What do you see in your future?
(No spoilers please!)
Going to college with Julie next
winter. Sure, it's fun traveling the country, looking for Reboot locations and
getting a ton of pictures for a new show with the two of us, but winter is no joy
at all. Besides, I'll have time with her all to myself. Don't get me wrong.
Lydie is a nice girl, but she's a fifth wheel when I want time with Julie.
6. Is there another Take Chances in the future? Will you be
part of it?
Be kind of hard to do another Take Chances. We took the biggest chance
of all, and we beat the odds. Now, I'd rather stick with my photography, some
college, and lots of time with Julie.
7. Say a movie producer comes
knocking. What actor/actress would you want to play you and why?
I know just the guy. The guy that
plays Silas Botwin on Weeds – Hunter Parrish. He'd be perfect as me!
Blurb:
Julie Bond grew up in Europe as a military brat.
She found her very first permanent home in Landry, GA as a teen going into high
school. Almost four years later, she's having pre-graduation jitters and
flashing back to an incident of school violence she experienced in Europe. She
attempts to convince herself that it can never happen again, but continually
finds herself flashing back to that day no matter how hard she tries.
The people around her present any number of
problems for Julie, and she's hard put to keep from drowning under all the
issues. Then Michael--a cool guy she's had a crush on for the
last three years—returns from traveling the US as a photographer, and Julie now has one more thing to distract her as
she prepares to leave high school. One thing she firmly believes in: no one will ever invade her classroom with
violence again.
Once again, the impossible happens. Once again, she's in a classroom with a madman holding
a gun. Once again, she must survive.
Teaser Excerpt:
Landry High's walls fade. I again sit at the
little table in kindergarten. The door opens. Three men and two women come
through it. They have automatic rifles. One shoots into the ceiling. Another
shouts.
Achtung!
Bio:
KC
Sprayberry started writing young, with a diary followed by an interest in
English. Her first experience with publication came when she placed third in a
Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge contest while in the Air Force, but her
dedication to writing came after she had her youngest child, now a in his
senior year of high school.
Her
family lives in Northwest Georgia where she spends her days creating stories
about life in the south, and far beyond. More than a dozen of her short stories
have appeared in several magazines. Five anthologies feature other short
stories, and her young adult novel Softly Say Goodbye, released in 2012.
During 2013, more young adult stories have been released: The Ghost Catcher,
Who Am I?, Family Curse … Times Two, and Amazon Best Seller, Canoples Investigations Tackles Space Pirates.
You can find her on the web here:
Hello! Here's
the day you were waiting for, through Sunday, September 29. You can pick up my
other YA coming of age books, Softly Say Goodbye and Who Am I? free on Amazon:
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