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I headed up the hill, sweating all the way, trying to dart from one small wedge of shade to another along the path, and feeling pathetically grateful for even a suggestion of breeze. The library would be an oasis from the muggy, oppressive heat. The stacks would be cool and shadowy. I would emerge hours later refreshed and rejuvenated with an armload of library loot.

The library loot part was right, but the library was just as bad as outside — thick and unpleasant. I hoped that the sweat rolling off of me wouldn’t make the floors too slippery. The stacks were suffocating. Tilting my head to look at titles gave me a headache tinged with nausea. I had to give up after only 10 minutes and 3 books:

Sea of Glory – Nathaniel Philbrick. This book is about the US Exploring Expedition, which went on for a few years in the late 1830s and early 1840s. I admired Philbrick’s In The Heart of the Sea so much that I was instantly attracted to Sea of Glory.

Love and Death in the American Novel – Leslie A. Fiedler. I first saw this 1960 groundbreaking study of literature at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma when I was about 19 years old. Beguiled by that title, I examined the table of contents, then shied away from it. I clearly remember what gave me pause: Charles Brockden Brown. I didn’t know who he was. Therefore, I was not smart enough to read LADITAN. Wasn’t I a skittish reader back in the day?! Now nearly [mumble] years later, I still don’t have a good grip on who CBB was, but I now know that Fiedler will probably provide context and if it’s not there, then I’ll Google and have my answer in a moment.

Complete Novels – Dashiell Hammett. This volume includes Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man and The Glass Key. It’s going to rain like hell starting tomorrow with a typhoon, so I anticipate good times and cozy hours curled up with Dash if the electricity holds out. If not, I have a couple of flashlights.

This loot is due back on October 1. The weather should be much improved by then and I’ll come back to my library ready for a nice long visit.

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I don’t know about you guys, but I love the US covers for all the books in this series. There’s so unsettling about them – I think it’s the grime and haunting eyes of the models. If you stare at them for a while, they get kind of creepy. I really like the title font used too, simple but cool.

The UK covers are interesting, because they’ve gone for a more symbolic approach. This one screams ‘tangled romance’ to me, though I do like the suggestion of blood in the background, and the grey gives it that bleak feeling you’d expect.

When it comes down to it, I’ll always choose the US covers for this series. The UK ones aren’t bad at all, they just don’t stand out to me as much. What do you think?

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29th September – Book Chick City
An exclusive Q&A with Becca Fitzpatrick

4th October – The Bookette
A never-before-seen flashback extract from Crescendo

5th October – Once Upon A Bookcase
A never-before-seen flashback extract from Crescendo featuring Patch & Nora!

6th October – I Was A Teenage Book Geek
SPECIAL FEATURE: “You know you’re obsessed with Hush, Hush when…”

7th October – Book Geeks
Competition to win copies of Crescendo!

8th October – So Many Books So Little Time
Exclusive audio extract from the Hush, Hush audiobook

9th October – Daisy Chain Book Reviews
Discussion post: Crescendo playlist

The second leg of the tour (Monday 11th October – Friday 15th October) will commence at Wondrous Reads (that’s me!), who will celebrate the release of Crescendo with a week dedicated to all-things-Patch, including US vs. UK, an interview with designer James Porto, review, signed goodies to be won, and much more super secret Hush, Hush related material!

Each stop on the tour will reveal an exclusive question and answer with Becca Fitzpatrick, so make sure to follow us every step of the way for your chance to snap up all the sneak peeks and potential prizes! Each blog will also be reviewing Crescendo in the run up to the tour, so keep your eyes peeled to hear what your favourite bloggers thought of this amazing book.

Simon & Schuster will also be celebrating on their Twitter page (@simonkids_UK), giving away exclusive early copies of Crescendo and updating you on all the tour action, tweeting reviews and posts as they come in. We’ll also be following Becca Fitzpatrick through her entire UK tour (more details on that to come later).

Please feel free to spread the word using the below banners, and we hope to see you there for a fortnight of all things Patch and Nora!

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Thanks so much for having me on your blog, Jenny! I’m really excited to be here to celebrate SHADE’s big UK debut.

Why did you decide to branch out from adult urban fantasy and write a YA novel?

I actually didn’t decide—the story decided for me.

SHADE originally started as an idea for a world where ghosts had been proven to exist, and where some lawyers would sue on their behalf so they could find peace. But for two whole years, the idea went nowhere, because I had no main character to give it that spark of life.

Then 16-year-old Aura popped into my head, and everything clicked. THIS was the next story I had to write. Within a week, I knew that Aura would be the first of an entire generation of ghost-seers, that her boyfriend would die and become a ghost, and that a Scottish hottie would complicate things. Seeing this world through Aura’s eyes unlocked the whole story in one big flood.

In general, some of my ideas just work better with teen characters, and others with adults. Right now, I have a new urban fantasy idea that hasn’t decided which it wants to be. It depends on which character jumps out and says, “It’s all about ME!”

(P.S.: SHADE wasn’t my first YA attempt. I wrote my first between 2003 and 2006, before I even knew there was such a thing as the “young adult genre.” It wasn’t very good, but it taught me a lot—plus, it was my first fictional encounter with the fateful Liquid Stupid.)

What have you found to be the biggest difference between writing for an adult and young adult audience?

I think the biggest difference in YA, in both writing and discussing the books, is that super intense focus on characters. Which I love! When I was a teen, I wanted to be an actor or a psychologist—I was fascinated by the way people thought and felt and behaved.

Teens are the first to say when someone is behaving “out of character,” because they spend a lot of time thinking and analyzing them. They get into it the same way an actor would study a part or a psychologist would ponder a patient.

It makes sense that they’d be so smart about this stuff—most teens are full-time students, so they literally think for a living.

Not that adults don’t think or care about characters—they do. But most e-mails I get that ask questions or share insights about Aura, Logan, and Zachary are from teens. It’s fun to meet people who care about the characters as much as I do!

Shade seems to be on the more mature side of YA, and that definitely shows through in your writing. Was that a conscious decision?

Nope, it’s just the way I write. I write about things that matter to me—and things that mattered to me as a teen. I’m so thankful that I can express them in a way that feels honest and real to me, and that my readers and my publisher feel the same way. That’s all any writer can ask for.

The fact is, a lot of teens deal with the same conflicts as Aura. Maybe they can’t see ghosts, and maybe they haven’t suffered a major tragedy, but they might face big decisions about sex or drugs or alcohol, or they might wonder how they fit in with their friends or family. They might feel utterly alone.

So if a teen reads SHADE and feels like someone out there understands them, if they feel a little less alone in the world, that means everything to me.

Ghosts are an area that currently seems underused in YA. Why do you think their popularity doesn’t rival that of, say, vampires and werewolves?

Simple: you can’t have sex with a ghost. Vampires and werewolves are partly about that forbidden animal side of us—they’re all about the physical. Ghosts are everything BUT physical.

That’s part of the agony of Aura and Logan’s relationship, because they still have those yearnings. At the same time, it makes them realize that their love is more than just lust. It’s really soul deep. Besides, there are ways to be creative…. *whistles innocently*

But I think ghosts in general can be very romantic, especially in a YA novel, where there is less emphasis on sex than in an adult romance. Like vampires, ghosts are dead, so they’ve got that tortured soul thing going on. And you know that a guy who’s still attractive despite being made of air is really someone special.

Shade’s leading lady Aura is such a strong, well-rounded character. Is she inspired by anyone in particular?

Thank you! Aura isn’t based on anyone in particular, although when I was a kid, I loved astronomy. (I even married an astronomer.) So Aura’s interest in the stars—and science in general—comes from my childhood passion.

Speaking of passions, with Aura I wanted to show that smart girls can still be interested in boys. Really, really interested. Love doesn’t mean turning off your brain, and intelligence doesn’t mean turning off your heart.

If you had the hardship of choosing between leading men Logan and Zachary, who would you go for?

Arrgh, hardship! My favorite is always the one whose scene I’m writing at the moment (or whose music I’m listening to). It’s a tough choice, because Logan has the guitar and the poet’s soul, but Zachary has the accent and, y’know, a body.

Overall, I am firmly on Team-Don’t-Make-Me-Choose. Actually, I’m the captain of that team.

In the name of research, did you get the chance to visit the UK and see the Scottish Highlands?

Not recently, but I spent six months in London when I was in college. A couple friends and I traveled through Scotland for a week. It’s by far my favorite place I’ve ever been. Every year for Christmas I get a scenic Scotland calendar, so that I can remember—and dream of the day when I return. Sigh…

But if I sell the third SHADE book, I plan to travel to Newgrange in Ireland, since part of that book takes place there. When we go, I hope to hop across the water to visit Zachary’s hometown of Glasgow. All in the name of research, of course.

What can you tell us about Shade’s sequel, Shift?

I promise it will be less tear-jerking than SHADE, and that the love triangle will be resolved rather than dragged out forever. We’ll get many answers about the Shift, some of which will lead to more questions. And there’ll be music, of course—always, always music.

Thanks very much for having me at Wondrous Reads!

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I’ve also had the “pleasure” of editing a video in which I appear. There are few things less pleasant than watching yourself on video. What’s even worse than when I’m talking in the video (hard to imagine that there could be something worse) is when I’m in the background when Roberta or Kate is talking. I’m always futzing with my hair or making screwy faces. What’s up with that? And what’s worse is that having this knowledge probably won’t make me do these things any less. Instead, next time I’ll probably be standing in the background, listening intently to what someone else is saying and absently mindedly futzing with my hair, and then I’ll think jeez, there I go again. But it won’t stop. C’est la vie.

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Matt Love and Willy Vlautin can’t help themselves. It’s in their blood. They’re both born story tellers for whom place plays an integral role in their stories. But one has chosen the route of nonfiction writing, while the other has opted for writing fiction.

After earning his master’s degree from Lewis and Clark College in 1988, Matt set off on his teaching career. After about a decade he became dissatisfied with the life he was living and moved to the Oregon Coast to take a teaching job at Neskowin Valley School, an independent country day school. The manager of the 600-acre Nestucca Bay National Wildlife Refuge was the father of one of his students, and he asked Matt if he would be interested in the caretaker’s position at the refuge, which offered the use of a small house in exchange for performing work at the refuge, a former dairy farm in dire need of restoration.

“The opportunity to become caretaker of this refuge was the greatest thing that ever happened to me,” Matt says. “It was the opportunity to get connected to the land, to get myself physically and mentally in shape.” It also gave him time to write. And, when not hacking lots and lots of Himalayan blackberries from the refuge property, Matt began to write, working on his own books and writing for a variety of publications.

In 2003 he launched Nestucca Spit Press. Matt has written five books, including his most recent, Gimme Refuge: The Education of a Caretaker, and has edited several, including Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology. In 2004 he realized that he was ready to teach again, that it was all coming together — the environmentalism, the teaching, and the writing — and since then he’s been teaching English and journalism at Newport High School. This fall he will be teaching a photography course (using cameras with film, I think!) —  the first time in 20 years the class has been offered at NHS. Matt left his caretaker’s position at the refuge after losing a fight to limit public access to the grounds.

Matt was awarded the 2009 Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award from Oregon Literary Arts for his contributions on behalf of Oregon’s literary and historical legacy.

About writing, Matt says, “Work hard, tap your passions for material, embrace solitude and put your ass to the chair are the only credos that seem to have worked for me.” Matt is all about passion, and when you read his books and columns, his passions are abundantly clear. Speaking about the new editor at the high school’s paper he says, “She seemd fired up. That’s what I like about her and other people who share this same trait…They get fired up. Whatever is not in their vocabulary.” I am pretty sure that “whatever” is not in Matt’s vocabulary either.

Willy Vlautin was born and raised in Reno, Nevada. He picked up a guitar and got into music, and at 20 became a big fan of the Australian singer/songwriter Paul Kelly. Kelly used Raymond Carver’s short story “So Much Water So Close to Home” to inspire the writing of lyrics for one of his albums, and Willy soon became hooked on Raymond Carver’s stories as well. Shortly after that he started writing stories himself, and he hasn’t stopped since. And his songwriting became story telling as well.

Willy moved to Portland and founded the band Richmond Fontaine in 1994. The band (whose name comes from an ex-pat hippie living in Mexico who rescued a bandmate in his pickup truck when his car broke down in the middle of the Baja California desert) has produced nine albums and a handful of live recordings and EPs. He chose Portland because he wanted to be in a “gentle” big city, and he wanted to be close enough to Reno that he could drive back in a day. After he moved here he became entranced by the Portland music scene. He also became very fond of the Portland Meadows racetrack, and spends a lot of his time writing there.

In his latest book, Lean on Pete, told through the eyes of 15-year-old Charley Thompson, a boy left to fend for himself by his wayward single father, Portland Meadows is the setting for much of the action. At the track, Charley befriends an aging quarter horse named Lean on Pete.

Willy has published two previous novels, The Motel Life and Northline — Northline comes packaged with its own soundtrack on CD. His books feature people with an edge, hardscrabble people living in the shadows, and he shows an empathy toward people whom life has beaten up and broken down. One reviewer said this about Willy’s writing: “The guys writes like the secret love child of Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor — just plain, true, tough, irony-free, heartrending American fiction about people living in the third-world sections of our country.” When I read Willy’s books I often want to shake his characters and say no don’t go there, because you can often see they’re heading down a bad path, but you can’t stop watching. And caring.

Willy says that “writing stories is what I do to keep my head straight, much more than caring about whether they get published.”

Like I said at the beginning, these guys can’t help it; they’re both born to write and to tell us stories. And lucky us, they’re both reading tonight at Broadway Books at 7 pm! So we hope you can join us. Come early to get a seat!

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