YA/NA blogfest

Hello! I'm excited to be part of the 2015 YA/NA blogfest.

Introducing my YA novel: Dangerous Addiction

Summary:

Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Hall is the girl in high school you’d ask for help with homework or to look at her notes if you missed a day. She is college bound. Her best friend calls her “Miss Goody Two-Shoes” because all she does is homework and read books.

Eighteen-year-old Joseph Cummings has broken every law he can and has no regrets. He has tattoo sleeves and gives a sinister glare to anyone who comes close. That is everyone except Cassandra.

Cassie finds Joey intriguing and sparks fly when she learns more about him. He keeps his past a secret, but she wants to know more. She keeps coming back to him as if he’s a breath of fresh air. Joey likes having a “good girl” around for a change. Despite the warnings of her friends and family, Cassie grows closer to Joey. If she’s not careful his criminal life will rub off on her, turning her into the cliché: a good girl gone bad.

Meet the cast:

Setting:

We begin in Brooklyn, New York. A place where Cassie grew up. She knows just about every street and secretly admires the graffiti art on the brick walls. Especially the one of a woman with rainbow hair.

Joey knows New York, but doesn't have a home address. He's been bounced from house to house and doesn't blend in. He stands out, especially with his ocean blue eyes and arms covered in tattoos.

Tell me more:

Beauty is all Cassie sees in the world. She never curses and always minds her manners. She's so good it annoys her best friend Mindy to the core sometimes. Her parents want her to attend NYU to be close to home and then branch out after her first two years. Her three "smart friends", as Mindy calls them, are all driven to get into the best colleges. You'd think they'd inspire Cassie...

Everything changes when Joey starts at Freeman High School. He's dangerous, taboo, and her parents disapprove of him.

Rumor has it Joey is a criminal. Worse, there's whispers he's in the Black Skull, a notorious gang that's infected the US from coast to coast.

Dangerous Addiction is a novel about romance and how something that feels so good may not be what it seems. 

This book currently isn't officially published. I'm still looking for an agent. You can read it here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/1315448-dangerous-addiction-new-version-a-hooked-novel

Dangerous Addiction is part of my Hooked series. If you love this novel then you can check out another novel from the series: Razor Blade Kisses, also on Wattpad.

Summary:

With an overworked mother and an alcoholic for a father, seventeen-year-old Rachel Montgomery’s life no longer resembles her idyllic childhood. To escape the agony, Rachel cuts, letting her pain bleed away in scarlet drops. 

When tragedy hits, Rachel is unsure how she's going to make it through senior year. Then Derek, the handsome stranger she met at a party, offers to take her away from her problems. Tempted by the allure of a new life, Rachel runs away with him, only to discover her new friend is a Las Vegas drug lord. Rachel must decide whom to trust and find where she belongs, otherwise she'll fall into the underbelly of Vegas.

The Hooked series follows different girls and shows how one addiction can take over your life.

For Cassandra, it's a boy...

For Rachel, it's cutting...

For the other girls...you'll just have to wait for their stories

All lives intertwine and nothing is the same again.

I'm twenty-three, lived in Arizona all my life, and a recently graduated from ASU. I was a communication major and a film minor, but to be honest I loved my film classes 10x more than my comm ones.

I first wrote poetry after high school and then moved toward writing novels. Amy Lee of Evanescence kicked started my desire to write. Since then there's countless bands who drive me. To date I have eleven novels finished and countless more in my head.

I'm addicted to going to concerts and I have a book hoarding problem. I own four cats and a German Sheppard mix. When not writing I'm catching up on my favorite TV shows or reading a good book.

My dream is to turn my books, once published, into films. I also would like to turn my trilogy about a rock star into a TV show, already have the pilot written.

Connect with me:

Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/user/fatalkiss

Twitter: https://twitter.com/FatalKiss19EV

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Taking-Over-Me/187796214602245

The Writer's Voice Contest 2015: Query and first 250 words

Thank you for letting me be a part of this awesome contest! Below you can find my query and first 250 words for my NA romance, SHADES OF SYDNEY. 

Query:

Dear Amazing Agents:

Sydney West enjoys sampling summer boys. This year, though, one refuses to be just a one-night stand. 

Twenty-one-year-old Sydney doesn’t believe in relationships. Her parents’ toxic divorce has taught her love is nothing but a sinister fairy tale. So every year when she drives to Malibu, she parties, hooks up, abandons lover before dawn, passes out, then repeats.

At the beach, Sydney meets gorgeous local surfer Jason King. When Jason doesn’t flirt with Sydney, she wonders why he doesn’t want her like all the other guys do. However, when their best friends become Malibu's hottest item, Sydney and Jason are forced to spend more time together than they bargained for.

Sydney thinks she’s too cold-hearted to let anyone in, and uses her sharp tongue to keep Jason away. But one night at a party, she lets down her guard after a few drinks and tells Jason about her parents’ dysfunctional relationship. He is the first person who can see straight to her core and begins to care about her. When they sleep together, Sydney runs out on him like she does everyone else, but this time something has changed. Jason doesn’t want to be another one-night stand, and will do anything to prove to her love exists. Sydney fears letting Jason in, thinking he’ll break her heart, and confirm every doubt she has about love. She must find it in herself to trust Jason, or remain an empty shell, never knowing what love truly is.

Complete at 73,000 words, SHADES OF SYDNEY is a new adult romance novel. The manuscript has a completed sequel, but could also serve as a standalone. The novel will appeal to readers of Christina Lee and Jamie McGuire.

I'm a recent graduate from Arizona State University. I received my Bachelor of Science in Communication with a Film and Media Production minor. I have directed two student films and been the screenwriter to three. I have also been a part of three other student films. I post some of my work on an online writing community, called Wattpad, in my free time.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Brittney Coon

First 250 Words:

Something heavy fell on me, forcing me to sit up. I opened my eyes and found my best friend, Amelia Knight, sitting on me, screeching worse than any alarm could, about some beach party. I reached for her off button, but it was in vain.

“Get up! You’re wasting time! We need to go to the mall and buy something sexy for the party.”

“Do you really have to bother me now? What time is it?” I moaned, grabbing a pillow and covering my face with it. Didn’t I deserve rest? I did drive hours to get here.

She slipped off the bed and nudged the side with her leg, making it shake. “It’s one in the afternoon.”

I refused to move so she stole my pillow from me. A burning sensation stung my eyes as Amelia kept turning the lights on and off.

“Will you cut it out on the lights?” I asked, rolling over.

“Sure,” she said, and left them on.

I reached for my second pillow. With it planted over my head, in a steel grip, sweet darkness encased me again. Amelia went back to hitting my bed with her leg and chanting my name.

I missed the starstruck Amelia who rode shotgun with me. She was over the moon about California. When we reached the city she oohed and ahhed over the large tangled highways, the signs pointing to Disneyland, the Hollywood sign, at anything in general. Amelia had never spent time in California and acted like such a tourist.