Reader Girls Blog

Fans of Jane Austen and YA books will want to read Cecilia Gray's "retelling"  series of Austen's classic stories for today's modern reader. The second book, So Into You , is on tour and we're one of the stops on the tour presented by AToMR Book Blog Tours. There's a giveaway too an it's open internationally. So Into You (The Jane Austen Academy series, #2) by Cecilia Gray ebook, 125 pagesPublished July 15th 2012 by The Alpha Division, LLC Amazon   BN   Apple   Google    Goodreads Modern retelling/based on Sense & Sensibility . The last thing that the girls at the elite Jane Austen Academy need is guys. But over the summer the school has been sold, and like it or not, the guys are coming. And they're about to turn the Academy—and the lives of its students—totally upside down… Meet sweet and sensible Ellie who hasn’t met a problem her mom’s yoga mantras can’t fix. But when her parents threaten...

The following is a promotional event hosted by AToMR Book Blog Tours . Courtney Cole as You’ve Never Seen Her So, you may know that my Twitter handle is @CourtwritesYA. The YA, of course, stands for Young Adult. I’ve written ten books and all of them are YA and NA. EXCEPT for my newest release, Of Blood and Bone .  What the heck? Courtney Cole wrote adult fiction?? This seems to be a common question that I’m hearing this past week or two. And the answer is…. Heck yeah, I did. Of Blood and Bone contains a LOT of adult content…racy sex, seduction, violence. There’s even some blood. You know, the good stuff. And it is not PG-13 in any way, shape or form.  Why did I do this? Well. Simply put… I wanted to.  One day, a couple of years ago, I was watching Dexter (the Showtime series about a serial killer) and for some reason, a storyline popped into my head about a woman who fell in love with a serial killer. The more I thought about it, t...