Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance by Danielle Younge-Ullman YA #giveaway @DanielleYUllman @EntangledTeen
Her name was Lola and we have her stopping by our blog today, or at least a book about a girl named Lola. We are one of the stops on the Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance blog tour. For our stop author Danielle Younge-Ullman has a guest post and there's a nice tour-wide giveaway to enter. Thanks for stopping by and now, meet Lola!
Lola Carlyle's 12-Step Romance
Release Date: 05/05/15
Entangled Teen
Summary from Goodreads:
Lola Carlyle is lonely, out of
sorts, and in for a boring summer. So when her best friend, Sydney, calls to
rave about her stay at a posh Malibu rehab and reveals that the love of Lola’s
life, Wade Miller, is being admitted, she knows what she has to do. Never mind
that her worst addiction is decaf cappuccino; Lola is going to rehab.
Lola arrives at Sunrise Rehab
intent solely on finding Wade, saving him from himself, and—naturally—making
him fall in love with her…only to discover she’s actually expected to be an
addict. And get treatment. And talk about her issues with her parents, and with
herself. Plus she has insane roommates, and an irritatingly attractive mentor,
Adam, who’s determined to thwart her at every turn.
Oh, and Sydney? She’s gone.
Turns out, once her pride, her
defenses, and her best friend are stripped away, Lola realizes she’s actually
got a lot to overcome…if she can open her heart long enough to let it happen.
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#2: The 12 Steps,
according to LOLA
Alcohol Anonymous and many other addiction programs use the
12 Steps—ie 12 steps to getting and staying sober. Lola, the protagonist of my
new YA novel, LOLA CARLYLE’S 12 STEP ROMANCE, fakes her way into rehab for a
purpose other than treatment. She’s there for love. Well, she wants to help her
crush, Wade Miller, get over whatever his problem is, but then ideally she
hopes he’ll fall in love with her.
So there are the official 12 Steps, and then there are
Lola’s 12 Steps…
Step 1: Okay: this only works if you’re lonely and bored,
and maybe a little bit secretly screwed up. (You might need to have some
“issues” to be crazy enough to do this in the first place.) If you are all of
those things, then step one is you need to find someone in rehab—ideally a cute
boy—who needs rescuing—from himself/rehab/addiction itself. This is a
two-birds-one-stone solution—you do a good deed, and ideally get a boyfriend
out of it.
Step 2: Begin to fake symptoms of alcoholism.
Step 3: Order your “rehab” wardrobe so that you are ready
when parents are finally convinced/concerned enough to notice your supposed
addiction.
Step 4: If your parents are horribly slow to notice your
increasingly atrocious and alarming behavior, stage your own intervention.
Step 5: Use every possible means to get sent to the rehab
where your love interest/rescue mission is currently in treatment. (This part
is key. Know where you’re going. Make sure it’s where your parents decide to
send you or this could be a disaster.)
Step 6: Throw yourself headlong into fitness and spa
treatments that will bring on intense glow, beauty, and relaxation in preparation
for seeing boy. (This is the plan, anyway. Be prepared to be flexible.)
Step 7: Find love interest and dazzle him with
aforementioned glow and beauty, and then…
Step 8: Help love interest kick his addiction. This should
only require a few common sense conversations and maybe some long, sweet, walks
on the beach. Easy peasy.
Step 9: Break whatever rules necessary and dodge
consequences of breaking rules to make all of this happen. (How hard can it
be?)
Step 10: Convince love interest, as he is kicking the
addiction, that you are the absolute love of his life and he cannot live
without you. Ignore any and all signs that he may be in worse shape than you
expected, or more trouble than he’s worth. (Also…avoid becoming attracted to
anyone else in rehab as this will complicate and confuse your mission.)
Step 11: Avoid, at all
costs the biggest unforeseen consequence of faking your way into rehab,
which is a massive emotional meltdown, brought on by all the unwanted therapy
and programs aimed at proving to you that you are totally screwed up, even if
you’re not an official addict.
Step 12: Leave rehab with love interest, and live happily ever
after. (That’s the plan, and you’re sticking to it.)
To see how this works out for Lola... you guessed it—you’ll
have to read the book!
Thanks so much for hosting me today.
About the Author
Danielle Younge-Ullman is a novelist, playwright and
freelance writer. She studied English and Theater at McGill University,
then returned to her hometown of Toronto to work as professional actor for ten
years. Danielle’s short story, Reconciliation, was published in MODERN
MORSELS—a McGraw-Hill Anthology for young adults—in 2012, her one-act
play, 7 Acts of Intercourse, debuted at Toronto's SummerWorks Festival in 2005,
and her adult novel, FALLING UNDER, was published by Penguin in 2008.
Danielle lives in Toronto with her husband and two daughters.
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