BOOK BLITZ - WHATEVER IT TAKES - NOTHING BUT TROUBLE BY LINDSEY POGUE

Title: Whatever It Takes 

Series: Nothing But Trouble, #1
Author: Lindsey Pogue
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
Publication date: January 22nd 2016

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Four years ago, I thought my life was pretty normal for a teenager. Three years ago, my world was shattered, and now I’m just trying to hold the pieces together. But regret and anger aren’t so easy to ignore.

I just need to catch my breath … for it all to go away …

I thought I might finally be ready to move on from that horrible night, but then he decided to come back.

He can’t come back … he’ll ruin me completely.

One horror-filled night changes the course of Samantha’s seemingly normal life. She’s ruined everything. Despite her determination to keep the family ranch up and running, her guilt makes it impossible to completely move on or forget.

Sam takes comfort in her quirky, endearing friends as she tries to balance between the girl she was and the woman she wants to become. Just when she thinks she’s finally making amends with her past, someone she never thought she’d see again returns, and Sam’s life is once again turned upside down. Both her head and her heart want different things, so she’s lost when, once again, she’s forced to make a decision that will inevitably change her life.

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~contemporary is a genre I don't always enjoy but I like the sound of the blurb for this one and having read Lindsey Pogue's The Ending Series, I think I will be adding this one to my Want To Read Wishlist ~ Jeanz

EXCERPT

I lose myself to the sound of zipping harmonicas and anthems about bayous, outlaws, and rambling men. The wistful sound reminds me of happier times, despite the pang of sadness it elicits from nudging, less-welcome memories, too. There’s something about classic rock ’n’ roll that makes me feel at home.

I let the music and the amber liquid that once again flows through me dull the pain. It makes me feel lighter as I dance and sing around the fire with Mac and Savannah. And it just so happens that Mac had been right, hair of the dog—a lot of it—was just what I’d needed to perk my wilting mood right back up again. I’m unable to remember the last time I felt this good.

“So is this like a Native American beer dance or something?” Nick asks, and Reilly barks a laugh, clearly amused.

“You’re just jealous you’re not having as much fun,” Savannah drawls.

“Yeah, that’s exactly what it is.” Nick smirks and pulls away from Savannah as she tries tugging him up from his camping chair.

“Come dance with us.” Her voice sounds more like a whine, and I can’t help but laugh at how drunk she is.

“No, no, no,” he says. “I don’t dance, especially not like that.”

TEASERS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lindsey Pogue has always been a little creative. As a child she established a bug hospital on her elementary school soccer field, wrote her first YA manuscript in high school, and as an adult, expresses herself through writing. Her novels are inspired by her observations of the world around her—whether she’s traveling, people watching, or hiking. When not plotting her next storyline or dreaming up new, brooding characters, Lindsey’s wrapped in blankets watching her favorite action flicks or going on road trips with her own leading man.

AUTHOR LINKS

http://www.lindseypogue.com/

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6551704.Lindsey_Pogue

https://www.facebook.com/lindseypogueauthor/

https://twitter.com/lindseyrpogue

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Q & A WITH

LINDSEY POGUE

What made you first decide to become a writer?

It has always been easier for me to write down how I feel opposed to communicating it to someone aloud. I started writing in journals at a very young age and inevitably my ideas, dreams, and life experiences starting turning into more than that. Little bits and pieces of my observations and of my life turned into storylines, and soon fictional characters and plots began to develop until I had so many story ideas that I had to invest in cases of floppy disks (yes, real plastic floppy disks) to save all my stories onto. I’ve been writing so long that as I go back now and read through some of my stories from ten years ago, I can’t help but laugh because they are so horrible and yet so refreshing and awesome.

You’ve published dystopian and new adult stories, and you have historical adventures in the works. What is your genre?

Writing stories is like eating Skittles, I want to taste the rainbow. After all, writing and reading is about losing yourself in something else, right? Someone else’s life, a place faraway… I want to write them all—the fantastical and gritty real life—and just thinking about the possibilities gets my gears turning and revved up for my next writing adventure. Let me tell you, when your book doesn’t fit nicely into a perfect genre package, you open yourself up to harsher reviews from people who were expecting one book but got another and your book is much more difficult to market.  BUT, over the past few years, especially working on The Ending Series, I’ve realized something: nothing is black and white. There are tons of authors out there who write historical fiction and paranormal romance, erotica and thrillers. If I want to be myself, to write what I’m passionate about, I’m going to be all over the place. For instance, I’m infatuated with history, have lived the true life gritty stuff, love adventure and happily ever after, so why not write about it all? Life is all about exploration, so why should writing be any different?

Is it difficult to switch gears after finishing up The Ending Series and now working on a contemporary new adult series?

My answer is yes, it is for me. When I’m writing, it takes a lot to get into my characters and once I do, the last thing I want is to jump back and forth. While I was working on Whatever It Takes in between Ending Series books, that probably won’t be the case moving forward. I have limited writing time, and in order to make the best of it, I need to keep myself focused, something that is difficult for me. I’m like a squirrel with shiny objects; I have so many different stories I want to write about, if I don’t stay focused, I’ll start them all and finish none of them.

~Just have to have a fan girly moment here and say I have read the first two novels and some of the novella's from The Ending Series and I have love, love loved everyone more than the last! ~ Jeanz

What other stories do you have in the works? 

Besides the rest of the Nothing But Trouble Series (Mac and Nick’s stories), I started a historical/adventure/romance, Wrecked. It’s essentially Jane Austen meets Swiss Family Robinson. I wanted to explore life and society in 19th century England and America and what would happen if idealistic romance met survival adventure. What would conversations sound like and what would relationships and social class barriers look like in an era turned upside down, when women weren’t allowed to show their ankles and everyone was expected to say and do the “proper” thing. What happens when you’re bred one way but thrust into a whole new world where survival is all that really matters?

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