Title: Emancipating Andie
Author: Priscilla Glenn
Release date: April 27, 2013
Age Group: Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Event organized by: AToMR Tours
Ever
since the one time Andie Weber threw caution to the wind - and paid the price
for it - she’s learned that it’s safer and smarter to live life playing by the
rules. Now she’s got a great apartment, a steady job, and a wonderful boyfriend
in Colin; he’s sweet, stable, and essentially perfect – except maybe for the
fact that his best friend is Chase.
Chase McGuire lives his carefree, unstructured life strictly for himself.
Dripping sarcasm and oozing wit, he refuses to censor his feelings or opinions
for anyone, making no apologies for either and wearing his abrasiveness like a
badge of honor. No one has ever gotten under Andie’s skin the way Chase does –
and vice versa.
So when Andie and Chase find themselves forced to take a two-day road trip together,
they are already dreading an inevitable all-out war. But as the trip
progresses, and the undeniable friction that has always defined their
relationship slowly begins to wear away their preconceived notions of each
other, Andie and Chase discover they both have a lot to learn about life,
courage, happiness, and the age-old battle between logic and love.
About
the Author
Priscilla Glenn lives
in New York with her husband and three children. She has been teaching English
Language Arts at the middle and high school levels for the past eleven years
while moonlighting as a writer, mommy, coach, student, and professional
laundry-doer.
If you catch her when
she's feeling sophisticated, she'll tell you her favorite things are great
books and good wine. In the moments in between, she'll admit her love for
anything Ben and Jerry's, UFC fights, and Robert Pattinson.
Emancipating Andie is Glenn’s second novel. She is also the
author of the contemporary romance/young adult crossover, Back to You.
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The
Inspiration for Emancipating Andie
It all began with a girls’ night and a few bottles
of wine. (Don’t all great stories start that way?) Somehow we began discussing
the topic of “celebrity freebies” and one of my good friends said of her
freebie, “I would give anything to be trapped in a room with him for a week.” I
didn’t think anything of it that night; in fact, I believe my blood-alcohol
content at the time would only allow me to nod furiously and conjure up my own
“trapped” fantasy with my celebrity freebie. (Or freebies. I may or may not
have three of them. But my husband did
approve them all, and that’s what counts, right?)
It was some time the next day that I started
thinking about that concept, the whole “trapped for a week with someone”
scenario. I understand the idea behind it: you’d love to be isolated with
(insert object of fantasy here) so you can treat their body like your own
personal amusement park. Totally get it. But if you look at it realistically
(not the point of a fantasy, I know -
I’m such a party pooper) how long could you actually keep up that charade? If
you were really stranded with someone
for a week, eventually, you would need a breather, right? So at some point, you
would end up simply spending time together. And I thought, “Hmm, I wonder - if
I were stranded with (Robert Pattinson, Caleb Followill, or Georges St.
Pierre…don’t judge me), would I still swoon for him once the ‘amusement park’
part was over?” I’m sure you would learn a lot about someone, being trapped
together for an extended period of time. Would that end up fostering the crush
on that person, or extinguishing it?
And then I thought, “Well, what about the reverse?
What if you were stuck with someone you hated? Could that ‘trapped’ time
together actually end with you liking them?”
And voila, the idea for Emancipating
Andie was born.
For the record, I would still chance a week trapped
with one (or all) of my freebies, knowing it could very well end in disaster.
Just felt I should put that out there in case any of them happen to frequent
romance book blogs in their spare time.
:) Happy reading!
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