Happy
Birthday to EVERNIGHT TEEN!
EVERNIGHT
TEEN turns two this month and we’re having a huge party to celebrate! It
may be EVERNIGHT TEEN’s birthday, but you get the presents. So, grab a piece of
cake, hop from blog-to-blog and discover EVERNIGHT TEEN!
Be sure to visit every stop on the hop and
answer each question. The more blogs you hop to, the more chances to win the GRAND PRIZE of an iPad Mini sponsored
by EVERNIGHT
TEEN (one entry per blog). Plus, hop to each blog
for a host of other fabulous prizes.
Have your TBR list handy because we have lots
of new titles for you to add, including my featured book, FOREIGN EXCHANGE:
Jamie
Monroe has always played it safe. That is, until her live-for-the-moment best
friend, Tristan, jets off to Italy on a student exchange program. Left alone
with her part-time mother and her disabled brother, Jamie discovers that she is
quite capable of taking her own risks, starting with her best friend’s
hotter-than-hot older brother, Sawyer. Sawyer and Tristan have been neighbors
for years, but as Jamie grows closer to the family she thought she knew, she
discovers some pretty big secrets.
As she
sinks deeper into their web of pretense, she suspects that her best friend may
not be on a safe exchange program at all. Jamie sets off to Europe on a class
trip with plans to meet up with Tristan, but when Tristan stops all
communication, suddenly no one seems trustworthy, least of all the one person
she was starting to trust—Sawyer.
I had a lot of fun writing about Jamie, Sawyer, and
Tristan in many different situations before I found the perfect opening. As a special surprise, I've shared below my very first pages of the first draft of this book. I hope
you enjoy this early excerpt!
Chapter One
It
should be illegal for girls over five-seven to wear heels. And I’m not saying
that because I’m jealous. Believe me. It’s just that when you’re five-two and not a lesbian, there are better ways to
spend your day than staring at forty-eight female breasts.
And
to be honest, they all look the same from this angle.
But
then, I guess that’s the point, isn’t it? To look like a herd of perfect,
beautiful, tall bodies. That’s why
people will come to this fashion show. To see beautiful bodies in beautiful
clothing. That’s why it will pay my way to Spain.
The
actual show isn’t for two weeks, Labor Day Weekend, right before school starts
up. It’s billed as a back-to-school event, but looking over the rack of outfits
the stores are supplying, I’m sure our crowd will be made up of mainly skanky
over-forty women and leery-eyed men.
“Can
these hemlines get any higher?” my best friend Tristan asks, spinning in front
of the mirror to see if her underwear shows. If she’s wearing any, that is. If
there are two things I’ve learned about models in the last six weeks they’re
these:
1. Models
are not shy about their bodies. By not shy, I mean they’d walk through the mall
in their own bra, or even without it, if it meant getting to the stage on time.
2. If
models wear any underwear at all, it’s usually thinner than the dental floss in
my bathroom cabinet.
“Any
cheek, Jamie?” Tristan is the one and only model I’ve ever met who cares at
least a little bit about how much of her goods she’s showing. But she’s still
ruled by the dental-floss underwear rule.
“Yeah,
there’s cheek,” I tell her with a smirk. “But not under the dress.”
If
Tristan’s one thing, it’s cheeky. She’s also smart, funny, beautiful, popular,
and fiercely loyal. To me. Which means I’m fiercely loyal right back.
You can read the final version of the first chapter at http://www.denisejaden.com/denisejadenbooks.html
Enter for a chance to win EVERNIGHT TEEN’s
GRAND PRIZE of an iPad Mini and my blog prize (a digital copy of FOREIGN EXCHANGE!) by answering this question (be
sure to include your email address to be eligible to win):
Have you ever had a good friend who was the opposite of you in some way? In what way was he/she different?
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