BOOK BLITZ: Travel Diaries of the Dead and Delusional by Lauren Nicolle Taylor

We are excited to kick off this Book Blitz for Lauren Nicolle Taylor's Travel Diaries of the Dead and Delusional! Today, we do celebrate the book birthday for the latest YA contemporary romance from Lauren Nicolle Taylor! We have an exclusive excerpt AND a blitz-wide giveaway to share in celebration of this release! So... Check it out and grab your copy now!!!

Genre:

Young Adult

Contemporary Romance

Publish Date:

February 18, 2019

Publisher:

Clean Teen Publishing

Synopsis:

Nineteen-year-old Langley is crazy…like get out the straight jacket and prepare the padded room kind of crazy. She knows it, and the kicker is—she’s choosing to stay that way. She clings to the persistent and intrusive hallucination of her dead sister by choice. Sure, it might be nice to live life in the real world. But not if it means she has to let Sarah go.

Tupper’s life is charmed. He has loving adoptive parents, and several athletic college scholarships on the table. But his passion is for the arts, for the beauty of solid ink lines on paper. His illustrations are eerily similar to a keepsake from his birth mother, Anna: comic-book-style drawings scrawled across an old map…her version of a travel diary. At eighteen, Tupper sidesteps his planned future and starts his journey where Anna’s ended—following her map from Kansas City to Canada. His travels will put him on a collision course with Langley, and their bond is palpable from the start. But secrets will push between them—Sarah and Anna, two ghosts who could sink their icy fingers into the teens and tear them apart.

Perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover’s Hopeless and John Green’s Paper Towns, Travel Diaries of the Dead and Delusional is a unique and robust novel that explores themes of mental-illness and self-discovery from three distinct perspectives. Lauren Nicolle Taylor is the award-winning and best-selling author of Nora and Kettle and the beloved Woodlands series, among others.

“A story of love and loss, adventure, and coming into one’s own, Travel Diaries of the Dead and Delusional is a thoughtful, poignant road trip adventure that delivers hope through its melancholy.” ~Hannah Williams, Foreword Reviews Magazine

       

  

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**About the Author**

Lauren Nicolle Taylor is the bestselling author of THE WOODLANDS SERIES and the award-winning YA novel NORA & KETTLE (Gold medal Winner for Multicultural fiction, Independent Publishers Book Awards 2017). 

She has a Health Science degree and an honors degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology. A full time writer, hapa and artist, Lauren lives in the tucked away, Adelaide hills with her husband and three children.

Stay connected with Lauren Nicolle Taylor

    

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BOOK BLITZ: Hiro Loves Kite by Lauren Nicolle Taylor

Today, we are kicking off week-long Book Blitz for Lauren Nicolle Taylor's Hiro Loves Kite, book 2 in the Paper Stars series! And, it is a happy book birthday today! So, to celebrate this release, we get a behind-the-scenes look at "why Lauren wrote Hiro Loves Kite", AND a cool blitz-wide giveaway! So... Check it out and grab your copy now!!!


Genre:
Young Adult
Historical Fiction
Series:
Paper Stars, #2
Publish Date:
August 27, 2018
Publisher:
Clean Teen Publishing

Synopsis:
We offer our wounds and scars. Understanding that’s part of what makes us beautiful.

Nora finally has her beloved sister Frankie back but that’s just the beginning of their struggles. She must now become Kite. A stronger, more independent version of herself. A King. A guardian.

And Kettle has Kite’s heart. She gives it freely. But as he holds it, dear and close like a lost treasure, something holds him back: A feeling that he doesn’t deserve good things. A looming shadow that threatens to separate them. Kettle must accept that he is also Hiro: A Japanese American with every right to happiness and freedom.

Because Hiro loves Kite. And Kite won’t wait forever for him to tell her.

But they’re standing on icy ground. As the leverage they had on Kite’s abusive father wavers and life on the street affects Frankie’s health, the challenges threaten to break their bond. 


Snow is gathering at the station doors and doubts are piling high. They must rely on each other. Believe in the magic that got them this far. If they don’t, it’s not just their future in jeopardy but the fates of all the street kids in their care. All the Kings.

       

  

*Why Lauren Wrote Hiro Loves Kite*

There were a few reasons for writing Hiro Loves Kite. All good ones. All necessary ones. The first being that I had just come out of a professional relationship that had left me feeling creatively hand cuffed for two years. I needed to write just to write. Not worry about whether it would be published or where it was going. I needed to get back to the writer I used to be before this happened. So I returned to the last work I produced pre-handcuffs. Nora and Kettle. Straight after I’d finished that book, I’d quickly written an outline for if I ever chose to continue their story. I searched my computer for it and luckily, it was still there waiting for me. The outline refreshed my memory and then the words just flew from my fingertips.

The second and more important reason was that Nora and Kettle needed their story continued. Sometimes a story just hangs in the background. Lurking. Pitching itself forward whenever your brain has a story gap. At the end of the first book, hope was pinned to the sky. Nora had confronted her father and was taking steps toward independence, Kettle had just started to understand his feelings for Nora and was coming closer to acceptance of his heritage and Frankie was still missing. And although, I intended the ending to be open. The characters kept calling out for their story to be completed.

I wanted to know, just as much as the readers who had contacted me over the last few years, what happened next. Did Nora and Kettle find Frankie? Did their relationship develop into something more? Did Kin recover? Would Christopher Deere ever get his comeuppance?

And now I know! If you want to find out, well, I guess you might have to have a read of Hiro Loves Kite.

Binge read the Paper Stars series now...

 

(cover links to Goodreads)

       
  
*Book 1, Nora & Kettle, is currently FREE*

Read my review of Nora & Kettle on Goodreads

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**About the Author**

Lauren Nicolle Taylor is the bestselling author of THE WOODLANDS SERIES and the award-winning YA novel NORA & KETTLE (Gold medal Winner for Multicultural fiction, Independent Publishers Book Awards 2017). 

She has a Health Science degree and an honors degree in Obstetrics and Gynecology. A full time writer, hapa and artist, Lauren lives in the tucked away, Adelaide hills with her husband and three children.

Stay connected with Lauren Nicolle Taylor

     

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***The Giveaway***

Giveaway is Open Internationally

Note: Not Responsible for Lost & Damaged Prizes in Your Mail Box

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