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Lookout Weekend, Readers are here & ready for fun! Today, I am participating in a tour for Mia Sousa and sharing Crashing Into Her – The 3rd book in the Love On Cue contemporary romance series! Enjoy and don’t forget to enter the giveaway!
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Crashing Into Her by Mia Sosa
Series Love On Cue (Each book is a standalone.)
Genre Adult Contemporary Romance
Publisher Avon Impulse
Publication Date February 19, 2019
“Mia Sosa delivers wish fulfillment with off-the-charts sparks.”—Entertainment Weekly
Relationships are a thing of the past for Eva Montgomery. Her current motto? You can’t spell “manipulative” without man. But Eva has needs, and a one-night-stand at her best friend’s wedding is the perfect way to kick off her new approach to singledom. Then a job opportunity puts her in the same city with the guy she can’t forget . . .
Anthony Castillo is a perpetual bachelor—no strings, just flings—a status he maintains by being honest about his intentions and never looking back. So why is he still thinking about the firecracker of a woman who rocked his world at his cousin’s wedding? It’s a question he refuses to answer, until she comes crashing back into his life, taking his emotional walls down with her.
When her father doubts her ability to make it in LA, Eva vows to go big and prove him wrong. With her athletic background, she’s an ideal candidate for stunt work. But first she’ll need training, and the instructor is none other than her former hookup, Anthony Castillo. Except he’s not as cocky as she remembers and he’s definitely still sexy as sin. The only problem is . . . Anthony doesn’t want her anywhere near his stunt school—or his heart.
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Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39735918-crashing-into-her
BookBub - https://www.bookbub.com/books/crashing-into-her-by-mia-sosa
Rifle - https://www.rifflebooks.com/books/1040727
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AVAILABLE in print or ebook
Amazon https://amzn.to/2SFdMZ5
Avon Romance https://goo.gl/2MFe8E
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iBooks https://apple.co/2TBqiJe
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Welcome Mia Sosa, I am so glad that you could join me today!
Readers, I asked Mia Sosa to tell us readers about the process of researching stunt work and what her heroine would have to do in order to succeed.
SOMETIMES WE WRITE WHAT WE DON’T KNOW
By Mia Sosa
Thanks so much to Stormy Vixen’s Book Reviews for having me on the blog today!
As writers we’re often advised to write what we know. In many situations, that advice makes sense. We do tend to write richer, more nuanced stories when we bring a wealth of knowledge about a topic to the table. But writers of fiction know there’s an exciting world out there ready to be discovered between the pages of a book and sometimes (but not always) research can provide enough information to help you tell a compelling tale. Take my experience, for example. I recently published Crashing Into Her, a fun and flirty romance about a one-night stand that turns into so much more when a Hollywood stunt professional trains the woman he wants to forget. Spoiler alert: I knew absolutely nothing about stunt training before I wrote the book. But I wasn’t going to let ignorance stop me from writing the story I’d envisioned, so I did what every romance writer does at some point during the drafting process—research.
For this project, Google was my friend. I searched for general descriptions of stunt work, studied stunt school websites to learn what courses they offered, read about the stunt industry and how a person joins the Screen Actors Guild to get stunt work, and more. I also read articles describing a day in the life of a stunt person. Oh, and I studied hours and hours of stunt training videos showing how people learn to perform stunts and the special tricks professionals use to make a stunt look like the real deal.
As you might imagine, most stunt people in Hollywood are men. But a spate of big-budget action flicks featuring kickass heroines—Black Panther, Proud Mary, Wonder Woman, and more—have led to a demand for women stunt actors. In fact, Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther, has talked about his difficulties finding stunt women to play members of the Dora Milaje in that film and his decision to use black female athletes and gymnasts to perform those roles. I thought about this when I was writing Crashing Into Her because I knew my heroine, Eva, who is African American, would need the kind of physical background that would make her a viable candidate for the kinds of gigs she’d want to land in this new environment. So Eva comes to the business with the right skill set, but she also takes it one step further by signing up for training (which, by the way, is when a lot of the fun in this book happens). As far as where she ends up on her journey to becoming a stunt professional, you’ll need to read the book to get that answer. Think of it as research—fun research at that.
Thanks so much, Mia! That is quite fascinating and I can’t wait to read Crashing Into Her! How about you, readers? Do you find what Mia had to say as interesting as I do?
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TOUR WIDE GIVEAWAY DETAILS
To celebrate the release of CRASHING INTO HER by Mia Sosa, we’re giving away three paperback copies of the book!
LINK: https://bit.ly/2VzM9mc
GIVEAWAY TERMS & CONDITIONS: Open to US shipping addresses only. Three winners will each receive a paperback copy of Crashing Into Her by Mia Sosa. This giveaway is administered by Pure Textuality PR on behalf of Avon Romance. Giveaway ends 3/3/2019 @ 11:59pm EST. Avon Romance will send the winning copies out to the winner directly. Limit one entry per reader and mailing address. Duplicates will be deleted.
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MIA SOSA was born and raised in New York City. She attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in Communications and met her own romance hero (spoiler alert: she married him). Mia once dreamed of being a professional singer, but practical considerations (read: the need to generate income) led her to take the law school admissions test instead.
A graduate of Yale Law School, Mia practiced First Amendment and media law in the nation’s capital for ten years before returning to her creative roots. Now she spends most of her days writing contemporary romances about smart women and the complicated men who love them. Mia lives in Maryland with her husband and two daughters and will forever be on the hunt for the perfect karaoke bar.
Website https://www.miasosa.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/miasosa.author
Twitter https://twitter.com/miasosaromance
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14552097.Mia_Sosa
Amazon http://amzn.to/2olGP6D
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