Rebekah now spends her day carpooling kids or tucked behind a laptop at 7,500 ft high in the Rockies, where the altitude only enhances the writing experience.
Now, let's get to know this badass a little better...
What is your favorite word?
Juxtaposition
What is your least favorite word?
Discharge
What sound or noise do you love?
A rushing mountain stream
A rushing mountain stream
What sound or noise do you hate?
The sound of someone vomiting. GAH.
The sound of someone vomiting. GAH.
What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
SOAP OPERA STAR. Best. Job. Ever.
SOAP OPERA STAR. Best. Job. Ever.
What profession would you not like to do?
Bus
driver. It’s like Groundhog Day. Same route. Different day. And my butt would
hurt from sitting all the time.
What
is your favorite color Popsicle?
Orange
Sprinklers
or Slip N Slide?
Slip
N’ Slide!!
Favorite
John Hughes Movie?
The
Breakfast Club
Last
song you listened to?
Marty
Robbins’ El Paso
What
book do you wish you would have written because it’s just that good?
The Perks of Being
a Wallflower,
damn it.
In
one sentence or less, what does every aspiring-author need to know?
The
rule of 70/30: To get a reader invested in your story, tell 70% of everything
you want to tell, the reader will have to imagine the other 30%, in turn
becoming a part of the story themselves.
*sniffs* Yup, BADASS!
Now, here's a peek at the TWO books Rebekah has up for grabs. PLAYING NICE is included in the SAND BETWEEN MY TOES prize pack,
and ASPEN is one of the great books in the SPELLS, SPIRITS AND SWOONS, OH MY! prize pack.
Martina "Marty" Hart is really nice. At
least, that's what people think. It's Marty's junior year at Minster High.
Minster's a small town where making great grades and smiling pretty gets you ...
what? Marty's not sure. Instead of dreaming about a sororities-and-frats future
at nearby University of Michigan, she's restless. When Lil Hatfield transfers
to Minster, Marty gets her chance. Lil's different. She smokes, listens to
angry punk records, and lives in a weird trailer with her mother. Lil has
secrets--secrets that make her a target for all the gossiping and online
bullying Minster can muster. But so does Marty. And Marty sees something
different in Lil. Something honest. Something real. Playing Nice is the achingly true story of a girl who's been
following the rules for so long she's forgotten who she was when she started.
It's about falling in love with the wrong people and not seeing the right ones,
about the moments in life when you step out of line, take a chance ... and
begin to break free.
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Martina "Marty" Hart is really nice. At
least, that's what people think. It's Marty's junior year at Minster High.
Minster's a small town where making great grades and smiling pretty gets you ...
what? Marty's not sure. Instead of dreaming about a sororities-and-frats future
at nearby University of Michigan, she's restless. When Lil Hatfield transfers
to Minster, Marty gets her chance. Lil's different. She smokes, listens to
angry punk records, and lives in a weird trailer with her mother. Lil has
secrets--secrets that make her a target for all the gossiping and online
bullying Minster can muster. But so does Marty. And Marty sees something
different in Lil. Something honest. Something real. Playing Nice is the achingly true story of a girl who's been
following the rules for so long she's forgotten who she was when she started.
It's about falling in love with the wrong people and not seeing the right ones,
about the moments in life when you step out of line, take a chance ... and
begin to break free.
One quiet night in Boulder, Colorado, Aspen
Yellow-Sunrise Taylor made a mistake.
Aspen doesn't want to remember the car accident that killed Katelyn Ryan, a sleek-haired popular soccer player. But forgetting is hard-- because Katelyn may have died -- but she didn't leave. Her ghost is following Aspen around, and heading into senior year, it's kind of a problem. Especially when Katelyn's former boyfriend Ben appears to be the only person at school with a clue as to how Aspen feels.
Popularity, Homecoming Court, hot guys - none of these things ever mattered to Aspen. She's been busy trying to keep her stoner mother Ninny in line and out of unemployment. But with Ben sitting next to her in Physics and her therapist begging her to remember all the things she wants to forget, Aspen is thrust into a vivid, challenging world she can't control ... and doesn't want to.
A darkly funny, emotionally gripping story of opening up, letting go, and moving on, Aspen is about the best-worst accident of your life ... and what comes next.
Aspen doesn't want to remember the car accident that killed Katelyn Ryan, a sleek-haired popular soccer player. But forgetting is hard-- because Katelyn may have died -- but she didn't leave. Her ghost is following Aspen around, and heading into senior year, it's kind of a problem. Especially when Katelyn's former boyfriend Ben appears to be the only person at school with a clue as to how Aspen feels.
Popularity, Homecoming Court, hot guys - none of these things ever mattered to Aspen. She's been busy trying to keep her stoner mother Ninny in line and out of unemployment. But with Ben sitting next to her in Physics and her therapist begging her to remember all the things she wants to forget, Aspen is thrust into a vivid, challenging world she can't control ... and doesn't want to.
A darkly funny, emotionally gripping story of opening up, letting go, and moving on, Aspen is about the best-worst accident of your life ... and what comes next.
