<— Cora Carmack’s next release in her “Rusk University” series is about to be released (THIS Tuesday) and she’s sent over a “5 fun facts” about the book (All Broke Down: A Rusk University Novel) along with an exclusive excerpt. An extra long one!! YAY US!! It’s about 1000 words long, so plenty to get a gooooood tease from it!! 😀
A little hint… She says “…this book has my first real bad boy…” Ohhhh!! Consider me titillated!!!
P.S. Book #1 is All Lined Up: A Rusk University Novel and book #3 (All Played Out: A Rusk University Novel) will be out in May 2015! But! I think they can be each read as standalones, because each book appears to be about different characters…
Five Fun Facts about All Broke Down (by Cora Carmack)
5. When I first thought of writing a book about a student activist I thought it would be something I wrote after I finished the Rusk series, I wrote down a little snippet of dialogue on a sticky note to help me remember the character in my head, and then I filed it away. Then eventually, that character found her way into the Rusk world, and that sticky note was still on my computer a year later when I finally put those words on a page (it’s still on there now too).
4. Typically, I write pretty nice guys, but this book has my first real bad boy. The hero, Silas, was actually one of the antagonists in All Lined Up (Book one). He was kind of a jerkface, to be honest. While it isn’t necessary to read the first book to read ABD, you do get to see the way he changes drastically from the beginning of book one to the end of this one.
3. The heroine, Dylan, is named after a reader I met at BEA 2013. I told her I was going to steal her name. I’m not sure she believed me. It took me a while, but I did it! Who knows, if you come to one of my signings, you could be next. Dylan’s roommate (and the heroine of book three) is named Antonella (nicknamed Nell) after a reader I met at Houston Bookrave 2013! So you can see this is a habit I have.
2. It’s my longest book to date. It beat Faking It (my previously longest book) by about fifteen thousand words. What can I say? I just didn’t want to let Silas go.
1. All Broke Down is without a doubt the sexiest book I’ve written to date. So sexy, in fact, that I was scared to let my mother or sister to read it (and they read all my books). My sister had to threaten to hack into my email (and she totally could because she knows all my passwords) before I gave in. And my mother didn’t even get the book from me. She got a review copy from my publisher. So yeah. Sexy times, FTW.
Okay… ready for that excerpt? *blush* Just to let you know, it’s… STEAMY!!!! *fans self*
