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RELEASE DAY GIVEAWAY: TRAGIC by JA Huss

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TRAGIC: Rook and Ronin, #1
By J. A. Huss
New Adult Contemporary Romance
Published May 15, 2013
Science Future Press

ABOUT THE BOOK

Rook Walsh is TRAGIC

Because life so far – just sucks. Some girls get parents. Rook got the foster care system. Some girls get Prince Charming. Rook got an abusive frog. Some girls get lucky…

Rook got a second chance.

And she took it. Because when fate throws you a bone – you grab it with both hands and run.

Antoine Chaput knows the minute he spies Rook in his photography studio that she’s got The Look. The dark and desperate look he must have to land the exclusive TRAGIC media contract.

Rook is paired up with top model, Ronin, and he’s everything her abusive ex-boyfriend wasn’t. Patient, gentle, happy, attentive, and sexy! He knows exactly what to do to make Rook blush for Antoine’s portfolio.

Rook’s luck changes in an instant and suddenly she’s the darling of the modeling world. It’s a dream job to go with a dream guy and all she has to do is look pretty and follow directions. But there’s always a price to pay – and Rook is about to get the bill.

DREAMS COME WITH A PRICE…

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EXCERPT

When I wake I’m alone, but I can hear the TV out in the living room blaring a baseball game, so I know I’m not really alone. I smile at this. He’s still here, watching baseball in the living room. Like he belongs here.

Maybe he does belong here?

Rook, stop it. He’s a player, he’s a user, and he’s probably got a million girls strung out all over this city. That’s why he left last night and that’s why he came back so late. And then you went and let him sleep in your bed and act like he’s your boyfriend.

This has got to stop.

I roll off the bed, still clutching my sheet to my body, then pad over to the laundry closet in the hallway.

“I already took care of it.” Ronin calls out.

“Took care of what?” I ask, peeking around the corner to see him. He’s kicking back on the couch, feeding himself peanuts and drinking a beer. “Sheesh, comfortable much?”

“You know what the best part of living next to the baseball stadium is, Rook?” he asks, ignoring my snarky remark.

I shrug and simultaneously listen to the Charge! organ music on the TV and the fans outside in the stadium as they go wild.

He points to the bag of peanuts in his hand. “Baseball park peanuts at home.” He grins a huge, wide-eyed, baseball-is-awesome-and-so-are-peanuts grin.

“You went over there to get peanuts?”

“No.” He shakes his head. “I got a guy.”

I laugh. “What? You have a peanut guy? Like a peanut dealer, who stands on the corner and sells peanuts from the curb as you drive by?”

“Nah, that’s stupid. He delivers them to the freaking door. Anyway,” he says, waving a hand at me. “I folded your laundry for you and do you know what I found out?”

“What?” I ask, shaking my head.

“That you do not own any panties.”

My whole face goes hot. “What?“

“Panties, Rook,” he says, pointing to the laundry closet with his bag of stadium peanuts. “I folded your seven articles of clothing over there so that when you woke up you’d have something to wear besides that sheet, and I found no undergarments.”

I open the closet and there are my seven articles of clothing sitting on top of the stackable washer lid. Folded. “Uh…”

When I turn Ronin is standing next to me taking a swig of beer. He swallows and grins. “I can help you out with that, if you’d like.”

“I’m lost. Are we talking about getting me panties, or taking them off me?”

He laughs. “Both, I think. Come on.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J. A. Huss likes to write new adult books that make you think and keep you guessing. Her favorite genre to read is space opera, but since practically no one reads those books, she writes new adult science fiction, paranormal romance, contemporary romance, urban fantasy, and books about Junco (who refuses to be saddled with a label).

She has an undergraduate degree in horses, (yes, really – Thank you, Colorado State University) and a master’s degree in forensic toxicology from the University of Florida. She used to have a job driving around Colorado doing pretty much nothing but shooting the breeze with farmers, but now she just writes, runs the New Adult Addiction and Clean Teen Reads Book Blogs, and runs an online science classroom for homeschoolers.

Just a shitload of news

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JA Huss Non-Fiction

Wow – what a week. If you’re on the homepage of this blog, you can see the post below was an announcement for my annual open house at Simple Schooling, which is the subscription website I run for homeschoolers. Before I wrote fiction, I wrote non-fiction. A lot of non-fiction.

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Anyway, I have two huge promotions each year. In May I run a week long open house where I let anyone come on the website and sample ten of my science courses. Every year has been better than the last and this year I am so incredibly happy to say that still holds true. It was a fabulous turn-out, and I’m writing this right now at 1AM on Saturday and I still have people buying subscriptions. It was a wild last day.

The other promo I do is for Black Friday and that kinda morphs into the Twelve Days of Freebies the first thirteen days of December. It’s basically like a three week long production.

So, a private, or public I guess, YAY for me, because it’s so cool to see customers who started out with me back in 2008 STILL purchasing a yearly subscription at my sales. Some of them have subscriptions through 2015, that’s how loyal they are. I love them.

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Another amazing thing that happened today is TRAGIC went live on Amazon. The official release day is Monday, May 20th, and to be honest, I’m way too tired to promote it this weekend, so I’m so appreciative of my Indie Inked group for helping me spread the word today with giveaways. I could do a whole month’s worth of posts about the authors in the Indie Inked group, talk about AMAZING! I’m in a few groups but these ladies are my number one go-to peeps. Everyone is so supportive, it’s very unique.

So each week I’m going to highlight one for you. Next week is Cameo Renae, because she’s got a new release out this week as well and I just bought it to read for pleasure. I’m not going to muddle up her promo with my ramblings, so I’ll talk all about her next time.

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The third thing to talk about is the tour for Losing Francesca. This book is not like anything I’ve written before. So, you know, maybe some of you won’t like it. That’s OK. It’s a young adult novel, it’s got no sex in it, no violence, no science fiction, no guns—well, one gun. And some tattoos…but that’s it. It’s sweet. Because after writing almost 600,000 words of Fucking Junco, I needed something sweet. And Rook in TRAGIC doesn’t count, because she’s a recovering mess.

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Losing Francesca is touring with Xpresso Tours in July and the list of bloggers on the tour is set now, you can see it here.

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TRAGIC is also touring with Xpresso, but that one starts in June. You can see the list of bloggers for that tour here.

I’m writing Rook and Ronin, #2 as we speak and even though this series started out as an experiment, I’ve grown to love the story. Rook, oh Rook… she’s wandering into some dangerous territory right now. I’m at 23,000 words, so she’s just settling in to her “new world” as a model and… whoa, this one is getting steamy quick. This book is called MANIC and it releases on August 1st. There will be a cover reveal next month during the TRAGIC tour and a blitz the week of release.

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After I finish that (on June 15th to be exact) I’ll start the final Junco book. I have been thinking about Junco ever since I ended Range, privately debating on how to start the next novel.

You’d think that would be easy, start with Junco, right? I kinda left her hanging. But Junco’s not where this book starts, Junco is where this book ends. This book starts with Lucan. I have several points of view planned, all the Big Dudes, to be exact – Tier, Junco, Lucan, and Ashur. Everyone you’ve met in this series has a purpose and they will all play their parts at the end.

But even though the last book, RETURN, is all about things coming home, things coming back, things completing—it is really only about ONE person in the story. And that person is not Junco. Or Lucan, or Ashur.

This book is about Tier. He’s got a purpose and he was made for one reason only.

RETURN will be Tier’s story as it relates to the High Order, Junco, Lucan, Ashur, Gideon, Annun, Tessen, Selia, Inanna, Him, HOUSE, Sera, Amelia, Rikan, Iliana, Subjack, The New Dudes, the Avian Race, the End of the World, and The Future, whatever that may look like.

I can’t wait to start this book. And I can’t wait to introduce you to the real Lucan in Chapter Fucking One. I’ll have an excerpt ready by end of August and a cover reveal in October. Tier has yet to grace a cover in the Junco series, but he will. Oh, yes, he will — and he will be spectacular.