A Dream Within A Dream: The Space Between Blog Tour: Guest Post & Giveaway

The Space Between
Author: Victoria H. Smith
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 2, 2013

Buy Links: Amazon

Description:

When Drake started the night at his father’s campaign fundraiser, he never imagined he’d end it being conned into buying drugs on the West Side. Losing high-stakes poker has its
consequences, but he’d repeatedly face them just to hear Lacey Douglas sing. Drake sees Lacey light up the stage, and he has to have her. But his intentions for being on her side of town turn out to be the reason he can’t.

Chicago native Lacey has dreams of the opera, but life has its obstacles. Lacey has come to know her hardships as part of living in the real world and accepts them fully. When Lacey meets the intense and invigorating Drake, a fire is lit inside her, unleashing those dreams again.

Two paths that should have never crossed prove to create the exact pairing the other needs.
But when their worlds take time to catch up, everything they have is tested. Finding the space between the two sides that challenge them will be hard, but it’s the only place that will keep them together.

The Space Between is a new adult contemporary romance.

Writing Contemporary New Adult

by Victoria H. Smith

I simply love new adult. It’s such an interesting time in a young person’s life, and it’s absolutely fabulous to see more and more stories appearing every day in this age group.

When writing for this category, I found this pretty easy. Why? I am a new adult. I wrote my first NA when I was twenty-four because I couldn’t find fiction about people my age. I was a first year grad student and wanted something other than my drab textbooks to read. Now at twenty-six, I see these stories are finally being told and I’m happy to aid in the rise of the category. New adults are just what the title says: new. They are trying to get their footing in the world and make their mark. Parents have become more of a resource instead of a crutch and, for some new adults, the parent crutch isn’t there at all. The world really is their oyster and they are on a constant battle of trying to figure out where they fit. And with so many stories to tell, there are many different new adult journeys to show.

I think readers are captivated for many reasons. People out of the new adult age-bracket remember those exciting times in college or post high school. People in high school reading new adult stories are looking forward to the day they can become a new adult, and new adults themselves are getting to see people their age in mainstream fiction for the first time. It’s exciting for everyone, and I only see the category growing.

Thanks for stopping by today and sharing your thoughts about being a New Adult writer Victoria!

Victoria H. Smith has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. She puts it to good use writing romance all day. She resides in the Midwest with her Macbook on her lap and a cornfield to her right. She often draws inspiration for her stories from her own life experiences, and the twenty-something characters she writes give her an earful about it.

In her free time, she enjoys extreme couponing, blogging, reading, and sending off a few tweets on Twitter when she can. She writes new adult fiction romance in the sub-genres of science fiction, urban fantasy, and contemporary, but really, anywhere her pen takes her she goes.

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