Clicks Blog Tour: Guest Post & Giveaway

Welcome to my stop on the Clicks blog tour! Today I'll be sharing a guest post by the author and don't forget to scroll to the bottom of the page to enter in the tour wide giveaway!


Clicks
Author: Amy Evans
Genre: YA Contemporary
Release Date: June 18, 2013

Description:

Clicks – When you just know. 

Born and bred to win, Cami’s family expects her to join a secret society called The Guard, marry one of the two identical twin boys next door, and stay on Pinhold Island for the rest of her life. Home to perfect waves, black sand beaches, and the world-famous Surf Carnival, Pinhold seems deceptively perfect. While visitors are jealous of the few hundred people who get to live there, Cami feels stifled. Thanks to the intense link she shares with her own twin, Mica, she can't even be alone with her thoughts. While Cami's more than happy to be a lifeguard, a lifelong commitment to the endless summer feels like a trap.

As decendents of the ten families who originally settled on the Island, Cami and Mica are part of a new generation, the most perfect example of what nature and time can create. This summer was their time to prove that the years of training have paid off, but it's not going as planned. It's suddenly impossible for Cami to resist the magnetic attraction between her and Blake, one of the twins next door. Just as the Surf Carnival competition starts to heat up, the best swimmers start going down. Something is pulling them to the ocean floor where they wind up in comas and can't be woken up. When Mica goes down too, Cami can no longer wait for those in charge to figure out how to help him.

With her twin link silenced, the clicks that she used to get from her brother start coming from somewhere else. Can she trust her instincts and learn to listen in enough time to save her friends, or will she lose them along with her island home?  

Who are five writers who inspire you?

 

An interesting question to ask – it’s nothing at all like “what’s your favorite book?’ I’ll mention J.K. Rowling and Suzanne Collins quickly and together, for drawing an entire generation into book and for bringing back strong YA heroines, respectively. Both made me feel the need to write to follow the paths they created. But the others on this list are writers I strive to emulate every day for reasons that go far and above the stories in their books.


Judy Blume – For me and so many women and writers I know, her voice narrated my story growing up. In fact, one of my favorite books is “Everything I know about being a girl I learned from Judy Blume.” It’s full of fabulous essays by incredible writers who talk about how specific books influenced them and each example resonated with me. And it just tickles me to no end to see my daughter reading them. One day last year she told me for the first time that she loved, loved, loved. She had just finished Super Fudge, her first Judy Blume.


John Green writes with intense humanity and yanks compassion from readers with every word. His subject matter is often difficult but he makes it possible to get through it and come out the other end feeling better for having read the book. He continues those difficult and interesting conversations by engaging readers over multiple platforms, and pulls his fans together to do really good work. I’m definitely feeling My favorite title of his is Will Grayson, will grayson, the collaboration he did with David Levithan who is next on my list.


David Levithan’s work is always so earnest and enjoyable and yet, every novel of his that I have read has successfully changed my personal perspective on the subject matter. BOY MEETS BOY was the novel that made me realize love is love is love. In all the right ways, it was exactly like every other contemporary romance I read except for the lack of Y-chromosomes and that was truly eye opening. He also has the day job to end all day jobs with Scholastic and everyone I know lucky enough to work with him there says he’s amazing in that job as well. I especially love his collaborations and how each time he chooses a new writing partner, the reading experience is vastly different.


L.J. Smith – Best known for The Vampire Diaries series, this writer goes on the top of my list because of The Secret Circle Series about witches. I read the books well over ten years ago and I can still remember the wish that Cassie makes in the opening: “Sky and sea keep harm from me, earth and fire bring my desire.” It’s such a deceptively simple prayer that’s come to mind so often when I’ve needed just the right thing to say. I hope that I can slip comfort and meaning in even the most entertaining stories. The fact that I’ve held onto the phrase for so many years is truly inspiring. 
 

Thanks for stopping by the blog today and sharing some of the authors who inspire you Amy!

Amy Evans is a wife, mother, ocean lover and storyteller. She's created multi-platform mobile apps, social media games, and interactive story worlds for HIPnTASTY, a company she co-founded in 2001.  She loves dolphins, aliens and pugs, and sometimes writes for so long they all look like the same thing.  Clicks is her debut novel about instincts, a Surf Carnival, an endless summer and the hottest beach patrol on the California coast.   Clicks are truths you can feel, the sounds that the universe makes when it warns you that your world is about to change forever. If you listen to them, you get on the wave before it crests; control your path, surf into your destiny. If you ignore them, the wave crashes around you, and you try desperately not to drown.

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