Starcrossed Blog Tour featuring author Josephine Angelini

Welcome to the 6th stop of the Starcrossed Blog Tour run by Kismet Book Touring! For today’s stop, I have a guest post by author Josephine Angelini, plus another piece of “The Letter That Was Never Sent” below.

This is so embarrassing. I used to be this really interesting person—I swear. I remember when I was in college in NYC I used to look forward to riding on the subway so I could have a moment to stand there and think. It was a chance for me to just be still for a moment, even though I was technically still moving. Back then I was always running around, going to museums, listening to Indy bands in dive bars, going to poetry readings in cafes, and generally posing as a hipster. What happened to me?

The truth is, I don’t do much of anything anymore besides read and write. I barely even watch TV, although I admit to being addicted to Game of Thrones, Weeds, and Mad Men. I’m so boring all of a sudden, and I have no idea how I let it get like this.

I still go to museums. I love the Getty here in So Cal, but I’ve been so many times I don’t go to see the collection anymore. I go for the architecture and the outdoor space. I usually hang out in the courtyard and write, so I guess that doesn’t count because I’m supposed to be telling you what I do when I’m not writing. I never go to hear live music anymore, but I think that’s because people stopped playing it. And poetry readings—well, I totally lost my taste for them. I think I woke up one day and said to myself, “why the heck do I go to these things, anyway?” And I just stopped.

Here’s the ugly truth. When I’m not reading or writing I’m at the gym, the grocery store, or doing laundry. Occasionally, my husband and I will look at each other and say that we miss this or that friend and then we’ll call them and make dinner plans or something. And that’s it. That’s my life. And I don’t feel bad about it at all. I love to read and write so much that there aren’t many things I’d rather be doing anyway.

So I guess what I’m saying is that I’ve gone from an in the know gad-about-town to a giant loser. And I couldn’t be happier about it.

Attention Starcrossed Blog Tour Followers: Want a chance to win a Kindle 3 with a beautiful specially designed Starcrossed skin!

To enter all you have to do is follow the tour and collect words from a love letter that Lucas wrote to Helen. Today’s piece of the letter is:

Contest rules for the Kindle Giveaway:

• In order to enter to win a Kindle3 WiFi, including a copy of Starcrossed, a personal letter from Josie to the winner and covered in a GelaSkin of Starcrossed‘s cover art, you must collect the pink highlighted words from Lucas’s love letter to Helen that are provide each day at the individual tour stops. The daily words can be joined together in sequential order to create the winning secret message. Once you’ve constructed the winning secret message, you will need to enter that message on Starcrossed‘s tour home page (http://www.kismetbt.com/upcoming-tour/starcrossed-by-josephine-angelini-on-tour-mayjune).
• No purchase, affiliation, status as follower to a certain blog or any other association is required to enter.
• Full rules for the contest can be found at the Starcrossed tour home page here.
• Winner of the Kindle give-away will be announced on Josie’s homepage on Tuesday, June 7th.

About Starcrossed: goodreads
Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is—no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it’s getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she’s haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood . . . and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they’re destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.

As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together—and trying to tear them apart.

About Josephine Angelini: (website)

Josie was born in a tiny town in Massachusetts called Ashland. When she meets people from Massachusetts and tells them ‘what part’ she hails from, she usually gets one of two answers. The first is: “Ashland. Isn’t that in Oregon?” And the second is: “Did you just say Ass-land?”

Her next stop was about as different from her hometown as it gets without leaving the country. As soon as Josie was legal, she packed a bag and moved to New York City to attend NYU. Somehow, she managed to squeeze in a little higher learning between bartending shifts and graduated with a BFA.

Massively in debt with college loans, she then moved to Los Angeles for reasons that are still a little blurry. Something about the weather was mentioned, and a vague idea to write poetry and find herself. She found that she is a terrible poet, but she never gave up on the writing bit.

Josie still lives in Los Angeles with her husband and now writes YA fiction.

Book Trailer:

Tour Stops:
Monday May, 16th – Bewitched Bookworms/ Tour Kick-off!
Tuesday, May 17th – Becky,  Stories & Sweets
Wednesday, May 18th – Elie, Ellz Reads
Thursday, May 19th - Heidi, YA Bibliophile
Friday, May 20th - See Scoot Read / Character Interview with Helen’s BFF Claire

Monday May, 23th – Missie, The Unread Reader / “When I’m not Writing”
Tuesday, May 24th – Savanna, Books with Bite
Wednesday, May 25th – Natalie, The Mindful Musings / Character Interview with Helen
Thursday, May 26th - Heather, Buried in Books /Interview with Josie
Friday, May 27th – Nely, All about {n} / “Josie’s Bookcase”

Monday May, 30th - Candace, Candace’s Book Blog / Interview with Josie
Tuesday, May 31st (Starcrossed Book Birthday!) – Kristi, The Story Siren / Vlog post by Josie
Wednesday, June 1st - Small Review
Thursday, June 2nd – Jenny, Supernatural Snark / Character Interview with Lucas
Friday, June 3rd - Cynthia – A Book About Nothing

Tuesday, June 7th: Announcement of the big prize winner on Josie’s Blog!

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