Tour Sign-Ups: The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

Hello FFBC team!!  We are announcing a new tour we're hosting for Falling in Love Montage that is being released June 9, 2020.

The tour will run from June 9th to 15th and there will be available the following types of posts:

• Review (Limited spots)
• Favorite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
• Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
• Interviews (Blogger comes up with 5-7 questions)
• Guest Posts (Blogger comes up with AT LEAST 3 topics for author to choose from)
• Creative Option (Blogger makes a post-- could be a mood board, dreamcast, or anything dealing with the theme of the book)
• Promotional Post

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book via Edelweiss.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed and the tour schedule has been published.

The Falling in Love Montage

by Ciara Smyth
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: June 9, 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQIA

Synopsis: 

Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother would still be able to remember her name and not in a care home with early onset dementia. A condition that Saoirse may one day turn out to have inherited. So she’s not looking for a relationship. She doesn’t see the point in igniting any romantic sparks if she’s bound to burn out.

But after a chance encounter at an end-of-term house party, Saoirse is about to break her own rules. For a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a passion for rom-coms.

Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up—and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real.

Ciara Smyth is a social work student by day, writer by night and cat enthusiast 24/7. 

Her first YA novel - about memory, rom-coms and girls who like girls - will be published in Summer 2020 by Andersen Press in the UK and HarperCollins in the US.

She previously worked as a teacher and mental health trainer. She enjoys jigging (verb: to complete a jigsaw) and claims to enjoy yoga in order to cultivate a zen persona that is shattered approximately ten minutes after you meet her. 

She is from the south of Ireland but has lived in Belfast for so long that her parents make fun of her Northern accent.

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Tour Schedule: The June Boys by Courtney C. Stevens

The June Boys

by Courtney C. Stevens
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date: March 3, 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller

Synopsis: 

The Gemini Thief could be anyone. Your father, your mother, your best friend’s crazy uncle. Some country music star’s deranged sister. Anyone.

The Gemini Thief is a serial kidnapper, who takes three boys and holds them captive from June 1st to June 30th of the following year. The June Boys endure thirteen months of being stolen, hidden, observed, and fed before they are released, unharmed, by their masked captor. The Thief is a pro, having eluded authorities for nearly a decade and taken at least twelve boys.

Now Thea Delacroix has reason to believe the Gemini Thief took a thirteenth victim: her cousin, Aulus McClaghen.

But the game changes when one of the kidnapped boys turns up dead. Together with her boyfriend Nick and her best friends, Thea is determined to find the Gemini Thief and the remaining boys before it’s too late. Only she’s beginning to wonder something sinister, something repulsive, something unbelievable, and yet, not impossible:


What if her father is the Gemini Thief?

Courtney “Court” Stevens grew up among rivers, cornfields, churches, and gossip in the small town south. She is a former adjunct professor, youth minister, Olympic torchbearer and bookseller at Parnassus Books. These days she writes coming-of-truth fiction and is the Community Outreach Manager for Warren County Public Library. She has a pet whale named Herman, a bandsaw named Rex, and several novels with her name on the spine.

March 3rd

Evelynreads- Review
NovelKnight- Guest Post

March 4th

BookCrushin- Bookstagram
Kait Plus Books- Interview
The Reading Corner for All- Bookstagram/Mood Board
Fazila's Book Review Corner- Review

March 5th

Adele is Reading- Review & Favorite Quotes
Foals, Fiction & Filigree- Review
& She Reads- Creative Post
Dazzled by Books- Promo

March 6th

Wishful Endings- Interview
Beckybookstore- Review & Bookstagram
Books, Tea, Healthy Me- Review

March 7th

Moonlight Rendezvous- Review
Confessions of a YA Reader- Promo & Bookstagram
The Desert Bibliophile- Review

March 8th

Pages and Pugs- Review
The Shelf Life Chronicles- Bookstagram
Biblio JoJo- Review

March 9th

It Starts at Midnight- Review
Ya It’s Lit- Creative Post
Libri Draconis- Review

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Tour Sign-Ups: The June Boys by Courtney C. Stevens

Hello FFBC team!!  We are announcing a new tour we're hosting for The June Boys that is being released March 3, 2020.

The tour will run from March 3rd to 9th and there will be available the following types of posts:

• Review (Limited spots)
• Favorite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
• Interviews (Blogger comes up with 5-7 questions)
• Guest Posts (Blogger comes up with AT LEAST 3 topics for author to choose from)
• Creative Option (Blogger makes a post-- could be Bookstagram or anything dealing with the theme of the book)
• Bookstagram
• Promotional Post

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book via Netgalley or finished copy.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed and the tour schedule has been published.

The June Boys

by Courtney C. Stevens
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date: March 3, 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller

Synopsis: 

The Gemini Thief could be anyone. Your father, your mother, your best friend’s crazy uncle. Some country music star’s deranged sister. Anyone.

The Gemini Thief is a serial kidnapper, who takes three boys and holds them captive from June 1st to June 30th of the following year. The June Boys endure thirteen months of being stolen, hidden, observed, and fed before they are released, unharmed, by their masked captor. The Thief is a pro, having eluded authorities for nearly a decade and taken at least twelve boys.

Now Thea Delacroix has reason to believe the Gemini Thief took a thirteenth victim: her cousin, Aulus McClaghen.

But the game changes when one of the kidnapped boys turns up dead. Together with her boyfriend Nick and her best friends, Thea is determined to find the Gemini Thief and the remaining boys before it’s too late. Only she’s beginning to wonder something sinister, something repulsive, something unbelievable, and yet, not impossible:


What if her father is the Gemini Thief?

Courtney “Court” Stevens grew up among rivers, cornfields, churches, and gossip in the small town south. She is a former adjunct professor, youth minister, Olympic torchbearer and bookseller at Parnassus Books. These days she writes coming-of-truth fiction and is the Community Outreach Manager for Warren County Public Library. She has a pet whale named Herman, a bandsaw named Rex, and several novels with her name on the spine.

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