(Kelly Kemmerly, Jessica Taylor, and Tawna Taylor)
Catching up over coffee. What happens at Peet's stays at Peet's. 😉
Thank you ladies for the relaxing afternoon and the enlightening conversation. Wonderful to know we share common interests, passions, and dreams. Jessica, I am extremely proud of you and cannot wait to see what lies ahead for you. Whatever it is, it will be phenomenal! Please let me know if I can help with anything! I can be your cheering squad, coffee runner, set up queen, just ask and I'm there.
Much love and gratitude for the book and swag, too!!
XXOO
Kelly
Today I had the honor to meet and have coffee with the lovely, Jessica Taylor and her mother Tawna.
Jessica has written two novels,
Wandering Wild
Synopis:
Raised by Wanderers,
sixteen-year-old Tal travels the roads of the southern wild in her Chevy
by day and camps in her tent trailer at night. Hustling, conning, and
grifting her way into just enough cash to save her fifteen-year-old
brother, Wen, from bare-knuckle fighting was once enough to keep her
dreams of traveling the whole world at bay. Everything changes when the
Wanderers set up camp in a little town called Cedar Falls.
There, Spencer Sway, a boy Tal tried to hustle at a game of billiards, keeps popping up into her life—and worst of all—into her scams. Buttoned-up, starched-and-ironed Spencer talks of places where Tal’s truck can’t take her. His promises of traveling across oceans are almost enough to shatter her love of the Wanderer life.
When a boy shows up at camp, ready to make good on a nearly-forgotten arranged marriage to Tal, Tal and Wen make a pact: No matter the cost, they will use their limitless skills of grift to earn the bride price and buy back her future—even if Spencer Sway gets used along the way.
There, Spencer Sway, a boy Tal tried to hustle at a game of billiards, keeps popping up into her life—and worst of all—into her scams. Buttoned-up, starched-and-ironed Spencer talks of places where Tal’s truck can’t take her. His promises of traveling across oceans are almost enough to shatter her love of the Wanderer life.
When a boy shows up at camp, ready to make good on a nearly-forgotten arranged marriage to Tal, Tal and Wen make a pact: No matter the cost, they will use their limitless skills of grift to earn the bride price and buy back her future—even if Spencer Sway gets used along the way.
A Map for Wrecked Girls
A Fall 2017 Junior Library Guild Selection!
Synopis:
We sat at the edge of the ocean—my sister Henri and I—inches apart but not touching at all. We'd been so sure someone would find us by now.
Emma had always orbited Henri, her fierce, magnetic queen bee of an older sister, and the two had always been best friends. Until something happened that wrecked them.
I'd trusted Henri more than I'd trusted myself. Wherever she told me to go, I'd follow.
Then the unthinkable occurs—a watery nightmare off the dazzling coast. The girls wash up on shore, stranded. Their only companion is Alex, a troubled boy agonizing over his own secrets. Trapped in this gorgeous hell, Emma and Alex fall together as Emma and Henri fall catastrophically apart.
For the first time, I was afraid we'd die on this shore.
To find their way home, the sisters must find their way back to each other. But there’s no map for this—or anything. Can they survive the unearthing of the past and the upheaval of the present?
Synopis:
We sat at the edge of the ocean—my sister Henri and I—inches apart but not touching at all. We'd been so sure someone would find us by now.
Emma had always orbited Henri, her fierce, magnetic queen bee of an older sister, and the two had always been best friends. Until something happened that wrecked them.
I'd trusted Henri more than I'd trusted myself. Wherever she told me to go, I'd follow.
Then the unthinkable occurs—a watery nightmare off the dazzling coast. The girls wash up on shore, stranded. Their only companion is Alex, a troubled boy agonizing over his own secrets. Trapped in this gorgeous hell, Emma and Alex fall together as Emma and Henri fall catastrophically apart.
For the first time, I was afraid we'd die on this shore.
To find their way home, the sisters must find their way back to each other. But there’s no map for this—or anything. Can they survive the unearthing of the past and the upheaval of the present?
If
you pre-order between now and August 14, 2017, send me your receipt and
mailing info - I'd love to send you a limited-edition lapel pin.
Details at www.jessicataylorwrites.com/preorder-...
xo,
Jessica
xo,
Jessica
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