Blog Tour : Interview & Double Giveaway Heidi Cullinan – Fever Pitch

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FEVER PITCH

by Heidi Cullinan

Coming September 30 from Samhain Publishing

Blurb:

Book Two of the Love Lessons Series
Sometimes you have to play love by ear.
Aaron Seavers is a pathetic mess, and he knows it. He lives in terror of incurring his father’s wrath and disappointing his mother, and he can’t stop dithering about where to go to college—with fall term only weeks away. Ditched by a friend at a miserable summer farewell party, all he can do is get drunk in the laundry room and regret he was ever born. Until a geeky-cute classmate lifts his spirits, leaving him confident of two things: his sexual orientation, and where he’s headed to school.

Giles Mulder can’t wait to get the hell out of Oak Grove, Minnesota, and off to college, where he plans to play his violin and figure out what he wants to be when he grows up. But when Aaron appears on campus, memories of hometown hazing threaten what he’d hoped would be his haven. As the semester wears on, their attraction crescendos from double-cautious to a rich, swelling chord. But if more than one set of controlling parents have their way, the music of their love could come to a shattering end.

Warning: Contains showmances, bad parenting, Walter Lucas, and a cappella.

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Heidi offered to answer some questions for us 🙂

What inspired you to write a novel about 20 year old men?

I’d been reading a lot of young and new adult novels, and they were really fun to read, especially the college-set ones. I was in the mood to write something short, simple and sweet, and I thought I’d try my hand. I had no intention of writing a series, and I never meant the first novel to go half a year past deadline and double in size. But here we are.
I hear stories about this age group being called New Adult. Do you like that term and accept it for your books?
I don’t mind it. It’s handy so people know what to expect. I consider NA books about coming of age and growing up, and both Love Lessons and Fever Pitch fall into that category.
When you wrote Love Lessons were you planning on writing more? Or was it originally intended as a stand alone novel?
It was supposed to be its only book, and until Walter Lucas walked into Fever Pitch, that was my intention. Walter does have a habit of getting his way.
Will there be more in this series?
Yes. The third book, Lonely Hearts, has been sold to Samhain and will be out next summer. There will be at least two more after that, possibly three, though I’ll warn you book three is the last featuring two male protagonists. Book four will be a lesbian romance, and the other one I know for sure will feature a straight young man and a newly out trans young lady. There might be a straight romance too. I hadn’t planned to, but I know who Giles roommate marries, and at the very least I’ll probably show them as a novella.
This series will also dovetail into the Dance With Me universe in book four.
What were your challenges in writing a book about college age men?
Not much. I live in a college town, to start, and though it’s been longer than I think it’s been, I vividly remember what those days felt like. I had to do a little research to stay current, and afte that it was just letting everyone speak.
What was your own college experience like?
A combination of Walter Lucas’s grim tale in Love Lessons and Aaron’s in Fever Pitch. I was even in choir, and I did watch a beloved professor get cleverly removed from his position.
Fever Pitch has lots of music in it, is this from personal experience?
Yes. I was in choir in college, and it was every bit the jovial family the Saint Timothy Chorale is. I don’t sing any more, partly because nothing can ever match that experience. I played flute in high school, and my daughter plays violin, piano and french horn. My husband is a huge audiophile, so music is pretty much omnipresent around here.
What is your favorite Disney movie?
Hard call. I would have to side with Kelly and say Tangled, largely because of how it spoke to my daughter and helped her visualize and manage her anxiety.
What is your favorite curse word or phrase?
Fuck. I’m pretty basic that way.
What project are you working on next?
At this exact moment I’m finishing up a significant rewrite of what was Sweet Son and what I think might be now called Monsters in the Dark, coming this winter form Wilde City. But I also have to hustle on Lonely Hearts, and now a steampunk called Clockwork Heart, due to Samhain by the end of the year. And then I have a month to turn in the third Minnesota Christmas book.
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About the Author

Heidi Cullinan has always loved a good love story, provided it has a happy ending. She enjoys writing across many genres but loves above all to write happy, romantic endings for LGBT characters because there just aren’t enough of those stories out there. When Heidi isn’t writing, she enjoys cooking, reading, knitting, listening to music, and watching television with her husband and ten-year-old daughter. Heidi is a vocal advocate for LGBT rights and is proud to be from the first Midwestern state with full marriage equality. Find out more about Heidi, including her social networks, at www.heidicullinan.com.

 

 

 

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Heidi is offering a double Giveaway on this tour. There is a giveaway on a digital copy to one Lucky winner

who commented on this blog post and shared this post on twitter !

And there is a grand prize giveaway on the whole tour that you can enter

through the rafflecopter link provided by Heidi.

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4 Responses

  1. sula22
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    Thank you for an interesting post, I loved learning a bit more about this series and the author. I am so glad that it morphed into a series as I enjoyed the first book so much and I am intrigued by the other titles you have planned. I also love the covers on your books and I wonder is there going to be another Tucker Spring book?

    Thank you also for a chance to win something from your giveaway list 🙂

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  2. Barbra
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    Fever pitch sounds awesome! 🙂

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  3. Lindsayb
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    I loved the first book so much! I cannot wait for this one. Love Lessons was one of my favorite books of the year. I guess I never thought of it as New Adult, since it wasn’t super angsty.

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  4. Emily
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    I was so excited to see this! I loved the first one immensely!

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