Summer Indiscretions
Summer Love, #2
Author: Tamara Mataya
Pub Date: January 3, 2017
ISBN: 9781492635345
Free-spirited
beach-dweller looking to Switch lives with outgoing urbanite.
Sense of
adventure mandatory.
Clothing
optional.
One email away
from a total meltdown, I'm desperate to escape New York. Using Switch—a website
designed to help strangers swap homes for the summer—I slip out of my stilettos
and into a string bikini. But of all the beaches in all the world, Blake Wilde just
had to show up on mine. He's hot. Scorching hot. And he's been strictly
off-limits for as long as I can remember.
To hell with
that. New life? New rules.
I know
something this good can't be made to last. But for three sizzling weeks, I can
pretend there won't be consequences, recriminations, or regret... And that
somehow our growing connection can be more than just a summer fling.
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Talking with author Tamara Mataya!
1. When did you decide to become a
writer? Why?
I don’t think there was an actual
moment I decided to become a writer, but I’ve always had the imagination for
it. There’s an entry in a school journal from the second grade I made about my
brother trying to kill a bug with garden shears and I said, ‘…and it was like
he worked for Doctor Claw!’ (from Inspector Gadget), so there’s always been a
flare for the dramatic there. But if there was a big influence on what I
thought writers did, I’d have to point my finger at the movie, Romancing The
Stone. It’s one of the first movies I remember seeing, all about a romance
novelist who has to save her sister in Columbia. It stars Kathleen Turner and
Michael Douglas. That film could have given me unrealistic ideas about what
writers do, but it’s still one of my favourite movies to this day, and while
it’s NOTHING like being an actual author, it’s still fun to dream about
adventures like the main character’s!
2. What are some of your favorite
authors/books?
How much time have you got? I’m a
voracious reader and also a public librarian. I’ve always got a book on the go.
My top favourites are Les
Miserables by Victor Hugo and Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
Some of my favourite authors are:
Charles de Lint, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Coupland, Karen Marie Moning, Elizabeth
Peters, the Bronte sisters, Christopher Moore, CE Murphy, Tiffany Reisz, Meg
Cabot, Mark Henry, Martina Cole… There are really too many to list. If you
narrow it down by genre and want a rec, hit me up!
3. Have you written a book where the
ending surprised you?
Not really. The endings are usually
something I already have in mind, sometimes they’re the first thing that comes
to me, and I just have to get characters there. The journey to get to that spot
sometimes isn’t what I expect, though!
4. Can readers find you at any
Author/Reader conventions in the near future?
Sadly, no, but I’m hoping to change
that. I love connecting with my readers!
5. What are you working on now? When
will it be released?
Right now I’m hard at work on the
third book in the Summer Love Series, Rejecting
Perfection, which should be released around late 2017. It involves a dating
app, Paris, and rival coworkers with more chemistry than they know what to do
with!
6. Top 3 things on your bucket list?
The older I get, the more nebulous
my bucket list becomes. Bigger things like making a difference in someone’s
life become more important, you know? But I feel like helping people isn’t
something you can cross off your list, because you should always be striving to
help others however you can. But for smaller, more manageable things, here are
three things I’d like to do: --Finish working on my album (I’m also a
musician).
-Meet more of my online friends in
person, some of whom have been a part of my life for nearly ten years.
-Try a float tank (Joe Rogan’s
always talking about them on his podcast and he’s piqued my interest.)
Actually, he’s also gotten me intrigued by Ayahuasca journeys, or DMT
experiences as well. Maybe Joe Rogan and I need to have a conversation about
him being a bad influence on me! Haha
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Tamara Mataya is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author,
a librarian, and a musician with synaesthesia. Armed with a name tag and a thin
veneer of credibility, she takes great delight in recommending books and
shushing people. She puts the 'she' in TWSS and the B in LGBTQIA+.
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Buy Links:
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Ends January 22, 2017 midnight
*waves at Tamara* <3
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, she definitely puts the "she" in TWSS. Usually because she's the one saying it. :*
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Great review. Congrats on your book.
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