Love Songs and Other Lies Book Tour!

Today’s post is a very special one! It’s the last stop of the Love and Other Lies blog tour! The author, Jessica Pennington, has been nice enough to provide me with a “Behind the Scenes” peak into her publication journey! But first, a bit about the book and it’s lovely author:

About the Book

Title: Love Songs & Other Lies

Author: Jessica Pennington

Publisher: Tor Teen

Release Date: April 24^th, 2018

Genre: YA Contemporary Romance

Synopsis: It’s summer romance and second chances, the songs that stay in your head, and the boy you’ll never forget.

Two years after rock-song-worthy heartbreak, Virginia Miller is looking forward to a fun, carefree summer. Her friends just landed a spot on a battling bands reality show, and Vee is joining them for her dream internship on tour. Three months with future rockstars seems like an epic summer plan. Until she learns she’ll also be sharing the bus with Cam. Her first love, and her first heartbreak. Now Vee has more than just cameras to dodge, and Cam’s determination to win her forgiveness is causing TMZ-worthy problems for both of them. With cameras rolling, she’ll have to decide if her favorite breakup anthem deserves a new ending. And if she’s brave enough to expose her own secrets to keep Cam’s under wraps.

| Book Depository | Macmillan

About the Author

Jessica Pennington is no stranger to the combination of love and drama. She’s a wedding planner, after all. A writer since the age of ten—when she sought publication for her poem about a tree—Jessica likes the challenge of finding the humor in a sad situation or highlighting the awkwardness in a romantic one. She lives in a Michigan beach town suspiciously similar to the one in her books, where she’s currently finishing her second novel, WHEN SUMMER ENDS, out April 2019.

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Let’s see what it took to go from idea to self!

Jan-July 2014: Drafting! My initial draft was about 85,000 words, and I did a lot of major revisions as I drafted.

August-December 2014: Revision! I worked with my critique group and a few beta readers to get Love Songs into querying shape. I draft pretty clean and edited as I went, so this wasn’t a massive undertaking.

November 2014: I entered my first pitch contests. My MS was NOT fully polished yet, and I don’t suggest anyone do this! I got several requests and scrambled to get my first 3 chapters in amazing shape. I hired a freelance editor to help me with copyedits and polishing, and we whipped it together in time to send out in December.

December 2014: I worked on my query letter leading up to the holidays, so that when the new year hit I could start sending it out.

January 2015: I began officially querying Love Songs & Other Lies. I sent it to about 30 agents over 6 weeks

February 2015: I got the call! I signed with my wonderful agent, Michelle Wolfson, in mid-February.

June 2015: The timeline gets a little fuzzy here, but sometime around May/June I turned in some changes and LS&OL officially went out on submission.

January 2016: LS&OL sold to Tor Teen, and my amazing editor Amy Stapp

April 2018: Love Songs & Other Lies hits shelves!

So as you can see, publishing isn’t fast by any means. But now I’m in a groove, and my second novel, When Summer Ends, will be out in less than a year–April 2019! That book has been a whirlwind, and a fun change from the slowness of debuting.

Thank you, Jessica and thank you to Kester Nucum and the publicity team for letting me be a part of the tour.

Follow the links to check out the other bloggers posts and be sure to pick up a copy of Love Songs and Other Lies! Enter the rafflecopter giveaway to win a beautiful hard copy and some awesome swag!

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Love Songs & Other Lies Blog Tour Schedule

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