The Love Playbook by Suze Winegardner Blog Tour and Giveaway :)
The Love Playbook by Suze Winegardner
Publication Date: November 4, 2019
Publisher: Entangled Teen Crush
When Avery Stone learns her dad will be
fired if his high school team doesn’t make the playoffs, she has to
get her head out of her day planner and do something—anything—to
help him win. Even if it means secretly coaching the team’s newest
player, who seems to have more game than skill.
Lucas Black just transferred to
Hillside with a fake name and a big secret. The MVP of every team
he’d played on since he was seven—not to mention the MVP of every
post-game party—he can’t understand why since arriving at
Hillside, he’s been unable to catch a single. Freaking. Ball.
Until…Avery. Amazing, kind, generous,
and crazy-freaking-hot Avery.
As Lucas goes from zero back to hero
and Avery struggles with just what Lucas means to her, she
inadvertently sets them on a collision course with Lucas’s secret…a
secret that could take down not only Lucas but her father too.
DISCLAIMER: This Entangled Teen Crush
contains a football player hotter than the Texas sun, hotel cuddles,
and a steamy makeout session in the rain.
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ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
Suze
Winegardner is a British YA writer, currently living overseas with
her military husband, and lovely Lab. She loves Buffy, Fray Bentos
pies, Archer, cheese, and the serial comma. Wait - Cadbury Flakes
too. And naps. Wait, what was the question? Anyway, she thinks her
life is chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny...and if you
get that reference, she already considers you kin.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
What inspired you to write your first book?
I fell in love with Greek
mythology on a vacation to Greece, and started writing a YA book, set
half in contemporary times, and half in ancient Greece (with the same
heroine). I still love this book, and I *may* revisit it at some
stage to see if anything on it is salvageable!
How much of the book is realistic?
Most of the experiences
that Lucas had as a prodigy football player were taken from articles
that I read about the different ways that colleges would entice high
school players to join their schools. I was kind of shocked by what I
read, but also I really felt for the kids who got swept up in the
excitement of playing football at college.
What
books have most influenced your life most?
I read Andy Warhol’s
Diaries when I was a teenager, and for the first time I *really*
understood that there was a whole world outside of my own small
suburban life. It changed the way I looked at what I wanted to do
with my life, and the other kinds of books that I wanted to read. One
of the other books that really stayed with me, was A Wheel of Stars,
by Laura Gilmour Bennett. It’s about star-crossed lovers chasing
the Holy Grail in different time periods. It was published decades
before Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, but shares a common storyline.
Come to think about it—maybe this was why my first ever book was
about one girl in two time periods!
What was the hardest part of writing
your book?
The hardest part of
writing The Love Playbook, was that I am British, and knew nothing
(outside of Tom Brady and the Pats – thanks to my husband) about
football. Ask me anything about soccer or cricket or rugby, and I’m
there. But football had a whole new language and culture that I had
to get absorbed in! I read articles, and books. I watched movies and
talked to high school football parents. I talked to people who were
in Texan high school teams, and went to watch high school practices.
It was a whole new world for me!
Do you have any
advice for other writers?
NaNoWriMo is here! The
one year I won, I started a couple of weeks late…so it’s doable!
And it’s a great exercise in finding time in your busy day to
write, and how to think about what you’re going to write next, and
how to find people doing the same thing as you, and getting in the
discipline of sitting down, blocking your real life out for a while,
and writing. Just do it!
Have you ever hated something you wrote?
No. I’ve thought I
hated it as I was writing it. But when I let it sit, and went back to
re-read it, I’m usually surprised at how much I like it. So even if
you think you hate your book, keep going, because you’ll probably
love it by the time you finish!
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