The Challenge is over 1000 strong (amazing, huh?). Hosted by: Arlee Bird, Alex J Cavanaugh, Jen Daiker and Talli Rolland.Today I'm taking a break from my How Many Have You Read/Heard Contest (I couldn't find any YA "Q" books) to do a Query Crit Giveaway.
To enter, just comment that you would like a query critique.
Also, if you come up with a YA "Q" title I might have listened to and forgotten, mention it for two entries in that contest.
Now, for Road trip Wednesday:
Compare your first kiss with your favorite characters first kiss?
Although Alice (from THE OPPOSITE OF INVISIBLE) may not be my favorite character, I did relate to her first kisses recently. Like her, I was totally inexperienced until high school and got a crash course in kissing, with more than one guy.Unlike Alice, my first kiss wasn't a long time crush. He did have more experience than me and was oblivious (I hope) to my lack thereof. He jumped straight to "making out" without any niceties, so my experience was more overwhelming than Alice's poignant one.
I guess some things are better in fiction.
What about you? Any first kisses better than fiction?
My first kiss was pleasant, but like you, not poingnant or sexy or particularly memorable. You're right... somethings are better in fiction. :)
ReplyDeleteI would love a query critique! I've just revamped mine and I'm getting ready to send the new version out. Good to have fresh eyes...
ReplyDeleteI can't even remember my first kiss, so like Katy said, somethings are better in fiction.
ReplyDeleteMy first kiss was not the best thing. He was all about beyond the making out. Ugh, boys.
ReplyDeleteFiction was most definitely better than mine! Maybe that's why I love reading about poignant first kisses.
ReplyDeleteYes...kisses are so much better in fiction. I love the crazy tense lead-up, and that doesn't always happen in real life.
ReplyDeleteYeah. I wish Cassandra Clare could've written my first kiss.
ReplyDeleteI think we all wish an amazing writer would take charge of our lives... sigh.
ReplyDeleteMy first kiss was with some guy I barely knew and would like to forget. My character in my first book regrets her first kiss too.
ReplyDeleteAnd so yeah - no Q books for me either. Hmmmm. I feel the need to google Q books and see if I've read any. :)
And yeah! I'd love a query critique!
Kisses have a way of sounding so poignant, so magical, so perfect, so intense in books that it would be so hard to live up to the hype! Especially if the guy is all about making out and not really about the romance.
ReplyDeleteWow- guys are funny. Glad you survived to tell the tale. And I think what I've learned from this road trip is that the idea of the first kiss is very different from the reality of it.
ReplyDeleteI would love a query critique! It's my best book ever, but the query is my least well received. Obvs it has some problems, but I'm on Query version 4.0 so I'm blind to them at this point. :)
ReplyDeleteOh boys... Especially teenage ones!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'd love to enter your query critique contest, too. :) The only "Q" book I can think of is Quidditch Through The Ages. Haha!
Oh the hormones...silly boys.
ReplyDeleteSo, so true. Fiction never gives you the awkwardness or the scariness or the ickiness of most first kisses. I guess that's why we love the romances so much...
ReplyDeleteFiction kisses are so much better than real life kisses. :)
ReplyDeleteYou've critiqued my query before, but it's gone through some major revisions. I'd love another chance. *crosses fingers*
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