Guest Post ~ Karen Booth + Contest!

♥ Author Guest Post ♥

Karen Booth

author of Bring Me Back

Thanks Kat for inviting me to grace the Book Tart blog for the second time—I’m honored!

 Me: I adore you, you know. 😉

As you know, I’m here because I have a brand new book called Bring Me Back, about a music journalist who lands a career-defining interview with the rock star she was obsessed with in high school. The origin of the book is simple and came to me in a dream. It was a very, shall we say, steamy dream about a man who is not my husband.

Too vague?

Okay, it was a sex dream about a rock star but that’s as specific as I’m getting. Those of you who know me can venture a guess. Those of you who don’t know me can still guess. We’ll make it a game.

Me: oh! Oh! *jumps up and down*

I know this… Maybe he’s on your Pinterest board?

This happened nearly a dozen years ago, when my husband and I were in St. Barts. I hadn’t thought about the man in my dream in years. Years. But in my foggy post-dream state, I found myself thinking that it wouldn’t be that weird for a girl to meet and fall in love with the rock star she was obsessed with in high school. If it was twenty years later? That would be cool. As I came to full consciousness, my husband rolled over and that reminded me that the girl would not be me, but I was intrigued by the idea. So I tucked it away in my head.

Eight years later, I began to write. What can I say? I needed some time to let the idea percolate. Plus I had to muster the guts to write a novel. While working on the book, I channeled my inner teenage girl, plastering her walls with posters, dreaming up romantic scenarios about an idol. (Perhaps that was practice for later penning love stories.) It was great fun to think about those times, but also a bit sad when I remembered the heartache every teenage girl feels when she starts to realize her dream man will most likely never be hers.

Or maybe he will…it just might take twenty years to get there.

Following is the blurb for Bring Me Back. I would love to hear from your readers about the rock star or movie star they could never forget. One commenter will be chosen randomly to win their choice of my backlist ebooks, which can be found at my website, www.karenbooth.net.

Me: Really? *squee!* Thank you doll!

Don’t forget to enter for a chance to win

*points down*

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PRIZE!!!

Keren is generously giving away one of her backlist ebooks

Your choice of

For Keeps

Love My Way

Long Distance Lovers

The contest will run from today to February 1st

To enter use the rafflecopter

and leave us a comment telling us

who your high school celebrity crush was. 

You can get other entries by following Karen and me on

Twitter, Facebook and Feedburner

but those are just extras 😛

The winner will be chosen February 2nd and

notified via email and this post and have 72

hours to respond before another winner is chosen