Sunday, June 23, 2013

Book Tour: Girls Love Travis Walker by Anne Pfeffer Interview & Giveaway



New Adult Contemporary
Date Published: 3/15/13

To nineteen-year-old high school dropout Travis Walker, women are like snowflakes-- each one different, but beautiful in her own way.He can charm any girl he meets, and yet down deep he fears he'll always be a loser like his jailbird father. As the landlady threatens to evict him and his sick mother, Travis takes a job he hates and spends his evenings picking up girls at a nearby night spot.When he enlists in a teen program at the local fire station, he finds out he’s amazing at it. Then he meets the smoking hot Kat Summers, enlists Kat’s friend Zoey to help him woo her, and falls in love for the first time ever.But he keeps the details of his life secret. His girl will never love him back if she knows the truth about him….

Interview:

* What's the book about?  Give us the "pitch".
Think of it as Will Smith’s film The Pursuit of Happyness (a man struggling to keep his family off the streets), combined with a classic romance novel (boy meets, pursues, and gets girl), combined with the character Tim Riggins  in Friday Night Lights (off-the-charts gorgeous bad boy with a heart of gold.) It’s a book about first love and second chances. It will make you cry, but in a good way.

* What inspired you to write the book?  A particular person? An event?
Several things came together to inspire this book: a chance encounter with a boy not unlike Travis, a visit to a fire station, and my desire to write a love story.  I’d been thinking for a while about the Travis character and had written some pages about him. Then one night I sat down, and out came the first twenty pages of the book, almost exactly as they are in the final version.  I wish the rest of the book had been as easy to write!

*  What's the most distinctive thing about the main character?  Who-real or fictional-would you say the character reminds you of?
Travis is cocky, charming, and self-confident with women, yet at the same time feels he has little to offer them long-term. He sees himself racing, against his will, down the fast track to loserdom. The book is about how he saves himself.
As I said above, he reminds me of Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights, a series I watched recently, after this book was written.  For sheer amazingness,  go check out actor Taylor Kitsch as Tim Riggins!
* What's the main reason someone should really read this book?
Read it for the emotions it brings out.  Some reader comments:
“Little did I know that what I was about to read would have such a huge impact on me…. This book hit me right in the heart.”
“While there is romance aplenty in this wonderful novel, Girls Love Travis Walker is far more than that….”

“I really loved Travis…. I cried and was scared with him.”

“This book will make you fall in love for so many reasons…”



Author Bio:
Anne Pfeffer is the author of Any Other Night and The Wedding Cake Girl. She lives in Los Angeles, CA.

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Twitter @AnnePfeffer1

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