How We Fall’s Paperback Release Day + Giveaway!

I’m thrilled today, because today is the release day for the How We Fall paperback! To celebrate, there’s a Goodreads giveaway of the paperback, open internationally, with signed copies for the US. So enter, enter. 🙂

Also, this post is kicking off an awesome blog tour where I’m chatting with some fantastic book bloggers, giving away a seriously adult hot chocolate recipe (yes, it’s Marcus’s recipe), showing deleted scenes, playing a last-lines game, and showcasing some really genius fan art. So watch my twitter feed for the posts!

And if you haven’t yet gotten the book yourself, there’s a slick new $9 paperback that just hit shelves. Enter the giveaway below, order from your favorite bookseller, and read the first chapter, all below 🙂

Goodreads Book Giveaway

How We Fall

by Kate Brauning

Giveaway ends November 30, 2015.

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at Goodreads.

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About the book:

Ever since Jackie moved to her uncle’s sleepy farming town, she’s been flirting way too much–and with her own cousin, Marcus.

Her friendship with him has turned into something she can’t control, and he’s the reason Jackie lost track of her best friend, Ellie, who left for…no one knows where. Now Ellie has been missing for months, and the police, fearing the worst, are searching for her body. Swamped with guilt and the knowledge that acting on her love for Marcus would tear their families apart, Jackie pushes her cousin away. The plan is to fall out of love, and, just as she hoped he would, Marcus falls for the new girl in town. But something isn’t right about this stranger, and Jackie’s suspicions about the new girl’s secrets only drive the wedge deeper between Jackie and Marcus.

Then Marcus is forced to pay the price for someone else’s lies as the mystery around Ellie’s disappearance starts to become horribly clear. Jackie has to face terrible choices. Can she leave her first love behind, and can she go on living with the fact that she failed her best friend?

Praise for How We Fall:

2015 Silver Falchion Best YA Novel finalist- Killer Nashville

Kirkus Reviews: “Debut novelist Brauning tells a touching story of young, star-crossed lovers caught in a drama they have tried hard to avoid…. A sweetly written mix of mystery and romantic turmoil.”

School Library Journal: “Heartbreaking and well-paced, this mystery novel challenges readers to look past preconceptions and get to the know characters, rather than focus on an uncomfortable taboo. Brauning’s characters are well developed and their story engrossing. An intriguing thriller… this title will raise eyebrows and capture the interest of teens.”

ALA Booklist: “…an unusual combination of romance and suspense…There is also something universal about Jackie’s struggles with her feelings and her desires, and readers will identify with her emotions, while going along for the plot’s ride. This quest for identity, wrapped up in an intriguing mystery, hooks from the beginning.”

How We Fall is available through:

Barnes & Noble Indie Bound Walmart.com Books-A-Million Book Depository Powell’s

Amazon.com Amazon.ca Amazon.co.uk

Read the first chapter!

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Author Bio:

Kate Brauning grew up in rural Missouri and fell in love with young adult books in college. She now works in publishing and pursues her lifelong dream of telling stories she’d want to read. This is her first novel. Visit her online at http://www.katebrauning.com or on Twitter at @KateBrauning.

How We Fall Blog Tour Round-up!

My release week is almost here! Honestly, I’m a little nervous, but mostly, I’m enjoying it. It’s going to happen no matter what I do at this point, so I’ve kind of let go, and decided to have fun! The launch party is ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, and don’t forget– you’re invited!

This Friday, for the first time, I saw my real, actual book on shelves for sale! Here it is at my local Barnes and Noble:

Here’s the round-up of How We Fall across the internet– everything from giveaways to me talking about monsters:

• Riki Cleveland, publishing intern, LitReactor contributor, and YA author, interviews me for my blog tour
• Victoria Dougherty, adult thriller author, does a very cool and different image-based interview with me, and I release the recipe for Marcus’s hot chocolate!
• Liz Burns, librarian and book blogger, reviews How We Fall
• I stop by Publishing Hub to talk about my fast-drafting tips: Nano Day 1: Awesome Ways to Get It Done
• A lovely review from book blogger Kimberly Faye
• A Halloween post where I talk about real monsters, human monsters, and why I write suspense: Monsters, Books, and Halloween
• A review from Anna on Enchanted by YA
• The launch party is one week from today, and the official invitation is now live on Publishing Hub!

 

Previously In My Blog Tour:

• An interview with BORN WICKED author Jessica Spotswood on travel, drinks, and my book
•  A stop on  Publishing Hub where I’m talking about Pinterest boards for novels, and releasing mine for How We Fall
• The hardcover giveaway of my book also went up on Booklikes
• The first chapter hit Wattpad, where you can read it for free!
• a great review from the American Library Association’s Booklist:  “Jackie’s life is complicated. Her best friend is missing, she lives in a house with too many people and too little space, and she is secretly dating her cousin. Jackie has two tasks. She must break up with her cousin and simultaneously solve the mystery of her missing friend, making this novel an unusual combination of romance and suspense. Brauning is not the first author to delve into this taboo subject matter—most famously, there is Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now (2004). But there is also something universal about Jackie’s struggles with her feelings and her desires, and readers will identify with her emotions, while going along for the plot’s ride. This quest for identity, wrapped up in an intriguing mystery, hooks from the beginning.”
• a guest post from me on Adventures in YA Publishing, where I talk about how editors and authors see the book, the edit letter, and deadlines: Across the Desk–Thoughts from An Author-Editor
• My publishing house launched a Goodreads giveaway of 25 hardcovers! Want a copy? You can win one!
• Devin Norwood interviews me about writer’s block, e-books, and other genres I’d write
• Review from Samantha Randolph, book blogger at I Heart YA Fiction
• My brand-new author website launched recently, too. It’s at www.katebrauning.com, and it has the first chapter of How We Fall, plus website-only extras, and a nice long new author bio that took me forever to write. 🙂 I’d love it if you stopped by the site and said hello!

Blog Tour Kickoff for HOW WE FALL

I couldn’t be happier about kicking off my blog tour.  The love you guys are showing for How We Fall makes it all worth it– yes, even the stress dreams and late nights and all these debut-author nerves. Release week is almost here! The launch party is 3 weeks from today, and don’t forget– you’re invited!

But yes! My blog tour started this weekend. Here’s the round-up of How We Fall across the internet:

Review from Samantha Randolph, book blogger at I Heart YA Fiction

and

a guest post from me on Adventures in YA Publishing, where I talk about how editors and authors see the book, the edit letter, and deadlines: Across the Desk–Thoughts from An Author-Editor

and

a great review from the American Library Association’s Booklist:

“Jackie’s life is complicated. Her best friend is missing, she lives in a house with too many people and too little space, and she is secretly dating her cousin. Jackie has two tasks. She must break up with her cousin and simultaneously solve the mystery of her missing friend, making this novel an unusual combination of romance and suspense. Brauning is not the first author to delve into this taboo subject matter—most famously, there is Meg Rosoff’s How I Live Now (2004). But there is also something universal about Jackie’s struggles with her feelings and her desires, and readers will identify with her emotions, while going along for the plot’s ride. This quest for identity, wrapped up in an intriguing mystery, hooks from the beginning.”

and finally, my publishing house launched a Goodreads giveaway of 25 hardcovers! Want a copy? You can win one!

And of course, my brand-new author website launched recently, too. It’s at www.katebrauning.com, and it has the first chapter of How We Fall, plus website-only extras, and a nice long new author bio that took me forever to write. 🙂 I’d love it if you stopped by the site and said hello!

The last bit of news is that my author hardcovers came! Aren’t they gorgeous? Holding the final copy of my very first book was a crazy moment.

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