The
Worst Kind of Love
by
Jonah Evarts
Genre:
YA Fiction
This
is a love story. Just not the kind you're thinking of.
Jaden
is dealing with some major heart aches as he enters his first
semester of college. All he wants is to forget about his ex, find a
new girlfriend, and get semi-decent grades. But life has much more
complicated plans for him. Dauring his first day of class, he meets
Cole, probably the most attractive male human being on the planet.
Jaden is immediately overshadowed, throwing a wrench in his plans to
find a girlfriend. It doesn't help that the single girl he is
interested in wants absolutely nothing to do with him.
That
soon becomes the least of his problems, as old enemies of his mental
health, family, and way of thinking begin to overtake his life. Jaden
tells a story of friendship, learning, and love as he uncovers truths
about himself and life. A journey of endurance and self-growth awaits
him as he skates through the roller-coaster that is life with many
movie nights and plenty of good food to help him get by.
He
isn't trying to have a love story, but he's getting one anyway. With
himself.
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Jonah
Evarts is only 18 years old, and began writing his debut novel when
he was just 15. He lives in Manhattan, Kansas with two old people who
gave birth to him, a twenty-something dude that lives in the
basement, and two adorable canines. Growing up as a military child,
Jonah lived in Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and Korea (yes really) before
coming to Kansas. He says that Kansas is boring. He may be correct.
Jonah loves movies, music, and the occasional writing of a book. He
hopes to combine these three activities in the future, and make a
career out of it. Support this poor man-child in his attempt to do
something with his life.
GUEST POST
Being
a young author, and the lessons it taught me
I
wrote my first novel from the ages fifteen to seventeen. It was a
long, tiresome process that went through astronomical changes over
the course of its creation. By the end, I was a completely different
person than I had been when I began. Coupled with the fact that I’d
kept the project in the dark until near the end of its time, I had
gone about the process on my own, while going through puberty, and
with an ever-changing concept of how I viewed the world. Those, in
short, are the reasons that my first novel didn’t know what it
wanted to be, and why I never gave it a chance to truly flourish.
Being
a young author changes the way that you write in a multitude of
areas. As I said, puberty affects a teenager in… quite a few ways.
I started writing the book barely having hit my real growth spurts,
only beginning to figure out who I was in a school setting, and still
not truly understanding what the Pythagorean theorem was. That last
one isn’t relevant to my journey as a writer, but god, math sucks.
The reality was that I was constantly changing my identity, figuring
out how life worked, and understanding new truths about the world
every single day. And that changed the directions I took my writing.
For instance, after a break up, I would focus more on a romantic
aspect than an adventurous one. But then on days when I was in a
really good mood, the mood would swing the other way. It created an
unfocused feel for my book with flat characters that I never gave a
chance to grow in the way I did.
Then
there was the fact that in high-school, being yourself can be scary.
I had been a jock for most of my life, playing baseball, basketball,
football, and just about any other sport they would let me play.
After a multitude of injuries and a loss of interest in some sports,
I found myself at a crossroads. I decided that writing a book would
be a good way to fill my time. The problem with that was, that’s
totally lame. I didn’t tell anyone about what I was doing, save a
couple close friends and family members. That was a huge mistake.
Being non-inclusive with my writing, especially my very first novel,
really pigeonholed me to my own narrow and limited experience on life
thus far.
My
first novel was a mess… and it was the absolutely most valuable
thing I’ve ever done in my life. I regret not a single word written
on those pages, and I never will. If I hadn’t gone through that
process, I never would have believed that I could do it again. I
never would have created something that some people go their whole
lives wishing they could do. I encourage anyone who is wishing to
write a book but isn’t sure of themselves to take a step back and
realize that the first time doesn’t have to be perfect, not by a
long shot.
While
my youth highlighted the growth and constant change of life, those
two things are a guarantee for every single person alive. You will
change over the course of writing a book, that is a fact. You will
want to never let anyone read it at some point, because it’s scary.
Being a young author only made those two facts evident to me and
helped me shape the course of my next novel, which I’m incredibly
proud of and is a humongous step up from my first one. Writing will
never be a set process, because human beings aren’t set creatures.
Writing will never be easy to expose to the world, because fear of
rejection is a human response. My youth exposed me to that very
quickly, because as a teenager, you place yourself on a pedestal you
believe the whole world is staring at. Growth doesn’t have to stop
you from creating something beautiful, in fact, with time and
experience, it helps you form a story better than you could have
originally imagined.
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