Category Archives: Linda’s Posts

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!

August is Read-a-Romance Month, and to celebrate, 10  YA romance authors have gotten together to sponsor a fantastic giveaway! The Grand Prize winner will receive 10 physical copies of the titles you see in the graphic, and a Runner Up will win the e-book of each title. International contestants are eligible from any country where Book Depository ships for free.

Are you a romance blogger? We’re doing something extra special for you! You’ll get extra entries in the Rafflecopter as a thank you for your tireless effort and dedication in reviewing our books, to helping promote our work and the romance genre in general, and for being such supportive cheerleaders!

Enter the Rafflecopter below for your chance to win! And don’t forget to check out the other nine sponsoring authors’ websites!

Betsy Aldredge
Sara Biren
Julia Day
Larissa Hardesty
L.H. Nicole
Maggie Ann Martin
Shaila Patel
Amy Patrick
J.C. Welker

To enter to win, simply fill out this  Rafflecopter giveaway!
Contest ends 8/31/17 at 11:59pm Eastern time. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law. You must be at least 18 years old to enter or have your parent’s permission. The winner will be chosen by Rafflecopter and notified by email within 48 after the end of the giveaway. You will have 48 hours to respond, or a new winner will be chosen. All decisions are final. Odds of winning will vary based on the number of eligible entries received. If a mailed prize is returned for whatever reason, another winner will be chosen. None of the sponsoring authors are responsible for any lost, stolen, or misdirected prizes. Each sponsoring author is solely responsible for providing their book to you directly. This giveaway is not affiliated with any social media accounts associated with any of the sponsoring authors.

Fabulous Summer Giveaway

Summer is here, and what better time to binge on YA romance? My fellow Swoon Romance author Cheyanne Young has organized an awesome giveaway with a tote bag of nine signed paperbacks, gift cards, and fun swag!

The prize pack includes:

Linda Budzinski – The Boyfriend Whisperer
Natalie Decker – Rival Love
Jennifer DiGiovanni – My Senior Year of Awesome
Cassandra Giovanni – Out of Beat
Deirdre Riordan Hall – Chasing Days
Rebekah L. Purdy – Incriminating Dating
Amy Sparling – Natalie and the Nerd
Patricia B. Tighe – Life in the No-Dating Zone
Cheyanne Young – The Breakup Support Group

[Cue TV announcer voice] But that’s not all! Enter today and you could also win:

  • A $10 Starbucks Gift card + a bottle of nail polish (donated by Natalie Decker)
  • A $10 Amazon Gift Card (will be emailed to the winner)
  • A Cute Heart Books tote bag for all your summer book needs
  • A signed poster by Rebekah L. Purdy
  • Lots of swag!

Are you in? Of course you are! Enter here to win! Good luck!

EM & EM: Coming to a TV Set Near You?

So thrilled to finally be able to share this news! A couple of months ago, I received an email from someone by the name of Ramaa Mosley asking about the TV and movie adaptation rights for EM & EM. This was in the middle of my work day, and I sort of assumed it was spam, but I forwarded the email to my agent. Later that afternoon, when I had a break, I decided to Google Ramaa.

OK. So. This was no spammer. I learned that Ramaa is in fact a remarkable woman whose resume includes directing the segment on Amina, an Afghan girl, for the Girl Rising documentary, as well as the 2012 critically acclaimed film The Brass Teapot. She also has helped lead the #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign in the United States to bring attention to the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram terrorists in Nigeria.

In addition, Ramaa serves as creative director at @dolescent, a production company dedicated to developing young talent. All of the company’s directors and videographers are ages 14-27. This is where EM & EM comes in. Ramaa told me she had bought the book for her daughter and had read it herself and, if I may quote her email, that she “immediately saw the  tv/film potential.” She wanted to work through @dolescent to turn it into a TV series!

After much flailing fangirling careful consideration, I am beyond excited and truly honored to share that @dolescent has optioned EM & EM.

Now, there are a lot of steps between an option and an actual project, and nothing is guaranteed, but it is sure fun to dream about, and I am beyond thrilled that this is the company that will be trying to make the dream a reality.

Here is the official announcement as posted on the @dolescent Facebook page:

We are Excited to announce that Adolescent has optioned Linda Budzinski’s young adult novel, Em & Em for development as a series.

Em & Em follows sixteen-year-old Emily, who must go into the Witness Protection program and reluctantly start a new life in the Midwest. The newly-named Ember O’Malley finds herself making new friends, taking photos for the high school newspaper, and thinking an awful lot about the paper’s editor, a cute cowboy named Charles. But as her day in court approaches and her secrets start to catch up with her, Em needs to figure out who she really is – Em or Em.

Author Linda Budzinski has written three young adult novels including Em & Em, and has won the Romance Writers of America Young Adult Rosemary Award and Virginia Chapter’s Fool for Love Award for her work. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband.

Adolescent is a think tank, production company, and digital platform dedicated to the creation of entertainment content created by youth for youth. Development of Em & Em will be overseen by Ramaa Mosley and Hope Farley.

 

The Boyfriend Whisperer: Launch Day is Here!

bfw_smallNo biggie, really, I mean it’s my third novel, so …. AAAAAHH! Seriously! This is happening, people. THE BOYFRIEND WHISPERER is finally out in the world where everyone can read it.

I am super excited and super nervous and I can’t wait for you all to meet Lexi and Chris, and also Abi and Briggsy and all the other characters who have been occupying my head space for the past two years. I hope you love them as much as I do.

THE BOYFRIEND WHISPERER is about a high school basketball star named Alexis Malloy who also happens to be an entrepreneur. She is founder, president, and CEO of Boyfriend Whisperer Enterprises — in other words, an undercover Cupid for hire. Awesome, right? Except as Lexi says, “Deep down, I know the truth. I’m a fake, an imposter, an emperor with no clothes. Because when it comes to whispering my own crush, I’m a total fail. Stuck in the friend zone with no clue how to escape.”

Lexi has been best friends with Chris Broder since the third grade, and he doesn’t even seem to think of her as a girl, much less girlfriend material. So when pretty, flirty cheerleader Lindsay LaRouche hires Lexi to whisper Chris for her, she has to make a choice between her business (and Chris’s happiness) and her own heart’s desires.

Check it out! The Kindle version is available now on Amazon.  UPDATE: The paperback is available at that link also! xoxoxo