Egmont debut tour presents… Kristina McBride!

Welcome to Day 3 of the Egmont debut tour! I’m delighted to be joining my fellow Egmont debut authors Alex Bracken, Chelsea Campbell, Bree Despain, Lindsay Eland, and Kristina McBride for a fun interview series (with giveaways!). Check out the individual posts to see what goodies we’re giving away periodically throughout the week.

So please join me in welcoming the newest Egmont debut author (her book just hit shelves yesterday!!)…

Kristina McBride!

Welcome, Kristina!

The Gal

Name:

Kristina McBride

Short Bio:

Kristina McBride, a former high-school English teacher and yearbook advisor, wrote The Tension of Opposites in response to the safe return of a child who was kidnapped while riding his bike to a friend’s house. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two young children. This is her first novel. Visit her online at www.kristinamcbride.com

The Book

The Tension of Opposites
**On shelves now**


What happens when your best friend is kidnapped – and returns home two years later?

It’s been two years since Noelle disappeared. Two years since her bike was discovered, sprawled on a sidewalk. Two years of silence, of worry, of fear.

For those two long years, her best friend Tessa has waited, living her own life in a state of suspended animation. Because how can she allow herself to enjoy a normal high school life if Noelle can’t? How dare she have other friends, go to dances, date boys, without knowing what happened to the girl she thought she would share everything with?

And then one day, someone calls Noelle’s house. She’s alive.

A haunting psychological thriller taken straight from the headlines, The Tension of Opposites is a striking debut that explores the emotional aftermath of a kidnapping on the victim, and on the people she left behind.

The Egmont Debut Tour

1.   THE UNEXPECTED: What is the one thing people would be most surprised to learn about you?

I climbed a mountain when I was in my early 20’s. Not an Everest type of mountain that requires all the extra, fancy gear, but a smaller, more forgiving mountain named Mount Le Conte, which is located in Tennessee in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. The journey was hard, and long, and ended with me listening to mice crawl around the floor of the three-walled shelter where I spent the night in a sleeping bag. But that’s not the crazy part. Soon after we arrived at camp, I found myself very glad for the chain-link fence serving as the fourth wall of the shelter, separating me from the wilderness. Several black bears arrived while a group of us were cooking dinner. The bears just stood around and sniffed the air as they checked us out, they didn’t roar or fling frothy saliva all over the place, but I was shaking like crazy. It’s quite different to see a bear in the wild!

2.   ALL-TIME MOST MEMORABLE BOOKS: Which book had the greatest impact on you growing up?

First, I must say that as a child, I read everything I could get my hands on. From the V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic series, to anything by Christopher Pike. I loved creepy books! But I have to say that the books that had the greatest impact on me were the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House series, and Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. Those books made me feel so many different emotions, and I never forgot them.

3.   THE REAL DEAL: If you could go back in time and give your teen/tween self one piece of advice, what would it be?

If you’re dating someone, give the relationship the 90/10 test. The rule of relationships: You must be having fun at least 90% of the time. If you’re not – Dump Him. It doesn’t matter who he is, what he says, or how much you think he means to you. Once you stop having fun, laughing, and feeling good about yourself when you’re spending time with him, end things as fast as you can. In fact, this test is so important you should apply it to ALL relationships in your life. You’ll be better off, even if it doesn’t feel like it at first. Trust. Me.

Thanks for the fun interview, Kristina, and happy release week!!!

Here’s where I’ll be sharing some fun stuff this week:

Monday – Chelsea Campbell‘s blog
Tuesday – Alex Bracken‘s blog
Wednesday – Kristina McBride‘s blog
Thursday – Lindsay Eland‘s blog
Friday – Bree Despain‘s blog

(NOTE: I’ve got giveaways going over on four of those blogs!)  

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