Blog Tour: Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh (Interview + Giveaway!)

Hello, Lovelies! It's Rin and welcome to my stop on the Ivory and Bone (by Julie Eshbaugh) Blog Tour! Today, the wonderful Julie Eshbaugh is stopping by for an interview.  This is a very exciting post for her new book and I'm very anxious to get my hands on this book *punches air in happiness*. Make sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post! This blog tour was hosted by The Fantastic Flying Book Club. 

I hope you enjoy!

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pub. 6/7/16
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Ivory and Bone 

by Julie Eshbaugh

Publisher: HarperTeen

Series: Ivory and Bone #1

Genres: YA, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance

A prehistoric fantasy—with allusions to Pride and Prejudice.

Hunting, gathering, and keeping his family safe—that’s the life seventeen-year-old Kol knows. Then bold, enigmatic Mya arrives from the south with her family, and Kol is captivated. He wants her to like and trust him, but any hopes of impressing her are ruined when he makes a careless—and nearly grave—mistake. However, there’s something more to Mya’s cool disdain…a history wrought with loss that comes to light when another clan arrives. With them is Lo, an enemy from Mya’s past who Mya swears has ulterior motives.

As Kol gets to know Lo, tensions between Mya and Lo escalate until violence erupts. Faced with shattering losses, Kol is forced to question every person he’s trusted. One thing is for sure: this was a war that Mya or Lo—Kol doesn’t know which—had been planning all along.

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1. Hi Julie! Welcome to Under Covers, thank you so much for being here with us! Let’s start with introductions: Favorite book? 

I have lots of favorites! Wuthering Heights is one of my all-time favorites. For YA, The Hunger Games is a book I will read again and again. My favorite book from childhood would probably be A Wrinkle in Time. Favorite Ice cream flavor? Coffee! Or banana! (Or even better—a scoop of coffee with a scoop of banana… yum.) What do you like to do when you are not reading? I love to go to the movies, and I’ll go see just about anything (except horror… I’ll have nightmares!) If it’s summer, it’s hard to convince me that anything will beat a trip to the beach.

2. Did you map out the plot of this book or did you “go with the flow”?
I’m definitely an outliner. I knew how the book would end from the very beginning.

3. Did you like writing or editing Ivory and Bone?
I enjoy drafting far more than I enjoy editing and revising. Still, revising with my editor was pretty exciting because I could see the book improving.

4. Without spoilers, what is your favorite part about Ivory and Bone? (i.e. characters, places, etc.)
My favorite part of the book is probably the relationships between the characters. Not just the romance, (though I love that aspect!) but also the family relationships. There are a lot of sibling dynamics, and I hope readers see a little bit of themselves reflected in the relationships in the book.

5. Thank you so much for being here! My final question is: What came to you first about this book- The setting, character, or plot? 

The setting came first! I’m very interested in prehistory, and the original idea for the book came to me while I was at a museum. I also read a lot about the first people to cross the Bering Land Bridge and settle in the Americas. I was fascinated by the challenges they faced—scarcity of food, the elements, the need to stay in touch with other clans to survive—and all of those things influenced the story of IVORY AND BONE.

Thank you!
Thank you so much for having me!

Interview with author of Love & Gelato, Jenna Evans Welch!

Hey guys! It's Rin here and by the time you're reading this, it should be May 3! The release of Love & Gelato by Jenna Welch! This book is one of my anticipated 2016 debut releases! Today, we have the lovely Jenna Evans Welch on Under Covers with an interview! Don't forget to check out her book Love & Gelato. I hope you enjoy!

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1. Hi, Jenna! Welcome to Under Covers! First of all, let’s start with some introductions: Favorite book? Favorite shows? What you do love doing when you’re not writing?

My all time favorite book is called "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water" by Michael Dorris--it's the same story told by three different people (daughter, mother and grandmother) and shows how we can be in the same situations and having totally different experiences, which is so fascinating to me! And as far as YA books, I loved "Something Real" by Heather Demetrios.

2. What inspired you to write this book?

When I was fifteen my parents moved me and my four younger siblings to a little house in Tuscany. I ended up being there for two years, attending an International High School, and I have thought about those experiences ever since! I had a friend there named Ioiana whose father was the caretaker of an American Cemetery just outside of Florence, which meant she lived in the middle of this cemetery. I always thought it would make an interesting setting!

3. Did you map out the plot of this book or did you “go with the flow”?

I had a basic idea for the plot, but as the story progressed there were definitely a few surprises! I don't want to give anything away, but one of the biggest twists at the end was not part of my original plan!

4. Did you base any of your characters off of real people?

Yes! Ioiana, of course, but a lot of the other teens Lina meets there are based on people I went to school with.

5. If one day you choose to buy 5 scoops of gelato, what flavors would you choose?

Hmmm. I'd probably start with three scoops of bacio gelato (chocolate with roasted hazelnuts, yum!) and then get a scoop of coco (coconut) and yogurt, which is tangy and delicious!

6. Some advice you would give Lina for her journey?

Open yourself up to any adventures that come your way!

7. Do you share any personality traits with Lina?

I'd actually say I'm a bit more like Lina's mother, Hadley. But I am a bit more reserved like Lina is!

8. What is your favorite part/memory about living in Italy?

All of the people I met! I absolutely loved making friends from all over the world, and eve though it has been many years since I've seen most of them, I think about them very often.