Spotlight Book Tour and Giveaway: Dear Hero by Hope Bolinger and Alyssa Roat

 

Book Details:

Book Title:  DEAR HERO by Alyssa Roat & Hope Bolinger
Category:  YA Fiction (Ages 13-17),  394 pages
Genre:  YA Romance, Superheroes, Chat Fiction, Humor
Publisher:  Torchflame Books
Release date:  October, 2024
Content Rating: PG-13 for MCU-level superhero violence; PG when it comes to language and sexual content (kissing).

Book Description:

There's an app for everything--even meeting a new nemesis.

Up-and-coming teen superhero Cortex is on top of the world—at least, until his villain dumps him. If he’s going to save his reputation, he needs a new villain to fight, and fast. Meanwhile, the villainous Vortex has once again gotten a little overeager and taken out a hero prematurely. Will any young hero be able to keep up with her? Maybe she should work on finding a steady relationship with an enemy she won’t kill in the first round.

Enter Meta-Match, a nemesis pairing site for heroes and villains. The two match right away, and after throwing punches at each other behind coffee shops, practicing their fight choreography, and hiring henchmen to do their bidding (mostly just getting them coffee), they realize they have a lot more in common than names that annoyingly rhyme. After all, they're still rising through the ranks in their respective circles, and their reputations need good press.

But not everything in the superhero world is as it seems. Can a hero really trust a villain to do the right thing? And can a villain trust a hero not to screw them over? As darkness from the past threatens them both, they may need each other for the fight to come—one with much higher stakes than their choreographed meet-ups on weekends.

Told entirely through texts, transcriptions, and direct messages, this darkly humorous chat fiction rom-com goes behind the scenes of the superworld.

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Meet the Authors:

Alyssa Roat lives in the cornfields of Indiana, but she hopes to soon discover a portal to a fantasy world where she will run a bookshop for magical creatures. For now, she is an award-winning multi-published author and has worked in a wide variety of roles within the publishing industry as an editor, agent, writer, and publicist. She and her partner have four black cats who allegedly have never been fed in their lives and occasionally help her write by walking across the keyboard. Her name is a pun, which means you can learn more about her at www.alyssawrote.com or on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as @alyssawrote.

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Hope Bolinger is the author of more than 25 books, including the award-winning Blaze trilogy, and has contributed to many more. She has worked for various publishing companies, magazines, newspapers, and literary agencies and has edited the work of 300+ authors. She has won awards for her essays, poetry, children’s books, novels, and plays. She’s a theater nerd and spends too much time hiking and petting her fat cats, Freya and Odin. She can be found online @hopebolinger and @hopekbolinger.

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Guest Post:

Should I Write with a Coauthor?

Should you collaborate with another author? All of us can remember group projects at school—where sometimes you paired with the perfect person…and sometimes you did all the work yourself.

So what about writing a book? How do you know you’re a good coauthor pair? 

First, how adaptable are you?

In coauthor relationships, there’s a temptation to take the reins, but the goal is to form the story together, equally. 

This may mean killing some darlings or giving up some ideas that you so desperately wanted to include.

If you can adapt well, you may be able to work with a coauthor.

Second, can you stick with a schedule?

If you and your coauthor have a deadline, you will need to find ways to meet said-deadline. Everyone has a different capacity for this. Some people can write 3000 words a day, some can write 500.

Talk with a potential coauthor about their writing style and habits and see if it aligns with yours.

Third, are you having fun?

Writing, sadly, is the easiest part of the process. Edits, marketing, etc. take up a huge chunk of time and energy.

If you find you don’t have fun writing with a certain person, you may not want to pair with them to coauthor a story. And that’s okay! A book is a huge commitment. The two of you will share hundreds of pages together, and countless hours. You want to make sure to enjoy the process.

Every coauthor pair works differently. It never hurts to experiment, and worst case scenario, you stop the project together. I (Hope) am so glad to have tried to coauthor books with Alyssa, and am so grateful for all the ways she pushed me to become a better writer. 

Enter the Giveaway:

DEAR HERO by Alyssa Roat and Hope Bolinger Spotlight Book Tour Giveaway