Off the Ice (Juniper Falls #1) by
Julie Cross
Publication Date: February 27, 2017
Publisher: Entangled Teen
The NY Times and USA TODAY bestselling
author of Whatever Life Throws at You kicks off a brand-new series
perfect for fans of Miranda Kennealy and Abbi Glines.
All is fair in love and hockey…
Claire O’Connor is back in Juniper
Falls, but that doesn’t mean she wants to be. One semester off,
that’s what she promised herself. Just long enough to take care of
her father and keep the family business—a hockey bar beside the ice
rink—afloat. After that, she’s getting the hell out. Again.
Enter Tate Tanley. What happened
between them the night before she left town resurfaces the second
they lay eyes on each other. But the guy she remembers has been
replaced by a total hottie. When Tate is unexpectedly called in to
take over for the hockey team’s star goalie, suddenly he’s in the
spotlight and on his way to becoming just another egotistical varsity
hockey player. And Claire’s sworn off Juniper Falls hockey players
for good.
It’s the absolute worst time to fall
in love.
For Tate and Claire, hockey isn’t
just a game. And they both might not survive a body check to the
heart.
Julie Cross is a NYT and USA Today
bestselling author of New Adult and Young Adult fiction, including
the Tempest series, a young adult science fiction trilogy which
includes Tempest, Vortex, Timestorm (St. Martin’s Press).
She’s also the author of the Letters
to Nowhere series, Whatever Life Throws at You, Third Degree, Halfway
Perfect, and many more to come!
Julie lives in Central Illinois with
her husband and three children. She’s a former gymnast, longtime
gymnastics fan, coach, and former Gymnastics Program Director with
the YMCA.
She’s a lover of books, devouring several novels a week, especially in the young adult and new adult genres.
Outside of her reading and writing
cred, Julie Cross is a committed–but not talented–long distance
runner, creator of imaginary beach vacations, Midwest bipolar weather
survivor, expired CPR certification card holder, as well as a
ponytail and gym shoe addict.
Who
or what was your biggest inspiration in life?
My biggest inspiration? This
is the kind of question you either have an immediate response to or
you dig for one small thread of your life that’s relevant to the
audience and paint as your biggest inspiration. Since I don’t have
a precise answer already hanging out in the wings and I’m not
gifted at hyperbole, perhaps instead I’ll ponder the reasons for my
lack of a precise answer with a story that may help clarify this. In
early 2011, I was working on the copyedits for my very first novel,
Tempest, which released January 2012. I was asked to add my
acknowledgements and when I sat down to thank anyone and everyone who
had helped get that book onto a shelf the list went on and on--five
pages long to be exact. The main reason for this is that I’m not
someone who can write, or do anything, in a vacuum. I look to any
resource available to help me get what I need, whether that’s beta
readers, experts in something I’m not an expert in like science,
math, law...I’ve asked the CPR instructor during my required course
for work how to treat a gunshot wound, if it was possible to fake not
having pulse. At that’s just in my adult life. In third grade, I
relied on Judy Blume and Margaret to help me understand this
menstrual cycle I would eventually face and I learned from Margaret
that religion was a personal experience and shouldn’t be entered
into without all the facts. When my first-born was a toddler I was
enrolled in Psychology 101. I sought out my instructor many times
during office hours to get her opinions on different types of
education--Montessori vs public schools, vs Classical model
education. I asked questions about normal child development, not for
school but for motherly reasons. Now that I’ve spread my life out
in one overly long paragraph, I think it’s safe to conclude that
questions are my inspiration. Questions that linger urge you to act,
actions lead to results. A good book always asks important questions
of the reader and can provide some answers as well. Good teachers do
this too and so does intellectual and creative curiosity. And most of
the books I write begin with a character who has a question. That
character’s question inspires me to write page after page.
So there you have it, my
biggest inspiration in life. Questions. Allow yourself some
unstructured time to form important and interesting questions and
soon you’ll find inspiration.
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