THE KARMA CLUB
by FBF Founder, Jessica Brody
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
www.JessicaBrody.com
5 Autographed Copies will be given away on Friday, May 7th, 2010!
**We're also giving away 10 free itunes downloads of The Karma Club Theme Song (listen below!) and 5 autographed Karma Club posters!
THIS WEEK everyone who enters to win will receive an free, never-before-released sneak peek of The Karma Club emailed right to their inbox on Friday morning!!!!Hi Free Book Friday Fans!
I'm so excited! After 2 1/2 long years of waiting, my debut YA novel has finally released in stores! I've been hanging out over on the FBF Fiction site for so long, this teen site feels like new territory for me. Give me a second to check it out...[looking around, mmm hmming, nodding with approval] yep, I think I'm going to like it over here quite a bit!
Lots of extra fun stuff on the site this week! A bonus giveaway to EVERYONE who enters to win, free music downloads, posters and wallpaper, a book trailer, a theme song, and the list goes on! (Can you tell I'm excited about this release???) I hope you enjoy all the bonus content and most of all...I hope you enjoy the book!
Love to all my FBF Supporters! Thanks for growing this site with me so I can continue to have a place to share my new books with the world. You guys are the best!!!
XOX
Jessica (FBF Founder)
About the Book:
Madison Kasparkova always thought she understood how Karma works. It’s that mysterious, powerful force that brings harmony to the universe. You know—do good things and you will be rewarded, do something bad and Karma will make sure you get what’s coming to you. A sort of cosmic balancing act.
But when Mason Brooks, Maddy’s boyfriend of two years, gets caught tongue-wrestling with Miss Perfect Body Heather Campbell, and absolutely nothing happens to either of them—except that they wind up the hot new couple of Colonial High School, it seems like Karma has officially left Maddy in the lurch. That’s why Maddy and her best friends, Angie and Jade, decide to start the Karma Club—a secret, members-only organization whose sole purpose is to clean up the messes that the universe has been leaving behind. Whether they’re modifying Heather Campbell’s acne cream as part of “Operation Butterface,” or righting a few wrongs when it comes to Angie and Jade’s own slimy exes, they know they’re just doing what Karma should have done in the first place. They’re taking care of one another.
Sometimes, though, it isn’t wise to meddle with the universe. Because it turns out, when you mess with Karma, Karma messes back. Now Maddy must find a way to balance her life for good, even as everything around her seems to be toppling to the ground.
Featuring a special cameo appearance by Deepak Chopra!
1) Why did you choose to start writing YA novels?
I didn’t plan to at all! I never even had a second thought about it. But when I came up with the idea for THE KARMA CLUB at first I tried to plot it out as an adult novel and it felt all wrong to me. Then I started to think about it as a story about teens and suddenly it all started to fall into place. Of course, I had no idea how to write a teen novel. So I started reading a bunch of YA fiction to get a feel for the genre and I fell in LOVE with it. I then wrote out 50 pages of the story, showed my agent and asked, “Am I even close to the mark here?” She read it, liked it and told me to keep going with it. She said I had a “natural YA voice.” I think that’s code for “you’re still 17 at heart” (which I still feel!). Writing THE KARMA CLUB was so much fun I decided to stay in the genre. I have two more YA novels coming out in the next two years and a new YA series in the works too!
2) If you met your 16 year old self, what piece of advice would you give her?
“Relax! It’s all going to work out fine!”
Actually, that’s good advice for me now, too!
3) What’s the craziest or coolest thing you’ve done in the name of research?
Well, I haven’t done it yet, but next month I’m scheduled to go “under cover” at a fast food restaurant. In the book I’m writing now (52 Reasons to Hate My Father), a teen heiress is forced to work at a fast food restaurant and since I’ve never worked at one, I need to get to find out what it’s like. My friend owns a Taco John’s restaurant and he’s bringing me as a new employee so that I can be trained like it’s my first day. I told him not to tell any of the other employees what I was doing so I could get the “real experience.” I’ve never been more excited to make tacos! But what I’m really looking forward to is working the drive-thru. I’ve always wanted to wear one of those headsets. “Welcome to Taco Johns, can I take you order?” How did I do?
4) What do you like best about being a writer and what do you like the least?
What I like best: Being my own boss and making my own schedule.
What I like least: Being my own boss and making my own schedule.
When you work for yourself procrastination is WAY too easy. But on the plus side, I’m the first boss I’ve ever had that considered a new episode of Glee on my Tivo to be an acceptable excuse for being late to work.
5) Do you have any phobias?
I don’t know if I’d call it a phobia, per se, but I have this really weird thing about bones. I’m totally squeamish about them. No one can crack any bones around me. And I can’t have my bones touched. My hip bone is the worst. I don’t even like touching it! It’s very odd. I think something terrible must have happened to me (and my bones) in a past life!
6) What's up next? Do you have another project in the works? If so, please tell us about it.
I’m working on a new YA book that will be out in 2012 called 52 REASONS TO HATE MY FATHER about a teen heiress who is forced by her ever-absent mogul father to take on a different low-wage job every week for a year if she wants any hope of getting her trust fund. I’m SO excited about it! Plus, I just finished the copyedits on another book that will be out in 2011 called MY LIFE UNDECIDED. And I’m also working on a new YA series that I can’t quite talk about yet. But it’s gonna be SOOOO cool!
The Karma Club Theme Song!
This week, we're also giving away TEN free iTunes downloads of The Karma Club Theme Song! Take a listen here!
Jessica and tons of teen celebs celebrated the release of The Karma Club on Saturday May 1st in Santa Clarita, CA. The proceeds benefited the schools of Santa Clarita and TheKarmaClub.org
Download FREE Karma Club Wallpapers for your Desktop!
Get your free Karma Club wallpaper by clicking here! (Choice of FIVE different designs!!!)
The Karma Club Poster! We'll be giving away five autographed posters this week! They're signed by Jessica AND the cast of the trailer!
About the Author:
JESSICA BRODY was born in southern California, moved to Colorado when she was twelve, and is now back in sunny Los Angeles. The author of two adult novels—The Fidelity Files and Love Under Cover—The Karma Club is her first young adult book. Despite what some people from her high school might claim, she has never sought revenge on an ex-boyfriend. Visit her online at: www.JessicaBrody.com.
**Please enter to win using the form on the left side bar of our website. Comments left on the post, while appreciated, are not used as entry. Thanks!
9 comments:
Awesome giveaway!
Congratulations Jessica! This looks like a fun YA book.
Congrats on your book's release, Jessica. I have it on my must-read list!
CONGRATS, JESSICA! I've been DYING to read The Karma Club, but I can't seem to find it. I really hope I win!
*crosses fingers*
COngrats on the book release! By the way, the link for the free flip cameras doesn't work.
Thanks everyone! And thanks anonymous for the tip about the link. Should be working now!
omg i cannot wait to read it!!!
I'm really looking forward to reading this. The trailer really got me interested.
Congrats Jessica on the book release! How exciting! It is on my must read list and I can't wait to read it! I really hope I win!
What an exciting givewaway also!
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