The tease where they go ... skinny dipping?

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So much of the fun in writing Chasing Cars and the Lessons We Learned was in learning Finnish culture from Mindy. I essentially became Amber, this twenty-one-year-old girl visiting Europe for the first time. It was hilarious to pull up Finnish words as Mindy wrote them and attempt to pronounce them—y'all will see what I mean when you read it yourselves. It was fun to go on an internet tour of Finland as Mindy introduced me to the places she went three years ago on a family trip. It was fun to scroll Pinterest and Google looking for food, hotels, animals, and nature. I was given a pretty thorough education. So much so that I really NEED to go to Finland now. Finland signing, anyone??
Playing the slightly clueless, slightly self-absorbed Amber was a blast. She finds herself aggravated with Olle on more than one occasion, thanks to the cultural differences. I truly hope when you read this story you will see just how much we loved writing it. 

You can PREORDER Chasing Cars on all sites now for only 99¢
(Hurry before we realize how crazy we are!)

iBooks: http://bit.ly/ChasingCars_iBooks
B&N: http://bit.ly/ChasingCars_BarnesNoble
US: http://bit.ly/ChasingCars_AmzUS

Don't forget to follow our Chasing Cars Pinterest! We'll be sharing a lot of research and inspiration over the next few weeks. 

The making of a cover ... #ChasingCars

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I told you we had 100 variations of the Chasing Cars and the Lessons We Learned cover, right? Mindy and I like to play and design our covers before we send them to Starla to create real thing for us. We call these mock-ups and sometimes they are BAD! 

Case in point—this is a small sample of #SubwayStops.
First, you see the water and city vectors we wanted to use. Next, you see the city Mindy drew because we wanted the twin towers included in our cover. Then you see our mock-up we sent to Starla.
The bright green is what Starla sent back and none of us liked that color very much, so we ended up with purple.  

Chasing Cars was a beast to design. Originally, we wanted to go with the map idea, but then it seemed odd that we did a map for PP and CC, but not SS. So we began to play. Cars, birch trees, bunting, and bears. Oh, my! 
Okay, so the bear was a joke—one that will make perfect sense when you read Chasing Cars. Enjoy this craptastic evolution of a cover...

Ultimately, as I'm sure you've seen by now, we chose the world. Mindy drew the landmarks, Starla made it awesome, colorful, and perfect. HERE is the cover reveal link if you didn't see it (there's an excerpt only see in MY post for you). 

So, next time you see one of our covers know that most likely there are 20+ versions of that cover floating around in our laptops. Cover decisions are hard y'all!

#TuesdayTease #ChasingCars

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First things first, did you see the cover reveal and excerpt from yesterday? It's HERE if you didn't.
Second, feast your eyes on this ...

Does this make you think of singing "say my name, say my name..."?

We're getting close y'all! Amazon preorders will go up on May 1

iBooks and Nook are live now AND only 99¢

iBooks: http://bit.ly/ChasingCars_iBooks
B&N: http://bit.ly/ChasingCars_BarnesNoble

AND in case you missed it

US is on sale now until April 10th
UK will be on sale April 5th through 10th

Amazon US: http://bit.ly/PaperPlanes_AmazonUS
Amazon UK: http://bit.ly/PaperPlanes_AmazonUK
Amazon US: http://bit.ly/SubwayStops_AmazonUS
Amazon UK: http://bit.ly/SubwayStops_AmazonUK

Add it to your Goodreads TBR

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