Title: American Girl On Saturn
Author: Nikki
Godwin
Release date: August 29th, 2013
Genre: Young Adult
Tour: Irresistible Reads Book Tours
Book Description:
The summer
after graduation is supposed to be that first real taste of freedom - but not
for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as that breeze of freedom is making
its way into her galaxy, her secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb
of bad news on her and her sisters. An attempt has been made on the lives of
Canadian boyband, Spaceships Around Saturn, during their USA tour, and the guys
have to go into hiding ASAP. The only problem? In the midst of the crisis and
media frenzy, their dad volunteered to hide the guys...in their house.
Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed Saturnite would be,
but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch their summer plans
crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't happy with the
situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about everything from
his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji can't escape
Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes.
But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she
finally understands what Emery means when she talks about SAS being "out
of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn't want to
come back to Earth.
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Guest Post -
Inspiration
As
much as I'd love to take credit for the idea of American Girl On Saturn, it was
actually the idea of my sister, Emily. Many months ago, we were in the Taco
Bell parking lot when she said, "You know what'd be a good book? If there
was a boyband and something bad happened to them, so they had to go into
hiding, and they ended up staying with some government agent and his family.
And it'd be told from the point of view of the teenage daughter. You know, what
it's like to have a boyband crashing at your house and spending your summer on
lockdown."
Two
weeks later, I was still thinking about this idea, so I asked her if she was
planning on writing it. She said it'd be a fun book to read, but it wasn't
"her type" of book to write. Then she said, "But you can write
it if you want." I was on the couch that night with a bag of colored
Sharpies and my One Direction notebook plotting American Girl On Saturn.
To
be very honest, One Direction did inspire a lot of this book. How could they
not? It's a book about a boyband, and they're only the most famous boyband in
the world right now. I adore their music, and I admire their talent and drive
to be the best they can be. I also very much respect them for taking on such an
insane, hectic life at such young ages. Their music played in the background
many nights while writing this.
But
they aren't the only band who brought American Girl On Saturn to life. Punk-pop
band Simple Plan influenced a lot of little things in this book (like Milo and
Noah's middle names, the fact that the guys are from Canada, etc.) and rock
band Hawthorne Heights inspired the fictional band Sebastian's Shadow, the main
character Chloe's favorite band. Overall, a love for music in general inspired
this book. Anyone who has ever fangirled over a band or stood in line for
tickets or held tightly to an album to get them through a tough time will be
able to relate to this book. Music is a universal language, and this story is a
fun romance told from the point of view of a girl who gets to experience music
from the other side.
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About the Author:
Nikki
Godwin is a Young Adult/New Adult author. She is a city girl who can’t live
without Mountain Dew, black eyeliner, Hawthorne Heights, and candles from Bath
& Body Works. When not writing, she’s not-so-secretly stalking her favorite
bands. She may or may not completely love One Direction.
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