Exposure Virtual Book Tour May 2011

Exposure

Join Therese Fowler, author of the family drama book,  Exposure: A Novel (Ballantine Books, May 3, 2011), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in May 2011 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

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About Therese Fowler

Therese Fowler is the author of Souvenir and Reunion. She has worked in the U.S. Civil Service, managed a clothing store, lived in the Philippines, had children, sold real estate, earned a B.A. in sociology, sold used cars, returned to school for her M.F.A. in creative writing, and taught college undergrads about literature and fiction writing—roughly in that order. With books published in nine languages and sold worldwide, Fowler writes full-time from her home in Wake Forest, North Carolina, which she shares with her husband, four amiable cats, and four nearly grown-up sons. Her latest book is Exposure: A Novel. You can visit Therese Fowler’s website at www.theresefowler.com.

About Exposure

In Exposure, Therese Fowler has written her most gripping novel to date—a ripped-from-the-headlines story of ardent young love and a nightmarish legal maelstrom that threatens to destroy two families.

Amelia Wilkes’s strict father does not allow her to date, but that doesn’t stop the talented, winsome high school senior from carrying on a secret romance with her classmate Anthony Winter. Desperately in love, the two envision a life together and plan to tell Amelia’s parents only after she turns eighteen and is legally an adult. Anthony’s mother, Kim, who teaches Exposure cover at their school, knows—and keeps—their secret. But the couple’s passion is exposed sooner than planned: Amelia’s father, Harlan, is shocked and infuriated to find naked pictures of Anthony on his daughter’s computer. Just hours later, Anthony is arrested.

Despite Amelia’s frantic protests, Harlan uses his wealth and influence with local law enforcement and the media to label Anthony a deviant who preyed on his innocent daughter. Spearheaded by a zealous prosecutor anxious to turn the case into a public crusade against “sexting,” the investigation soon takes an even more disturbing and destructive turn.

As events spiral wildly out of control and the scandalous story makes national news, Amelia and Anthony risk everything in a bold and dangerous attempt to clear their names and end the madness once and for all.

A captivating page-turner, Therese Fowler’s Exposure is also a deftly crafted, provocative, and timely novel that serves as a haunting reminder of the consequences of love in the modern age.

Read an Excerpt!

Nine hours before the police arrived, Anthony Winter stood, barefooted and wild, on the narrow front porch of the house he shared with his mother. The painted wooden planks were damp and cool beneath his feet, but he hardly noticed. In his right hand he held a fallen maple leaf up to a sun that was just breaking the horizon. In his left he held his phone. He squinted at the leaf, marveling at its deep blood-orange color, amazed and happy that nature could make such a thing from what had, only a few weeks earlier, been emerald green, and before that, deep lime, and before that, a tight, tiny bundle of a bud on a spindly limb, waving in a North Carolina spring breeze. He’d always been an observant person; he hadn’t always been so romantic. It was Amelia. She brought it out in him. She brought it out in everybody.

Amelia’s voice, when she answered his call, was lazy with sleep. It was a Monday, her day to sleep a little later than she could the rest of the week. Tuesday through Friday, she rose at five to get homework done before her three-mile run, which came before the 8:50 start of their Ravenswood Academy school day. At 3:00 pm was dance—ballet, modern, jazz—then voice lessons twice a week at five; often there was some play’s rehearsal after that, and then, if her eyelids weren’t drooping like the dingy shades in her voice teacher’s living room, she might start on her homework. But more often she would sneak out of her astonishing house to spend a stolen hour with him. With Anthony. The man (she loved to call him that, now that he’d turned eighteen) with whom she intended to spend all of her future life, and then, if God was good to them, eternity to follow.

Seeing Amelia and Anthony together, you would never have guessed they were destined for anything other than a charmed future, and possibly greatness. Perhaps Amelia had, as her father was fond of saying, emerged from the womb coated in stardust. And maybe it was also true what Anthony’s mother claimed: that her son had been first prize in the Cosmic lottery, and she’d won. They were, separately, well-tended and adored. Together, they were a small but powerful force of nature. Love makes that of people, sometimes.

That morning, nine hours and perhaps five minutes before his arrest, Anthony stood on the narrow front porch with a leaf and a phone in his chilly hands. Amelia was saying, “I dreamt of us,” in a suggestive voice that stirred him, inside and out. He heard his mother coming downstairs, so he pulled the front door closed. Unlike the rest of his school’s faculty, she knew about Amelia and him; in her way, she approved. Still, he preferred to keep his conversations private. There were certain things even an approving mother wouldn’t want to hear. Certain things he absolutely did not want her to know.

Read the Reviews!

“A story of desperate young love, complicated families, and a legal system gone awry, Therese Fowler’s Exposure is provocative, timely, and compelling.  Amelia and Anthony’s story will surely strike fear into the heart of every parent, and leave book clubs talking for hours.”

–Meg Waite Clayton, national bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters and The Four Ms. Bradwells

Other Books by Therese Fowler:

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Exposure Virtual Book Tour Schedule

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Monday, May 2

Interviewed at The Hot Author Report

Tuesday, May 3

Guest blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

Wednesday, May 4

Book reviewed at My Reading Room

Thursday, May 5

Guest blogging at Review from Here

Monday, May 9

Book reviewed at A Musing Reviews

Tuesday, May 10

Interviewed at Paperback Writer

Wednesday, May 11 books

Book reviewed at Teresa’s Reading Corner

Thursday, May 12

Book spotlighted and giveaway at The Book Connection

Friday, May 13

Interviewed at Blogcritics

Book reviewed at Colloquium

Monday, May 16

Interviewed at Literarily Speaking

Tuesday, May 17

Interviewed at As the Pages Turn

Book reviewed at Peeking Between the Pages

Wednesday, May 18

Book reviewed at WV Stitcher

Guest blogging and giveaway at Peeking Between the Pages

Thursday, May 19

Book reviewed at Bookworm Hollow

Book reviewed at Great Thoughts

Book reviewed at The Review Stew

Friday, May 20

Book reviewed at Reading Frenzy

Monday, May 23

Book reviewed at StephTheBookworm

Tuesday, May 24

Book reviewed by Ohio Girl Talks

Wednesday, May 25

Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book!

Thursday, May 26

Book reviewed at Marianslibrary’s Blog

Friday, May 27

Book reviewed and giveaway at A Cozy Reader’s Corner

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Therese Fowler’s EXPOSURE VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR MAY ’11 will officially begin on May 2 and end on May 27, 2011. Please contact Cheryl Malandrinos at cg20pm00(at)gmail(dot)com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing her book or click here to use the form. Thank you!

UPDATE:  This tour is now full an no longer accepting hosts. Thank you for your interest in Exposure by Therese Fowler.

If you would like to book your own virtual book tour with us, click here to find out how!

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