I am pumped that YA Bibliophile is the next stop on the blog tour for Huntley Fitzpatrick’s The Boy Most Likely to. I absolutely adored this book. My heart nearly broke when I found out that Huntley Fitzpatrick has an upcoming tour stop near me but I’ll be out of town for it. I guess being on the blog tour is the next best thing 🙂 Plus, this is a super fun top ten list from the author!
10 Facts you don’t know about Huntley Fitzpatrick
1) When I was eleven, I gave up my writing dreams for a while because I wanted to be an actress. I did in fact have three important roles: as the right front fender in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, as a murderess of wealthy elderly men in Ladies in Retirement and a dead body who lay face down on the floor for the entire 3 hour play. I retired after that one.
2) I can write my name and sign teacher notes with my toes. I can also imitate almost anyone’s handwriting. But not with my toes.
3) My husband and I grew up seven houses away from one another. We did not meet until our twenties. He asked me to play tennis. I said no. He didn’t ask me out for another five years. That time I said yes.
4) I can escape from handcuffs in under 30 seconds (learned this during unfortunate loss-of-key incident when my son was policeman for Halloween)
5) When I was a kid, one of my things to do was to climb into the antique buggy next to local landmark inn, crawl out of it blinking in the sunlight, and ask passersby what century it was. Still regret that I never convinced anyone that I’d time-travelled. This may go back to my #1 fact.
6) I once kissed a stranger on a train.
7) My first book (I was 8) was called “The Doll-House in Which we Live”. I had great grammar and, evidently a torrid imagination—the heroine was the mom of 20 children (at 28) and was having a steamy affair with the local minister.
8) I once helped Cary “Westley in Princess Bride” Elwes find the shoe department. Restrained myself from saying “As you wish” when he asked where it was.
9) The last time I sailed a sailboat by myself, I capsized in the waters off Normandy beach and had to be rescued by a team of eight Frenchmen. They found the whole thing very very funny.
10) When I went to get a recommendation from my college history professor for grad school in English Lit, he told me to write a romance novel instead. Maybe he meant it to be dismissive, but in the end it was inspirational.
Oh man. I loved those… especially number 8! I was once in a green room with him and it was so hard to play it cool! Thanks to Huntley Fitzpatrick for sharing those facts!
About the Book:
Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To:
– find the liquor cabinet blindfolded
– need a liver transplant
– drive his car into a house
Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To:
– well, not date her little brother’s baggage-burdened best friend, for starters.
For Tim, it wouldn’t be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the “smart” choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard.
Then the unexpected consequences of Tim’s wild days come back to shock him. He finds himself in a situation that isn’t all it appears to be, that he never could have predicted . . . but maybe should have.
And Alice is caught in the middle.
Told in Tim’s and Alice’s distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this return to the world of My Life Next Door is a story about failing first, trying again, and having to decide whether to risk it all once more.
About the Author:
Huntley Fitzpatrick grew up dreamy and distracted in coastal Connecticut. She flourished in a family of bookworms where everyone always had their nose in a book. She kept an exhaustively thorough journal which frightened her boyfriends but has proved very useful in her career as a writer. Her debut contemporary Romance, MY LIFE NEXT DOOR, was published in June of 2012 by Penguin-Dial for Young Readers. Now she laughs with and eavesdrops on her six children who provide her with perspective and material. She is represented by the amazing Christina Hogrebe of the Jane Rotrosen Agency.
Amy Rubinate
That list was so fantastic that I hope you write a thinly-veiled autobiographical novel about YOUR story! I would so love to read it!
Huntley Fitzpatrick
Aw, Amy. Thank you so much. That really makes me smile.