The Golden Boy (A St. Mary's Academy Novella)
by Seven Steps & Audrey Rich
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 24th 2018
Summary:
Meg has it made. She has money to spare, attends an exclusive private school with the best film production program in the country, and, to top it off, she has a super-hot boyfriend. But when her father’s business goes under, and her boyfriend cheats on her with a ditzy cheerleader, the only way she can maintain her perfect life is to figure out a way to stay in school.
When a fellow student offers to pay her tuition, Meg jumps at the chance. She only has to tell one tiny white lie to someone she’s never met.
How hard could that be, right?
Until she discovers she must deceive Julius 'Hercules' Samson, the school quarterback with a heart of gold. Even worse, he's determined to sweep her off her feet.
Can Meg go through with the plan to save her future, even if it means ruining Julius’?
Inspired by Megera (Meg) from the story of Hercules, The Golden Boy is a poignant, emotional, young adult contemporary romance about a teen girl's hard choices, loss, and love.
St. Mary's Academy is a young adult contemporary romance series that brings classic fairytale characters to life in a modern day, high school setting. It's filled with angsty heroines, hot heroes, and drama galore. St. Mary's Academy Shorts are shorter stories from within the St. Mary's Academy universe.
Buy this book today because you've never read a fairytale quite like this.
by Seven Steps & Audrey Rich
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance
Release Date: April 24th 2018
Summary:
Meg has it made. She has money to spare, attends an exclusive private school with the best film production program in the country, and, to top it off, she has a super-hot boyfriend. But when her father’s business goes under, and her boyfriend cheats on her with a ditzy cheerleader, the only way she can maintain her perfect life is to figure out a way to stay in school.
When a fellow student offers to pay her tuition, Meg jumps at the chance. She only has to tell one tiny white lie to someone she’s never met.
How hard could that be, right?
Until she discovers she must deceive Julius 'Hercules' Samson, the school quarterback with a heart of gold. Even worse, he's determined to sweep her off her feet.
Can Meg go through with the plan to save her future, even if it means ruining Julius’?
Inspired by Megera (Meg) from the story of Hercules, The Golden Boy is a poignant, emotional, young adult contemporary romance about a teen girl's hard choices, loss, and love.
St. Mary's Academy is a young adult contemporary romance series that brings classic fairytale characters to life in a modern day, high school setting. It's filled with angsty heroines, hot heroes, and drama galore. St. Mary's Academy Shorts are shorter stories from within the St. Mary's Academy universe.
Buy this book today because you've never read a fairytale quite like this.
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Interview with Seven Steps & Audrey Rich
Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in The Golden Boy?
Meg is the main character. She is a feisty, headstrong girl who has to make some hard decisions after life throws her a curveball. She struggles in the beginning, but as the book goes on, she faces those struggles and comes out a better person.
Julius is a star quarterback who is also faced with a tough decision. Instead of running away, he works to conquer the difficulty. He is kind and generous and easy to fall in love with.
The Golden Boy is based on the story of Hercules.
Can you tell us a little bit about your next books or what you have planned for the future?
Audrey Rich: I’m working on adding the guy’s voice to my short story, Where’s There’s Smoke There’s Fire, as well as Denying Our Love, which will be the fourth book of A Stonehaven High Series. Both are set in the sunny beaches of Florida.
Seven Steps: I am currently working on The Secret Lives of Princesses, a contemporary retelling of Aladdin, but told from Jasmine’s point of view. I’m also working on Kissing Frogs, a contemporary retelling of The Princess and the Frog.
How long would you say it takes you to write a book?
Audrey Rich: A full length novel, over 200 pages, can take me a month to write but two months to edit before it can go to the beta readers. A short story can take about three weeks and a week to edit.
Seven Steps: The first draft takes me about 30 days if I’m focused. The second and third draft take another thirty days. However, most times I lose focus and have to start re-writing the book from the beginning, so about three months.
What is your favorite childhood book?
Audrey Rich: There are so many but I loved “Beauty and the Beast” as well as “The Wizard of Oz,” which was the first book I stayed up all night reading when I was seven years old.
Seven Steps: Alice in Wonderland.
If you could spend the day with one of the characters from The Golden Boy who would it be? Please tell us why you chose this particular character, where you would go and what you would do.
Audrey Rich: Hands down it would be Julius Samson because he’s such a great guy. I know he would a real gentleman, while he showed me New York City on foot and took me to all the best food places.
Seven Steps: If I could spend one day with one of the characters from the story, it would be Meg. She’s funny and loves movies. We’d probably hang out at the movies, drink coffee, and people watch all day. Maybe take in a play or go to an art show. She’s into a lot of artsy stuff that I like, so we’d have a good time.
What was the hardest scene from The Golden Boy to write?
Audrey Rich: The hardest scene was when she comes home to an empty house, realizes that her mom is undergoing another chemotherapy treatment, and makes chicken soup so her mom can eat. I did that for my own mom, when she battled breast cancer and I remembered how I tried everything to find her something she could eat when she would lose her appetite because of a treatment.
Seven Steps: The scene where Meg confesses what she’s done to Julius’ mother. It was a very emotional scene that I wanted to get just right.
What made you want to become a writer?
Audrey Rich: It was an answer to a prayer. I’ve always loved to read, in high school I would read two books a day, but I never thought I would write. That is until one night when I was too wired to sleep, I opened up Word and this story just flowed from my fingertips. I stayed up all night writing. Three months later I had Masquerading Our Love along with the desire to write.
Seven Steps: I love telling stories and I loved to read. Being a writer just came naturally.
Just for fun
(a Favorite song:
Audrey Rich - I Don’t Want to Live Forever by ZAYN and Taylor Swift.
Seven Steps - I love telling stories and I loved to read. Being a writer just came naturally.
(b Favorite book:
Audrey Rich - A Secret Love by Stephanie Lauren
Seven Steps - Alice in Wonderland
(c Favorite movie:
Audrey Rich - this week it’s A Sound of Music
Seven Steps - Waterworld (don’t hate me. Lol)
(d Favorite tv show:
Audrey Rich - I used to love watching Dance Moms with my daughter but we haven’t found another tv show…yet.
Seven Steps - Strange Empire (don’t laugh. lol)
(e Favorite Food:
Audrey Rich – If I had to choose it would be homemade chicken soup and Chick-fil-A nuggets.
Seven Steps - Salmon
(f Favorite drink:
Audrey Rich - Water
Seven Steps - Any type of wine. Yes, any type.
(g Favorite website:
Audrey Rich – Facebook because it’s the place to be social with authors.
Thanks so much for visiting with us today!
About the Authors
Seven Steps –
"Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me."
--William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing.
I have been writing for as long as I can remember. One of my mentors (you know who you are) often reminds me of my first foray into the world of literary fiction. It was a lively story about a bee's journey to find a pot of missing honey. He says that I have improved since then. I think that he's right.
I am a working wife and mother, as well as a devoted owner of a beautiful cat named Rosie. I enjoy hanging out with my friends and family, thrifting, and anything that reminds me of my childhood.
My favorite genres are Sweet Romance, Science Fiction, Dystopian and Historical.
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Audrey Rich is a New York City transplant living in South Florida, who writes sweet YA and NA Contemporary Romances and is an avid reader of novels where love conquers all.
She’s married to her own happily-ever-after Hero, is an inactive CPA, and a stay-at-home mom homeschooling her teenage daughter, while also missing her son, who is away at college.
Audrey enjoys volunteering with children of all ages at church, especially the enthusiastic teenagers, and teaching the Junior Achievement curriculums at local middle and high schools. She also loves to travel with her family.
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