Nerdy Little Secret by M.J. O'Shea Blog Tour, Guest Post & Review!

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Hey guys, we have M.J. O’Shea popping by with her newest release Nerdy Little Secret, from the series Coconut Cove. M.J. also chats about where she and Poppy got the inspiration for Coconut Cove so enjoy the post. <3 ~Pixie~ 

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Nerdy Little Secret

(Coconut Cove 02)

by

M.J. O’Shea

Welcome to Coconut Cove where you’ll always find oiled beach bodies, palm trees, tropical drinks, and plenty of drama!

Coconut Cove is the hottest new sensation to sweep the nation — a gay teen drama filled to the brim with hot stars and even hotter action. It’s catching the public’s attention and winning their hearts. But all the drama, heartache, and life lessons aren’t just for the characters on the screen. The fledgling actors behind the scenes have more than their fair share of love and catastrophes. They may only play teens on TV but when it comes to romance, these twenty-somethings still have lessons to learn.

From the scheming ex determined to cash in on a rising star, to the hunky high school crush resurrected from ancient history—from the nice guy with a naughty past, to the snarky diva with attitude—there’s plenty of scandalous hidden affairs and seriously sexy demons hiding in just about everyone’s closet on Coconut Cove.

You just have to be ready to drink it in. Bottoms up … or should we say off?

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Inspirations

Poppy and I pulled from a lot of places when we were coming up with the parts of this series. We did a lot of laughing and scheming and in the end, have something that we both think is fun!

We took a lot of our inspiration from teen shows of the past. There are always character archetypes : The new boy, the queen bee, the jock, the innocent, everyone’s sweetheart, the bad boy…I could go down every teen show in history and name them. We wanted to make sure Coconut Cove had those very recognizable characters in place so that you guys, the readers, would be able to pick up on them right away. We even played around with names a little! Kelly is the sweetheart (although he’s a he and not a she but he’s still blond!) Blair is the name of the actor who plays the schemer we gave our bad boy a very badboy name (Robbie) and the innocent is Joey instead of Jennie. That’ll make sense to a few of you! Since our books are mostly about the actors who play those archetypes, we got to have fun making the TV characters as campy and stereotypical as possible — but ironically, I loooved writing Queen Bee Ryder’s snarky thoughts. He might be just like scheming queen bees in the past, but they sure are fun!

Once we had our TV characters set, we went through and filled out the characters of the actors who play them along with the actors who play the parents, the female students, and our beloved crew. That was where some more inspiration set in! You’ll see some familiar names pop up, such as Geoff and Ethan (who happen to be the hot dads on the screen) or LC Chase who took time off of her busy cover art-ing to be Coconut Cove’s producer. Lots of names show up. You’ll see them!

I don’t want to talk too long, but be sure to visit my site, and the Coconut Cove facebook page for more updates, contests, and other fun stuff!

Thanks for having me stop by:)

xoxo

MJ O’Shea

Here’s where to find me, and the first two Coconut Cove books:

The Books:

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Coconut Cove #1 : http://www.wildecity.com/books/gay-romance/coconut-cove-lifes-a-beach/#.VA6f9ZgkWC0

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Coconut Cove #2 : http://www.wildecity.com/books/gay-romance/coconut-cove-episode-2-lord-of-the-bling/#.VA6gEJgkWC0

Me:

Here’s the Coconut Cove facebook page where we’ll be posting updates and giveaways:
And if you haven’t taken our character quiz, come see which Coconut Cove character you are!
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About M.J.

I’m Mj O’Shea, author of erotic romance–well all sorts of romance actually, that’s just what’s been published so far!

I grew up, and still live, in sunny Washington state and while I love to visit other places, I can’t imagine calling anywhere else home.

I spent my childhood writing stories. Sometime in my early teens, the stories turned to romance. Most of those were about me, my friends, and our favorite tv stars. Hopefully, I’ve come a long way since then…

Right now, I have four books published through Republica Press (click on the link to visit their site), but I’m constantly working on new projects.

When I’m not writing, I love to play the piano and cook and paint pictures…and of course read. It’s nearly impossible to work on my own writing when I’ve gotten myself hooked into a great new book:) I like sparkly girly girl things, own at least twenty different colored headbands, and I have a little white dog with a ginger eye spot who sits with me when I write. Sometimes she comes up with ideas for me too…when she’s not napping.

Website http://mjoshea.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/mj.oshea.5 Twitter https://twitter.com/mjosheaseattle Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3512511.M_J_O_Shea

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Review

M.J. O'Shea - Nerdy Little Secret 320x502Title: Nerdy Little Secret

Series: Coconut Cove 02

Author: M.J. O’Shea

Genre: Contemporary, Humor

Length: Novella (94pgs)

ISBN: 978-1-925180-38-1

Publisher: Wilde City Press (24th September 2014)

Heat Level: Low – Moderate

Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥ 3 ½ Hearts

Reviewer: Pixie

Blurb: Welcome to Coconut Cove where you’ll always find oiled beach bodies, palm trees, tropical drinks, and plenty of drama!

Coconut Cove is the hottest new sensation to sweep the nation — a gay teen drama filled to the brim with hot stars and even hotter action. It’s catching the public’s attention and winning their hearts. But all the drama, heartache, and life lessons aren’t just for the characters on the screen. The fledgling actors behind the scenes have more than their fair share of love and catastrophes. They may only play teens on TV but when it comes to romance, these twenty-somethings still have lessons to learn.

From the scheming ex determined to cash in on a rising star, to the hunky high school crush resurrected from ancient history—from the nice guy with a naughty past, to the snarky diva with attitude—there’s plenty of scandalous hidden affairs and seriously sexy demons hiding in just about everyone’s closet on Coconut Cove.

You just have to be ready to drink it in. Bottoms up … or should we say off?

Purchase Link: http://www.wildecity.com/books/gay-romance/coconut-cove-episode-2-lord-of-the-bling/#.VCRLZvldUlQ

Review: This book is part of a series and is best read in order. We re-join the cast of Coconut Cove for a new exciting love story as Blair (Ryder) finds his happily ever after. Blair is still surprised that he has a role as Ryder in Coconut Cove, he’s nothing like his queen bee character and sometimes struggles getting into the role. Plus his secret crush from high school is back in town and he always clams up when Sander is around. Sander is back in Key West because his job fell through, getting a job working on the sets of Coconut Cove is a blessing and he connects with Blair his next door neighbor, and soon love blossoms.

Oh guys Blair is a complete sweetheart and you really don’t want to miss his story. Blair grew up in Key West and still lives with his mom, he was a quiet guy in school and crushed hard on his next door neighbor Sander. Now years later he is one of the stars on Coconut Cove but inside he is still the quiet guy who still crushes on Sander even though he doesn’t see him that often. Meeting up with Sander again he realises he never really knew Sander and the Sander he gets to know now captures his heart.

I really enjoyed this ‘episode’ of Coconut Cove, I loved getting to know more of the characters that I met in Life’s a Beach and getting to know the true person behind Ryder was a pure pleasure. For the first half of this story it’s mainly just Blair and how he’s coping with his role and the new friends he’s made, we don’t actually start to see progress of his friendship with Sander until the second half of the story and then it’s paced nicely so it seems like a nice length of time and not a jump into bed straight away relationship.

We don’t really get to see much of Sander but we do get to know him quite well as he opens himself up to Blair in order to help him with his character Ryder. Now the script to Coconut Cove seems to be moving along quickly and we see scenes at beginning of some chapters, and the other characters… oh I soooo want the stories of sweet Tony and of course bitchy Howie, I can’t wait for the next installment and have my fingers crossed that it will be coming soon.

I recommend this to those who love brilliant serials with a love story in each installment, wonderful characters who are both sweet and sexy, finding love with your high school crush and the beginning of a very happy ending.