The Curl Up and Dye by Sharon Sala-Blog Tour, Review and Giveaway
The Curl Up and Dye
Curl Up and Dye #1
by Sharon Sala
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Genre: women’s fiction
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ABOUT THE BOOK: A brand new Southern women’s fiction from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Sala who has 1.5 million books sold.
Wally Lamb meets Steel Magnolias in this story of LilyAnn Bronte, the Peachy-Keen Queen, which in Blessings, Georgia, was the epitome of success. After losing her fiance in the war in Iraq, her zest for life went into decline while added weight crept on. When a new guy arrives in town, LilyAnn embarks on a quest to remake herself from start to finish only to discover that love was always just right next-door.
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Curl Up and Dye is a wonderful story of small town lives. Curl Up and Dye is the local beauty salon and run by some wonderful ladies, who know everyone and almost everything. Like in most small towns, the beauty salon is the center piece of life.
This is the story of LilyAnn Bronte, who had a lovely young life that went bad when her first love Randy Joe went to Afghanistan and was killed. She got stuck in that place, just short of growing up.
She dropped out of college that year and started working at the local pharmacy. Three years later her father died and her mother later remarried a man 12 years younger and now lives happily in Miami, Florida. LilyAnn never went back to school and just worked at Phillips Pharmacy and began packing on the pounds and living in her little rut. Eleven years later, hearing a hot rod truck rev up its pipes, she sort of had a revelation of change.
She went to the Curl Up and Dye for her weekly appointment. While there, the driver of the hot rod truck came in to ask for a haircut. He was moderately handsome and well-built and his name was T.J. Lachlan. T.J. was new in town and renovating his great uncle’s house that he’d inherited. LilyAnn knew the new stranger would never look at her as she was, but would have liked her as she was when she was with Randy Joe. This was the impetus for her change!
Mike Dalton is LilyAnn’s next door neighbor, as well as the owner of the local fitness gym, and has been in love with her since the tenth grade. He has never had the courage to make his feelings know, afraid of rejection.
This is the setting, the story is one of self-realization and finding out what life truly has to offer before it’s too late. It’s well written, you get to know many of the people in the town. Ms. Salsa does a great job of creating the town from the ground up. You feel like you have lived there, or could live there. She entwines the story around LilyAnn and Mike and their finding each other, interspersing it with tales of other townfolk.
It’s a bumpy road, some funny, some horrible, and some just embarrassing! It’s great entertainment. T.J. turns out to be not what everyone thought (no spoilers now) and the story is wonderful and fulfilling.
Grab a glass of your favorite beverage, cuddle up and have a good time with this wonderful home-town type story. It’s well worth the time to read! The characters are endearing and loveable, you get some bad guys to take you temper out on, and lots of great fun! Enjoy everyone, I did!
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Reviewed by Georgianna
1. With the zany characters in your book, I just have to ask are they
based on people you know, a combination of people or just totally made up?
Well, I will admit to have quite a few characters in my family, and I have a wicked sense of humor and a wild imagination, so that’s how the people in my books come to be.
2. What one thing do you dislike most about writing?
That’s an easy answer and one I’d venture to say nearly all writers share. Its waiting to be paid. Publishers might pay quarterly, or twice a year, or whatever their market plan is, and no matter how hard we write and how many bills pill up, we don’t get paid when we finish a job. We wait months and months without knowing the amount we will even receive, because ALL of our income is based on royalty from the sales, and no one knows whether a book will sell well, or if it’s going to get pirated so many times your actual sales plummet, etc. It’s a hard business to be in and survive.
3. Most writers also enjoy reading when they have a chance. What was the last book you read?
It was a book by Robert Crais called Voodoo River.
4. Valentine’s Day is just a few days away. What meal would you consider to be perfect for the occasion?
I always loved having dinner with my sweetheart. I think that’s still the best thing a woman enjoys… not having to cook, being waited on, and being with the person you love.
5. What can readers look forward to next from you?
My next book for Sourcebooks will be book 2 from the world of Blessings, Georgia and the girls at The Curl Up & Dye. It’s called Family Specials.
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Sharon Sala has been a published author since 1991, and has also written under the pseudonym Dinah McCall, although the last McCall book was released in March of 2007.
Her 76th book, THE HEALER, was released in April 2008. She’s a member of Romance Writers of America and writes mostly romantic suspense and paranormal romantic suspense for Harlequin Enterprises, Silhouette Books, and at one time, also wrote for Harper/Avon. She also had a humorous western trilogy set in the Kansas Territory before the Civil War published by Loveland Press, a small press publisher out of Loveland Colorado. She’s a five-time RITA finalist, which is RWA’s equivalent of an Oscar or an Emmy nomination.
A three time Career Achievenment winner from RT Bookclub Magazine, as well as a five time winner of the National Reader’s Choice Awards. She’s a regular on the New York Times bestseller lists, as well as USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, Library Journal, and many other trade lists. She’s won many industry awards, including numerous ones from RT Bookclub Magazine, a trade magazine devoted entirely to the latest reviews.
Sourcebooks and Sharon are offering a paper copy of THE CURL UP AND DYE to one (1) lucky commenter at The Reading Cafe.
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3. Giveaway open to USA and CANADA only.
4. Giveaway runs February 6-10, 2014
Great review, Georgie. Sounds exactly like you said, something to cuddle up and enjoy. Wonderful interview, Sharon.
thank you, Barb. I hope you enjoy this story.
Sharon
Thanks Barb, it was a really lovely read!
The book sounds really good. I love the cover.
Lori, I love the cover, too. It pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? LOL
Sharon
It is good Lori, give it a shot!
I look forward to reading this story. Enjoyed the interview.
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thank you, Catherine.
Great review Georgie. Sounds like a great read , And with this weather we are having here the curling up would be a good thing with all this snow .
Great interview Sharon . Suck about your payday .
Enter me please.
thanks, Lori…. Our weather isn’t so great here, either. As for the payday stuff, it’s just how publishing works.
Thanks Lori, good luck on the draw!
LOVE IT! I am all about curling up with a comfy read! Amazing review sweets! 🙂
Rachel 🙂
thanks, Rachel. I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks Rachel, it was a really great read, good luck!
Sharon great interview, I LOVE your books most I would never read when I was by my self LOL.
Forgot to leave e mail. puddinp1e@msn.com
thanks. well, this one won’t scare you at all. LOL
This sounds like just what I need. Thanks for the review! 😀
enjoy, Teresa.
Thanks Teresa, good luck!
You’re one of my favorite authors, and I can’t wait to read this one! Congratulations, and thanks for the chance to win!!!
thank you, Linda and good luck!
I would love to have a paperback copy of this book! Sharon is one of my favorite authors and you won’t be didappointef with her books !
It’s out in paperback as well. Enjoy.
Sorry forgot email
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Love the title. 🙂 author at angeliaalmos dot com
it’s great, isn’t it, Angelia. I know of two real hair salons who go by this name.
This sounds like it is going to be sweet and funny at the same time. Love the title!
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You have it pegged, Sue. Enjoy.
I love your books Sharon!
thank you, Sema.
Couldn’t put down! Another hit from my favorite author!
Oh thanks, Renee!!!
I love Sharon Sala’s books–I’ve read them all, and am hoping to win this one.
Good luck, Donna!
Looking forward to reading this book. Enjoyed the interviewed too!!
thank you, Eileen.
I love Sharon Sala and so look forward to reading this book, because to me it feels as if I am coming home. Bless your heart.
LOLOL Windsong, I can tell you “know” the code.
Sounds like a great book!
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Scarlett, I hope you enjoy it.
Great review Georgianna. Thank you for coming by Sharon this one sounds like a book I would enjoy. Please enter me in the drawing.
Fran, it was fun to do this. Good luck.
Thanks Fran, good luck on the draw!
Awesome!! Sounds like another great book to read!!’
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Thanks, Tamera!
Great review Georgie! Sounds like a great book to add to my TBR pile! Thanks!
Crystal, I hope you try it and love it as much as I do.
Thanks Crystal, good luck!
WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY TO READ ON A VERY COLD DAY! THANK YOU SHARON!
thank you, Linda!!
Great review Georgianna. Sounds like a cute storyline!
Congrats to Sharon.
Thanks for the giveaway !!
Thanks, Sassy. good luck.
Thanks Sassy, good luck!
Sounds like a great book. Thanks for a chance to win.
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Good luck, Marcy.
Great review Georgianna and wonderful Q&A.
Thanks for the giveaway.
Good luck, EmberFlame.
Thanks Ember! Good luck!
Very nice review. Sounds a bit like Steel Magnolias..
Thanks for the giveaway.
Thanks, Angrybird… that would be a great story to be compared to, but it’s really not like it at all, except that it’s set in the South.
Thanks Angrybird! Not really like Steel Magnolias, except the funny woman friends parts. No sad cancer stuff, but plenty of angst in other areas…enjoy and good luck!
Great review Georgianna. Definitely does sound like Steel Magnolias like Angrybird said.
Thanks for the giveaway. Please enter me into the draw.
Thanks, Alicia. Good luck.
Just the same small town type of story stuff…not the cancer stuff…
But there are a few other in this town with some sad issues! Good luck!
Thanks so much, everyone! I wish we were all together in a big room laughing and talking in person. I hope you all enjoy this book because there are many others planned to be told from this small town world. I have fallen in love with Blessings, Georgia. I wish it was real. I would live there.
Sharon
Thanks Sharon for the great give away and for letting me review your wonderful book. I loved it and can’t wait for the next one in this wonderful new series!
This sounds wonderful, I love the romance next door type story.
Sharon, what did you read and love as a child?
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great review. this looks like a fun book to read, wonderful premise.
Thanks Mari, it’s a really fun read, good luck!
GOOD LUCK ALL
I love all of Sharon Sala’s books. I don’t have this one yet, so I would love to win it! Thank you for the great review. awarren2002@tampabay.rr.com
Thanks Janet, good luck…I love this series as well!
Wonderful review and thanks to Sourcebooks and Sharon for the giveaway.
Thanks Alexiis, good luck!
You have to love a writer that can use “fecal free-for-all” in a sentence. Thank you! I want to give a copy to my mother. And daughter.
I love the title of this book. I was just telling my daughter about it and then what do you know I see it here!
Thanks so much for the chance!
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The book sounds good and I loved your interview with her! Thanks for the giveaway!! =)