GCC presents Melissa Walker

Today I'm touring the wonderful Melissa Walker. Her book, Violet in Private, is the third in a series about Violet— the wallflower who blooms into an international modeling star—until she realizes there may be more to life than the runway…

Melissa (despite looking about 12) is a former editor at Ellegirl and Seventeen magazine so it's fair to say that she knows her stuff. She is also a marketing guru and an all round totally nice person and here's a teaser of what happens in book three:

Everyone knows her as Violet Greenfield, the supposedly cultured and worldly nineteen-year-old with sky-high confidence because she’s done fashion weeks internationally. But the truth is, modeling has done little for Violet’s self-esteem. And now that she’s finally headed to college, she’s terrified that she’ll turn back into that girl who blended into the walls all throughout high school…

Violet’s friends in fashion are only a two-hour train ride away in New York City, and they all think she’s crazy to stop modeling. But her best friend Roger hopes she’ll go back to being the girl next door. Of course, things have been weird between them ever since they kissed—and now he’s got a girlfriend. So the question is: if she’s not “Violet on the Runway” anymore, who exactly is she?

Now, normally this is the part where I subject my poor guests to my lousy interview questions, but since Melissa has already done them once (and begged for mercy) we decided she should do a guest blog and because she is a total clever clogs, she did a video for me - how totally cute!!!! (and btw, while I haven't read the Sarah Dressen book that she is talking about I saw the movie that it was made into with Mandy Moore and I love, love, loved it so that book is definitely now on my list, as is Melissa's Violet books which are nearing the top of my tbr pile. Anyway, enough from me, go click on the youtube clip and meet Melissa herself!!!!)