This month, the Catholic Writers’ Guild is touring Amanda Lauer’s book, “Anything But Groovy.” It is a CWG Seal of Approval recipient! “Life is certainly going to get a lot less complicated for these people when they finally invent cell phones.” So says Morgan, the protagonist of Amanda Lauer’s book Anything But Groovy, that tells the story of the 13-year-old’s unwilling trip back in time to live one school year in her mom’s life at the same age in 1974.
Summary:
Morgan is looking forward to junior high school and all the adventures it holds in store for her. But after a collision on the volleyball court, she wakes up on the first day of school trapped inside her mom’s teenage body circa 1974. It doesn’t take long for Morgan to discover that living life as a seventh-grader in the ‘70s and dealing with everything going on in her mom’s life back then — from uncool parents, to annoying older brothers, balancing friendships, and to ultimately doing what she can to survive bullying at the hands of the school’s biggest jock — is anything but groovy.
Excerpt:
“Not too bad of a start today, huh?” Easy for her to say. She hadn’t woken up in someone else’s body, been laughed at by a group of snotty girls for wearing the same shirt that one of them had on, or been humiliated by the class jock, twice at that.
Website: http://www.AmandaLauer.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amanda.p.lauer/
Twitter: @amandalauer23
Instagram: @amandapurcelllauer
Bio:
Wisconsin resident Amanda Lauer is the author of the best-selling Heaven Intended Civil War series. A World Such as Heaven Intended won the 2016 YA CALA award. Lauer won Best Writer (Red Letter Awards) for her work on the 2019 movie The Islands. She collaborated on the recently released children’s book Dubbie: The Double Headed Eagle. Her story Lucky and Blessed, part of the anthology Treasures: Visible & Invisible, was released February 26, 2021. Over the last twenty years, Lauer has had more than 1,500 articles published in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. In addition to her writing, proofreading, and copy-editing career, Lauer is involved in the motion picture industry. She and her husband John have been married forty years and have four grown children, two sons-in-law, a daughter-in-law, and seven stellar grandchildren.
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Check out Anything But Groovy, fun read about a 13-year-old girl who unwillingly travels back in time & has to live her mom’s life at the same age in 1974! Appeals to readers from teens up. #BabyBoomers #1970sPopCulture #LifeInThe70s #TimeTravel #Groovy https://tinyurl.com/57pawxjn
Special Considerations
As far as special considerations go, no money issues, thankfully, but I need to keep my books as high on the best-seller lists as I can. Two movie studios have approached me about making a movie based on my first book A World Such as Heaven Intended. The more we can keep my books in front of the public, the better chance I’ll have of getting a contract and start the movie production process.
Michael Fraley
Michael Fraley has been editing and posting the CWG Book Blast since 2016. He's adapted the Arthurian portion of Geoffrey of Monmouth's “Histories of the Kings of Britain” to the comic page, has worked in book illustration, graphic design, and has also served as a newspaper columnist. In 2019 the story of his conversion to Catholicism was told in Nancy Ward's book Sharing Your Catholic Faith Story. His primary area of study is in the Jewish roots of the Church, with an emphasis on the Gospel of Matthew and the Epistle of James. He holds a MA in theology from St. Joseph's College of Maine and a BFA in fine art from Indiana University. He can be reached at michael@michaelfraley.com