Only the Good Die Young Synopsis:
The first year of college is supposed to be about parties, parties, and getting the hell out of Texas. Instead, Milcah Daniels is spending her eighteenth year in and out of Houston's hospitals. Her hair is falling out, they’ve cut off her boobs, and if she makes it to nineteen, she’ll consider it a personal miracle.
Breast cancer really has a way of messing with a girl’s social calendar.
When Milcah’s temporarily discharged from the hospital, she’s determined to get a tattoo for every medical procedure she’s had. Her quest leads her to Skin Stories, a new tattoo parlor a block from her apartment. And to it’s infuriatingly sexy artist, Callum Scott.
Callum is everything Milcah wants, and everything she shouldn’t have now. A new relationship when the official prognosis is one to five years is a terrible idea. But Callum doesn’t know about the breast cancer, and Milcah’s not running to tell him.
But when the doctor says things are actually looking positive, her entire life turns upside down. How is she supposed to start living again when she’s finally learned to accept her death?
KK Hendin Bio:
KK Hendin's real life ambition is to become a pink fluffy unicorn who dances with rainbows. But the schooling for that is all sorts of complicated, so until that gets sorted out, she'll just write. Preferably things with angst and love. And things that require chocolate. She’s the author of the NA contemporaries HEART BREATHS and ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG.
She spends way too much time on Twitter, where she can be found at @kkhendin, and rambles on occasion over at www.kkhendinwrites.blogspot.com.
TEN LITTLE KNOWN THINGS ABOUT ME Guest Post
Okey doke. I’m pretty open about
myself, and pretty terrible at picking ‘things people don’t know about me’, so things
might get a little weird here. But tada! Ten random things about me.
1. My
first concert ever was a Peter, Paul, and Mary concert with my grandmother when
I was five years old. I knew a good chunk of the songs they sang, because my
grandparents are my grandparents, and I get my love of folk music from them.
The concert was outdoors, so we had a picnic dinner while they sang (and we
sang along, because if you think we weren’t going to sing along to Leaving On A
Jet Plane you would be wrong), and there was a thunderstorm on the way home.
2. I
worked as a cleaning lady for a year when I was in college, and it was one of
the best jobs I’ve ever had. I’m a
multi-tasker by nature, so listening to lectures and cleaning and getting paid
pretty nicely for it was a win-win situation for me.
3. The
first person I remember passing away from cancer was a friend’s mom when I was
in fifth grade. Strangely, it was then when I realized that grownups could get
cancer, too. All I had known about cancer until then was because of two
organizations- one that was a summer camp of sorts for children with cancer,
and the other that sent care packages from kid volunteers for children in
hospitals.
4. I’m
actually from New York. (This fact seems to surprise a lot of people- namely,
the ones who aren’t originally from NY and live here now.)
5. I’ll
never have a book set firmly in an actual neighborhood, mostly because I’m too
concerned about accuracy and don’t have enough hours to troll Google Maps, and
research trips aren’t an option now. Eno, the town in HEART BREATHS, is
fictional, as is Nahor, the neighborhood where Milcah lives. Houston is a real
city, though ;)
6. Ninety
percent of the stories I wrote in elementary school featured the main character
living in a boarding school. I was super creative back then.
7. I
write about the things I love, which means there will be something in each book
I write that I love. It won’t always be something big, but there’s always something.
Kind of like putting myself into each book, I guess. For OTGDY, it was
crocheting. I’m not nearly as good as it as Milcah is, but I do crochet.
8. Caffeine
has absolutely no effect on me at all, so I drink coffee for the taste. I
should hand in my author card now J
9. I
lost my great-grandmother to breast cancer when I was seventeen, and even
though it’s been a few years, I still miss her.
10. EMBARASSING
DOCTOR STORY! The first time I had a physical (after I switched to a regular
doctor from a pediatrician), I nearly had a freakin’ heart attack because I
didn’t know he was going to do check my breasts for lumps. One minute he’s
checking my heart, the next minute he’s grabbing my boob. I may have almost
smacked him. Maybe. Possibly. Probably.
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