Blog Tour Promo Spot & Giveaway: Mayhem – Jamie Shaw

When college freshman Rowan Michaels meets gorgeous, up-and-coming rock star Adam Everest, she knows a player like him is the last thing she needs after her ex-boyfriend shattered her heart. But she can’t stop thinking about the kiss they shared on his tour bus.

On the first day of school, Rowan is stunned when Adam saunters into her French class. He’s soon failing miserably, and, on a whim, she offers to tutor him. But Adam doesn’t recognize her as a makeup-free, glasses-clad college student—a far cry from the beautiful, mysterious “Peach” he met at his concert.

During a wild weekend on tour with the band, Rowan can’t help falling for the sweet guy buried beneath Adam’s rocker persona. Yet she knows she could never compete with the girls constantly throwing themselves at his feet. She’d just end up hurt … again.

Peach is all Adam thinks about, though, and when Rowan realizes this, she has a decision to make: stay just friends to protect her fragile heart … or reveal the truth about the night they met and admit she’s fallen completely, hopelessly in love with him.

Praise for Mayhem:
“This book is exactly why every girl has a rock star fantasy. Love, lust and good times on the road make for a fun and sexy romance that will make you want to drop everything and run away on tour with the band.”
   — Jay Crownover, New York Times bestselling author

“There’s no better feeling than staying up late to finish a great book. Mayhem was totally worth losing sleep over.”
   — Tiffany King, USA Today bestselling author

You can read our review of MAYHEM here.

Tell us about yourself.

I’m an author who loves reading New Adult as much as I love writing it. I’m a total fangirl, an incurable night owl, and a sucker for fictional heroes. Mayhem is my debut novel, and I can’t even tell you how excited I am to have readers read it!

What three things about you might surprise your readers?

I love going to concerts, but I’ve never gotten to watch from backstage like my heroine, Rowan, does in the book. The last one I went to was Taking Back Sunday a few months ago, and I was right up front, second row, braving the craziness of the pit. And I have NO MERCY when someone tries to muscle me out of my spot. Haha! MOSH PIT JUSTICE!

When I say I’m a night owl, I’m really not kidding. I’m talking crawling in bed at 5am and waking up after noon. The rocker life would suit me well.

I have a Master’s degree in Professional Writing, but my degree was focused on editing and teaching, not on creative writing. It wasn’t until after I graduated that I finally gave fiction a try, and it was my WHOA moment. I knew within *days* that this—writing—is what I was meant to be doing.

Is there a genre(s) that you think “I might like to write one of those.”?

New Adult contemporary romance is totally my passion right now, but I looove paranormal romance, so yeah, I might like to write one of those.

Tell us about MAYHEM.

MAYHEM is a book for any girl who has ever fangirled over a rock star. It’s the fantasy of falling for that irresistibly hot lead singer and having him fall for you right back. Rowan, the heroine, is an ordinary college girl whose life falls apart when her douchebag boyfriend cheats on her. And Adam Everest, the swoon-worthy rocker that he is, is a guy who never realized his life wasn’t complete until he met the girl who was missing from it.

Where did the idea for the storyline come from?

The storyline actually stemmed from the characters themselves, but the very first scene of Mayhem is actually similar to something that happened to me in real life when I was a teenager.  A few friends dragged me to a concert, we were first in line, and when the lead singer knocked on the door of the venue, I had no idea who he was. In Mayhem, Rowan tells Adam, “They’re not letting people in yet,” and yeah, those were my exact words too. MORTIFYING!! But in Mayhem, Adam lowers those shades, smirks that smirk, and BOOM, I knew exactly who he was. I knew who Rowan and Adam were long before I knew what their story was going to be, and then scene by scene, it all just came together.

What do you think readers will like/love about Rowan and Adam?

I think they’ll love how real they are. We really get to see the characters at their lowest lows and highest highs. I think readers will be able to relate to Rowan and her struggles to figure out what kind of life she wants. And I think they’ll like that Adam isn’t a traditional alpha hero. Even though I personally *love* alpha heroes, I also love how laid-back Adam is, how he’s easy to get and hard to get at the exact same time.

What was your favorite scene from the book?

There are so many! The one that makes me laugh every time is the one where Rowan and Adam are late to class. It’s so them—Adam taking his dear time and not seeing what the big deal is, Rowan’s head about to explode as she rushes him around. Hand-holding, construction, a chihuahua named Tinkerbell. I love it.

Who are some of your book boyfriends? What draws you to them?

I looove Travis Maddox from Jamie McGuire’s Beautiful Disaster and Will Herondale from Cassandra Clare’s Infernal Devices series. There’s just something about boys who are so flawed, or so broken, that it just makes you want to love them more… I can’t get enough of them.

If you had to pick a favorite cocktail of choice, what would it be? (It can be non-alcoholic too)

I *always* ask to see the specialty drink menu, and I love trying new drinks. But one of my go-to cocktails is definitely a strawberry margarita, on the rocks, sugar on the rim. <3

What’s next for you?

RIOT!! Rowan’s best friend, Dee, is up next in the Mayhem series, and her relationship with the band’s bass guitarist, Joel, is one of the hottest, most tumultuous relationships I’ve ever written. The book is full of steam and drama and moments that had me laughing while I wrote them, and I can’t wait to hear what readers think! It releases in two weeks, on February 10^th. And in the meantime, I’m finishing writing the third book, CHAOS, which is going to rock just as hard. 😉

Thanks so much for being a stop on my blog tour! I really, really loved these questions, and I had so much fun answering them!

“When the door opens behind me, I sit up straight and hurriedly sniff in my tears as I wipe my shaking fingers across my slippery cheeks. I hear the flick of a lighter, and then someone sits down next to me on the stairs, puffing a cigarette. When I look over at him, I nearly choke.

He gazes back at me, starting at my hot-pink heels and then raking his way up, and then he chuckles. “Are they letting people in yet?”

Adam. He’s ditched the shades and cap, and now his dark brown hair is framing his gorgeous face, stretching almost to his chin. I look away quickly, hoping he can’t tell I’ve been crying.

“Sorry about that,” I say. And I hear the hoarse sadness in my voice, but I couldn’t keep it out.

When he reaches over and brushes my tangled hair away from my eyes, I tense.

“Is everything okay?” he asks, and I half laugh. No, everything is not okay.

“Everything’s fine.”

“Then why have you been crying?”

“No reason.”

“You get all dolled up to sit outside of rock shows crying by yourself?”

I lift my gaze to stare into his eyes, and something in them makes me believe he really cares. Or maybe that’s just what I want to see, but I suddenly need to tell someone. “My boyfriend’s in there.”

“And?”

“With another girl. I just caught him cheating.”

Adam takes a deep puff of his cigarette, nodding as he sighs it back out. “Want me to fuck him up?”

I laugh, and he smiles at me. “Would you?”

“If you want me to.”

“Why?”

He shrugs. “Because I offered.”

“Why’d you offer?”

“Who knows why I do anything I do?” He stares at me while I wait for an answer. “I just do.”

That’s a good enough explanation for me, so I look back to my knees again, letting out a shaky breath. I can’t believe I just laughed. At a time like this, Adam Everest made me laugh.

“Anyway, your boyfriend is a dumbass,” he says out of nowhere.

“How do you know?”

His gray-green eyes wash over me. “Look at you.”

I blush like hell, but I know he’s just trying to make me feel better. “You thought I was an idiot when you first saw me.”

Adam chuckles and shakes his head. “I thought you were cute as a peach.” His lips hold the cigarette in his mouth as he stands up, holding a hand down to me. My heart stops; Adam Everest is offering me his hand. In faded denim jeans, all torn up at the knees, and a fit olive-green button-down rolled up to his elbows, he makes my heart race to a nonexistent finish line. “Come on, Peach.”

I take his hand, and he lifts me to my feet, leading me away from the building. “Where are we going?”

“To get you a drink. I think you need one.”

“I’ve had a few,” I think out loud, slowing to a stop.

Adam gazes over his shoulder at me, his eyebrow cocked when he asks, “Are you saying you don’t want another?”

I take a moment to consider his question.

Just a moment, and then I keep walking.” –Jamie Shaw, Mayhem

Born and raised in South Central Pennsylvania, JAMIE SHAW earned her M.S. in Professional Writing from Towson University before realizing that the creative side of writing was her calling. An incurable night owl, she spends late hours crafting novels with relatable heroines and swoon-worthy leading men. She’s a loyal drinker of white mochas, a fierce defender of emo music, and a passionate enthusiast of all things romance. She loves interacting with readers and always aims to add new names to their book-boyfriend lists.

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