Interview & Giveaway: 99 Days by Katie Cotugno

Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Release Date: April 21st 2015
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Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that’s how I know everyone still remembers everything—how I destroyed my relationship with Patrick the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. How I wrecked their whole family. Now I’m serving out my summer like a jail sentence: Just ninety-nine days till I can leave for college, and be done.

Day 4: A nasty note on my windshield makes it clear Julia isn’t finished. I’m expecting a fight when someone taps me on the shoulder, but it’s just Gabe, home from college and actually happy to see me. “For what it’s worth, Molly Barlow,” he says, “I’m really glad you’re back.”

Day 12: Gabe got me to come to this party, and I’m actually having fun. I think he’s about to kiss me—and that’s when I see Patrick. My Patrick, who’s supposed to be clear across the country. My Patrick, who’s never going to forgive me.

1. Describe 99 Days in 5 words or less. 

Two messy, complicated love stories. 

 

2. Gabe and Patrick are brothers so are they very different from each other? And what is one thing that they can't stand about each other? 

Gabe and Patrick are definitely about as different as two brothers can be. I think Patrick gets frustrated by what he sees as Gabe's Golden Boy status--the idea that he's had everything handed to him without having to work for it. And Gabe can't stand Patrick's holier-than-thou attitude.

 

3. What do you think "love" is? Can we love two people at the same time? 

I absolutely think you can love two people at the same time--and I think you can be two different people at the same time, depending on who you're with. 

 

4. Why 99 days, not 98 or 100 days but 99 days? Is there any reason behind it?  

There are 99 Days of summer, actually! At least, somebody told me there are....

 

5. What do you like to do in your free time? 

I read a lot, and I love to cook and bake. I also watch kind of a lot of TV, truthfully. 

 

6. What's the last book you read that made you laugh? 

Julie Murphy's Dumplin', which comes out in the fall. I cackled.  

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Katie Cotugno went to Catholic school for thirteen years which makes her, as an adult, both extremely superstitious and prone to crushes on boys wearing blazers. She routinely finds herself talking about the romantic endeavors of characters on TV shows as if they actually exist in the world.

Katie is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in The Broadkill Review, The Apalachee Review, and Argestes, as well as on Nerve.com. Her first novel, HOW TO LOVE, is due out from Balzer + Bray on October 1st, 2013.

The great loves of Katie's life include child's pose, her little sister, and mozzarella and honey sandwiches. She lives in Boston (and in sin) with her boyfriend, Tom.

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