Spotlight & Giveaway: Guy’s Girl by Emma Noyes

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Emma Noyes to HJ!

Hi Emma and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Guy’s Girl!

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

Ginny and Adrian have everything working against them. Though they run in the same circle of newly-minted Harvard graduates in New York City, they couldn’t be more different: Ginny a spunky, rollerblading guy’s girl hiding a big secret (her eating disorders), Adrian a shy finance boy who swore off love long before he ever met her. When they meet, they feel drawn to one another in a way neither can explain, but will it be enough to break down each other’s walls? Over the course of two years and two cities (New York and Budapest), Ginny and Adrian weave in and out of each other’s lives, tearing up the rules they’ve written for themselves and testing the limits of how far we’ll go for our first love.
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

Today, I made a vow… I will not let my disease win. I will take back my own life. I will piece it back together as best I can, tape over the cracks, give it legs and wings. I will learn how to live with the hurt. To carry it within me, to not fear it, to make it my friend.
And I will write. Because on the day I can no longer put pen to paper, I will know the creature has won.

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

The first (not-so-)fun fact about this book is that I actually wrote it while in recovery from anorexia/bulimia, which means that much of the passages in it pull from my own experiences. It was one of the most difficult times of my life, but I’m so proud to say that I have come out on the other side
Another (actually) fun fact is that the characters of Clay and Tristan are based on my two best guy friends from college! Just like Tristan, one of them really does have an unhealthy obsession with planes.

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

I think Ginny and Adrian are first drawn together by the sense that there was more gong on beneath what either of them present to the world – and by a desire to peel back those layers and see the other person for who they really are.

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

Oh, all three! I blushed writing their love scenes, laughed writing the scenes between Ginny, Tristan, and Clay, and cried writing many of the eating disorder-related scenes. Much of the writing I actually pulled from my own journals that I wrote during recovery, which was a very emotional time.

Readers should read this book….

If they love an epic love story that will also make them cry!

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

I just finished writing the sequel to MARE OF NIGHT, the first book in a YA fantasy romance trilogy that will be released in 2025 with Wednesday Books. It’s set in a fictional town in Michigan where a set of disappearances lead the main character to uncover a magical world hiding in plain sight.
Speaking of hiding in plain sight… my second adult romance novel, HOW TO HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT, is set to release next year, 2024! Keep your eyes peeled!
 

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Excerpt from Guy’s Girl:

They see each other more and more, after that weekend.
Adrian’s favorite Hungarian photographer has an exhibition at a gallery in Soho; Ginny stares so hard at each photograph that he’s surprised they don’t light on fire.
They speed down the paths of Central Park, Adrian on a bicycle, Ginny on her rollerblades. They weave through bridal parties and moms with strollers. Ginny grabs onto the back of Adrian’s bike seat and he pulls her up the steepest hills.
They go to a coffee shop in Brooklyn where board games and cards are spread out on low-rise tables and refurbished trunks. They drink three cups of coffee each and, by the end, Ginny’s leg fidgets faster than a woodpecker. When she wins at Yahtzee, she yells, “Fuck yeah, motherfucker,” so loudly that half the shop turns around.
Each time Ginny asks him to meet, he almost says no, then changes his mind.
Adrian refuses to think of them as being in a relationship. He went to Harvard because it was the logical decision. He ran for Vice President of his Final Club because it was the logical decision. He took the job at Goldman because it was the logical decision.
He will not fall into a relationship because it is the logical decision. He will wait for love, no matter how long it takes, even if he’s ultimately incapable, even if he’s alone forever.

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Book Info:

Ginny Murphy is a total guy’s girl. She’s always found friendships with boys easier to form and keep drama-free – as long as they don’t fall for her, and she doesn’t fall for them. She and her best guy friends have stuck to that. But then she meets Adrian Silvas, the only one who’s ever made her crave more, and Ginny begins to question her own rules.

Piece by piece, Ginny and Adrian begin to fall into something intoxicating, something dangerous. Ginny threatens to destroy the belief Adrian’s held ever since witnessing his own mother’s heartbreak: that love isn’t worth the risk. For Ginny, the stakes could be even higher. Letting Adrian get close could mean exposing a secret she’s long protected: her disordered eating.

Ginny isn’t looking to be saved by someone. But maybe she and Adrian can help each other – if they don’t destroy each other first.

Heartfelt and evocative, Guy’s Girl is a powerful story about true love, self-love, and growing up.
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Meet the Author:

Emma Noyes told her mother she wanted to be an author when she was six. She grew up in a suburb outside Chicago and attended Harvard University, where she studied history & literature. She started her career at a beer company, but left because she wanted to write about mermaids and witches—eventually publishing her first YA fantasy series, The Sunken City. She now lives in Chicago with her Swedish fiancé and their tiny, accident-prone Pomeranian. Guy’s Girl is her adult debut.
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