Please join us in welcoming author S.C. Wynne to The Novel Approach today, on the tour for Painful Lessons. Enjoy S.C.’s guest post, and then be sure to click on the Rafflecopter widget below to enter for the chance to win a $10 Amazon Gift Card and an e-Copy of the book.
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I write a lot of different kinds of stories. I’m a sensitive person and sometimes I think I feel things way more powerfully than is healthy. But from these thoughts and feelings some good stories can sometimes arise.
Painful Lessons came about when I was reminiscing about my college years. It’s interesting to me how dependent we are on other people’s opinions of us when we’re younger. I remember caring more what strangers thought of me than what I thought of me. That’s definitely not how a healthy person is made, but I think it’s so common in new adults.
When we’re young and looking desperately for validation we often find ourselves in relationships with people who aren’t exactly healthy, but for whatever reason they are feeding some insecurity in us.
Painful Lessons is about a college kid who just wants to be seen and loved. Unfortunately, sometimes that palpable need attracts the wrong kind of people who use that hunger for acceptance to manipulate and control.
Do you remember how you felt during your college years? Were you as big a mess as I was, or did you somehow manage to feel confident about yourself and your future?
Feel free to comment and leave me your stories, I love hearing about you too!
S.C. ~
TITLE: Painful Lessons
AUTHOR: S.C.Wynne
PUBLISHER: Dreamspinner Press
COVER ARTIST: Anna Sikorska
LENGTH: 200 Pages
RELEASE DATE: January 01, 2016
BLURB: As a freshman both in love and in college, sometimes there are painful lessons to be learned.
Excited to begin his first year of college, Brett Bridgeworth has just one problem: he sucks at math. Luckily there’s the sensual and mysterious math tutor, Jeremy Price, to help him out. It isn’t long before Jeremy is tutoring Brett in more than just pie charts, but it isn’t until they split up that Brett discovers Jeremy’s twisted, obsessive side.
Sam Hawthorne is two years ahead of Brett, and they share a strong mutual attraction. When Brett breaks it off with Jeremy and gets involved with Sam, disturbing things start happening. It soon becomes obvious that Jeremy isn’t willing to let Brett go without a fight.
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S.C. Wynne started writing m/m in 2013 and did look back once. She wanted to say that because it seems everyone’s bio says they never looked back and, well S.C. Wynne is all about the joke. She loves writing m/m and her characters are usually a little jaded, funny and ultimately redeemed through love.
S.C loves red wine, margaritas and Seven and Seven’s. Yes, apparently S.C. Wynne is incredibly thirsty. S.C. Wynne loves the rain and should really live in Seattle but instead has landed in sunny, sunny, unbelievably sunny California. Writing is the best profession she could have chosen because S.C. is a little bit of a control freak. To sit in her pajamas all day and pound the keys of her laptop controlling the every thought and emotion of the characters she invents is a dream come true.
If you’d like to contact S.C. Wynne she is amusing herself on Facebook at all hours of the day or you can contact her at scwynne@dslextreme.com
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The Novel Approach Reviews 
The book sounds good. I guess I was a mess at high school as well… Who isn’t? sometimes I look at pictures of those years and I hardly recognise myself. I changed my way of dressing and behaving just to please those around me… Fortunately, I grew up to find confidence.
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It’s crazy isn’t it? I don’t envy anyone going through those years. :)
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This book sounds interesting. Thank you author for sharing your thought!
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Thank you, Ran, for your compliment. Be sure and sign up for the giveaway! :)
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College is probably not the same thing than University, right? Aaaanyways, reading your thoughts about the background of the book made me think of my long-time-boyfriend in University. (Hey, two-three years IS a long time at that age! LOL.) And how thankful I’m still about the fact that he left me for another girl. It certainly didn’t feel like a good thing back then, but let’s face it, we weren’t a good match. But the scariest thing is that I don’t think I would have ended it myself. The want, the need to be loved is strong in us. And if it’s mixed with stubborn perseverance — well… it can make one stay in a relationship that isn’t healthy. Did that sound too gloomy? I don’t think I even answered your question. In any case, I’m looking forward to start reading Painful Lessons this week. :)
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Johanna, that was beautifully said. I had a similar experience and the back and forth dysfunction of it might have gone on forever if I hadn’t cut off ALL communication. I found out a lot about myself through that experience though. Not all of it good. lol
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I think I was pretty unsure at that age for many reasons. Luckily I didn’t get involved in such a relationship, but there for the grace… It’s a curious experience to look back at photographs of me during that time only to wonder why I felt so insecure. And, then after a time I stopped trying to please everyone else. I think for most of us, that’s when we really grow into ourselves. ? Can’t wait to read this one. — Carli
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Isn’t that weird when you look back on pictures of yourself and you remember feeling so insecure and unattractive, or fat or whatever. And now you can see you were perfectly attractive! And trying to please everyone is so awful, and so typical of needy new adults. :)
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Ah, college years… that was one of the best times. I’ve always been an (over) confident person, during college and younger years, hopeful of the goods in others. I’m much older and wiser now wink and way more cynical to the way of the world.. ;-)
Thank you SC Wynne for this post, blurb sounds interesting. Looking forward to read the book. Oh, thanks for the chance of the giveaway too.
Happy New Year! :)
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Hi, Didi, I loved my college years but there were parts that weren’t quite as wonderful. Lucky you being confident when you were younger! I’m jealous. lol Good luck on the giveaway!
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I was a contradiction. I didn’t bend to the social norms, but I didn’t buck them too hard either. I was just myself. But when it came to having a significant other, I hung on to the first person who was interested in me and tried to make it work. It wasn’t a good way to go, and thankfully other things drove us apart.
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Hi, Jen. I think many of us are contradictions. I fight social norms too, but I am also a people pleaser. It creates a lot of stress. :D Isn’t it good how life sometimes steps in and saves us from ourselves?
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I haven’t read anything by S.C. Wynne but this sounds like it could be a great read! I’ll definitely be adding this to my TBR pile and checking out other books :D
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This book sounds interesting (not like fluff) and as such I’ve added it to my wishlist. I’m still slogging my way through my backlog of unread books. I intend to pick this up when that is completed though.
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Sounds like a good read ,cant wait to read. Its been so long since i have been to college it should bring back a few memories.
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