Rusk University Football Friday: The Sophomore Season, Week Three: Meet Dylan Brenner

Hey readers! So you may have noticed you didn't get a Football Friday post this past Friday. Well, there is a good reason. Well, actually a great reason. That reason? I have "lost" my digital copy of All Broke Down and couldn't get you guys all the awesome info I needed, so... A couple of days later I decided I would just do it from memory and with the help of our amazing author, Miss Cora Carmack, I still have a great post for you guys! PLUS you still get a chance to enter the AMAZING giveaway! Here we go!

As you guys have undoubtedly heard, I am an avid fan of Cora Carmack and a member of her Street Team, promoting her newest Rusk University novel, All Broke Down, coming at ya on October 28, 2014! Just in case you have been living under a rock, I have all the information about All Broke Up available on the sidebar of my blog! Look over here>>>>>

In case you guys aren't good with math, that's only 4 weeks away! Actually, not even that, more like 24 days! Cora and our amazing crew have decided to reward you, the readers, with a special treat each Friday. I welcome you to my second post to get the crowd ready for book two of the Rusk University series. Each Friday until release day I, along with some fellow Street Teamers and Cora herself, will be giving you guys an insight to some of the books main characters and themes!

In case you are confused about what this is, check out my previous Football Friday posts at any of the links below! Each one is about a different character in Cora's first book of the series, All Lined Up!

Week One: Meet Carson McClain

Week Two: Meet Dallas Cole

Week Three: Meet Stella Santos

Week Four: Meet Silas Moore and Levi Abrams
Week Five: Meet Ryan Blake

Week Six: Meet The Rusk U Wildcats

Sophomore Season Week One: All About All Broke Down
Sophomore Season Week Two: Meet Matt

Alright everyone, hope you're ready, because here is our second edition of our sophomore edition of Rusk University Football Friday!

Today's post topic: Meet Dylan Brenner

Before we get started here with all things All Broke Down, if you haven't read or aren't familiar with book one of the series (All Lined Up), head over to my blog tour and review by clicking here! Hopefully you're already in the know about the Rusk University series so I'll just jump right in and give you guys a little info in the form of the official synopsis for All Broke Down!

Check out the cover and synopsis and then some info about the AMAZING Cora Carmack!

In this second book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with All Lined Up, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you love

Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one.

Environmental issues, civil rights, corrupt corporations, and politicians—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When her latest cause lands her in jail overnight, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and infuriating, she can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause.

Football and trouble are the only things that have ever come naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him in a cell next to do-gooder Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he calls them, desperate to heal the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend. But he doesn’t think he’s broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend trying to change him. Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions threaten the only thing he really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University football team. Dylan might just be the perfect girl to help.

Because Silas Moore needs some fixing after all.

Alright, now that you guys have seen that awesome cover, take yourself a minute to calm down, I know the excitement can be a little much! Now take a minute to learn a little bit about our amazing author, my great friend, and fearless leader of the Carmcats, Miss Cora Carmack:

Cora Carmack

Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.

Find Cora Carmack!

Website ** Twitter ** Facebook ** Author Goodreads

 

Pre-Order Your Copy Today!

Amazon ** Barnes and Noble ** iTunes

Meet Dylan Brenner

Okay. Now you know all about All Broke Down, so what's different this time around? All Broke Down, as the synopsis says, tells the story of Silas Moore, the 'bad boy' of Rusk U! Silas was my absolute favorite part of ALU and actually was the inspiration behind most of my graphics and promotion, for example:

Pretty cool right? Imagine how excited I was when Cora announced that Silas would the the focus of book two? Yeah. THAT excited. In this novel, which I have had the amazing pleasure of already reading, Silas gets a step up and his story is great! I'll have a huge post all about Silas in a few weeks, but today we're talking about Silas' love interest and out other main character, Dylan Brenner!

Dylan Brenner is our female MC for All Broke Down, and in my opinion, one of the best female characters that Cora has written. Dylan is probably the closest girl that Cora has written that I would be attracted to. Why? Not only is she beautiful and smart, Dylan is also passionate. Passion is a very important trait to me, but it isn't passion in the romantic sense: Dylan "fights for causes". Dylan is passionate about helping the homeless, she is passionate about the environment, she is passionate about helping animals. What is there not to love? A hot girl with a heart of gold? Sign me up. Cora has definitely written me an amazing book girlfriend with this read. Dylan is everything you could want in a female heroine and then some. Seriously. She's funny, she's down to Earth, what more can I say? Dylan is the perfect fit for my boy Silas. She is patient, understanding, and gives great advice. She's got an amazing head on her shoulders and a great conscience to boot. Are you on #TeamDylan yet? I know I sure am!

So what does Dylan look like? Cora goes into pretty great detail to give us an image of what Dylan looks and sounds like in the novel, so instead of spoiling that for you, I'll just post a few pics that Cora has sent me of her inspiration for Dylan Brenner!

How's that for an awesome leading female?

Check out this graphic that one of my fellow Carmcats created for Dylan instead! She's one of my favorite Cora-females yet!

Excited? Think you know a little bit about Dylan now? I really think all you Cora fans will really like Dylan, she was a great character who was written very well! In true Cora style, she is strong, funny, and full of awkward! That's all I have for you guys on the topic of Dylan, but have you seen my GIVEAWAY?! Enter below! But first, enjoy this graphic I made promoting All Broke Down!

GIVEAWAY
For these next several weeks I will be hosting a HUGE All Broke Down Giveaway to celebrate the release of this amazing novel! Please fill out the rafflecopter below for a chance to win one of three ecopies of All Broke Down as well as one of five Cora Carmack SIGNED swag packs!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Alright guys, are you pumped?! I have LOTS more Football Friday posts for you guys to devour, but I wanted to make sure you guys knew all about All Broke Down before I tease you with new info each week! Be sure to enter my "Football Friday" wide giveaway and come back next week to learn all about the Rusk University Wildcats! In the coming weeks be on the look out for some info on upcoming author events and a few more book reviews I am working on! Don't be a stranger guys, comment below and say hey! I love to hear from my readers! Happy Reading! Bleed Rusk Red!

-Ethan  

Football Fri-- err... Sunday: The Sophomore Season Week 2 + HUGE GIVEAWAY

Hey readers! So you may have noticed you didn't get a Football Friday post this past Friday. Well, there is a good reason. Well, actually a great reason. That reason? I have "lost" my digital copy of All Broke Down and couldn't get you guys all the awesome info I needed, so... A couple of days later I decided I would just do it from memory and with the help of our amazing author, Miss Cora Carmack, I still have a great post for you guys! PLUS you still get a chance to enter the AMAZING giveaway! Here we go!

As you guys have undoubtedly heard, I am an avid fan of Cora Carmack and a member of her Street Team, promoting her newest Rusk University novel, All Broke Down, coming at ya on October 28, 2014! Just in case you have been living under a rock, I have all the information about All Broke Up available on the sidebar of my blog! Look over here>>>>>

In case you guys aren't good with math, that's only 4 weeks away! Actually, not even that, more like 24 days! Cora and our amazing crew have decided to reward you, the readers, with a special treat each Friday. I welcome you to my second post to get the crowd ready for book two of the Rusk University series. Each Friday until release day I, along with some fellow Street Teamers and Cora herself, will be giving you guys an insight to some of the books main characters and themes!

In case you are confused about what this is, check out my previous Football Friday posts at any of the links below! Each one is about a different character in Cora's first book of the series, All Lined Up!

Week One: Meet Carson McClain

Week Two: Meet Dallas Cole

Week Three: Meet Stella Santos

Week Four: Meet Silas Moore and Levi Abrams
Week Five: Meet Ryan Blake

Sophomore Season Week One: All About All Broke Down

Alright everyone, hope you're ready, because here is our second edition of our sophomore edition of Rusk University Football Friday!

Today's post topic: Meet Matt

Before we get started here with all things All Broke Down, if you haven't read or aren't familiar with book one of the series (All Lined Up), head over to my blog tour and review by clicking here! Hopefully you're already in the know about the Rusk University series so I'll just jump right in and give you guys a little info in the form of the official synopsis for All Broke Down!

Check out the cover and synopsis and then some info about the AMAZING Cora Carmack!

In this second book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with All Lined Up, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you love

Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one.

Environmental issues, civil rights, corrupt corporations, and politicians—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When her latest cause lands her in jail overnight, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and infuriating, she can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause.

Football and trouble are the only things that have ever come naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him in a cell next to do-gooder Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he calls them, desperate to heal the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend. But he doesn’t think he’s broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend trying to change him. Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions threaten the only thing he really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University football team. Dylan might just be the perfect girl to help.

Because Silas Moore needs some fixing after all.

Alright, now that you guys have seen that awesome cover, take yourself a minute to calm down, I know the excitement can be a little much! Now take a minute to learn a little bit about our amazing author, my great friend, and fearless leader of the Carmcats, Miss Cora Carmack:

Cora Carmack

Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.

Find Cora Carmack!

Website ** Twitter ** Facebook ** Author Goodreads

 

Pre-Order Your Copy Today!

Amazon ** Barnes and Noble ** iTunes

ALL ABOUT MATT 

Okay. Now you know all about All Broke Down, so what's different this time around? All Broke Down, as the synopsis says, tells the story of Silas Moore, the 'bad boy' of Rusk U! Silas was my absolute favorite part of ALU and actually was the inspiration behind most of my graphics and promotion, for example:

Pretty cool right? Imagine how excited I was when Cora announced that Silas would the the focus of book two? Yeah. THAT excited. In this novel, which I have had the amazing pleasure of already reading, Silas gets a step up and his story is great! I'll have a huge post all about Silas in a few weeks, but today we're talking about one of the secondary characters, Matt!

Matt is Dylan's (our female MC) best friend and partner in crime. In fact, when we first meet Matt, he is sitting right beside Dylan... in a jail cell! Oh yeah. Welcome to All Broke Down! Matt is HILARIOUS! He and Dylan have such an awesome friendship. It is so funny that Cora took the time to write a character like Matt. He is honestly unlike any character she has every written before. He is a bi-sexual male who seriously has some of the best lines in the novel. His wise-cracks about the other characters in the book had me laughing out loud on multiple occasions! Also, fun fact about Matt? He is OBSESSED with the Rusk University Wildcats! In fact, he freaks out when he gets to meet some of our favorite Wildcats, they are superstars to him! I have had friends like Matt before and, like Matt, I have a relationship with my female best friend, much like his and Dylan's! It was really refreshing to read about a platonic male-female friendship in a NA novel. That was a nice change for me to see! Throughout the novel Matt makes several appearances and is mentioned many, many times. He plays a pretty important role in the story, and like I mentioned before, he supplies LOTS of comedy for our story! Cora has mentioned that writing Matt was a pretty fun experience for her.

So what does Matt look like? Cora goes into pretty great detail to give us an image of what Matt looks and sounds like in the novel, so instead of spoiling that for you, I'll just share this picture that Cora sent me! She says that this was her inspiration for Matt:

Excited? Think you know a little bit about Matt now? I really think all you Cora fans will really like Matt, he was a great character who was written very well! In true Cora style, he is full of laughs and makes for a fantastic secondary player! That's all I have for you guys on the topic of Matt, but have you seen my GIVEAWAY?! Enter below! But first, enjoy this graphic I made promoting All Broke Down!

GIVEAWAY
For these next several weeks I will be hosting a HUGE All Broke Down Giveaway to celebrate the release of this amazing novel! Please fill out the rafflecopter below for a chance to win one of three ecopies of All Broke Down as well as one of five Cora Carmack SIGNED swag packs!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Alright guys, are you pumped?! I have LOTS more Football Friday posts for you guys to devour, but I wanted to make sure you guys knew all about All Broke Down before I tease you with new info each week! Be sure to enter my "Football Friday" wide giveaway and come back next week to learn all about the Rusk University Wildcats! In the coming weeks be on the look out for some info on upcoming author events and a few more book reviews I am working on! Don't be a stranger guys, comment below and say hey! I love to hear from my readers! Happy Reading! Bleed Rusk Red!

-Ethan  

Football Friday: The Sophomore Season Week 1 + HUGE GIVEAWAY

Hello readers and a very Happy Friday! Congratulations again on making it through yet another week. I know many of you, like myself, will be will be winding down our busy weeks here in the next few hours so this is a very special day for us all, with many reasons to celebrate! Before you start the partying, I have a VERY special edition of OneGuysGuideToGoodReads to share with ya'll. I know you guys are just as excited as I am so here we go: it's Football Friday!! As you guys have undoubtedly heard, I am an avid fan of Cora Carmack and a member of her Street Team, promoting her newest Rusk University novel, All Broke Down, coming at ya on October 28, 2014! Just in case you have been living under a rock, I have all the information about All Broke Up available on the sidebar of my blog! Look over here>>>>>

In case you guys aren't good with math, that's only 5 weeks away! Actually, not even that. Cora and our amazing crew have decided to reward you, the readers, with a special treat each Friday. I welcome you to my first post to get the crowd ready for book two of the Rusk University series. It's been almost 6 months since you've seen one, but it's time, are you ready: Football Friday! Each Friday until release day I, along with some fellow Street Teamers and Cora herself, will be giving you guys an insight to some of the books main characters and themes!

In case you are confused about what this is, check out my previous Football Friday posts at any of the links below! Each one is about a different character in Cora's first book of the series, All Lined Up!

Week One: Meet Carson McClain

Week Two: Meet Dallas Cole

Week Three: Meet Stella Santos

Week Four: Meet Silas Moore and Levi Abrams
Week Five: Meet Ryan Blake

Alright everyone, hope you're ready, because here is our first edition of our sophomore edition of Rusk University Football Friday!

Today's post topic: ALL ABOUT ALL BROKE DOWN! 

This is going to be a little different from previous Football Fridays. Each week I will be featuring info about the book (info that I have been granted permission to release by Miss Carmack)! I can't/won't spoil this awesome read for you guys, but I promise by the time October 28th comes along, you will be ITCHING to get your own copy! Here we go with ALL THE INFO about All Broke Down!

Before we get started here with all things All Broke Down, if you haven't read or aren't familiar with book one of the series (All Lined Up), head over to my blog tour and review by clicking here! Hopefully you're already in the know about the Rusk University series so I'll just jump right in and give you guys a little info in the form of the official synopsis for All Broke Down!

Check out the cover and synopsis and then some info about the AMAZING Cora Carmack!

In this second book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with All Lined Up, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you love

Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one.

Environmental issues, civil rights, corrupt corporations, and politicians—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When her latest cause lands her in jail overnight, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and infuriating, she can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause.

Football and trouble are the only things that have ever come naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him in a cell next to do-gooder Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he calls them, desperate to heal the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend. But he doesn’t think he’s broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend trying to change him. Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions threaten the only thing he really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University football team. Dylan might just be the perfect girl to help.

Because Silas Moore needs some fixing after all.

Alright, now that you guys have seen that awesome cover, take yourself a minute to calm down, I know the excitement can be a little much! Now take a minute to learn a little bit about our amazing author, my great friend, and fearless leader of the Carmcats, Miss Cora Carmack:

Cora Carmack

Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.

 Find Cora Carmack!

Website ** Twitter ** Facebook ** Author Goodreads

 

Pre-Order Your Copy Today!

Amazon ** Barnes and Noble ** iTunes

 

GIVEAWAY
For these next several weeks I will be hosting a HUGE All Broke Down Giveaway to celebrate the release of this amazing novel! Please fill out the rafflecopter below for a chance to win one of three ecopies of All Broke Down as well as one of five Cora Carmack SIGNED swag packs!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Alright guys, are you pumped?! I have LOTS more Football Friday posts for you guys to devour, but I wanted to make sure you guys knew all about All Broke Down before I tease you with new info each week! Be sure to enter my "Football Friday" wide giveaway and come back next week to learn all about our main character, Mr. Silas Moore! In the coming weeks be on the look out for some info on upcoming author events and a few more book reviews I am working on! Don't be a stranger guys, comment below and say hey! I love to hear from my readers! Happy Reading! Bleed Rusk Red!

-Ethan

Football Friday Week Six: Meet Coach Cole and the Rusk University Wildcats + GIVEAWAY

Hello readers and a very Happy Friday! Congratulations again on making it through yet another week. I know many of you, like myself, will be taking finals or finishing up school here in the next few days so this is a very special Friday for us all, with many reasons to celebrate! Before you start the partying, I have another VERY special edition of OneGuysGuideToGoodReads to share with ya'll. I know you guys are just as excited as I am so here we go: it's Football Friday!! As you guys have undoubtedly heard, I am an avid fan of Cora Carmack and a member of her Street Team, promoting her newest Rusk University series, starting with All Lined Up, coming at ya on May 13! Just in case you have been living under a rock, I have all the information about All Lined Up available on the sidebar of my blog! Look over here>>>>>

In case you guys aren't good with math, that's only 5 days away! Actually, not even that. By the time you guys get to read this, it'll only be three days! Cora and our amazing crew have decided to reward you, the readers, with a special treat each Friday. I welcome you to our sixth and final Football Friday! Each Friday until release day I, along with my fellow Street Teamers and Cora herself, will be giving you guys an insight to six of the books main characters!  Check out my previous Football Friday posts at any of the links below! Each one is about a different character in Cora's All Lined Up!

Week One: Meet Carson McClain

Week Two: Meet Dallas Cole

Week Three: Meet Stella Santos

Week Four: Meet Silas Moore and Levi Abrams
Week Five: Meet Ryan Blake

Alright everyone, hope you're ready, because here is our sixth and final edition of Rusk University Football Friday!

 

This week I am honored to present to you the most exciting edition of Football Friday! The reason for the entire celebration: Coach Cole and the members of the Ruck University Wildcats!

Coach Cole
Just in case the surname and the title aren't enough explanation for Coach Cole for ya, let me fill you in. Coach Cole is the father of our main character, Dallas Cole (we met her in week two). It just so happens that Coach Cole is also, you guessed it, the new coach of the Rusk University Wildcats football program. Coach Cole is a winner through and through. His specialty is to take losing football programs and turn them around into winning ones. He is pretty doggone good at his job, as you guys will see in All Lined Up. Cora has talked at great length about how special this book is to her. Cora also grew up in Texas and was the father of a football coach! Who better to write a story like this than someone who has lived through the experience? Coach Cole is one of my favorite characters in the book. He is a pretty "no nonsense" kind of guy but he has a great storyline. He can be seen as a tough guy to get along with, particularly where Dallas is involved, but from the very beginning we are introduced to a Coach Cole that is a true Southern gentleman: caring for his daughter, God-fearing christian (you can ALWAYS find Coach Cole in church on a Sunday morning. Dallas will probably be there too, but she'll be less than enthusiastic about it), and a great football coach and role model for his players. I'm not sure I have ever met a coach of any sport that is as cool as Cora has made Coach Cole, but I think he'd be an awesome guy to play under. Coach Cole is also great about recognizing talent, especially in a second string Carson McClain (our male main character you met in week one). You guys will quickly learn that Coach Cole is probably best remembered for his mantra, and our unofficial tagline for the Rusk University Wildcats: No Easy Days!

Check out this awesome sauce Coach Cole Graphic by Street Team member Krista!

The Rusk University Wildcats
I don't have to explain to you guys that a Football team is made up of many, many players and while we don't get to meet ALL of them in All Lined Up, we do get to meet several. Ones we have already met include Carson, Silas, Levi, and Ryan (as the Team Manager), however there are multiple other players who, while they do not play a major role in our story, play the ever important role as members of the Rusk University Wildcats Football team! I am sure as the series progresses we will meet more and more of these guys (and maybe a few cheerleaders as well... Cora?) [I can always hope, right]! For now, how about we check out these amazing graphics that were created by some of the Street Team members! 

 BLEED RUSK RED

This is an amazing graphic!

And last but not least, I present to you guys my FAVORITE graphic that has been made thus far promoting All Lined Up! It comes to us via Kim at KimberlyFayeReads! She has made a plethora of amazing graphics for our Football Fridays and I just had to give her a shout out! Here's her best work yet, in my opinion: 

 

Alright guys, that's all I have for you on the topic of Coach Cole and the Rusk University Wildcats, but wait, THERE'S MORE!! Several of the other amazing Street Team members that I have the great fortune of working with are giving you THEIR take on Coach and the team! Wanna learn more? Check out any of their amazing blogs below!

• Amber at Grown Up Fangirl: http://www.grownupfangirl.com/
• Kaitlin at Between Order and Randomness: https://www.kaitlanolivia.blogspot.com/
• Momo at Books Over Boys: http://booksoverboys.blogspot.com/
• Yvette at Nose Stuck in a Book: http://ycervera.blogspot.com/
• Kim at Kimberly Faye Reads: http://www.kimberlyfayereads.com/ 
• Stephanie at Smart and Savvy with Stephanie: http://smartsavvysteph.blogspot.com/
• Krista at Krista's Dust Jacket: http://kristasdustjacket.blogspot.com/
• Andy at Owl Always Be Reading: http://www.owlalwaysbereading.com/
• And last but not least, our fearless leader, the amazing Cora Carmack has a great post for ya: http://coracarmack.blogspot.com/

Before you leave, how about another awesome giveaway from Cora? Register here to win the LAST signed ARC of All Lined Up! 

a Rafflecopter giveaway  


Well guys, this brings us to the end of our All Lined Up promotional Football Fridays. Football Fridays have been the coolest thing for me to do. I am hoping to get the chance to participate in the next Street Team so there may be more Football Fridays to come. Don't get upset though, I am on the official blog tour for All Lined Up so you guys can look forward to a FULL exciting post full of graphics, videos, etc, I will be pulling out ALL THE STOPS for that one on May 27th. You guys will actually be seeing that one while I am out of the country (going to Mexico for my senior trip, only one week until I am a college graduate! Ahh!), but I will have a co-blogger make sure everything is up and running for you guys. In the coming weeks be on the look out for some info on upcoming author events and a few more book reviews I am working on! Don't be a stranger guys, comment below and say hey! I love to hear from my readers! Happy Reading!

-Ethan

Football Friday Week Five: Meet Ryan Blake + GIVEAWAY!

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE! Congratulations again on making it through yet another week. I know you are all excited to see another one, I just can't believe it's here so fast! Before you start the weekend off right, I have another special edition of OneGuysGuideToGoodReads to share with ya'll. I know you guys are just as excited as I am so here we go: it's Football Friday!! As you guys have undoubtedly heard, I am an avid fan of Cora Carmack and a member of her Street Team, promoting her newest Rusk University series, starting with All Lined Up, coming at ya on May 13! Just in case you have been living under a rock, I have all the information about All Lined Up available on the sidebar of my blog! Look over here>>>>>

In case you guys aren't good with math, that's only 2 weeks away! Not even that, just 11 days! Cora and our amazing crew have decided to reward you, the readers, with a special treat each Friday. I welcome you to our fifth Football Friday! Each Friday until release day I, along with my fellow Street Teamers and Cora herself, will be giving you guys an insight to six of the books main characters!  Check out my previous Football Friday posts at any of the links below! Each one is about a different character in Cora's All Lined Up!

Week One: Meet Carson McClain

Week Two: Meet Dallas Cole

Week Three: Meet Stella Santos

Week Four: Meet Silas Moore and Levi Abrams

Alright everyone, hope you're ready, because here is week five of Rusk University Football Friday!

This week I am very proud to present to you one of the very important member of the supporting cast of All Lined Up: Ryan Blake, team manager of the Rusk University Wildcats!

 

Ryan Blake

Ryan is a little difficult to write about, I am not going to lie to you guys. While he plays a huge part in our story, his character is well, you are just going to have to read and figure it out for yourself! Ryan starts out as one of those characters you are just not sure about, but by the end he becomes "one of the gang". Ryan's primary job in All Lined Up is as the team manager for the Rusk University Wildcats where he works closely with our quarterback, Carson McClain. Ryan become the closest thing Carson has to a best friend at Rusk and their friendship is actually pretty cool. Ryan genuinely cares about the players on the team and works hard to make sure they do their best both on, and off, the field.   Next week, our last Football Friday (GASP) will introduce you all to the rest of the Wildcats as well as Coach Cole. After you meet the team, you will begin to understand why Ryan is a special character. I don't know if it's too spoliery to say, but I am gunning for a Ryan-Stella story, I think that'd be kick ass. I'll have to run that one by Cora! :) Check out these awesome graphic made by Amber, Yvette, and Kim from the Street Team! They really went above and beyond this week for us! 

Three guesses as to who this quote comes from? Starts with a Stella and ends with a Santos! Stella is hilarious!

  
Alright guys, that's all I have for you on the topic of our team manager, Mr. Ryan Blake, but wait, THERE'S MORE!! Several of the other amazing Street Team members that I have the great fortune of working with are giving you THEIR take on Ryan! Wanna learn more? Check out any of their blogs below!

• Amber at Grown Up Fangirl: http://www.grownupfangirl.com/
• Kaitlin at Between Order and Randomness: https://www.kaitlanolivia.blogspot.com/
• Momo at Books Over Boys: http://booksoverboys.blogspot.com/
• Yvette at Nose Stuck in a Book: http://ycervera.blogspot.com/
• Kim at Kimberly Faye Reads: http://www.kimberlyfayereads.com/ 
• Stephanie at Smart and Savvy with Stephanie: http://smartsavvysteph.blogspot.com/
• Krista at Krista's Dust Jacket: http://kristasdustjacket.blogspot.com/
• Andy at Owl Always Be Reading: http://www.owlalwaysbereading.com/
• And last but not least, our fearless leader, the amazing Cora Carmack has a great post for ya: http://coracarmack.blogspot.com/

Before you leave, how about another awesome giveaway from Cora? Up for grabs this week are a SIGNED advanced copy of All Lined Up! Can't say I wouldn't mind that prize myself!



a Rafflecopter giveaway


Well guys, this brings us to the end of yet another exciting Football Friday. I am a little sad to say that we will only have one more. Football Fridays have been the coolest thing to do. I am hoping to get the chance to participate in the next Street Team so there may be more Football Fridays to come. Don't get upset though, I am on the official blog tour for All Lined Up so you guys can look forward to a FULL exciting post full of graphics, videos, etc, I will be pulling out ALL THE STOPS for that one on May 27th. You guys will actually be seeing that one while I am out of the country (going to Mexico for my senior trip, only two weeks until I am a college graduate! Ahh!), but I will have a co-blogger make sure everything is up and running for you guys. In the coming weeks be on the look out for some info on upcoming author events and a few more book reviews I am working on! Don't be a stranger guys, comment below and say hey! I'd love to hear from my readers! Happy Reading!

 
-Ethan 

Football Friday Week Four: Meet Silas Moore and Levi Abrams + GIVEAWAY

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE! Congratulations again on making it through yet another week. If yours has been ANYTHING like mine, you've earned this weekend! Before you start the partying, I have another special edition of OneGuysGuideToGoodReads to share with ya'll. I know you guys are just as excited as I am so here we go: it's Football Friday!! As you guys have undoubtedly heard, I am an avid fan of Cora Carmack and a member of her Street Team, promoting her newest Rusk University series, starting with All Lined Up, coming at ya on May 13! Just in case you have been living under a rock, I have all the information about All Lined Up available on the sidebar of my blog! Look over here>>>>>

In case you guys aren't good with math, that's only 3 weeks away! Not even that, just 89 days! Cora and our amazing crew have decided to reward you, the readers, with a special treat each Friday. I welcome you to our fourth Football Friday! Each Friday until release day I, along with my fellow Street Teamers and Cora herself, will be giving you guys an insight to six of the books main characters! Week one, I rewarded everyone with an insight to our male protagonist, Carson McClain! If you missed that week's Football Friday, check it out here: http://oneguysguidetogoodreads.blogspot.com/2014/04/football-friday-week-one-meet-carson.html. Week two we were introduced to Miss Dallas Cole, female protagonist of our story, you can see last week's post here: http://oneguysguidetogoodreads.blogspot.com/2014/04/football-friday-week-two-meet-dallas.html And last week, I introduced everyone to Dallas' best friend, Miss Stella Santos, check out that post here: http://oneguysguidetogoodreads.blogspot.com/2014/04/football-friday-week-three-meet-stella.html

Without farther delay, I present to you week four of Rusk University Football Friday!

 

This is actually a VERY special #FootballFriday for you guys, because you don't just get to meet one character: you get to meet two! Two of my favorites, in fact! Everyone, meet Silas Moore and Levi Abrams, the bad boys of our story! 

 

Silas Moore

I'm just going to come out and say that Silas was my favorite character in All Lined Up. I really have no idea why of all the characters I liked him the best, but I did! Silas starts out the story as just another one of the Wildcats, with a wild streak for sure. He likes to party and he is down with the ladies. That's where we first meet Silas, as he tries to get friendly with Dallas! Obviously with little success. Silas has a few really great lines and overall, I really liked his character development. It is really kind of hard to say too much about Silas' involvement in All Lined Up without giving away any spoilers, so I guess we will just say that he does change. Silas is one of those characters where your view of him will change completely by the end of the book. I'll just keep it at that. Another HUGE thing I can announce about Silas is that it is a good thing he is my favorite character, because guess what? Cora's second book in the Rusk University series, All Broke Down (expected in October of this year), features Silas as the main male character! 

When it comes to a physical description of Silas, this is what we were given:

Silas Moore: Gorgeous; Tall; Messy dark blonde hair; Strong jaw; Eyes that smile; Muscular; All about pure heart in football. Well, I don't generally say much on the physical descriptions, but as soon as I read about Silas and saw his description, I thought of the best actor who fit his description. You guys may know him as the "most awesome Silas I know", Silas Botwin from Weeds, Hunter Parrish. I made this graphic for Silas' character, using my favorite Silas quote from All Lined Up!

 

And because I like my readers so much, I have another special treat for you all. How about the official synopsis for All Broke Down? The book I just mentioned earlier! Cora just gave us the green light to post it! Here's what we can expect from book two of the series featuring Silas and our new female MC, Dylan (whom Ethan is a VERY big fan of!). Check it out:

In this second book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s New Adult, Texas-set Rusk University series, which began with All Lined Up, a young woman discovers that you can’t only fight for what you believe in . . . sometimes you have to fight for what you love

Dylan fights for lost causes. Probably because she used to be one.

Environmental issues, civil rights, corrupt corporations, and politicians—you name it, she’s probably been involved in a protest. When her latest cause lands her in jail overnight, she meets Silas Moore. He’s in for a different kind of fighting. And though he’s arrogant and infuriating, she can’t help being fascinated with him. Yet another lost cause.

Football and trouble are the only things that have ever come naturally to Silas. And it’s trouble that lands him in a cell next to do-gooder Dylan. He’s met girls like her before—fixers, he calls them, desperate to heal the damage and make him into their ideal boyfriend. But he doesn’t think he’s broken, and he definitely doesn’t need a girlfriend trying to change him. Until, that is, his anger issues and rash decisions threaten the only thing he really cares about, his spot on the Rusk University football team. Dylan might just be the perfect girl to help.

Because Silas Moore needs some fixing after all.

 Check out some of these other amazing Silas graphics by some of my fellow Street Team members!

 

Levi Abrams

Alright. Like I said earlier, this is a very special week because I get to introduce you guys to two characters! Our second character is Rusk University Quarterback, Mr. Levi Abrams. But wait? Quarterback? What about Carson McClain? Nice catch guys. Well, again, I can't spoil anything, but let's just say that Carson wasn't originally the quarterback for the Wildcats, Levi was. And lets just say to complicate matters that Levi may or may not be Dallas' ex boyfriend. Dallas' very serious ex boyfriend. Ouch. Yep. Levi and Dallas went to high school together where Coach Cole (Dallas' father) was also the State Champion football coach. It was under Coach Cole that Levi learned to be the great athlete he is today. After moving to Rusk. he played a season on the football team, but really was not giving the team the show they were promised. In response to that, Coach Cole is brought on to whip Levi into shape. Unfortunately for all of us, Levi is a douchelobster. Yes you read that right. Levi is not the nicest guy, at all, and is one of my least favorite characters. However, he does play a rather important part in our story. I really can't say much about it, so I think I'll leave the Levi portion of this post short! Guess you'll just HAVE to read All Lined Up to find out more! Check out these graphics made by my fellow Street Team members!

      Levi Abrams

        Quarterback
Rusk University Wildcats














Alright guys, that's all I have for you on the topic of our guys Silas Moore and Levi Abrams, but wait, THERE'S MORE!! Several of the other amazing Street Team members that I have the great fortune of working with are giving you THEIR take on Silas and Levi! Wanna learn more? Check out any of their blogs below!


Amber at Grown Up Fangirl: http://www.grownupfangirl.com/

Kaitlin at Between Order and Randomness: https://www.kaitlanolivia.blogspot.com/

Momo at Books Over Boys: http://booksoverboys.blogspot.com/

Yvette at Nose Stuck in a Book: http://ycervera.blogspot.com/

Kim at Kimberly Faye Reads: http://www.kimberlyfayereads.com/ 

Stephanie at Smart and Savvy with Stephanie: http://smartsavvysteph.blogspot.com/

Krista at Krista's Dust Jacket: http://kristasdustjacket.blogspot.com/

Andy at Owl Always Be Reading: http://www.owlalwaysbereading.com/

And last but not least, our fearless leader, the amazing Cora Carmack has a great post for ya: http://coracarmack.blogspot.com/


Before you leave, how about another awesome giveaway from Cora? Up for grabs this week are a SIGNED advanced copy of All Lined Up! Can't say I wouldn't mind that prize myself!
a Rafflecopter giveaway  

Just as a reminder. Don't forget that you guys all have your chance to meet Miss Cora Carmack this weekend (as well as Jennifer L Armentrout and Jay Crownover) in Des Moines, Iowa for a special Authors Event panel pertaining to the New Adult genre. I will be there and will have lots of info for you guys when I get back! Check out my post all about the AViD event here: http://oneguysguidetogoodreads.blogspot.com/2014/04/authors-visiting-in-des-moines-event.html

Alright, this has been a long week for all of us and I can't say I am sad to finally see it come to an end, but I have been looking forward to this #FootballFriday all week long. I am so excited to introduce you guys to Silas, my favorite character in All Lined Up. I hope you all have amazing weekends and remember to keep checking back with us here at OneGuysGuidetoGoodReads! This post should put me at a HUGE milestone and I thank each of you for that, I have a surprise lined up to mark the occasion soon! Pre-Order ALU, follow Cora and myself on Twitter, comment, follow, or message me for any more information or just to say hey, I love communicating with my readers! Until next time, Happy Reading!

Bleed Rusk Red

-Ethan