by Ginger Scott
“Then why the hell did you make me get it on the side, Cass?” she asks, and I commit that name to memory the second it leaves her lips.
“So you could use less,” Cass huffs back.
“That’s stupid,” Paige says.
“Yes, I see that now,” Cass says, stepping out from their booth to head to the restroom area. She gives me one last smile before she leaves, and I hold up my empty beer glass to toast her—the sexy ninja princess with the patience of gold, and the next girl I want to get to know in Oklahoma.
Acknowledgements
This book was just begging to come out of me. I dreamt pieces of it, and scribbled other parts down on notebooks, receipts and napkins that I stuffed into the depths of my purse while in the strangest places. I think I jotted down Nate and Rowe’s names on the back of an ASU baseball ticket. And when I pulled everything together and sat down to write, it just poured from my fingers. Thank you—seriously…thank you, for reading it.
This Is Falling is in many ways about those other stories that I never got to tell as a journalist. I covered the tragedies, and sometimes, as a reporter, would go back to revisit things on anniversaries. When enough time has gone by, things become newsworthy once again. Looking back at it now, I’m not sure why that is. This Is Falling is about the people those tragedies touch but whose stories don’t make the paper. The dominoes of aftereffects from a school shooting don’t all fall down in a straight line. They scatter and touch everyone. And Rowe Stanton embodies this.
I must thank my amazing editors, Tina Scott and Billi Joy Carson, for their work on this final product. And I would be lost in a world of doubt and second-guessing if it were not for my beta readers—Shelley, Bianca, Jen, Debbie and Brigitte. You ladies rock!
Lastly, This Is Falling is my fifth title. Being an author is my dream, and it is only true because of my readers and the power of the book blogging community. I have connected with the most amazing readers and bloggers, and I cannot thank you enough for the time you have spent on my words. Ty’s story? That one’s for you!
About the Author
Ginger Scott is a journalist and writer from Peoria, Arizona. A proud Sun Devil, she is a graduate and associate faculty member of Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism. When she’s not typing feverishly on her MacBook during the wee hours or reading in the dark on her iPad, she’s probably at a baseball diamond somewhere watching her son or her favorite team, the Arizona Diamondbacks, take the field.
Books by Ginger Scott
Waiting on the Sidelines
Going Long
Blindness
How We Deal With Gravity
This Is Falling
**You and Everything After, coming late 2014**
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