All
At Sea by Pepper Ellison
Publication date: July 15th 2015
Genres: New Adult, Romance
Synopsis
When eighteen-year-old American Amelia
Beauchamp arrives in Honolulu for a three-month stay on her family’s yacht, the
only thing she has on her mind is conquering her fear of water and
hopefully—for once in her life—making a few friends. The last thing she expects
is to fall for cocky surf instructor, Kody Murdock.
Twenty-two-year-old Kody has fled
Australia. Kody’s not looking for love, he’s not looking for a hook-up, he just
wants to surf. But when pale, awkward Amelia comes walking down the beach he can’t
help but think she’s kind of adorable. The pair strike up a complicated
friendship.
Can these two people from different
worlds find a way to interact without strangling each other? And what, or whom,
is Kody running from?
A surfer romance told through text
messages and emails, ALL AT SEA will appeal to fans of Meg Cabot’s THE BOY NEXT
DOOR and Alyson Noel’s LAGUNA COVE.
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Phrases
American Girls Should Know Before
Dating An Aussie Bloke
by Pepper Ellison
For an American girl, if you’re going to
date an Aussie guy, it’s not just the accent that is hard to understand. They
seem to speak a language that is not English. Your guy might lean to you and
say, ‘Stone the crows! How blotto is that bush pig from whoop whoop?’ Or, ‘I’m
totally spewing that I missed those cracker bumnuts smornin.’
Never mind. Pepper is here to translate
for you.
‘Chuck a sickie’ is to feign sickness,
this is also called ‘bludging’. ‘Chuck a u-ie’ is to make a u turn in traffic.
To ‘chuck a wobbler’ means to throw a tantrum, just ‘chuck’ on its own means to
vomit. ‘Spewing’ on the other hand means feeling disappointed.
To ‘wear the wobbly boot’ means to be
drunk. You can also be ‘blotto’. ‘Off your chops’ means to be intoxicated. To
‘carry on like a pork chop’ also means to throw a tantrum. To have ‘chops’
means to be a skilled musician.
‘Sinking’ generally means drinking, as
in ‘sink a coldie’, ‘sink a tinny’, ‘sink a brew’. These are all drinking beer,
so you are likely to hear them a lot. (‘Sink a knuckle’ means something else…)
You can also ‘crack a tinny/coldie/brew’.
(To ‘crack a fat’ means something else…)
If something is a ‘cracker’, that means
very good. A ‘ticker’ is your heart. To ‘have ticker’, means to be courageous.
Your freckle is… Well, your freckle is
your bum – as in ‘don’t fret your freckle’.
‘Whoop whoop’ means a long way away.
‘Within cooee’ means not far from here. It’s equivalent to a ‘stone’s throw’.
‘Stone the crows’ means, ‘I am astonished!’
‘Smornin’ is a contraction of ‘this
morning’, and later in the day is ‘sarvo’.
Having a ‘Barry Crocker’ (shocker) means
having a bad day.
‘Pig’s arse’ means ‘I find your story
unlikely’. However, ‘rat’s arse’ means ‘I don’t care’.
A ‘boogie’ is a half-sized surf board
that you ride on your belly. A ‘booger’ is snot. (Either way you don’t want to
date this guy, because boogie boarding is not real surfing.)
A ‘blue’ is a fight. Most red heads are
also called ‘Bluey’, or ‘bloodnut’. Your ‘nut’ is your head, unless it’s a
testicle – you can assess this from context. …usually.
‘Bum nuts’ are eggs, as are
‘cackleberries’ and ‘googs’.
To take a ‘slash’, a ‘wet’, a ‘snake’s
hiss’, or to ‘drain the lizard’ all mean to urinate. Females might ‘split the
whisker’.
A ‘bush pig’ is an unattractive woman.
She might have a face ‘like a busted arse’.
A ‘servo’ is a petrol station. A
‘servie’ is a napkin.
‘Dommies’ are condoms.
Aussie males also have a tendency for
rhetorical questions. For example:
‘How good is this brew?’
‘Doesn’t that Bluey have a cracker of a
coin slot?’
‘How blotto is that bush pig from whoop
whoop?’
You are generally not required to
answer, but you could say something like, ‘I don’t give a rats. I’m going to
split the whisker. Don’t fret your freckle. I’ll be within cooee.’
AUTHOR
BIO
Pepper Ellison was born in 1991 on a
Royal Navy ice patrol ship stationed near Ross Island along the coast of
Antarctica. Currently, she divides her time between Waipahu, Hawaii
and Sydney, Australia. She has worked as a marine science research
assistant, specialising in sea mammals, a brand ambassador for a
craft beer company, and most recently, a Harley-Davidson joy-ride driver
out of Kings Creek Station in Central Australia. She is a keen surfer
and gymnast. ALL AT SEA is her first novel.
Giveaway
Blitz-wide giveaway (INTL)
Pepper's Lucky 7 ALL AT SEA Grand Prize
Giveaway Includes:
1.) One e-copy of ALL AT SEA.
2.) A dashboard hula dancer doll.
3.) A burned single copy of the ALL AT
SEA soundtrack.
4.) "Sunshine in a jar" direct
from the beaches of Sydney, Australia.
5.) A new DVD copy of the surfer movie
of the winner's choosing (a list of suggestions will be provided; valued up to
$15).
6.) A pre-scheduled, one-hour collective
push of good vibrations sent to the winner from Pepper and her global army of
remarkably interesting friends.
7.) A five-dollar gift certificate to Starbucks.
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