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  One of my most frequent statements of 2017 has been "I love Lemon," and only rarely do I mean the citrus fruit. I met Sarah Lemon in our author debut group, and her social media feeds immediately convinced me we should be friends (you'll be shocked to hear I was right). Her debut novel, Done Dirt Cheap, was released in March to rave reviews, but Lemon is also an outspoken advocate for social justice, a rock climber, a mom of three, and a biker babe. Read on to learn more about her publishing journey -- and scroll down to win a signed copy of her book!

  cover of DONE DIRT CHEAP by Sarah Nicole Lemon
  Kate: Describe your career(s) and/or current projects. What path(s) and passions led you there?

  Lemon: I am an author, with one book freshly into the world (DONE DIRT CHEAP) and another set to come out in 2018 (VALLEY GIRLS). I never intended to become a writer, because that felt like a magical thing girls like me did not get to be. I grew up poor and anything with art didn’t make money, so it simply wasn’t a possibility. But I was always a voracious reader—reading gave me access to the world I couldn’t have. When my life gathered some stability, I began looking more towards to writing as something I could actually do, even if it made me no money. I am aware how privileged I am to be doing something I love so much.

  Lemon in the wild
  Kate: Do you have any (other) creative outlets? How do they influence/affect your main work (if at all)?

  Lemon: Not unless you count things in the outdoors? With writing being so cerebral, I appreciate the chance to do something with my hands and feet, and seeing more than just the computer screen. I rock climb, hike, and ride my motorcycle when I can. Honestly though, as a mom to three small children (one special needs), a police wife, and trying to start a writing career, time for anything extra is not readily available. When I was younger, I enjoyed photography, watercolor, and music. I know I’ll find those things again when I have more space. For now, I just enjoy Instagram and getting lost in YouTube wormholes.

  Kate: What's your biggest challenge?

  Lemon: I’m going to be real here, and say by far the greatest challenge I’ve encountered has been trying to jump social class. Whenever I open up about it, people are quick to compliment me that they can’t even tell—and it’s hard not to cry “but you can’t see how hard I’m working to have you say that.” It’s sucked up the most amount of thought, time and effort in my publishing path. I’ll be honest, I’ve shed tears over it. When I first began in publishing, the nicest restaurant I’d ever been in was basically an Olive Garden. I had never needed to tip service, because I was never in that space. I had only been on a plane once, for my honeymoon when I was 19. Now, I’m a lot more comfortable in those spaces, and every time I get on a plane, or hand over my bags, or go to a nice restaurant, I marvel at where my life has taken me. Even though it means I no longer fully belong anywhere, I’ve made my peace with it and feel lucky to have had such a broad range of experiences.

  Kate: Tell us about a time that you bounced back from failure.

  Lemon: I’m convinced failure is the most important part of success. I’m a climber, and a terrible one, but I always hear in my head “if you aren’t failing [falling], you aren’t trying [climbing] hard enough.” DONE DIRT CHEAP is my first published book, but it’s the third book I wrote with my agent. The first was universally loved and rejected (too quiet). The second, my agent lovingly put in the trash (bless her). Those two failures made DDC possible. It made me raw and desperate, and also willing to put all my vulnerabilities on the line and really go for it. I tried to write a book only I could write. The other thing about failure is that its most terrifying before it happens. When it happens, I’ve found it’s much easier to deal with than I expected.

  Kate: What's the best compliment you've ever gotten?

  Lemon: A friend just told me I’m the walking subversion of a trope, and it’s one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said. I understand that my background, my stories, and the way I look creates an immediate distrust (deserved) to people in publishing, but especially PoC. It can be really awkward, in that space to, say, know how to skin a deer. But, I try to take ownership of my history, my people’s history, to show you can change, you can learn, you can have different experiences and still have empathy and understanding. I do appreciate my learning experiences about race and class were all done in the real world (as opposed to online). I lived in West Baltimore at the same time as I worked at Georgetown Law, and God bless the black women who guided redneck, floundering me through those spaces.

  afternoon in Baltimore
  Kate: Did you have any defining moments that galvanized your understanding of and/or commitment to feminism? How does it inform/inspire your work?

  Lemon: I was raised to believe the worst thing I could become was a feminist. If you wanted to completely take away a woman’s credibility in my community, you called her a feminist. For me, the point in my life where I really came into my own as a feminist was during my first pregnancy. I was 22, and despite being married, college educated, and in a steady white collar job, being pregnant made me lose the “exceptional woman” status I’d enjoyed. It also forced me to confront how I relied on white supremacy to reaffirm that belief.

  I was living in West Baltimore at the time, and everywhere I went in the medical community in Baltimore, people treated me based on my face, my youth, and my address (the presumption was I was white trash, uneducated, and pregnant with a black, drug dealer’s baby). I was told to abort my child. I was told I shouldn’t be bringing kids into the world. Even after his birth, I was continually talked down to, given misinformation and treated as if I wasn’t capable of taking care of my child. It’s hard to spend all your energy trying to prove to people you deserve to exist, that you deserve to be treated with respect, that you deserve to bring a family into the world.

  I understood immediately that the treatment I was receiving, however shitty, was still better than the treatment my (black) neighbors received. I understood that if I went missing in West Baltimore, people were going to care a little more than they cared about a missing, pregnant, black woman from West Baltimore. That directly affected my feminism, because suddenly feminism became something incredibly important—it became something I understood from a systematic perspective. The system does not find much value in the existence of women, but specifically poor or black, and especially poor, black women (and good lord, let’s not forget poor, black trans women!). We, as white women, or “exceptional women,” or black women with privilege, are complicit in that violence unless we actively dismantle that in our lives. Even now, I approach feminism from the systematic perspective. I focus on dismantling the systems that support and reaffirm our prejudices and beliefs. I strive to do that in my writing, in my lane. I also force everyone back home to deal with me as a feminist. I don’t shy away from the label.

  Lemon and Kate signing together at YALLWEST 2017
  Kate: What are the best ways to support other women?

  Lemon: I think the best way to support other women is by looking at the women in your community and finding your role in supporting, elevating and caring for women the most at risk. For me, as an author, it means promoting women of color online, reading their books and talking about their books. It means listening to them when they talk about harm perpetuated in literature. It means I do not tell stories that aren’t mine to tell. For my best friend, who was a student midwife and is now in school to be a nurse midwife, it means something totally different (namely, helping at risk women get access to positive maternal care). I think we all have opportunities in our lives to change the system if we are looking with intentionality.

  Lightning round: Tell us what you’re…

  reading: nothing…whomp whomp…I’m on a deadline. But I’m super excited about Roshani Chokshi’s new book A CROWN OF WISHES, and that will be the first book I read post deadline.
  watching: Dave Chappelle’s comedy special on Netflix.
  listening to: Tool, it’s my editing music. There’s something in the rhythm that just fits my writing brain.
  eating: salad, fried chicken, and Halo Top ice cream.
  doing: finishing my 2018 book, VALLEY GIRLS
  wearing: Adidas pants and a Metallica t-shirt.
  wishing for: everything Gucci right now, which is not at all in my price realm, but a girl can dream.
  wanting: to show up at all author events looking like 70’s Jerry Hall (this is an unattainable dream, but I persist in it).
  loving: THUG on the NYT list for the third week in a row! [author's note: this answer shows how unacceptably long its taken me to share this interview -- apologies, Lemon!]

  the view from Lemon's motorcycle seat
  Kate: Who are some other badass ladies we need to know & why?

  Lemon: Right now, I’m learning a lot about black women of rock and roll and also Asian women climbers. Those are two widely disparate things, I know, but women like Big Mama Thornton (an out and proud black woman in the 50’s who wrote "Ball ‘n Chain" and recorded "Hound Dog" before Elvis), and also girls like Malavath Poorna (who climbed Everest at 13yo) are incredible and interesting, and I want to read these books! (I am not writing them).

  Kate: What is your advice to aspiring badasses?

  Lemon: Have a spirit of teachability. (Is that a word?) I’m a Slytherin, so obviously, I think being teachable is important because it allows you to learn how to be successful, even if nature or nurture hasn’t naturally inclined that way.

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  Sarah Nicole Lemon spent the first fifteen years of her life doing nothing but reading and playing outside, and has yet to outgrow either. When not writing, you can find her drinking iced coffee in a half-submerged beach chair near her home in southern Maryland.

  Find Lemon:
  website // twitter // instagram

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  Badass Ladies You Should Know: Sarah Nicole Lemon Kate Hart 10:00 AM badass ladies, badass ladies profile, writer interviews
  headshot of Sarah Nicole Lemon
  One of my most frequent statements of 2017 has been "I love Lemon," and only rarely do I mean the citrus fruit. I met Sarah Lemon in our author debut group, and her social media feeds immediately convinced me we should be friends (you'll be shocked to hear I was right). Her debut novel, Done Dirt Cheap, was released in March to rave reviews, but Lemon is also an outspoken advocate for social justice, a rock climber, a mom of three, and a biker babe. Read on to learn more about her publishing journey -- and scroll down to win a signed copy of her book!

  cover of DONE DIRT CHEAP by Sarah Nicole Lemon
  Kate: Describe your career(s) and/or current projects. What path(s) and passions led you there?

  Lemon: I am an author, with one book freshly into the world (DONE DIRT CHEAP) and another set to come out in 2018 (VALLEY GIRLS). I never intended to become a writer, because that felt like a magical thing girls like me did not get to be. I grew up poor and anything with art didn’t make money, so it simply wasn’t a possibility. But I was always a voracious reader—reading gave me access to the world I couldn’t have. When my life gathered some stability, I began looking more towards to writing as something I could actually do, even if it made me no money. I am aware how privileged I am to be doing something I love so much.

  Lemon in the wild
  Kate: Do you have any (other) creative outlets? How do they influence/affect your main work (if at all)?

  Lemon: Not unless you count things in the outdoors? With writing being so cerebral, I appreciate the chance to do something with my hands and feet, and seeing more than just the computer screen. I rock climb, hike, and ride my motorcycle when I can. Honestly though, as a mom to three small children (one special needs), a police wife, and trying to start a writing career, time for anything extra is not readily available. When I was younger, I enjoyed photography, watercolor, and music. I know I’ll find those things again when I have more space. For now, I just enjoy Instagram and getting lost in YouTube wormholes.

  Kate: What's your biggest challenge?

  Lemon: I’m going to be real here, and say by far the greatest challenge I’ve encountered has been trying to jump social class. Whenever I open up about it, people are quick to compliment me that they can’t even tell—and it’s hard not to cry “but you can’t see how hard I’m working to have you say that.” It’s sucked up the most amount of thought, time and effort in my publishing path. I’ll be honest, I’ve shed tears over it. When I first began in publishing, the nicest restaurant I’d ever been in was basically an Olive Garden. I had never needed to tip service, because I was never in that space. I had only been on a plane once, for my honeymoon when I was 19. Now, I’m a lot more comfortable in those spaces, and every time I get on a plane, or hand over my bags, or go to a nice restaurant, I marvel at where my life has taken me. Even though it means I no longer fully belong anywhere, I’ve made my peace with it and feel lucky to have had such a broad range of experiences.

  Kate: Tell us about a time that you bounced back from failure.

  Lemon: I’m convinced failure is the most important part of success. I’m a climber, and a terrible one, but I always hear in my head “if you aren’t failing [falling], you aren’t trying [climbing] hard enough.” DONE DIRT CHEAP is my first published book, but it’s the third book I wrote with my agent. The first was universally loved and rejected (too quiet). The second, my agent lovingly put in the trash (bless her). Those two failures made DDC possible. It made me raw and desperate, and also willing to put all my vulnerabilities on the line and really go for it. I tried to write a book only I could write. The other thing about failure is that its most terrifying before it happens. When it happens, I’ve found it’s much easier to deal with than I expected.

  Kate: What's the best compliment you've ever gotten?

  Lemon: A friend just told me I’m the walking subversion of a trope, and it’s one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said. I understand that my background, my stories, and the way I look creates an immediate distrust (deserved) to people in publishing, but especially PoC. It can be really awkward, in that space to, say, know how to skin a deer. But, I try to take ownership of my history, my people’s history, to show you can change, you can learn, you can have different experiences and still have empathy and understanding. I do appreciate my learning experiences about race and class were all done in the real world (as opposed to online). I lived in West Baltimore at the same time as I worked at Georgetown Law, and God bless the black women who guided redneck, floundering me through those spaces.

  afternoon in Baltimore
  Kate: Did you have any defining moments that galvanized your understanding of and/or commitment to feminism? How does it inform/inspire your work?

  Lemon: I was raised to believe the worst thing I could become was a feminist. If you wanted to completely take away a woman’s credibility in my community, you called her a feminist. For me, the point in my life where I really came into my own as a feminist was during my first pregnancy. I was 22, and despite being married, college educated, and in a steady white collar job, being pregnant made me lose the “exceptional woman” status I’d enjoyed. It also forced me to confront how I relied on white supremacy to reaffirm that belief.

  I was living in West Baltimore at the time, and everywhere I went in the medical community in Baltimore, people treated me based on my face, my youth, and my address (the presumption was I was white trash, uneducated, and pregnant with a black, drug dealer’s baby). I was told to abort my child. I was told I shouldn’t be bringing kids into the world. Even after his birth, I was continually talked down to, given misinformation and treated as if I wasn’t capable of taking care of my child. It’s hard to spend all your energy trying to prove to people you deserve to exist, that you deserve to be treated with respect, that you deserve to bring a family into the world.

  I understood immediately that the treatment I was receiving, however shitty, was still better than the treatment my (black) neighbors received. I understood that if I went missing in West Baltimore, people were going to care a little more than they cared about a missing, pregnant, black woman from West Baltimore. That directly affected my feminism, because suddenly feminism became something incredibly important—it became something I understood from a systematic perspective. The system does not find much value in the existence of women, but specifically poor or black, and especially poor, black women (and good lord, let’s not forget poor, black trans women!). We, as white women, or “exceptional women,” or black women with privilege, are complicit in that violence unless we actively dismantle that in our lives. Even now, I approach feminism from the systematic perspective. I focus on dismantling the systems that support and reaffirm our prejudices and beliefs. I strive to do that in my writing, in my lane. I also force everyone back home to deal with me as a feminist. I don’t shy away from the label.

  Lemon and Kate signing together at YALLWEST 2017
  Kate: What are the best ways to support other women?

  Lemon: I think the best way to support other women is by looking at the women in your community and finding your role in supporting, elevating and caring for women the most at risk. For me, as an author, it means promoting women of color online, reading their books and talking about their books. It means listening to them when they talk about harm perpetuated in literature. It means I do not tell stories that aren’t mine to tell. For my best friend, who was a student midwife and is now in school to be a nurse midwife, it means something totally different (namely, helping at risk women get access to positive maternal care). I think we all have opportunities in our lives to change the system if we are looking with intentionality.

  Lightning round: Tell us what you’re…

  reading: nothing…whomp whomp…I’m on a deadline. But I’m super excited about Roshani Chokshi’s new book A CROWN OF WISHES, and that will be the first book I read post deadline.
  watching: Dave Chappelle’s comedy special on Netflix.
  listening to: Tool, it’s my editing music. There’s something in the rhythm that just fits my writing brain.
  eating: salad, fried chicken, and Halo Top ice cream.
  doing: finishing my 2018 book, VALLEY GIRLS
  wearing: Adidas pants and a Metallica t-shirt.
  wishing for: everything Gucci right now, which is not at all in my price realm, but a girl can dream.
  wanting: to show up at all author events looking like 70’s Jerry Hall (this is an unattainable dream, but I persist in it).
  loving: THUG on the NYT list for the third week in a row! [author's note: this answer shows how unacceptably long its taken me to share this interview -- apologies, Lemon!]

  the view from Lemon's motorcycle seat
  Kate: Who are some other badass ladies we need to know & why?

  Lemon: Right now, I’m learning a lot about black women of rock and roll and also Asian women climbers. Those are two widely disparate things, I know, but women like Big Mama Thornton (an out and proud black woman in the 50’s who wrote "Ball ‘n Chain" and recorded "Hound Dog" before Elvis), and also girls like Malavath Poorna (who climbed Everest at 13yo) are incredible and interesting, and I want to read these books! (I am not writing them).

  Kate: What is your advice to aspiring badasses?

  Lemon: Have a spirit of teachability. (Is that a word?) I’m a Slytherin, so obviously, I think being teachable is important because it allows you to learn how to be successful, even if nature or nurture hasn’t naturally inclined that way.

  GIVEAWAY
  Win a signed copy of Done Dirt Cheap! Open to US and Canada.

  *

  Badass Ladies You Should Know logo
  Sarah Nicole Lemon spent the first fifteen years of her life doing nothing but reading and playing outside, and has yet to outgrow either. When not writing, you can find her drinking iced coffee in a half-submerged beach chair near her home in southern Maryland.

  Find Lemon:
  website // twitter // instagram

  get Done Dirt Cheap // add Valley Girls to your TBR

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Lemon: I am an author, with one book freshly into the world (DONE DIRT CHEAP) and another set to come out in 2018 (VALLEY GIRLS). I never intended to become a writer, because that felt like a magical thing girls like me did not get to be. I grew up poor and anything with art didn’t make money, so it simply wasn’t a possibility. But I was always a voracious reader—reading gave me access to the world I couldn’t have. When my life gathered some stability, I began looking more towards to writing as something I could actually do, even if it made me no money. I am aware how privileged I am to be doing something I love so much. Kate: Do you have any (other) creative outlets? How do they influence/affect your main work (if at all)? Lemon: Not unless you count things in the outdoors? With writing being so cerebral, I appreciate the chance to do something with my hands and feet, and seeing more than just the computer screen. I rock climb, hike, and ride my motorcycle when I can. Honestly though, as a mom to three small children (one special needs), a police wife, and trying to start a writing career, time for anything extra is not readily available. When I was younger, I enjoyed photography, watercolor, and music. I know I’ll find those things again when I have more space. For now, I just enjoy Instagram and getting lost in YouTube wormholes. Kate: What's your biggest challenge? Lemon: I’m going to be real here, and say by far the greatest challenge I’ve encountered has been trying to jump social class. Whenever I open up about it, people are quick to compliment me that they can’t even tell—and it’s hard not to cry “but you can’t see how hard I’m working to have you say that.” It’s sucked up the most amount of thought, time and effort in my publishing path. I’ll be honest, I’ve shed tears over it. When I first began in publishing, the nicest restaurant I’d ever been in was basically an Olive Garden. I had never needed to tip service, because I was never in that space. I had only been on a plane once, for my honeymoon when I was 19. Now, I’m a lot more comfortable in those spaces, and every time I get on a plane, or hand over my bags, or go to a nice restaurant, I marvel at where my life has taken me. Even though it means I no longer fully belong anywhere, I’ve made my peace with it and feel lucky to have had such a broad range of experiences. Kate: Tell us about a time that you bounced back from failure. Lemon: I’m convinced failure is the most important part of success. I’m a climber, and a terrible one, but I always hear in my head “if you aren’t failing [falling], you aren’t trying [climbing] hard enough.” DONE DIRT CHEAP is my first published book, but it’s the third book I wrote with my agent. The first was universally loved and rejected (too quiet). The second, my agent lovingly put in the trash (bless her). Those two failures made DDC possible. It made me raw and desperate, and also willing to put all my vulnerabilities on the line and really go for it. I tried to write a book only I could write. The other thing about failure is that its most terrifying before it happens. When it happens, I’ve found it’s much easier to deal with than I expected. Kate: What's the best compliment you've ever gotten? Lemon: A friend just told me I’m the walking subversion of a trope, and it’s one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said. I understand that my background, my stories, and the way I look creates an immediate distrust (deserved) to people in publishing, but especially PoC. It can be really awkward, in that space to, say, know how to skin a deer. But, I try to take ownership of my history, my people’s history, to show you can change, you can learn, you can have different experiences and still have empathy and understanding. I do appreciate my learning experiences about race and class were all done in the real world (as opposed to online). I lived in West Baltimore at the same time as I worked at Georgetown Law, and God bless the black women who guided redneck, floundering me through those spaces. Kate: Did you have any defining moments that galvanized your understanding of and/or commitment to feminism? How does it inform/inspire your work? Lemon: I was raised to believe the worst thing I could become was a feminist. If you wanted to completely take away a woman’s credibility in my community, you called her a feminist. For me, the point in my life where I really came into my own as a feminist was during my first pregnancy. I was 22, and despite being married, college educated, and in a steady white collar job, being pregnant made me lose the “exceptional woman” status I’d enjoyed. It also forced me to confront how I relied on white supremacy to reaffirm that belief. I was living in West Baltimore at the time, and everywhere I went in the medical community in Baltimore, people treated me based on my face, my youth, and my address (the presumption was I was white trash, uneducated, and pregnant with a black, drug dealer’s baby). I was told to abort my child. I was told I shouldn’t be bringing kids into the world. Even after his birth, I was continually talked down to, given misinformation and treated as if I wasn’t capable of taking care of my child. It’s hard to spend all your energy trying to prove to people you deserve to exist, that you deserve to be treated with respect, that you deserve to bring a family into the world. I understood immediately that the treatment I was receiving, however shitty, was still better than the treatment my (black) neighbors received. I understood that if I went missing in West Baltimore, people were going to care a little more than they cared about a missing, pregnant, black woman from West Baltimore. That directly affected my feminism, because suddenly feminism became something incredibly important—it became something I understood from a systematic perspective. The system does not find much value in the existence of women, but specifically poor or black, and especially poor, black women (and good lord, let’s not forget poor, black trans women!). We, as white women, or “exceptional women,” or black women with privilege, are complicit in that violence unless we actively dismantle that in our lives. Even now, I approach feminism from the systematic perspective. I focus on dismantling the systems that support and reaffirm our prejudices and beliefs. I strive to do that in my writing, in my lane. I also force everyone back home to deal with me as a feminist. I don’t shy away from the label. Kate: What are the best ways to support other women? Lemon: I think the best way to support other women is by looking at the women in your community and finding your role in supporting, elevating and caring for women the most at risk. For me, as an author, it means promoting women of color online, reading their books and talking about their books. It means listening to them when they talk about harm perpetuated in literature. It means I do not tell stories that aren’t mine to tell. For my best friend, who was a student midwife and is now in school to be a nurse midwife, it means something totally different (namely, helping at risk women get access to positive maternal care). I think we all have opportunities in our lives to change the system if we are looking with intentionality. Lightning round: Tell us what you’re… reading: nothing…whomp whomp…I’m on a deadline. But I’m super excited about Roshani Chokshi’s new book A CROWN OF WISHES, and that will be the first book I read post deadline. watching: Dave Chappelle’s comedy special on Netflix. listening to: Tool, it’s my editing music. There’s something in the rhythm that just fits my writing brain. eating: salad, fried chicken, and Halo Top ice cream. doing: finishing my 2018 book, VALLEY GIRLS wearing: Adidas pants and a Metallica t-shirt. wishing for: everything Gucci right now, which is not at all in my price realm, but a girl can dream. wanting: to show up at all author events looking like 70’s Jerry Hall (this is an unattainable dream, but I persist in it). loving: THUG on the NYT list for the third week in a row! [author's note: this answer shows how unacceptably long its taken me to share this interview -- apologies, Lemon!] Kate: Who are some other badass ladies we need to know & why? Lemon: Right now, I’m learning a lot about black women of rock and roll and also Asian women climbers. Those are two widely disparate things, I know, but women like Big Mama Thornton (an out and proud black woman in the 50’s who wrote "Ball ‘n Chain" and recorded "Hound Dog" before Elvis), and also girls like Malavath Poorna (who climbed Everest at 13yo) are incredible and interesting, and I want to read these books! (I am not writing them). Kate: What is your advice to aspiring badasses? Lemon: Have a spirit of teachability. (Is that a word?) I’m a Slytherin, so obviously, I think being teachable is important because it allows you to learn how to be successful, even if nature or nurture hasn’t naturally inclined that way. GIVEAWAY Win a signed copy of Done Dirt Cheap! Open to US and Canada. * Sarah Nicole Lemon spent the first fifteen years of her life doing nothing but reading and playing outside, and has yet to outgrow either. When not writing, you can find her drinking iced coffee in a half-submerged beach chair near her home in southern Maryland. Find Lemon: website // twitter // instagram get Done Dirt Cheap // add Valley Girls to your TBR Want more Badass Ladies? Check out more profiles, or follow and boost from any of these accounts: Share This Post Badass Ladies You Should Know: Maur... Badass Ladies You Should Know: Gaut... Badass Ladies You Should Know: Lill... Badass Ladies You Should Know: Rebe... NEWER POSTOLDER POST 0 Comments: Post A Comment KATE HART author, fiber artist, & woodworker AFTER THE FALL Farrar, Straus & Giroux - January 24, 2017 POPULAR POSTS Citing Sources: A Quick and Graphic Guide ~ ~ Don't forget to check out the other posts in Stacked's " Unconventional Blog Tour "! ~ ~ Academia has lots and lot... Uncovering YA Covers: 2011 edited 5/20: These charts are not professionally researched or produced. Please take their findings with a grain of salt. Thanks. Last yea... How To Get Published: A Flowchart RESOURCES Uncovering YA Covers: How Dark Are They? 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I met Sarah Lemon in our author debut group, and her social media feeds immediately convinced me we should be friends (you'll be shocked to hear I was right). Her debut novel, Done Dirt Cheap, was released in March to rave reviews, but Lemon is also an outspoken advocate for social justice, a rock climber, a mom of three, and a biker babe. Read on to learn more about her publishing journey -- and scroll down to win a signed copy of her book! Kate: Describe your career(s) and/or current projects. What path(s) and passions led you there? Lemon: I am an author, with one book freshly into the world (DONE DIRT CHEAP) and another set to come out in 2018 (VALLEY GIRLS). I never intended to become a writer, because that felt like a magical thing girls like me did not get to be. I grew up poor and anything with art didn’t make money, so it simply wasn’t a possibility. But I was always a voracious reader—reading gave me access to the world I couldn’t have. When my life gathered some stability, I began looking more towards to writing as something I could actually do, even if it made me no money. I am aware how privileged I am to be doing something I love so much. Kate: Do you have any (other) creative outlets? How do they influence/affect your main work (if at all)? Lemon: Not unless you count things in the outdoors? With writing being so cerebral, I appreciate the chance to do something with my hands and feet, and seeing more than just the computer screen. I rock climb, hike, and ride my motorcycle when I can. Honestly though, as a mom to three small children (one special needs), a police wife, and trying to start a writing career, time for anything extra is not readily available. When I was younger, I enjoyed photography, watercolor, and music. I know I’ll find those things again when I have more space. For now, I just enjoy Instagram and getting lost in YouTube wormholes. Kate: What's your biggest challenge? Lemon: I’m going to be real here, and say by far the greatest challenge I’ve encountered has been trying to jump social class. Whenever I open up about it, people are quick to compliment me that they can’t even tell—and it’s hard not to cry “but you can’t see how hard I’m working to have you say that.” It’s sucked up the most amount of thought, time and effort in my publishing path. I’ll be honest, I’ve shed tears over it. When I first began in publishing, the nicest restaurant I’d ever been in was basically an Olive Garden. I had never needed to tip service, because I was never in that space. I had only been on a plane once, for my honeymoon when I was 19. Now, I’m a lot more comfortable in those spaces, and every time I get on a plane, or hand over my bags, or go to a nice restaurant, I marvel at where my life has taken me. Even though it means I no longer fully belong anywhere, I’ve made my peace with it and feel lucky to have had such a broad range of experiences. Kate: Tell us about a time that you bounced back from failure. Lemon: I’m convinced failure is the most important part of success. I’m a climber, and a terrible one, but I always hear in my head “if you aren’t failing [falling], you aren’t trying [climbing] hard enough.” DONE DIRT CHEAP is my first published book, but it’s the third book I wrote with my agent. The first was universally loved and rejected (too quiet). The second, my agent lovingly put in the trash (bless her). Those two failures made DDC possible. It made me raw and desperate, and also willing to put all my vulnerabilities on the line and really go for it. I tried to write a book only I could write. The other thing about failure is that its most terrifying before it happens. When it happens, I’ve found it’s much easier to deal with than I expected. Kate: What's the best compliment you've ever gotten? Lemon: A friend just told me I’m the walking subversion of a trope, and it’s one of the nicest things anyone’s ever said. I understand that my background, my stories, and the way I look creates an immediate distrust (deserved) to people in publishing, but especially PoC. It can be really awkward, in that space to, say, know how to skin a deer. But, I try to take ownership of my history, my people’s history, to show you can change, you can learn, you can have different experiences and still have empathy and understanding. I do appreciate my learning experiences about race and class were all done in the real world (as opposed to online). I lived in West Baltimore at the same time as I worked at Georgetown Law, and God bless the black women who guided redneck, floundering me through those spaces. Kate: Did you have any defining moments that galvanized your understanding of and/or commitment to feminism? How does it inform/inspire your work? Lemon: I was raised to believe the worst thing I could become was a feminist. If you wanted to completely take away a woman’s credibility in my community, you called her a feminist. For me, the point in my life where I really came into my own as a feminist was during my first pregnancy. I was 22, and despite being married, college educated, and in a steady white collar job, being pregnant made me lose the “exceptional woman” status I’d enjoyed. It also forced me to confront how I relied on white supremacy to reaffirm that belief. I was living in West Baltimore at the time, and everywhere I went in the medical community in Baltimore, people treated me based on my face, my youth, and my address (the presumption was I was white trash, uneducated, and pregnant with a black, drug dealer’s baby). I was told to abort my child. I was told I shouldn’t be bringing kids into the world. Even after his birth, I was continually talked down to, given misinformation and treated as if I wasn’t capable of taking care of my child. It’s hard to spend all your energy trying to prove to people you deserve to exist, that you deserve to be treated with respect, that you deserve to bring a family into the world. I understood immediately that the treatment I was receiving, however shitty, was still better than the treatment my (black) neighbors received. I understood that if I went missing in West Baltimore, people were going to care a little more than they cared about a missing, pregnant, black woman from West Baltimore. That directly affected my feminism, because suddenly feminism became something incredibly important—it became something I understood from a systematic perspective. The system does not find much value in the existence of women, but specifically poor or black, and especially poor, black women (and good lord, let’s not forget poor, black trans women!). We, as white women, or “exceptional women,” or black women with privilege, are complicit in that violence unless we actively dismantle that in our lives. Even now, I approach feminism from the systematic perspective. I focus on dismantling the systems that support and reaffirm our prejudices and beliefs. I strive to do that in my writing, in my lane. I also force everyone back home to deal with me as a feminist. I don’t shy away from the label. Kate: What are the best ways to support other women? Lemon: I think the best way to support other women is by looking at the women in your community and finding your role in supporting, elevating and caring for women the most at risk. For me, as an author, it means promoting women of color online, reading their books and talking about their books. It means listening to them when they talk about harm perpetuated in literature. It means I do not tell stories that aren’t mine to tell. For my best friend, who was a student midwife and is now in school to be a nurse midwife, it means something totally different (namely, helping at risk women get access to positive maternal care). I think we all have opportunities in our lives to change the system if we are looking with intentionality. Lightning round: Tell us what you’re… reading: nothing…whomp whomp…I’m on a deadline. But I’m super excited about Roshani Chokshi’s new book A CROWN OF WISHES, and that will be the first book I read post deadline. watching: Dave Chappelle’s comedy special on Netflix. listening to: Tool, it’s my editing music. There’s something in the rhythm that just fits my writing brain. eating: salad, fried chicken, and Halo Top ice cream. doing: finishing my 2018 book, VALLEY GIRLS wearing: Adidas pants and a Metallica t-shirt. wishing for: everything Gucci right now, which is not at all in my price realm, but a girl can dream. wanting: to show up at all author events looking like 70’s Jerry Hall (this is an unattainable dream, but I persist in it). loving: THUG on the NYT list for the third week in a row! [author's note: this answer shows how unacceptably long its taken me to share this interview -- apologies, Lemon!] Kate: Who are some other badass ladies we need to know & why? Lemon: Right now, I’m learning a lot about black women of rock and roll and also Asian women climbers. Those are two widely disparate things, I know, but women like Big Mama Thornton (an out and proud black woman in the 50’s who wrote "Ball ‘n Chain" and recorded "Hound Dog" before Elvis), and also girls like Malavath Poorna (who climbed Everest at 13yo) are incredible and interesting, and I want to read these books! (I am not writing them). Kate: What is your advice to aspiring badasses? Lemon: Have a spirit of teachability. (Is that a word?) I’m a Slytherin, so obviously, I think being teachable is important because it allows you to learn how to be successful, even if nature or nurture hasn’t naturally inclined that way. GIVEAWAY Win a signed copy of Done Dirt Cheap! Open to US and Canada. * Sarah Nicole Lemon spent the first fifteen years of her life doing nothing but reading and playing outside, and has yet to outgrow either. When not writing, you can find her drinking iced coffee in a half-submerged beach chair near her home in southern Maryland. Find Lemon: website // twitter // instagram get Done Dirt Cheap // add Valley Girls to your TBR Want more Badass Ladies? Check out more profiles, or follow and boost from any of these accounts: Share This Post Badass Ladies You Should Know: Maur... Badass Ladies You Should Know: Gaut... Badass Ladies You Should Know: Lill... Badass Ladies You Should Know: Rebe... NEWER POSTOLDER POST 0 Comments: Post A Comment KATE HART author, fiber artist, & woodworker AFTER THE FALL Farrar, Straus & Giroux - January 24, 2017 POPULAR POSTS Citing Sources: A Quick and Graphic Guide ~ ~ Don't forget to check out the other posts in Stacked's " Unconventional Blog Tour "! ~ ~ Academia has lots and lot... Uncovering YA Covers: 2011 edited 5/20: These charts are not professionally researched or produced. Please take their findings with a grain of salt. Thanks. Last yea... How To Get Published: A Flowchart RESOURCES Uncovering YA Covers: How Dark Are They? 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Tourmaline Harris and Virginia Campbell have only crossed paths as students in the same high school. Now, it's the
summer after graduation, and the girls' lives are about to collide.When Virginia's slimy boss, a dirty lawyer named
Hazard, commands her to take down the Wardens of Iron Gate, a local motorcycle gang, she has to ingratiate herself
with Tourmaline, for befriending the Wardens' president's daughter is the quickest way to penetrate the inner circle.
Meanwhile, Tourmaline has a problem of her own: her mother's recently released drug-dealing ex-boyfriend wants
revenge for Tourmaline's role in his incarceration. As the girls get to know each other, Virginia reveals to Tourmaline
that the Wardens aren't as harmless as Tourmaline has believed. Who are they, really? Tourmaline has always thought
of them as a benevolent extended family, but her father has always protected her from the reality. Violence, deception,
and crime are tempered with love and friendship as Virginia and Tourmaline help each other in their missions to
survive the limits and dangers placed on them by the men in their lives. Most characters appear to be white by default;
Tourmaline's forbidden love interest (canoodling with the president's daughter is verboten), Cash, the Wardens' newest
conscript, is black. Readers will stand up and cheer for these mighty heroines. (Fiction. 13 & up)
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Sarah Nicole Lemon. Amulet, $17.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4197-2368-1
Tourmaline Harris and Virginia Campbell just graduated from the same high school, but what they know of each other
is all rumors and front. Tourmaline is the goody-two-shoes daughter of the president of the Wardens, the feared local
motorcycle club; Virginia is a beauty pageant winner. Both have a darker reality. Virginia sells drugs for the corrupt
attorney who helped her mother; Tourmaline's mother is in prison, and the boyfriend/dealer convicted along with her
was just released--and has a grudge against Tourmaline. The girls' relationship begins to change when the attorney
sends Virginia to get dirt on the club. Debut author Lemon spins a complicated story of revenge, motorcycles, female
friendship, and sexy bikers who appreciate and protect the strong women they fall for. The Wardens' vigilante morality
isn't questioned all that much, and at times the tale has a TV-movie quality--the high level of violence, everyone's
ability to get beaten up and keep going, and how good-looking they all are--but the book is undeniably fun to read,
with a satisfyingly hard-won happy ending. Ages 13-up. Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Agency. (Mar.)
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  done-dirtDone Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon. ISBN-13: 9781419723681. Publisher: Amulet Books. Publication date: 03/07/2017.
  Gr 9 Up—Tourmaline Harris is an honor roll student whose mother is in jail and whose father is president of the Wardens of Iron Gate motorcycle club. Virginia Campbell, her classmate, has experienced abuse and addiction at home and has spent years hustling drugs and doing other illegal work for Hazard, a crooked lawyer. When Hazard instructs Virginia to infiltrate the Wardens in order to help him bring the club down, the girls form a surprising and complicated friendship. Before long, they are dealing with the tight-knit bikers and suspicious detectives, sorting out truth from lies, and figuring out the ways their lives have been tied together. Neither is quick to trust, but they’re aware that girls are better off if they stick together, and they work as a team to make plans and plot revenge. The risks they take extend to the complex choices that they make in romance and beyond. This gritty story is told through strikingly beautiful writing, and the Southern setting (West Virginia and Virginia) leaps off the page. While the plot is a bit slow to start, the pace picks up, and the narrative is filled with unpredictable turns. The unique premise—girls who have seen far more than their 18 years would suggest, embedded in a biker gang, surrounded by drugs, corruption, and lies—makes for a wild, enthralling journey. VERDICT Recommended for general purchase, this title will appeal broadly to readers who like realistic fiction with a hard edge.
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  “We’re friends because when girls – women – are alone in this world, they’re easier to pick off.”

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  Two girls who came from different backgrounds became the best of friends through their circumstances, support of each other, and learning how to forgive.

  Tourmaline is the daughter of the president of The Wardens, a motorcycle club. Tourmaline lives behind the shadow of her father’s and is always quick to be ignored. Tourmaline just want be accepted into her father’s world and his life instead of being protect from it. Tourmaline doesn’t believe the Wardens is a criminal club at all, but everyone thinks otherwise. Tourmaline soon learns what The Wardens really do behind close door and it’s not what she expected, but neither will us as the reader expect it as well.

  Virginia is girl who have to learn how to grow up quick when her mother is charge for a DUI. With the circumstances given, Virginia agrees to work for Hazard, a corrupt attorney to get rid of the DUI charges at the age of fifteen. Virginia gets involve with Hazard’s drug dealing business and gets caught in a game bigger than she imagined. Virginia is only eighteen, but with her life experiences, she’s much more mature than her age. Virginia is tired of being judge on base how much other people think she is worth, she’s tired of being disrespected, and being used. Virginia befriend Tourmaline when Hazard put her on a job to find out more about the Wardens and to look for any criminal acts. Only soon did Virginia befriend Tourmaline that she find that she wants to part of Tourmaline’s life than she thought she would.

  Tourmaline and Virginia are more connected than they think. There’s a much bigger game going on than what they’re led to believe. Their friendship is what every girl wish for, support and to not be judge. I love the friendship and feminism aspect in this book. Not once do Tourmaline or Virginia judge each other for their past or mistakes. They’re supportive of each other, they have each other backs, and they help each other no matter how crazy the circumstance may be. And who knew Motorcycle club could be sexy? Thanks a lot Sarah! The romance in this story will have you grinning like a maniac and I appreciate it so much that for once the love interest is a POC! This story is realistic, because it shows us that we are humans and it’s okay to make mistakes.

  Rating: 3/5

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  This is the motorcycle gang, platonic female friendship, YA adventure book I didn't know I needed. I requested Done Dirt Cheap solely because Dahlia Adler - one of my favorite book bloggers and authors - said she loved it, and I trust her reviews (and also we seem to have the same taste in books). Also the cover is gorgeous, not that I judge books based on their covers...

  Tourmaline Harris just graduated from high school and is headed to the University of Virginia in the fall. She's trying to keep up the facade of her picture perfect life - athlete boyfriend, church-going best friend, sundresses all the time. But then her mother's former drug dealer and boyfriend is paroled and starts stalking her, and her life cracks in a way that starts letting the complicated show. Like the fact that her mother is in prison. And her dad is the leader of a motorcycle club (the Wardens) with mysterious dealings and a terrible reputation. And she's so attracted to the newest recruit that she can hardly stand it, but she's not supposed to even talk to him.

  Then there's Virginia Campbell. Her mother sold her to a shady local attorney to pay her debts, and Virginia is now his low-level drug dealer and pageant queen. Her latest assignment - befriend Tourmaline, figure out what's going on with the Wardens, and make him some more money. Seems easy enough. But Tourmaline is a lot more complicated and tough than Virginia gives her credit for, and their friendship is a lot more real than she was expecting.

  OKAY, I'VE KEPT MY COOL LONG ENOUGH, NOW I'M GOING TO GET SHOUTY BECAUSE I LOVE THIS BOOK SO SO MUCH!

  3 Things I Loved

  Tourmaline and Virginia's friendship. There are a lot of YA stories with friendships in them, but this one is different. It's complicated. They don't always trust each other, or even like each other. But it endures, and they defy their families and their handlers to protect each other, and it was a joy to read.
  CASH. OKAY. THIS IS WHERE I'M GOING TO GET EXCITED. I loved Cash. I loved him from the very first page he appeared on, when he was cooking for the rest of the Wardens and we didn't even know his name. I loved that he actually talked about race dynamics with Tourmaline. I loved that he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps. I loved that he was college educated, and that he loved Tourmaline even though he wasn't supposed to, and that he protected her when she needed him but let her do her own thing when she needed that too. I want more Cash (with or without Tourmaline).
  Motorcycles. I've read a lot of books, but this is the first one that wrote about motorcycles in a way that made me feel it. That made me actually want one. I was blown away.
  PLEASE READ THIS QUOTE AND SWOON WITH ME:

  "You're a mountain road. Straightaways, sure but also curves that come back in on themselves and always threaten to wind around you, instead of you winding around them." -Cash
  Anything Problematic?

  I'll be honest - I was so engrossed in this book when I was reading it that I didn't pick up on anything problematic in the text. However, since finishing it and raving about it, I've read some reviews from people who really didn't like this book. They surprised me at first, but I get it. People had some issues with the age differences in the relationships - Cash is 23 to Tourmaline's 18, and Virginia is also 18 where Jason is 28. I understand that, looking back. It didn't bother me on the page, but yeah, these girls are barely out of high school. Also, Cash is black, and Weezie (a book blogger is respect a lot) pointed out that there was some fetishization happening in his relationship with Tourmaline. Since Done Dirt Cheap was written by a white female author, and Tourmaline (a white female) is the one telling the story, she makes it sound like she is irresistible, and that Cash would do anything to be with her, despite the consequences. This plays out more in the beginning - in the last half of the book, Cash is well aware of the consequences and confronts them head-on. This is why I follow other book bloggers - everyone's different perspectives force me to look more critically at the books I both love and disliked.

  As they say - everyone's faves are problematic.
  Rating

  A reminder of the rating scale:

  Red = DNF, I hated everything
  Orange = Ugh, no thank you
  Yellow = I mean, I've read worse, but there were problems
  Green = This was good, but not something I'd reread
  Blue = Oh my gosh, everyone should be reading this book
  Purple = This is the unicorn of books and I will be rereading it until the binding falls apart
  Even with the problems, I'm still going to give Done Dirt Cheap a BLUE rating. I'll be rereading this book, for sure, but it's not a unicorn. I haven't found that unicorn yet, I don't think. But some books have gotten close, and this is one of them (in my eyes).
  This advanced reader copy was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This has no bearing on my opinions - I would have loved this book no matter how I attained it, and have since purchased a copy.
  More motorcycle-riding women, please! That's what I have to say about YA.

  Happy reading!

  -A.
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  #Review: Done Dirt Cheap by Sarah Nicole Lemon
  February 28, 2017Maria Casacalenda (Big City Bookworm)
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  cover-reveal-done-dirt-cheap-largeDone Dirt Cheap

  Author: Sarah Nicole Lemon

  Publisher: Amulet Books

  Genre/Themes: YA Fiction, Contemporary

  Release Date: March 7th 2017

  Page Count: 336

  Format: eARC via NetGalley

  ISBN: 9781419723681

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  *Disclaimer* An ARC of Done Dirt Cheap was provided to me through NetGalley via the publisher. This does not effect my review in any way.

  Synopsis

  Tourmaline Harris’s life hit pause at fifteen, when her mom went to prison because of Tourmaline’s unintentionally damning testimony. But at eighteen, her home life is stable, and she has a strong relationship with her father, the president of a local biker club known as the Wardens. Virginia Campbell’s life hit fast-forward at fifteen, when her mom “sold” her into the services of a local lawyer: a man for whom the law is merely a suggestion. When Hazard sets his sights on dismantling the Wardens, he sends in Virginia, who has every intention of selling out the club—and Tourmaline. But the two girls are stronger than the circumstances that brought them together, and their resilience defines the friendship at the heart of this powerful debut novel.

  DNF @ 45%

  Done Dirt Cheap seemed like something I would love. It was advertised as Sons of Anarchy meets Thelma and Louise which sounds like the perfect recipe for a great story. Unfortunately, I just really couldn’t get into this novel. It’s a shame because based on reviews I’ve seen, it seems as though readers really enjoyed it and I’m disappointed that I didn’t feel the same way.

  I couldn’t connect with any of the characters and I spent a good chunk of the beginning of this novel just feeling confused about what I was reading. The story wasn’t going anywhere and I found myself starting to skim read which is never a good sign for me.

  Unfortunately this book just wasn’t for me personally. Hopefully I can come back to it one day with a different mindset. Part of my New Years Resolutions for 2017 was to be able to accept the fact that DNFing books is okay. It’s better to just stop instead of force yourself to continue reading. It’s a shame, but I’m just going to have to DNF this one.

  About The Author

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  Born and raised in the Appalachians, Sarah Nicole Lemon spent the first fifteen years of her life doing nothing but reading and playing outside, and has yet to outgrow either. When not writing, you can find her drinking iced coffee in a half-submerged beach chair near her home in southern Maryland.

  You can follow her on Twitter (@sarahnlemon), Instagram (sarahnicolelemon) and Tumblr (here).

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  Kelly
  FEBRUARY 28, 2017 AT 6:38 PM
  Yikes – sorry to hear that you didn’t like this one all that much. It’s a real bummer when you aren’t able to really connect to the characters in a book, and it can ruin the way you feel about a book! I’ve seen a lot of mixed reviews about this one, and while I was initially interested in it, I think I’ll be skipping it.

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  Release Date: March 7th 2017
  Publisher: Amulet Books
  Pages: 336
  Find it on: Amazon. Goodreads
  Source: Abrams and Chronicle kindly sent me a copy of this to review

  Synopsis:
  Tourmaline Harris’s life hit pause at fifteen, when her mom went to prison because of Tourmaline’s unintentionally damning testimony. But at eighteen, her home life is stable, and she has a strong relationship with her father, the president of a local biker club known as the Wardens.

  Virginia Campbell’s life hit fast-forward at fifteen, when her mom “sold” her into the services of a local lawyer: a man for whom the law is merely a suggestion. When Hazard sets his sights on dismantling the Wardens, he sends in Virginia, who has every intention of selling out the club—and Tourmaline. But the two girls are stronger than the circumstances that brought them together, and their resilience defines the friendship at the heart of this powerful debut novel.

  Review:
  Done Dirt Cheap was a book that really surprised me. I kind of expected a wild Son’s of Anarchy type of book full of biker gangs and crime, and while that was part of it, it was really so much more. The story of Tourmaline and Virginia and fascinating, two women sticking together despite the odds and defying the odds.

  I thought the characters were really striking and they’re what kept me hooked the whole way though the story. Tourmaline dealing with her mother’s imprisonment and her father’s secretive nature, as well as the fact that he’s the president of a biker gang. Then there’s Virginia, who has no real family and has to work for the local drug dealer in order to get by. I loved that these two characters didn’t really have anything in common, but they formed a friendship and they stuck together, no matter how tough things got.

  The book was fairly well paced, though I did feel it slowed down a little in the middle as Virginia and Tourmaline were trying to lie low. The ending did definitely have me on the edge of my seat, rooting for the two girls to succeed. The book has a very feminist style feel to it, with the two main protagonists taking action and going where they need to – they definitely don’t rely on the male characters to do their dirty work or save them.

  I also really loved the setting, with the beautiful American summer and the gleaming motorbikes. It really came alive, and I got completely sucked into the setting from my dreary Edinburgh surroundings. It features really strong and fierce women and it has everything from crime and trickery to romance. If you’re looking for a fun fast summer read about the friendship between two fantastic female characters, Done Dirt Cheap is exactly what you’re looking for.

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