Cover Reveal - Something of Substance By TIa Souders {Sneak Peek & Giveaway!}

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Title: Something of Substance

Author: Tia Souders

Publication Date: March 28th, 2018

Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary
Seventeen-year-old Grace Michaels is determined to be thin, even if she dies trying.

Part of the in-crowd at Providence High, she is steps away from being asked out by the most desired guy at school, winning a prom queen nomination, and her parents’ approval. If she can just get skinny enough, be pretty enough, and popular enough.

But Grace is thin on the outside and fat on the inside. No amount of weight-loss ever seems enough. Convinced the melting pounds will solve her problems, every pound lost brings her closer to her goals. But flesh and bone can only hide the weight of her secret for so long before it kills her.

Fans of the emotional and thought-provoking contemporary YA fiction, such as Before I Fall, Tell Me Three Things, and All The Bright Places will fall in love with Souder’s heart-wrenching novel, SOMETHING OF SUBSTANCE.
For a moment, I want to say to him all the things I’ve never spoken out loud. All the things I think about myself that I’ve never had the guts to voice before. I want to ask him if he ever feels like he’ll never be good enough. Like no matter what he does, how much weight he loses, or how much time he spends on trying to change who he is, he’ll never be the person people want him to be. Even if he does everything he can to be something—someone—in the end, it won’t even matter.


My acceptance will always be teetering on the edge because there will always be someone thinner, prettier, and better than me standing by to take my place.

The girl in the window blinks, staring back at me, and I want to take it one step further. Tell him I’m afraid. Of what people think of me. Of what I think of myself when I look in the mirror. Tell him I want to scream because no matter how popular I become, deep down, I’ll always be fat, unlovable Grace. The girl with the big legs and bad skin.
Tia Souders is the author of bestselling women’s fiction novel, Waiting On Hope and the upcoming award-winning young adult novel Better Than This (formerly titled Freedom Road). When she isn’t writing, she’s likely renovating their century home. She’s a wine-loving, coffeeholic, with a sweet tooth and resides on a farm in rural Ohio with her husband and children.

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  1. The topic of self image is critical, especially among our youth. Looking forward to reading this!

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    1. It definitely is but, unfortunately, most people haven't realized it yet!

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  2. This book sounds really good. I really want to read it eventually. Thanks for sharing.

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    1. It does sounds very interesting! Thanks for stopping by!

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  3. I think this is an important issue and still struggle with it myself. I am intrigued to read about how this character deals with this social and personal issue.

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