tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44507631410520862852024-03-17T23:02:50.313-04:00Two Chicks On BooksJaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.comBlogger2411125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-6695815358192367022024-03-13T03:00:00.025-04:002024-03-13T03:00:00.139-04:00Blog Tour- GODFELL by @xtophersebela & @Bennessy With Ben's Favorite TV Shows & Video Games & a #Giveaway! @thevaultcomics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhZzn8f0N_8pe4Pg4ecc4UKstxLMzIeps6F110xPCunPS0SOLE9UHvhIWP93d_vbwyhM7iGMSmfZhcAFUNIxDKtB8rovBzt7Fh5i6RwH8n88ur4vPNB-ZunSEe7jmZciWTlcT0n88F4g8U3FxmTQQcut4lysxVR6NS7kh4TL56clzLTi82c4uOF_JihCpj/s16000/GODFELL.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the GODFELL: The Complete Series by Chris Sebela & Ben Hennessy Blog
Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar
Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk160789151"></a><a name="_Hlk102122569"></a><a name="_Hlk153796546"></a><a name="_Hlk155605327"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/GODFELL-The-Complete-Series" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR9HxCRnFxcwzbw2C9kGAW9tbmR9GZds9rtEGFctEzbWNTnB_2RfXanC_So-dTYNf2Vzpd6yqAbnDJ-HV9uhS9ClC0i_07GcRJh3_fD7tdELER7PYiaprjY4RfSzeVxNht5pCXka5nQ-8ECjhXy_IFP4_iHwWJFEb4zBwAKKj3tNQoaTJf2yQVUHOrRXvP/w261-h400/GODFELL%20The%20Complete%20Series.jpg" width="261" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> GODFELL: The Complete Series<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Authors: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chris Sebela & Ben Hennessy (Illustrator)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> March 19, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Vault Comics<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 192<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176442853-godfell"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/GODFELL-The-Complete-Series"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/GODFELL-The-Complete-Series</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">XENA Warrior Princess</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> meets <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> in <i>GODFELL:
The Complete Series</i>, where the sudden appearance of a dead god who falls to
Earth sets off a chain reaction of events for control of the world in this
woman warrior-led, high fantasy adventure.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160789151;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
<b>God is dead. Who’s next?</b><br />
<br />
One sunny day in the land of Kerethim, God falls dead from the sky. The impact
sends out shockwaves that draw in royal families at war, shadowy creatures of
the dark, and armies of the dispossessed, all coming to lay claim to parts of
God's body. Into this power struggle wanders Zanzi Vuiline, a soldier and
berserker trying to get home from a years-long war. Forced to fight her way
through the strange landscapes in and on God's corpse, from the soles of its
feet through the top of its head, Zanzi will acquire a mysterious traveling
companion on her own pilgrimage.<br />
<br />
<b><i>GODFELL: The Complete Series</i></b> tells the story of a fierce
warrior woman tired of war and her traveling companion with her own reasons for
war weariness – and revenge. These two forces of nature are on a journey to
find their way back home – and to themselves. Written by Eisner Award-nominated
author Chris Sebela and illustrations by rising star artist Ben Hennessy.<br />
<br />
For fans of: <i>Xena: Warrior Princess, Monstress</i> (Liu/Takeda), <i>Red
Sonja, Barbaric</i> (Moreci/Gooden), <i>Queen of Swords </i>(Moreci/Howell/Gooden), <i>Briar,
Step By Bloody Step, The Witcher, Rat Queens, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr,
Die, Coda, Seven to Eternity, Isola</i>, and <i>Elf Quest</i>.<br />
</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
“<i>Godfell</i> is a big, savage blast of legendary warrior fiction. It
has a brilliant premise, striking artwork and fascinating protagonists.” – <b>Eoin
Colfer</b> (<i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of: <i>Artemis
Fowl, The Supernaturalist, The Wish List, The Fowl Twins, Highfire, Illegal,
W.A.R.P., Ironman: The Gauntlet, Doctor Who: A Big Hand for the Doctor,</i> and
more! )<br />
<br />
“<i>Godfell</i> is that rare idea that makes me upset I didn’t hatch it
myself: an axe-swinging yet soulful journey into the mysteries of the physical
realm — and beyond.” — <b>Daniel Kraus</b> (<i>New York Times</i> bestselling
author of:<i> The Shape of Water, Whalefall, The Teddies Saga, The Death
and Life of Zebulon Finch, Trollhunters, THE AUTUMNAL</i> (Vault
Comics), <i>THE CEMETERIANS</i> (Vault Comics), and more!)<br />
<br />
"<i>Godfell</i> is completely sweeping me away with its Odysseus-like
journey home through beautiful landscapes, with a rich lore and compelling
characters. It holds mysteries I can't wait to see resolved but I'll enjoy the
path as patiently as I can. A brilliant work by the creators!" - <b>Nora
Twomey</b> (award-winning animator, director, screenwriter, producer and voice
actress. Known for: <i>Wolfwalkers, My Father’s Dragon, The Breadwinner,
The Secret of Kells</i>)<br />
<br />
“Fantasy doesn't get more epic than this! The mother of all quests begins
here!” -<b>Cavan Scott</b> (<i>New York Times bestselling</i> author and
screenwriter: <i>Star Wars: The High Republic, Shadow Service, Doctor Who,
Sherlock Holmes, 2000 A.D</i>.)<br />
<br />
"<i>Godfell</i> ushers in an exciting new fantasy comic that is
electrifying and dynamic with a magnetic woman warrior on a mysterious journey.
Sebela takes well-worn genre beats and makes it his own. Wonderfully
illustrated and eloquently written, <i>Godfell</i> is a godsend.
10/10– <b>Lotusland Comics</b><br />
<br />
“… recommend picking this up if you’re a fan of fantasy adventures in weird
worlds such as <i>The Last Airbender.</i>” – <b><i>Sequential Planet<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">BEN
HENNESSY Guest Post:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Series
(TV/Streaming)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></li>
</ul>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Band of Brothers – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">one of those perfect shows, I think editing this in
anyway would only ever result in it making it a lesser product. From the
script, the cinematography, to the performances, you name it they nailed it
here.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">The last of Us – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">I loved this, another HBO gem. The casting, the
deviations from the game, all of it just added to the canon established in the
game. Can’t wait for S2! I actually covered this series in depth on a podcast I
host with a friend of mine called THE ODDS POD. If post-apocalyptic life is
something you’re into, our podcast is right up your alley.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Samurai Jack – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">It’s so enjoyable and always visually stunning. The
Shinobi v Jack episode is a masterclass in visual storytelling. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Arcane – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">this is one of the standout shows of the last number
of years for me. Just like Band of Brothers they just got everything right here
in every part of production.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Breaking Bad – This should
be studied by everyone making any kind <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Kingdom – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">a medieval political drama with a zombie outbreak,
I’m in.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">The Black Donnellys – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">I WISH there was a season 2 of this. I know too much
time has passed to go and do a season 2 now, but if the creators really wanted
to I’m sure the Donnelly family story could transition well to a graphic novel.
I put myself forward as artist for the series! Ha!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Blue Eye’d Samurai – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">If you haven’t seen this you need to. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Cowboy bebop – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">It’s so good I don’t think any show will ever be as
cool as the anime<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">The Bear – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">It’s one of the strongest shows out there, just look
at all the awards and nominations it has.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Andor – This </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">might actually be the best Star Wars since Star
Wars.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Video
Games<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></li>
</ul>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Gears of War – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">more monster movie type stuff, I reckon there’s a
bit of theme here! Ha!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">The Witcher 3: the Wild Hunt
– </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">I lost myself in this game for a while, I can’t
recommend it enough! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rime – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">this is just a beautiful game that deals with some
big topics in a way that make them teachable and digestible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Skyrim – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Another game you can get lost in. It can be whatever
experience your after from the fantasy genre.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">The Last of Us – </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">One of the best zombie survival stories out there<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Does
GODFELL have a playlist? If so, can you share each of yours?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Ha! It sure does! I was listening to,<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">SLAYER’s</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> God hates us all <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">The MANIC STREET PREACHERS</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"> Holy Bible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">TOO MANY ZOOS </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">Brasshouse Vol 1 Survival of
the flyest<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">METALLICA </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">master of puppets because of
course!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Is
there anything else you’d like to share with readers/tour participants?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></li>
</ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">During the month of March on the run up to the
release of GODFELL I’ll be doing live streams on my twitch channel (I’m
<a href="https://www.twitch.tv/bennessy10" target="_blank">Bennessy10</a> there). I’ll be drawing GODFELL characters, our heroes, the villains
especially my favourite ones.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Chris Sebela:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.christophersebela.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYYrSdXd-TZ-fhlMdcq7Al3k0HL0krHBdp3mdADsyNF9x5uncsOL7EJd4NT8tIuB04Iecw0QTzpFqpaa4bFctRAA1N5e1tS3wvFDDFrawItiRB46up2CvBdPPr19iknpBUtjUrWbxSwEVwtHK-wJfNeJY3oOh_Gyme_nxz72ZRBcqc2xtB8tpVnsaA9_Wg/s320/Christopher-Sebela.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Christopher Sebela</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> is a four-time Eisner-nominated writer who has
co-created over twenty comics titles such as <b><i>GODFELL</i></b> and <b><i>TEST</i></b><i> </i>(Vault
Comics), <i>Blink, .Self, Crowded, Shanghai Red, Dirtbag Rapture,
Heartthrob, We(l)come Back</i> and others. He also writes journalism,
prose fiction and assembles zines about a variety of subjects — including
having once lived in a clown-themed motel for 30 days. He lives in Portland,
Oregon with the best dog in the world and is currently dreaming of one day
living on a boat.<br />
He is based in Portland, OR<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.christophersebela.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Website</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/xtophersebela"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/xtop/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | <a href="https://xtop.substack.com/">Substack</a> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/37607.Tim_Seeley"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Goodreads</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3wItUBP"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://bennessy.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="368" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu9ueyOzq8uPqRJdQPLhiNyH-PHBJrqVma3-Whiy7hQCyWr01yBVT8d78FM3M_7GnT24Tqlu4GRZfGv8AsOswOgz5CFcOVITfD5Uj4V99fXmNVFvJuQUuXz-haXWye0CgSeMoSxYTyEqpALJccsM-dkrErhqGQPqr1R2D8g0wMmfsib1Cdxi1EMmsj3oFe/s320/Ben%20Hennessy.png" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Ben Hennessy:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben Hennessy is an Irish-based illustrator and podcaster. He
has primarily worked as a storyboard artist in the animation industry and he
has worked on shows for RTE jr, Cbeebies, Nickelodeon, PBS and Adult Swim. He
co-hosts THE ODDS POD, a podcast where he discusses all things apocalyptic with
guests from the film and comic book industries. His comic book titles
include <i>The ODDS</i> and the fantasy epic <i>GODFELL.</i><br />
<br />
Ben works and lives at home with his family in Wexford, the sunny south east of
Ireland. When you can't find him there, you can find him online as @Bennessy.<br />
He is based in Wexford, Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://bennessy.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Website</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Bennessy"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> |
</span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/bennessy/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@bennessystik">TikTok</a>
| </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BennessysArt"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Facebook</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6433607.Ben_Hennessy">Goodreads</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2 winners
will receive finished copies of GODFELL: The Complete Series, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends April
9th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.comicbookyeti.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Comic Book Yeti</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://darkfantasyreviews.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@darkfantasyreviews</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.twochicksonbooks.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Two Chicks on Books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://bookreviewvirginialee.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Blog Spotlight/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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Spotlight</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://fireandicereads.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Fire
and Ice Reads</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Three:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Four:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">T.L. Simpson<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> March 12, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">North Star Editions<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 224<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178619792-strong-like-you"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/STRONG-LIKE-YOU"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/STRONG-LIKE-YOU</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157939802;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160799612;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160801488;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">I haven’t cried one time since you
disappeared. Not even at football practice when Paton Roper told the whole team
you were probably dead. He said, “You know how sometimes a dog gets sick or
bites somebody and you have to put it down?”</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Somebody said, “Yep.”</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">“That’s probably what happened to
Walker’s daddy.”</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Walker Lauderdale hasn’t cried once
since his daddy went missing. And even though everyone says he’s dead, Walker
won’t give up hope. He knows his father is out there, somewhere, cutting a wild
trail through the Ozarks like always. But when a relative threatens to kick
Walker and his momma out of the family home, Walker realizes he has no choice
but to look for his daddy—a search that leads him straight to a drug-addled and
dangerous man named Lukas Fisher. While attempting to balance life as a normal
fifteen-year-old boy and star player on the football team, Walker begins a
desperate search across the hills of the Ozarks for the man who, for better or
worse, taught him everything he knows about strength.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160874407;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Reviews:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Strong Like
You is an engaging novel in which a high school football star is forced to
confront his ideas of manhood and forge better ones.”<i> —Foreword Reviews</i><br />
<br />
“The book explores masculinity, with Walker having a heartening insight near
the end, when he realizes that with the right help, people can learn better
than they were taught.” <i>—Kirkus Reviews</i><br />
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“A serious look at the legacy and impact of violence, especially around the
toxic culture of football, along with a compassionate view of the struggle and
frequent hopelessness of rural poverty, the novel makes for a compelling read
with a mixed but ultimately hopeful conclusion. Recommended for libraries
serving middle and high schoolers.” <i>—School Library Journal</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">T.L Talks Music for STRONG LIKE YOU:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Music is central to my writing
process, so a playlist for my debut contemporary YA novel STRONG LIKE YOU was a
no-brainer, even before I had any clue the story would be published.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Strong Like You follows
15-year-old Walker Lauderdale on a desperate search across the Ozarks for his
father, the man who—for better or worse—taught him everything he knows about
strength.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Before writing the book, I began
aggregating music to immerse myself in. I knew I wanted a country soundtrack,
but I didn't want anything overly commercial or radio-friendly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Ozark Gothic, Pawns or Kings<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I stumbled across this song late
one night on a journey down the YouTube rabbit hole. Ozark Gothic's gloomy and
downtrodden vibe is exactly what I imagined for my characters in Strong Like
You. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The opening lines resonate,
"They say nothing good would ever come out of those hills, just the meth
and the rot, guns and the pills."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It's no secret there's a drug
problem festering in the hills of the Ozarks, and that's the backdrop behind
Walker's journey.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpp7qEimNS0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpp7qEimNS0</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Morse Code, Elle Cordova<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have probably listened to this
song more than any other song on my playlist. It's not exactly country, but
it's folksy. It's a realization that the person you love no longer loves you.
It hurts and is beautiful at the same time.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBcr4LMF3mc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBcr4LMF3mc</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lady May, Tyler Childers<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Tyler had to turn up somewhere on
this list. There's a particular line in this song that always makes me think of
Walker. "Now I ain't the toughest hickory that your axe has ever fell, but
I'm a hickory just as well...I'm a hickory all the same."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;">Walker's journey deals with his
coming to terms with what it means to be strong. At the beginning of the story,
he'd never admit such a line as the one above. But I think by the end he might.</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQp5xqs6-ww">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQp5xqs6-ww</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Pay No Rent, Turnpike Troubadours<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Turnpike Troubadours' song Pay No
Rent reminds me of the relationship between Walker and his father. Walker's
father is perhaps not worthy of admiration, but Walker admires him anyway. A
kid loves his father because he doesn't know any better. If Walker was the
singing type, he might croon, "In my heart, you pay no rent" to his
daddy.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sieOSRVQh3Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sieOSRVQh3Q</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Sonho Dourado, Daniel Lanois<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I first heard this song in the
same place I think most people know it from—Friday Night Lights. The
instrumental guitar piece is played in the final moments of the film when it is
clear Permian won't win the state championship, as the kids pull themselves off
the ground after the defeat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I was a sports reporter for almost
a decade. I've been on the field during a lot of these moments. Kids cry. And
you might think it's only sports. But a great deal of effort, expectation and
love goes into reaching that moment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It hurts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And that's okay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This song hits me in the gut every
time I listen to it.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50jlau88lw8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50jlau88lw8</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Stranger to Myself, Gravedancer<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Gravedancer is an Arkansas artist
with some really heartfelt Ozarkian music. Stranger to Myself is about the
struggle just to exist after experiencing trauma. In the song's case, it's the
singer's struggle with PTSD. "Can someone f–k me up with your fists or
with your drugs?" is the kind of mindset the world can bake into a kid
like Walker.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybTMgPRwBs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybTMgPRwBs</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Dust in a Baggie, Billy Strings<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Pretty self-explanatory. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"This life of sin has got me
in/ well, it's got me back in prison once again/ I used my only phone call to
contact my Daddy/ I got 20 long years for some dust in a baggy."<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It's Walker's father's anthem.
Plus Billy Strings can flat out play the guitar.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qan4VRikfz8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qan4VRikfz8</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Old Time Feeling (Like Before), Turnpike Troubadours<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This song has a certain
hopefulness I hope comes across in Strong Like You. The world Walker inhabits
is tough as nails, and he endures some real hardship, but I never wanted the
story to to be bleak. It's a rough world out there, but there's beauty, love
and joy to be found. Old Time Feeling is about asking forgiveness. It’s about
making the same mistakes over and over again. But it is also about nostalgia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If you ask me, football is tangled
up in nostalgia for much of America. Our fathers, fathers played it. We played
it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It’s also wrapped up in the South
and the Ozarks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Neither can be nor should be
without criticism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But what can I say? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It is not perfect here. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Far from it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But the nostalgia goggles are
powerful.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Things can get better. Surely they
can.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqp29kU_lVI"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqp29kU_lVI</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For the complete playlist, check
out the Spotify playlist:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5tD45lOXXDqQtklMBhStjl?si=2ab2da294c134115">https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5tD45lOXXDqQtklMBhStjl?si=2ab2da294c134115</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">About T.L. Simpson</span>:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://tlsimpson.net/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3776" data-original-width="2832" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuRIfIUG6vGPm4A_rCErnzwvJ8RcqHYT6pSPxLpQ78lQtdQRKkh0Kl1WyL21udF5qxSx7wK0R1EpAP2INEq9WwTYnLEShg-0inXM9HZEmx-1oDUspV_p5wvQGF5DOviD2HWGBt5GXJ98r3FF_sx_KLdYWrToavNx0EvQrt3eGZ9-VM5K6NSf4OTuQxYdeO/s320/Travis%20Headshots-5.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">T. L. Simpson is an award-winning
journalist and editor of the Courier, a newspaper in his hometown of
Russellville, Arkansas. Simpson spent nearly ten years covering high school and
collegiate sports before taking over as editor. During that time, he was also
the paper’s primary crime reporter. In a lot of ways, Strong Like You is the
result of his experiences with covering both. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://tlsimpson.net/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Website</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | <a href="https://twitter.com/trvsimpson">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tlsimpson21/">Facebook</a> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/word_factory21/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@word_factory21">TikTok</a> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/36881873.T_L_Simpson"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Goodreads</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3Iwzqug"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">1 winner will receive a finished copy of STRONG LIKE YOU, US
Only.</span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends March 26th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-26936040857754167492024-03-07T03:00:00.002-05:002024-03-07T03:00:00.188-05:00Cover Reveal- THE THIEF OF TIME by @ViviBarnes, @ChristinaFarley & #AmyChristineParker With An Excerpt & $25 Gift Card #Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmtSqtEkoYoTGwvnSh3gz1_NCr9sJYBK_3Rc_ESXSs_uru1PUUMlpEdK_vCmTFoSxqmAabzSJy82zIOkFvJE08tfrn07SBmGD7X1M6RSLm2sPLLB8LWWCjEsv8FEUgWU93LPw023IN_i46E8L9fAbu7peMTyJLZXSb5xG8UyWuGWH8Ome-zA5kCfGImQ7F/s16000/COVER%20REVEAL.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today Vivi Barnes, Christina
Farley, and Amy Christine Parker and </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> are
revealing the cover for THE THIEF OF TIME, their new middle grade contemporary fantasy
book which releases May 7, 2024! Check out the awesome cover and enter the
giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On to the reveal!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3V7doFY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3825" data-original-width="2475" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9xJIdKTa5APIuHT5GLpfnK0Bhc1sDgD-ckFpYNcBb0e7Gnjo-HX_vcUTZ6cKEeu5Iesg0m5e96dmUbFZwkXNhCCrwqI_NheW6IcIOySgzaRUD7VauJf9Pwpv-nIsrUoky-mChU4idlg7S63PcTIl7IyQtwuT4kV-pd2rF4Nw5JWfbT818UVXw5jNTvZL/w414-h640/Thief%20of%20Time%20fullcolor%20P2_%20Cool%20Cropped_title%20copy%20(1).jpg" width="414" /></span></a></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk160614854"></a><a name="_Hlk101517841"></a><a name="_Hlk109641341"></a><a name="_Hlk118108087"></a><a name="_Hlk119244074"></a><a name="_Hlk123038795"></a><a name="_Hlk125450106"></a><a name="_Hlk133405784"></a><a name="_Hlk134099367"></a><a name="_Hlk143522103"></a><a name="_Hlk149132729"></a><a name="_Hlk158897712"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> THE
THIEF OF TIME (The Library of Alexandria Series #1)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Vivi
Barnes, Christina Farley, and Amy Christine Parker<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> May
7, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Infinity
House Creative<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover, Paperback,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/209412307-the-thief-of-time"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3V7doFY"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">“<i>The Thief of Time</i> is a
thrilling contemporary fantasy that will steal your breath away. Chock full of
complex world building and magic that springs from the power of story, this
book will definitely keep young readers turning pages.”—Polly Holyoke,
Award-winning author</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<b>Unleash the Magic…</b><br />
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THE THIEF OF TIME is an exciting middle-grade contemporary fantasy adventure
that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the realms of magic,
friendship, and self-discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">On a visit to their local library,
Ben, Bridgette, and Maya unwittingly unleash a dragon from an ancient book and
find themselves fighting for their lives against a swarm of evil birds. They
battle to escape with the help of the dragon and are whisked through a portal
into the magical Great Library of Alexandria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Once they pass the Trials and prove
themselves worthy, they are invited to become students at Helicon Academy.
There they train to become librarians for the Library of Alexandria, protecting
books and the magical artifacts within.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben, Bridgette, and Maya fall in love
with the story-themed dinners, fantastical animals, and fictional characters
roaming the halls. But when they discover a dark and sinister mystery within
the academy’s halls, the three must embark on a quest to protect the library
and preserve the fabric of time itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160614854;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">REVIEWS:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">"Every so often, you read a book with a fictional place
that is so full of magic and so full of wonder that you want to live there
forever -- the library in <i>The Thief of Time</i> is such a place. You're in
for a treat!" —Sarah Beth Durst, award-winning author of <i>Spark</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">What a ride! <i>The Thief of Time</i> whisks readers from the
immortal Library of Alexandria to adventures across the globe. Maya, Ben, and
Bridgette kept me reading to the very end! —Sarah McGuire, author of <i>Flight
of Swans </i>and <i>Valiant</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">We all know books are magic, but in <i>The Thief of Time</i>,
they are beyond our expectations! This adventure jumps right in with our
protagonists facing an adventure, both physically and mentally, unlike any
other I've read. Fans of Land of Stories and magical school books are going to
devour this new twist on what it means to truly get into a book. —Kellee Moye,
librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Excerpt:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Chapter 1<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Polly Definitely Doesn’t Want a Cracker<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The first weird thing Ben noticed was the birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Clustered in bushes around the front of the library, they
watched with unblinking beady red eyes as he made his way up the steps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“To be, or not to be…gone!” he said loudly, clapping his
hands at a pair that was preening on the steps in front of the door. They
hopped only a few inches away and fixed Ben with a baleful stare. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben shook his head. Here he was, quoting <i>Hamlet</i> at
creepy birds and returning an almost-overdue book on a Friday night when there
were probably ten end-of-summer parties going on—or at least two that he was
invited to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He yanked the door open and stepped inside. Mr. Lozano, who’d
been the town librarian ever since Ben could remember, was scanning barcodes
from a tall stack of books.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Hey, Mr. Lozano.” Ben slid his book across the counter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Mr. Lozano caught the book and added it to the stack. “Just
under the wire, Benjamin. Your dad wouldn’t be happy to come pay another late
fee.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I know.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Mr. Lozano picked up a magnifying glass to peer at the book.
With the plaid bow tie and pencil mustache, Ben thought he looked more like a
Scotland Yard detective than a librarian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Mr. Lozano peeled off the outside cover that was titled
“Practical Science.” Ben inwardly groaned. He meant to remove that before
returning it. Underneath the cover was a copy of Shakespeare’s <i>Hamlet</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Mr. Lozano sighed. “Your father still giving you a hard
time?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben shrugged. His father was a surgeon and thought Ben should
be studying math and science, not “farting around with theater and poetry,” as
he liked to say. It was just easier for Ben to pretend he was more scientific
than he was. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">His mom would’ve understood him better. Not a day went by
where he didn’t think about her and wish she was with him again, reading
Shakespeare’s sonnets like she did when he was little. The gentle lilt of her
voice always lulled him to sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I know what you’re going to say,” Ben said. “I’ll talk to
him again, and—” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Mr. Lozano, that astronomy book isn’t here,” a girl
announced as she walked up and set a stack of books on the counter. She looked
familiar, maybe from school. She wore an old Texas Rangers baseball T-shirt and
had a short mop of auburn curls, pale skin, and thick round glasses that made
her green eyes seem extra-large.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">She shrugged her oversized military-looking green backpack
off her shoulders and plopped it on the counter next to the books. “It was due
five days ago. I’ve been on the waiting list forever.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I’m sorry, Bridgette. I’m sure the person will bring it back
soon.” Mr. Lozano glanced at the clock over the desk. “Unfortunately, the
library’s closing so I can’t help you find something else right now.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Can’t you call them? Fill out a police report or something?”
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Excuse me.” Someone with two long dark braids squeezed
between Ben and Bridgette, her hands cupped around a small ball of fur. A
volunteer badge was clipped to the sleeve of her light blue shirt. “Mr. Lozano,
I think Griffin’s sick. I’m really worried about him.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">This girl Ben knew. Everyone knew Maya Friedman, who moved
here last summer from Israel and within a month of their sixth-grade year
became one of the most popular kids at Harrison Middle. Her braids had kind of
become her trademark. Ben hated to admit he was jealous, but no matter how many
times he’d styled his sandy blond hair or even dyed it, he’d failed to get a
trademark “look.” This girl showed up with two long braids and perfectly tanned
olive skin and everyone was like <i>whoooooaaaa</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Who’s Griffin?” Ben asked. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“One of the library’s animals.” She held up a small ball of
brown fluff. “Does he look a little lethargic to you?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Bridgette shrank away. “Keep it away!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Maya pulled it to her chest protectively. “He’s just a little
guinea pig. He won’t hurt you.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I know.” Bridgette pushed her glasses up the bridge of her
nose. “Its scientific name is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cavia
porcellus</i>.” Her face flushed as Ben stared at her. “I read a lot.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Poor Griffin,” Maya cooed to the ball of fluff. “That girl
didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Bridgette frowned. “I didn’t mean to hurt his feelings. I’ve
just never been near one before.” She reached out and awkwardly patted its tiny
head with one finger. “Good boy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Maya smiled at her, then glanced at Ben. “I think I know you
from English class. Ben, right?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben nodded. “You’re Maya.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“And I’m Bridgette,” Bridgette said from the other side of
Maya. “I mean, if anyone wanted to know,” she added softly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“No one wants to know,” another voice piped in. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben cringed as the awful Davey Singleton swaggered over with
a group of his friends. Davey had been Ben’s nemesis ever since Ben was cast as
the lead in the third-grade rendition of <i>A Midsummer Night’s Dream</i> and
ended up with a terrible case of stage fright, puking all over a kid in a tree
costume. Davey took over the role for the rest of the show and still delighted
in tormenting Ben about it. Worse, he seemed to beat out Ben for every lead
role since then.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Awww look, it’s Shakes<i>fear</i>,” Davey said. “Library’s
closing, Shakes<i>fear</i>. Go barf somewhere else.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben rolled his eyes. “Hang in there, Davey. One day, maybe
you’ll actually come up with something original.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Hey, Maya, you going to Drew’s party?” one of the girls in
the group asked. “Davey’s ditching but you should come.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Maya brightened. “Sure, after I close up here.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“And, um, change shoes?” the girl said as she stared at
Maya’s scuffed black combat boots. “Where’d you get those?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Maya’s face reddened. “My aunt gave them to me when we left
Israel.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben got the feeling she never wore those boots in front of
her friends. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Sorry, you’re not invited,” the girl said to Bridgette as
she and her friends walked out the door, laughing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Like I was interested anyway,” Bridgette mumbled, looking
away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Lozano, we have to leave,” Davey said. “When are you going
to kick these nobodies out of here?” He pushed through the half-door of the
counter and came back with a brown leather suitcase.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Where are you going?” Ben asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“None of your business.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“We’re fine, we’re fine.” Mr. Lozano glanced again at the
clock. “We have ten minutes.” He nodded at Ben, Bridgette, and Maya. “You kids
head home now. <a name="_Int_PEsLsyli">Library</a> is closed. Maya, thank you
for taking such great care of the animals. And Bridgette, tomorrow maybe I can
help—" <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A loud crack sounded outside of the library. Everyone jumped.
Bridgette squealed and pushed closer to Ben, who was rubbing his ringing ears. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“What was that?” Maya said, cradling the chirping Griffin
close. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Lightning?” Ben suggested. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“It’s not even raining,” Bridgette pointed out. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Quiet.” Lozano held up a hand, frowning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Something dark moved against the frosted glass of the front
door. Ben heard tiny scratching and tapping noises, which got louder and louder
until it sounded like hundreds of birds were trying to claw their way through
the door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben covered his ears, his heart leaping into his throat as
the birds shrieked and screamed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Mr. Lozano yanked open the door to the circulation desk.
“Everyone, get behind the counter.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Don’t have to tell me twice!” Davey pushed through the
opening, almost knocking Bridgette over with his suitcase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Another crash sounded at the door and more dark figures shot
past the frosted windowpane, bird silhouettes with feathers and crooked bills
that almost looked like creepy noses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The door wobbled and shook as if someone was trying to get
inside but didn’t know how to use the handle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Mr. Lozano yelled into his phone, “They’re here! I don’t know
how. We need an R.E.R. team now!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He gestured to Ben and the others. “Gather round and take
hands. Now.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">More banging at the door. Davey kept his hands on his
suitcase. Bridgette grabbed Ben’s hand, her eyes wide with fear. He squeezed
hers with a reassurance he didn’t really feel and felt Maya take his other one.
He really hoped his palms weren’t sweaty. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Lozano glanced at the clock. “Hold on. And…now!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Everyone watched as Mr. Lozano stepped one foot into the
empty wastebasket next to the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">And waited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Mr. Lozano pulled his foot out of the basket, then stepped in
again. And again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben cleared his voice. “Um, Mr. Lozano, you okay?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The librarian grabbed the phone, beads of sweat breaking out
across his forehead. “It isn’t working. We need a car!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">With a loud smash, the glass in the door shattered, and large
black birds with creepy red eyes started clawing their way through the window
with long, almost fingerlike talons. Ben yelped and Bridgette screamed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Into my office!” Lozano yelled as a flurry of black feathers
cascaded over them. “I’ll handle this.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The kids scrambled into Mr. Lozano’s office and slammed the
door behind them as birds thumped against its frosted glass. A single black
feather floated in. Ben grabbed it and shoved it in his pocket. “That’s one
less feather you’ll have to fight with,” he yelled at the door, not caring how
weird he sounded. This whole thing was terrifyingly weird. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben turned around, realizing he’d never been in Lozano’s
office before. It was like something from another century—old bookshelves,
weird telescope-looking things, and ancient leather-bound books piled on a
table. A low humming sound seemed to be coming from them. Ben rubbed his
ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Screeching from right outside the office made Ben forget all
about the humming. The birds hurled against the window. <i>Thump! Thump! Thump!
</i>The glass started to crack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“We need to hide.” Bridgette yanked her backpack onto her
shoulders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Behind there!” Ben ran to the heavy oak desk on the far
wall. Bridgette and Maya followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Davey crouched behind a plush chair near the door, clutching
his suitcase. “Make them go away,” he whimpered. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A crash sounded on the other side of the door. Ben clamped
his eyes shut, hoping Mr. Lozano was okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Griffin!” Maya cried out. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben opened his eyes to see the guinea pig running at top
speed toward a crack in the wall. Maya started after him, but Ben grabbed her
arm. “He’ll be fine. We need to stay together.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The square glass window in the door shattered. Davey threw
his hands over his head as the birds flew directly at him. His screams pierced
the air. Ben gritted his teeth together. No matter how awful Davey was, Ben
couldn’t just hide like a coward while birds were trying to kill him. This
wasn’t a third-grade play. This was real.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“We have to help him. Distract the birds,” Ben told Maya and
Bridgette.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“How?” cried Bridgette. “It’s not like we have bird seed.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Hey!” Maya called out, standing up and waving her arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“What are you doing?” Bridgette yelled at her as birds flew
toward them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ben crawled across the floor to Davey, where a bird was
flapping over his head, poking him with its beak. He grabbed Davey’s suitcase
and threw it at the bird. The bird dodged it, shrieking. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Hey, that’s expensive,” Davey cried out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“So’s our lives!” Ben yelled as more birds converged around
them. He grasped for the nearest book, an ancient one with a dragon etched into
the leather and the imprint of a harp-looking instrument stamped on it. Ben
flung it at the birds. The book landed with a thud on the ground, open.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Everything went completely still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A gust of wind whooshed through the broken window and caught
the pages, turning them fast and then faster. The humming he heard earlier grew
louder in his ears. Ben gasped as sparks flew out of the pages like sparklers
on the Fourth of July. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A column of fire-red flame shot up from the book. Something
huge, red, and terrifying burst from the center of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOOYQp0a9IW2iqy7Hf78WSmd-HwcLQyLXCj2EZw4GWWnDpnNWJXTWzxXUwNXRQsVlVH4tUAlOw71Lra-rVMukCMmJvJppPtpYOZjd_hYrRJfK4eerqMeqVFw-26luSWwny0RA13J0rr3EDyWgOiRG5jvDBGZLMdlJkqEkDQoZk7xC47Q4laGvL4GDlOuUo/s404/Authors%20Photo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="270" data-original-width="404" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOOYQp0a9IW2iqy7Hf78WSmd-HwcLQyLXCj2EZw4GWWnDpnNWJXTWzxXUwNXRQsVlVH4tUAlOw71Lra-rVMukCMmJvJppPtpYOZjd_hYrRJfK4eerqMeqVFw-26luSWwny0RA13J0rr3EDyWgOiRG5jvDBGZLMdlJkqEkDQoZk7xC47Q4laGvL4GDlOuUo/w400-h268/Authors%20Photo.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About <a name="_Hlk160613989">Vivi Barnes, Christina Farley,
and Amy Christine Parker</a>:<br /><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk160613138"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Vivi Barnes, Christina Farley, and
Amy Christine Parker </span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">are
best friends who bonded over their love of telling stories and going on
adventures. They live in sunny Central Florida with their families, where
inspiration is just a beach day away. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">SOCIAL MEDIA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-35906759622528228372024-03-05T03:00:00.004-05:002024-03-05T03:00:00.133-05:00Release Day Blitz- RISE OF THE MELODY by @Wendy_Higgins With An Excerpt & A #Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn-8JAqZSSuT0wKCWy0BZgf_yorQmAj0w08NtsJ6-I0-alqzsRZ1pBhzsUo-FKUj99Eh_fQOp_ACDp1HVeIHEtgymLqzx70Ekqh7PDK75_KL5bBCEJB-QlRLP-KGC3C_f6ee8wbWPsTOToHc6uJr8FpzMSKj28MeP4JEvvGpoE4aDtgvFfOYoK5CidqsCv/s16000/RISE%20OF%20THE%20MELODY.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am so excited that <b>RISE OF THE
MELODY </b>by Wendy Higgins is available now and that I get to share the news!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you haven’t yet heard about this
wonderful book, be sure to check out all the details below. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This blitz also includes a giveaway
for a signed copy of the book & swag courtesy of Wendy & </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. So if
you’d like a chance to win, check out the giveaway info below.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk160444940"></a><a name="_Hlk101517841"></a><a name="_Hlk109641341"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/RISE-OF-THE-MELODY" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1667" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrxc_ceFWR2lDgTRF7BWDBIhteLLxlEhPuMzHt6QFEFpxuniaQQicMxaMag_BOoXhBFgB2KpQFKxPtYrCCkU-JdB81NanHUNVi2BZhUK0T_mFPN68Rw_Hpa1Z6kYbTr730-UiNuGpHweHkgcOLzCWl71CWdrsvP4HI1Ihrj9CPKaQ43f6wdVCq3Y_RjT-i/w266-h400/RiseOfTheMelody_Higgins_Amazon.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> RISE OF THE MELODY<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wendy
Higgins<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> March 5, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wendy
Higgins<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 290<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200991308-rise-of-the-melody"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/RISE-OF-THE-MELODY"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/RISE-OF-THE-MELODY</span></span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">From the <i>New York Times</i> and <i>USA
Today</i> bestselling author of the YA paranormal <i>Sweet Evil</i> series
comes a modern fantasy romance of mystery with Celtic and Gaelic mythology.<br />
<br />
Seventeen-year-old Colette “Letty” MacIntyre has everything going for her: a
great life with her Aunt Lorna in Brooklyn, a promising singing career, and
enough distractions to forget the tragic disappearance of her parents. She’s
banking on a bright future in the city until strange things begin to happen.
People are suddenly having peculiar reactions to her singing voice, and a giant
wolfhound starts following her like a lost puppy. But the cherry on top is when
the mayor of her long-forgotten birthplace, Shehan, a mountainous island off
the craggy northern coast of Maine, shows up on her doorstep with an impossible
revelation. The Gaelic folklore she grew up hearing is real. Letty is the last
land siren on Earth…and he needs her help.<br />
<br />
An escaped kelpie—a monstrous water horse—is terrorizing Shehan, and Letty’s
voice is the only thing that can stop it. Despite the shock at learning her
heritage, Letty returns to the island, which is filled with as much mystery as
it is fog. She wants answers to her parents’ disappearance as well as a chance
to prove herself. But in a race of mighty druids and formidable Scottish
witches, Letty’s power is an anomaly, feared and reviled by the mystic
community. Her lineage must be kept secret. It becomes even harder to fulfil
these tasks when a new enemy threatens her—an alluring, powerful druid boy
filled with darkness who would just as soon kill her as kiss her.<br />
<br />
Will her deadly melody be enough to save the town and herself?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk160444940;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Excerpt:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Chapter One: Death of the Dress<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I tipped my chin from side to side with my hand, feeling the
satisfying <i>cracks </i>in my neck before shaking out my arms and
meeting my instructor’s eyes. Mr. Goneley smirked with amusement as he sat at
the piano in his office at my high school. I ignored the occasional muted blare
of car horns from the city streets outside.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He adjusted his glasses. “Ready, Letty?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I nodded and exhaled, though I wasn’t nervous, exactly. I’d
had many in-person auditions and recitals in my life, and recently with college
applications. I adjusted my silken blue choir gown. Normally I’d wear all black
to match my eyeliner, nails, and dyed black hair. No black lips, though. Red
all the way. And I wore my long hair in a series of intricate braids that the
camera would probably not be able to capture. Oh, well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“You’ve got this,” Mr. Goneley said. I granted him a smile.
He’d helped me a lot, pushing me to apply to all the nearby musical schools for
next year. This tape was for the final round of auditions with Manhattan School
of Music, but Mr. Goneley had contacts in the theater world and had encouraged
me to get a side job in a local theater this summer, despite my aunt’s
insistence against it. A foot in the door. We’d use this video for that, as
well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Here we go. Three, two….” He silently mouthed <i>one</i> as
he pressed the record button on my propped phone and began to play. I closed my
eyes and let everything else fall away except the notes floating up. It was a
haunting, Gaelic inspired tune that I’d written myself to match my voice
perfectly—smokey and breathy, yet rich. My voice was attuned to the slow, deep
melody of long-ago ancestors, the hardships I could barely fathom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Through the night, my fire bright</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">I wait for my sailor, nigh</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">I sit in the breeze, but my soul does not ease</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">As I wait for my lover, nigh</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">When I opened my eyes, I looked into the camera, willing it
to hear every nuance. My arms moved of their own accord with the emotion of the
song. As the notes rang from my throat a strange sensation came over me, like
heat razing my skin. I’d never felt anything like that before while singing—a
slight burn and tingle that only strengthened as I lost myself to the music. A
sense of command filled me, and I embraced it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Three weeks he’s been gone as I stare at the dawn</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Awaiting my sailor, nigh</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Powerful. That’s what I felt. Holy crap. Like I could do
absolutely anything in that moment. Was the camera getting this? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">The sky has gone black, the thunder does crack</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">As I wait for my lover, nigh</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">It was that moment when I noticed Mr. Goneley sweating,
moisture beading along his hairline and lip. It had been abnormally hot today
in New York City for May, but not <i>that</i> hot. The AC was pumping
overhead, yet he was grimacing. I closed my eyes again to force myself to
concentrate on the rumble of reverberations in my throat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">When Mr. Goneley flubbed a note, I opened my eyes and
wondered if he’d stop, but he kept going for another few seconds before pulling
away from the keys and staring at me. His eyes looked blank and lost as he made
a strange noise at the back of his throat. I wanted to scream in disappointment
because that had been the best I’d ever sang in my entire life! Would I be able
to do that again on the second take? He finally broke the weird stare and wiped
his forehead with the back of his hand, slumping. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Mr. G?” I said. “Are you okay?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I…did you change anything?” he asked in a croaky voice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“What?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He shook his head and rubbed his chest with the heel of his
hand. “With the song? I don’t know. Your voice is…” He cleared his throat and
looked at me funny. “Different.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“No,” I told him. “It was the same, but it did feel kind of
different. Like, stronger. Did it sound bad?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Again, his head shook back and forth, almost as if in
confusion. “I’m not sure how to explain it. I think it must be me. I’m not
feeling well all of a sudden.” He blinked up at me as his eyes began to clear,
a nervous sounding chuckle escaping him. “I’m so sorry about this, but do you
mind rescheduling?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Yeah,” I said, regret washing over me. “No problem. I hope
you feel better.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">There was a strange, awkward tension in the room as I
gathered my things and Mr. Goneley gave me a wide berth to leave. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I swung my bag over my shoulder and walked quickly out of the
school building, my purple boots hitting hard with each step on the Brooklyn
sidewalks. A giant bird swooped down from the ledge of a window and I jumped,
cursing as its wings lifted my hair for a second. Was that an eagle? I watched
it dart skyward and tried to shake off the startled feeling. I didn’t have many
wildlife encounters here in Brooklyn, other than pigeons and the occasional
rat. I absently weaved through people, speed walking. Sweat ran down my back,
probably soaking into the satiny material. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Had I been singing too loud? It hadn’t felt like it. It felt
like the best singing of my life, but clearly it had been terrible based on the
bizarre look he gave me. Was I losing my touch? Panic flared because singing
was my everything. The only thing I was good at. And even though Aunt Lorna had
been begging me for years to focus on some other line of work, something more
stable, I had to chase this dream. But what if I got home and watched the video
and it was awful? If my singing had felt that good, but actually been
horrible…oh, Gaia. I didn’t know what I’d do. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I cut through a small park, the grass squishy under the soles
of my boots. Usually there were couples picnicking on blankets and kids running
around chasing bubbles, but it was barren. It was never this empty on beautiful
afternoons, even during the week. Weird.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A burn of heat flashed across my skin as something huge and
hairy stepped out from behind a crop of tall bushes, sending my heart into an
erratic race. I stopped so fast at the massive sight that I tripped over my own
feet and landed on my hands and knees. My head whipped up and I froze, holding
my breath for a long beat before gasping.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A dog loomed over me. The largest dog I’d ever seen. Its face
was long like an Irish hound with a shaggy dark body that appeared oddly
greenish. I blinked. It was as round as a Saint Bernard, as tall as a small
cow, and its silky tail twitched back and forth behind it. We stared at each
other. Every fiber of my body wanted to run, but my mind screamed at me not to
move. This giant mutt could, no doubt, take me down and maul my face with very
little effort.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I glanced down and saw it was clearly male. With a hard
swallow I whispered, “Good boy.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He sniffed the air and lowered his head, stepping toward me
almost cautiously. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">My survival instinct screamed to run but I stiffened every
muscle. <i>Don’t move, Letty.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The dog slowly sat and then lay before me, its huge paws
inches from my hands, like it expected something from me. My heart rate began
to slow enough to give me the nerve to move into a sitting position. I never
took my eyes off him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Are you lost?” I whispered, feeling foolish talking to a
dog. “Where’s your owner?” I searched around, but there was no one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The dog huffed through its nose. Then he lifted a heavy paw
and plopped it on my booted foot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I couldn’t help but smile, though my insides still shook.
“Okay. So, you’re friendly?” I let out a deep breath. When I climbed slowly to
my feet, he did too. His head came to my chest. He definitely outweighed me,
and I was no waif. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">My eyes scanned the park now. Literally nobody. Maybe if we
walked around we’d find his owner. Taking slow steps, I began to loop the park,
and the dog followed me. We passed a few people on the sidewalks now, who all
took one look at the dog and steered clear. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">One woman scowled. “You need to have that thing on a leash!
It’s the law!” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“He’s not mine,” I tried to explain, but she scurried away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">After fifteen minutes of this, my need to get home and talk
to Aunt Lorna was overpowering my need to find the dog’s owner. If I wasn’t in
the middle of this singing crisis, I would have taken him to a veterinarian to
check for a chip, but I didn’t have time for this. And the SPCA was all the way
across town. New York was full of do-gooders who would happily take care of
him. Right? Yeah….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I’m sorry, boy,” I said to the dog, feeling silly that I
needed to explain myself. “I have to go. Just stay right here until your owner
comes back, okay? Or some nice person helps you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He cocked his head. Guilt was a stone in my gut as I turned
and speed-walked away from him. Thirty seconds later his pitter-pattering paws
and clickety-clacking claws sounded loudly behind me. I spun and held out my
palm. “Oh, no you don’t. Stay. <i>Stay</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He wasn’t a very good listener. The dang dog followed me the
whole five blocks to the shop. Ugh, Aunt Lorna was going to freak. Granted, she
had four cats that lived at her work, but they added to the atmosphere of her
witchy apothecary and gem shop. We’d never had an animal in our apartment. I
stopped in front of Aunt Lorna’s shop, Moonlight Apothecary and Dispensary,
which we lived two stories above. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I caught sight of my reflection in the glass. My gown was
officially ruined with the rip and grass stains from when I’d fallen. I’d had
to save money to buy it for the state treble choir competition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Every single person eyed the dog warily as they passed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Okay,” I told him. “You need to go. Go back to the park and
find your people. Go on, <i>shoo</i>.” He sat and I sighed. He was going
to scare customers away. I rolled my eyes and wished him luck as I went inside,
certain he’d finally leave once I was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Incense tickled my nose, and the gentle sounds of delta waves
playing overhead immediately relaxed me. Stepping into the shop always
transported me from overwhelming city into a fantastical, meditative space. I
took a moment to peer around at the shelves of homemade vials of oils, soaps,
and sage bunches. Displays of authentic crystals with a giant rose quartz in
the center. Salt lamps. Potted plants hanging from the ceiling with their long
vines spidering out like jungle fingers. A table of incenses dipped by my aunt
and me. This shop was our sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">All around the room were cool framed pictures of
drawings—depictions of Faerie queens and creatures from Celtic and Gaelic
mythology that I’d grown up hearing about. Sea maidens and forest nymphs.
Brownie house spirits. Selkies and kelpies, and of course Nessie, the Loch Ness
monster. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Is that you, Letty?” my aunt called from the back room.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Yes, it’s me.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Good news!” she hollered. “I found someone to watch the shop
next week while I go to your graduation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Cool,” I said, my mind still stuck on Mr. Goneley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Aunt Lorna bustled in, and her pretty face lit up when she
saw me. She pushed dirty blond curls out of her eyes and adjusted the quartz
necklace around her neck. She often acted like a little old lady, but she
wasn’t. She was just wise for her thirty-something years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“What’s the matter?” Her gentle Scottish lilt from a
childhood in the Highlands calmed me for a moment. Then the memory of Mr.
Goneley assaulted me again and I cringed. She swished over in her long skirt,
the bangles clinking on her wrists. Her eyebrows crashed together as she looked
me over. “Why do you look like that? What happened to your dress? And you’re
sweating—my gods, were you attacked?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“No,” I tried to calm her as I reached up and felt my
knotted, long locks. “Not exactly. It’s a long story. Something weird happened
while I was singing.” At this, she went still, and her face shuttered closed,
her lips pursing like they always did when it came to my singing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“What happened, Letty?” Gods, she didn’t need to look so
severe.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I’m not really sure,” I admitted. “But I got it on tape.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I shouldn’t tell her all of this, considering how much she
wanted me to find a different career path, but she was the only person I could
talk to. I pulled out my phone with a shaking hand and started the video. When
my voice first began, she sucked in a breath. And then her eyebrows crinkled.
Her head began a small shake, and she took the phone from my hand to watch more
closely. I crossed my arms, feeling nauseated as I recalled Mr. Goneley’s
reaction. But my voice <i>did</i> sound great. Not to brag. It hadn’t
been just a great performance in my mind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">When it ended, Aunt Lorna’s lips were pressed tightly
together as she passed the phone back to me. “I know you enjoy singing, Letty.
And it’s been a wonderful hobby to have growing up—”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">My heart dropped. “Auntie, don’t—”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Enough!” She raised her voice over mine. “This is a fool’s
errand! This path will be filled with heartache.” She seemed to struggle for
words before saying, “Do you really want to be just another New York starving
artist working as a waitress and facing disappointment after disappointment?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">My breath caught in my lungs. “Why don’t you believe I can do
it?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“It’s not that I don’t believe in you. It’s just unnecessary
hardship, Letty! You can help me run this business, or <i>any</i> business.
You’ve got an eye for detail and math. You’re smart.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ugh, this again!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I would be miserable!” I insisted. “And I’m more than happy
to help you with the shop, but that’s your dream, not mine. I’m sorry if you
don’t like it, but I’m going to sing, Aunt Lorna. It’s my gift.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I don’t think it’s what your parents would have wanted,” she
blurted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Her face turned ashen as my stomach twisted and burned with
acid. My parents had disappeared on a whale-watching excursion when I was four.
We rarely spoke of them. Her eyes looked full of both panic and shame.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“That’s not fair,” I whispered, my voice trembling. “You
can’t <i>know</i> that.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I watched, as if in slow motion, as my aunt’s face pinched in
pain and she grabbed her temples, her knees buckling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Auntie!” I dropped my phone and grasped her upper arms,
leading her to a velvet armchair to sit. She breathed heavily, a small whimper
escaping. She’d suffered from headaches and migraines since I could remember,
but this one looked more severe than normal. “You need to see a doctor. What if
something’s really wrong?” I’d lost too much sleep worrying about brain tumors,
but as usual, Aunt Lorna shook her head.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“No doctors. I’ve got it under control.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I gritted my teeth in frustration. Yes, she was the most
talented herbalist possibly ever, especially in the western world. People
traveled to Moonlight Apothecary from all over to get her tinctures and
homeopathic healing herbal mixtures when modern medicines and clinical
chemicals didn’t work. I’d seen her work miracles like a modern-day witch
doctor. She was a genius, but herbs could only go so far. If she would get an
MRI at least we could know what the real problem was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I’m okay.” She sat taller and her forehead smoothed. “I’m
sorry.” She met my eyes and there was regret there. “I shouldn’t have brought
up your parents.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I nodded, at a loss for words. Her erratic behavior and
headaches were scaring me lately. My aunt had always been eccentric and
special. I’d come to think of her as this magical sort of being, though I knew
how unhinged that sounded. But I’d seen strange things as a child. Whenever I
asked for explanations, Aunt Lorna always had some logical reason for the
things I’d witnessed her do when she thought I wasn’t looking. A book sliding
across the table to her waiting hand. One of her potions turning bright green,
then bubbling down to a muddy brown as she chanted in Gaelic—literal miracles
of near-death to life from her potions. Multiple candle wicks blowing out at
the same time when there was zero air movement in the room. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">It had been a while since anything like that happened, so I
chalked it up to fuzzy memories and childish wonderings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">After a moment, Aunt Lorna touched the ornate cuff on my
wrist that she’d given me, turning it as if inspecting it. The underneath was a
layer of salt, sulfur, and agate fused together and embedded onto dried fish
leather. On the top was a layer of ammolite gemstone plating—iridescent red and
green that looked like dragon scales. The cuff was said to provide protection
and ward against evil. When she’d put it on me years ago, she’d spoken a line
of Scots Gaelic as she sealed it shut with a glue substance. She was funny like
that. Old pagan superstitions from when she’d grown up in the highlands of
Scotland. To me, her Gaelic phrases sounded like spells, which would be apropos
considering the amount of rare mystical texts and spell books she sold here. It
was because of her that I said weird things like “gods” and “Gaia,” aka Mother
Nature, the creator of faeries in folklore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A sound came from the shop’s door.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“<i>Jeebus</i>!” Aunt Lorna’s scream had both of us jumping.
Her hands gripped the arms of the chair, and I followed her eyes. The giant dog
stood there taking up the entire doorway staring at us through the glass. He
had that greenish tint again. Had he rolled in moss or something gross?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“<i>Coo Shee</i>!” she yelled. I’d never heard my aunt sound
so terrified before. “Letty, hide!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Aunt Lorna, it’s okay!” I stood and motioned to the door.
“It’s just a stray dog I found on my way home today. I know he’s scary looking
but he’s actually really good and sweet.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Suddenly the dog was pushing open the shop door with his
body, and Aunt Lorna screamed again, grabbing me. We did a silly tug-of-war
where she tried to pull me into the back room and I yanked back, trying to
reassure her that everything was okay. The dog got close to us and sat down
staring at us in that intent way of his. All four cats, which had been quietly
resting in their various places, suddenly began a ruckus of hissing and
screaming in a flurry of orange and black as they ran, scuttling and sliding along
the tiled floor until they escaped through the doorway of dangling beads to the
back room. The dog watched them with a tilted head, and I swore he appeared
amused. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Good boy,” I said. “See, Auntie?” He took up a lot of space
in her small shop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">She was gripping me hard, breathing erratically as she stared
at it. “I’ve never…I’ve only heard…Gaia above. Did it—I mean, has he…barked?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“What?” I thought about it. “No, he hasn’t made a sound the
whole time I’ve been with him.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">She nodded and I saw her throat bob with a hard swallow.
“That’s good. Very good then.” Slowly, she began to relax, still staring him
down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I told her the whole story. “He’s sort of attached himself to
me. I don’t know why. I’m going to take some pictures of him and post them
online. I’m sure his owners will be looking for him. Wouldn’t you think?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Aunt Lorna never lost the look of worry. She pinched her
upper nose and closed her eyes for a long moment of quiet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I’ve got some calls to make and things to do. I think I’ll
close the shop an hour early today. Please….” She eyed the dog, then me. “Be
careful. If he barks, run immediately.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I laughed and she glared hard. “Run because of a bark?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I’m not messing about, Letty! Swear you’ll run.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Okay, I will.” My aunt often had these intuitive moments.
I’d learned not to question them because her hunches were always right. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">She bustled away into her back room, swishing through the
beads with a rustle of <i>clinks</i>, and I knew she must have been
discombobulated because she didn’t even make our afternoon tea. It was a staple
every single day after school. I hoped she would be okay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Come on, boy,” I said. “Let’s go to the corner drug store
and get you a leash and collar. I’ll take you up to the apartment.” He was
probably hungry, and I was dying to get this stupid dress off. I’d need to find
something to feed him—eggs maybe?—and take a few pictures to post online. Our
landlord would go berserk and charge us if he caught sight of the dog, so I
hoped its owner was found soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The hound followed me outside, all the way to the store, and
back to the side door with narrow stairs leading up to our apartments. I felt
safe with the dog at my side. For the first time ever I didn’t look back and
forth to make sure nobody was hiding or acting shady nearby. I didn’t even have
my safety whistle in my hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">What a strange afternoon. I mean, the dog was awesome, but my
aunt’s reaction to him had been over-the-top. She’d been stressing me out about
a lot of things lately. I sighed as we walked. Tomorrow was a new day. I
already couldn’t wait to go to bed tonight and put it all behind me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Chapter Two: Hair Crime<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I woke up the next morning overheated but so comfortable. I
couldn’t remember snuggling with anybody or anything in my entire life, but
here I was pressed against this warm, firm, furry thing in my twin bed.
Blinking, I raised my head and saw the dog and I were at a diagonal, his
straight legs sticking off the bed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The dog groaned and stretched, then pressed even harder into
my side, pushing me into the wall. Wait, what was he doing on the bed? I didn’t
remember him climbing up. I’d checked him over for fleas and ticks yesterday,
and thankfully he was clean, but still.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">What had Aunt Lorna said when she saw him yesterday? CooShee?
Probably some old Gaelic curse word I’d never heard her say before.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“CooShee?” I tried out the word for myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The dog raised his head and looked at me. I smiled at the
sight of his fur pressed upward on his sleeping side. “Let’s take you out and
check online to see if your owner has claimed you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I went into the bathroom and dressed quickly in a black baby
doll dress and thigh-high black stockings with my boots. When I opened my phone
to check, there were absolutely no people claiming to own the dog, but dozens
of comments on his size and people trying to guess his breed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Oh, look,” I said. “A few people have said they’re willing
to take you if your owner doesn’t come forward.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A quick, deep growl sounded from the dog’s throat, and I
swear he turned his head and gave me a mean side-eye. It was the first sound
I’d heard him make. I snorted with amusement. Sometimes it felt like he could
understand me. I scratched behind his shaggy ear and patted his back so he’d
move out of the doorway. “Come on, let’s go outside.” Maybe we would see Aunt
Lorna. She took long walks every morning before heading to the shop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Before leaving I checked my lipstick and eyeliner. I clicked
on the leash and grabbed my oversized black sunglasses, then led him down the
narrow stairs. We walked several blocks down to the small park, ignoring stares
and people craning their necks, even taking pictures. From the corner of my eye
I saw a squirrel dash from the ground toward a tree, and the dog yanked away
from me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“CooShee!” I called, but there was no stopping him. He moved
quick and with a grace I didn’t think possible for such a huge creature. I
gasped and covered my mouth as he snatched the squirrel mid-run up the tree,
shook his head violently, and gave a great <i>crunch</i>. “No!” I covered
my face but could still hear two more sickening crunches. Then some lip
smacking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Oh, my God!” said someone behind me. I turned to see a guy
videoing the whole thing on his phone. Oh, great. I ran over and grasped the
useless leash tightly until the guy stopped and left.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“CooShee, come on,” I urged as he licked his paw now. “That
was disgusting. We have to go.” Poor little tree rat. The dog seemed quite
satisfied with himself, trotting next to me with his head up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I was going to feed you, you know,” I mumbled. “Savage.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">On the walk back to the apartment I thought about yesterday
with Mr. Goneley and a sick feeling overcame me. I couldn’t help but feel like
it wasn’t a coincidence that he’d acted so strangely when I’d had that peculiar
feeling go through me while singing…. I shook my head. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I needed to get back so I could work my shift at Moonlight
Apothecary. Aunt Lorna’s local supplier had given her containers of fresh cut
cannabis varieties, which she would dry and process in her back room. “The
lab,” I called it. She made her own homemade gummy mixture with cute molds in
the shape of leaves and flowers. Yep, it was CBD gummy day. She did mild
mixtures to help people relax and sleep, and full-blown edibles to help
people…not sleep. Medicinal and recreational. Her skills ran the gamut. We couldn’t
keep them on the shelves longer than two days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I tried to leave CooShee in the apartment, but he wasn’t
having it. He was glued to my side and literally threw himself into the door
crack every time I tried to close it. Aunt Lorna was going to hate this, but
the dog was coming to work with me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“You have to relax,” I told him as we went down the stairs.
“I mean it. Lay by my side and don’t move. No scaring customers or I’ll put you
in the back room.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I walked into the store and Aunt Lorna’s eyes widened.
“Absolutely not!” she whisper-yelled as CooShee pushed in right behind me.
Customers turned and gaped. The cats hissed and ran, knocking over a display of
crystals. I cringed as she rushed over to fix it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“He’ll be so good!” I promised, moving toward the register.
Just as I told him to do, he lay at my feet and let out a little huff. “See?” I
smiled at Aunt Lorna, who stared at him with distrust before shaking her head,
defeated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“We need to talk after work,” she said quietly, not meeting
my eye. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Okay,” I answered, my stomach tightening. Something was up,
though I couldn’t begin to put the pieces together. Aunt Lorna had been strange
lately, almost secretive, though I couldn’t fathom what in the world she could
possibly have going on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">She disappeared into the back where I imagined her with her
curls pulled up and her stained apron covering her blouse. I eyed CooShee and
held out my hand. To my shock, he raised his and set it in mine. A grin split
my face. He’d been taught to shake! Or give a high five. I didn’t know what to
call it, but it was cool. I shook his paw and let it fall. A thought came to me
that I hoped his owner never came forward, but I pushed it away. I couldn’t
keep him. Tiny shop. Tiny apartment. Huge dog who attacked and ate rodents at
the park. No, I couldn’t get attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The day flew by because we were so busy. Close to closing
time I got a text from a girl from school, Tessy, asking if I wanted to hit the
new club tonight called Churs. Apparently, that was how people in New Zealand
said Cheers, and the owners were Kiwis. I didn’t know Tessy very well. We were
acquaintances, a group of misfits with fake IDs. I couldn’t help but be
flattered at the invite, so I agreed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">* * *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">On the subway ride over I’d been lucky enough to get a seat
and was scrolling on my phone when a news headline caught my eye. I abruptly
sat up straight. OMG…I held my breath as I read: “Body Found in Third Missing
Person Case on Shehan Island.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Shehan Island. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Oh, my gods. That’s where I was born in Maine. A chill zipped
through me, and all the other passengers on the train seemed to disappear as I
read. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Three hikers have been reported missing from Benn Shehan
National Park in the past two months on Shehan Island. Today, the body
twenty-five-year-old Shannon Baltrove was found. A coroner report lists the
cause of death as drowning but she had markings on her leg that prove she may
have been dragged by an animal prior to being in the water. Shehan Island has
no known natural predators. However, this is not the island’s first mysterious
disappearances. Thirteen years ago, a group of seven people went missing at sea
after leaving from Shehan’s port on a whale watching excursion.</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">My phone slipped from my jittery hand into my lap as my
fingers covered my mouth. I felt ill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Through the pounding of my heart in my ears, I heard the
doors to the train hiss open and glanced up in a fog. I barely registered that
it was my stop, fumbling to grab my phone and jumping up at the last moment. I
rushed through the people to jump off just in time. My heart was still
hammering when the doors closed. It took a moment to drag my mind out of where
it had been moments before. Great Gaia. I swear, that island was cursed.
Despite being a warm spring night, I was cold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Letty!” Tessy and two friends were waiting by the dingy
stairs. Seeing them shook me out of the icky haze enough to force my legs to
move. I raised my chin and joined them, heading up the steps in our chunky
heels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Don’t think about that article</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;">, I told myself. <i>Don’t think
about any of that unexplainable weird stuff. </i>I needed a fun night to
get my mind off it all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The four of us girls might have stood out in a normal town
with our kohl-lined eyes, various piercings, ripped fish net stockings, and
rainbow assortments of hair, but in New York City nobody was shocked by
anything. I didn’t necessarily care about being different…I just didn’t want to
be noticed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">At age fifteen I became uncomfortable with the attention I
started getting, mostly from older men. I’d developed quickly, becoming curvy.
My hair was long and wavy, like a mix of gold and bronze down my back. Though
my face was roundish with a spattering of freckles that I thought made me look
younger, men looked at me in a way I didn’t want to be looked at. And don’t get
me started on the comments about my “sultry” voice….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The alternative, dark style didn’t scare away everyone, but
it kept the worst of the unwanted attention at bay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Inside the club, I went to scout out possible seats while my
three companions used their fake IDs to get drinks. I didn’t drink. I was here
for the music—the louder the better. There were two suede sofas facing each
other but one guy was sitting there. He looked harmless enough, like a college
kid or maybe a tourist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Is anyone sitting with you?” I asked, shouting over the
music. “We have four.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He stared at me a long moment and I wondered if he heard me
over the high volume. Then he spoke and a shiver went down my spine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Aye, lass. You can nick these seats from my mates; I won’t
mind a bit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Scottish? <i>Uuugh</i>. My absolute weakness. I wasn’t
proud of how foolish it made me. I sat right next to him and for a moment we
stared at one another. He suddenly looked ten times hotter than he had at
first. Had he ever worn a kilt? What were the plaid colors for his family line?
I imagined his light brown hair blowing in the highland breeze by the
sea. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">See? So dumb!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“What’s your name?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Luis. What’s your name, love?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Letty.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“That’s lovely.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Don’t giggle, Letty, you idiot.</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I have to say,” he told me. “Your voice is…bloody
spectacular.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I would normally want to roll my eyes but found myself
smiling and thanking him, knowing it was extra raspy and velvety when I had to
shout over the music. I asked questions about what he did and where exactly he
was from just so I could hear him talk more. I’d never been shy with boys, and
though I’d never been with a guy, I loved kissing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Kissing was my favorite.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">By the time my friends joined us, I wasn’t proud to admit I
was practically in his lap and we were, indeed, kissing. I barely noticed when
his friends joined us as well. It was Luis and I kissing, my red lipstick
around his mouth, while our friends drank and laughed and ignored
us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I pulled back just enough to ask, “When will you go back to
visit Scotland again?” He was a student but his parents were still in
Edinburgh.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I reckon Christmas.” Every vowel sounded like a sexy
mouthful, and he rolled his “r”s so beautifully. I dug my fingers into his hair
and pulled him in for another kiss.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">We eventually made our way to the dance floor where I
shamelessly danced close against him. Back on the couches, he exclaimed, “To
the motherland!” as he raised a creamy shooter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">His drunkest friend stumbled forward. “Luis, bruh, are you
still doing that fake-ass accent?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Luis’s widened eyes darted to mine, his shot frozen mid-air.
I went stiff as his friend’s words hit me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Uh,” said Luis. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Uh,” I repeated. Holy crap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Everyone went still, our group in major contrast to the
movement all around us. Everyone’s head turned to me. This is where I should’ve
gotten mad. I waited for anger and indignance to rise but found only reluctant
fascination.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“You’re not Scottish?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He rubbed his face and muttered in a boring American voice,
“I’m sorry. I just got flustered when you talked to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I let out a laugh straight from my belly. “That is literally
the best accent I’ve ever heard, and I know my way around a Scot’s accent!”
Everyone began to laugh, relief apparent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Really?” he asked sheepishly. “I’m an acting student and I’m
taking accent classes.” Of course he was. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“He’s really good,” another one of his ‘mates’ said. “You
should hear his South African!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“That’s a tough one,” Luis claimed, finally taking his
shooter. He leaned in as if to kiss me again, and I placed a hand on his chest,
shaking my head. All of our friends died laughing then, his friends slapping
him on the back. He grabbed the drunk one who’d ratted him out and pulled him
down into a headlock.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A new song came on that I’d been obsessed with and I
screamed, “I love this song!” Tessy and I jumped up and down as we sang the
words at the top of our lungs. But a few seconds into our singing, she became
still and stood before me with her head tilted. Her eyes unfocused and her
mouth went slack. I sang on for a few more notes before asking, “Are you okay?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">To my shock, our entire group was gathered around us, staring
blankly. At me. My stomach turned. I stepped back, an eerie chill going through
me at their glazed eyes, like Mr. Goneley’s had been. I glanced down to make
sure I didn’t have a boob hanging out or something.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“What?” I yelled, barking out a nervous laugh. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tessy blinked and gave her head a shake. “Wow. You…you’re
super hot tonight.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I laughed and gave her a playful <i>whap</i> on her
arm with the back of my hand. “Okay. Whatever.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">But she kept looking at me in that intense way, same as the
others. They all began to squirm a little, shifting around like they were
coming back to their senses. Luis grabbed the back of his neck and chuckled.
Then the others laughed. It was all hecka weird and I felt like I’d done
something wrong but couldn’t figure out what.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I was about to say it was time for me to leave when a scream
from somewhere in the club curdled my blood. Other shouts and yells began to
ring out and we all turned toward the entrance expecting the worst. Everybody
in the club seemed to go on alert and the energy level maximized, people ready
to run for their lives in a panic. But alas, the crowd parted and in walked a
giant freaking animal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">CooShee. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I leapt to my feet as people scrambled away, some screaming
and others asking what the hell he was.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Shit,” I mumbled to my group. “I have to go. That’s…my dog.”
Not really, of course, but it was too much to explain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He had the stupid leash in his mouth and gave a tail wag when
he saw me. How did he find me? Chur was in Manhattan and I’d left him at home
in Brooklyn! My heart pounded as I attached his leash and gave him a tug toward
the doors. People stared, some with their phones out. I kept my head down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“No pets allowed!” A man in a suit with a New Zealand accent
ran alongside me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I know, sorry,” I said, hurrying out. “We’re leaving.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Once outside, I jogged us down to the corner and stopped,
staring down at him. The dog sat and cocked his head at me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“No, no, no,” I said. “Don’t try to be cute. How did you find
me? I took the subway here! Is your nose <i>that</i> good?” I shook
my head, baffled. “You can’t just walk into public places like that—”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">CooShee abruptly turned, staring hard toward the dark corner
of the building with a narrow alleyway. I went still. He didn’t growl, but a
strip of hair down his back stood up, his hackles. Was he about to attack
someone? I’d seen him kill enough for one day, thanks very much. I gripped his
leash tighter and tried to calm him as I reached into my pocket and grasped my
pepper spray.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“It’s okay, boy. Let’s just….” My voice trailed off as a form
began to clarify in the darkness. It appeared to be a guy, tall with nice
shoulders, his longish, dark hair hiding half of his face. He wore black jeans,
black boots, and a long-sleeved navy shirt. Something about him set my nerves
on edge. I could only see one of his eyes, light in color, the other hidden by
his hair, but as he took another step toward me, my skin razed with a strange
heat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Listen,” I warned him, motioning to the dog. “You should
back off. I can’t control him. He’s not mine, exactly. Just step away and we’ll
leave.” But when I glanced down at CooShee, his hackles had gone down and he
seemed unbothered now. The guy’s lip quirked up for a split second.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I’m no’ afraid of the creature.” His r’s rolled
languidly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me.</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"> Freaking Scottish? What were
the odds?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“No’ <i>that</i> creature, anyhow,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I shook my head, confused. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
What other ‘creature’ was here?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">His one visible eye narrowed as if <i>I </i>was the
one being a smartass.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Did fake accent guy tell you to mess with me?” It sort of
just popped out of my mouth and I immediately felt stupid. How would they have
had time to coordinate this?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The guy took another step forward and swished the long waves
from his face. I sucked in a gasp and held it. Under all that thick hair was a
brutally handsome face, all sharp angles with light eyes. I looked down
expecting the dog to growl at this stranger, but instead he sat down! What a
worthless guard dog! Why was this guy talking to me anyway? I felt…off. Like I
wanted to run, but also move closer to see him better. The opposing instincts
freaked me out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Wendy
Higgins:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.wendyhigginswrites.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="5733" data-original-width="3662" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUadMYsIkqQGwxvdjxE5Y2XHwt-hmNOHO1ZGmwsEPsIjs8Y6k9OEuXBs1vdk6-5aT0E7CYde1TbjyUhQ704gQa2oDrmQUoiqCEivuuyJ2wFj-h7B_emTF6yU4rWkNGh1d7cU_dxPhxsOqw__QjOIVjlRxItaBxpeMsv_Lksm9nVIcMVD0LhuPZbrDyjg24/s320/WendyHiggins2024.jpg" width="204" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Wendy Higgins is
a <i>USA Today</i> and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling
author of young adult and adult genre romance, including fantasy, paranormal,
Sci-Fi, mythology, and contemporary. She is a former high school English
teacher who now writes full time, and lives in Virginia Beach with her
daughter, son, and tiny doggies.<br />
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Wendy earned a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from George Mason
University and a master's from Radford University.<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
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Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-51287704200743279892024-03-01T03:00:00.031-05:002024-03-01T03:00:00.147-05:00Blog Tour- WALKIN’ THE DOG by Chris Lynch With Dog Photos & A #Giveaway! @SimonKIDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRHA3THDyKv7ZIjwyQT0vjR6bw4tpqLvS8wn1InM9L3dp7U8MEhpBhTNKxI0KPwC4K0Qv_i47liaXldKQmY-ygj_1mO_inopbbAPFsf25qObPGk3MGPclAVgiX_1yCED0disyeJ0XL412QwGQGQSRO41_j_o1YcUdKOSb_GfrmtQRV2hK9qETffUfpenpZ/s16000/WALKIN%20THE%20DOG.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the WALKIN’ THE DOG by Chris
Lynch Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk149645585"></a><a name="_Hlk159581420"></a><a name="_Hlk98752404"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/WALKIN-THE-DOG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1688" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0PDOdyemO0S1dlNF1Zcq1cEgfP6nozmxR_Y68aTlt-gPAVmrJ8AGPOjDriR5CW8ndze_1Iaw3_42A9cufzmtPRT2CCpL5oKpc3F_Uukxn68R1OSvPrDEQ7n6xXO2EGIyoO1v2vj4sEgCZOSUs36VfGnSo9m-fQbRjKeUZaDCcw817f8F09WtF90lZyoUQ/w265-h400/Walkin'%20The%20Dog%20-%20Cover.jpg" width="265" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> WALKIN’ THE DOG<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Chris Lynch<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> March 12, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 240<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176442696-walkin-the-dog"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/WALKIN-THE-DOG"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/WALKIN-THE-DOG</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Lynch is back and better, smarter, and funnier than ever.” —Jacqueline
Woodson, National Book Award Winner</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159581420;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
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<b>A boy learns how to be a friend from man’s best friend in this funny and
moving middle grade novel about humans being able to change and dogs changing
us from acclaimed author Chris Lynch.</b><br />
<br />
In a family of strong personalities with <i>very</i> strong points of
view, Louis is what his mother lovingly calls “the inactivist,” someone who’d
rather kick back than stand out. He only hopes he can stay under the radar when
he starts high school in the fall, his first experience with public school
after years of homeschooling.<br />
<br />
But when a favor for a neighbor and his stinky canine companion unexpectedly
turns into a bustling dog-walking business, Louis finds himself meeting an
unprecedented number of new friends—both human and canine. Agatha, a quippy and
cagey girl his age always seems to be telling two truths and a lie. Cyrus, a
few years his senior, promises he’s going to show Louis how to be a better
person, whether Louis wants him to or not. And then there are the dogs:
misbehaving border terriers, the four (possible stolen) sausage dogs, the rest
of Louis’s charges, and a mysterious white beast who appears at a certain spot
at the edge of the woods.<br />
<br />
Dogs and human alike all seem to have something they want to teach Louis,
including his menacing older brother who keeps turning up everywhere. But is
Louis ready to learn the lesson he needs most: how to stop being a lone wolf
and be part of a pack?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Chris Lynch:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWkenUNwkkqdJQyVlP7V7Fw6mZ2LWBGaICmfvviV-1aAPRL_8bpj-M0N_HTfE13W31oFS049Jl5DRMno7l8ut-I1pcs0WsxEwlq0l9FDdOg_xt60XxiWoY-qYEEOg5Sgo58gnLOyOCy_jubQ1l3QtiWEy-4ssCdPjHxL3XMkYF_oupuBWaJl4M9CNXLbd/s640/Chris%20Lynch%20(by%20Jules%20Chester).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="443" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSWkenUNwkkqdJQyVlP7V7Fw6mZ2LWBGaICmfvviV-1aAPRL_8bpj-M0N_HTfE13W31oFS049Jl5DRMno7l8ut-I1pcs0WsxEwlq0l9FDdOg_xt60XxiWoY-qYEEOg5Sgo58gnLOyOCy_jubQ1l3QtiWEy-4ssCdPjHxL3XMkYF_oupuBWaJl4M9CNXLbd/s320/Chris%20Lynch%20(by%20Jules%20Chester).jpg" width="222" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Chris
Lynch</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> (he/him/his)
is the award–winning author of several highly acclaimed young adult novels,
including Printz Honor Book <i>Freewill</i>, <i>Iceman</i>, <i>Gypsy
Davey</i>, and <i>Shadow Boxer</i>—all ALA Best Books for Young Adults—as
well as <i>Killing Time in Crystal City</i>, <i>Little Blue Lies</i>, <i>Pieces</i>, <i>Kill
Switch</i>, <i>Angry Young Man</i>, and <i>Inexcusable</i>, which was
a National Book Award finalist and the recipient of six starred reviews. Chris
is the author of middle grade novel <i>Walkin’ the Dog</i>. He holds an MA
from the writing program at Emerson College. He teaches in the creative writing
MFA program at Lesley University. He lives in Boston and in Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Meet
Chris! </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Tuesday,
March 12, 2024 at 7:00pm ET</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.portersquarebooks.com/" target="_blank">Porter Square Books</a> (Cambridge,
MA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">In
conversation with <b>Sara Farizan</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Wednesday,
March 13, 2024 at 7:00pm ET</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.broadsidebooks.com/" target="_blank">Broadside Bookshop</a> (Northampton,
MA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">In
conversation with <b>Michael Mercurio</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Thursday,
March 14, 2024 at 6:00pm ET</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://booksofwonder.com/blogs/upcoming/great-middle-grade-reads-3-14-24" target="_blank">Books of Wonder</a> (New York, NY)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">In
conversation with <b>Caela Carter</b>, <b>Cathy Carr</b>, and <b>E.L.
Shen</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a finished copy of WALKIN’ THE DOG, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends March
12th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:</span></u></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="line-height: 107%;">Week One:</span></u></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/26/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/26/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://littleredreads.com/" target="_blank">Little
Red Reads</a></span></u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/27/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/27/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://countrymamaswithkids.com/" target="_blank">Country
Mamas With Kids</a></span></u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/28/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://bookswithachance.com/" target="_blank">Books
With a Chance</a></span></u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/28/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://darkfantasyreviews.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">@darkfantasyreviews</a></span></u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/29/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/29/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://bookreviewvirginialee.com/" target="_blank">#BRVL
Book Review Virginia Lee Blog</a></span></u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">3/1/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chicks on Books</a></span></u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Hawkeye</a></span></u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-31204324286420758052024-02-22T03:00:00.029-05:002024-02-22T03:00:00.383-05:00Blog Tour- THE NIGHTMARE MACHINE by Tim White With An Excerpt & 2 #Giveaways!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheKPaHjtOXYOwWhMJBjhgb0uA9bNVCi1ThT1pZ_1QT08lu3t9yaoDroy7pWjclwGq3DYmofEP_IKgXU-1WKEH4irQ0JMLpI-zniqjDGUKMnRNsOV45ei_W6LiEaeaMAJMuRvUqTy4IvjVitjzs5ptHc_Md1s8PCrB86JSl6PsEX3lQzWMrDVzoGmpjL9Na/s16000/THE%20NIGHTMARE%20MACHINE.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the THE NIGHTMARE MACHINE by Tim White Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. Check out
my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk150509457"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/THE-NIGHTMARE-MACHINE" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3150" data-original-width="2100" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJOEIcdQ1vxV0Q_jRng2JpC5XWfXq8eMGo08sKm3SpzaR8gAK1OIHrRavgoFqqftkrqkn_G7Br-vFJx_IWB9MWE_6BGaI-34ILfFoQe89AJ7RFWC9jJXhY0-lu1gHeKVbojM70i_HQoEAZTTFhoeSx5hTtPWxbo3kwnVGg7zoylg6pqAWR36yPs4JhthMx/w266-h400/TNM%20ebook%20cover.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> THE
NIGHTMARE MACHINE<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tim White<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February 20, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ocean Scribe Publishing<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Paperback, eBook, Audiobook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 600<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200490595-the-nightmare-machine"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/THE-NIGHTMARE-MACHINE"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/THE-NIGHTMARE-MACHINE</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"></span></span><a href="https://timwhitewriting.square.site/s/shop"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Purchase the book directly
from Tim! There’s also a prequel novella!</span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">What
is <i>The Nightmare Machine</i>? Think <i>Silent Hill</i> meets <i>Inception</i> and <i>Monster
Hunter International</i>.<br />
<br />
Five millennia of suffering. A pilgrimage steeped in terror. Will her quest
bring redemption or only a false promise of salvation?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Bangor,
Maine. Sara Holcomb knows what she must do. Raised within a secret order
devoted to protecting humanity from a malevolent god, the dutiful
seventeen-year-old prepares for a terrifying expedition through a world of
nightmares. So when the time comes, she convinces three close friends to escort
her on a perilous journey to an otherworldly cathedral of bone and blood.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Transported
to a land of chaos and horror while they sleep, Sara wrestles with guilt at
bringing people she holds dear to this hell from which they may not escape. And
as vicious traps and pitiless creatures tear at their bodies and minds, the
honor-bound young woman fears they won’t be strong enough to complete the
mission that will preserve mankind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-right: .9pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">TimWhite The Nightmare Machine <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 202.45pt; margin-top: 98.85pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Dreams
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 177.55pt; margin-top: 20.2pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">December 17, 2021 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 188.5pt; margin-top: .5pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bangor, Maine <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 16.35pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.25pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It was a typical teenage girl’s bedroom, if neater than most.
Strips of LED lights, switched off for the evening, ran along the edges of the
ceiling. The window in the eastern wall had a broad sill, upon which rested
several well-tended potted plants, carefully arranged to soak up the morning
sun. The posters of actors and bands were perfectly vertical and precisely
aligned next to one another. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 71.95pt; margin-right: 6.25pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.55pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Similarly, the books and papers on the desk were stacked neatly
and arranged at ninety-degree angles. The white carpet was free of clothes and
freshly vacuumed. The walls were a soft pink—a color the paint store called
Rose Dust. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 71.95pt; margin-right: 2.5pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.3pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In one corner, a pair of tangled headphones lay on top of a
hastily discarded backpack, the only sign of mild untidiness. On the wall above
the backpack, three shelves displayed various awards for academic achievement
and community service. The trophies were meticulously polished, the wooden
plaques free of dust. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.05pt; margin-right: 8.5pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 17.9pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The alarm clock on the nightstand read 10:00 p.m. The girl asleep
in the bed looked like the proper owner of the bedroom. Like the room, she was
all right angles, one knee drawn up, the other leg straight, one arm down at
her side, the other tucked under the pillow. Her pajama top was white, the
bottoms light pink, matching the walls and carpet. Her breathing was slow,
even, and perfectly consistent. Like the backpack tossed in the corner, her red
hair splayed wildly over the pillow was the only thing that suggested disorder.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 89.9pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">An hour passed. She remained
motionless, perfectly at peace. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.45pt; margin-right: 37.65pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 17.7pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Down the hall, her father slept less peacefully. His room was more
sparsely decorated but equally tidy. A few framed vinyl records adorned one
wall; an autographed bass guitar hung on another. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.2pt; margin-right: 9.6pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 17.75pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The bed was big enough for two, but he slept alone. A single
framed photo on the nightstand showed a smiling couple on a beach—him and a
woman who hadn’t slept in his bed for twelve years. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 89.9pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A beautifully hand-painted urn on
a high shelf held her ashes. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 71.85pt; margin-right: 6.3pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.1pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The man often had vivid dreams. Some nights, he dreamed of his
wife, waking with moisture in his eyes and a smile on his face. Other nights,
his dreams were plagued by dark forms and whispered promises of perdition. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 227.5pt; margin-top: .4in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1 of 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-right: .9pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">TimWhite The Nightmare Machine <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 96%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 89.9pt; margin-right: 73.65pt; margin-top: 23.1pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: .05pt;"><span style="line-height: 96%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Tonight, he had no dreams. Even so, he slept fitfully. He always
did. Another hour passed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 92%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.2pt; margin-right: 1.05pt; margin-top: .35pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.05pt;"><span style="line-height: 92%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">His eyes flew open at the sound of an ear-splitting scream from
down the hallway. “Sara!” he shouted, as if by reflex, before he’d even come
fully awake. His feet hit the floor as he yanked open the nightstand drawer and
closed his fingers around the loaded pistol. He was at his bedroom door in a
flash. It opened outward, and even though it was unlocked, he shouldered it
open forcefully, causing the knob on the opposite side to punch a large hole in
the drywall. His daughter needed him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.25pt; margin-right: 13.85pt; margin-top: .85pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 17.65pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">At a running pace, her bedroom door was only six steps away. Many
thoughts raced through his mind in that brief distance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in; margin-right: 7.55pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 17.9pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">At first, he wondered if she had merely had a bad dream, the same
sort of bad dream that every teenager has once in a while. He dismissed that
notion immediately. Her scream carried discordant notes of heart-wrenching
terror far beyond anything that a normal nightmare caused. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 71.95pt; margin-right: 1.65pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Then he thought—hoped—that she’d screamed because someone had
broken into the house. That seemed a horrible thing for a father to hope for,
that an intruder was in his daughter’s bedroom. But he was armed, he was
reasonably strong, and he’d been taking Krav Maga classes twice a week for
years; so had Sara. They could defend themselves against an intruder. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 71.85pt; margin-right: .9pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.25pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Deep in his heart, he knew there was no intruder. The gun in his
hand would be useless against this threat. In seventeen years, he’d never heard
Sara scream that way before. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 90.65pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Only one thing could make her
scream like that. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.2pt; margin-right: 6.05pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.05pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He reached her bedroom door and flung it open. His eyes weren’t
fully adjusted to the darkness, but he could see her sitting up in bed,
clutching the sides of her head as though she were suffering the worst headache
imaginable. She screamed again, so loudly that he half-expected the window to
shatter. He dropped the gun on the floor and grabbed her shoulders, shaking
her. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 90.6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Sara! It’s okay, I’m here!” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.5pt; margin-right: 15.9pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">She screamed again. Blood dripped from her nose onto her white
shirt. Her eyes were screwed shut so tightly that, in the darkness, it looked
like she had no eyes at all. <i>Jesus, she’s
still asleep</i>, he thought. He shook her again, more violently, shouting her
name over and over. He fumbled around on her nightstand until he found the
small lamp, switching it on so he could see better. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 71.85pt; margin-right: 13.55pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.65pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">She was turning blue. She just kept screaming, hunched over, hands
clapped over her ears. He tried to move her hands so she could hear him, but
she resisted with strength that seemed impossible for her petite frame. His
mind raced, trying to think of how he could snap her out of it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 293%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 89.9pt; margin-right: 13.65pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 293%;">An idea came to him. He swept her up in his arms and jogged back
down the </span><span style="line-height: 293%;">2 of 3<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-right: .9pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">TimWhite The Nightmare Machine <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.2pt; margin-right: 13.55pt; margin-top: 23.1pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">hall, toward the bathroom. With an elbow, he clicked on the light,
then gently laid her in the bathtub, careful not to bang her head on the
porcelain. Hesitating only for a moment, he turned on the cold tap full blast. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 94%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 71.85pt; margin-right: 10.75pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.55pt;"><span style="line-height: 94%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Frigid water erupted from the shower head, drenching her
instantly. The water was barely above freezing, liquid only because the pipes
were wrapped. It had the desired effect. Sara’s eyes shot open, and she gasped
in a breath, choking off another scream. She spluttered and began to thrash.
She probably thought she was drowning. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.05pt; margin-right: 4.0pt; margin-top: .65pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.05pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Before she could hurt herself, he dragged her out of the tub and
sat next to her on the floor. She blinked once, twice, three times, slowly
regaining her senses. Her green eyes focused on him, and finally, she saw him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 90.6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Dad?” Her voice was barely above
a whisper. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-left: 90.6pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“I’m here, baby,” he said, moving
her wet hair out of her face. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 94%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.5pt; margin-right: 22.75pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="line-height: 94%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">She collapsed against him, sobbing. He held her and said nothing,
letting her come out of it slowly. He didn’t ask what had done this to her. He
knew. An icy chill ran up his spine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.75pt; margin-right: .9pt; margin-top: .65pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 17.75pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">She said nothing either, as though it wouldn’t be true as long as
neither of them spoke it aloud. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.25pt; margin-right: 18.9pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.35pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Gradually, her sobs tapered off, and she began to shiver violently
against him. He realized that she was probably freezing in her soaked pajamas.
“Go get changed,” he said softly, “before you turn into an ice cube.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.5pt; margin-right: 34.55pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">She looked up at him. He could see a question in her eyes that she
seemed embarrassed to ask. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 90.6pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“I’ll wait right outside your
door,” he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.2pt; margin-right: 10.75pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 17.75pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">That seemed to give her the strength she needed to stand up. He
followed her back to her room, retrieved the gun from the floor, and quietly
shut the door behind him as he left. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 71.85pt; margin-right: 2.5pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 18.4pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He stood in silence in the dark hallway, his eyes unfocused. He’d
known this day was coming, but now that it was here, it seemed unreal. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 91%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 72.35pt; margin-right: 15.4pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: 17.85pt;"><span style="line-height: 91%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He wept, silently, just for a minute. It would be the last time
he’d allow himself to cry. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: 96%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 90.25pt; margin-right: 1.2in; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="line-height: 96%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">His daughter was
strong, but she would need his strength as well. He prayed that it would be
enough. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 227.15pt; margin-top: 141.35pt; mso-border-shadow: yes; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3 of 3</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Tim White</span>:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://timwhitewriting.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1280" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE9bUXmwAp2rHYgkNtdAmwO8cYWhTwqtWLL3cf7PdZLVxx6ExTmQ6sMDbY5LF99iDxswoeEpXJzg4msFaUFX9r_xKRmLAOqH0Kcn5LjBrGB0t8QjlWDg_wfbZRTfei134zVNuYchEsbc4IXzAihHsC7SBqlZwy-yaQexFswYp_e8Ft-Upp1OSemoeXYw5B/s320/Gray%20pfp.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tim White is
an author, editor, writing coach, and game designer in Phoenix, Arizona. He
started writing fiction in 1996 and nonfiction in 2006. As of 2023, he has
published more than 1,000 nonfiction articles and three nonfiction books. He
has written three novels, four novellas, dozens of tabletop role-playing game
(TTRPG) scripts, and hundreds of short stories.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tim is a
zealous crusader for the power of storytelling to promote human flourishing. He
writes fiction in several genres, particularly one that he calls “Romantic
horror” (as in “Romantic-era novelists” such as Victor Hugo and Alexandre
Dumas, not as in “romance novel”). This little-known genre is unique in that it
uses fear as a backdrop against which heroism is sharply contrasted,
dramatized, and elevated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tim’s
storytelling philosophy is summed up eloquently by one of his favorite authors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I often
hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what
they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength.
While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a
good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to
readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and
ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.” ―
Terry Goodkind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Before
transitioning to writing full time, Tim was an Army combat medic, and later, a
nurse paramedic specializing in trauma and surgery. He is a lifelong shooter
and has ranked moderately well in state-level 3-gun competitions. He loves
board games, video games, and role-playing games; cats; Pembroke Corgis; good
coffee; good books; and escape rooms. He owns an escape room venue in Arizona,
where he designs and builds every prop and puzzle in-house.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: (there are 2
giveaways)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Bargain Booksy Giveaway:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.bargainbooksy.com/thriller-giveaway-021524/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="839" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6CS7gsCswLRO7RMGJ-ZIC8zfksIJKPYyN-IM79tkJV9Sj0dlEV_29hcGY4QKpZqqHc7AcbPAFQFeiJS2A25iozaf3bFDFw0_4WvdMVCOQvu0_6fkDfOifpl0QnrI1RsVL03t6sAqjH6G3QfhJl2NrSJYQNWC6RONyhmJaNrUlrdp7k-ABNUC3NjVgcvz0/w400-h234/Giveaway%20Image.png" width="400" /></span></a></b></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One winner will be chosen at random on 4/15/2024 and notified via email
that they have won the 20 eBooks and a Kindle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Giveaway Link: <a href="https://www.bargainbooksy.com/thriller-giveaway-021524/">https://www.bargainbooksy.com/thriller-giveaway-021524/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours Giveaway:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a $10 Amazon Gift Card courtesy of Rockstar Book Tours,
International.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends March
5th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="rcptr" data-raflid="e2389ba21796" data-template="" data-theme="classic" href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/e2389ba21796/" id="rcwidget_k97pfyv3" rel="nofollow">a Rafflecopter giveaway</a>
<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>
</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><u><span style="line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></span></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-39144629803956842952024-02-20T03:30:00.000-05:002024-02-20T03:30:00.150-05:00Blog Tour- MISS AUSTEN INVESTIGATES: THE HAPLESS MILLINER by @NovelistJessica With An Interview & #Giveaway! @UnionSqandCo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVvUxbAu-XeaakuOo7TyeTC4u2L15flTiyiO6lRXR6bAFO8ZIw1jlV4oI3fD2H5JhGKoLYz5jX6torRgxghcqLHlKW3Y5A7kGANTAKWS-44ROqcxK4AT6QadeVUYEWfZ9o3hUuqtNJyuH9SlLGkEBMxg7SkBPv4qetJhwDiskNGAdSoxrXN7nixUzXrBVv/s16000/THE%20HAPLESS%20MILLINER.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the MISS AUSTEN INVESTIGATES: THE HAPLESS MILLINER by Jessica Bull Blog Tour
hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar
Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk158886978"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/THE-HAPLESS-MILLINER" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxtc41C5H3S7pi5JDVQHghvAbZ54FOcztOc561RXW8kG4xKe8s03-rn1qOyOAyr72kCzo7_KNEx8qGqLGovN5iMeB5CNbLCj6pUv628n0B7p-NH4R-BBi4mNKMubAOUOiqeh-MkU3agq_60zw0sbVigxMRMMI8FcqIwSbx3yMrEI-gd67vu50hM09Gfrx2/w266-h400/9781454951803_bba30.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> MISS
AUSTEN INVESTIGATES: THE HAPLESS MILLINER<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jessica Bull<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February 27, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 368<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157658150-miss-austen-investigates"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/THE-HAPLESS-MILLINER"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/THE-HAPLESS-MILLINER</span></span></span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk150509457;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">A witty, engaging murder mystery
featuring Jane Austen as an intrepid amateur sleuth—the first in a series.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
Jane Austen—sparkling, spirited, and incredibly clever—is suddenly thrust into
a mystery when a milliner’s dead body is found locked inside a cupboard in the
middle of a ball. When Jane’s brother Georgy is found with some jewelry
belonging to the deceased, the local officials see it as an open-and-shut case:
one which is likely to end with his death. Jane is certain that he is innocent,
and there is more to the murder than meets the eye. Her investigations send her
on a journey through local society, as Jane’s suspect list keeps on growing—
and her keen observational skills of people will be put to the test to solve
the crime and save her brother. <br />
<br />
<b>Featuring the same lively wit, insightful social commentary, and relatable
characters that have made Jane Austen books into perennial classics, this first
entry in the Miss Austen Investigates series is perfect for anyone who
enjoyed <i>The Dante Club</i> by Matthew Pearl or other historical
mystery books based on real people, as well as fans looking to add to their
Jane Austen collection.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158886978;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Interview <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For the readers: can you tell us a
little bit about your book and the characters?</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">My debut novel, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Miss Austen Investigates: The Hapless
Milliner</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">, is a tribute to the life and work of Jane Austen in the form of a
murder mystery. It begins with 33nineteen-year-old Jane enjoying a flirtation
with a handsome gentleman at a glittering ball. Unfortunately, their romance is
cut short when a milliner is found bludgeoned to death. Jane wants to solve the
crime as she knew and respected the milliner, but the case turns personal after
her gentle brother, Georgy, is accused. Now she has only seven weeks to find
the true culprit, or Georgy will be hanged for a crime she knows he could never
commit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What are you working on now?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I’m editing <i>The Foreign Princess</i>,
which is the second book in the <i>Miss Austen Investigates</i> series. In the
summer of 1797, Jane travels to Kent to look after her brother Neddy’s children
and further her writing. Once arrived, she realizes her time would be better
spent uncovering the true identity of a mysterious young woman claiming to be a
foreign princess, kidnapped by pirates and held for ransom, before the
interloper can swindle Neddy’s adoptive mother out of her fortune and steal the
much-anticipated inheritance all the Austens rely on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Were any of the characters in <i>The
Hapless Milliner</i> inspired by people from your real life?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Nearly all the characters are based on
the real people in Austen’s life, rather than my own, and I have pieced
together their lively personalities from surviving accounts and letters. But I
must admit, whenever I was trying to come up with one of Mrs. Austen’s
withering rebukes to her daughter, I would ask myself what my own mum might say!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Who was your favorite character to
write? What about your least favorite?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My favorite was Jane: this series is
really an excuse for me to spend as much time with, and take my readers as
close to, my hero as possible. Mary was a surprise favorite. Austen and Mary
Lloyd’s real-life relationship was complicated, as they were genuinely close but,
after Mary married Austen’s eldest brother, James, their friendship became
strained. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Despite this, when Austen was dying, it
was Mary who Austen’s sister, Cassandra, turned to for help nursing her through
her final illness. Cassandra knew she could trust Mary to care for Austen as no
other would. I really wanted to convey this sense of a loyal friendship that
could endure through the years, despite many differences of opinion and character.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I found it difficult to write about
the actual murder, as I’m quite squeamish and very emotional. It was important
for me to show Madame Renault was more than just ‘a victim’: I wanted her to be
a character in her own right, whose life had been unfairly snatched away. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What is your favorite passage/scene in
your book?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I took great delight in making all the
things Austen did in real life integral to solving the mystery. In particular,
there’s a ball scene at the center of the novel where Jane must dance with as
many gentlemen as possible in order to further her investigation. It was enormous
fun to imagine what such an occasion might have been like and to let Jane enjoy
her flirtation with Tom Lefroy, even if it was only for a very brief moment. It
was also exciting passage to write as all of the characters have their own
motives for behaving suspiciously, and these are just about to explode into the
narrative. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What kind of research did you have to
do for the story?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I’m a huge Jane Austen fan and I spent
years reading her work and researching her life before I even thought of writing
about her. As I got closer to planning the novel, I set myself the challenge of
understanding what it was like to physically inhabit Austen’s world, so I could
make my portrayal as immersive as possible. I kept my own flock of hens, learnt
to dance in the Georgian style, and I made and wore my own Regency-inspired gowns.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I also attempted to learn how to ride
a horse - something which I later realized is very difficult as an adult. It
did not go well, as you might be able to glean from Jane’s attitude to riding
horseback in the story! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lightning Round
Questions<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What are you
reading right now? <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Sarah Marsh’s <i>A
Sign Of Her Own </i>(Park Row Books, June 2024) - an incredibly moving and
fascinating story of a young deaf woman’s struggle to find acceptance. <i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Favorite social
media site?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Instagram – I can
spend hours watching reels of people recreating historical costumes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Favorite
Superhero or Villain?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Can I choose an
Austen Villain? If so Lady Catherine de Bourgh is an absolute legend. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Favorite TV show?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Hulu’s <i>The
Great, </i>which starred Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great of Russia. I
especially love its tagline ‘an occasionally true story’, which could apply
equally to <i>Miss Austen Investigates</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Sweet or Salty?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Both – but I’m a
chocoholic. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Any Phobias?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I used to be very
afraid of big dogs, but I have my own little pooch now (Toby, a Jack Russel X
Toy Poodle) and I’m working very hard to conquer this fear. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Song you can’t
get enough of right now?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 200%;">Shake It Out</span></i><span style="line-height: 200%;"> by Florence and
the Machine. I always make a playlist to help set the mood for each of my
writing projects and this is the unofficial theme song for the second <i>Miss
Austen Investigates</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">2024 Movie you’re
most looking forward to?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 200%;">Argylle </span></i><span style="line-height: 200%;">– because the
idea of a writer getting to inhabit the world she created is irresistible. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Do you play video
games? If so what are some of your favorites?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My husband installed
a retro arcade machine in our lounge, so I’m reliving my youth by playing <i>Street
Fighter</i> with my daughters. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Jessica Bull</span>:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jessicabullnovelist/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="401" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc3na7TU-uOvlMe_Ibd8AylS6V_24x95IzhNICUJMkxknWMza0NuQh2CgHIG6awX2pmQoSn6cCPIj9IFzWwrLrn0mx4TFI6CZ3DAUVRva4tnvph6PKO2k6flk8_6PHR4p5b207yqzBLq_c_ZMDnKuKooK9S_8Dj8DBQrm2J0l79mwiZ79H5mxfPqHMMVIw/s320/Jessica%20Bull%20-%20Credit%20Cassie%20Baruc.png" width="214" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Jessica
Bull</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> grew up in
southeast London, where she still lives with her husband, two daughters, and
far too many pets. She’s addicted to stories and studied English Literature at
Bristol University, and Information Science at City University, London. She
began work as a librarian (under the false impression she could sit and read
all day), before becoming a communications consultant. Miss Austen
Investigates: <i>The Hapless Milliner</i> is her debut novel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://twitter.com/NovelistJessica"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jessicabullnovelist/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jessicabullnovelist" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">TikTok</a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8018242.Jessica_Bull"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Goodreads</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3wh2faZ"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a finished copy of MISS AUSTEN INVESTIGATES: THE HAPLESS MILLINER,
US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends March
5th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/26/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-32163757290063734482024-02-20T03:00:00.012-05:002024-02-20T03:00:00.348-05:00Cover Reveal- UNTIL THE LAST PAGE by @CGadouryAuthor With An Excerpt & A #$$10 Amazon GC Giveaway! @InimitableBooks <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR4dGZsm0MH90UMKTc2hEmtnFVV4bZfLubF-txaYfp2qKcjV9FEmqMPfk0rdtvpNRbmWrrVmS-T1jUd-NZOXv9El0DZFfika-gpYTkbC3VReYD-50XB08sFdOAyHDSkc3eASI9E7lNLCUbezUgFvLPo_X-AI3NTT6_KuvoqLkIyiIeQJHe-VJG8XptF6Ic/s16000/COVER%20REVEAL.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Today Chantal
Gadoury and </span><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
are revealing the cover for UNTIL THE LAST PAGE, her new fantasy romance book which
releases August 6, 2024! Check out the awesome cover and enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">On to the
reveal! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://books2read.com/UNTIL-THE-LAST-PAGE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3600" data-original-width="2500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgGLm9fKq-Yb-6joad4VVDkw68LV7any8VpK0Mjtk9Gf-z_5JP2j50sHD4WBWUpmp5OaDSxAuHhVKLciDeZCM6yZJD5PN2th401yBqb1uP-SbETEoAESVhcsEmtZWR7wGg5omnwlucFf3_LJZRYBBP_30Ru48-HrHIGv8N2IFWPNb_28zZ7J8r5k94_qSa/w444-h640/UNTL%20THE%20LAST%20PAGE.jpeg" width="444" /></span></a></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">About The Book:</span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk159238964"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Title:</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> UNTIL
THE LAST PAGE<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Author: </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chantal Gadoury<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> August 6, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Formats:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Hardcover, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Find it:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199798677-until-the-last-page"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Goodreads</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"></span><a href="https://books2read.com/UNTIL-THE-LAST-PAGE"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">https://books2read.com/UNTIL-THE-LAST-PAGE</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Discover what happens when a young woman
unexpectedly finds herself inside a book of fairytales where she is charged
with breaking a frog prince's curse and searching for a way home.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
<br />
Every good fairytale begins with <i>"Once Upon a Time,"</i> or
they're supposed to at least. But for twenty-five year old Josephine Hart, her
"<i>Once Upon a Time"</i> began with her <i>literally </i>crash
landing inside a book of fairy tales and nearly crushing a frog—who is actually
a prince. An annoying, snarky frog prince named Aneurin, seeking the kiss of
true love to break his curse. He vows that if Jo agrees to help him find his
princess, he will get her home.<br />
<br />
With every turn of the page, their adventure leads them deeper into fairytales
familiar to Jo. Through their journey, they discover that despite their initial
clashing, they're both exactly what each other needs. It is only when they
encounter a devious man with a talent for spinning straw into gold that they
realize just how quickly their plot can take an unexpected twist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk159238964;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Until the Last
Page – Excerpt: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Surely, you
must be from the southern lands. Just look at your attire,” the frog continued,
lifting a small hand towards me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I couldn’t
help but notice the way his knobby little fingers were webbed together. I slid
my gaze down to my white knotted top and jeans shorts before lifting my eyes
back to the frog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
creature’s eyes remained transfixed on me, as if I was the one from a foreign
country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“These are my clothes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“As I can see. Such attire <i>must</i>
come from the Southern Lands,” it replied before adding, “where the peasants
get their clothes from the rag bin.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now, this
animal was just offensive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“<i>You’re</i> a <i>frog</i>,” I
retorted, as though that should have been enough to refute his insult. This was
going on record as one of the most bizarre dreams I’d ever had in my life. As a
child, I’d always dreamed of possessing the ability to speak with animals, just
as nearly every fairytale princess could. But <i>this…</i>this was <i>not </i>what
I imagined—a creature of such small, slimy stature, commenting so rudely on my
attire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“For now,” he responded. “And you’re
just a girl who nearly <i>drowned</i> me.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I thought the water would <i>help</i>
you,” I replied quickly, biting the inside of my cheek. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The frog
crossed its arms against its chest. It was weird that he not only talked like a
human, but acted like one, too. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“As I said, I nearly <i>drowned </i>thanks
to you,” the frog scowled. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Well, I’m sorry,” I quipped,
rolling my eyes. I couldn’t believe I was having this conversation, with a <i>frog,</i>
nonetheless. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Perhaps we could start with
introductions,” the frog continued, rising to his feet. Unable to hide my
astonishment at his ability to stand on two legs, I just stared. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Uhh…” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Is that
your way of agreeing?” he asked. “Or is that your name?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“I’m not
giving you my name,” I replied, shaking my head. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“And why not?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“It doesn’t really matter, does it?”
I looked down at him, incredulous. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The frog
frowned at my hesitation. “Have you forgotten it?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“No, I
haven’t forgotten it,” I snapped, shaking my head. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">About
Chantal:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="http://www.instagram.com/chantalgadouryauthor" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1679" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhylDAQ3kicdedkoo3q2X7EkKJbgHem8SULx4gfnW_A148ZGCkcC9VWnyuE-M-tgczs8Uw4krSNnp42m5R3x_5Nuwnk5lCfDHj98k-hkt_k1G38IoOqRXChK0mubzYeebKQf7Qpa_Bh46oNcjILJkGAR0gVCC-8T5ZC_T9zK_SqhXKuWl3UGOhwi0kB7t_W/s320/Chantal%20Gadoury%20Author%20Photo%20.jpeg" width="214" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chantal
Gadoury is a best selling fairytale-retelling and romance author, living in the
beautiful countryside of Muncy, Pennsylvania with her mom and family yorkie,
Taran.<br />
<br />
When Chantal isn't pursuing her next writing endeavor, she enjoys spending time
with her loved ones, and taking long walks to the sounds of BTS. She is a
TikTok enthusiast, loves all things Disney and loves a good, romantic K-Drama.<br />
<br />
Chantal first started writing stories at the age of seven and continues that
love of writing today. After graduating from Susquehanna University with a
degree in Creative Writing, writing novels has become a dream come true.</span><span> </span></span></p>
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Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-2968577800596333692024-02-17T03:30:00.001-05:002024-02-17T03:30:00.146-05:00Cover Reveal- IN ANOTHER TIME by @jeswinterspring With An Excerpt & A #Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqd0Z5OGeLWF2gL9-mAtrzK0Rf7yn0FGc0U9wzbNsjntVvv7aGxfP4sEYVc_3Bw4Dt9vVs1AQZKjfzFKlpT4iE8r8kRJGOMFCgrXKbRZyQpHhu_LJBqoa5x-7C-81I3iVmPDPXQO2vnhxzOtoAk93FfwzlBio1nOBpC6tV23uzDz3XF0eKG_EIqGAE_Qc5/s16000/COVER%20REVEAL.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today Jessie Winterspring and </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> are
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On to the reveal! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://books2read.com/IN-ANOTHER-TIME" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2805" data-original-width="1837" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi00A7w-8f121qutD9MHpains3xs6XI4p4MYHopM0T626T7L24e4szpSrpmMCWv16EYituBgXrnrnfRQat15tQzFCl68BePI3TD8AmcLnMMsOHqHskJdSLi0B8xbuJtRJvwuJwhs-HkUqNQfy_NnMiLTAWPQlyecXRT2xKYg3HMCasFQCsZppsrhQGJVmBg/w420-h640/ebook%20cover.jpg" width="420" /></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk158897712"></a><a name="_Hlk101517841"></a><a name="_Hlk109641341"></a><a name="_Hlk118108087"></a><a name="_Hlk119244074"></a><a name="_Hlk123038795"></a><a name="_Hlk125450106"></a><a name="_Hlk133405784"></a><a name="_Hlk134099367"></a><a name="_Hlk143522103"></a><a name="_Hlk149132729"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> IN ANOTHER TIME<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jessie Winterspring<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> October 17, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 327<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200673133-witch-fire"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%; 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143522103;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149132729;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">What if the future is predetermined
and nothing you do can change it?</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">All he wanted was to go back to the
future, but that also meant living in a world without her.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Leonardo</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">My world turned upside down when I
broke a bottle containing a wish. I’m an easy-going person, and I hate anything
brainy, but the damn bottle made me travel back in time, back to 1956
when <i>Abuela </i>was only nineteen. Younger than me!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I might need to use my brain to
figure out how to get back to 2020, preferably before I alter my grandparents'
history. Befriending them isn’t part of the plan, and falling for Celestina,
my <i>abuela</i>'s future best friend, is definitely not supposed to
happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Celestina</span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">All Celestina wanted was her mother's
love, but because she’s a product of rape, she learned to accept that her dream
would never come true. However, when Leonardo materialized out of her bottle in
front of her, she thought that if magic was possible, her wishes may not be out
of reach.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">In Another Time is a time travel
romance set in Beniardà, a small sun-drenched village in Francoist Spain, where
time seemed to be standing still.</span></i></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158897712;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">If you're a fan of old crushes
realized, age gap trope, and romance that transcends time, then this book is
for you. Click the <b>PRE-ORDER</b> button now to join Leonardo and
Celestina on a journey across the decades for love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Excerpt:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Her knuckles whitened as she clenched her fist. “I’m going to
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">campo </i>soon, but can I meet you in
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">embalse </i>in the afternoon?” She
looked around, her gaze furtive, before focusing back on me. “I really need to
speak to you. Alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I inched closer while she kept retreating, until her back was
against the wall bordering the road down to Font Vella. “Alone? <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">With me? </i>Here?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">If someone asked what I was doing in that moment, I, who
never ran out of words, wouldn’t be able to answer. I had no idea what I was
doing. I shouldn’t get too deeply involved with people from the village. It was
bad enough that I’d let <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Abuela</i> know
the truth, which could change God knows what in the future. I couldn’t take
another risk by hitting on Celestina, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Abuela’s</i>
future best friend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">But it was too hard to hold back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I grew up seeing and hearing about Celestina. She was like a
mysterious myth to me. I met my first girlfriend when I was seventeen. However,
no matter how many relationships I ended up in later, Celestina had always been
at the back of my mind. This mystery was now in front of me, within my reach.
Without thinking, I grasped a handful of curls, right at her cheek. She let out
an audible gasp as I let the strands slip through my fingers, the action soft
and addictive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Leonardo, are you here?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I snapped straight, the spell broken by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Abuela</i>’s gentle voice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Celestina lay both hands on my chest and pushed me. “I’ll see
you in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">embalse!” </i>she said and ran
off, leaving me wondering what time we were to meet at.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Was that Celestina?” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Abuela</i>
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I shoved my hands into my jacket pockets. “Yep.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“When did the two of you become close?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“We’re not.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Uh, huh.” She gave me an I-don’t-believe-you look, and I
knew I needed to confess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“It’s nothing. I’m here looking for a clue how to get back to
the future, and she asked to meet me in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">embalse.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">She glanced in the direction Celestina took. “Why?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“I don’t know. She said she wanted to speak to me. Alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Abuela</span></i><span style="line-height: 107%;"> laughed a little.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">¿Qué?</i>” I asked,
feeling defensive all of a sudden.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Jessie Winterspring</span>:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://jessiewinterspring.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoAo-G50UXkJ2SjjmVNDBNE9cUyPC0tqP4ksePOdnY_eQVS8pwhvcAn1d0cVj-UDl814dwtCiKAA6RzHDkcQNP0U7GEvgECz2Q2h2ixmgHWc2YLZR7OErFu41zgU0PUDRyAx_fLjnSNCiezTewOb16V5hbLANjLwv9JEJXDi44lLV8MF9ST1LvFG5JgymD/s320/Jessie%20Avatar.png" width="320" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jessie Winterspring is a Filipina romance author who loves
writing about found families, cheerful, and adorkable heroes/heroines. She
often daydreams of traveling through time, but it's an impossible dream, so she
did the next best thing. She writes them and sends her lucky characters on
adventures that she should be having.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jessie lives near the Mediterranean coast with her family
and. Jessie and her family live close to the Mediterranean Sea. She likes to
spend her time reading and falling in love with fictional characters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">When she's not writing or reading, she usually spends her
time on Instagram (@jessiewinterspring) and occasionally posts short stories on
her blog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Sign up for Jessie’s <a href="https://jessiewinterspring.com/#sample-signup">newsletter</a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://jessiewinterspring.com/">Website</a> | <a href="https://jessiewinterspring.substack.com/">Blog</a> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/jeswinterspring"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jessiewinterspring"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Facebook</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jessiewinterspring"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jessiewinterspring/">TikTok</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk158384983"></a><a name="_Hlk101517841"></a><a name="_Hlk109641341"></a><a name="_Hlk118108087"></a><a name="_Hlk119244074"></a><a name="_Hlk123038795"></a><a name="_Hlk125450106"></a><a name="_Hlk133405784"></a><a name="_Hlk134099367"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/KILL-CALL" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1650" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit6b6ILL-E8NKaL0gJez-GKZxd1ZcffTt1xXC7jVCU8V4dP7xM_IuYpl0KakR918FHLYSFSMKt6KN8TyAX6g25zNeiZrmMjGzgWrdasKu53JCOVHJP568-6mE8FXfH2_x5OoYc0-FfRXfVeL68ge27D8xFIN2-2a_UWb9UB8vHIF5S0ArbBT6Bf_dqREXn/w259-h400/Wooten_KILL-CALL_FC.jpg" width="259" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> KILL
CALL<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jeff Wooten<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February
20, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">CamCat
Books<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover,
Paperback, eBook, Audiobook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 320<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62929567-kill-call"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/KILL-CALL"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/KILL-CALL</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk118108087;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk119244074;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk123038795;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125450106;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk133405784;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk134099367;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk151282241;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Dreams do come true. It’s Jude's job
to make sure they don’t.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Born with the curse of prophetic
nightmares, Jude sees violent murders through the eyes of the killer before
they happen. His father, who shares Jude’s dark gift, has trained Jude since
birth to save the innocent and to kill the killer. A life for a life―it’s the
only way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">But everything goes awry when Hanna
Smith, the young woman he was supposed to save, rescues herself instead, and
catches Jude in her home. Fate isn’t inescapable, but it demands balance. While
Hanna may be safe for now, Jude knows that the killer will strike again, only
next time there will be no warning. Jude must now find the killer on his own,
without the visions to aid him, in order to carry out the task he’s been
training for before it’s too late.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158384983;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A day in
your writing life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I try to get
up at 5 AM. I take a shower, get dressed for work, then go and sit in front of
my computer. I tell the Google to play whatever I feel like that morning, and I
start typing words. Hopefully good words, but that is not always the case. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If it’s cold
outside I open a window. The cold air wakes me up. I’ve never measured, but I
bet I get more writing done when it’s cold. If it’s hot or raining I leave the
window closed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I don’t use
a laptop. I can’t really stand to write on a laptop. I wish I did, but I am a
creature of habit, and I’ve been on a desktop since the start. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I write from
5:30 until about 7. Then I’m out the door and to my job as a physical
therapist. I work until 5:30, come home, and maybe I write some more, but
usually I’m beat. To boot, I have a wife, three kids, and a very cute dog that
need my attention in the evening. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I do this
five days a week. On Saturdays, I usually sleep in until six, get up and make
coffee, and write until my brain hurts. That’s usually noonish. That is if I
don’t have family stuff, then I do that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If I can, I
will write in the afternoon a little. Maybe until five, then I’m done. I know
from experience that it’s a losing proposition to try and write past five.
Sundays, I just do what I can, when I can. But some Sundays I take completely
off. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I enjoy
writing. I told someone the other day that I don’t play golf. I don’t fish
much. I write. It’s more than a hobby, though. I love my day job, but I’d be a
liar if I said I wouldn’t want to be a full-time writer if the opportunity
presented itself. To that end, I’m going to need everyone that reads this to
buy two copies of KILL CALL. Three copies would be acceptable as well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The words
come slow some days and slower on other days. I do not write fast. Maybe that’s
why I’m a fifty-year-old debut author, but mostly, I think it was meant to
happen this way. I am very happy that people are reading my stuff in larger
volumes than ever before. The fact that most seem to be enjoying it only makes
it more rewarding. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Jeff Wooten</span>:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/Jeff_Wooten_" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOQit-5vqjS5KXaTWyWsDAYHvFYaUBxxuTqPQmyqhJEbWf5Kli3QLSRNhoWQnvs0tHZWYpQh5L2MVbL5m1mULQlM_ajM0402Rf53mzoPLHDbrHcJWUy9zX9MYg-Ov7xVXSUD72vVZRQqzRjtt2ISPgyzKHaOhrbmNXDAN_sgxnwrqsMgPutqZsQ1AxNSY9/s320/Jeff%20Wooten.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jeff Wooten
lives in Arkansas with his wife, three kids, and one dog. He is a physical
therapist that works with adults and kids with orthopedic issues.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Jeff_Wooten_"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jeff_wooten03/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffwooten3">TikTok</a> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3394088.Jeff_Wooten"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Goodreads</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://amzn.to/49vh8oA"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a finished copy of KILL CALL, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends March
15th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/12/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://madamewriterofwrongs.com/">Writer of Wrongs</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/13/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://adreamwithindream.blogspot.com/">A Dream
Within A Dream </a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Guest Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/14/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://kountrygirlbookaholic.blogspot.com/">Kountry
Girl Bookaholic</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/15/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/darkfantasyreviews/">@darkfantasyreviews</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/16/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://instagram.com/jlreadstoperpetuity?igshid=OTk0YzhjMDVlZA==">jlreadstoperpetuity
</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">IG Post/TikTok Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/17/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.twochicksonbooks.com/">Two Chicks on
Books</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Guest Post/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/18/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.yabookscentral.com/ya-books-blog/">YA
Books Central</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Interview/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/19/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://littleredreads.com/">Little Red Reads</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2/20/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/callistoscalling">Callisto’s
calling </a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-62792031273144997162024-02-14T03:00:00.030-05:002024-02-14T03:00:00.151-05:00Blog Tour- HALLS OF FIRE by Christian Cura With An Excerpt & #Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguARhGsAQqEcMfVrOqvKHUEMl-LdcyTXiVa5H5omf92rnnIMsOadScdXcyHcqLSclBzTmuHBM8-_2cOQ-yCmkOpXrgLRtfqISn0H9UYbnSRL_-JzcSeL1LuXNqCZr6Tha_qO3UYMSOxh608wG7G1SM1WAWBRc_4hn0mY5U0Qbi4w1gABpIlQfKZQk7Jafy/s16000/HALLS%20OF%20FIRE.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the HALLS OF FIRE by Christian Cura Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. Check out
my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk158541623"></a><a name="_Hlk101957556"></a><a name="_Hlk124508398"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/HALLS-OF-FIRE" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1575" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9XyQay70OIHOQfLuEplRdu64gUbtkiyw7QrIjq0_xxT5dmGGvfiDtMCILBdLXy7CXG2Qoji_j5s2wP4fqC7M2d0cOcKNnODcRbGHVVUlxqsuOkdKlizDZ5aggdw2ndez4Cfo1b-Tyi0QAi57b5JNNTEh0mpze52b6F5KxICk27-0zHzh5fufYigR9CacF/w263-h400/hallsoffire.jpg" width="263" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> HALLS OF FIRE<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Christian
Cura<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February 2, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Christian
Cura<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 365<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58027152-temple-of-ice"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/HALLS-OF-FIRE"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/HALLS-OF-FIRE</span></span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101957556;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk124508398;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk131153413;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">“Action-packed and unpredictable; a
wholly absorbing LGBTQ fantasy.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> “<i>The
Prairies Book Review</i><br />
<br />
Califare is a city in the sun filled with verdant gardens, glittering canals,
and buildings adorned with murals. This is the home of the summer mages who
command fire, light, sand, and heat. But unbeknownst to the inhabitants, a
darkness has penetrated the city walls tainting all that it touches.<br />
<br />
After a months-long voyage across the Nereidan Ocean, Tama and her companion,
Liseli, arrive in the capital believing they have left Khione and its dangers
behind. But not even a full day passes before they realize how wrong they are.
When they go to the Amphitheater for the opening ceremonies of the Games,
corrupted creatures strike. Immediately, Tama leaps into action, fighting
alongside Cordacia’s finest warriors to defend the spectators. What follows is
an investigation that takes her straight to the upper echelons of the summer
mage academy and to the peak of Mt. Piro where she uncovers startling
revelations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk158541623;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Reviews:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">". . .
Christian Cura's Temple of Ice is a fast-paced, action-packed fantasy story
full of thrills, suspense, and unsuspecting moments . . ."-<b>Rolanda
Lyles, Readers' Favorite</b> <i>5 out of 5 stars</i><br />
<br />
". . . a thrilling book to read."-<b>ILoveUniqueBooks.com</b> <i>4
out of 5 stars</i><br />
<br />
"Temple of Ice is an action-filled sword and sorcery novel. With a
well-crafted magic system, an interesting setting, and fascinating characters,
fantasy fans will find plenty to love in Christian Cura's suspenseful
novel."-<b>Literary Titan</b> <i>4 out of 5 stars</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrdL-z7EAHsP-rFT5z2KEdWVJEMYgYE8hkl8Q7fhp_6SW9oQTWCErvB7kAxRsyEydLHBpiUT2dHU7hY289e2NzqjlCwl3XfJ7SNIK3cC1KXpMy8qERGV01cPAEpCQc1fQ6GTbCQR7_f0DpcvPeyk401Y6YrdvIAwv42v2ymBPcXhJgMK5ys7M96R8NEzXA/s2400/templecoverhighres.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1575" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrdL-z7EAHsP-rFT5z2KEdWVJEMYgYE8hkl8Q7fhp_6SW9oQTWCErvB7kAxRsyEydLHBpiUT2dHU7hY289e2NzqjlCwl3XfJ7SNIK3cC1KXpMy8qERGV01cPAEpCQc1fQ6GTbCQR7_f0DpcvPeyk401Y6YrdvIAwv42v2ymBPcXhJgMK5ys7M96R8NEzXA/w263-h400/templecoverhighres.jpg" width="263" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/TEMPLE-OF-ICE"></a><a href="https://books2read.com/TEMPLE-OF-ICE">Grab book 1, TEMPLE OF ICE now!</a></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The following is an excerpt from</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">HALLS OF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">FIRE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Salvatore trembled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In moments, a sea
of glowing red eyes lit up the dark. All the animals that chose to hide rather
than flee were now in Malsumi’s clutches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“We need to go
now,” Salvatore cried.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">They turned and
bolted for their mounts, but froze after only two steps.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Foggy tentacles had
constricted around their <i>kiraka </i>who now writhed in vain. <br />
The beasts squawked and flailed about, dirt swelling into the air. In seconds,
the markings <br />
of Malsumi covered their faces.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Salvatore’s mouth
went dry and an icy dagger plunged into his gut.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The black mist
withdrew, and the corrupted <i>kiraka </i>stalked toward them, ready <br />
to pounce.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Heat touched his
shoulder, and he glanced at Giulia who had summoned a fireball.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Six more corrupted
creatures—three foxes, a beat, a deer, and a panther entered <br />
the clearing behind them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">They closed in like
a noose.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Salvatore spent so
much time believing he might die in the Gauntlet. He never thought his demise
would come sooner. If only he could see his mother and Liseli one more time. <br />
At least he wasn’t alone. Salvatore and Giulia had done nearly everything
together for over <br />
a decade. Now, they would die together.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Then, the sun
exploded into the clearing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The light burned
through Salvatore’s eyelids and enveloped him with warmth. When <br />
he opened his eyes once more, a lion spirit towered above him. The top of his
head just barely cleared its shoulder, and the lion’s mane rippled in the
breeze. Soaring overhead was a dove whose cry pierced the night . . .</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .2in;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Christian Cura</span>:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.authorchriscura.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="200" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQPKsRe27nK_I2YDmFiGiMae-GIaC3notMG67WiajS_YNB7mPufRfYN-4e-CvjStHB2afcXqsZyeBLVf7IIPVaj2NT7DbZlkxRvL1XoB1LRXR9FVgrDmf3dJ8bRhFkkSn8Vg9-Q1SYURsDX4KrnNI-gMjjFW2lZZeXxyoL_4MrBlnUwN6SC34IksVTs_QV/s1600/Christian.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Christian
Cura is an independent writer who dreams of becoming a successful author. Ever
since he read Lord of the Rings as a teenager, it has been his dream to write
and publish a novel of his own. Christian's favorite authors include J.R.R.
Tolkien, J.K. Rowling and Robert Jordan. When he is not writing, Christian can
be found getting beaten up at his MMA gym. His other hobbies include, drawing,
photography, graphic design and eating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.authorchriscura.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Website</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/writerchriscura"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Facebook</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/artistchriscura/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@authorchriscura"><span style="line-height: 107%;">TikTok</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19716761.Christian_Cura"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Goodreads</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3lVweAu"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/christian-cura"><span style="line-height: 107%;">BookBub</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a $10 Amazon Gift Card, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends March
2nd, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://kountrygirlbookaholic.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Kountry Girl Bookaholic</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/17/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://madamewriterofwrongs.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Writer of Wrongs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Excerpt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/18/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://adreamwithindream.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">A Dream Within A Dream </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/19/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://fireandicereads.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Fire
and Ice</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/20/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.ladyhawkeye.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Lady Hawkeye</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/21/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://instagram.com/jlreadstoperpetuity?igshid=OTk0YzhjMDVlZA=="><span style="color: #1155cc;">jlreadstoperpetuity </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gryffindorbookishnerd"><span style="color: #1155cc;">GryffindorBookishnerd</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">IG Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/23/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://zeldaknight.com/blog"><span style="color: #1155cc;">The Guild</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/24/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/anitralovesbooksanddogs/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@anitralovesbooksanddogs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Three:</span></u></b></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/25/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.instagram.com/enjoyingbooksagain"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@enjoyingbooksagain</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/callistoscalling"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Callisto’s calling </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-58381443722486244192024-02-13T03:30:00.021-05:002024-02-13T03:30:00.138-05:00Blog Tour- SOXKENDI: A FAMILY OF DRAGONS by Camilla Tracy With Camilla's Favorite Video Games & A #Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIEuIA4BG_Di0LemCRZL-i0kCDE6H9vfZmcguIFO_DCx8Q_WLXy-KCagmXUiKDKkUmpMWAOOrmCy8ADrglvQqU8bRRI77E81BHTnQDFCeKOI9Sc7WLCTaT8oauMQDAgSr5FJGQgCLTWk80nBvJw4f5GWtoZIpMsiBai8KTxLdKFB4lgVhbfDokad1y0G0i/s16000/SOXKENDI.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the SOXKENDI: A FAMILY
OF DRAGONS by Camilla Tracy Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk149645585"></a><a name="_Hlk98752404"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/SOXKENDI-A-FAMILY-OF-DRAGONS" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2551" data-original-width="1651" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrY-rdhqazERSJsIoqRVdFA1t0Cf3ik6LCT7RAHPYZWHEDqRN2z72wP78bEk4hNVzVPBz0Ct1u5FKeBwhi5lSZFLEgMZF45StnpF2Pm2kpvTkkeyH78BvjXv37JKtBJgkUUYGmCP0GN3v_hum2vkF4DXsFEazMZhkWREhD8xFRwPvKOoAoXRM9EcFx2v7i/w259-h400/Soxkendi%20cover.jpg" width="259" /></a></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> SOXKENDI:
A FAMILY OF DRAGONS<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Camilla Tracy<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February 10, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span><a name="_Hlk158370685"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Pudel
Threads Publishing</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 402<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202539870-soxkendi"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/SOXKENDI-A-FAMILY-OF-DRAGONS"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/SOXKENDI-A-FAMILY-OF-DRAGONS</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Fate can be cruel.<br />
A standalone novel. If you've read the Threads of Magic series, this book is a
centuries ahead prequel that also stands alone.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
Alexius has been ignored for centuries. He’s quietly taken the blame for his
sister’s death and simply tries to get by unnoticed, until his heart won’t let
him ignore his mate. Will she bring him closer to his family or pull him away?<br />
<br />
Aexie is trying to figure out why she’s turned into a raging, angry dragon that
can’t express what she wants to while not letting her anxiety control her.<br />
<br />
Jaxon fights to decide how best to keep the family together or if he should
just give up and travel the world.<br />
<br />
Xerus is learning to navigate the ancient love of his life and run the kingdom
he’s been brought up to rule.<br />
<br />
As siblings grow up, their duties to themselves clash with their
responsibilities to their family and realm. Mysterious attacks force them to
put the kingdom first and work together. They need to figure out who the
culprit is before their entire realm falls.<br />
<br />
Will they come together or will they abandon their duties and watch their
kingdom fall to evil?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Top 5
favorite Video Games.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I’ll admit
I’m not much of a gamer. When the dog started to laugh at me for not being able
to shoot the ducks, I was highly discouraged. When the tiny 8-bit Mario kept
leaping into the lava on that very dark blue screen, I gave up completely.
Being married to a gamer now, I have started to dip my toes back into it, but
please be gentle with me because I’m a noob. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3STnOHu"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Plants versus Zombies</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">: this was the first game I ever
beat. Like ever. I didn’t know beating a game was a thing until I reached the
end of this and watched the little video. No wonder people can game for hours
on end! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_T5XclqCtXfinsLTqwoQTwFL2xR5UxKB5MCG0iXKPJhyB9XViRfKH5GeR0g00znhwpooxXievfk2EsDuTMAsRAcZCoj2_py1vK6ApQxFhqqzBtr40zhOypY5OeRzgBcup1BtlkHBQ5NcAamg-0VL295v9jZoa8-dstHLWqrjl6tRms7Lf2eJrJG6poSZ/s321/PvZ.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="321" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr_T5XclqCtXfinsLTqwoQTwFL2xR5UxKB5MCG0iXKPJhyB9XViRfKH5GeR0g00znhwpooxXievfk2EsDuTMAsRAcZCoj2_py1vK6ApQxFhqqzBtr40zhOypY5OeRzgBcup1BtlkHBQ5NcAamg-0VL295v9jZoa8-dstHLWqrjl6tRms7Lf2eJrJG6poSZ/w400-h196/PvZ.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3wc46xO"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Kingdom Rush</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">: This was the second game I’ve ever beat. I loved the
strategy of this one and while I’m still working on the hardest level, I LOVE
seeing how my gameplan plays out and trying to figure out the best way to use
my resources to survive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXzDvqhJekCr_uEJKfllNYyNglX4_JrDHfArO2KHCfX5PLC-RRn3OB5HeZINaxO6sCbeMlq9tD25R0y5SAbVYvYqmvGE-mmxeo-YNA4Fy26QCcvT5ztnjwh1h2fYn3TMJ1XtE0ZHRjn3BT2I9gBt0s2fn_6oih5AXPCJtsE_psgcOCz3v04-EHX9wU0GG/s321/Rush.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="157" data-original-width="321" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimXzDvqhJekCr_uEJKfllNYyNglX4_JrDHfArO2KHCfX5PLC-RRn3OB5HeZINaxO6sCbeMlq9tD25R0y5SAbVYvYqmvGE-mmxeo-YNA4Fy26QCcvT5ztnjwh1h2fYn3TMJ1XtE0ZHRjn3BT2I9gBt0s2fn_6oih5AXPCJtsE_psgcOCz3v04-EHX9wU0GG/w400-h196/Rush.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/home"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Elder Scrolls</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">: While I’ve never played Elder Scrolls,
I’ve watched my husband play and it’s one of my favorites to watch him play
because it’s just so beautiful. I would love to have some of those landscapes
as artwork in my house! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YF6nUFm66Q5509Zw6JG2ENnvk0Ev6NpxOnxlkiQ1nZW9xI7Hr1PLX662-v84VwxF8jcVaad54aRqN3L5T0c6B1ocjM2uclZErnI-nmapCn8ngJnllgme0y1PyG81l2w-kSS6Q8LBRkY_3T1orHz11MWLBhg9RFw9F-OsisLXnMEukhleiNgjoqaytvPV/s616/ESO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="616" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9YF6nUFm66Q5509Zw6JG2ENnvk0Ev6NpxOnxlkiQ1nZW9xI7Hr1PLX662-v84VwxF8jcVaad54aRqN3L5T0c6B1ocjM2uclZErnI-nmapCn8ngJnllgme0y1PyG81l2w-kSS6Q8LBRkY_3T1orHz11MWLBhg9RFw9F-OsisLXnMEukhleiNgjoqaytvPV/w400-h229/ESO.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #800180;">Jaime here.
I love ESO so I wanted to share a little video clip of the world.</span><o:p></o:p></span>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lmwGPFjyA-E?si=FJhw94UNZyrVjQsz" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HW2zPc"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Tetris</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">: I have been known as the Tetris queen. While I love the
game, I’m especially good at life Tetris – how to get all the leftovers from
Thanksgiving in the fridge? How to fit all those souvenirs in your luggage? How
to stack all those books into the shelf? Totally your girlie. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDDBtK1UIMfyUq1BccF1M4T3dQhN-Y6F__2_77yBXH-sivnGmItyRbV3WYpZZK9y3s9jNHPyEUyX87ZIhZ9RHfjBMUmHsId9lU-B8wFpSya_B5Yfsmu9DU51t-4hms_WdgIcqlDplKkCkKBFxKrzmakeZKcdgv-XEoebQ1yZCBdkMkNyMFWH-uAm0N_5-9/s225/Tetris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDDBtK1UIMfyUq1BccF1M4T3dQhN-Y6F__2_77yBXH-sivnGmItyRbV3WYpZZK9y3s9jNHPyEUyX87ZIhZ9RHfjBMUmHsId9lU-B8wFpSya_B5Yfsmu9DU51t-4hms_WdgIcqlDplKkCkKBFxKrzmakeZKcdgv-XEoebQ1yZCBdkMkNyMFWH-uAm0N_5-9/w400-h400/Tetris.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3wbUNy5"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Tsum Tsum</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">: Okay, remember when I asked for you to be gentle with me? I
realize I’m probably only one of five people left who still have this on their
phone, but I find the game a cute little way to relax. I don’t think I fully
understand how to win at this game, but having a limit of five plays is a
perfect break. Also, Tsum Tsums are so cute! </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIji2KSbav7zafhfR9jZhkkJPBtWu33COUP4XKFAI4V9oHBeHEWuSTOX5qXT5QOtSKMFYfodsjLfftsQRnoAtgmJOzJK5tBzd8H5-CtcIk-wrzS2WOPJgw0jinJE6fPDjv15ZXGkXi0QXNOpD7vtZN3fsnJ-1dywqPgIvXV6UsV3qS18kstEYu5H-hLCbY/s522/Tsum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="522" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIji2KSbav7zafhfR9jZhkkJPBtWu33COUP4XKFAI4V9oHBeHEWuSTOX5qXT5QOtSKMFYfodsjLfftsQRnoAtgmJOzJK5tBzd8H5-CtcIk-wrzS2WOPJgw0jinJE6fPDjv15ZXGkXi0QXNOpD7vtZN3fsnJ-1dywqPgIvXV6UsV3qS18kstEYu5H-hLCbY/w400-h225/Tsum.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Camilla Tracy:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://camillatracy.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="481" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4cd-lyYN48wg1nj_GWnYvuUWerSrWj1a-BywqMy585Q9-aaJmmPRf9koBBZ_Fa_iu_shnTK_AfotzXfg2QNEGeGV1iKb5Y8sk62C6BzpEzaT4wo3meq1N0EL1u4GSGOARDl3vwjKOO-G0oj4grrG1cKhCjydvpb6QNLmoZySk-T8BzJC_cM_4pXEaxGKO/s320/Camilla%20Tracy%20pic.jpeg" width="282" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Camilla is a lover of many mediums of storytelling. She loves
to write YA fantasy with strong heroines who can kick butt, find love, and
adventure with their animals sidekicks. She always has projects on the go and
loves to consume stories of all kinds – books, shows, movies, plays, amongst
many others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">When she is not writing, Camilla is often found exploring
animal behavior, crafting, drinking a hot beverage, and clicker training her
animals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Sign up for Camilla’s <a href="https://camillatracynewsletter.ck.page/ccf58cb5c7">newsletter</a>!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2 winners
will receive a Lunar New Year themed box with a finished copy of SOXKENDI: A
FAMILY OF DRAGONS & swag, US & Canada Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends February
27th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-19940829334380661272024-02-13T03:00:00.030-05:002024-02-13T03:00:00.134-05:00Blog Tour- URBEX PREDATOR by Jens Boele With A Guest Post & #Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKd0mwZsMqUgslEHPiu3OQj9aF02oEFN1Z9u0tlPKRht_9gGRPxEfylrGeKguKy652RRR1OX4X1lysJ1pJ-O2wV1ECgJFPH-cvhbmym0rKxhB2rNt2-vdOcJKRXP1BYLDbQyQx12fFL8NgCtsXFSuE9vqvlbmfl1I1To9UEULy-mTpcHCw_5QH1-_WVdTl/s16000/URBEX%20PREDATOR.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the <b>URBEX PREDATOR </b>by Jens Boele Blog Tour hosted by <a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/">Rockstar Book Tours</a>. Check out my
post and make sure to enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk101517841"></a><a name="_Hlk109641341"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://amzn.to/42rc0Q7" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1697" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmPj6tIUoF7am0WcqYubiF9LKT-zNGQShu-7VPq58roOlCMi4r1X40Ikg3hvo1dXHZrKKcVKOlFBdgC92BX6O7Q3YuOyxw3VdFKm3ukigfIw7zDEcvahzRzb4Zbtplh_nMd-fgOQSo-lLi1PFrUSeOwIVAKrUe_ERmdb91uwhJX_KuxflAI57Yzr1qYy4/w266-h400/UP_Cover_US.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> URBEX PREDATOR</span> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: Take nothin but pictures, leave nothing but
bodies. A Deadly Survival Story.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jens Boele<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February 4, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jens Boele<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover, Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 394<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202431921-urbex-predator"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/42rc0Q7"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"></span></span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3HMZmBl"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Read for FREE with a Kindle Unlimited
membership!</span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk101517841;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk109641341;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk143515659;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Abandoned Horrors. Deranged Souls. A Deadly Survival Story.</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
In the chilling new horror novel, "Urbex Predator," by Jens Boele, a
group of intrepid urban explorers embarks on what they believe to be a routine
trip to an abandoned barracks in the middle of nowhere.<br />
As a relict from the Cold War era, they are a popular destination for
photographers, influencers, and adventurers. A place that is closely guarded
and harbors a multitude of risks. But it’s not just the derelict buildings that
pose a danger.<br />
<br />
Nela and her friend Tess venture to the eerie ruins to complete their
photography thesis, only to find themselves relentlessly pursued through the
darkened corridors by a group of ruthless thugs.<br />
<br />
Zander, Yelka, her sister Vivien, and her manager Damon set out on a photo
shoot, only to be unexpectedly cornered by a gang of depraved youths. As night
descends, the boundaries between life and death blur, and the group is forced
to confront the darkest corners of their own souls.<br />
<br />
As the night deepens, will they fall victim or rise as hunters in the shadows?<br />
<br />
Inspired by early works from literary giants like Jack Ketchum and Richard
Laymon, "Urbex Predator" promises readers a heart-pounding journey
through the realms of fear and survival, where every turn reveals a new
nightmare. Yet, this spine-tingling narrative is not just the product of
imagination; it's also a reflection of author Jens Boele's real-life
experiences as an Urban Explorer, who spent many years venturing into the very
places he describes in his book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Book Trailer:</span></b></p><p></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QtMGBJhLtQw?si=u2Rm6NbFfkmLYcat" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Top 5
favorite Video Games.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">I'm a pretty
laid-back gamer, recently snagged a used PS4 from a buddy. Can't commit to
marathon gaming sessions, so it's all about those quick games, with the
occasional longer dive. That's why I lean into stuff like Tekken or Mortal
Kombat, maybe even a round of Mario Kart for some nostalgic kicks. And when
that nostalgia hits hard, I fire up the old Resident Evil games, you know, the
ones with the good ol' 3rd person view – not so much into the new ones with
that over-the-shoulder perspective. Man, I guess I'm showing my age here. Oh,
and there's a special place in my heart for Games Workshop's Blood Bowl. Used
to play that as a kid on the tabletop, good times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Jens Boele</span>:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://jensboele.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygUIayEbutNb6CpqDTT3h4E9A3C-vTUBjj_-plIKWU-8nhnSopgOKpK6nEIgnd6tqYhw6ixiP6uQ5UTsZ5JOgEIMei1a9SS_fbcfGzyEW-ffwgX3PGjxvSzt14x2jkEJcrldl__8p5IosDl2IqonsrsM5f0_BJOkk5M7yhBKw6MlnGm7wHa-3zrmPe_gI/s1600/Jens.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jens Boele, a veteran media designer in the entertainment
industry, brings over two decades of cinematic expertise to his writing. Born
in Germany in 1975, Jens embarked on his writing odyssey in his youth,
culminating in the publication of his debut book, "Sunshine," in
2015. This was followed by "Hurensohn," and his latest spine-tingling
creation, "Urbex Predator."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jens is a genre-bending author, specializing in horror and
crime thrillers. His narratives often blur genre lines, weaving intricate tales
that plunge readers into the darkest corners of the human psyche. Jens's
storytelling brilliance lies in his fascination with the criminal mind; his
villains are always profoundly human, offering readers a chilling examination
of the psychological aspects of the criminally insane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jens sets himself apart by seamlessly integrating classic
horror with the gritty authenticity of the present day. This innovative fusion
imbues his narratives with a dynamic quality, seamlessly blending archaic
thrills with contemporary intrigue, resulting in an immersive reading
experience that resonates with both vintage enthusiasts and present-day readers
alike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jens Boele's latest endeavor takes his work across borders,
as "Urbex Predator" becomes his first book to be translated into
English. A globetrotter with deep connections to the United States, Jens's
passion for exploration and his international perspective, nurtured by family
and friends in the US, shine through in his writing, offering readers a
captivating blend of horror and cultural diversity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://jensboele.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Website</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> |</span> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/broken_window_shots/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@JensBoele"><span style="line-height: 107%;">YouTube</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23011531.Jens_Boele"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Goodreads</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3HK0RAd"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/alyssa-palombo"><span style="line-height: 107%;">BookBub</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2 winners
will receive an URBEX PREDATOR T-shirt, International.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends March
8th, midnight EST.</span></p></div>
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Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Three:</span></u></b></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-25560937138692488502024-02-05T03:00:00.010-05:002024-02-05T03:00:00.342-05:00Blog Tour- EXTRA INNINGS by @FredBowenBooks With An Excerpt & #Giveaway! @PeachtreePub,@HolidayHouseBks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsd0cCtiyPHUsDhOUaiNxCYoZPl1iKhPdZQGEYfYrBQaIwx8G-8Seu-mv6l2_ahnzUDzK9VD4zcFyfk-rD_TTprt8acTJOUNDpCp0yU7yhUkSFNJOpx3RdjK9DYV3lpJameDjsaPls_z_aQ04UIdpG_fbAHboTTxd0Rh6JN-ZqoIuCp6-UHkJjYlYT0d-/s16000/EXTRA%20INNINGS.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the EXTRA INNINGS by Fred Bowen Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. Check out
my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk157937025"></a><a name="_Hlk132199525"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/EXTRA-INNINGS" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk4LQHnkWAR2fHkiga5oy4OIpiayhKI5SMuqoYm4-H41I89oPLBrcWlN4U-izNA4SQgmTRJUTg2cbI6FdwtbBWLnYaJcV7_HJulXaS4c8NQbYuqYoteX4SdtaZxt58VLtqjTOQ6q-LnFNrqcOU245b2Xy2moCas_0INpJQsmhZ8PuP2SieILvJouhZlHH4/w278-h400/9781682634110_a9f94.jpg" width="278" /></a></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> EXTRA INNINGS<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Fred Bowen<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February 6, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Peachtree<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 144<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/150065103-extra-innings"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/EXTRA-INNINGS"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/EXTRA-INNINGS</span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132199525;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk132202540;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">A baseball book full of on the field
action perfect for middle grade readers.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
"Strike one is the best pitch in baseball." Mike loves pitching, and
he loves knowing his team counts on him to deliver wins. But Mike's father
starts to worry that Mike is getting too carried away with baseball and not
spending time working at after school jobs and developing a sense of
responsibility. Can Mike and his father reach a compromise in order to let Mike
play the game he loves and help his team win the league championship?<br />
<br />
Read “The Real Story” of Harvey Haddix, who pitched a perfect game against the
Atlanta Braves in 1959 and LOST. Baseball fans will love this extra dive into
sports history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157937025;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><i><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Extra Innings<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Fred Bowen</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Excerpt for
Rockstar Book Tours<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Excerpt
from <b><i>Extra
Innings </i></b>/ Text copyright © 2024 by <b>Fred
Bowen</b>. Reproduced with permission from Peachtree Publishing Company Inc.
All rights reserved.<b> </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mike started
by playing long toss to warm up his arm. Gradually he and Noah moved closer
together and Mike concentrated on putting the ball in certain spots. Then he
stepped onto the bullpen mound and began throwing for real.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;">Pop! </span></i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;">His fastball smacked into Noah’s mitt.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“You’ve got
good one today,” Noah shouted as he tossed the ball back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After about
twenty warm-up pitches, Mike looked out at the Rays finishing infield practice
and stepped out of the bullpen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Are you
ready to go seven innings?” Noah asked, as he did before every one of Mike’s
starts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Seven
strong,” Mike answered, and the friends tapped gloves.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Fred Bowen</span>:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.fredbowen.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2179" data-original-width="1618" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCMtJyiVEcivHz3f9h9B4r6_icVqTMHY5eMzFOMF0VUWKuoQFdAj-rKu2wZzTiDDOduIu30Oxgx8RX97e7x48aAbLAJG_3Jzs58TdGTW8Ix2EAz7z2c8aA8jsGL5CK7wd_vC5O5jSzCOhP0Uln2QsHk1TIdBu73IbqEqcFJK_pZrFG7RWy_aSUz8OjmmII/s320/FredBowenPhoto.jpeg" width="238" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Fred Bowen</span></b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> was a Little Leaguer who loved to read. Now he is
the author of many action-packed books of sports fiction. He has also written a
weekly sports column for kids in the Washington Post since 2000. Fred played
lots of sports growing up, including soccer at Marblehead High School. For
thirteen years, he coached kids’ baseball, soccer, and basketball teams. Some
of his stories spring directly from his coaching experience and his
sports-happy childhood in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Fred holds a degree in
history from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from George
Washington University. He was a lawyer for many years before retiring to become
a full-time children’s author. Bowen has been a guest author at schools and
conferences across the country, as well as the National Book Festival in
Washington, DC, and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Fred lives in Silver Spring,
Maryland, with his wife. For more information, check out the author’s website
at </span><a href="http://www.fredbowen.com/"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">www.fredbowen.com</span></a><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.fredbowen.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Website</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/FredBowenBooks"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/228828.Fred_Bowen"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Goodreads</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3zUzak9"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/fred-bowen"><span style="line-height: 107%;">BookBub</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner will receive a finished copy of EXTRA INNINGS, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends February 20th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<br />
Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-39709188729572736002024-02-03T03:00:00.027-05:002024-02-03T03:00:00.139-05:00Blog Tour- THE LIAR'S SOCIETY by @alysongerber With An Excerpt & #Giveaway! @Scholastic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5uQ4EpfZGLhdCRgL9at_bo4CWiJRBiX_OJiz1VXbuss4Y8cTkVX0Sb3kZLq1gZM2W1CNeriKLniMx90Ulxzpaa3CytlpbF7W6ImTA6_JZNY6GMQm4U7pri0bfeBADcEcKGVaqSZVHVCTnW6f8lJJJt9Z0o9xjcHzoyf-rruzBcjjDR0ttgDRPeRUbkAvM/s16000/THE%20LIAR'S%20SOCIETY.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE LIAR'S SOCIETY by
Alyson Gerber Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk149645585"></a><a name="_Hlk98752404"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/THE-LIARS-SOCIETY" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHrEeDBLuAaIsZWbxqnUIMVWwhPrLkXFgT49AQLbXsXnJXw4JMbwdzKZL0PKtNRqZfjBpP4feccDYA6Y5rzouCqSMkNlEAxY9CtDNxyCxwYh9AOwtZvw3l-kCNWsicgzWtQvg9WuI-YdiRgqmxpaY0d6ZDYL5KoRqwg4INBsXgNi6zGTrFfLQuaxB083ME/w265-h400/9781338859218_1d2fa.jpg" width="265" /></a></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> THE
LIAR'S SOCIETY<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Alyson Gerber<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February 6, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Scholastic Press<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpt:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">—CHAPTER 1—<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">WEATHERBY<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No one, and I mean no one, expects me and Skip to win the
Northeastern District Championship Regatta, especially not the boys with
identical f loppy hair in boat number 12. They look exactly like everyone else
on the dock today, like they go to prep school.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m a public school kid, and Skip, who’s my next-door
neighbor and basically my uncle, stands out like a sore thumb with his bed head
and too-long khakis in this popped-collar crowd. Skip was a prep school kid too
so he knows how they think, even though he couldn’t be more different than
them. He’s the opposite of buttoned-up. But I know how we look doesn’t matter.
We’re going to win.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This event is open to the entire town. We just had to
register a few months back. But there’s a big white tent for the Harbour Club
(Members Only) stuffed with people, wearing navy blazers and pearls, eating
clam chowder and buttery lobster rolls.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The floppy-haired boys keep glancing back at us and laughing
a little too loud. My cheeks burn, anger bubbling up inside me, until I can’t
stop my words from spilling out. “I don’t know what you’re laughing about, but
whatever it is, you’re not entertaining anyone, so stop.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The shorter boy with auburn hair smirks, showing off two big
dimples. “Whoa. Easy.” His voice is teasing. “We’re just having fun.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I know they’re laughing at us, and I’m about to tell him that
when Skip hands me a life jacket. “Eyes on your own boat, Star.” His voice is
low and full of warning. “Those are Charles Hunt’s boys. They’re playing by
different rules. But they won’t think we’re funny when we beat them. Stay
focused on sailing. It’s almost go time.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My breath steadies. Just imagining being on the water fills
me with energy and hope. I’ve got this. I can win. Normally if kids were
laughing at me, I’d be flustered, but near the water, I’m brave. I wish I could
feel the way I do while sailing all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When Skip first offered to take me out on his boat, I didn’t
know people competed in sailing, and I thought a regatta was a kind of cheese.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Turns out, a regatta is a day of boat races, like a swim
meet. And I’m a natural at sailing, like my dad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every boat on the water today has two people—a skipper and a
crew. The skipper is the driver. And the crew, that’s me. I’m the eyes of the
boat, looking out for anything unexpected, and I’m really good at seeing things
other people can’t.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This regatta has some teams of all kids, some all adults,
some both, all genders, all competing against each other. Sailing with an adult
isn’t necessarily an advantage. They can slow you down. And I heard someone say
teams with all kids have won three years in a row.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A rush of adrenaline pulses through me as I step into the
front of the boat and take control of the smaller sail, the jib. Skip gets in
position in back by the mainsail. When it’s time, we push off the dock, and
it’s just a short ride out to the starting line.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There aren’t assigned spots, like in a track meet. Each team
picks the position that works best for them. Skip and I use this time to figure
out our game plan, and we wait until right before the horn to take our place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My heart hammers as the signal blasts, and we push off the
line.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Big puff coming up,” I shout at Skip, and then we’re hit
with a gust. The sails fill with a surge of wind and the boat begins to tip
over. I hike, stretching my body over the side of the boat and leaning out as
far as I can manage, getting flat and low to the water, to help us sail faster.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As we zigzag up the course, I watch for puffs, dark spots in
the water, that move as the wind blows from the shore. “Looks like a puff five
boat lengths away,” I shout. “It’s a lift.” That means the wind is going to
help steer us closer to the next mark and eventually to the finish line.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When we get to the puff, I’m right, and we speed up. After
I’ve been hiking upwind for more than a few minutes, my quads and hamstrings
start to burn. Skip says my hiking stamina is stronger than anyone he’s ever
met. Once I get in the zone, I feel like I can keep hiking forever, especially
since I know pushing myself makes a big difference and can help us win.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just when I think I can’t lean out for one more second, I
spot another crew take a quick break to rest and accidentally capsize, flipping
their boat upside down in the water. I breathe in hard and ignore the sting in
my legs. I let the salt water whip at my face and pull at my hair as we
maneuver toward the mark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We manage to stay in the lead for most of the race. We just
have to go around one last buoy when I notice we’re on a collision course with
another boat. “Hunt jerks star- board,” I say.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are a lot of ways to cheat in sailing. Everyone is
supposed to self-police. It’s an honor sport. But Skip and I both know that
some people’s honor matters more than others. If the Hunts knock into us and
claim we bumped them, everyone will believe them over us, because they’re rich
and we’re not.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We need to get in front and make a tight turn now,” Skip
says.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Good call.” That’ll let us shoot ahead of them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A second later, Skip counts, “Three, two, one, go!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On go, we both lean back, pulling the side of the boat out of
the water. It feels like we’re going to capsize, and my stomach flip-flops as
we balance on the edge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Up!” Skip shouts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I smile as we leap across the boat, duck under the boom, and
adjust our sails. We stay in sync, never missing a beat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a dance we know by heart, even though it’s harder
than that, because we’re making up the steps as we go. Skip and I manage a
tight enough turn to beat the Hunts’ boat to the mark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then the wind picks up, and suddenly we’re moving fast. There
are no boats in front of us now. A spark of excitement ignites inside me. We’re
in the lead. I’m full of jittery energy, practically radiating hope, as we
clear the finish line and take first place.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Victory!” I burst out, my arms in the air. Skip is beaming
back at me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m having so much fun. I never want this day to end. And we
win every race.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After we dock, I’m still floating. Sailing makes me feel like
anything is possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Hunts walk past us, dragging their boat shoes along the
pier like they can’t even be bothered to pick up their feet, and I hear the
younger one cough and say, “Turd.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He’s <i>rude</i>, I think. But I don’t say anything. I don’t
have to.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I won.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I step onto shore, the happy crowd erupts with applause
and cheers. “Congratulations!” someone shouts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A blonde woman in big pearls the size of gumballs and a blue
Barbour jacket walks over to shake my hand. “How did you learn to hike like
that, Weatherby?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“A lot of practice,” I say.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“We couldn’t believe you didn’t take one break,” she says in
awe. “All the other crews, even the adults, kept stopping to adjust, but not
you. It was incredible to watch you sail. You’re going places.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Thank you,” I say, heart leaping. I don’t mean to sound
surprised. I know I’m good. But Skip is always calling me Star, and I guess I
just thought he was building my confidence so I’d sail my best. Now I realize
his compliments might mean more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s a flutter of hope in my stomach as we say good- bye
and I walk over to help Skip de-rig the boat. I can’t stop grinning as I take
down the crisp new sails that I asked Mom to order for today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We only have one bag, so as I start to put the sails away I
line them up with our old, brownish ones, running my finger across the stamp,
an inky mark that means they’ve been measured and approved for official use in
a regatta. Then I look at the new sail, gripping tight, fear hitting me hard,
and I grimace as I realize there’s no stamp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My throat goes dry. I was so excited to start rigging the
boat. I couldn’t wait to get out on the water. I didn’t bother checking to make
sure the sails were legal, and I should have. But the stamp is a technicality.
If the sails are the right size, we didn’t really cheat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I start to roll the sails, and right away I can see they
aren’t the same.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every muscle in my body clenches. From a distance, no one
else would be able to tell. But up close, the ones we used today are slightly
bigger. Big enough to give us an advantage. Big enough to help us win. Big
enough to get us disqualified.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My heart is pounding in my ears. “Skip,” I whisper and point.
“The sails are too big.” My words barely make it out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He follows my gaze, and immediately his face falls. My
stomach plummets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When his glassy eyes meet mine, I know exactly what he’s
thinking. The same thing I keep thinking—we cheated. I can see how much he
wishes he could go back and fix this for us—for me. “They’re barely bigger.”
His voice is low. “It doesn’t change that we won. It doesn’t change how well you
sailed.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I know we didn’t mean to cheat, but we did,” I say softly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“You made an honest mistake that happens all the time in
sailing,” Skip says. “It’s as simple as that. There’s nothing more to read into
it.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I bite my lip. I want to listen to him, but my family motto
is already in my head: Walkers don’t lie. “I have to report what I did.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Star, even though you’re the one turning yourself in, the
judges still might not believe you used illegal sails by accident.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I swallow hard. Skip’s right. I know what those people think
about kids like me, any kid who doesn’t run in their rich people circles. They
look at us like we don’t belong. But I know they’re wrong, and I don’t want to
win based on a lie. It’s not a win. I push myself across the dock to tell the
truth, and Skip doesn’t try to stop me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then, out of nowhere, a tall man in a big straw boater hat
with a green-and-white ribbon is standing in my path. “Miss Walker,” he says.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My heart jumps into my throat when I notice his blazer is
embroidered with the hunter-green Boston School crest—a shield with a lion
wearing a crown.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve wanted to be a student at the Boston School ever since
Dad’s journal was sent to me a few months ago, just after Skip and I signed up
to sail in this regatta and our names were listed in the paper. Everything
about my dad is mysterious like that. I never met him. Peter Graff. He moved to
Switzerland before I was born, and then he died. Mom doesn’t like to talk about
Dad, and I know she’d be freaked out that his journal was delivered with no
return address and a note that said: Weatherby, this is your dad’s journal. I
still don’t know who sent it. I called UPS, FedEx, USPS, even DHL, but no one
could find a record. I feel a prick of guilt the way I always do when I think
about how I didn’t tell Mom—but it’s too late to go back now.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mom did tell me that Dad went to Boston. But Skip didn’t know
him. They were too many grades apart. And it’s obvious from Dad’s journal
entries that he wasn’t snobby like the Hunts. He loved his school. The
tight-knit community. The sailing team. The magical trip to Hart Isle. Boston
even has an environmental science program now, and I want to be a climate
scientist one day to help save the ocean, aka my favorite thing in the world.
Too bad Mom and I don’t have money for private school. I’ll just have to wait
until high school to really study my passion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Impressive win.” The tall man’s ice-blue eyes meet mine, and
instantly I recognize his face. I think I’ve seen him on the Boston School
website.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hesitate. “Thank you,” I say, feeling itchy.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“You’re a very talented crew. The crowd was excited to watch
you sail. We haven’t seen anyone like you in a long time. Are your parents
here? I’d like to talk to them and to you about an opportunity,” he says. “I’m
Dr. Fairview.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The second I hear his name, I know who he is. “You’re the
head of school,” I blurt out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“That’s right.” Dr. Fairview grins. “Then you’ve heard of us,
the Boston School?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Of course,” I say. “Everyone has.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He nods. “Well, I have an anonymous donor who’s passionate
about sailing and interested in funding a scholarship for someone exactly like
you. That is, if you’d be interested.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For a second, I can’t breathe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This isn’t happening. This can’t be real. “A full scholar-
ship?” I ask, straining to find air.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Yes,” he says. “We’re looking for a student in excellent
academic standing with the one caveat that they would have to join our sailing
team.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I bite down inside my mouth to stop myself from screaming, <i>Yes!
Pick me! I have As in every subject, except gym, and everyone knows gym doesn’t
count.</i> This is my chance to join a real sailing team and study
environmental science and share something with Dad. And being a student at
Boston is the only way to get to Hart Isle—the private island that Dad
visited—and I want to be part of that too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Don’t worry that much about grades.” Dr. Fairview’s voice
softens. “The fact that your boat came in first place in every single race
today is the reason we want you. You’re a winner. That’s clear to everyone
here.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My throat tightens. Dr. Fairview is offering me a scholarship
because I won this regatta. Except I didn’t win. I need to tell the truth. I
should turn myself in. But I didn’t mean to cheat. It really was an accident.
The races are over. No one is going to find out our sails were too big now. I
keep thinking about what Skip said, how if I get us disqualified, the judges
probably won’t believe I made an honest mistake. I’ll just be proving them
right that I don’t belong at this regatta or at a school like Boston, but I
want to and now I’m being given the chance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All I have to do is lie, and I can go to the Boston School.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Copyright © 2024 by Alyson Gerber<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Press, an
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Alyson Gerber:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.alysongerber.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="537" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjgEljI4t_KT83fnmfxqGRo3C9G0XI8Bt02QFYsUGPxnb69TlgATOlYbRLfgWC8h4SIxP5eoFqbKUEqNyougyzhQBznhMhhUkFsidB-CQp75Wkqg8lOZFPwV9K4Jkd65MLJW7xyw7_2LBV9PGCDCj95-4UjtsH9qjkSlGmdzHuNYdIULBYtKcvYobGwF7g/s320/Alyson.jpg" width="304" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
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Gerber is the author of <i>The Liars Society</i> series and the
critically acclaimed novels <i>Focused</i>, <i>Braced</i>, and <i>Taking
Up Space</i>. A former marketing director, Alyson earned her MFA in creative
writing at the New School. She grew up in New England and now lives in New York
City with her family. Follow her @AlysonGerber and at alysongerber.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a finished copy of THE LIAR'S SOCIETY, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends March
7th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><u><span style="line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></span></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-14973654821863914432024-02-02T14:48:00.003-05:002024-02-02T15:05:48.067-05:00Trailer Reveal- URBEX PREDATOR by Jens Boele With A #Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/42rc0Q7" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="970" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSYaW1VMc-MAHRWwEQXgQYiY7ovcYjH4cGlEgXdqFTSZW7O46yBa94o8RQskRqhiidFR2RLVhx3VyVY8gIYRREc3SPpKwNWGclObGwHEJIl5On7rzETgU96Rw-2jZEoc7EduqOychtT_MGHMSw0aBE7ue9shREyIcYD1V8zb3hgLpnRkrsw1iU3LwHyx1H/w640-h198/a6024bc4-4ed1-44f6-b945-2fade0d64550.__CR0,0,1940,600_PT0_SX970_V1___.jpg" width="560" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I am so excited that I get to share
the trailer for <b>URBEX PREDATOR </b>by Jens Boele!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If you haven’t yet heard about this
wonderful book, be sure to check out all the details below. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This blitz also includes a giveaway
for an awesome t-shirt of the book courtesy of Jens & </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. So if
you’d like a chance to win, check out the giveaway info below.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk101517841"></a><a name="_Hlk109641341"></a><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://amzn.to/42rc0Q7" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1697" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwHCPMndKiy4TQg4A3-WiCNFYYThWO6VFHCHRL9HZtJNFcwckKR9facFOz5WBi2a79bAV_o_VVtO8BZpbgp3fyGYDrCfpsrrciCKvQFD4ENFS-7hYm1og32kqbKW4I-96pB31WCeFuynFX4X_TjHUJJFJzFak9jjCIV2ybl5o7UbhdXactXyBIFZYZ4yuT/w266-h400/UP_Cover_US.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> URBEX PREDATOR</span> <span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">: Take nothin but pictures, leave nothing but
bodies. A Deadly Survival Story.<o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jens Boele<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February 4, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jens Boele<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 394<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202431921-urbex-predator"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span><a href="https://amzn.to/42rc0Q7"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Abandoned Horrors. Deranged Souls. A Deadly Survival Story.</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
In the chilling new horror novel, "Urbex Predator," by Jens Boele, a
group of intrepid urban explorers embarks on what they believe to be a routine
trip to an abandoned barracks in the middle of nowhere.<br />
As a relict from the Cold War era, they are a popular destination for
photographers, influencers, and adventurers. A place that is closely guarded
and harbors a multitude of risks. But it’s not just the derelict buildings that
pose a danger.<br />
<br />
Nela and her friend Tess venture to the eerie ruins to complete their
photography thesis, only to find themselves relentlessly pursued through the
darkened corridors by a group of ruthless thugs.<br />
<br />
Zander, Yelka, her sister Vivien, and her manager Damon set out on a photo
shoot, only to be unexpectedly cornered by a gang of depraved youths. As night
descends, the boundaries between life and death blur, and the group is forced
to confront the darkest corners of their own souls.<br />
<br />
As the night deepens, will they fall victim or rise as hunters in the shadows?<br />
<br />
Inspired by early works from literary giants like Jack Ketchum and Richard
Laymon, "Urbex Predator" promises readers a heart-pounding journey
through the realms of fear and survival, where every turn reveals a new
nightmare. Yet, this spine-tingling narrative is not just the product of
imagination; it's also a reflection of author Jens Boele's real-life
experiences as an Urban Explorer, who spent many years venturing into the very
places he describes in his book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Book Trailer:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QtMGBJhLtQw?si=u2Rm6NbFfkmLYcat" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Jens Boele</span>:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://jensboele.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QAlAlhdLJPvYNEBZ0UPfORY1oQ7ABaCWi-y7VdRcpnMvFNhEWSZM5gILFjPrt7f7wRHx9RW8Grj1sJ7e93Pr6vPTqNrmOoOmT6eQwsQmqJU_aOndqp7HRKAun_Rwff9_sT6fCMXK4KFtZFKJjFW_hTc7aDlVDzA2x0iHvXKsQSu4wWauvaC7SlOcIm3w/s1600/Jens.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jens Boele, a veteran media designer in the entertainment
industry, brings over two decades of cinematic expertise to his writing. Born
in Germany in 1975, Jens embarked on his writing odyssey in his youth,
culminating in the publication of his debut book, "Sunshine," in
2015. This was followed by "Hurensohn," and his latest spine-tingling
creation, "Urbex Predator."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jens is a genre-bending author, specializing in horror and
crime thrillers. His narratives often blur genre lines, weaving intricate tales
that plunge readers into the darkest corners of the human psyche. Jens's
storytelling brilliance lies in his fascination with the criminal mind; his
villains are always profoundly human, offering readers a chilling examination
of the psychological aspects of the criminally insane.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jens sets himself apart by seamlessly integrating classic
horror with the gritty authenticity of the present day. This innovative fusion
imbues his narratives with a dynamic quality, seamlessly blending archaic
thrills with contemporary intrigue, resulting in an immersive reading
experience that resonates with both vintage enthusiasts and present-day readers
alike.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jens Boele's latest endeavor takes his work across borders,
as "Urbex Predator" becomes his first book to be translated into
English. A globetrotter with deep connections to the United States, Jens's
passion for exploration and his international perspective, nurtured by family
and friends in the US, shine through in his writing, offering readers a
captivating blend of horror and cultural diversity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-65899498850963331102024-01-29T03:00:00.001-05:002024-01-30T15:45:08.733-05:00Blog Tour- THE END OF THE WORLD by @hsgilchrist With An Interview and a #Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga3kNC9DwIlX9oHineqr_0dUOSMMDiU3OSrhsjK__z6JqumGrpUz9UJ_-xYsM_niVQA3iiHRLe4ER7yg82-L0zFumetiisgXszrKLgkQnHzNQbjIWYntCNdHP1ZvMukJZlZBc8vnKWrmpbQN5-4OiV0cD1PQ5w4g8cbe_2u-Rs8873J9-XePyVGVW0E8pb/s16000/THE%20END%20OF%20THE%20WORLD.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THE END OF THE WORLD by H.S. Gilchrist Blog
Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. Check out my post and make sure to
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk149645585"></a><a name="_Hlk157507719"></a><a name="_Hlk98752404"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/THE-END-OF-THE-WORLD" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2850" data-original-width="1900" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaNvdq7AtdnYKnQ6SwRCCFacGhuZUVQtKLOzaLF1N6iaOWJV1guBniFHIFnB1ysYqOgu3SM6DMtGXXNb8vypdAioh6UZO7Om8tn32lty0_UXrTEeZpGVeCwlwuGaJLOVws85lWg-s6BGfUQq5myxtO7LCVkb8SxqfxYRYzGJ-8hLeJNBi6SA9B-i_Ql1P4/w266-h400/Book_1_Final%20copy.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> THE END OF THE WORLD<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">H.S.
Gilchrist<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> February 5, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Dystopian
Sunrise Press<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover, Paperback,
eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 474<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198375070-the-end-of-the-world"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/THE-END-OF-THE-WORLD"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/THE-END-OF-THE-WORLD</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">The End of the World is coming!</span></i></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
In a broken future governed by the oppressive Technocrats and their parasitic
technology, enslaved warrior Animkii's mind is a battleground for control.
After an act of sabotage shatters her bondage, she faces a dire mission:
ridding herself of the invasive tech implanted inside her before it consumes
her remaining humanity. Seeking salvation, she forms an uneasy alliance with
Mica Stone, a troubled black-market recycler, whose dreams hold the power to
awaken an ancient alien god known as the After Lord.<br />
<br />
Fleeing the bloody machinations of the After Lord's dark cult, Animkii and Mica
embark on a perilous odyssey that takes them out of the dystopian depths of the
undercity and into the remote and icy Witherlands. There, amidst the ruins of
an ancient world, they face a force that hungers for more than just flesh and
bone.<br />
<br />
With reality crumbling and Earth's survival at stake, a battle between two
worlds begins, leaving Animkii and Mica to confront the ultimate question: can
they retain their humanity in a world on the brink of oblivion, or is the end
of the world inevitable?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk157507719;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>Interview</b></span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hey Heather! First I want to say welcome,
I’m glad you could stop by for a chat! <a name="_Hlk148430401">THE END OF THE
WORLD </a>sounds AWESOME and I can’t wait for everyone to read it!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the readers: can you tell us a little bit
about THE END OF THE WORLD and the characters?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Set in a dystopian, future Earth – about a thousand years after an event
called the Sundering tore the Earth into pieces. Life sucks. Former U.S. is a
technocracy ruled with an iron fist by the Technocrats, who use technology to
control the minds of their subjects. Former Canada is a wasteland riddled with
massive ‘rifts’ in the earth that spew forth soul-sucking monstrosities called
Dreamers. You’ll see both lands in THE END OF THE WORLD. </span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Animkii is a mod – ‘modified’ human (think: cyborg)– controlled by the
Technocracy’s hive mind, the Alphaknot. She manages to break free from their
control, only to find out a new tech her masters implanted into her is
literally consuming her humanity and replacing it with machine. Despite this
grim fate awaiting her, she’s determined to fight all way to the end and
protect the people she cares about. </span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Mica Stone is a deeply troubled young woman. She has this great potential
blunted by a drug addiction she uses to escape the vivid nightmares from her
past that she suffers. She can fix just about anything, but she needs a ‘fix’
to do it. Unfortunately, the nightmares are more than simply dreams-gone-bad.
Within them is hidden the Blood Gateway.
If the Blood Gateway is opened / destroyed, then bad things are going to
happen. And of course, there is a Cult dedicated to making sure the bad thing
happens.</span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 107%;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">The After Lord is the alien god responsible for the Earth’s Sundering.
And he wants to come back and finish the job… Guess who has to stop him? </span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What are you working on now?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am about a
quarter of the way through the good draft of Book 2 of the Primordial Engine
Series, called SEPARATE WORLDS: THE GATHERING STORM. Hoping to release it October
2024. I have five books in total planned out in detail, with room to add two
more if the series gains traction. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Were any of the characters in the book
inspired by people from your real life?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not
intentionally! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who was your favorite character to write? What
about your least favorite?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My favorite
character to write was The After Lord. In Book 1, he’s the ‘Big Bad’ who wants
to end the world, and there’s not much chance to explore his motivations—what
with the characters trying to survive. In reality, his backstory is pretty
complex and Book 2 (SEPARATE WORLDS: THE GATHERING STORM) will be exploring a
lot of the reasoning behind his actions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My least favorite
was a minor character I introduce near the end named Harvester. She was a drag
to write in my earlier drafts, but I tweaked her enough that I’m happy with how
she turned out. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What is your favorite passage/scene in THE END
OF THE WORLD?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Animkii’s
end fight scene. I felt I did a good of making her sacrifice impactful. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What kind of research did you have to do for
the story?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Animkii’s
people are largely descended from various Anishinaabe nations in Canada,
particularly the Ojibwe people. They have retained some traditional knowledge (pre-Sundering),
but between the Dreamers and the After Lord’s influence, they have strayed from
the correct path. Book 2 involves a return to the correct traditions, which in
turn hold the key to healing the Earth.
</span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lightning Round Questions<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What are you reading right now? Or
what do you have on your TBR that you’re dying to read?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My own book. Looking for last minute typos! In all seriousness, I have multiple books on
the go (books everywhere in my house – bathroom, bedroom, living room, kitchen
table, Kindle… haha). List:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cage of Souls (Adrian Tchaikovsky)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Salem’s Lot (Stephen King)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mirrormaze: A Dreampunk Anthology (Cliff Jones Jr.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Elf Quest Volume 1 <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Moose Meat & World Rice (Basil Johnston)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (I’m a data
analyst in my day job)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Embers of War (Gareth Powell)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Favorite social media site?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve been jumping between the different sites,
trying to decide which one to focus on. X/Twitter is still the site where I get
the most engagement with other folks, but I’m searching for a viable
replacement. Bluesky and Mastodon don’t have enough going on yet, but I
recently started using Threads and I’m finding some good interaction with
writers and readers. I feel like Threads is the top contender (for now).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Favorite Superhero or Villain?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Superhero: Raven <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Villain: Magneto</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Favorite TV show?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Buffy the Vampire Slayer, forever.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sweet or Salty?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Sweet.</span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Any Phobias?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not keen on spiders, but I’ve learned to humanely
dispose of them (gloves > plastic container > outside)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Song you can’t get enough of right
now?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dream Theater – The Ministry of Lost Souls</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2024 Movie you’re most looking forward
to?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Beetlejuice 2</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you play video games? If so what
are some of your favorites?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When
I used to have time! Final Fantasy 7’s remake was the last one I finished. I’ve
started Baldur’s Gate 3 and Harry Potter Hogwart’s Legacy recently, but I haven’t
put any time into them. If I want something a little more strategic, my go-to
is Civilizations 6. It gets a lot of play when I’m stressed. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks
so much Heather for answering my questions! I can’t wait for everyone to read THE
END OF THE WORLD!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About H.S. Gilchrist:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://hsgilchrist.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="3008" data-original-width="2244" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWkL-n4AZLd52c3HfAO-vKEtMoyUfYUT5uYywwYjBYcgQoW8l8HqhQzx4M-8J15W9n3hfO3S558iog4H8EJlslO2hYopxSOARceWdSODzofNdsFNJp8Eh8RWZQeJ0QuaX9DDjZ4w3_KkZsljHL8-y7NJd0MtCxYHfn9p2kDBmc717OzkUWAiQMJyBrKbWe/s320/2023-05-22%20-%20Heather%20Gilchrist%20Author%20photo%20-%20bw.jpg" width="239" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">H.S. Gilchrist’s ambitions of becoming a real-life Indiana
Jones (degree in Anthropology) spurred her love for world cultures and history
but conjured no realistic job prospects. So, she set aside the thrill of
chasing ancient curses for the rigors of a twenty-year career in information
technology, where she’s worked as both a technician (“I fix broken stuff”) and
a data analyst (“I save management a lot of work”).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Outside of work, she's gently nudging her daughter toward
embracing her inner nerd (with some success). And in those rare quiet moments,
she pens the adventures she's always dreamed of experiencing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">To follow my book-writing adventures and see some fun
character art, check out my website: <a href="https://hsgilchrist.com/">https://hsgilchrist.com</a>
and subscribe to the <a href="https://hsgilchrist.substack.com/">newsletter</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://hsgilchrist.com/">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hsgilchrist">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/hsgilchrist.bsky.social">Bluesky</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hsgilchrist">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hsgilchrist">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.threads.net/@hsgilchrist">Threads</a> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/43824124.H_S_Gilchrist">Goodreads</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/hsgilchrist">Amazon</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/h-s-gilchrist">BookBub</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a $10 Amazon Gift Card, International.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends February
27th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.twochicksonbooks.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Two Chicks on Books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://arnoldjaime13.tumblr.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Jaime's Book World</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Excerpt <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/darkfantasyreviews/"><span style="color: blue;">@darkfantasyreviews</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://bookreviewvirginialee.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://madamewriterofwrongs.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Writer of Wrongs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/anitralovesbooksanddogs/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@anitralovesbooksanddogs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Three:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://rajivsreviews.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Rajiv's
Reviews</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://countrymamaswithkids.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Country Mamas With Kids</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ablueboxfullofbooks/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">A Blue Box Full of Books </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Four:</span></u></b></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-1678740268061564922024-01-25T04:30:00.001-05:002024-01-25T04:30:00.149-05:00Blog Tour- OTHER STAGES by @classicalgrrl With A Deleted Scene & A $10 Amazon GC #Giveaway!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidLK8m5IsQdS_uFFz5b9xGxCWsXEPvsxB8r8RVS_S6xjbqc-CDNN_XgtuUptlKNVjZ175WhLHcMf-i1iYFOkLz0EBD53CHOvzk5R-KJaDje-ErCvqqcTMnb1p8lzjUIyyWSxNqXe1-5jPXswtPPZQpg5qr0xyDV0LmaXKE6NVenq7nCEH_N22WH6ydD7hu/s16000/OTHER%20STAGES.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I
am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the OTHER STAGES by Terez Mertes Rose Blog
Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the
giveaway!</span> <span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">About
The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Book 4)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156989994;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">They
thought the professional ballet world was tough. Then they tried parenting.</span></i></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156989994;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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<b><i>From the author of </i>Outside the Limelight<i>—named a Kirkus</i> <i>Best
Book of 2017</i>—<i>comes a story about parenting, the performing arts,
surviving high school and fighting back, in this gripping finale to the Ballet
Theatre Chronicles.</i></b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156989994;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Katrina
Devries, having navigated the cutthroat world of professional ballet to arrive
at the top, has found the perfect life as a principal dancer and mother of a
three-year-old. But when her partner announces he’s found true love elsewhere
and moves out, Katrina’s perfect world begins to crack. Devastated, she turns
to April, her best friend among the company’s artistic staff. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156989994;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">April, a
seasoned ballet master and parent, is confident she can solve any problem
thrown her way and plants a distraction at the studios: a handsome young
pianist, eager for work as an accompanist. Only it’s April’s teen daughter, not
Katrina, who falls for him, hard.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156989994;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Now April’s
dealing with new, tougher problems on the home front and at the studios, where
a celebrity choreographer’s ballet featuring Katrina borders on
disturbing. When he and his ballet reveal violence—toward Katrina—April
must make a controversial decision that upends protocol and imperils the
careers both she and Katrina have worked a lifetime to build. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156989994;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Other Stages</span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156989994;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> chronicles the behind-the-scenes
challenges of professional ballet, parenting and friendships, amid the journey
of learning what to accept and when to fight back for what’s right.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“An accomplished interweaving of character
trajectories in the intense world of ballet.”-- <b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"<i>Other Stages</i> is a
fascinating peek behind the curtain of elite ballet, and the price it exacts
from the women who dare to become mothers in this rarified, exquisite world,
all while making the agonizing look effortless."-- <b>Kristina Riggle</b>,
bestselling author of <i>Real Life & Liars</i> and <i>Vivian
in Red</i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">"Don’t be surprised if you find yourself
devouring <i>Other Stages</i>—this is one of those stories that keeps you
up way past midnight, turning page after dazzling page in anticipation of the
grand finale. Brava! to Terez Mertes Rose as she brings down the curtain on
this remarkable series.”</span></span><span>-- </span><b>Lauren E. Rico</b><span>, award-winning author
of </span><i>Familia</i><span>, the </span><i>Reverie trilogy </i><span>and</span><i> Solo</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Deleted
Scene </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
following deleted scene serves as a wonderful chronological bridge between the
end of Book 2, <i>Outside the Limelight, </i>and <i>Other Stages. </i>I hated
to delete it, and am delighted to share it here, as it helps explain Rebecca’s
important arrival within the story. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rebecca
Lindgren, senior corps dancer with the West Coast Ballet Theatre, has made her
peace with leaving the company at the end of the season. But when artistic
director Anders’s ex-wife, Sabine, director of the Brussels ballet company
they’d once co-directed together, calls him in a panic, begging for
administrative help for the next few months, Anders sees a win-win solution.
When he floats the idea past Rebecca—stay on the WCBT roster, full pay, but go
work for Sabine in Brussels—she accepts the offer without hesitation. After so
much drama and conflict within the company—admittedly created by her—she needs
time away from the WCBT and San Francisco. The budding romance with Ben,
Anders’ second-in-command, will have to wait. <o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rebecca
arrived for her first day on the job at Sabine’s studios in Brussels, queasy
with jet lag, intimidation and insecurity. She needn’t had worried. Everyone
was kind and welcoming. The company was a third the size of the West Coast
Ballet Theatre, and the elegant European ambiance permeated both the old
buildings and the dancers’ personalities. Sabine’s English was excellent and
Rebecca discovered most of the company’s business was conducted in English
because of the multi-national mix-up of both staff and dancers. Rebecca worked most days and in the late
afternoons, she attended French classes. But what proved most helpful was that
she had a knack for understanding the big picture of how a ballet company was
run, thanks to three years of college classes in San Francisco. Ballet
administration fascinated her. She found herself intensely curious about
Sabine’s work world, wanting to learn more and more. Sabine wasn’t annoyed by
Rebecca’s constant questions as Anders had been the previous year. “Anders was
right about you,” Sabine commented one afternoon, eyeing Rebecca thoughtfully.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“In a good
way or a bad way?” Rebecca asked warily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sabine
laughed. “A good way.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anders was a
tricky subject, even from across the Atlantic. Sabine had been Anders’ wife.
Rebecca herself had been Anders’ lover. Well. For one night. The hold Anders
had on her had gone much deeper than sex. Deeper than infatuation. It was one
of the reasons things had grown so complicated between her, Ben and Anders. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“He’s glad
you’re here, you know,” Sabine commented.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“He wanted
me away from there,” Rebecca said. “Away from him. And Ben.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sabine
shrugged. “I’m thinking we’re all managing to profit from this setup. You as
well.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“You’re
right,” Rebecca admitted.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Brussels
felt safe. Here, working alongside Sabine and learning so much, she had escaped
an untenable situation, but had found a way to stay in the dance world. Back in
San Francisco, she would have had to watch Ben and the others commence a new
season, full of motivation for new roles, new ballets, reprisals of old,
favorite roles. To no longer be a part of that world—who knew what levels of
pain that would cause her? Anger. Grief. Rage. Loss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Returning to
San Francisco, still connected to the WCBT via Ben, could she live within that
bittersweet zone, watching others dance when she couldn’t? Here in Brussels, in
a different kind of dance company, a different environment, it was
uncomplicated, even enjoyable.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anders had
told her, before her departure, that upon her return in October, he’d find her
a position within the company—except not as a dancer. She’d be surrounded by
those she’d danced with for the past decade. Only then would she find her
answers.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">About Terez Mertes Rose: </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"><a href="http://www.terezrose.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="231" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga9vZvqBfG54dPcOEDFJ_TFlyzgoD7qp1m6DQwtmwEHP1sW8kK3hgwRajJaBRYjj71HnSRge8JKIf0u4Q20bZpCRaA_MjsqV45SuQf9IAB9UiqrTK3PGY5tMmwQcqv7PaQ_lQNVSlMScZyis32JEZRXkajzzmusDm4QrknonEMUvlBkRxRWB8gwHfS0SOH/s1600/Terez.jpg" width="231" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
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author of the Ballet Theatre Chronicles (OFF BALANCE, OUTSIDE THE LIMELIGHT,
BALLET ORPHANS, OTHER STAGES) and A DANCER'S GUIDE TO AFRICA. Writing
nonfiction as Terez Rose, her work has appeared in numerous journals,
anthologies and online publications. She makes her home with family in the
Santa Cruz Mountains. Visit her at The Classical Girl where she blogs about
ballet, classical music and life, with twin dollops of humor and philosophy
thrown in. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"></span><a href="http://www.terezrose.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Website</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span></span><a href="http://www.theclassicalgirl.com/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The Classical Girl Blog</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/classicalgrrl"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheClassicalGirl"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Facebook</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span></span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ballettheatrelover/"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13853310.Terez_Mertes_Rose"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">Goodreads</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"> | </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3hyzCe4"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">Amazon</span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span></span><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/terez-mertes-rose"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">BookBub</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk23678104;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">Giveaway
Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">1 winner will win a tote bag of Ballet Theatre Chronicles, a
finished copy of OTHER STAGES, & a $10 Amazon gift card, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-no-proof: yes;">Ends February 13<sup>th</sup>, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="rcptr" data-raflid="e2389ba21784" data-template="" data-theme="classic" href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/e2389ba21784/" id="rcwidget_9b4v6y65" rel="nofollow">a Rafflecopter giveaway</a>
<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>
</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Tour
Schedule:</span></u></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Week
One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/25/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.twochicksonbooks.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Two Chicks on Books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Deleted Scene/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/26/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.ladyhawkeye.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Lady Hawkeye</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/27/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://darkfantasyreviews.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@darkfantasyreviews</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Week
Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<tbody><tr style="height: 15.75pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/28/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://kountrygirlbookaholic.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Kountry Girl Bookaholic</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Guest Post/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/29/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://instagram.com/jlreadstoperpetuity?igshid=OTk0YzhjMDVlZA=="><span style="color: #1155cc;">jlreadstoperpetuity </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">IG Post/TikTok Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/30/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://themommaspot.home.blog/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">The Momma Spot</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Guest Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/31/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://bookreviewvirginialee.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Review/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/1/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/pineshorelittlefreelibrary/"><span style="color: blue;">@pineshorelittlefreelibrary</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/2/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/anitralovesbooksanddogs/"><span style="color: blue;">anitralovesbooksanddogs</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">IG Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/3/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/callistoscalling"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Callisto’s calling </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">IG Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Week
Three:</span></u></b></p>
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<tbody><tr style="height: 15.75pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">2/4/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.reviewthickandthin.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Review Thick And Thin</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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on the VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE-THE COMPLETE SERIES by Tim Seeley, Jim Zub, Tini
Howard, Blake Howard, Danny Lore, & Dev Pramanik, Nathan C. Gooden, Julius
Ohta Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Rockstar
Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Books:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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SERIES<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Authors: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tim Seeley,
Jim Zub, Tini Howard, Blake Howard, Danny Lore, & Dev Pramanik, Nathan C.
Gooden, Julius Ohta (Illustrators)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155605327;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk153796546;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk102122569;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> January 23, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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Comics<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Global best-selling <i>World of
Darkness </i>RPG phenomena, <i>VAMPIRE: The Masquerade</i> and <i>WEREWOLF:
The Apocalypse</i> are captured together for the first time in a complete
series omnibus edition, featuring <i>VAMPIRE: The Masquerade Winter's
Teeth</i> issues #1-#10 and the crossover <i>Vampire: The
Masquerade </i>and <i>World of Darkness: CRIMSON THAW</i> event
series, issues #1-#3!</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156726910;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
<b>UNSEEN EVIL LURKS EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD OF DARKNESS</b><br />
<br />
<b><i>VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE The Complete Series </i></b>collects all 10
issues of <b><i>Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter’s Teeth</i></b> and
all 3 issues of the never-before-collected vampire/werewolf crossover <b><i>World
of Darkness: Crimson Thaw</i></b>, plus more than 30 pages of original
roleplaying supplements, including lore sheets for playable characters featured
in the series!!<br />
</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<b><u>Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter’s Teeth</u></b><br />
<b>A tale of two vampires in the Twin Cities…</b><br />
When Cecily Bain, an enforcer for the Twin Cities’ vampiric elite, takes a
mysterious new vampire, Alejandra, under her wing, she’s dragged into an
insidious conspiracy. After learning a disturbing fact about her fake childe’s
past, Cecily must keep her secrets close, and Ali at arm’s length. As she
searches the streets of the Twin Cities for answers, a terrifying possibility
surfaces: perhaps Ali has learned the ways of the Kindred better than Cecily
herself. Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the cities, Colleen Pendergrass,
embraced by her husband against her will, and a rebellious found-family of
vampire cast-outs investigates a vicious killing.<br />
<br />
As the unlives of the Kindred twine together and betrayals are unearthed, will
Cecily be able to escape and save what’s left of her family, or will she be yet
another pawn sacrificed to maintain the age-old secret: that vampires exist
among the living?<br />
<br />
<b><u>World of Darkness: Crimson Thaw</u></b><br />
<b>There's worse living in the shadows than vampires … something with even
bigger teeth.</b><br />
Cecily Bain has become everything she never wanted as The Prince of the Twin
Cities. But her rule over a fractured, backbiting vampire court is interrupted
by an intruder: something big, hairy and full of teeth. For over a century,
werewolves of the Twin Cities have protected their blessed places from threats
both physical and spiritual. When vampires under Cecily’s rule move in on one
of these precious sites, it’s a declaration of war, one that Tyrell ‘the
Stainless’ Stinar and his ferocious pack will avenge at any cost, even if that
includes slaying one of their own.The immortal enmity between the Kindred and
the Garou comes to a head on the streets of the Twin Cities!<br />
<br />
<b><i>VAMPIRE: The Masquerade - The Complete Series </i></b>Includes more
than 30 pages of EXCLUSIVE canonical roleplaying supplements enabling readers
to play characters, locations, and scenarios from the comics in their <b>Vampire:
The Masquerade</b> 5th Edition campaigns, including lore sheets for
playable characters featured in the series.<br />
<br />
<b>For fans of<i> VAMPIRE: The Masquerade RPG, WEREWOLF: The Apocalypse
RPG</i>, <i>The World of Darkness</i>, <i>American Vampire</i>, <i>Killadelphia</i>, <i>Something
is Killing the Children</i>, <i>Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire
Lestat/The Vampire Chronicles</i>, <i>Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire
Mysteries/True Blood</i>, <i>Certain Dark Things,</i> <i>Underworld,</i> and
vampire/werewolf/monster graphic novels, tabletop/RPGs, books, movies, video
games, and series!</b><br />
<br />
“This is a fresh take on vampires, mixing it with crime, thrillers, and a pinch
of romance all with a vein of horror running through it.” -- <b><i>Horror
DNA</i></b><br />
<br />
“… strongly recommend this book to both fans of the franchise and newcomers.”
– <b><i>Grimdark Magazine</i></b><br />
<br />
"I’m absolutely in love with what a badass Cecily is..." - <b><i>The
Wandering Nerd Girl</i></b><br />
<br />
<i>“Vampire: the Masquerade </i>… is an enjoyable read even if you’re not
familiar with the RPG… like the real world, but with hotter outfits, blood, and
fangs. – <b><i>Graphic Policy</i></b><br />
<br />
“This is the horror thriller we all need.” – <b><i>Horror DNA</i></b><br />
<br />
“… strong … with wildly expansive world building, but there is also an
underlying heart to the story that will help to pull you in to their uniquely
dark struggle.” – <b><i>Comic Watch</i></b><br />
<br />
“ … a story with blood and intrigue … a must-buy for horror fans.” – <b><i>But
Why Tho?</i></b><br />
<br />
“<i>Vampire: The Masquerade</i> … exciting … with remarkable depth and a
focus on character-driven drama. It's a great start for newcomers and longtime
fans alike to sink their teeth into. – <b><i>Comic Watch</i></b><br />
<br />
“It blends real world horror with the supernatural in a seamless fashion.”
– <b><i>Horror DNA</i></b><br />
<br />
<i>“Vampire: The Masquerade</i> … is perfect for both newcomers and old
fans alike, a blood-fueled and beautiful story.” -- <b><i>Comics Bookcase</i></b><br />
<br />
"<i>World of Darkness: Crimson Thaw</i> ... thrills, terrifies and
ups the stakes." - <b><i>Comic Watch</i></b><br />
<br />
<i>“World of Darkness: Crimson Thaw #1</i> thrills, terrifies and ups the
stakes. Plus, it is delivering the fruits of some fantastic character work and
design into a visually enchanting issue.” – <b><i>Comic Watch</i></b><br />
<br />
“<i>World of Darkness: Crimson Thaw</i> … blood-curdling chaos.” – <b><i>Comic
Watch</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Tim Seeley:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.timseeleycreative.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="853" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR4W6K1LfhUXKaSIspfz3fl_Hl7pc6YRcXRO-dxVFhN0AGg23-IK8cjUbLJO-Kg_X5_Owd3i4MkRPrG78jM7xMVfJZSKvLIi0ILrfTRY4GYOPht2nUaV5HLIe0_rFLJ1hKeQwNcrCI1XBqkW-htUefCKPvU8XfNvmKjc0Cbh8Ul6hLGNR-qpvA99urylBG/w200-h200/Tim.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">TIM SEELEY</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> is one of those “slash” people…a writer-slash-artist.
He has drawn a number of different comic book series including<i> G.I JOE,
HALLOWEEN, WILDCATS </i>and<i> ANT-MAN & WASP.</i> His
writing work include <i>NIGHTWING, MONEY SHOT , INJUSTICE v. MASTERS OF
THE UNIVERSE ,</i>the critically acclaimed <i>REVIVAL</i>, and the <i>NY
TIMES </i>bestselling <i>HACK/SLASH.</i> He resides in Chicago,
Illinois with his wife, daughter and 80s action figure collection.</span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.timseeleycreative.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Website</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/HackinTimSeeley"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/timseeley/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/37607.Tim_Seeley"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Goodreads</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tim-Seeley/e/B00J7Z2Y4E"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.jimzub.com/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2592" data-original-width="2134" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiysz25goyy2hWARnPoIEBueCie-qT03Cd2l0s-bYqQjrfL6urBX4kkl_w4C9OsTwMK4Z4UwZ6hRsQQYOZvNlvrNGm0aGC78Ghf58oKo6YMxGQ-VCvGEeAxF27r3LyXk-yvL827QLi01jR-gM51lpF5ztm76VNCNrRaRIvETBUisjmKuQ35NdGfSwcwWhJQ/w164-h200/Jim%20Zub.jpg" width="164" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Jim Zub:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in
Toronto, Canada. Over the past twenty years he’s worked for a diverse array of
publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney,
Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, Vault Comics, BOOM! Studios, Image Comics,
Dark Horse, and Bandai-Namco.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.jimzub.com/">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/jimzub">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jim_zub/">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jimzub">Facebook</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Tini Howard:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.tinihoward.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-WdS5cSzKH408_F3rsLbFrahSUPYAk_-KdoDaHHB3S5IIS9A3MaK1jxY6lZswCBVxE9quGtiuUAZpzMKEPLiORvYPbdbEQVFTE7NHqDtwKs-BLd8MA3B_IZWCPE4Q_Kwhz7t6X0NZj_ZJh46RQ3WhBnzi2cc0evSehnVY6VIsSTs7jEM1rbmI77DjsaKz/s1600/Tini%20Howard.jpg" width="225" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Tini Howard</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> is a writer and swamp witch from the Carolina Wilds.
Currently, she writes <i>Vampire: the Masquerade: Winter’s Teeth </i>from
Vault Comics, <i>Euthanauts<u>,</u> Assassinistas</i> (with
Gilbert Hernandez) and <i>Hack/Slash: Resurrection</i>, with occasional
stories for two of her favorite things: <i>Rick and Morty</i> and
WWE. She lives with her husband, Blake, and her sons, Orlando and General Hugs,
who are cats.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.tinihoward.com/">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/tinihoward">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tinihoward/">Instagram</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Blake Howard is an American comic book writer for Vault,
known for his work on Vampire: The Masquerade. He is the husband of Tini
Howard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Danny Lore:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://dannylore.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWeDV7huPdazjaur2vGtO6UIK7tJ6Iiy-d4aQwLB1IURhDkscXU-X5LbubfMacZFf4_55wj6df2-veuoJCG4ka3sz_jvlIr0kJcOl38kC6DAvS9f0icp2A95MpLgs2noYuLPb115pzwbM3X1v_6PGkJkzyra2dKuwSbxFQQNNu68zgLsDvPcsHdIxPiwI/w200-h200/Danny%20Lore.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Danny Lore (they/them) is a queer black writer/editor raised
in Harlem and currently based in the Bronx. They’ve worked in comic and gaming
shops since the beginning of time. Most of their writing is contemporary
speculative fiction, with the occasional foray into science fiction. They’ve
had their short fiction published by FIYAH, Podcastle, Fireside, Nightlight,
EFNIKS.com and more. Their comics work includes QUEEN OF BAD DREAMS for Vault
Comics, QUARTER KILLER for Comixology, and JAMES BOND for Dynamite Comics in
December 2019. They have short comics in DEAD BEATS and THE GOOD FIGHT. They
edited THE GOOD FIGHT anthology and THE WILDS (Black Mask comics).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://dannylore.com/">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/weredawgz">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/weredawgz/">Instagram</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/thewarblazer" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTIpq-Cl-MkEdBboDQADZ_O8uYhHUCSX_2UfFuNxOVIn9TluYSo6miJY7Cf8dHxAn_T7MDn534aRLXGHobbdzEZzalcwlV8ACBg7Es5KDOrkcfgtUIQikN8IYBO_fa7IPLBXdVgAGu2zlli2cjLAjvIlCmA_p1p17CAAYrXVIM-51ocBsq-K2-u47lJAgr/s1600/Dev%20Pramanik.jpg" width="225" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Dev Pramanik:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Dev Pramanik is an in-demand artist based out of Kolkata,
India</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/thewarblazer">Twitter</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Nathan C. Gooden:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nathan.gooden/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="167" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXQDVsFDtmGdONGqNYANiuTFtoKgJlBjOL7z53otUX5phyk-39M6p7sP0wAYqs5wfMBDTFGNfCRS3o8AEEzFbVgq2sPghj0i9xwO0VOe_bgBf7oXx7bbwcS0nSX70bzcT5eTyPZK1mxiPTveGjtofrpJW0PmaGjN22K1zLhYfvJ-EdVvlWri7_WDl-HwrT/s1600/Nathan.jpg" width="167" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Nathan C. Gooden is an award-winning illustrator and
sequential artist, as well as the Senior Art Director at Vault Comics. Nathan
studied animation at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and worked in film
production, before co-founding Vault Comics. Nathan’s previous works include
Brandon Sanderson’s Dark One (Vault), Barbaric (Vault), Zojaqan (Vault), and
Killbox (from American Gothic Press). He lives in Southern California, where he
plays a lot of basketball and hikes constantly with his wife.</span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nathan.gooden/">Instagram</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/juliusohta/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="222" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvCjCNQjwyQwX7IPgrLy5XUY9AUOHsfgPmbmlNulEVTPEpiLdQuH908CaOI0obSVDBJXX1wQUitGnPHxvWQE8Z9Xs6V-CICViadQEcDcRT47criZEt_tFEacT2hPnHan0E3EeOVr7NlVwPrT2YR_Qe0soUYmqTySy9QkEctMxWdz6u09DSxTeyBcB7YxUK/s1600/Julius%20Ohta.jpg" width="222" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Julius Ohta:</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Julius Ohta is an in-demand illustrator based out of<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u> </u></b>São Paulo, Brazil</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://twitter.com/juliusohta">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/juliusohta/">Instagram</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">2 winners
will receive finished copies of VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE-THE COMPLETE SERIES, US
Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends February
20th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.comicbookyeti.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Comic Book Yeti</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://sadiesspotlight.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Sadie's
Spotlight</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/24/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://themommaspot.home.blog/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">The Momma Spot</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/25/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.twochicksonbooks.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Two Chicks on Books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Three:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Four:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk156648458"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://books2read.com/CITY-SPIES-MISSION-MANHATTAN" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1688" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitAHOq9JCe2H9ULBQSDWRmjxKF07i_KhHk5PibfeP7WV4KBPaVDkvnITulEmsf3S3iehvdxCfqRuiV58vE6rMjDc68n4DFNcpQW1QeJ_1QBQN4OmO3iqO9RXNA8atJwjljMM9gcEWkeAyaT747RSIHKOUxoG4mnJEmnMvzNZANjhm7IVy_BUencIFJwPgD/w265-h400/City%20Spies%205%20-%20Cover.jpg" width="265" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Title:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125035717;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> CITY SPIES: MISSION MANHATTAN<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125035717;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Author: </span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125035717;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">James Ponti<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125035717;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk125035717;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> February 6, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In this fifth installment in the <i>New
York Times</i> bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the
young group of spies take on New York City in another international adventure
perfect for fans of <i>Spy School</i> and <i>Mrs. Smith’s Spy
School for Girls</i>.</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156648458;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
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The City Spies head to the Big Apple when a credible threat is made to a young
climate activist who is scheduled to speak in front of the upcoming United
Nations General Assembly. With Rio acting as alpha and a new member in their
ranks, the team’s mission to protect a fellow teen takes them on an exciting
adventure in, around, and even under the greatest city in the world as they
follow leads to the outer boroughs, the UN Headquarters, and even the usually
off-limits stacks that extend deep under the main branch of the New York Public
Library.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Book
Trailer:</span></b></p><p></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eJGI-3xdFL0?si=dJBgWT6FFrPz9n-e" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Excerpt:</span></div><div><p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">1.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">The
Swarm</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Spy
missions were nothing like spy movies. All Cairo had to do was look in a mirror
to see that. He was about to go undercover for the first time, and rather than
a tuxedo or finely tailored suit, he was wearing a bumblebee costume. It was a
padded onesie over a pair of black tights and was very much <i>not </i>tailored.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“This thing’s giving me a wedgie,”
he complained, tugging at the seat of his costume.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“It was the best we could do on
such short notice,” replied Paris, who wore a matching outfit and was smearing
black and yellow greasepaint on his face. “When it comes to spycraft, the
bottom line is that comfort takes a backseat to blending in.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Maybe so,” Cairo replied. “But
right now, my backseat and bottom line are blending in with my underwear.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Paris laughed. It was a good sign
that Cairo was able to joke right before his first official mission. Most
people would’ve been too nervous. “Welcome to MI6,” he said. “It’s oh so
glamorous.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">They were in Venice, Italy,
because the Secret Intelligence Service had gotten word of a potential threat
at a global warming demonstration scheduled for St. Mark’s Square. The event
was organized by a group of teenage environmental activists known as the Swarm, whose members dressed accordingly at
protest rallies.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“You ready?” Paris asked once he’d
finished putting on his makeup.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Cairo nodded, gave his costume one
final tug, and said, “Let’s get buzzing.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">This was their first time in
Venice, and it would’ve been easy for them to get lost because the city was
spread across more than one hundred small islands, but they had help navigating
its baffling blend of bridges and alleyways. As they stepped out of their safe
house, they heard a loud buzzing that sounded as though a massive swarm of bees
was overtaking the city.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“What’s that noise?” Cairo asked.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Vuvuzelas,” answered</span><span class="normaltextrun">
Paris.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“You mean those plastic horns fans
play at soccer matches?”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“The Swarm uses them whenever they
march to a rally,” Paris explained. “All we have to do is listen and follow.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Helpful,” Cairo said. “<i>Annoying</i>, but
helpful.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">As they tried to catch up with the
Swarm, the rest of the team was getting ready in St. Mark’s Square, which the
Italians called <i>Piazza San Marco</i>. Sydney and Brooklyn were stationed near the
security gates through which all the protesters had to pass, while Rio and
Monty were backstage keeping an eye on the speakers scheduled to talk at the
rally.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Kat was the alpha, which meant
she’d call the shots once the mission got underway. She was positioned on the
observation deck atop the bell tower overlooking the square. Four hundred years
earlier, this was where Galileo looked to the heavens with his newly invented
telescope and discovered order in the universe. Now it was where a
fourteen-year-old spy looked across a sea of demonstrators, hoping to figure
out which ones were a threat to the others.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Testing comms, one, two, three,”
she said into the microphone hidden in her jacket collar. “Can everyone hear
me?”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Roger that,” replied Sydney.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Loud and clear,” Brooklyn added.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“All good,” said Monty.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Good for me, too,” answered Rio.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Kat waited a moment before
prodding, “Paris, Cairo, are you in range?”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“You’ll have to speak up,” Cairo
said, trying to be heard over the noise around them. “It’s pretty loud over
here.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">He and Paris had just joined up
with dozens of protesters dressed as bees and making a ruckus as they paraded
through the city. In addition to blaring vuvuzelas, some of them pounded drums,
while others chanted, “Be-a-triz! Be-a-triz!” in honor of their leader.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“We’re on the Rialto Bridge
crossing the Grand Canal,” Paris said, raising his voice. “We should reach St.
Mark’s in about ten minutes.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“What about you, Mother?” Kat
said. “I know you can’t answer directly, but if you can hear us, let us know by
asking someone a question.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Mother was one of the two adult
agents who oversaw the team. MI6 had managed to place him inside Venice’s
state-of-the-art Control Room. This was the highly secretive—and somewhat
controversial—location where local authorities used a web of sensors, CCTV
cameras, and mobile-phone trackers to monitor every person visiting the city.
It would’ve caused an uproar if the Italians found out a British agent was
running a mission from here, so Mother couldn’t be overheard communicating
directly with the others. Instead, he turned to a nearby police officer and
asked, <i>“Dov’é il bagno?”</i></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Seriously?” Sydney said with a
laugh. “That’s the best you could come up with?”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“You know what that means, don’t
you?” Kat asked.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Yes,” answered Sydney. “It means
‘Where’s the bathroom?’”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“True, but it also means that the
comms are set and everyone’s in position,” Kat said. “And <i>that </i>means ‘This operation is hot. We are a
go!’”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">This was the phrase the alpha said
to launch every mission for the City Spies, an experimental team of six covert
agents, aged twelve to sixteen, who British Secret Intelligence sent on
assignments in which adults would stand out.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Chills,” Brooklyn replied.
“Every. Single. Time.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Shy and awkward by nature, Kat had
come into her own as the alpha on some recent high-value missions. She’d been
surprised by how much she’d enjoyed the role. “We are underway, and the rally
is set to start in twenty-three minutes,” she said, taking charge. “That means
open eyes and open minds. This is not a typical assignment.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“And by that, are you referring to
the part where we’ve been told to look for zombies?” Rio replied.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">There were snickers on the comms.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Not just zombies,” Kat replied.
“I’ll settle for vampires, flesh-eaters, or any undead creatures you may come
across. We’re casting a wide net here.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">And that was the problem with the
mission. They didn’t really know what they were looking for.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Five days earlier, MI6 intercepted
a partial message sent between criminal syndicates in Kazakhstan and Turkey
that discussed an attack in St. Mark’s to be carried out on this date by . . . <i>the walking dead</i>.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">That was literally what it had
said.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">British analysts probably wouldn’t
have paid much attention to it if it weren’t for the fact that the protest was
happening at the same time world leaders would be in Venice for the United
Nations Climate Change Conference, which was being held across the Giudecca
Canal on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">The threat sounded like a joke but
couldn’t be ignored.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun"><i>“The walking dead?”</i></span><span class="normaltextrun">
Mother had asked when the team was given the assignment by his superior. “Are
you being serious? What does that even mean?”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“There are several possibilities,”
responded Tru, one of only a handful of high-ranking officials at the Secret
Intelligence Service who even knew that the City Spies existed. “It’s either a
code, a message that’s been garbled in translation from Kazakh to Turkish to
English, or the first sign of the zombie apocalypse. Whichever one, we’re going
to need someone there to keep an eye on things.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">The City Spies were chosen to be
that “someone” for two main reasons. First, because the rally was sponsored for
and by young people, it was easy for them to blend in. Second, the team’s
official cover was that they were all on student fellowships with the
Foundation for Atmospheric Research and Monitoring, a weather research center
in Scotland that was actually the headquarters for a covert MI6 operation. The
FARM, as it was known, was active in promoting climate change awareness, which
is how Monty and Rio were able to get backstage with the speakers.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun"><i>“Você está nervosa?”</i></span><span class="normaltextrun">
Rio asked Beatriz Santos, the sixteen-year-old activist who was scheduled to
give the main address at the rally.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">She smiled, pleasantly surprised
to hear someone speak in her native language.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun"><i>“Um pouco,”</i></span><span class="normaltextrun">
she replied, admitting that she was a bit nervous. <i>“Você
é brasileiro?”</i></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun"><i>“Eu sou carioca,” </i></span><span class="normaltextrun">he
replied, which meant that he was from Rio de Janeiro.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Her eyes lit up and she beamed. <i>“Eu também sou!”</i> she said. <i>So am I.</i></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Although Kat was the alpha, Rio
had the most important assignment. He was supposed to get close to Beatriz and
watch over her since she was the most likely target of any attack. For him,
this was huge, not only because it was rare for him to get such an important
responsibility, but also because he was a massive fan of hers. He had to fight
feeling starstruck as they talked.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Rafael,” he said introducing
himself with his cover name. “But you can call me Rafa.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“I’m Beatriz,” she replied.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">He laughed. “Yeah, I think I heard
that somewhere.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">The chants of “Be-a-triz!
Be-a-triz!” were ringing through the crowd, and she gave an embarrassed cringe.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“That must feel incredible,” he
said. “People just cheering your name.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“It’s good for the cause,” she replied.
“But I don’t like the attention.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Really?” he asked, surprised.
“That’s too bad, because you sure get a lot of it.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">In just over two years, Beatriz
had gone from unknown concerned teenager to world-famous environmental activist. What started as
a one-person protest outside the Brazilian National Congress had grown into a
global organization with members in ninety-seven countries. Officially, she was
the director of the International Student Coalition
to Protect Rainforests, but among her ardent supporters, she was simply
known as Queen Bea, which is why they called
themselves the Swarm.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Still,” Rio continued, “you
shouldn’t feel nervous about talking to a crowd that loves you so much.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“I’m not too worried about the
speech in the piazza,” she said. “But there are people across the water who do
not love me so much. It’s important that I don’t make any mistakes that give
them an excuse to ignore what I have to say.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">After her speech Beatriz was
scheduled to take the five-minute boat ride across the lagoon to San Giorgio
Maggiore so she could address the world leaders at the UN conference. It would
be an intimidating audience that included the US president and British prime
minister.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“How do you keep calm when you
have to speak to a group like that?”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“I think of the bees,” Beatriz
said.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“The ones who dress up and chant
your name?”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“No,” she replied. “The bees who
pollinate a third of the food we eat. They are essential to feeding the world.
Thinking about them reminds me that even if you are very small, you can still
be very important.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Rio flashed a charmer’s smile and
said, <i>“Você vai fazer fántastico.” You’ll do
fantastic.</i></span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">She held up both hands with her
fingers crossed.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Meanwhile, the crowd continued to
fill into the piazza.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“In case the incredibly loud
buzzing didn’t give it away, the Swarm just arrived at security gate number
one,” Sydney informed the others.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">Fences had been erected so that
anyone entering the square had to pass through a series of metal detectors and
magnetometers as well as get patted down by officers in black jackets that read
<span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal;">polizia</span> on the back.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“I can even see our busy little
bees,” Sydney added once she spotted Paris and Cairo enter the pat-down area.
“Bumble One and Bumble Two.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Make sure to get photos of them
both,” Kat said.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“To document the mission?”
Brooklyn asked.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“No, for future blackmail
opportunities.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Gotta love Kat,” Sydney said as
she snapped some pictures. “Always thinking ahead.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“You’re all hilarious,” Paris
responded. “Besides, compared to the others, I think we look pretty good.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Keep telling yourself that,”
Sydney said. “But you may be mistaking this for our mission in Egypt.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Why do you say that?” he asked,
confused.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Because you’re swimming in ‘da
Nile,’” she joked, eliciting more laughter on the comms.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“You walked right into that one,”
Rio said.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“All right, that’s enough,” Monty
said, laughing with them. “Loose is good, but this mission is important. We
need to focus.” Monty was the other adult with the team. She was the director
of FARM and was backstage gathered with the parents and advisors who’d
accompanied the speakers.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“All kidding aside, I’m wondering
if more of us should’ve worn costumes,” Brooklyn said. “We would’ve blended in
better.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Why’s that?” asked Monty.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“So many people are wearing them,”
she responded. “In addition to all the bumblebees, there are people dressed as
endangered animals, environmental superheroes, and even some with giant
papier-mâché heads of the world leaders. It looks like Halloween at security
gate two. Right now, the police are trying to figure out how to deal with two
creepy bird-people pushing a giant globe.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“What’s the problem with it?”
Sydney asked.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“It’s too big to fit through the
metal detectors,” she replied.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“What do <i>creepy bird-people </i>even look like?” Cairo asked.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“They’re wearing black cloaks,
black hats, motorcycle boots, and white masks with big round eyes and long
beaks.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“Those aren’t bird-people,” Paris
said. “They’re plague doctors.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“What?” asked Brooklyn.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“In the Middle Ages, doctors wore
outfits like that when they treated patients who had the plague,” Paris said.
“They packed the beak with herbs and flowers to counteract the smell, which is
what they thought carried the disease.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“They may not be birds, but the
masks are still creepy as all get-out,” Brooklyn responded.</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="normaltextrun">“That’s what people thought in the
Middle Ages too,” Paris answered. “They freaked out when they saw one of the
doctors arrive in their neighborhood because it meant someone nearby had the
plague and was sure to die. It was like a real-life grim reaper.”</span><span class="eop"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="normaltextrun">There was a beat, and then Kat
said, “The walking dead!”</span><span class="eop"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="eop"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0in; text-indent: .25in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="eop"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">About
James:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7AULN9ETZvFhQegaYfgREBbc8vCKDIQMSV3Sj6B75i-j0kiFiFrUj6UnNIMhpWW4PjQJlvWooImuOUoeFReqz1yJsyxaBAqiEe6MLSslSkIce6D8jUaLh8jd5c4y9NcbZKu3Xxq2MylxOFFWAnVkWQxqNiwJxmaVjo1Cq4i1IvwGMuwnk7d7gIMFKTH9P/s250/James.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="167" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7AULN9ETZvFhQegaYfgREBbc8vCKDIQMSV3Sj6B75i-j0kiFiFrUj6UnNIMhpWW4PjQJlvWooImuOUoeFReqz1yJsyxaBAqiEe6MLSslSkIce6D8jUaLh8jd5c4y9NcbZKu3Xxq2MylxOFFWAnVkWQxqNiwJxmaVjo1Cq4i1IvwGMuwnk7d7gIMFKTH9P/s1600/James.jpg" width="167" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">JAMES
PONTI </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">(he/him/his)
is the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of three middle grade book
series: <i>City Spies</i>, about an unlikely squad of five kids from around the
world who form an elite MI6 Spy Team; the Edgar Award–winning <i>Framed! </i>series,
about a pair of tweens who solve mysteries in Washington, DC; and the <i>Dead
City </i>trilogy, about a secret society that polices the undead living beneath
Manhattan. His books have appeared on more than fifteen different state award
lists and he is the founder of a writers group known as the Renegades of Middle
Grade. James is also an Emmy– nominated television writer and producer who has
worked for many networks including Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, PBS, History,
and Spike TV, as well as NBC Sports. He lives with his family in Orlando,
Florida. Find out more at JamesPonti.com.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.jamesponti.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Website</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://twitter.com/JamesPonti"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Twitter</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jamespontibooks/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> | </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/JamesPontiBooks/"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Facebook</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/428662.James_Ponti"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Goodreads</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3cdOJqO"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Amazon</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Giveaway Details:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1 lucky winner will receive a finished
copy of CITY SPIES: MISSION MANHATTAN, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Ends February 6<sup>th</sup>, midnight
EST.</span></p></div>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/22/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/enthuse_reader">@enthuse_reader</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">IG Review/TikTok Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/22/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://kountrygirlbookaholic.blogspot.com/">Kountry Girl Bookaholic</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/23/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.yabookscentral.com/ya-books-blog/">YA Books Central</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/23/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://darkfantasyreviews.wordpress.com/">@darkfantasyreviews</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/24/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://littleredreads.com/">Little Red Reads</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/24/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://logcabinlibrary.blogspot.com/">Log Cabin Library</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Excerpt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/25/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.twochicksonbooks.com/">Two Chicks on Books</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/25/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.ladyhawkeye.com/">Lady Hawkeye</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Excerpt/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/26/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://insatiablereaders.blogspot.com/">Satisfaction for Insatiable
Readers</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Review/IG Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/26/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/avainbookland/">Avainbookland</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/29/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://zeldaknight.com/blog/">The Guild</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/29/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/evergirl200/">AJ Johnson </a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/30/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/callistoscalling">Callisto’s calling </a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">IG Review<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">1/30/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@katherinebichler?_t=8iNzHkpWJ6w&_r=1">@katherinebichler</a><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-3560811088770458252024-01-22T03:00:00.001-05:002024-01-22T15:19:51.241-05:00Blog Tour- FAERIE TALES FROM THE WHITE FOREST SERIES by @danika_dinsmore With An Interview & A #Giveaway! #HydraHouseBooks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJNliNBP_bRNORIVkIpf8Y3W7IeP8FCvQm4eUMMWVwckxCcBhjVSm6W3SBAx_jR9wENtiktySGenpYzSeHsTfvM89SFYBdppOT8t0R7Fg59YKJV3nDYTQiBMsaF3TX1JWi7cM14tYsNpo7cfwiaxGvH-do0fxKWSEVbqJe0VF90D9FRg2KRk066CRcRvjl/s16000/FAERIE%20TALES%20FROM%20THE%20WHITE%20FOREST.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the FAERIE TALES FROM
THE WHITE FOREST SERIES by Danika Dinsmore Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Books:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk149645585"></a><a name="_Hlk98752404"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/FAERIE-TALES-FROM-THE-WHITE-FOREST1" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1681" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObnKdonIXBCa3o6Di1CVRKN9giFZVcL7iQPamT7mdueCRUbRxIJZ3LjZrOhGisOg2EPrsd_-G_HmWOPoLkq0vsaXhqLu4_sCKG-13AHdxsK_uGPWf2CR7-dIsbuw6kPxWhLtpxZLXj45MTfewmWydF7xIs2BNlw73jeOWavQbCoLCwptS642xw2_UkiJ-/w269-h400/Omnibus%20Vol%201%20ebook%20cover.jpg" width="269" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> FAERIE
TALES FROM THE WHITE FOREST SERIES Vol 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Danika Dinsmore<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> August 16, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hydra House<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover, Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 610<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23126475-faerie-tales-from-the-white-forest-omnibus-vol-1"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/FAERIE-TALES-FROM-THE-WHITE-FOREST1"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/FAERIE-TALES-FROM-THE-WHITE-FOREST1</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Brigitta of the White Forest / The
Ruins of Noe / Ondelle of Grioth<br />
<br />
A collection of the first three books in the Faerie Tales from the White Forest
series.<br />
<br />
For those who enjoy fantasy adventure, Faerie Tales from the White Forest
offers a new twist on the traditional faerie tales so loved by young readers.<br />
<br />
From devastating curses to death-defying quests, Water Faerie Brigitta and her
growing collective of misfit friends face greater and greater challenges when
destiny calls upon them to “make the balance right again” after the Great World
Cry has left their world in elemental chaos.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/FAERIE-TALES-FROM-THE-WHITE-FOREST2" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="1667" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJXIBiIoFCUXDq3gQImSxbptnfCn5LIWnByvx1erjosTuTzeHDak3gQQuFEy89f6bfQcg8QC3pjd0mqwysvj4bZFRWGVEyzjYlGFoWW5UYTAq5bNT7oAzGA9PJ6N0hpmb88WMRT2rzRvvauWV_hE_MlQuvLxj3Srmhg3tQt4CaySx0AVYb3_TaMgoGZTLE/w266-h400/Omnibus%20Vol%202%20cover.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> FAERIE TALES FROM THE WHITE FOREST SERIES
Vol 2<o:p></o:p></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Danika Dinsmore<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> September 5, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hydra House<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover, Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 673<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/189938620-faerie-tales-from-the-white-forest-omnibus-vol-2"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span><a href="https://books2read.com/FAERIE-TALES-FROM-THE-WHITE-FOREST2"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/FAERIE-TALES-FROM-THE-WHITE-FOREST2</span></span></a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Continuing the saga of Brigitta of
the White Forest, this Omnibus contains books 4-6 of the series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Interview:</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the readers: can you tell us a little bit
about your series and the characters?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;">Faerie Tales from the White Forest</span></i><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"> is a
6-book middle grade fantasy adventure. The Earth, Air, Fire, and Water faeries
of the White Forest have been living there ever since the Great World Cry sent
their world into elemental chaos. The White Forest is the only balanced place
left.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Five of the books focus on Brigitta, a Water Faerie, and her growing
group of traveling companions, who face greater and greater challenges as they
attempt to make the balance right again. In book 4, we travel back in time to
the story of Narine, an Ancient Faerie, to find out how the world became
unbalanced in the first place and how the Elemental Faeries came to live in the
protected realm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What are you working on now?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve taken a break from children’s literature to work on a poetry
manuscript and a memoir about caring for my elderly mother during COVID. My
first love was poetry and I always return to it between other projects. The
memoir is a mix of poetry and prose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I do have several MG and YA manuscripts in various forms of completion
that I will get back to at some point. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Were any of the characters in the book
inspired by people from your real life?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I think there’s a bit of me in Ondelle, the High Priestess, who becomes
Brigitta’s mentor. Also, Brigitta’s relationship with her younger sister
Himalette was inspired by the dynamic between two young actors I worked with on
a film set (in a former life I was an on-set teacher). One of the girls
actually gave me the idea for the giant caterpillar that appears in Book
One. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who was your favorite character to write? What
about your least favorite?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I loved writing about Gola, the Drutan (tree woman), who also becomes a
mentor to Brigitta. She’s such a mystery revealed over several books. I love
her wisdom and attitude and that she’s a Drutan of few words. Without giving
too much away… I loved that she’s so ancient and that we experience her at the
beginning and end of her profound life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I had trouble writing
Croilus (who we don’t meet until the 2<sup>nd</sup> book), because he’s pretty
much just evil, and I didn’t want him to become cliché. His backstory isn’t as
clear to me, so I had to really consider what was driving him to such evilness.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What is your favorite passage/scene in your
book?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s funny that some of my favorite moments are these really quiet ones,
like when Ondelle pays Brigitta a visit in her room or when Narine has a moment
alone with her father, the High Sage. I think it’s because in these moments
where relationships are developed the characters feel so genuine and real to
me. I also love, love, love when new characters are introduced or when characters
return in unexpected ways, which happens quite a bit as the series goes. I
literally get giddy when this happens, picturing the reader’s surprise and
delight. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What kind of research did you have to do for
the story?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since this was a completely imaginary world, my equivalent to “research” is
the world building process itself. Whenever I came across a new element of the
world, I took time to figure out its magical properties, how it got there, its
uses, etc. Other than the world-building, I spent time on babynames.com, online
atlases, and a Gaelic translation site to find names for people, places, and
things. I also drew lots and lots of maps, and there are artist renditions of
them in some of the books. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lightning Round Questions</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">What are you reading right now? Or
what do you have on your TBR that you’re dying to read</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I just finished reading the YA sci fi
novel EXO by Fonda Lee, and I’m now listening to Erin Morgenstern’s <i>The
Starless Sea</i>, which is so fantastic. Certain books make great bedtime
stories, and I love to be read to. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Favorite social media site?</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’m rarely social on social media. I
find it a bit overwhelming. I do admire other people’s ability to be creative
on different platforms. For instance, I’m working with a TicTok cosplay artist
to develop a live action Brigitta character on her cosplay channel. That’s
pretty exciting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Favorite Superhero or Villain?</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do Doctor Who and Buckaroo Bonzai
count as superheroes? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: red; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Favorite TV show?</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If I had to pick I’d say <i>The
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</i> and <i>Dr. Who</i>. I am also a sucker for any con
artist or heist story as long as it’s not overly violent, like <i>Lupin</i> or <i>Imposters</i>.
I wish I could write a good fantasy con artist story. That would be amazing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sweet or Salty?</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can I do both at the same time? Love
me a good salted caramel anything.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Any Phobias?</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Large, hoofed animals. Although, I’ve managed
to overcome some of this due to a few old horses that live next to me in
Hawaii. I still wouldn’t want to be alone in a barn with them, though. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Song you can’t get enough of right
now?</span></b><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;">Last year I discovered The Secret
Sisters,</span><b><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;">and I just love their song “He’s Fine.” I also
really dig the <i>This is Us</i> soundtrack. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2024 Movie you’re most looking forward
to?</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;">Wicked</span></i><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"> is
coming! And <i>Beautiful</i>, a biopic about Carole King. And, <i>Beetlejuice
II</i>, because I saw the original in the theater and hope it’s as funny. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do you play video games? If so what
are some of your favorites?</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #7030a0; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The only “video game” I play is Words
with Friends because I am a word nerd. I also do at least one Duolingo lesson
every day, which is kind of gamish, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">About Danika Dinsmore:</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://danikadinsmore.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1330" data-original-width="1373" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNlCfpTm2M7vyD6mw_TLIVD85Hgf0uKdRlqGc7AwHqP8UuhY-9aMFTHGWsi_KM10j5USRIercxrgJrlNURoKos7eB5zxksEiOpc6JOggXAF148lPS_vF5glVZWE3Na9jwrY6dx_CPOpPWGtgfPbFuLJH0D1my3_RrB9Od4e6slIjRWMf8y_iZngG7cWjW4/s320/Danika%20at%20Worlds%20End%20Book%20Tour.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Danika
Dinsmore is an award-winning author, performance artist, and educator. Over the
past 30 years she has developed content for the page, stage, screen, and web.
Danika writes literary and speculative fiction with an emphasis on juvenile
& young adult literature as well as working as a story editor for other
writers. She often takes her interactive Imaginary Worlds Tour events on the
road, performing and teaching world-building & creative writing at schools,
conferences, and festivals across North America. She has delivered her quirky
and innovative curriculum to thousands of young writers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Subscribe to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a finished copy of the omnibus FAERIE TALES FROM THE WHITE FOREST
SERIES, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive an eBook of the omnibus FAERIE TALES FROM THE WHITE FOREST SERIES,
International.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends February
20th, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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Red Reads</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Three:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Four:</span></u></b></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-12716910221840679162024-01-17T03:30:00.000-05:002024-01-17T03:30:00.131-05:00Blog Tour- HEIRS OF THE PROMISE by @LFranzAuthor With An Excerpt & #Giveaway! @atmospherepress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEU8vbhRr9PEn0eHEU4wa1iTVAFKk9DR_YWTd1uw0pEr8Z1TKpS0dapu6fH-wbkXG09O-6ltIxYWNXs5LICF3ng3ngJ0U0SnJaMfgkPpbReEyWRb-wG2rfe3WnUILeGemzgMoc2DiM4QBNisDuX1lqGnQtwHYMyQ5JEcnvh0RjSu2N_bsRrb5hxmkaKgE1/s16000/HEIRS%20OF%20THE%20PROMISE.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the HEIRS OF THE
PROMISE by Langdon Franz Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk149645585"></a><a name="_Hlk156295891"></a><a name="_Hlk98752404"></a><a name="_Hlk99441234"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/HEIRS-OF-THE-PROMISE" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2550" data-original-width="1650" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiQeL8A4dY9O7zkHsbXqBb1dmgTsGYYdv4GSyU9XrsgeOz3aR-00GVsbWSYGCyBYHY343BritF3CLSj6b5TDiMjrMurJOYKSP_reXFzYkMTBz6FvYhhSd2a7skM9S-QL0F_s_cPaSmRMSAbJvG5hbeqCwbO2Qi_YNUj2rhs_SNqI7z2iOazHTgL6r4IosK/w259-h400/Heirs%20of%20the%20Promise%20Cover.jpeg" width="259" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> HEIRS OF THE PROMISE<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Langdon Franz<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> November 13, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Atmosphere Press<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Paperback, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 522<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/202113595-heirs-of-the-promise"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/HEIRS-OF-THE-PROMISE"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/HEIRS-OF-THE-PROMISE</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">For two hundred years, Kilal has dutifully carved intricate runes into
his wrist every forty-eight hours to maintain his Immortality. But now, faced
with the disappearance of his daughter in the Ashen Lands, the presumed death
of his wife, and the imminent threat of his sworn enemies breaching the
Sunlight Domain, Kilal's sanity teeters on the edge.<br />
<br />
Haunted by hallucinations and tormented by whispers in the dark, Kilal embarks
on a desperate quest. He must assemble a band of warriors to thwart the
encroaching Ash Fallen invasion, while also confronting the Heirs of the
Promise, a mysterious group that has infiltrated his land and corrupted his
fellow Arbiters.<br />
<br />
Amidst the chaos, Kilal's need for the Carving of Immortality intensifies. He
must rise above his crumbling mental state and combat the encroaching madness,
for his daughter's fate hangs in the balance. With time running out, Kilal must
defy his own limitations, uncover the truth, and find the strength to reunite
his family.<br />
<br />
In a world where Immortality comes at a bloody cost, Kilal must navigate a
treacherous landscape of loss, enemies, and corruption against a backdrop of
impending doom, where every decision carries weight and the search for
salvation becomes a race against time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Praise for HEIRS OF THE PROMISE:<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">“</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Langdon Franz crafts an epic story that
traverses individual challenge and bigger-picture social and political
transformation in a world under siege.”-</span><span lang="EN"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Midwest
Book Review<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156295891;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“The
book is full of fast-paced storytelling, compelling characters,
interesting<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>magic and lore, and intense
fighting sequences. Franz should give himself a pat on the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>back. Heirs of the Promise is one heck of a
start to a fantasy series.”- <b>Independent Book Review</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“The
world that Franz creates is immersive and precarious, with every decision
carrying immense weight, as Kilal fights for his sanity and loved ones while
racing against time to unravel the truth. This gripping and adrenaline-fueled
read will keep readers on the edge of their seats.”-</span><span lang="EN"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">BookView Review<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Excerpt:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">CHAPTER 1<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Kilal pressed the knife into his wrist, grasping for
Immortality. A rusted porcelain sink caught the blood dripping from the open
wound as he dragged the sharp blade through his flesh. With a precision gained
by decades of practice, Kilal carved a tight circle, two inches in diameter.
Next came a straight line from the top of the circle to the bottom. Each end
protruded exactly one centimeter past the perimeter. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Every detail had to be perfect. Even a hair’s width of
inaccuracy would render the Carving obsolete.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Cutting a second path from left to right, the two lines
intersected perfectly in the middle of the circle. Kilal paused and wiped sweat
from his forehead with the back of his hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Bloody business can’t keep their air conditioning
running or something?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> He returned the tip of the knife to his flesh and
carved four more lines, enclosing the circle in a diamond. The pounding bass
reverberating through the walls was barely more than a buzz. His focus seemed
to do a better job than the walls at keeping the music at an acceptable level.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Kilal swapped the carving knife for a smaller blade suited
for minute details. With a steady hand and careful attention to detail, he
etched a tiny rune, no more than an inch long, in each of the four quarters of
the circle. Breath held, Kilal moved the blade through his skin with an
efficiency any Arbiter would envy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Finished, he ran his wrist beneath water from the cracked and
rusty faucet and examined the raw, open flesh representing the Carving of
Immortality. Satisfied with his work, Kilal walked to the door of the restroom
and jiggled the lock. It was secure. It would take more than what an average
human was capable of to break through the door. He checked again anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The door vibrated to the rhythm of the bass blasting
behind it. Kilal clenched his teeth. His target just had to frequent a bloody
club, didn’t he?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Confident the door would halt any would-be visitors,
Kilal strode into a stall and locked it. Taking a seat on the toilet, he chided
himself for being so sloppy. How had he allowed himself to get stuck in a club
full of humans hostile towards Arbiters with no active Carvings to defend
himself?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Bloody idiot,” he muttered. “Get yourself together!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal pulled out a third blade—more a pick than a
blade—and pierced the center of the Carving. Feet pressed against the stall
legs, he locked his knees straight and shoved himself back against the toilet
tank. He took a deep breath and rotated the pick one-hundred and eighty degrees
clockwise.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The Carving flashed white, and the seizure hit him with the
force of a War Plague.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal shook. His body tightened, and his muscles
spasmed. The stall vibrated with him. His legs kept him strained against the
porcelain. The stall door knocked and rattled, the lock’s rhythmic metallic
pinging mimicking the bass still beating outside the bathroom. The convulsions
lasted for what felt like an eternity, but eventually, it was over.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Breathing ragged, eyes half open, Kilal flipped himself over.
His knees hit the floor just as the nausea reigned. Bitter bile spewed from his
mouth and into the toilet, his already empty stomach twisting like a wrung
cloth. Kilal spit, trying futilely to clear the acidic taste from his tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Finished, he flushed the toilet and stumbled out of the
stall, back to the sink. He splashed water over his face.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Hunching to fit his large frame into the view of the mirror,
Kilal glared at the man staring at him. Pale, clammy skin. Dull, sunken eyes.
Oily, dark hair brushing his shoulders. His beard was so thick and unruly, he
couldn’t remember the last time a razor had kissed his cheeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“Bloodshed and Oaths, you look like an Ash Fallen,” Kilal
said. “Or a man allergic to soap and water.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He ran his left wrist under the faucet again, washing the
blood from his skin. When the water ran clear, Kilal stared at the smooth,
unblemished skin—as if a blade had never touched him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He again pulled out the first knife and pressed it against
his forefinger. Time to test the Carving. Any good Arbiter worth their oath
would. Gritting his teeth, Kilal sliced his finger off with one swift motion.
It dropped and rolled into the sink. The finger didn’t even reach the drain
before white lightning crackled around the severed joint.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">It wasn’t enough to endure the sharp, throbbing pain of the
Carving ritual. He also had to endure the excruciating agony that came with the
healing. Instantly regrowing bone, muscles, tendons, skin, and organs was worse
than the injury itself. Nerves searing, fibers and flesh regenerated and
stitched back together.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Simultaneously numb and oversensitive, Kilal flexed the new
finger. The one in the sink disintegrated into a pile of ash.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Immortality was his. For the next forty-eight hours, at
least. Then he’d have the joy of Carving everything all over again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> One down, two more to go.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Kilal pressed the blade into his flesh again to work on the
Carving of Gravitational Control.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> When finished, Kilal returned to the stall. He drove
his pick into the center of the Carving and activated it, just as he’d done
before, though he wasn’t able to flip himself around in time to vomit.
Fortunately, there wasn’t much left in his stomach. He only spilled a small
amount of acidic spit onto his shirt. Unfortunately, any amount of bile still
tasted terrible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal stumbled back to the sink and hovered over it for
a moment. He took a few deep breaths before splashing water onto his face and
into his mouth, trying to clear the vile tang.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Eyes closed, Kilal pictured the Carving of
Gravitational Control as a knob. He ‘grabbed’ it and twisted it to the right,
increasing gravity’s effect on him. When dirty bathroom tiles groaned beneath
his increased weight, he mentally returned the knob to normal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Carvings one and two completed, he began his third and
final, the Carving of Deific Strength.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The overhead light flickered. Kilal froze. It flickered
again. His chest tightened and his breath caught in his throat. The third time
the light flickered, ash began falling from the ceiling.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal wrenched the knife from his wrist. It slipped
from his fingers and clattered on the floor. He pinched his eyes shut and
pressed the heels of his hands into his cheeks until it hurt.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> It’s not real. It’s not real. It’s not real. You’re not
there anymore. You escaped. It’s just your bloody mind playing tricks on you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “You abandoned your daughter.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> He opened his eyes and searched for whoever spoke. The
hairs on his neck stood on end when his gaze settled on the reflection in the
mirror.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Shut up!” he snapped.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> His reflection sneered. “You left her there.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal gripped the edge of the sink, squeezing until it
cracked. He held the reflection’s stare, glare for glare. “I didn’t have a
choice.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The reflection rolled its eyes. “That’s right. Because
you must save this floating rock you call home.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Ash built up around him, covering the sink, the floor,
his shoulders.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Bloodshed and Oaths, you know that’s the truth!” Kilal
cursed. “I swore to protect this world. I can’t abandon it. For anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> A nasty smile worked its way onto his reflection’s
face. “What sort of father leaves his daughter in that place?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal growled and slammed his fist into the mirror,
shattering it into a hundred pieces. Blood dripped from his knuckles for only a
second before white electricity crackled around his fist. The sting
accompanying the healing was barely more than a whisper compared to the
tightness in his chest and burning in his stomach.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “She’s dead,” a cacophony of voices said from the
broken shards. “That’s why you left her there.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “She’s not dead!” Kilal pressed his eyes shut and
leaned over the sink, leveraging the full weight of his
two-hundred-seventy-pound frame on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The porcelain ripped from its enclosure connecting it
to the wall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Kill yourself.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “I’ll go back for her. I’ll go back for her. I’ll go
back for her,” Kilal repeated, rocking in place. He would. He would!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The knob of the bathroom door rattled and twisted.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Hey! Who’s in there? Open up. Other people need to
piss, too!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal ignored the would-be visitor, hoping the lock
would continue to do its job. His breathing was all he concentrated on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The tightness in his chest eased, and the hairs on his
neck lowered. His grip loosened on the half-dangling sink. Kilal opened his
eyes. The ash was gone, and his reflection in the mirror shards scattered
around him no longer taunted him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Twice in two days,” he said, rubbing his face.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal waited for the banging on the door to go away
before he retrieved his knife from the floor and returned to his third and
final Carving. Though no sooner had he started, the knob rattled again. He
ignored it. He guided the knife with keen precision.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Someone pounded on the door again, more urgently than before.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Get the point and move on,” Kilal growled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> He sighed when the door slammed open. It crashed
against the wall, and music, fast and rhythmic, flooded the restroom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A large bald man strode in. His white t-shirt stuck to his
sweat-soaked skin, and he wore pants he shouldn’t have been able to squeeze
into. The newcomer stopped dead at the sight of Kilal, wrist dripping blood and
knife in hand. Two other men, dressed similarly, stopped in their tracks as
well, one bumping into the bald man. He had a jaw pointy enough to pierce skin,
while the other’s chin was so flabby he barely had a neck. Three sets of eyes
moved as one to Kilal’s wrist.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Baldy sneered. “Didn’t you see the sign, freak?” he
yelled, though his voice barely rose above the beats bumping into the bathroom.
“Your kind isn’t welcome here!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Looks like we caught him before he could finish.”
No-Neck grinned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Baldy scrunched his face and pinched his nose. “What’s
that smell?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal gritted his teeth. Forgive me for not
consistently caring for my hygiene while I was held captive and tortured in the
Ashen Lands.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The three stepped further into the room, and
Pointy-Chin shut the door. The pulsing thrum of the music dampened. The
vibration gently wavered through the floor, and the heavy beat could still be
counted, but the relative ‘silence’ in comparison was a blessing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Baldy cracked his knuckles, but it was his voice that
grated on Kilal’s nerves. “We oughta teach him what happens to his kind when
they go places they aren’t wanted.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Come on, Drig.” Pointy-Chin grabbed Baldy’s arm. “We
don’t know if he’s one of those Arbiters who can use more than one Carving.
What if he already has one in him?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">“You should really listen to your friend,” Kilal said. He
returned his knife to the sheath on his belt. The last thing he needed was to
accidentally kill the fool.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Baldy smiled. “You can’t hurt us. Your oath will only
let you hurt Arbiters and Ash Fallen. Not innocent folk like us.” He shook his
arm free of Pointy-Chin and stepped forward.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal sighed, shaking his head. “Technically, you’re
right. I can’t hurt you.” Baldy’s smile widened. “That is,” Kilal continued,
“unless I consider you a threat. In which case, I’m free to defend myself. So,
what do you think? Should I consider you a threat?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Baldy faltered and looked at his friends. They gave quick
shakes of their heads.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Unfortunately, Baldy was made of dumber stock than most.
“Nah.” He turned back to Kilal. “I don’t believe you. Never heard of such a
thing. You’re just trying to save yourself.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Bloodshed and Oaths. This bloody idiot is going to make
me hurt him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> He unsheathed his carving knife and brandished it at
them. “Get out. Now.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Baldy looked from the blade to Kilal, then his friends.
He didn’t make any gesture to leave. Kilal growled. He didn’t have time to deal
with fools. He didn’t want to hurt them, but what other choice did he have?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Unless…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> He held his open hand up and ran the knife across his
palm, parting flesh. Blood dripped, and the sting barely registered before
white energy crackled around the wound, re-knitting the skin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The trio paled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Again, Kilal pointed the blade at Baldy, then at the door.
“Get. Out.” Baldy wheeled on his friends, shoving them aside as he made for the
door—“Wait!” Kilal thundered. His voice bounced off the tiles. The men froze.
“Your shirt, Drig. Give it to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Bloody idiot. He looked down at his own vomit-stained shirt.
What would you do if Drig wasn’t as large as he is? Walk through the club
smelling of death and bile? Good thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Drig didn’t argue. He ripped the fabric over his head and
threw it at Kilal before charging out the door, his friends on his heels.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Kilal caught the sweaty shirt and groaned. The thing stunk as
if it had been dipped in a gallon of cologne. He placed it aside and re-secured
the door before returning to his third and final Carving.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">When he’d completed the process, Kilal did his best to clean
himself up at the sink one last time. He pulled on Drig’s shirt and was pleased
when a glance into a mirror shard proved he didn’t look entirely ridiculous in
the small, damp fabric.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Feeling almost like a new man, his three Carvings refueling
him with energy and confidence, Kilal exited the bathroom. He ignored the
flickering light and the crunch of glass beneath his boots. When he stepped
out, he winced. The music assailed him as he headed down the short hall with
chipped and peeling black walls.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The hall deposited Kilal into an enormous square room
three stories high. Over a hundred bodies, by Kilal’s estimation, writhed about
on the floor under the probing lights, dancing to the rhythm of the booming
bass. Or at least, that’s what he assumed they were doing. When had the
flailing of limbs and grinding against each other become ‘dance’?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal cut across the floor and made his way to the
spiraling staircase on the other side of the room. Cologne, perfume, and body
odor mingled into a single collage of stink, making Kilal almost as nauseous as
activating a Carving.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> His wide, muscled frame shoved aside anyone not keen
enough to get out of his way on their own, and he quickly freed himself from
the knotted mass of moving flesh. He ascended the steps, taking three at a
time, and strode onto the third-floor balcony overlooking the club. The clock
on a nearby wall flashed bright red numbers. 11:21 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Just in time. His target supposedly frequented the
place every evening at 11:30 p.m. sharp.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal moved to a table at the edge of the balcony. He
took a seat and waited.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> A young woman approached him, carrying a notebook and a
smile. She knelt beside him and placed a hand on his thigh, a brow raised.
“What can I get for you, handsome?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The girl either had extremely poor taste in men or was
looking for a good tip. Either way, a hundred years ago, Kilal would’ve
reciprocated the flirtatious attitude. Now?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He gently removed her hand from his leg, never taking his
gaze from the dance floor beneath them. “Water.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> She didn’t answer or bother to write his order down.
She just stood, turned on her heels, and stormed away. Kilal didn’t expect to
receive his water any time soon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">He scooted his chair up against the guardrail and rested his
arms on it as he scanned the mass of bodies below. The club’s name flashed in
bright neon colors on the wall across from him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Forget Everything.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Pressure spiked behind his eyes. The room seemed to
warp, the walls bending, flexing outward. What immense power! Frantically,
Kilal looked for the source. He found him, stepping through the revolving glass
doors and into the club.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Jayden. His target.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Only a few times in Kilal’s two hundred years of life
had he felt power like that, and it confirmed his decision to hunt Jayden down.
Now, he only had to convince the man to help him save the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Jayden, chest puffed out, sauntered from the entrance
to the dance floor, smiling and pointing at people like he owned the place. He
wore a green V-neck t-shirt; the cutout dipping nearly beneath his flat,
hairless chest, and his yellow pants were so tight, Kilal wasn’t sure if his
legs hadn’t been painted instead. Although, the six inches or so of skin
showing above ankle-high white socks confirmed the man was, indeed, wearing
pants. Black leather shoes rounded out his abysmal clothing decisions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> For such a provocative outfit, Kilal would’ve assumed
Jayden had a reason to wear them, but he didn’t look like he’d done an honest
day’s work in his life. The only thing he had going for him was a neatly
trimmed haircut over bushy brown eyebrows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The music stopped, and everything went quiet, but the
dancing continued. In fact, the bass still vibrated through the railing and
floor. What was going—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal shot to his feet, kicking the chair behind him,
and turned about, hands up before him. Three individuals sat at his table.
Arbiters. And one of them had created a sound pocket around them. Normally, he
would’ve sensed the use of a Carving, but the sensation must have been drowned
by the immense power emanating from Jayden.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal eyed the strangers. The one sitting nearest was
tall and lean, yet solid with muscle. He sported a black tank top with gray
tattoos wrapped around his arms. Carving tattoos! Kilal didn’t know whether he
should slap him for such foolishness or fear him. If he displayed his knowledge
for all to see, surely the man was a threat to be respected, though the
lopsided and arrogant grin stuck to his face said otherwise. Probably an
Enlightened Arbiter, and a Fighter, at that. Kilal dismissed him without another
thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The second person, sitting across from Tattoos, was a
woman with short blonde hair. Nothing stood out about her. She hunched forward,
shoulders folded in, and kept her arms beneath the table. She was trying to
display a sheepish personality, which Kilal assumed worked against most people.
He almost fell for it until he met her gaze.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> He held her gaze just long enough to catch it before
she flicked it away. An edge was behind them, a hardness only the most
battle-experienced Arbiters obtained. Why had she chosen to partner up with a
bloody idiot like Tattoos?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> She was the one who’d thrown up the sound bubble.
Buzzing in his ears indicated it was a Carving from the Mind branch. And the
taste of copper identified the use of a second Carving, one from the Physical
branch. A High Arbiter, and more specifically, a Bruiser. Was she prepared for
a physical altercation?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Of course, he could’ve been completely wrong about his
estimation of the two. The problem with sensing Carvings was how difficult it
was to determine who was using them. For all Kilal really knew, he could have
switched the two Arbiter’s classifications. It was also possible they were both
Enlightened instead, each using only one Carving. But Kilal had learned to
trust his instincts. After two hundred years of sensing, he found he was
usually right with his predictions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The third and final stranger held Kilal’s attention the
longest. He wore a long black coat buttoned up to the neck. Matching leather
gloves kept his hands concealed. Most ridiculous of all were the dark
sunglasses concealing what Kilal knew lay behind them: eyes with veins as stark
as the man’s skin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal picked up the chair he’d kicked over. He returned
it to the table and sat, carefully putting a few feet between himself and
Tattoos. The power he sensed from each of them boosted his confidence. As long
as he didn’t allow Sunglasses to touch him, he’d walk away from the encounter
unscathed. Regardless, an Arbiter always treated another with a healthy dose of
respect and fear until they knew what Carvings were in play.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal was the first to breach the silence. He leaned
back and crossed his arms. “An Enlightened Arbiter, a High Arbiter, and an
Inflictor entered a club. Every table within was theirs to choose from. Which
one did they pick?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> They stiffened.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Tattoos sucked at something stuck between his teeth. “I
don’t know. Which one?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal narrowed his eyes. “The wrong one.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> The lady leaned forward. She placed her arms on the
table and straightened her spine. Good. She wasn’t trying to hide who she was
anymore. “From where I’m sitting, I think we chose the right one. Few Primes
remain unaffiliated with the Heirs of the Promise.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Who? The title meant nothing to him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “What do you want?” Kilal asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “To talk. I’m Issa. This is Iathu.” She nodded toward
the Inflictor, who gave Kilal a small tilt of his head. “And he’s—”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “None of your business,” Tattoos said, picking at a
dark object between two teeth with his tongue. “What are you doing introducing
us like we’re all pals?” He leaned back against his chair, propping it up on
its rear legs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Issa’s eyes hardened. “That’s Caz.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal winced at Caz’s repulsive lip-smacking. “You
gonna ask him to dance next?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Are you always this disrespectful to ladies?” Kilal
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Caz sneered and leaned forward. His chair slammed onto
the floor, and he brought his face so close, the air reeked of stale smoke from
his breath. “Ah, I’m sorry. Did I offend you?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal raised a brow. “Are you really bringing yourself
this close to an Arbiter you don’t know and whose Carvings you aren’t aware
of?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Caz shrugged. “I ain’t worried.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal gave him a toothy smile. “You should be.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Whatever Caz saw in his expression made him pause the
sucking of his teeth. He leaned back again and crossed his arms. “Ain’t here to
wipe the floor with you, anyway.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “One moment.” Kilal pushed himself away from the table.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> He stood and walked to the railing, scanning the dance
floor. His head swiveled like a man in charge, but his gaze darted around
frantically. The search didn’t last long.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> A large circle of empty floor had formed around Jayden.
The man flailed about, moving from girl to girl to recruit them as his dance
partner. After so many rejections, the guy should have gotten the point, but
Jayden wouldn’t be dismayed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal strode back to the table. Caz was rebuking Issa.
“Can’t believe you’re gonna let him talk to us like that.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Issa ignored him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Like I asked before,” Kilal said, “what do you want?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Iathu didn’t move. His sunglasses remained firmly
planted on Kilal and his right hand on the table. Kilal didn’t let that hand
out of his sight.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “We’re representatives of the Heirs of the Promise,”
Issa said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal shrugged. “That supposed to mean something to
me?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Caz guffawed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Issa’s eyes widened. “You don’t know?” Kilal shook his
head. “Bloodshed and Oaths, man! Where have you been?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal raised a brow. “I’ve been…busy. Have you not
heard of me?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Issa squinted and studied his face. Finally, she
elbowed Iathu. “You know him?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> He gave a slight shake of his head. Caz slapped a knee
and spit on the floor. “I knew I recognized you! I saw you earlier this week.
You were the guy living in the alley between Westside Boulevard and East
Street, right? Nice box house you got yourself.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Interesting. It had been a long time since he’d been
around Arbiters who didn’t know who he was. Should he be disappointed or
relieved? Granted, he’d been missing for the last decade.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Kilal drummed his fingers on the table.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Issa, head cocked, stared at him. “The Heirs of the
Promise is an organization operated by Arbiters. We run this city. All new
Arbiters to Silent Haven must register themselves, their classification, and
the Carvings they use.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal clenched his jaw so hard his grinding teeth could
have competed with the throbbing beat outside the bubble. His fingers stilled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Iathu inched his hand slowly across the table. Caz smiled and
cracked his knuckles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal pointed at the Inflictor. “If you don’t put that
hand under the table, I’ll rip it off before you can even think to cancel my
Carvings.” Iathu’s lip curled up, showing white teeth. Kilal smirked. “There it
is. Not as emotionless as you want to pretend. Now, put your hand away.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Iathu didn’t budge. Kilal prepared his Carvings,
picturing them as knobs in his mind, ready to ‘turn’ them and increase his
strength and gravity at a moment’s notice. Issa nudged her partner. They shared
a look, and whatever passed between them encouraged Iathu to finally put his
arm beneath the table. The tension eased.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “You two are joking, right?” Caz asked. He gestured at
Kilal. “He threatened us! And you’re just going to let him get away with that?”
He turned to Issa and sneered. “I guess that’s what happens when a woman is in
charge.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Issa flinched but didn’t say anything.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal, however, snapped his fingers in Caz’s face. He’d
had enough of the insufferable, big-mouthed Arbiter. “Come here.” He beckoned
with a finger as if calling a dog. Caz broke into a wide grin and leaned in.
When their faces were nearly touching, and Kilal had the pleasure of enjoying
his foul, smoky breath again, he said, “You should really treat women better.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A sleazy smile crept its way onto Caz’s face. “I do. When
they know their place.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “And what place is that?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “As pretty little trophies meant to be conqu—”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal slapped him. Caz’s head ricocheted off the table
edge with a sickening crunch. He crashed to the floor, unconscious. With his
foot, Kilal shoved him aside.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Bloodshed and Oaths, thank you,” Issa said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> He stood and repositioned his chair, using the motion
to mask looking for Jayden. When he spotted him, Kilal sat down again. He
propped his elbows on the table and folded his hands beneath his chin. “Your
organization is a mockery to all we stand for. Arbiters are a force of good. We
were created to defend the Sunlight Domain and its people from the Ash Fallen.
Not band together and lord over those we protect.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Those days are long behind us. Those values are
archaic. They may have worked five hundred years ago, but if you haven’t
noticed, there aren’t many of us left. We can’t be the lone wolves we used to
be. Things need to change.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal smashed a fist on the table. “What I noticed is
an army of Ash Fallen on the other side of the Veil, preparing to sweep through
our world again!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “On the other side of—” Issa frowned. “Where did you
say you’ve been again?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal cursed himself. He didn’t want anyone to know
what had happened to him, let alone a corrupt group of Arbiters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “You think the Heirs are the first to do this?” he
said, trying to direct the conversation away from his slip-up. “Rally Arbiters
together, claiming unity, peace, and a better future? You’re all bloody fools!
The ones in charge are gathering all the knowledge of Carvings you’ve each
earned, and when they have enough, they’ll turn on you, using your own powers
against you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Issa sat back and placed her hands under the table. The
taste of copper flooded his mouth—she was activating her Physical Carving!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Three cities,” Issa said. “Silent Haven. New Cita.
Vitrol. That’s all that’s left of humanity. We can’t keep going on like this.
It’s time for something new. Join us. It’s the only option.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Where are the Keepers of the Oath? Why have they
allowed the Heirs to move into the city?” Issa and Iathu shared another glance.
What did they know? Kilal growled, “Where are the Keepers?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> “Will you return with us and register yourself, your
status, and your Carvings?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal leaned in slowly. “I would welcome the embrace of
a Pestilence Plague before I gave into your demands.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Issa closed her eyes and slumped her head. After taking
a deep breath, she stood, and Iathu followed. “You have twenty-four hours to
leave the city. This time tomorrow, if you haven’t left, you will be
black-marked. The first Arbiter to kill you will be handsomely rewarded.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal shot to his feet and shoved the table aside. His
hands shook, and the veins in his neck strained against his skin. “You threaten
me with my own people? Tell your masters this: their time is short. They should
use what remains of it to flee somewhere I won’t find them. Elsewise, I won’t
be trapped in this city with them—they’ll be trapped in this city with me.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> To her credit, Issa didn’t even flinch. She just gave a
sad shake of her head and walked to the unconscious Caz. With little effort,
she hauled him up and threw him over her shoulder. She paused before leaving
and glanced at Kilal. “If you change your mind, come to our headquarters. Head
to the center of the city and look for…Well, you won’t miss it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Issa headed for the back door of the club, Iathu
trailing behind her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Despite their absence, thankfully, the noise-dampening
bubble remained intact for Kilal to brood in. Fingers and glares were thrown
his way, but he ignored them and stepped over to the balcony again, chewing on
his lower lip.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> I could’ve handled that better. What was I thinking? An
empty threat, and for what? If only an army of Ash Fallen weren’t looming on
the other side of the Veil. He sighed. One problem at a time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Everything had changed while he was gone. The Heirs of
the Promise. The Keepers. What had that look between Issa and Iathu meant when
he mentioned the Keepers?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> If anything happened to them, I’ll—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Jayden!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> Kilal whipped his head around, but the poorly dressed
man was nowhere to be seen. Jayden was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Franz lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife, two teenage daughters,
two dogs and two cats. In 2022, he finished his Masters in Creative Writing and
has been hard at work creating his own book series ever since. When he isn’t
writing, he is designing board games with his wife or playing one. Langdon has
a passion for all things fantasy as well as creating fantastical worlds others
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/20/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://bookreviewvirginialee.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.instagram.com/enjoyingbooksagain"><span style="color: #1155cc;">@enjoyingbooksagain</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://instagram.com/jlreadstoperpetuity?igshid=OTk0YzhjMDVlZA=="><span style="color: #1155cc;">jlreadstoperpetuity </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Three:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ablueboxfullofbooks/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">A Blue Box Full of Books </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-27170638744091789182024-01-17T03:00:00.022-05:002024-01-17T03:00:00.246-05:00Blog Tour- LIGHT AND AIR by @mnwendell With An Excerpt & #Giveaway! @HolidayHouseBks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOD12jo4PVgmcULt_ija7CKY4Luva9ahyphenhyphenqFwz8iF0FuaWFiglft1DtvQNoVOqeBD_cQMaVGVBSKZK9pNtC8MrAMbL-GSzL3lmIlmcgSD4lUSoe7C2rJbT-P3lEE9BfLUhS09CJqXIsY1RKNINS4oYqkCDnrRduUMScQT6WXSMYUA2oonOPRok8vvK0vsaQ/s16000/LIGHT%20AND%20AIR.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the LIGHT AND AIR by Mindy
Nichols Wendell Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk149645585"></a><a name="_Hlk98752404"></a><a name="_Hlk99441234"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/LIGHT-AND-AIR" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1650" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEwWHdxUrIKF7MBkTWCk9VLyAx34hskrMNW4AMCaqBGqAgRdz70EbrAcqimlwdCkCa2BYiWoh-VY0ZTESMRcD8-VCCfBgaExq9UsjbijxhEB-HXAB0h42NKQRyq7X2eVWHjhN1m_ewIQDYw38pzXme27AzQu7a2Qo37qQkPpeyxTRLXzunoI_8gmZwVhU/w266-h400/9780823454433.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> LIGHT AND AIR<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mindy
Nichols Wendell<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> January 2, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Holiday
House<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 218<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125079123-light-and-air"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/LIGHT-AND-AIR"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/LIGHT-AND-AIR</span></span></span></span></span></a><span> </span></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">It's 1935, and tuberculosis is
ravaging the nation. Everyone is afraid of this deadly respiratory illness. But
what happens when you actually <i>have </i>it?</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<br />
When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned—and then
they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from
family, far from the world.<br />
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Tucked away in the woods of upstate New York, the hospital is a closed and
quiet place. But it is not, Halle learns, a prison. Free of her worried and
difficult father for the first time in her life, she slowly discovers joy,
family, and the healing power of honey on the children's ward, where the girls
on the floor become her confidantes and sisters. But when Mama suffers a lung
hemorrhage, their entire future—and recovery—is thrown into question....<br />
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<i>Light and Air </i>deals tenderly and insightfully with isolation,
quarantine, found family, and illness. Set in the fully realized world of a
1930s hospital, it offers a tender glimpse into a historical epidemic that has
become more relatable than ever due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As Halle tries to
warm her father’s coldness and learns to trust the girls and
women of the hospital, and as she and her mother battle a disease that once
paralyzed the country, a profound message of strength, hope, and healing emerges.<br />
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<b>A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Light and Air<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By <span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Mindy Nichols Wendell</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Excerpt for
Rockstar Book Tours<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Excerpt
from <b><i>Light
and Air </i></b>/ Text copyright © 2024 by<b>
<span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Mindy Nichols Wendell.</span></b>
Reproduced with permission from Holiday House Publishing Inc. All rights
reserved.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">CHAPTER ONE<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">September 1935<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The
doors of the small white schoolhouse burst open. Children spilled out into the
golden afternoon like bees whose hive had been disturbed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The oldest boys came first, shoving and scowling. Most of them were
headed home to help in the fields. Getting out of school early didn’t mean
nearly as much to them as it did to Halle, who tumbled out the door arm in arm
with Thelma, her best friend.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Halle squinted up at the brilliant blue September sky and grinned. It
was the kind of blue that made you feel very small but also very hopeful.
Taking a deep breath, she filled her lungs with the fresh, sweet air. She
couldn’t wait to get home, fly through her chores, and then spend the rest of
this perfect afternoon outside pretending it was still summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Jennie and Fran, two of the other fifth-grade girls, caught up with
Halle and Thelma.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Don’t forget to bring your paper dolls tomorrow, Halle,” Jennie said.
“So we can make more clothes for them at lunch.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“I’ll remember,” Halle promised. Jennie dreamed of becoming a dress
designer and liked to practice by making paper doll clothes. She especially
loved dressing the dolls Halle’s mother had made; she said they looked more
like real girls than store-bought paper dolls. She called Mama an artist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Too bad you won’t be here, Thelma,” Fran said, trying to keep a<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">straight
face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The
high school classes Papa taught ended at three thirty, but he stayed late every
day grading papers and preparing for the next morning. The boys who attended
his school didn’t get out early for farm chores; they either skipped school
altogether on harvest days, or they simply dropped out after eighth grade. Papa
had lots of opinions about this. He believed everyone needed a high school
education at the very least. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“You bet you will,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">His stern words, aimed at Halle, felt like a blast of icy wind. But
his sharp blue eyes barely grazed her as they focused on Mama. Halle saw them
take in Mama’s pink cheeks and trembling hands as she smoothed the hair off her
forehead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“You need to help out more around here, Halle,” he said. “Your mother
is not your servant.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“It’s fine, Graham,” Mama said quickly, putting a hand on his arm.
“Halle helped me with the applesauce earlier. She does plenty of chores. You
know that.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A look passed between them. Papa frowned, then nodded slightly,
turning to wash his hands at the sink.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN">Why does he
always do that? This was between Mama and me. It had nothing to do with him. </span></i><span lang="EN">Halle set her lips in a firm line to keep from saying something that
would upset Mama, but inside, she seethed.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Mindy Nichols Wendell:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://mindynicholswendell.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1667" data-original-width="2500" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCypiycbl1uvMF1PSWz8C2UR7CCpkgBUDgO6CwWeyqFF-DmSrlwjeLZLCfteaZW4eBUTLbP6VWtit_vMxZWyuMlByudi9o6svyyIpg2N9kjPMYKbrqvTAQ6H9_8bDfnk4O7OJ4AKl6ua7CUi2o3nhbClKxNBW4E2Q5fsIwA59gaAuwPtbTzHKatk00xV_v/s320/Mindy%20Nicholls%20Wendell_Author%20Headshot%202.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Mindy Nichols Wendell</span></b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> taught writing and pedagogy at SUNY Fredonia for
many years, where she served as the Director of the Composition Program. In
2019, she received the prestigious State University of New York Chancellor’s
Award for Excellence in Teaching. Mindy lives in Western New York with her
husband, Steve, a retired teacher. She is located not far from the ruins of the
J. N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital, the inspiration for LIGHT AND AIR.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a finished copy of LIGHT AND AIR, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-74681587074505274282024-01-16T03:00:00.001-05:002024-01-16T03:00:00.133-05:00Blog Tour- THE SELKIE'S DAUGHTER by @LCrottaBrennan With An Excerpt & #Giveaway! @HolidayHouseBks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiLLDxkHlPdTgHjnc698yWDmj8rbMHXm3koUTQkJe3ICKoN9L0YflDk06qqZG815_QPyBPOsFRiRfQFBlU4s27zkh0zOFhIkhtYVTHOjSe7wB8_Fl_4543LxY3kzEvMWJeqKlwHpahyA_HJUOwwYakDWmn8zYjLtxTm2GP5dmwVRtH1JcqvfvdcmymrtZ6/s16000/THE%20SELKIE'S%20DAUGHTER.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE SELKIE'S
DAUGHTER by Linda Crotta Brennan Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk149645585"></a><a name="_Hlk155951358"></a><a name="_Hlk98752404"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://books2read.com/THE-SELKIES-DAUGHTER" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2554" data-original-width="1666" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD35fbNyB8vp3TMF7vd-Kh7dOGCpMsBvlbnv6n5VvFxiZ4quasoLhY40nodyEYS5OTbMzwFFN5tYZD5tFTJp-X5hBfSuOV_-ZM2gzwfCfvI5yhPJxfW3ibGk_3nMsDyW8-s8_iD5-Q8MoMUqsYkYpjZp7VaruFvtjBjyA0EaqEFbhigFDR5l6SbYPwQYtL/w261-h400/9780823454396.jpg" width="261" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> THE SELKIE'S DAUGHTER<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Linda
Crotta Brennan<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> January 2, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Publisher: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Holiday
House<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Formats:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Hardcover, eBook<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pages:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> 208<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Find it:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128097627-the-selkie-s-daughter"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Goodreads</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"></span></span></span></span><a href="https://books2read.com/THE-SELKIES-DAUGHTER"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">https://books2read.com/THE-SELKIES-DAUGHTER</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">A cozy, richly imagined fantasy where a young selkie girl must save her
family from a vengeful king.</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk155951358;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
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Brigit knows all the old fisherman songs and legends by heart: sea goddess,
warriors, and people who are not quite human. But Brigit also knows the truth.
It’s evident in the webbing between her fingers–<i>webbing that must be cut</i>.
She’s the daughter of a selkie. A truth she must keep secret from everyone.<br />
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But there is another secret growing in the village. A terrible one that will
invite the wrath of the Great Selkie, bringing storm, sickness, and death. To
protect those she loves, Brigit must find a way to Sule Skerrie, the land of
selkies, to confront the Great Selkie and bring the truth—all of it—into the
light.<br />
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Like sitting by a warm fireplace, <i>The Selkie’s Daughter</i> is an
imaginative fantasy, steeped in Celtic mythology and set in Nova Scotia. Debut
Linda Crotta Brennan has crafted a magical portrait of a brave girl coming into
her own. Perfect for fans of mermaids and Studio Ghibli-esque stories.<br />
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<b>A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Selkie’s Daughter<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Linda
Crotta Brennan<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Excerpt for
Rockstar Book Tours<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Excerpt
from <b><i>The
Selkie’s Daughter </i></b>/ Text copyright © 2024 by<b> Linda Crotta Brennan</b>. Reproduced with permission from Holiday
House Publishing Inc. All rights reserved.<b>
<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I swim as
selkie on the sea.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And when I’m
far and far frae land,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">My home it is
in Sule Skerrie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span lang="EN">The wild wind keens</span></i><span lang="EN"> across the spruce barrens, rattling the windows of our cottage on
Finn’s Point. Shivering, I splay my hand across the cutting board. Newborn
veils of skin, blue-pale and tender, connect my fingers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Cousin Alys sharpens her knife against a stone, tests the edge, then,
satisfied, turns to me. I kneel and hide my face in Mum’s woolen lap, breathing
its com-<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">forting
smokiness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mum strokes my hair. “Ready, Brigit?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I nod, though my insides roil. Mum’s hands are fully human, why not
mine? Why should I be marked and not Mum?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">At the last second, I try to jerk away, but Alys grips my wrist like a
vise. Her blade comes down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Pain sears me. I suck in my breath and my vision narrows. Clinging to
consciousness, I focus on the wind, throaty with alien voices. My blood pulses
out, a salty sea washing away my otherness, flooding across the cutting board,
pinging into the metal basin set on the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mum’s thighs tremble. She could never bear to cut me. “Sorry,” she
whispers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">That doesn’t stop my dread. We both know that now I’m coming into
womanhood, no matter how often Alys cuts the webbing away, it will return. Or
at least, that’s what the old tales say.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When both hands are done, Mum takes my elbow and guides me into the
rocking chair, tucking a blanket over my knees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Alys bandages my hands with a poultice of yarrow and spoons willow tea
into my mouth. I lean my head back, weak as a spawned-out salmon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Thank you, Alys.” Mum offers her a wooden spoon she carved from
driftwood. It has a fish handle with glittering chips of oyster shell for
scales.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Alys recoils.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The spoon clatters to the stone floor. A bit of oyster shell spins
out, skidding to rest at my feet. Instinctively I reach to rescue it. Gasping,
I pull back, cradling my hands, cringing in agony.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Alys’s nostrils flare. “What would I do with such a bauble in my good
plain house?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I stiffen. The brittle old barnacle! Her house doesn’t deserve
anything so beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mum picks up the fish spoon and sets it gently on the table, her mouth
a tight line. She goes into the keeping room at the back of our cottage and
returns with a stiff salted cod from our shoulder-high stack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The villagers gossip about why Da’s nets are so heavy laden since he
married Mum, but he’s just a better fisherman than any of them, certainly
better than Alys’s husband. Or her pimple-nosed son.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Linda Crotta Brennan:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.lindacrottabrennan.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="599" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdN-fe3ktF3Qocp_LU7Dr-TMITKwtFiIogQSCC-DCYQFj_1xmSGLb5gkz2ddb16kbDO7UeHl1bJcxqHBOxIVg0tVslC-3WiDtE2pGqoDk7zFDVeDXcVkmljjxEIEULeOFBfHx_sRFa_5HvIWiRESY_AzIKfS7LdJY633tE2rH1M5BE9aaBDpwuPbrWTWRl/s320/Linda%20C%20Brennan%20headshot%20by%20Betsy%20Devany.jpg" width="256" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Linda Crotta Brennan</span></b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> is the author of many picture books,
including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">When Rivers Burned</i>, named a
Notable Social Studies Trade Book by the CBC and NCSS and an Outstanding
Science Trade Book by the NSTA and CBC. She holds a master's degree in Early
Childhood Education and has worked as an instructor for the Institute of
Children's Literature. Linda is an active member of SCBWI. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Selkie’s Daughter</i> is her debut novel. She lives in New England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.lindacrottabrennan.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Website</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/LCrottaBrennan"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Twitter (X)</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/mgnovelist/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Instagram</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;"> | </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/725671.Linda_Crotta_Brennan"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Goodreads</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://amzn.to/3SerkvU"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Amazon</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> | </span></span><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/authors/linda-crotta-brennan"><span style="line-height: 107%;">BookBub</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Giveaway Details: <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
will receive a finished copy of THE SELKIE'S DAUGHTER, US Only.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Ends January
31st, midnight EST.</span></p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://themommaspot.home.blog/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">The Momma Spot</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://fuonlyknew.com/"><span style="color: blue;">FUONLYKNEW</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Excerpt <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/22/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jaimes_mystical_library/"><span style="color: blue;">Jaimes_mystical_library</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">IG Review <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/23/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ablueboxfullofbooks"><span style="color: #1155cc;">A Blue Box Full of Books</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">1/23/2024<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><u><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: medium; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.onemoreexclamation.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">One More Exclamation </span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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points of interest</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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</tbody></table><br /></div>Jaime http://www.blogger.com/profile/08558048564010595841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450763141052086285.post-85803931945183598222024-01-15T03:00:00.023-05:002024-01-15T17:54:16.600-05:00Blog Tour- ISN'T SHE GREAT by @elizabethteets With A Guest Post & A #Giveaway! @ReadFuriously<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="615" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXXhJR0V7YC0bApoOXsnvNMBWpU_UROY2_UwuVMqRvE2WarmPJq-nQyFLTLHhNZK3Re2mjMBbcTEuoLHwTchdZj0cbrdlfUeZ-tOt2qivAFEzzxPJyeulEoSyHj0XcTm-FQQRyh_WTDft33GrSEoDgFzwgE-ennJeJJaaQhhQsxBw0yDFdj1M-20el7y4y/s16000/ISN'T%20SHE%20GREAT.jpg" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the ISN'T SHE GREAT by Elizabeth
Teets Blog Tour hosted by </span><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Rockstar Book Tours</span></a><span style="line-height: 107%;">. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About The Book:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_Hlk149645585"></a><a name="_Hlk156222003"></a><a name="_Hlk98752404"></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"></span></b></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://amzn.to/48OI7eZ" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1577" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQYgylnw_gvgmYCskdL2B3SBc6kpHaNrMi8KUX-12DgmMn7yQYlYCGNUUyAPcd80dTE1mm94XzaV-foyFyYOKqB3c1HoMfOQSTiPciLvotySG982g1g0FJRQYdyiFBViXvQoFPwVWKPGGnbeCSCfNzB0yQVvwG5SU2ALfGqhWSG0wY19v1LVv5qXmjvQ2x/w255-h400/Isn't%20She%20Great%20Cover%20(4).jpg" width="255" /></a></span></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> ISN'T SHE GREAT: Writers on Women Led
Comedies from 9 to 5 to Booksmart<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Author: </span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Elizabeth
Teets (Edited By)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b></span></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> January 16, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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Furiously<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk98752404;"></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk99441234;"></span>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">A love letter to women-led comedies. </span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Based on Elizabeth Teets’s program series called “Isn’t She Great” at the
Hollywood Theater, this anthology is a collection of the most beloved
female-centric comedies and the audiences who adore them. From <i>9 to 5 </i>to
<i>Romy and Michele </i>to the iconic Elle Woods, the essays in this
collection build on our devotion to these films and continue the
conversation around funny women and how these characters have shaped so
many talented writers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">As Elizabeth Teets reminds us, there is a specific power in a funny
woman. A woman who dares to laugh at the world and at herself. These
movies made us strong and smart and sexy (and bend and snap a lot). At
the end of the day, we remind ourselves when the world only tries to let
us have a little - a little money, a little confidence, a little joy - to go
out and get the whole enchilada. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;">Isn’t She Great </span></i></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk156222003;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk149645585;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">is for anyone who loves movies and feels the glamour in pink. Cult
cinema and film criticism will never be the same. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Top 5 favorite movies<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="_l17bpum2ofrt"></a><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;">Every
essay featured in <i>Isn’t She Great:
Writers on Women-Led Comedies from 9 to 5 to Booksmart</i> reminds us of the
power of funny women and how their stories shaped so many talented writers.
This list is just a few of the fantastic films and what makes them deserve so
many rewatches. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">9 to 5<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“It is a movie they rarely let
women make...For once women are allowed to go on a journey and this time we can
also bring our friends. The movie addresses sexual harassment, the unpaid extra
roles women play in the workforce, and the glass ceiling in ways even movies
made today shy away from.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-Elizabeth Teets (editor), “The
Whole Enchilada” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jawbreaker<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“During a time when most female
protagonists were relaying messages of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and
anxiety, Courtney Shayne was out here organizing murder cover-ups and playing
kinky sex games with her boyfriend without breaking a sweat or worrying over
other people’s opinions of her. This is a woman who knows exactly how to play
every situation, obviously until the end where everything unravels.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-Samantha Mann, “An Unlikely
Shero: How <i>Jawbreaker</i> Helped Me Get
My First Kiss” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Miss Congeniality<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<i>Miss Congeniality</i> became a hit at such a critical time for young
women who didn’t want to choose between glam and grit.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-Aubrey Jacobowitz, “Satan’s
Panties: <i>Miss Congeniality</i> and
Fashion as Performance” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bridget Jones’s Diary<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<i>Bridget Jones’s Diary</i> is, to me, one of the more excellent romcoms
because it does not require anything of its protagonist for her to be deserving
of love.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-Toju Adelaja, “To Bridget
Jones, Just As She Is”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Booksmart<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“<i>Booksmart</i>’s real revelation, the one without a nature-meets-city
metaphor or any major declaration: Molly and Amy don’t need to party to prove
they have dimension,”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium;">-Anna Sims, “On <i>Booksmart </i>Rewriting the Narrative of the
Teenage Girl”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">About Elizabeth Teets:</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.elizabethteets.com/" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="2231" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSewEuHWBa7xY3e32tvBVfqMiZ-77r8s7tLDKWALGd1iX29N_3-W0zlM3Fbeg2PUI3BCmmbsOLpRN_QcjSzr5-1XUuWMuQ5XeIVZoRaRWNxeJpPISIs4vsazjk1sS84h6QTKVkOSRgzbh52Qcj_0x9fIOghUFx1iy5jr9H2xAxIOlOfMlRLjaDkplqkUss/s320/Elizabeth.jpg" width="215" /></a></span></b></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Elizabeth
Teets is an Oregon born writer, comedian, screenwriter, and fashionista.
Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Repeller,
Catapult, Reductress, and more. She lives in Los Angeles where she is
waiting for her group chat to respond.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Subscribe to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Isn't She
Great Contributors </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Megan J.
Kaleita </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">is an
essayist and memoirist living in the PAC Northwest. Her debut essay collection,
This Book is Brought to <i>You By My Student Loans </i>is available
through Clash Books. Her work has appeared in <i>Ravishly, Hello Horror,
Daily Drunk Mag, Luna Station Quarterly</i>, and <i>Lady Spike</i>. Do not ask
her for coffee. She won’t get it for you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Samantha
Mann </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">is a Brooklyn
based essayist. She is the author of <i>Putting Out: Essays on Otherness</i>.
She edited the anthology, <i>I Feel Love: Notes on Queer Joy</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Meg
Walters </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">is a
Canadian-British writer currently living in London. Her writing has appeared in
GQ, The Daily Beast, Vulture, Cosmopolitan, Glamour and others. She is a
great lover of classic films, rom-coms, period dramas, pop culture, books
and style and tries to write about them all as often as possible. Find
her on Twitter @wordsbymeg <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Toju
Adelaja </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">is a
Nigerian-British writer and chick-flick connoisseur. Her work has appeared in
publications such as Glamour U.K. and Black Ballad. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Ella Gale
</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">is a writer,
director, and comedian in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in
McSweeney’s, Reductress, and the Hard Times. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Michele
Theil </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">is a
journalist focusing on culture, race, LGBT+ issues and investigative pieces.
She has been published in VICE, Insider, Glamour, and others. She watches
all the Bring It On movies at least once a year. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Lana
Schwartz </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">is a writer
who was born and raised in New York City, where she continues to live
today. Her work has been published on <i>The New Yorker, McSweeney’s,
Shondaland, Glamour, InStyle</i>, and more. Her book “Build Your Own
Romantic Comedy” was released by Ulysses Press in March 2020. For more
about Lana - as well as instructions on how to pronounce her name - visit
www.lanalikebanana.com. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Yaël
Krinsky </span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;">is writer
and comedian based in Boston, where she works in TV and Film Production.
She holds a writing and performance degree from Bard College. She
currently lives with her dog Midge. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">1 winner
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</span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Tour Schedule:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week One:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><u><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Week Two:</span></u></b></p>
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