Blog Tour- CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY by Lynn Veevers An Interview & $25 Amazon GC Giveaway!

Hey everyone! I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the blog tour for CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY by Lynn Veevers! 

I have an interview with Lynn to share with you today! And make sure to enter the giveaway below!

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Title: CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY

Author: Lynn Veevers

Pub. Date: June 12, 2018

Publisher: Lynn Veevers

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 263

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon

When fifteen-year-old Chloe mysteriously disappears, the rumors at Grammaire Hall point to murder, but spiritual entrapment isn’t the same as dead. In a library that’s believed to be nothing more than a myth, Chloe's spirit is separated from her body after witnessing another student's murder. Try as she may she can't remember what happened to her before she woke up as a spirit in the campus graveyard. As Chloe uncovers clues leading to the mythical library's location and her body, a secret the Magical Parliament doesn't want to get out, starts to unravel. Rogue sorcerers have infiltrated the school, intent on reinstating the Third Edict, and sorcery students are dying because of it. Destroyed long ago for horrific crimes against humanity, the return of the Third Edict would spell disaster for both magical and magicless societies. To prevent her own demise and the fulfillment of the Third Edict’s return, Chloe must find a way to reunite body and soul without giving the rogue sorcerers the weapon they need to succeed, a weapon only Chloe can activate.

Now on to the interview!

Hey Lynn!! First I want to say welcome to Two Chicks on Books I’m glad you could stop by for a chat! CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY sounds AWESOME and I can’t wait for everyone to read it!

For the readers: can you tell us a little bit about CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY and the characters?

Hi, and it is great to be here. Oh my goodness where to start! Well The Quill of LeFay is a story that takes place in the remotest part of the Swiss Alps at Grammaire Hall, a school for young sorcerers and sorceresses! Sorcery is just one of the Magical Religions, practices, if you will in this story’s fictional universe.  I could sit here all day and go on and on about the magic system, so I will try to cut it short and leave it at this: One central magical parliament controls two edicts that govern the magical world, the Spiritum Edict and the Elementa Edict. Each edict rules five unique orders of magic. Magic students do not get to pick their Order of magic but rather are born into it.

What are you working on now?

My current W.I.P. list consists of 3 novels; actually one just got completed back in early March and is entitled Eden’s Echo. It is a finalist in the Elevation of Love Contest hosted by the CIMRWA Chapter of the RWA! I’m excited.  The second novel in production is Chloe Shipton & the Witches of Calvary Hall and the third is the third installment to my debut novel, Pinnacle. It is called Noctis. Eximius which is the second installment will be released September 18^th by Astraea Press!

Were any of the characters in the book inspired by people from your real life?

Yes as a matter of fact! Chloe is inspired by my 12 year old daughter Ashlie! She is a huge Harry potter fan and when she finished reading the series she came to me and said she wanted me to write something in the same vein with a female protagonist, who starts out older, but looks and acts like she does! Thus Chloe Shipton was born!

Who was your favorite character to write? What about your least favorite?

I love all my characters, and tell them I do not have favorites. But between you and I… I loved writing Zanthus, and Sophie pulled a very close second.

What is your favorite passage/scene in CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY?

By default I am a very descriptive writer, possibly too much for the YA Genre so I really have to rein myself in on description, but this one slipped by because it was one of the darlings I just couldn’t kill, it’s a bit lengthy, I hope that’s okay.

Feeling depressed with the whole situation, I crossed to the arched window overlooking the courtyard directly below. I gazed into the distance, past the graveyard with its bare-bone oaks and carpet of red, yellow, and orange. The tree’s fallen autumn leaves lay nestled between quiet markers of marbled stone. I was drowning in the possibility of never being whole again. The idea of it clawed at me until I felt like I might suffocate with my fear. In an attempt to level my emotions, I let my wandering eyes focus on the snowcapped mountains in the distance. They formed the natural barrier around the magically concealed valley where Grammaire Hall was built. Their majestic peaks were highlighted in the blue and purple shades of early dawn. I watched the morning birds take flight across the sky as it transitioned to softer tints of pink. The slow-burning pink finally lightened to peach, and then the heavens gave way to the vibrant yellow that marked the opening of a new day. It gave me hope that maybe something of use would be unearthed before the moon rose again. The sun’s greedy fingers traveled across the valley extinguishing the long shadows of night as they sped across the land. The curtain of darkness continued to diminish as morning approached the tower. Laying siege to the foundation, the bright aura of day crept up the outer walls of my dorm. Up it climbed until it spilled through the window in a blinding cascade of radiance. With the coming of daylight, I knew I’d fizzled from the sight of mortal eyes as the sun engulfed my soul in its ancient warmth.

What kind of research did you have to do for the story?

A lot of cultural research went into this novel because of the different countries that Grammaire Hall services, ( Most of western Europe and even as far east as Russia.)The only one that didn’t take a bit of research was French Culture, mostly because I am half French and already familiar with it.

Who is your ultimate book boyfriend?

Oh my goodness! You are making me blush! Hands down, Daris. Now everyone is wondering who on earth that is! I tend to read not so main stream (and Mainstream) novels. This gorgeous hunk is from a novel by Victoria Basnuevo entitled Marked by Time. He is believable, relatable and completely fleshed out! I love him ! He’s the type of book boyfriend that keeps you up crying at night because no matter how bad you wish he was real, you know…deep down, way deep down…he’s not.

What inspired you to write YA?

Kiddos, children, offspring,  loves of my life…did I mention I was talking about my kids.

Lightening Round Questions

What are you reading right now? Or what do you have on your TBR that you’re dying to read?

I want to read, Whatever Gayle Foreman is writing.

What Hogwarts House would the Sorting Hat place you in?

Hmm the Sorting house placed me in Ravenclaw

Twitter or Facebook?

Yikes…um both?

Favorite Superhero?

Wonder Woman

Favorite TV show?

Anything on Freeform!

Sweet or Salty?

Salty

Any Phobias?

Spiders

Song you can’t get enough of right now?

Anything Adele

2018 Movie you’re most looking forward to?

Well none this year, but in 2020 I will be first in line to see the new Avatar movie, blue people not airbender.

Thanks so much Lynn for answering my questions! I can’t wait for everyone to read CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY!

​About Lynn:

Lynn Veevers is originally from Washington State. With her mother being from Christchurch, New Zealand and her father being a well-traveled retired Navy Chief, Lynn has always had a fascination with different cultures around the world. An avid reader, she prefers books that take her to a place she's never been and teach her something new at the same time. The Young Adult Genre is her absolute favorite to read, so it comes as no surprise that it is also her favorite to write. Lynn, on average, pens two to three novels a year with the sequel to Pinnacle in the publishing process now!

Today Lynn lives with her husband and kids in Southeast Oklahoma. Her young adult and adolescent children are supportive and avid beta readers of her work and give her a straightforward and honest point of view about how authentic her characters voices and personalities are for their age group. What better reference than someone close to the same age as the main character. Her kids always have and always will be her greatest inspiration.

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Giveaway Details:

One lucky winner will receive a $25Amazon gift card, International.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

6/11/2018- Smada's Book Smack- Excerpt

6/12/2018- Mythical Books- Interview

6/13/2018- K.L. Knovitzke – Author- Excerpt

6/14/2018- BookHounds YA- Guest Post

6/15/2018- Hauntedbybooks- Guest Post

Week Two:

6/18/2018- The Desert Bibliophile- Review

6/19/2018- What the Cat Read- Review

6/20/2018- Tales of the Ravenous Reader- Guest Post

6/21/2018- Writer of Wrongs- Review

6/22/2018- Novel Novice- Excerpt

Week Three:

6/25/2018- Here's to Happy Endings- Excerpt

6/26/2018- Parajunkee- Excerpt

6/27/2018- Two Chicks on Books- Interview

6/28/2018- Jaime's World- Spotlight

Week Four:

7/2/2018- Lisa Loves Literature- Interview

7/3/2018- RhythmicBooktrovert- Spotlight

7/4/2018- A Court of Coffee and Books- Interview

7/5/2018- A Readers Life- Review

7/6/2018- FUONLYKNEW- Excerpt

Release Week Blitz- QUINSEY WOLFE'S GLASS VAULT by Candace Robinson With An Excerpt & $25 Amazon GC Giveaway!

I am so excited that QUINSEY WOLFE'S GLASS VAULT by Candace Robinson is available now and that I get to share the news!

If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Candace Robinson, be sure to check out all the details below.

This blitz also includes a giveaway for a $25 Amazon Gift Card courtesy of Candace Robinson and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.

About The Book:

Title: QUINSEY WOLFE'S GLASS VAULT

Author: Candace Robinson

Pub. Date: June 26, 2018

Publisher: The Parliament House

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 242

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, iBooks, TBD

Some see it… Some don’t…

People in the town of Deer Park, Texas are vanishing. There is a strange museum, known as Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault, that appears overnight. Perrie Madeline’s best friend and ex-boyfriend are among the missing. Perrie and her friend August go on a pursuit for them in the mysterious museum. Could the elusive Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault have anything to do with the disappearances?

Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault is the start of a thrilling duology full of magic, danger, and romance.

Book Trailer:

Excerpt:

Maisie takes Oak Street, which I have always found ironic. The street is lined on both sides with tall trees, each one reaching toward the other as if longing for their touch. For a town called Deer Park, I have seen more trees on a street corner than actual deer. Not. One. Single. Deer.

Suddenly, Maisie slams on the brakes and my chest strikes hard against the seat belt. Then I smash back into the seat just as hard. The only thing I can think is, are my organs still intact? Seriously, they feel like they’re bleeding profusely.

“What the hell?” August and I say at the exact same time. Maisie is staring across the street to the left.

“Look!” she exclaims.

Now I see what Maisie is pointing at. Across from us stands an enormous stone building, unbelievably tall, and its walls are lined with huge rocks all along the base. Among the rocks, it appears there are absolutely no windows of any kind. The entrance has an archway that frames one of the tallest wooden doors I have ever seen. It’s creepily unusual.

“Impossible,” I breathe.

“This has never been here before.” August appears flabbergasted.

He’s right. He’s beyond right. There’s no way this place was just magically built overnight. Even if it were possible, it’s obviously old. It has to be over a hundred years old.

 “Maybe we never really noticed it before.” Maisie unbuckles herself and opens the car door, completely taken by the sight of this building.

I throw my hands up hysterically and wave my hands around like a lunatic. “Never noticed it before? This giant stone mansion?”

“Perrie has a point, Maisie.” August stares up at the building in shock.

Hesitantly, I step out of the car and August follows. We walk around to stand beside Maisie,

completely speechless as we continue our staring marathon at the place. It’s really an unusual structure to be sitting in the middle of our town. One would think something like this would have drawn major attention from the locals.

“We should investigate!” Maisie is moving before either of us can protest.

“Just a quick look,” I say, falling into step beside her, fingers itching with curiosity.

We walk to the door at a leisurely pace, as if we have all night to see what’s going on. As we inch closer to the arched doorway, where overgrown grass meets a block of cement, two things pop into my line of sight. First, there’s a plaque on the door that reads:

Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault

It’s written in an elegant, yet outdated script.

Maisie tilts her head to the side, skeptical of the plaque. “Not sure what a glass vault is.”

I point at a sign to the right of the door. Moving closer to see what it says, I read it aloud:

The illustrious Quinsey Wolfe presents a wonder of the world, a true sight to behold in his infamous glass museum. A forewarning to onlookers and wonderers, beware of your imagination and curiosity. This is not for the faint of heart.

About Candace:

My name is Candace Robinson. I’m just your average hemiplegic migraine sufferer. My days are spent writing, book reviewing and traveling through books for my blog, Literary Dust. I live just outside of Houston, Texas, where it feels like the hottest place on Earth with the crazy weather. No, seriously, one day it’s 30 degrees and the next it’s 70 degrees! I live with my husband and awesome daughter!

You can also follow me on my review blog Literary Dust

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Cover Reveal- CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY With An Excerpt & Giveaway!

Today Lynn Veevers  and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover and an exclusive content for CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY, her new YA Fantasy which releases June 12, 2018! Check out the awesome cover and enter the giveaway!

On to the reveal!

Title: CHLOE SHIPTON & THE QUILL OF LEFAY

Author: Lynn Veevers

Pub. Date: June 12, 2018

Publisher: Lynn Veevers

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 263

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon

When fifteen-year-old Chloe mysteriously disappears, the rumors at Grammaire Hall point to murder, but spiritual entrapment isn’t the same as dead. In a library that’s believed to be nothing more than a myth, Chloe's spirit is separated from her body after witnessing another student's murder. Try as she may she can't remember what happened to her before she woke up as a spirit in the campus graveyard. As Chloe uncovers clues leading to the mythical library's location and her body, a secret the Magical Parliament doesn't want to get out, starts to unravel. Rogue sorcerers have infiltrated the school, intent on reinstating the Third Edict, and sorcery students are dying because of it. Destroyed long ago for horrific crimes against humanity, the return of the Third Edict would spell disaster for both magical and magicless societies. To prevent her own demise and the fulfillment of the Third Edict’s return, Chloe must find a way to reunite body and soul without giving the rogue sorcerers the weapon they need to succeed, a weapon only Chloe can activate.

Exclusive Excerpt!

The screams ripped at my heart as I listened to the desperation that permeated them, “Please don’t hurt me anymore,” the voice cried, “I told you, I don’t know what you’re talking about!”

The girl’s voice in my mind was a familiar one, and not in a good way either. Unwanted concern weaseled its way into my heart because there was genuine pain echoing in her words. I tried shaking off the unsettled emotions her pleas left in their wake and headed toward the librarian’s desk again. I didn’t want to care about whatever jam she’d gotten herself into. Suppressing the guilt that riddled me proved difficult, but for a short time, I was successful. Mrs. Martin checked out my books and the inescapable feelings of guilt kept growing as the desperate cries continued. Finally, my conscience caught up with me as I reached for the door leading outside. A defeated sigh wiggled its way through my lips, and I cast my eyes upward because I couldn’t ignore this even if I wanted to.

I needed to do the right thing, not because it was my first choice, but because I felt compelled to. My morals demanded nothing less. If someone was in trouble, you tried to help, even if you didn’t like them. That’s what my parents raised me to believe anyway, and so it didn’t make a difference that the girl’s voice belonged to Lydia Nostredame—the single biggest bane of my existence. Hate is a strong word, but my feelings toward Lydia were something dangerously close to that. My gut told me not to get involved, to ignore my conscious and leave instead. Unfortunately, my intuition was next to never wrong. Maybe I should have listened to it. However, my views of right and wrong were a force to be reckoned with, and they weren’t pulling any stops. The two opposing sides battled it out as I stood there with my hand on the knob. After a few moments of inner turmoil, my moral stance won out. So I left the door and headed back into the library. Lydia’s cries ricocheted through my head like a stray bullet looking for a mark. They became tortured screams as I hurried in the direction my mind told me they were coming from.

“Ms. Shipton,” Mrs. Martin said sternly. “We do not run through the Library!”

I cringed at the sharpness of her tone and slowed my pace to appease the librarian. As soon as that same group of snickering girls snagged the stoic woman's attention, I darted forward. Lydia’s screams had grown to a deafening intensity. Like the tolling of church bells, they drowned out every other sound. The sharp shrill of them poked at my temples, and the pain was worse than any migraine I’d ever had. My feet carried me across the familiar parts of the library and into the further reaches which were seldom ever visited—by anyone. That should have been my first clue.

“Stairs—dark, ominous stairs, of course; why wouldn’t that be the case,” I sarcastically mumbled as I came to a door.

I assumed I’d just never noticed the stairs. After all, I’d only ventured to this part of the library maybe once before. The stair’s door was only partially open but had it been closed I would have thought it was a broom closet. The stairs twisted down into the unknown depths, dimly lit, and narrowing by the second. I was starting to feel as if they might spiral on forever when I finally reached a stone floor. The smell of musty tomes and aged ink filled the stagnant air. There were rows upon rows of shelving easily fifteen feet high. Layers of dust covered sheet draped chairs and tables. Cobwebs, also thick with grime, adorned most everything in this hidden library.

“Please stop, I don’t know what you’re talking about. I swear—I don’t know anything,” Lydia screamed, but it was weaker than before.

I was close enough by then to hear her conventionally. Her voice was drenched in terror and quivering with tears. It echoed and bounced off the milled stone walls of this underground secret I quietly snuck through. Once again my gut adamantly insisted that I turn back, but I stubbornly ignored it. My tendency to be good-natured had baited and lured me into the situation entirely. There would be no turning back no matter how much my intuition screamed at me. I slinked through the columns of shelved books as the feeling of danger settled over my skin like static cling on a warm blanket. I glanced at my arm as goose bumps raced across its tawny surface and the thin layer of peach fuzz stood on end. The sensation sent an unsettling shiver running down the length of my spine. The further in I moved through the rows the thinner the air seemed to become. It felt like I was trying to breathe around a piece of food lodged in my throat. Sweet smelling smoke wafted around me in a lazy wisp as I stood at the edge of a row of books. I recognized the scent immediately as sweet grass, a common reagent used in spells. 

About Lynn:

Lynn Veevers is originally from Washington State. With her mother being from Christchurch, New Zealand and her father being a well-traveled retired Navy Chief, Lynn has always had a fascination with different cultures around the world. An avid reader, she prefers books that take her to a place she's never been and teach her something new at the same time. The Young Adult Genre is her absolute favorite to read, so it comes as no surprise that it is also her favorite to write. Lynn, on average, pens two to three novels a year with the sequel to Pinnacle in the publishing process now!

Today Lynn lives with her husband and kids in Southeast Oklahoma. Her young adult and adolescent children are supportive and avid beta readers of her work and give her a straightforward and honest point of view about how authentic her characters voices and personalities are for their age group. What better reference than someone close to the same age as the main character. Her kids always have and always will be her greatest inspiration.

Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads

Giveaway Details:

One lucky winner will receive a $25Amazon gift card, International.

a Rafflecopter giveaway