A Day at the Spa
I need a spa day!
This week I'm celebrating:
1) Release activities are cranking up and I'm falling behind on my to-do list. Ack! However, I'm still managing to keep promises I made to post other writers' releases or cover reveals -- like the one below for Sheri Larsen!
2) While I'm being good with doing things for others, I'm struggling to write my own guest posts and interviews (those things are harder than they look!). But at least if I let the blog owners know I'll be late, they're very gracious in granting me more time.
3) My Thunderclap is fully supported! I'm so grateful to everyone who signed up. I wouldn't be anywhere with all this release stuff if it weren't for your generous help. Thank you!
Cover Reveal
and Giveaway!
Motley Education
(Book One: The URD Saga)
by S.A. Larsen
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Blurb:
Forget having a lively after school social life, Ebony Charmed is fighting to keep the entire Afterlife alive.
Ebony’s less-than-average spirit tracking abilities are ruining more than sixth grade at Motley Junior High: School for the Psychically & Celestially gifted. Her parents argue so much her dad moved out. And, even though he’s scared of his own shadow and insists on bringing his slimy, legless lizard everywhere they go, Ebony wouldn’t survive without her best friend, Fleishman.
When Ebony’s Deadly Creatures & Relics’ project goes missing, she learns her missing project is one of the keys to saving the spirit world. Now Ebony and Fleishman must battle beasts from Norse Mythology to retrieve her project before spirits are lost, the Well of Urd dries up, and Ebony loses all hope of reuniting her family. But someone lies in wait, and he has other plans...including creating a new world of spirits without them in it.
ADD TO GOODREADS
Motley Education has been aligned with Core Standards for grades 4-7. A guide will be available on the author’s website to download for FREE after the book’s release date.
S.A. LARSEN is the author of Motley Education, the first book in a middle grade fantasy-adventure series. Her work has appeared in numerous local publications and young adult anthologies Gears of Brass and Under A Brass Moon by Curiosity Quills Press. Look for her debut young adult novel, Marked Beauty, set for release in 2017. Find her in the land of lobsters, snowy winters, and the occasional Eh’ya with her husband of over twenty years, four children, a playful pooch, and two kittens.
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Here are Foxy's suggestions for Sept 16, 2016:
Free $25 AMEX Gift Card, $25 Sephora Gift Card, Signed Thriller Novel & Swag – Celebrate’s own Yvonne Ventresca has a thrilling new book coming out on October 4 called Black Flowers, White Lies, about a girl whose father’s death is raising questions and sparking strange occurrences. Yvonne is giving away a signed copy of the book, 2 gift cards, and a rustic chalk board. Enter via rafflecopter on the Jen Halligan PR blog. (ends Oct 8)
Free SF/F Historical Time-Travel Novel – Win Timeless by Crystal Collier, about a young woman who must travel back to the 13th century to defeat dangerous enemies before they have a chance to wreak havoc on the future. Enter via rafflecopter on the Alexia Chamberlynn blog. (ends Sept 18)
Free $10 Amazon Gift Card – Delightful blogger and generous friend, Beverly Stowe McClure is having a virtual tour for her book Under a Purple Moon, about a high school girl with a difficult family life seeking friendship and support from other kids hiding out in an abandoned house. She’s giving away a $10 Amazon card via rafflecopter on The Reading Addict blog. (ends Sept 23)
Free $15 Amazon Gift Card and Signed YA Horror Paperback – To celebrate the release of Raising Mary: Frankenstein by Ace Antonio Hall, about high school senior, Sylva Slasher, who can raise the dead for criminal investigations—or parties!—the author is giving away a $15 Amazon card along with a signed copy of his novel Confessions of Sylva Slasher via rafflecopter on the Juniper Grove Book Solutions blog. (ends Sept 18)
Free $50 Sephora Card and Signed Erotic Romance Novel – To celebrate the release of Confessed by Nicola Rendell, the “dirty, sexy, funny” story of an heiress and the hot man who plans to rob her. The author is giving away a $50 Sephora card along with two signed copies of the book. To enter, scroll down to the Author’s Bio and click the rafflecopter link on the Eskie Mama Reads blog. (ends Oct 8)
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