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Legends of the Lost Causes Blog Tour and Giveaway

March 23, 2020 By Heather Leave a Comment

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the LEGENDS OF LOST CAUSES SERIES by Brad McLelland & Louis Sylvester Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: THE KEY OF SKELETON PEAK (Legends of the Lost Causes #3)

Author: Brad McLelland & Louis Sylvester

Pub. Date: March 17, 2020

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 464

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

Dark magic meets the Old West in this third installment of the Legends of the Lost Causes, as a group of vigilante orphans go head-to-head against an outlaw sorcerer in pursuit of an ancient and powerful magical artifact!

Keech Blackwood and his fellow Lost Causes have won their share of battles, but the war against the ruthless sorcerer Reverend Rose still rages on.

This time, the Lost Causes face their most perilous trial yet: stopping Rose and his henchmen from retrieving an ancient, powerful object that would help return him to his full, frightening strength. As the vigilante orphans race to the dangerous depths of Skeleton Peak, the sight of the magical object, they’ll have to outmaneuver Rose’s most faithful—and menacing—ally: an inhuman creature spawned by darkness and shadow. But ever in pursuit of justice and vengeance for their fallen families, the Lost Causes won’t give up without a fight.

Grab the first 2 books in the series!

LEGENDS OF THE LOST CAUSES

THE FANG OF BONFIRE CROSSING

Review: I really enjoyed this series! It was like a wild west, homesteading era, who dunnit with fantasy elements. Magic, orphans, set in the 1850’s. It is an adventure for young and old readers. Content: moderate violence.

About Brad:

Born and raised in Arkansas, Brad McLelland spent several years working as a crime journalist in the South before earning his MFA in creative writing from Oklahoma State University. A part-time drummer and singer, Brad lives in Oklahoma with his wife, stepdaughter, a mini-Aussie who gives hugs, and a chubby cat who begs for ham.

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About Louis:

Louis Sylvester is a professor at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. He teaches courses on Creative Writing, Research Writing, Introduction to Film, Screenwriting, and The Ethics of Art and Censorship.

Together with his wife, he enjoys playing tabletop games from his collection of over 1,000 board and card games.

His two dogs are named Cake and Muse. They are the best.

His writing partner is the talented author Brad McLelland. Their first novel is titled LEGENDS OF THE LOST CAUSES.

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Giveaway Details:

Three lucky winners will receive finished copies of the LEGENDS OF LOST CAUSES SERIES, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

3/16/2020	Books,Dreams,Life	Excerpt/Spotlight
3/16/2020	Twirling Book Princess	Excerpt/Spotlight
3/17/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
3/17/2020	BookHounds YA	Excerpt/Spotlight
3/18/2020	Log Cabin Library	Review
3/18/2020	fictitious.fox	Review
3/19/2020	Nay’s Pink Bookshelf	Review
3/19/2020	Locks, Hooks, and Books	Review
3/20/2020	Savings in Seconds	Review
3/20/2020	Hurn Publications	Review

Week Two:

3/23/2020	Turning the Pages	Review
3/23/2020	Little Red Reads	Review
3/24/2020	momfluenster	Review
3/24/2020	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt/Spotlight
3/25/2020	My Quirky Writing	Review
3/25/2020	Word Spelunking	Excerpt/Spotlight
3/26/2020	Two Points of interest	Review
3/26/2020	PopTheButterfly	Review
3/27/2020	She Just Loves Books	Review
3/27/2020	Preciousbooksworld	Excerpt/Spotlight

If We Were Giants Blog Tour and Giveaway

March 19, 2020 By Heather Leave a Comment

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the IF WE WERE GIANTS by Dave Matthews & Clete Barrett Smith Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About The Book:

Title: IF WE WERE GIANTS

Author: Dave Matthews & Clete Barrett Smith

Pub. Date: March 3, 2020

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 304

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

World-renowned musician, environmentalist, and humanitarian Dave Matthews, in collaboration with popular children’s book author Clete Barrett Smith, has conjured an exciting and poignant fantasy about a girl who must confront her past mistakes before she can save her peaceful community from a gigantic threat.

Kirra, a curious, agile, and outgoing girl, lives in an idyllic community hidden inside a dormant volcano. She and her father are the only two people allowed to venture beyond its walls. Kirra is in training to become a Storyteller like him, and together they travel from village to village spreading fearsome tales designed to keep outsiders away from their secret nest. One day, after hearing rumors of strangers called the “Takers,” Kirra leaves the volcano by herself, hoping to discover her own story. But she unknowingly leads the Takers back to her doorstep, and they rob her of everything she has ever held dear. A devastated Kirra is found by a boy named Luwan and adopted into his family, which lives among others high in the trees of a dense forest. Now quiet and withdrawn, Kirra hides her dark past from everyone and never wants to leave the safety of her tree dwelling. Luwan, on the other hand, loves to explore. One day it leads to trouble: He is captured while spying on a group of strangers. The Takers have returned. To save the Tree Folk, Kirra must face her inner demons and summon all her storytelling to weave the most important tale of her life. This compelling novel about overcoming loss, embracing community, and living in harmony with nature is highlighted with a full-color insert of concept artwork, making it perfect for family sharing.

Dave & Clete Talk about IF WE WERE GIANTS

About Dave:

Dave Matthews has chronicled his life’s travels so often that when asked, he can rattle off the details without pause. It goes like this:

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1967. Moves two years later with his family to Westchester County, NY, where his dad, a physicist, goes to work for IBM. Then, in the early `70s, to Cambridge, England, before returning to New York — where his dad died in 1977. The family moved back to South Africa in 1980, where Matthews went to a few different schools and “got more wise about the evils of government, there and in general.” O.K.; pause for a breath.

The key move for Dave Matthews Band fans, of course, was when he relocated in 1986 to Charlottesville, VA, where his parents had lived before he was born. Though he also logged time back in South Africa and in Amsterdam, it was in Charlottesville where Matthews — who took piano lessons as a child before picking up the guitar at age nine — became part of the local music community and hatched the idea for his own band.

“I didn’t really have a vision, or a plan,” says Matthews, acknowledging that some of his musical sensibility came from spending time in so many different places as a child. “I’m sure it gave me a little bit of an openness. The most diverse music in the world is in America, ’cause there’s so many different cultures here, but what tends to be pushed to the top is often a narrow view of what there really is. So maybe (his travels) just gave me a wider pool of listening.”

Matthews says his principal goal with the band was to surround himself with the best players possible. To this day he remains “amazed” that he was able to recruit and retain the four musicians he rather modestly refers to as his superiors. “I was just looking for people that I liked,” explains Matthews, who feels he’s “gotten a bit better” over the years. “Could I play with them was more of the question, I think. We just ended up fitting together. The band wasn’t something that I was looking for; it was very much I loved the people I asked to play with me. There was a connection at the beginning, and I think what we’ve been about is not some grand scheme but more the spirit of everyone, which is why we ended up with this band and why it sounds like it does.”

Dave Matthews photo credit Brantley Gutierrez

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About Clete:

Clete Barrett Smith’s first novel for teens, Mr. 60%, will be released by Crown Books in August, 2017. Smith has also written four humorous middle grade adventures: Aliens on Vacation Alien on a Rampage, Aliens in Disguise, and Magic Delivery. Aliens on Vacation was released by Disney-Hyperion Books for Children in May, 2011 and named an American Booksellers Council “New Voices” selection as one of the top middle grade novels of the year by a debut author; and AOV was nominated for state award lists in Texas, Florida, Washington, Pennsylvania and Nebraska. A lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, Clete Barrett Smith taught English, Drama and Speech at the high school level for over twenty years. Clete received his MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2010. He currently lives in Bellingham, Washington with his family.

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Giveaway Details:

Three lucky winners will receive a finished copy of IF WE WERE GIANTS, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

3/2/2020	Nay’s Pink Bookshelf	Review
3/3/2020	Feed Your Fiction Addiction	Review
3/4/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
3/5/2020	She Just Loves Books	Review
3/6/2020	Hurn Publications	Review

Week Two:

3/9/2020	The Writerly Way	Review
3/10/2020	BookHounds YA	Review
3/11/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt
3/12/2020	Turning the Pages	Review
3/13/2020	Log Cabin Library	Review

Week Three:

3/16/2020	Word Spelunking	Excerpt
3/17/2020	fictitious.fox	Review
3/18/2020	My Quirky Writing	Review
3/19/2020	Little Red Reads	Review
3/20/2020	Locks, Hooks, and Books	Review