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Sam Saves The Night Blog Tour and Giveaway

October 25, 2019 By Heather Leave a Comment

Title: SAM SAVES THE NIGHT

Author: Shari Simpson

Pub. Date: October 1, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 304

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

What would you do if you could stay out all night and not get in trouble?

Thirteen-year-old Sam has no friends, but you can’t really blame her. She lives her life in a state of chronic exhaustion thanks to her nightly sleepwalking jaunts, which include trips to the store, treehouse-building projects, and breaking-and-entering escapades-none of which she remembers in the morning. Her condition is taking its toll on her family (and her life), so when her mom takes her to see a wacky strip-mall sleep specialist, Sam is wary, but 100 percent in.

The night after the doc works his mojo, Sam wakes up outside her body, watching herself sleep. FREAKY! But once she gets over the panic attack, she realizes there’s a whole world of detached-souls out there, called SleepWakers-cliques of kids like the Achieves, who use their sleep time to learn new things; the Numbs, who eat junk food and play video games all night long, and the OCDeeds who search for missing things and organize other people’s stuff. And then there are the Mean Dreams, led by Madalynn Sucret, the nicest girl in Sam’s school, who shows Sam that she can use her power to get back at a bully who’s been tormenting her. Sam is intrigued-until it becomes clear that Madalynn is the real bully and the “tormentor” is just, well… sad. Now Sam is faced with uniting the various tribes of SleepWakers to fight back against Madalynn and the Mean Dreams in the most epic battle the night has ever seen. 

About Shari:

Shari Simpson is a playwright and screenwriter who cowrote the off-Broadway hit Maybe Baby, It’s You and the Disney Channel Original Movie The Swap, both with her longtime writing partner, Charlie Shahnaian. She also won the 2012 BlogHer Voice of the Year for Humor Writing. Shari lives in Hoboken, NJ, with a patient husband, two hilarious teenagers, a demonic cat, and her pug, Mila Kunis. This is her first novel.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of SAM SAVES THE NIGHT, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/1/2019- Cindy’s Love of Books– Excerpt

10/2/2019- Portrait of a Book– Review

10/3/2019- Moonlight Rendezvous– Review

10/4/2019- BookHounds YA– Excerpt

Week Two:

10/7/2019- Struck by Stories– Review

10/8/2019- Twirling Book Princess– Excerpt

10/9/2019- Shortcake_bibliophage– Excerpt

10/10/2019- Love, Stars and Books– Review

10/11/2019- Dazzled by Books– Review

Week Three:

10/14/2019- YA Book Nerd– Review

10/15/2019- Life Within The Pages– Review

10/16/2019- fictitious.fox– Review

10/17/2019- Fyrekatz Blog– Review

10/18/2019- The Try Everything– Excerpt

Week Four:

10/21/2019- Novel Novice– Excerpt

10/22/2019- Nerdophiles– Review

10/23/2019- Southern Girl Bookaholic– Review

10/24/2019- Two points of interest– Review

10/25/2019- Little Red Reads– Review

Week Five:

10/28/2019- PopTheButterfly Reads– Review

10/29/2019- Savings in Seconds– Review

10/30/2019- Wonder Struck– Review

10/31/2019- Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers– Review

Bruce’s Big Storm Blog Tour and Giveaway

October 16, 2019 By Heather Leave a Comment

Title: BRUCE’S BIG STORM

Author: Ryan T. Higgins

Pub. Date: September 3, 2019

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 48

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

Bruce’s home is already a full house.   But when a big storm brings all his woodland neighbors knocking, he’ll have to open his door to a crowd of animals in need of shelter-whether he likes it or not.   Readers will love this next installment of the uproarious, award-winning Mother Bruce series.  

Thank you Rockstar Book Tours!

About Ryan: Ryan T. Higgins is a New York Times Bestselling author/illustrator residing in Southern Maine. He lives with his two dogs, two cats, one gecko, one tortoise, one son, one daughter, and one wife. As a child, he lived on a diet of cartoons, cheese sandwiches, and climbing trees. At the age of four he decided to become a cartoonist and he’s been making his own cartoons ever since.

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Goodreads  

Giveaway Details: 3 winners will receive a finished copy of BRUCE’S BIG STORM, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

10/1/2019- Shortcake_bibliophage– Excerpt

10/2/2019- Cindy’s Love of Books– Excerpt

10/3/2019- fictitious.fox– Review

10/4/2019- BookHounds YA– Review

Week Two:

10/7/2019- PopTheButterfly Reads– Review

10/8/2019- Do You Dog-ear?– Review

10/9/2019- Savings in Seconds– Review

10/10/2019- The Try Everything– Excerpt

10/11/2019- Starlight Reads– Review

Week Three:

10/14/2019- Treestand Book Reviews– Review

10/15/2019- Beagles and Books– Review

10/16/2019- Little Red Reads– Review

10/17/2019- Wonder Struck– Review

10/18/2019- Life Within The Pages– Review

Week Four:

10/21/2019- Fyrekatz Blog– Review

10/22/2019- Southern Girl Bookaholic– Review

10/23/2019- Two points of interest– Review

10/24/2019- Novel Novice– Review

10/25/2019- Here’s to Happy Endings– Review

Week Five:

10/28/2019- YA Book Nerd– Review

10/29/2019- Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers– Review

10/30/2019- Nerdophiles– Review

10/31/2019- Wishful Endings– Review

The Adventurer’s Guide to Dragons Blog Tour and Giveaway

September 4, 2017 By Heather 4 Comments

 

Title: THE ADVENTURER’S GUIDE TO DRAGONS (AND WHY THEY KEEP BITING ME)

Author: Wade Albert White

Pub. Date: September 5, 2017

Publisher:  Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Pages: 384

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

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

Get ready for dragons, robots, and an even more dangerous quest in the sequel to The Adventurer’s Guide to Successful Escapes! 

Anne, Penelope, and Hiro have returned to Saint Lupin’s Quest Academy for Consistently Dangerous and Absolutely Terrifying Adventures, where there’s only one way to leave: pass or fail. At the annual Quest Academy awards, they’re recognized for their success in their first outing-Best Illegal Quest That Nearly Destroyed the Entire World–but a strange boy steals Anne’s gauntlet and activates a new quest that pits them against all of dragonkind. Their charge: kill the dragon queen. The problem is, Anne doesn’t want to kill any dragons! But ignoring a quest can have horrible consequences, just as killing the dragon queen would start an all-out war between people and dragons. To avert disaster, Anne and her friends will have to dodge robot attacks, defeat new foes, and survive the dangerous dragon trials just for a chance to explain.

With charming, funny text and lots of heart, The Adventurer’s Guide to Dragons is the perfect read for anyone who likes fantasy with lots of laughter.

Q&A With the Author:

1. What adventure stories did you read as a child that helped shape this book’s narrative?
I would say the two books that had the most influence on the story were Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. It also received a healthy dose of influence from stories like The Princess Bride by William Goldman and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

2. Who is your favorite dragon in literature and why?
Oddly enough, I’ve always liked the dragon Smaug from The Hobbit. He’s not a very nice dragon, of course, but he’s intelligent and well-rounded and you get the impression that he’s had a long and interesting history. I like characters, even villainous ones, with personality.

3. If you had to place your book’s setting in today’s world, where would you want to see the action happen?
I’m from Nova Scotia, and I actually think this would be a great setting for the story. The characters travel to a lot of different places in a short amount of time, and Nova Scotia is like that. You can go from the beach to the city to the forest to mountains all within a few hours. And if you don’t like the weather, just wait twenty minutes.

4. What other authors or books would you recommend to this blog’s readers?
If we’re talking middle grade books that I think are most comparable to my own, I would suggest The D’Evil Diaries by Tatum Flynn, The Fog Diver and The Lost Compass by Joel Ross, The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates series by Caroline Carlson, and Howard Wallace, P.I. by Casey Lyall.

5. Describe the personality quirks of your book’s main character?
Anne is very loyal, almost to a fault. She always sees the best in others, which sometimes means she misses their less than ideal qualities. Her tone drifts further toward sarcasm the more she finds herself in trouble (not unlike myself), and she doesn’t always ask for help as quickly as she should. She’s a bit too independent sometimes—which, of course, makes for great storytelling.

About Wade:

Wade hails from Nova Scotia, Canada, land of wild blueberries and Duck Tolling Retrievers. He teaches part-time, dabbles in animation, and spends the rest of his time as a stay-at-home dad. It is also possible he has set a new record as the slowest 10K runner. Ever. He owns one pretend cat and one real one, and they get along fabulously.

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Giveaway Details:

(3) winners will receive a finished copy of THE ADVENTURER’S GUIDE TO DRAGONS (AND WHY THEY KEEP BITING ME), US Only.

 

Ends on September 19th at Midnight EST!

 

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

9/4/2017- Little Red Reads– Interview

9/5/2017- Jrsbookreviews– Review

9/6/2017- Margie’s Must Reads– Excerpt

9/7/2017- BookHounds YA– Review

9/8/2017- Carina’s Books– Interview

 

Week Two:

9/11/2017- The Book Shire– Review

9/12/2017- The Desert Bibliophile– Review

9/13/2017- YAYOMG!– Review

9/14/2017- Book Stacks Amber– Interview

9/15/2017- Mundie Kids– Review

 

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