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The First Blog Tour has begun!
Come on by Bound2Astound for some witty repartee and some virtual sparkling cider and cheese (that’s the kind you have to imagine.) And enter to win a free copy of The First. Next up is a guest post on how I … Continue reading
Posted in Free books, Interviews
Tagged blog tour, bound2astound, fantasy, interview, it's a hardcover life, sara zaske, smashwords, The First, YA, young adult
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The First is out on Smashwords
My awesome YA fantasy novel, The First, is now out on Smashwords! That means if you have a Nook, iPad, or a smartphone, there’s now a version of The First just for you. It has been getting great reviews, and it’s only $2.99 … Continue reading
Posted in Free books, Interviews
Tagged blog tour, bound2astound, ebook, eco-thriller, fantasy, sara zaske, smashwords, The First, urban fantasy, YA, young adult
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Fantastic Recommends: Anna Dressed in Blood
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Cas Lowood is a ghost hunter. He’s got a knife and an inherited power that allows him to take out the real baddies, the ghosts who kill. Following a tip, he travels a … Continue reading
Fantastic Recommends: Divergent
Divergent by Veronica Roth Beatrice lives in a dystopian Chicago where everybody is assigned to a faction, according to their dominant character trait. She is in “abnegation” which is a fancy word for selflessness. At 16-years-old, all the teenagers in … Continue reading
Graceling and Bad Ass, Killer Girls
Graceling by Kim Cashore Katsa has a talent for killing people, and she’s not an evil witch or nemesis in Graceling. She’s the heroine. Graceling is set in a typical high-fantasy world of small kingdoms with a bit of magic, a … Continue reading
Psyched out
So I was interviewed recently on damosays.com. Horror author and blogger Damien Kelly somehow managed to peg me as a crazy, potentially murderous hippie! I can own up to at least one of those descriptors. OK, maybe two. . . … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews
Tagged Damien Kelly, damosays, fantasy, hippie, horror, psych eval, sara zaske, The First, YA, YA Fantastic Book Review
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Fantastic Recommends: The Wrong Sword
The Wrong Sword by Ted Mendelssohn Henry is a faker. He helps trick Parisian nobles into buying fake swords of power, medieval knightly knock-offs, if you will, but when he tricks the wrong person, he suddenly finds himself on an … Continue reading
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline and the adult “children’s book”
Wow. This is one terrific, terrible book! Let me explain… Coraline is about a young girl who likes exploring and finds a hidden door to another world… so far a pretty common premise for a “children’s book,” right? But what’s … Continue reading
Fantastic Recommends: Witch Child
by Celia Rees* Must have been tough to live during the times of witch hunts, especially if you were a real live witch. That’s the essential premise of Witch Child. It’s 1659, and Mary, a young English girl, finds herself … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged 1600s, amazon, book, book review, Celia Rees, fantasy, historical, New World, Puritans, sara zaske, Sorceress, Witch, Witch Child, YA Fantastic Book Review, young adult
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