a $26 Amazon/BN GC in honor of the 26 stories that make up the collection will be given to one randomly drawn commenter.
THE SUGARSPEAR CHRONICLES
By Nicole Arlyn
NOTE: The book will be FREE
on the date of the tour!
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GENRE: Fantasy
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BLURB:
The
Sugarspear Chronicles, the incredible twenty-six-novella saga that started with
a little girl and her willow tree, is finally available in one complete
collection.
The Sugarspear Chronicles: The
Complete Collection is the story of young Sadie Sugarspear, a girl who endures
intolerable abuse by reading about a fantasy world filled with incredible sights
and outlandish people—a place she’s only ever encountered through her real
father’s storybook.
One day, when the cruelty becomes
too much to bear, Sadie runs away and hides inside her beloved willow tree. To
her surprise, the tree opens, sending Sadie down into the abyss, into a land
she’s only ever read about—where she must being a long, terrifying, and
heartbreaking journey home.
Readers can now enjoy the entirety
of author Nicole Arlyn’s dark fantasy saga in one complete book. This complete
collection also includes a note from the author detailing the inspiration and
events that led to The Sugarspear Chronicles.
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EXCERPT:
The
wind was ripping through the dandelion fields. The fence that stood alone shook
but the blue flowers hanging off it stayed still. A pale girl walked on the
dirt road through the fog and mud puddles towards the fence, her long brown
hair slapping against her face, covering her green eyes that seemed blue when
she turned them to the sky. She pushed her thin body through the wind, the
black Rolling Stones t-shirt she wore as a dress blowing into her stomach. When
she stood in front of the fence, the flowers finally swayed. Sprinkles of dew
dying. Then she pulled them off, the crushed flowers in her hands, falling to
earth. The wind never took them.
She
sat on top of the fence watching the sky for rain. Instead she saw the faces
that the clouds made morphing from evil to angel in one blink of her eyes. She ran
her hands along the old brown wood, digging her fingertips hard in, crusted
blood under her fingernails. She kicked her legs against the fence half wanting
to knock it over and half wanting to fall with it, but it wouldn’t fall. She
rubbed her thighs with the splinters until they burned and then made a fist
with her right hand and bit down on it. She bit hard enough to stop her own
tears. Only cry when the rain comes, she thought. That way the rain would wash
away her tears and no one would know. She saw a caterpillar sitting beside her
and picked it up.
“No
one knows youʼre here but me,” she whispered. She laid the caterpillar where
she found it. She opened her hands and kept waiting to catch the rain. She
waited as the sky twisted around her, sealing her in a mist she wished only the
sky could see through.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Nicole is a writer and an
actress born in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked in films such as Clay
Pigeons, opposite Joaquin Phoenix; The Wedding Planner; and Brooklyn Bound,
among many others. She has performed, written and directed theater productions
in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe. She has also read her poems in many
poetry lounges in Europe and America, and is a song lyricist for musicians.
After living in Rome, Italy,
for the past several years, Nicole has returned to New York City where she
lives with her husband and son. She is at work on more novels.
my authors page on Full
Fathom Fives website:
(all buy links on on here)
http://fullfathomfive.com/writers/nicole-arlyn/
my authors page on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/NicoleArlynAuthor/?fref=ts
twitter:
https://twitter.com/NicoleArlyn
The Sugarpsear Chronicles
webpage:
http://www.thesugarspearchronicles.com/
me on goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7315359.Nicole_Arlyn
Nicolearlynwrites on
wordpress (building this up into a website)
https://nicolearlynwrites.wordpress.com/
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
a $26 Amazon/BN GC in honor of the 26 stories that make up the collection.
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f1575



Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the Angel's blog. I hope you have a great tour.
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ReplyDeleteAn intriguing excerpt! So glad you could visit Rogue's Angels' blog, and hope your tour is successful!
ReplyDelete--Amber Angel
I enjoyed the excerpt. Thank you.
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