UNDERGROUND ROSE

Posted Posted in My Writing World

(Originally published 1/30/2015)

Today I’m featuring fellow author, Sara Burr. Having just published my book, HAVEN WAITING, it’s fun to see other stories about witches. This one sounds great!

Underground Rose

 

After her surprise discovery of a mystical gift, fourteen-year-old Rose Wilson thinks her life is ruined. It turns out she comes from a long line of gifted women, and despite her protests, Rose’s mom ships her off to her grandmother’s house to spend the summer learning about her family’s well-hidden secrets. To make matters worse, Rose is expected to carry out this tradition alongside her mousy, bookworm cousin, Megan. What a waste of a summer.

With some effort, Rose and Megan manage to find common ground and by the time they get home, they’re working together to adjust to their new life. But everything is turned upside down again when their families are exposed by witch hunters who call themselves The Witches’ Hammer. With killers on the loose, their tiny town isn’t safe anymore. Rose’s entire family is fragmented and forced to flee through a network of hiding places, dubbed The Witches’ Underground Railroad.

As she journeys to the sea, Rose learns more and more about who she really is. The closer she gets to her destination, the more danger she encounters, until she is forced to make the ultimate decision: follow her family’s edict of non-violence and become an orphan, or save her mom’s life.

Here’s an excerpt from Underground Rose: Was It Magic?

A pool of blood already surrounded Amber’s head, and she was as pale as a ghost. Her breathing was shallow and labored.

Rose started parting her wet hair, little by little, trying to find the wound. Finally, after the longest minute of her life, she found it. The wide cut was right on the crown of Amber’s head – how could she have missed that? – and it was bleeding fast.

Fighting not to gag at the metallic smell, Rose put her hands on the slippery gash and pushed, like the lady said, but the blood just seeped through her fingers. The bleeding wasn’t stopping. Was she doing it right?

Feeling completely helpless, she began to sob.

She didn’t dare leave Amber again to go back to the phone.

“I don’t know what to do!” she cried out. “Help,” she croaked, knowing no one could hear. “Please help.”

Suddenly, she felt something strange happening, deep inside her chest. A comforting warmth, like hot chocolate on a freezing cold day, heated her from the inside out. It spread and expanded from her chest, bubbling and tingling like a fizzy drink, growing like wild morning glory vines, covering every part of her insides.

Was it coming from her heart?

It grew until she felt like she couldn’t contain all that heat for one second longer. Then, when she thought she might just explode, the heat-vines raced down her arms. An effervescent mixture of blue, pink, and purple light exploded from her hands, and surrounded Amber’s head like a quivering, transparent cocoon.

Rose sucked in a breath and blinked in disbelief.

She was frozen – afraid to move or even breathe. She stared with her mouth agape, her emerald eyes wide, as the bleeding slowed.

What the heck is happening? she thought. Is this a dream?

She didn’t understand what she was seeing. Was it … magic?

The glimmering cocoon continued pulsating from her fingertips, surrounding Amber’s head. Rose didn’t dare let go, for fear of undoing this miracle.

Then Amber started to stir.

This was not something Rose wanted to discuss. What kind of a freak would Amber think
she was? Reluctantly, she removed her hands.

The vines of warmth snapped back into her, like a recoiling measuring tape. Then, the peculiar sensation was gone. No more heat. No more colors. She looked at her hands in a mixture of awe and disgust.

What was that? she asked herself.

She didn’t know, but she was glad it was over.

A few short seconds later, Amber opened her eyes. Her face so pale her freckles looked three dimensional and her icy blue eyes were even more clear than usual.

 

About the Author:
 
Sara has been entranced by the written word for as long as
she can remember. The daughter of a school teacher, she fell in love with books
as soon as she could read them. She wrote her very first story, about a girl
who ran away and hid in her cousin’s lilac bush, when she was just eleven.
Although her stories have grown more complicated and less petulant since then,
Sara still loves to entertain kids with her words.

 

When she isn’t writing, Sara has a big family to keep her
busy: a husband who is her other half, and four children who are wonderfully
individual. They live next to a beautiful lake in a tiny town with no street
lights. Sara spends lots of time taking care of little superheroes. She likes
to camp with her family, enjoys traveling, and hopes to see the Northern Lights
someday.
Want to know more about Sara and her writing?
 
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COVER REVEAL FOR TAMARA GRANTHAM

Posted Posted in My Writing World

(Originally published 1/9/2015)

COVER REVEAL:

DREAMTHIEF by Tamara Grantham

We are pleased to reveal the official cover for Dreamthief by Tamara Grantham. This book is amazing on the inside and now the outside is just as awesome! We can’t wait to hear what you think of the cover. Make sure to leave a comment and let us know your thoughts.

RELEASE DATE: September 1, 2015

GENRE: Fantasy Romance

SERIES: Fairy World MD

PUBLISHER: Crimson Tree Publishing

LEARN MORE ABOUT:

Visiting Faythander, a fairy world, is a nasty business. Forget the fairies and unicorns, most people come back with lost memories and mental problems. Olive Kennedy knows. She’s the therapist who treats patients suffering from Faythander’s side effects. She may have an emotionless mother and an apathetic boyfriend, but she takes pride in her job. She’s never failed to cure a client—until now.

Traveling back to Faythander wasn’t on Olive’s to-do list. But she has no choice. The fate of both Earth and Fairy depends on her ability to stop an evil being called the Dreamthief. Saving the world, she can handle. Falling in love—not so much. Now, she’ll have to decide between her heart and the future of an entire planet. As if battling the forces of evil wasn’t complicated enough…

Dreamthief is the first book in the Fairy World MD series.

Add Dreamthief to your Goodreads TBR List.

ABOUT TAMARA GRANTHAM:

Tamara Grantham was born and raised in Southeast Texas. She comes from a family of writers. She took her first writing class from her uncle Larry Franklin, who worked as an author and literary agent at the time. At the age of fifteen, she received her first acceptance letter. Her uncle wrote, “Thank you for letting me read your short story, The Quest for the Spear. I enjoyed it very much, and see that you have a talent that can be developed.” In his Writing Fiction class, he challenged each of his students (which consisted of her two sisters and cousins) to write a novel. The challenge seemed daunting at the time, so daunting that she didn’t do it.

Despite her uncle’s praise, writing was not a part of her life until the age of 28, after she was married with three small children. She read a book called Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George. While she loved the novel, the thought occurred to her that she, too, had characters and stories in her head that were just as creative.

The standing challenge from her uncle, made fourteen years earlier, finally became a reality. She wrote her first novel in one month. After that, she wrote five more books and several short stories and novellas. In 2013, she signed her first contract with former writing mentor, and New York Times-bestselling author, William Bernhardt, to contribute to his Shine series. The novellas are about young girls with unusual abilities. In November 2014, almost four years to the day that she finished her first book, she signed with Crimson Tree Publishing (the adult imprint of Clean Teen Publishing) for her novel Dreamthief.

While she’s not writing, and sometimes while she is, she raises four (soon to be five!) beautiful children, ages one to ten. She lives in Galveston, Texas with her husband and kids, one cat and one dog. Her husband David is her biggest support. For the past ten years he has been in training to become a surgeon. She frequently picks his brain for the sake of her stories, a habit she hopes he’ll forgive.

FOLLOW TAMARA:


www.tamaragrantham.com

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HAVEN WAITING BLOG TOUR

Posted Posted in My Writing World

(Originally published on 1/5/2015)

Welcome to the Haven Waiting Blog Tour! Click on a new link each day to read fun interviews, reviews, and spotlights about Tifani Clark’s latest release: Haven Waiting.

January 12: Peering Into…the inner workings of Alison Miller Woods

January 13: Author Linda Covella

January 14: The Literary Pit Stop

January 15: Author Krysten Lindsay Hager

January 20: Norma’s Novels

January 21: Author Anna Buttimore

January 23: Author Rose Shababy