Blog Tour: THE LAST FAERIE QUEEN by Chelsea Pitcher with Giveaway

About the Book
Title: THE LAST FAERIE QUEEN

Author: Chelsea Pitcher

Release Date: November 8, 2015

Pages: 408

Publisher: Flux

Formats: Paperback, eBook

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A FAERIE REVOLUTION . . .

 

After risking her life in the mortal world, the faerie princess Elora returns home to incite a revolution. Allied with the Bright Queen, Elora rallies her people for a battle aimed at overthrowing her mother, the Dark Queen. While some question their ability to win, Elora senses victory, knowing she has a secret weapon: Taylor, the human boy she loves, and a motley crew of his school friends, each armed with a skill that can turn the tide of the coming battle.

 

A MORTAL SACRIFICE . . .

 

But then Elora's supporters in the Dark Court turn on her, believing she has forsaken them in favor of humans. When the Dark Queen kidnaps two of her human friends, Elora must mount a daring rescue mission to free them before her mother offers them up as a sacrifice.

 

About the Book

Title: THE LAST CHANGELING

Author: Chelsea Pitcher

Release Date: November 8, 2014

Pages: 360

Publisher: Flux

Formats:  Paperback, eBook, audiobook

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A Kingdom at War . . .

 

Elora, the young princess of the Dark Faeries, plans to overthrow her tyrannical mother, the Dark Queen, and bring equality to faeriekind. All she has to do is convince her mother’s loathed enemy, the Bright Queen, to join her cause. But the Bright Queen demands an offering first: a human boy who is a “young leader of men.”

 

A Dark Princess In Disguise . . .

 

To steal a mortal, Elora must become a mortal—at least, by all appearances. And infiltrating a high school is surprisingly easy. When Elora meets Taylor, the seventeen-year-old who’s plotting to overthrow a ruthless bully, she thinks she’s found her offering . . . until she starts to fall in love.

 

About Chelsea

 

Chelsea Pitcher is a karaoke-singing, ocean-worshipping Oregonian with a penchant for wicked faerie tales. She began gobbling up stories as soon as she could read, and especially enjoys delving into the darker places to see if she can draw out some light. She is the author of THE S-WORD (Simon and Schuster), THE LAST CHANGELING (Flux), and THE LAST FAERIE QUEEN (Flux 2015).

 

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1. What genre are your books?

This is actually a tricky question! The first book in the series, THE LAST CHANGELING, is “YA urban fantasy,” because it takes place primarily in the human world. But the second (and final) book in the series, THE LAST FAERIE QUEEN, takes place exclusively in the faerie world, so I would classify that as “YA fantasy.” But I wouldn’t call it “high fantasy” because the characters could, theoretically, return to the human world (as opposed to, say, LORD OF THE RINGS, where the characters couldn’t slip into the world as we know it).

 

2. What draws you to this genre?

I love urban fantasy because we get to explore how humans would react if they learned that magic does, in fact, exist in our world. Would they be thrilled, terrified, or something else entirely? Would they try to destroy those magical beings, or would they fall in love? In THE LAST FAERIE QUEEN, you’ll see all of the above!

 

3. Which actress would you like to see playing the lead character from THE LAST FAERIE QUEEN?

Such a hard question! It’s really difficult to match the image in my head to a real person. But I love this picture of Alicia Witt for Elora (if her hair was quite a bit longer). It kind of makes you wonder if she’s going to kiss you or kill you, which is perfect for Elora.

 

 

4. How much research do you do?

I’ve been studying faerie legends my entire life, so by the time I wrote THE LAST FAERIE QUEEN, I had a really good idea of what I wanted the world to look like. But there was still some difficulty, because I wanted to stay true to certain legends—faeries can’t lie, faeries have an aversion to iron—I also wanted to create a world that was unique. So, while several old legends show the Queen of the Bright Faeries as having pale skin and golden hair, in this version, she’s more of a forest queen, with warm brown skin and leaves growing from her hair. Meanwhile, the Queen of the Dark Faeries has milky-pale skin during the full moon and inky black skin during the dark moon. Writing the characters this way made perfect sense to me, because they are embodiments of nature as much as they are otherworldly. I hope readers enjoy getting to know them as much as I did!

 

5. What is the hardest thing about writing?

The process for every book is so different! Each time I finish a book, I think I have it figured out, and the next time I sit down to write something, the process that worked for the previous book turns out to be useless! For example, I used to always write books linearly. But with THE LAST FAERIE QUEEN, I kept fussing over the first hundred pages, and I knew that if I kept going like that, I’d never finish the book! So I gave myself permission to write the second half first. It was a weird thing to do, but it worked wonderfully, because I knew exactly what happened once the characters entered the Unseelie Court. The second half poured out of me, and then I got to go back to the opening with more insight on what needed to happen.

 

Thank you so much for having me!!!

 

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Tour Schedule

 

Week One:

11/2/2015- Seeing Double In Neverland- Interview

11/2/2015- Driftless- Spotlight

11/3/2015- Mama Reads Hazel Sleeps- Excerpt

11/3/2015- Revolutionary Reads- Review

11/4/2015- Kelly P's Blog- Interview

11/4/2015- PBC - Spotlight

11/5/2015- Books Eater- Guest Post

11/5/2015- Arkham Reviews- Review

11/6/2015- Two Chicks on Books- Interview

11/6/2015- Curling Up With A Good Book- Excerpt

 

Week Two:

11/9/2015- Once Upon A Twilight- Guest Post

11/9/2015- Milky Way of Books- Review

11/10/2015- The Cover Contessa- Interview

11/10/2015- alwaysjoart- Review

11/11/2015- In Love With Handmade- Guest Post

11/11/2015- Literary Musings- Excerpt

11/12/2015- BookHounds YA- Interview

11/12/2015- Cover2Cover- Review

11/13/2015- Me, My Shelf and I- Guest Post

11/13/2015- The Book Lovers' Lounge- Review

 

 

 

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The Killer Contract Agency
by Jessica Samuels
Release Date: November 30th 2015

Summary from Goodreads

 

Salina Sinclair hunts Malians, an alien species that preys on weak teenagers, making them crazy enough to kill themselves. But after being nearly burned alive by one, Salina is contacted by The Killer Contract Agency. Wielding the powers of The Bracelet and with her mentor, Carter, by her side, she exacts her revenge by taking out the Malians responsible for her near death.

 

But something big is happening with the Agency and operatives are dying. Will she find out what it is before it's too late, or will the Agency be destroyed?

 

About the Author

 

My name is Jessica Samuels.I am an author addicted to caffeine, and I have imaginary friends that keep me up at night begging for me to tell their story. I love writing in my spare time a long with reading books since I have been an avid reader since elementary school.

 

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Book Blitz: Still a Bad Boy by Ada Scott with Giveaway

Still a Bad Boy
by Ada Scott
(Still a Bad Boy, #1)
Publication date: November 2nd 2015
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Suspense

I can’t get him out of my mind, and I can’t keep myself out of his bed

Kendall

He wasn’t supposed to notice me. Jace Barlow: the most powerful man in the city. Mysterious, scarred, pure muscle and tattoos.

He was my first. That didn’t stop him from pinning me against a wall, using me for his own pleasure until I screamed his name.

Now my boss thinks I’m getting the scoop of the century, but all Jace is giving me is orgasm after leg-quivering orgasm. When he puts his hand on my throat and growls in my ear…

“You are mine.”

I know it’s true.

I’ve fallen hard and I’ve never felt safer…

Until I see him kill somebody.

Jace

I dedicated my life to taking down the Picolli Crime Family from the inside. I made a name for myself, the mafia’s most brutal enforcer. I worked my way up the chain, and my revenge came. A righteous bloodbath.

Then I took their place so they could never come back.

Nothing else has ever mattered. Until Kendall.

She was an innocent girl for me to defile, and then leave her ruined for other men like all the rest. But she makes me so hard I ache for release, and for the first time in my life, I want to have her again.

Kendall’s the chink in my armor my enemies have been looking for.

I don’t care.

She is mine and I’ll die before I give her up.

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EXCERPT

 

After a brief hurricane of panic from everybody back in the office, I spent the entire afternoon on a computer researching Jace Barlow, determined to make part two of my interview infinitely less embarrassing than part one. I’d known he was secretive, but I didn’t realize just how little of his life had made it on to the internet.

 

Mr. Kinsley sent me some lines of questioning the brain-trust back in the office thought would be important to go through, but not until after trying to replace me at the dinner with a more experienced reporter. Barlow’s people shot that idea down.

 

This was my big chance, this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to show them what I could do. Everybody at The Weekly Enquirer, my family, everybody back home who thought I would live and die in Woodville, I’d show them all.

 

I couldn’t afford the kinds of things that most people who dined at Luc Monette’s wore, but I dressed up as well as I was able to. Even so, when I arrived early, the woman behind the counter looked down her nose at me until I said I was here to meet Jace Barlow.

 

After that, I was royalty as far as she was concerned. She even brought me a complimentary glass of wine while I waited.

 

It wasn’t easy to keep a level head. This was as exclusive a restaurant as existed anywhere in the city, the whole country even. Everywhere I looked, I saw faces I recognized from the news, from the magazines, even from the paper I worked for.

 

The instant he walked in the room, he caught my eye. He had so much presence it was like the universe revolved around him, the complete opposite to me.

 

It didn’t take him long to spot me either, as if I drew his eyes as much as he drew mine. He headed straight for me and I had this image of him picking me up and carrying me off into the sunset.

 

There I went again. What was it about him that made me forget who I was?

 

“Mr. Barlow.” I began to stand.

 

He held out his hand, halting me, before he sat down on the opposite side of the table. “Please. Just call me Jace for tonight.”

 

“Oh. OK. You can call me Kendall too.”

 

“A beautiful name for a beautiful woman.”

 

I glanced down at my glass of wine for a second, fighting off the shy blush that seemed to blossom anyway whenever he looked at me. Lines like that didn’t help my predicament.

 

Eventually, I managed to raise my eyes to his with a goofy smile on my face. “Thank you.”

 

“Have you ordered?” he asked.

 

“No, I was waiting for you.”

 

“Well, now you’ve got me, what are you going to do with me?”

 

It was an innocent question, but the way he said it and the look on his face gave me the impression that he was implying something. I didn’t know if it was just my imagination running wild again, not out of the question when I was around him, or if I was getting hit on by a multi-millionaire.

 

 

 

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A former office drone, a former nurse, I now spend every waking moment doing what I love, creating and publishing these steamy stories about bad boys from the mafia, motorcycle clubs, and mma that make me, and hopefully you, weak at the knees! Anywhere a bad boy can be found, I'll be there taking notes and making it even sexier :)

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Death Becomes Me

(Call Me Grim #2)

by Elizabeth Holloway

Publication Date: November 2015

Genre: YA, Paranormal

 

Libbi and Aaron are Grim Reapers on the run. They may have escaped their hometown of Carroll Falls unscathed, and are together and alive (well, more or less), but they’ll soon find there’s a price to pay. A deadly one.

 

By escaping Carroll Falls, Libbi and Aaron have broken the Reaper’s covenant with Abaddon, aka Death himself – and now they’re right at the top of Abaddon’s Most Wanted list. There’s nowhere to hide, and not a single person, alive or dead, they can turn to for help.

 

But just as it's looking like the end of the line, Libbi hears word of a Reaper in hiding – a Reaper who once escaped Abaddon's wrath. Finding this mysterious Reaper might be the perfect solution… if Death doesn’t find them first.

 

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A Little Horror

 

“She’s in the house,” I say.

 

“I know.” He snatches his shoes from my hands and shoves his sockless feet into them. “We’ve got to get out of here.”

 

“How? She’s downstairs. We’ll run right into her.”

 

He glances at the wall behind him and shakes his head. Nope. Can’t get out that way.  He turns back around and points straight at the wall of junk that blocks the expansive attic.

 

“We run through all of that,” he says. “And when we get outside, we fly.”

 

As huge as the attic is, it looks like a postage stamp when I think of using it as a runway. Plus, I have to run through all of that stuff? I really wish I had more time to practice the Reaper powers before we left Carroll Falls. It would have been useful.

 

“That’s not enough of a head start for me, Aaron,” I say. “Still a novice, here.”

 

The attic door squeaks. A solid thump on the bottom step.

 

“No time for a better plan.” He seizes my hand. “Whatever happens, don’t let her touch you. Got it?”

 

I nod once.

 

And we run. Back the way we came. Straight through the wardrobe with the broken door. Through the leaning towers of boxes and mountains of clothes and papers and trash. Toward Bobby’s bedroom.

 

The attic stairs appear in the middle of the rubbish. We have to pass them if we want enough speed to fly when we reach the wall at the other end of the house.

 

An ashen hand slaps down on the railing at the top of the staircase. Annalise’s greasy, dark head pops up above the railing. Her head rotates. The skin on her neck cracks and greenish-yellow fluid leaks from the wound. Her eyes find us.

 

I was right. There are no eyes there. Just inky-black orbs.

 

“What are you doing?” The voice that oozes from her throat is deep, cold, menacing. But there’s no mistaking the surprise in it. “You don’t belong here.”

 

Oily tendrils of blackness unfurl from the little girl’s shadow like tentacles. They spill over the railing and crawl across the floor in front of us. The coppery scent of decomposition fills the space. Whoever she used to be, she’s a corpse now. A reanimated, rotting corpse. Mothballs suddenly don’t smell so bad.

 

“Jump.” Aaron says and I do. We sail over whatever it is that seeps from her shadow as we sprint past her.

 

Annalise reaches for my arm. I jerk my elbow across my body before she touches me and the breeze from her fingertips grazes my skin.

 

It was just the wind that touched me, I’m sure, but for a moment my vision blurs. A flash of light replaces the junk-filled attic, then pale, twisted, writhing bodies. Blood. Broken bones. Pain. So much pain. And fear.

 

Just as quickly as it came, the vision disappears. I almost lose my breakfast on the floor, but I somehow manage to keep running. We barrel through another mountain of junk—more furniture and boxes—and into Bobby’s bedroom.

 

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CALL ME GRIM

 

The truck should have turned Libbi Piper into a Libbi Pancake—and it would have, too, if Aaron hadn't shown up and saved her life. The problem? Aaron's the local Grim Reaper . . . and he only saved Libbi's life because he needs someone to take over his job. Now, Libbi has two days to choose between dying like she was supposed to, or living a lonely life as Death Incarnate. Talk about a rock and a hard place. And the choice goes from hard to sucktastic when her best friend shows up marked: condemned as a future murderer. Libbi could have an extra week to stop the murder and fix the mark . . . but only if she accepts Aaron's job as Reaper, trapping herself in her crappy town forever, invisible and inaudible to everyone except the newly dead. But, if she refuses? Her best friend is headed straight for Hell.

 

About the Author

 

Elizabeth Holloway is a writer of young adult fiction living in Southern Pennsylvania with her two teen children and their growing number of pets.

 

In addition to writing, she is a registered nurse, an avid reader, an out-of-practice artist, a karaoke singer, and music lover. She is still trying to decide what she wants to be when she grows up.

 

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Release Day Blitz: Sea of Memories by Kelly Risser with Giveaway

 

Clean Teen Publishing is proud to present a new series of novellas in the Never Forgotten Series by Kelly Risser, Sea of Memories.

 

 

Sometimes, we reach the end of a story and realize there is more to be told. This is the case with Sea of Memories, a collection of novellas set in the world of Never Forgotten.

 

Travel with Meara and Kieran to North America where they visit her grandparents and his family. Along the way, stop at Mirage, the dance club where the couple first met, and see the encounter from Kieran's point of view.

 

Struck in the Club - On the orders of his father, Kieran travels to Nova Scotia to spy on David's daughter. After an encounter in a dance club, he may have found more than he bargained for.

 

Journey to the past and meet Kieran's mom, Sera. Learn why she is no longer part of their lives.

 

What Will Be - Sera is a Selkie who enjoys her family and her daily routine of solitude. While out on one of her morning swims, she finds an injured man floating in the ocean. Unable to see anyone suffer, she rescues him, even after the warnings she received as a child about the evilness of human males. He may be safe now, but is she?

 

Go back to where it all started and discover along with Meara how her parents met and fell in love.

 

A Rock and A Hard Place – Visiting his maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia, David is determined to find out who murdered his parents and why. He doesn't expect the evidence to take him to a small fishing village called Peggy's Cove. He certainly doesn't expect to find love there, especially when it comes in the form of a spunky little brunette… and a human one at that.

 

Finally, join Meara, Ula, and other friends old and new to remember the past, celebrate the present, and anticipate the future.

 

Something Blue - Ula's been invited to a banquet at Ronac in her niece's honor. Because it will be Meara's first Christmas without her mom, Ula convinces her boyfriend, Vesh, and others that they need to throw a surprise holiday celebration. Selkies don't celebrate Christmas and neither do the Blue Men of the Minch. It will be a holiday full of surprises for all.

 

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About the Author

 

Kelly Risser knew at a young age what she wanted to be when she grew up. Unfortunately, Fairytale Princess was not a lucrative career. Leaving the castle and wand behind, she entered the world of creative business writing where she worked in advertising, marketing, and training at various companies. Currently, she works full time as an eLearning Instructional Designer, fitting her creative writing into the evenings and weekends.

 

She's often found lamenting, "It's hard to write when there are so many good books to read!" So, when she's not immersed in the middle of someone else's fantasy world, she's busy creating one of her own. This world is introduced in her first novel, Never Forgotten, and visited further in her second novel, Current Impressions, and her third novel, Always Remembered. The newest book, Sea of Memories, is a novella collection set in this world.

 

Kelly lives in Wisconsin with her husband and two children. They share their home with Clyde the Whoodle and a school of fish.

 

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New Releases Day: SEA OF MEMORIES by Kelly Risser & THE INNOCENT by Michelle K. Pickett

NOVEMBER 3RD NEW RELEASES

 

Today is the second day for some amazing new releases from Clean Teen Publishing. Yesterday, All the Way to Heaven and The Forsaken were unveiled. Today, we have two more! Add these new reads to the front of your must-read pile!

 

SEA OF MEMORIES

 

A Never Forgotten Series Special By Kelly Risser

 

 

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Sea of Memories (A novella collection from the world of Never Forgotten)

 

Sometimes, we reach the end of a story and realize there is more to be told. This is the case with Sea of Memories, a collection of novellas set in the world of Never Forgotten.

 

Travel with Meara and Kieran to North America where they visit her grandparents and his family. Along the way, stop at Mirage, the dance club where the couple first met, and see the encounter from Kieran’s point of view.

 

Struck in the Club – On the orders of his father, Kieran travels to Nova Scotia to spy on David’s daughter. After an encounter in a dance club, he may have found more than he bargained for.

 

Journey to the past and meet Kieran’s mom, Sera. Learn why she is no longer part of their lives.

 

What Will Be – Sera is a Selkie who enjoys her family and her daily routine of solitude. While out on one of her morning swims, she finds an injured man floating in the ocean. Unable to see anyone suffer, she rescues him, even after the warnings she received as a child about the evilness of human males. He may be safe now, but is she?

 

Go back to where it all started and discover along with Meara how her parents met and fell in love.

 

A Rock and A Hard Place – Visiting his maternal grandparents in Nova Scotia, David is determined to find out who murdered his parents and why. He doesn’t expect the evidence to take him to a small fishing village called Peggy’s Cove. He certainly doesn’t expect to find love there, especially when it comes in the form of a spunky little brunette… and a human one at that.

 

Finally, join Meara, Ula, and other friends old and new to remember the past, celebrate the present, and anticipate the future.

 

Something Blue – Ula’s been invited to a banquet at Ronac in her niece’s honor. Because it will be Meara’s first Christmas without her mom, Ula convinces her boyfriend, Vesh, and others that they need to throw a surprise holiday celebration. Selkies don’t celebrate Christmas and neither do the Blue Men of the Minch. It will be a holiday full of surprises for all.

 

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THE INNOCENT

 

Book # 3 in The Milayna Series by Michelle K. Pickett

 

 

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The Four Brothers are coming, and this time it isn’t just Milayna’s life in jeopardy, but her brother’s, too.

 

A year ago, eighteen year-old Milayna fought Azazel, Hell’s angel, for her soul. She thought she’d seen the last of him, but he’s back, and he’s brought his friends with him. The Four Brothers want Milayna’s life, and they have wicked powers to use to take it.

 

While Milayna struggles against the Four Brothers, she also has to fight Azazel for her younger brother’s soul. Ben is at a crucial point in his life—a time when he is weakest to Azazel and his powers. Milayna has to shield her brother from Azazel until Ben reaches the age of accountability and enters a period of safety from Azazel and his soul-sucking demons.

 

As if having four demon brothers out to end her life and Hell’s angel out to steal her brother’s soul wasn’t enough, Milayna is still reeling from the disappearance of Chay. Can she find him in time to save their relationship? Or will the constant struggle with Hell and all its evil send her seeking comfort in the arms of Xavier?

 

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