Exciting New Releases!

Just popping in to let you all know that two books I edited last year were published in the last few weeks! This is really exciting for me, so I can’t imagine how exciting/nerve-wracking it is for the authors! Do yourself and the authors a favor and pop over to Amazon and buy a copy. Book titles link to Amazon and author names link to the authors’ websites, where you can read more about these lovely ladies!

Life According to Beatrice by Anna Marie

Rafferty Lincoln Loves… by Emily Williams

Rafferty Lincoln Loves... by [Williams, Emily]

PS – I have no financial interest in the sales of these books – I just am honored to have been a part of their creation and want to support Anna and Emily on their writing and publishing journeys!

Cover Reveal: Rafferty Lincoln Loves…

I am SO excited to share with you that Emily Williams, author of the wonderful Letters to Eloise, has revealed the cover of her upcoming YA novel, Rafferty Lincoln Loves…

My excitement is two-fold: I proofread the book(!) so I feel personally invested, AND it’s fantastic! This book and another I recently beta read have piqued my interest in the YA genre.

Anyway — go here to Emily’s site for more info on the book and the charity it will support and here to read a wonderful interview with Emily.

Oh! and go HERE to preorder 🙂 The book is available February 14th!

Enjoy 🙂

Book Beginnings and Friday 56: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

I enjoyed doing last week’s post, so I’m back with the Book Beginnings (hosted over at Rose City Reader) and Friday 56 (hosted at Freda’s Voice) memes for this week!

       

I just wrapped up reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (the third book in the Chronicles of Narnia) with my six-year-old as our bedtime read-aloud. I originally bought the Chronicles of Narnia box set at a used book sale a year or so ago because I’ve enjoyed several of C.S. Lewis’s nonfiction books and wanted to read them. My daughter asked to read them, so we’re slowly making our way through them together. I’ll probably reread them with the next two kids, too 🙂

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Without further ado…

Beginning:

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and his schoolmasters called him Scrubb. I can’t tell you how his friends spoke to him, for he had none.

Page 56:

It seemed to Lucy that a great valley in the sea opened just before their bows, and they rushed down into it, deeper down than she would have believed possible. A great grey hill of water, far higher than the mast, rushed to meet them; it looked certain death but they were tossed to the top of it. Then she ship seemed to spin round. A cataract of water poured over their deck; the poop and forecastle were like two islands with a fierce sea between them.

As with the other books in the Chronicles of Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is full of great adventures! We’re excited to start the next installment.