Excerpt Tour: Keeper of Reign (GiveAway)

Today I get to welcome Emma Right to my blog.  She's promoting her YA book, Keeper of Reign. This book looks like it would be a phenomonial read for those of us who love sci-fi and fantasy.  So be sure to check out the blurb and excerpt below.  Ms. Right will also be giving away a $15 Gift Certificate & autographed bookmark to one lucky winner through out the tour, so be sure to enter via the rafflecopter form below.  Enjoy! 
                                 Becki
                             

BLURB:
Sixteen-year-old Jules Blaze is an Elfie - half elf, half fairy, living in a cursed Kingdom. The Keepers, entrusted to protect sacred Books written in blood, have long forgotten their purpose and struggle with the effects of the curse.

Jules finds himself in the crosshairs of an evil lord bent on destroying Keepers and their Books. His mother is a Keeper and she has disappeared, along with his grandparents. His father is nowhere to be found, and Jules now finds himself alone with four siblings to protect and a house ravaged by the enemies.

War rages on all sides of his homeland. Agents and assassins sent by the evil Gehzurolle are determined to kill him. Jules must find an ancient book whose secrets are the only thing that could give him answers and save him, his family and his homeland.

EXCERPT:

For a second the shadow following them determined to strike Jules and his siblings again, but he stopped. They thought they were invincible with the dragonfly lantern, but direct attack wasn’t the only way to exterminate Elfies. Whisperer should know. He’d been perfecting the art through the ages. The proper time would come. It always did.

He pursed his lips upward toward the clouds, first softly, then more intensely, his gaze never wavering from the siblings. His master had given him authority over the elements of the air. He could use it to his advantage, but this time he would use something that had worked before.

Beta had told him about the Laceworks, and it was a perfect plan, assuming Beta’s trick had convinced the boy and his siblings to get inside. And once the Blaze kids were gone, he could finish his task and search the wreck left behind by the fire.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Emma Right is a happy wife and homeschooling mother of five. Besides running a busy home, she regularly reads and writes stories for children. An avid Christian, she enjoys writing stories with themes involving family-life, friendship, faithfulness, and seeking wisdom, all in an imaginary fantastical world. She has written several young adult novels and plans on writing many more. Right worked for two advertising agencies and has won several major awards, including the prestigious Clio Award. She currently resides in California where she takes care of her children and her many pets.

Keeper of Reign is a finalist in the reader's Choice Award 2013



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Best of Summer 2013


Welcome to the Best of Summer Blog Hop!


 This will be my first blog hop as a soon-to-be childern's author and I find myself just as excited for this blog hop as I have for any other I've participated in. I can't thank the peeps over at Mother Daughter Book Reviews and Youth Literature Reviews for hosting this blog hop. I didn't realize how hard it would be to find such an hop until I started writing.  With that being said, I hope you'll take the time to hop to the rest of the blogs listed on the linky thing below. I'm sure you'll find some excellent reads for your kids and fun prizes along the way. Also don't forget to enter via the rafflecopter form at the end to be entered to win a $10 gift certicate to Amazon.  
I will be the first to admit I'm not sure what to write about for this blog hop.  While I'm no longer read children's books as much as I probably should, I do have three children ranging from ten to seventeen and the kiddos are all reading on their own now.  I have noticed however what the kids read now is nowhere close to the Ramona Quimby and Sweet Valley High books I read as kid.  So when I sat down to write this, I thought it might be interesting to see what each one of my kids love to read and have them nominate their favorite book of the summer.  I'll even throw in mine!




Becki's Favorite:  The Cay by Theodore Taylor.  I read this book for the first time many moons ago in my third grade class. (Thanks Mr. Hoyt!)  It had everything from natural disasters to the unabiding love that can occur between humans. I fell in love with this story and am currently reading the sequel to it - Timothy of the Cay.  I don't know how it slipped my notice that the author had written a follow novel.







Michael's Favorite: Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger.  This is a  book my seventeen year old read in school before summer let out and he's actually read it again over the summer. Evidently he loves the main character, Holden Callfield. And to quote my son, "Holden  is waayyyy out there. A physiologist would have a field day with him."




Gabrielle's Favorite: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third  Wheel.   My middle child is twelve and she loves graphic novels and all the Diary of the Wimpy Kids series. This one is her favorite because of the story plot and the drawings inside of it. *scratches head*  To me it looks like a notebook that a kid has doddled all over but what do I know?






Penelope's Favorite:  Amulet: the Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi.  She says it's full of adventure and surprises. But absolutely hates how it ends....it's a cliff hanger!  This too is a graphic novel, but only one of the series that my ten year old loves to read.  She also loves to read Geramino Stilton and Thea Stilton books, along with Baby Mouse books.



So now that we've mentioned which books we love to read over the summer, why don't you give us a suggestion for a new book or series to start out our fall season.  Simply use the rafflecopter form below to enter.  On Sept 7th I'll draw a winner of the $10  Gift Certificate to Amazon.



Back to School Giveaway Hop: 8/19 - 8/24

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