Bitter Frost Virtual Book Tour June 2010
Authors on Tour, Featured — By Dorothy Thompson on May 28, 2010 at 11:07 am
Join Kailin Gow, author of the young adult novel, Bitter Frost (The EDGE, June 2010), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in June ‘10 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!
About Kailin Gow
Kailin Gow is the multi-published Author of The Shy Girls Social Club Handbook for Dealing with Bullies and Other Meanies and 30 more books for teens and young adults, including The Gifted Girls Series which have been recommended by the Parents Teachers Association, PBS Kids, Homeschooling organizations, and Best Teens Books lists. Her fiction titles for older young adults and adults are: Diary of a Discount Donna (A Fashion Fables Novel), and the newly released The Phantom Diaries and Rise of the Fire Tamer (Wordwick Games Book 1). She holds a Masters Degree Communications Management from USC, and Bachelors Degrees in Drama and Social Ecology from UC Irvine. She is a mother, a mentor for young women, and the founder of the social group for girls age 13 to 19 called Shy Girls Social Club at shygirlssocialclub.com. You can sign up to follow her on Twitter at KailinGow, and can be reached at sparklesoup (dot) aol (dot) com.
You can visit her website at www.sparklesoup.com.
About Bitter Frost
All her life, Breena had always dreamed about fairies as though she lived among them…beautiful fairies living among mortals and living in Feyland. In her dreams, he was always there the breathtakingly handsome but dangerous Winter Prince, Kian, who is her intended. When Breena turns sixteen, she begins seeing fairies and other creatures mortals don t see. Her best friend Logan, suddenly acts very protective. Then she sees Kian, who seems intent on finding her and carrying her off to Feyland. That’s fine and all, but for the fact that humans rarely survive a trip to Feyland, a kiss from a fairy generally means death to the human unless that human has fairy blood in them or is very strong, and although Kian seemed to be her intended, he seems to hate her and wants her dead.
Read the Excerpt!
I would shake the thought off, of course, dismiss it as stupid, try and apply my mother’s armchair psychoanalysis to the situation. But then, before bed, the thought would come to me, trickle through the mire of worries (boys, school, whether or not I’d remembered to charge my IPod before getting into bed, whether or not my banner would be torn down yet again from the homeroom message board) – will I have the dream tonight? And then, another thought would come to me alongside it. Will I be going home again.
And the night before my sixteenth birthday, the dream came again – stronger and more vivid than it had ever come before, as if the gauzy wisp of a curtain between reality and dream-land had at last been torn open, and I looked upon my fantasy with new eyes.
I was a fairy princess. (When waking, I would chide myself for this fantasy – sixteen-year-old girls should want to start a fruitful career in environmental activism, not twirl around in silk dresses). But I was a fairy princess, and I was a child. I dreamed myself into a palace – with spires reaching up into the sun, so that the rays seemed to pour gold down onto the turrets. The floors were marble; vines bursting with flowers were wrapped around all the colonnades. The halls were covered in mirrors – gold-framed glass after gold-framed glass – and in these hundred kaleidoscopic images I could see my reflection refracted a hundred times.
I was a toddler – perhaps four, maybe five years old, decked out in elaborate jewels, swaddled in lavender silk, yards and yards of the fabric – the color of my eyes. I hated the color of my eyes in real life – their pale color seemed to make me alien and strange – but here, they were beautiful. Here, I was beautiful. Here, I was home.
Read what critics have to say about Bitter Frost!
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Bitter Frost Tour Schedule
Tuesday, June 1
Book spotlighted at Examiner
Wednesday, June 2
Interviewed at Literarily Speaking
Friday, June 4
Interviewed at Beyond the Books
Book reviewed at Jen’s Book Talk
Monday, June 7
Guest blogging and book giveaway at Readaholic
Interviewed at Blogcritics
Book reviewed at Write for a Reader
Tuesday, June 8
Book reviewed at Cafe of Dreams
Book reviewed & book giveaway at Books and Things
Wednesday, June 9
Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book
Book reviewed at Just One More Paragraph
Thursday, June 10
Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz
Book reviewed at The Book Faery Reviews
Friday, June 11
Book reviewed at The Cajun Book Lady
Kalin Gow’s BITTER FROST VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on June 1 and end on June 11 2010. Please contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com before May 30 if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing her book during her virtual book tour or click here to use the form. Thank you!
Update: Kailin’s Bitter Frost tour is finalized. Thanks to all participating tour hosts!
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Thrilled to be part of your June Tour! I look forward to interacting with all of you.
Love
Kailin