2015 Crossroads Blog Tour, Day Six: Elizabeth Holloway and Jennifer Murgia with #Giveaway @TheCrossroadsBT @eholloway300 @JenniferMurgia
It is Day 6 of the week-long 2015 Crossroads Blog Tour and the final day so there are two times the fun. Happy Halloween! Our last tour post spotlights authors Elizabeth Holloway and Jennifer Murgia. We thank all of the authors for taking the time to answer our questions. Don't forget to enter the giveaway. This tour, presented by Leap Books, can be followed on Twitter @TheCrossroadsBT and Facebook.
Author
Elizabeth Holloway
Elizabeth
Holloway is an author 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 a music lover. She is still
trying to decide what she wants to be when she grows up.
Her
first novel, CALL ME GRIM, is available NOW. The sequel, DEATH BECOMES ME, will
release in Fall 2015. She is represented by Lindsay Ribar of Sanford J.
Greenburger Associates.
What is your creepiest memory?
I felt something climb up the bed then it took my head, turned it, and pushed my face into the pillow. Probably a dream, but still freaked me out!
What is your favorite thing to do during the Halloween season?
Eating candy and fall shopping.
Death Becomes Me (Call Me Grim #2)
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.
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.
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.
"This is who I am. I am no longer the simple girl hidden behind the safety of a make-believe forest. I am the story. I am the tall tale . . . I am the witch."
Raised by an old fortune-teller within the dark veil of the Bavarian Black Forest, Rune has learned two valuable lessons: only take from the forest that which you can use, and never, never look anyone in the eye in the village. For something terrible happened in the forest long ago... and now, the whispers of a long-dead mother with a vengeful secret have come haunting.
Forced to flee all she has ever known, Rune soon learns of a legacy she is bound to--one that is drenched in fear, witchcraft and murder--a birthright that stretches beyond the grave to the trees where Rune is no longer safe.
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Author Jennifer
Murgia
Jennifer Murgia writes moody fiction for teens—from
paranormal fantasy (ANGEL STAR, LEMNISCATE, THE BLISS), to contemporary
gut-punchers (BETWEEN THESE LINES).
Her latest, FOREST OF WHISPERS, a 17th
century historical mystery (about witches!) was a School Library Journal Fall
2014 HOT TITLE, and a 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Literature Award Winner (Bronze
Medal for YA Horror/Mystery). The sequel, CASTLE OF SIGHS, releases October 27,
2015 from Spencer Hill Press. She is the co-founder and coordinator of YA FEST
and currently resides in Pennsylvania.
What is your creepiest memory?
Seeing the full apparition of a little boy in my laundry room. No lie.
What is your favorite thing to do during the Halloween season?
Decorate my house, and curl up in a blanket in front of the fire pit. And chocolate. Must eat chocolate!
Castle Of Sighs (Sequel to FOREST OF WHISPERS)
Digital Release Date: October 27, 2015
Young
Adult Fiction - Historical Fantasy
Publisher: Spencer
Hill Press
Some secrets cannot
be kept--in life or in death.
Months have passed since Rune has heard a single whisper from her long-dead mother, the great witch of Bavaria. But the absence of one evil has only made room for another. After rightfully inheriting her ancestral home, Pyrmont Castle, Rune settles into a quiet life taking care of two orphans left in the wake of the terrible witch hunt that claimed dozens of lives in the nearby village. As the days grow colder, the castle’s secrets beckon, and something darker seems to have been awakened, as well.
Rune finds herself roaming where no one has set foot in a long time. In the bowels of the fortress is a locked room full of memories that hang like cobwebs--shelves stacked with jars, strange specimens, putrid liquids, and scrolls of spells. Rune is undeniably drawn to what she finds there, and she begins to dabble in the possibilities of magic, hoping she will find a cure for the strangeness overwhelming the castle.
And the key may lie in the dark forest she once called home and the boy she thought she knew.
Months have passed since Rune has heard a single whisper from her long-dead mother, the great witch of Bavaria. But the absence of one evil has only made room for another. After rightfully inheriting her ancestral home, Pyrmont Castle, Rune settles into a quiet life taking care of two orphans left in the wake of the terrible witch hunt that claimed dozens of lives in the nearby village. As the days grow colder, the castle’s secrets beckon, and something darker seems to have been awakened, as well.
Rune finds herself roaming where no one has set foot in a long time. In the bowels of the fortress is a locked room full of memories that hang like cobwebs--shelves stacked with jars, strange specimens, putrid liquids, and scrolls of spells. Rune is undeniably drawn to what she finds there, and she begins to dabble in the possibilities of magic, hoping she will find a cure for the strangeness overwhelming the castle.
And the key may lie in the dark forest she once called home and the boy she thought she knew.
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ADVANCED PRAISE FOR CASTLE OF SIGHS:
"A
creepy, atmospheric ghost tale to be read with the lights on. Jennifer Murgia
has done it again!"
~ Cyn Balog, author of FAIRY TALE and SLEEPLESS.
A castle filled with the ghosts of
witches . . .
A Book of Secrets that holds the key to
a terrible past . . .
A being made of Magick . . .
In Castle of Sighs, the magnificent sequel to Forest of Whispers, author
Jennifer Murgia leads us through a spooky, tangled web of mystery, mayhem, and
magic both light and dark as we follow seventeenth century witch Rune in her
exploration of the ancient Castle Pyrmont, the ancestral home that has shaped
the extraordinary lives of the women in her family. Be prepared to sit up all night
looking over your shoulder and jumping at every sound while this book, like its
predecessor, casts its spell over you. Definitely a Must Read.
~
Molly Cochran, author of Legacy, Poison, and Seduction
Forest of Whispers (Forest of Whispers #1)
Raised by an old fortune-teller within the dark veil of the Bavarian Black Forest, Rune has learned two valuable lessons: only take from the forest that which you can use, and never, never look anyone in the eye in the village. For something terrible happened in the forest long ago... and now, the whispers of a long-dead mother with a vengeful secret have come haunting.
Forced to flee all she has ever known, Rune soon learns of a legacy she is bound to--one that is drenched in fear, witchcraft and murder--a birthright that stretches beyond the grave to the trees where Rune is no longer safe.
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