Blog Tour Kick-Off: The Sham by Ellen Allen!
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YA Bound Book Tours is organizing a Blog Tour for: The Shamby Ellen Allen. This tour will run from December 8th to December 12th. Check out the full blog tour schedule below:
The Sham
by Ellen Allen
Release Date: 09/07/14
238 pages
Summary from Goodreads:
When love leads to death, be
careful who you trust…
Eighteen-year-old Emily Heath would love to leave her dead-end town, known locally as "The Sham", with her boyfriend, Jack, but he's very, very sick; his body is failing and his brain is shutting down. He's also in hiding, under suspicion of murder. Six months' ago, strange signs were painted across town in a dialect no one has spoken for decades and one of Emily's classmates washed up in the local floods.
Emily has never trusted her instincts and now they're pulling her towards Jack, who the police think is a sham himself, someone else entirely. As the town wakes to discover new signs plastered across its walls, Emily must decide who and what she trusts, and fast: local vigilantes are hunting Jack; the floods, the police, and her parents are blocking her path; and the town doesn’t need another dead body.
WARNING: THIS BOOK IS UNSUITABLE FOR YOUNGER TEENAGE READERS. IT DEPICTS ADULT SITUATIONS, MURDER SCENES, CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SEX AND PROFANITY.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: The idea for this book came to me in a nightmare... It was so vivid that I imagined I was 17 again, at school, in the same group of 4 friends that I used to hang around with. We were involved in a murder and cover-up. I started writing partly as a way to get it out of my head and then the characters turned into real people... and Emily and Jack were born.
As some of the early reviewers have stated, it is quite extreme in chapter one, and necessarily so. This is the incident that sets up the whole book; something awful happens that sets off a train of events for the characters. This book is a mystery in two ways in that we're: 1) trying to find out who killed Emily's classmate; and 2) trying to work out who Jack is. I hope you enjoy it!
Eighteen-year-old Emily Heath would love to leave her dead-end town, known locally as "The Sham", with her boyfriend, Jack, but he's very, very sick; his body is failing and his brain is shutting down. He's also in hiding, under suspicion of murder. Six months' ago, strange signs were painted across town in a dialect no one has spoken for decades and one of Emily's classmates washed up in the local floods.
Emily has never trusted her instincts and now they're pulling her towards Jack, who the police think is a sham himself, someone else entirely. As the town wakes to discover new signs plastered across its walls, Emily must decide who and what she trusts, and fast: local vigilantes are hunting Jack; the floods, the police, and her parents are blocking her path; and the town doesn’t need another dead body.
WARNING: THIS BOOK IS UNSUITABLE FOR YOUNGER TEENAGE READERS. IT DEPICTS ADULT SITUATIONS, MURDER SCENES, CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SEX AND PROFANITY.
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: The idea for this book came to me in a nightmare... It was so vivid that I imagined I was 17 again, at school, in the same group of 4 friends that I used to hang around with. We were involved in a murder and cover-up. I started writing partly as a way to get it out of my head and then the characters turned into real people... and Emily and Jack were born.
As some of the early reviewers have stated, it is quite extreme in chapter one, and necessarily so. This is the incident that sets up the whole book; something awful happens that sets off a train of events for the characters. This book is a mystery in two ways in that we're: 1) trying to find out who killed Emily's classmate; and 2) trying to work out who Jack is. I hope you enjoy it!
About the Author
I’ve just finished writing my first book, so
I’ve been busy trying to work out how all the pieces fit together – the
planning, the plot, the rules, the imagination, the characters, the grammar,
the structure, the endgame… there’s too much stuff to remember and a lot of the
information that I’ve discovered online about how to write isn’t that good or
even well written (the irony in reading advice on writing that isn’t well
written…)
So I decided I needed to find somewhere to store the
good stuff. Then it occurred to me that other people might find it useful too.
So here it is. My online reference tool of all the useful (i.e. good) advice
for writers-to-be. I only post here when I have something really useful to say
about the craft (Twitter is for daily musings, Goodreads to review and Amazon to
buy my work); it’s all about the quality here, folks, not the quantity… Enjoy!
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Blog Tour Schedule:
December 8:
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December 9:
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December 10:
Donnie Darko Girl - Review
Words I Write Crazy - Review
December 11:
Lostbraincell's Bookish Blog - Excerpt
Beneath the Jacket Reviews - Review
December 12:
New Adult Addiction - Excerpt
the Blacksheep Project - Review
The Phantom Paragrapher - Review
A Thousand Words A Million books - Excerpt
The YA Lit Chick - Excerpt
A Thousand Words A Million books - Excerpt
The YA Lit Chick - Excerpt
Undercover Book Reviews - Spotlight
Reading Is Dreaming With Open Eyes - Excerpt
The Caffeinated Booknerd - http://thecaffeinatedbooknerd.blogspot.com/ - Review*
Reading Addict - http://readingadd.blogspot.ro/ - Review*
