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Monday, June 3, 2013
Last Call-Tour-'The Island' by Jen Minkman
We are putting together a 7 day tour for The Island by Jen Minkman, YA Dystopian novella. The tour will run from June 9th-15th and will consist of reviews, author interviews, character interviews, character bios, top tens posts, book soundtrack, dream cast, guest post, excerpt/spotlight, and playlist posts.
By- Jen Minkman
Expected Publication Date-June 1, 2013
*Novella* (80 pages)
Genre- YA Dystopian
Blurb-
‘I walk toward the sea. The endless surface of the water extends to the horizon, whichever way I look.
Our world is small. We are on our own, and we only have ourselves to depend on. We rely on the Force deep within us, as taught to us by our forefathers.
If I were to walk westward from here, I would come across a barrier – the Wall.
Behind it, there are Fools. At least, that’s what everyone says.
I have never seen one.’
Leia lives on the Island, a world in which children leave their parents to take care of themselves when they are ten years old. Across this Island runs a wall that no one has ever crossed. The Fools living behind it are not amenable to reason – they believe in illusions. That’s what The Book says, the only thing left to the Eastern Islanders by their ancestors.
But when a strange man washes ashore and Leia meets a Fool face to face, her life will never be the same. Is what she and her friends believe about the Island really true?
Or is everyone in their world, in fact, a Fool?
Links-
Goodreads- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17825118-the-island
Book trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmOfSXPMN98
About the Author-
Jen Minkman (1978) was born in Holland, in the town of Alphen aan den Rijn. When she was 19, she moved between The Hague, Salzburg (Austria), Brussels (Belgium) and Cambridge (UK) to complete her studies in intercultural communication. She is currently a teacher of English, career counsellor and teenage coach at a secondary school in Voorburg, Holland. She tries to read at least 100 books a year (and write a few, too!). She is a published author in her own country, and translates her own books from Dutch into English for self-publication.
In her spare time, she plays the piano, the guitar and the violin. For every novel she writes, she creates a soundtrack. 'I have always been drawn to writing. My first book was a sci-fi novel at the age of eight, which I painstakingly typed out on my dad's typewriter and illustrated myself. Nowadays, I stick to poetry, paranormal romance, chicklit and/or fantasy. In my home country, I am the first-ever published writer of paranormal romance, and I will gradually make my books also available in English (seeing I have to re-write and translate the books myself, this will take some time!).
Links-
Goodreads- http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5808037.Jen_Minkman Website-http://www.nwelsaturay.com/jenminkman/index.html
Twitter- https://twitter.com/JenMinkman
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/JenMinkmanYAParanormal?fref=ts
The Island by Jen Minkman Blog Tour Schedule
Scandalous Book Blog- Excerpt/Spotlight, Character Bio, Book Soundtrack
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