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Kindle Nation's Kids Corner is featuring "The Sound & The Echoes" this week.

Hope you'll visit, check out the book excerpt and read the reviews.

And for more reader reviews, illustrations and giveaways visit the Echo realm in person!

Many thanks!

Book Giveaway Update

This will be the last book giveaway for my book launch. Please enter on the book's website.

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Dew

Weekly Character Unveiling: Wolfeá

"Past the overlapping snowy trees and sapphire fountains, Will saw the far-off alabaster wall of the round fortress with a snowy forest curling at its feet like a giant snow heap.

Something leapt away from the snow heap, an animal camouflaged so well in the wintry landscape that Will only spotted it because it wasn’t see-through, like vanilla ice-cream set against pineapple sherbet.

Soon the animal drew near enough for Will to recognize its shape. It was an arctic wolf, and in a moment of wonderful forgetfulness Will thought that he was seeing Deá the wolf running back to him, alive and well."

~~From "The Sound & The Echoes", a high fantasy for middle grade and young adult readers.

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WHERE TO BUY: "The Sound and The Echoes"
Kindle edition: http://amzn.to/OUVCjj
Amazon Paperback: http://amzn.to/Poqx3i
Barnes & Noble Paperback: http://bit.ly/NcKkFt
Nook edition coming 10/15/2012

Random Quote of the Day: Poudini

Every child at the Orphanage of Castaway Children has a pet. The hero, Will, has Wolfeá, his arctic wolf. Valerie has her albatross, which she rides like a flying horse. And Will's best friend, Peter, has a funny dog (inspired by my own rescue dog, Dorian).

Here's Poudini's introduction in "The Sound and the Echoes"

"Amazingly, the boy blew his frosty breath into the shape of a magician’s hat, before he bowed gallantly in his glistening white uniform and introduced himself.

'Peter Patrick Peterson. Tongue twister by name, magician by fame. And this gorgeous dog—' the boy pointed at the brindled mutt barking in the icy cage '—is Poudini. Houdini with a P. Named after the greatest magician ever. And after me, P for Peter Patrick Peterson. Get it?'

Will smiled, not to be rude, but in his mind a thousand worries were jostling.

~From, "The Sound and The Echoes", a high fantasy for middle grade and young adult readers.~

E-book $2.99 on Amazon
Paperback $18.78 on Amazon
Paperback $18.78 on Barnes & Noble
Nook ePub edition coming 10/15/2012

BOOK BLOG BOOK REVIEW

A Fortunerific thanks to Joana for posting her review of "The Sound and the Echoes" on her stunning book blog, Book Wormz.

Here's a snippet of the review:

"In the world of Echoes everything is strange, especially its rules. Fortune determines everything and everyone. One rule stirs an elaborate plot of murder of all who rule the throne. If a Sound dies, then his Echo should too.

This book is quite imaginative and even though it was written for a younger audience, I thoroughly enjoyed it."

Read the rest of Joana's book review on Book Wormz.

E-book $2.99 on Amazon
Paperback $18.78 on Amazon
Paperback $18.78 on Barnes & Noble
Nook ePub edition coming 10/15/2012

New Reader Review

Though only halfway through the book, Wendy Bloink wrote such a wonderful synopsis of the story on Goodreads that I had to share it.

"I am only 1/2 way through it right now but I am really enjoying it.
The story is about a boy named Will Cleary who has been looking for his lost twin sister for 10 years. He discovers this book shaped like a tombstone which is complied of people who have gone missing over several years, Himself and his sister's names are in the book.

Will soon discovers that is sister is trapped in an icy realm where all Echo's live. Echos are reflections of every living thing on earth.
Will is Determined to rescue his sister from the Echo realm.with the Help of his life long Echo friends named Dea and Damion.

The Sound and The Echoes is a great Adventure story that will keep you wanting to read more..."

Read the rest of Wendy's review on Goodreads.

Weekly Character Unveiling: Abednego

One of the most mysterious characters in "The Sound and the Echoes" is the Headmaster at the Orphanage of Castaway Children, whose true identity is only revealed at the end of the novel.

DELMAR ABEDNEGO

"Up ahead an old man in a shimmering ivory robe beckoned to Will and Valerie. His white, knee-length beard and hair fluttered in the frosty breeze like a wispy cloud. He wasn’t quite see-through or solid, and Will couldn’t decide if he was an Echo or a Sound, only that he was the oldest man he had ever seen."

And a little later...

“Did you see that?” Will breathed at Peter.
Peter was too busy laughing. “See what?”
“There it is again. Look— The crystal ball on Abednego’s cane.”
“What about it?”
“There’s… an eye inside it.”

From, "The Sound and The Echoes", a high fantasy for middle grade and young adult readers.

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E-book $2.99 on Amazon
Paperback $18.78 on Amazon
Paperback $18.78 on Barnes & Noble
Nook ePub edition coming 10/15/2012