Hey C.B., thanks for stopping by today.
Excited to be here and to tell you about my book.
Okay, then let's get to it. Why did you write the YA story?
Very good question. One, I asked myself a lot while writing the story.
Mainly, I believe because I want to go back in time. Setting in 1863, Ace is an orphan and has been tossed around from one place to another. The people, she's lived with, have not always been kind.
Yet, the story explores how the real world and the magical world both have simular problems. Both are struggling with unrest from their people. Both are searching for answers.
Here is the official blurb
Uprooted from a
small Texas town, Florence “Ace” Fox is stashed in a camp for orphans, Weirdness abounds with the director talking of wizards and
casting spells. He even claims she’s possessed, and that the entity is
sending her power levels off the charts.
Rebel Wizards learn of her strength and decide they can use
Ace to their benefit and greed to gain control of The World!! They plot against her.
In danger and on the
run, Ace and her friends’ travel through the old west looking for a way to rid
her of the entity. They discover that only the leaders of the wizarding world
can help, but will she like their solution?
Jail, death, or
powerless.
Great, so do we also get an excerpt.
“Do you realize you have a
powerful energy field?” Saw spoke as if she hadn’t said a word.
Ace blinked. Her adopted Indian
father had told her the same thing many times. A spiritual leader of his tribe,
he had a connection to the other worlds in the universe. Few people she’d met
outside the Native American community understood energy fields or auras. What
should she say? Was this a trick to make her admit she had some type of evil
powers? Then he’d feel justified in killing her.
“Yes, people have mentioned that
before.” She tucked her bag under her arm readying herself to spring into
action should he make any unexpected movement.
“You haven’t though been taught
to control your abilities and become a full wizard.” His sentence, more of a
statement of fact than a question, didn’t require an answer yet she couldn’t
let it go.
“I don’t know what you’re
talking about. There are no such things as wizards and magic. Those are things
for horror stories and fairy tales.” She voiced the opinion of every white
person she’d ever met, stifling the truth of what she’d seen during her time
with her adopted tribe.
Saw laughed.
The sound startled her and she
leaned back. Her shoulders hit the back of the chair. She stared at the man.
Without trying, she suddenly
noticed how energy pulsed around his body. A golden glow captured her immediate
attention. The fear she’d harbor against him melted. She drew in a cleansing
breath. The man had no desire to do her any harm. In fact he had only her best
interest at heart.
How did she know that?
She straightened, easing deeper
onto the chair. “You’re a shaman too, aren’t you?”
He grinned and raised an eyebrow
of inquiry. “Similar, but not the same. For now, though, why don’t you tell me
a little about yourself? Where did you pick up the entity residing within you?”
Ace shook her head, uncertain
what the man was talking about. She had no other entity dwelling within her
spirit. “I’m sorry. I don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.”
He nodded. His piercing gaze
nailed her, causing goose bumps to pop onto her skin. “All right, then tell me
about your family. I believe your father and mother were killed when you were
very young?”
The question revealed Mr. Harris
had given Saw a brief history of her life thus far. “Yes, and then I lived
with—” She paused not wanting to reveal the tribe she had belong to. They were
good people and deserved to be left alone. “—a tribe of Indians for a while
before I moved in with the minister and his wife.”
“That’s where Frank found you?”
“Yes.”
“And you had no desire to come
here?”
She eyed him cautiously. If he
she said yes, would he take offense? Again, the gold in his aura calmed her
fears. Her mind formed a connection to her father. Saw wanted to protect her
from others. Why? She didn’t have a clue. “I was happy there and saw no reason
to leave.”
“Maybe, but here you are going
to learn the power you truly possess.”
Ace frowned. Puzzling
bewilderment gnawed at her gut. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
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Nothing for you?
No, Ace is the wizard and star of the show.
Well, thanks so much for stopping by, best of luck with your book,
Tina
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