THE SUGARSPEAR CHRONICLES
By Nicole
Arlyn
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GENRE: Fantasy
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BLURB:
The Sugarspear Chronicles, the incredible twenty-six-novella saga that
started with a little girl and her willow tree, is finally available in one
complete collection.
The
Sugarspear Chronicles: The Complete Collection is the story of young Sadie
Sugarspear, a girl who endures intolerable abuse by reading about a fantasy
world filled with incredible sights and outlandish people—a place she’s only
ever encountered through her real father’s storybook.
One day,
when the cruelty becomes too much to bear, Sadie runs away and hides inside her
beloved willow tree. To her surprise, the tree opens, sending Sadie down into
the abyss, into a land she’s only ever read about—where she must being a long,
terrifying, and heartbreaking journey home.
Readers
can now enjoy the entirety of author Nicole Arlyn’s dark fantasy saga in one
complete book. This complete collection also includes a note from the author
detailing the inspiration and events that led to The Sugarspear Chronicles.
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Excerpt:
The wind was ripping through the dandelion fields.
The fence that stood alone shook but the blue flowers hanging off it stayed
still. A pale girl walked on the dirt road through the fog and mud puddles
towards the fence, her long brown hair slapping against her face, covering her
green eyes that seemed blue when she turned them to the sky. She pushed her thin
body through the wind, the black Rolling Stones t-shirt she wore as a dress
blowing into her stomach. When she stood in front of the fence, the flowers
finally swayed. Sprinkles of dew dying. Then she pulled them off, the crushed
flowers in her hands, falling to earth. The wind never took them.
She sat on top of the fence watching the sky for
rain. Instead she saw the faces that the clouds made morphing from evil to
angel in one blink of her eyes. She ran her hands along the old brown wood,
digging her fingertips hard in, crusted blood under her fingernails. She kicked
her legs against the fence half wanting to knock it over and half wanting to
fall with it, but it wouldn’t fall. She rubbed her thighs with the splinters
until they burned and then made a fist with her right hand and bit down on it.
She bit hard enough to stop her own tears. Only cry when the rain comes, she
thought. That way the rain would wash away her tears and no one would know. She
saw a caterpillar sitting beside her and picked it up.
“No one knows youʼre here but me,” she whispered.
She laid the caterpillar where she found it. She opened her hands and kept
waiting to catch the rain. She waited as the sky twisted around her, sealing
her in a mist she wished only the sky could see through.
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Nicole
is a writer and an actress born in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked in films
such as Clay Pigeons, opposite Joaquin Phoenix; The Wedding Planner; and
Brooklyn Bound, among many others. She has performed, written and directed
theater productions in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe. She has also read her
poems in many poetry lounges in Europe and America, and is a song lyricist for
musicians.
After
living in Rome, Italy, for the past several years, Nicole has returned to New
York City where she lives with her husband and son. She is at work on more
novels.
my
authors page on Full Fathom Fives website:
(all
buy links on on here)
http://fullfathomfive.com/writers/nicole-arlyn/
my
authors page on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/NicoleArlynAuthor/?fref=ts
twitter:
https://twitter.com/NicoleArlyn
The
Sugarpsear Chronicles webpage:
http://www.thesugarspearchronicles.com/
me
on goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7315359.Nicole_Arlyn
Nicolearlynwrites
on wordpress (building this up into a website)
https://nicolearlynwrites.wordpress.com/
Thank you for your lovely blog about my books! I love the library too! So happy to know you!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the excerpt. Thank you for sharing.
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