Lies I Live By
by Lauren
Sabel
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GENRE: YA Thriller
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BLURB:
These are the facts: My name is Callie Sinclair. I am seventeen years
old. I live in San Francisco. I love my boyfriend, Charlie. I work for a secret
governmental agency. I am a psychic spy. This
romantic, action-packed twist on the classic spy novel is perfect for fans of
Ally Carter’s Embassy Row series or for any reader who enjoys cinematic writing
and stories of romance and intrigue.
At seventeen, Callie is the government’s youngest
psychic spy, trained to track dangerous people and weapons in her visions. When
another young—and handsome and witty—psychic joins the agency, Callie’s
personal and professional lives get messy all at once. If she can’t find a way to
change the events she’s seen in her visions, she could lose the people she
loves most . . . and her mind. Literally.
Richly painted against the backdrop of San
Francisco and Berkeley, Lauren Sabel’s enthralling novel captures the thrill of
exploring a unique power in a dangerous world.
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EXCERPT:
These are the basic facts about me:
I am 17.
I live in San Francisco.
I work for a secret governmental agency.
I spend many hours a day out of my mind.
I am a psychic spy.
A Word From The Author:
3 Ways that Love is Important to Writing
Writing is all about loving your main characters – their
quirks, their painful and beautiful life histories, their broken moments; and
it is also about hating your main characters for their flaws or for the
terrible actions they have committed – but it can’t be about apathy. If love or
hate isn’t involved when you are interacting with your main characters, it
creates a flatness to these people that doesn’t exist in real life. In the real world, everything we do and say
is flush with emotion, which is ideally how fictional characters should be as
well.
Writing is also about loving the act of twisting and turning
words to create the scene you want or the emotion you want a reader to feel.
Since every book goes through multiple drafts, a writer not only has to be able
to imagine each scene, but to want to
craft that scene into being over and over, manipulating language differently
each time to create the precise feeling you’re looking for in the reader.
For me, writing is a way to love my life. It allows me to feel difficult emotions and
face painful situations on the page, often before I ever have to deal with them
in real life. When these situations or emotions come, I am better prepared to
deal with them because I have worked through them with a fictional character.
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Lauren
Sabel lives in the quirky dark spaces of her mind, and she tries to shed light
on these spaces in her books. After publishing VIVIAN DIVINE IS DEAD in Summer
2014 with Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harper Collins, she confronted
her lifelong fear of being psychic by writing LIES I LIVE BY (pub May 2016).
Since in this YA thriller, teenage psychic spy Callie Sinclair works undercover
for the government, forced to hide her real identity from everyone she loves,
Lauren is now certain she’s on the CIA watch list.
Social
Networks:
Website:
www.laurensabel.com AND http://liesiliveby.com/
Blog:
http://laurensabel.tumblr.com
Twitter:
laurensabel
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/author.laurensabel/?ref=hl AND
https://www.facebook.com/LIES-I-LIVE-BY-1060641787289541/?skip_nax_wizard=true
Instagram:
laurensabel AND liesiliveby
Book
Purchase Links:
LIES
I LIVE BY:
Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062231987/ref=cm_sw_su_dp
Nook:
http://bit.ly/liesiliveby
http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062231987
VIVIAN
DIVINE IS DEAD:
http://www.amazon.com/Vivian-Divine-Dead-Lauren-Sabel/dp/0062231952
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/vivian-divine-is-dead-lauren-sabel/1117005007
Lauren will be awarding
$50 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the
tour. Use the link below to enter.
