Hi
lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Alison Bruce and her new
book, “Ghost Writer”! For other stops on
her Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any
of the images in this post.
Be
sure to make it to the end of this post to enter to win an ebook copy of “Deadly
Season”!! Also, come back daily to
interact with Alison and to increase your chances of winning!
Thanks
for stopping by! Wishing you lots of
luck in this fabulous giveaway!
Ghost
Writer
by
Alison Bruce
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GENRE: Paranormal Suspense
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BLURB:
She
has to deal with two kinds of spooks: spies and ghosts.
But
which one is trying to kill her?
Jen
Kirby has seen ghosts since she was a teen, but she can’t talk to them or help
them cross over. And, after a violent death in the family, she doesn’t want to
see them anymore.
In
her role as ghostwriter, Jen joins a Canadian Arctic expedition to document and
help solve a forty-year-old mystery involving an American submarine station
lost during the Cold War. The trouble is, there are people—living and dead—who
don't want the story told, and they’ll do anything to stop her.
Now
Jen is haunted by ghosts she can’t avoid or handle alone. That means confiding
in the one man she doesn’t want to dismiss her as “crazy.” But can he help? Or
is he part of the problem?
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EXCERPT TWO:
That
night, I dreamed of the station again. This didn't surprise me. All my life,
whenever something big was looming on my horizon, I would dream about it the
night before. I rehearsed exams, job interviews, even giving birth although the
last one had little bearing on reality.
The
station dreams felt like my pre-birth dreams, filled with anticipatory anxiety.
There was a lot of blood in those dreams too.
I
had a repeat of the first dream, woke up, walked around a bit and went back to
sleep only to have it repeat again. When I saw which way the dream was going, I
decided I needed to wake up. Usually I can do this when I know I'm dreaming.
This time, it was like waking up and discovering that reality was scarier than
the dream.
Six
men sit around the table playing poker. They are drinking coffee, though as I
watched, one man pulls a flask out of his pocket and hands it around. A few are
smoking. Contrails of cigarette smoke drift towards the exhaust fans.
A
seventh man enters. The flask disappears and two of the smokers stubbed out
their butts. The game continues, but there's no laughter. Then comes the blood
and the screams. There is a murderer aboard the station. He has killed all the
others and is now coming for me.
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GUEST POST:
Who Inspired Your Love for Books?
I
grew up surrounded by books. I can remember climbing the built-in bookshelves
my father constructed when my parents turned the basement bedrooms into a
playroom. Those shelves were full to capacity with everything from the
collected works of George Bernard Shaw to pulp fiction spy thrillers.
One
of my early independent book reports was on Alex Hailey’s Airport, a book that
had caught my eye when climbing the shelves.
I was the kind of kid that would haunt the library for more adventures
of Freddy the Pig and then pick up And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.
I loved Alice in Wonderland and Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances in equal
measure. The day I discovered Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series in a London
bookstore, I was looking to fill in the gaps in my Paddington Bear books.
I
have always been able to get lost in books. I was off school a lot because of
ear infections. Although we were allowed to watch TV when we were home sick,
there wasn’t much to watch besides soap operas and game shows until after
school. Reading was my distraction. At age nine I had an ear operation that cut
down the infections but made me completely deaf in one ear. When it got too
hard to make out what people were saying, I’d tune them out and either read or
daydream. When the daydreams got too
complicated to keep straight, I started writing them out, first as a synopsis
with a few scenes, then as stories.
No
matter where I went, I had a book to read and a clipboard to write on. Things
haven’t changed much except my clipboard and books all fit on a tablet.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Alison Bruce writes history, mystery and
suspense. Her books combine clever
mysteries, well-researched backgrounds and a touch of romance. Her protagonists
are marked by their strength of character, sense of humor and the ability to
adapt (sooner or later) to new situations. Four of her novels have been
finalists for genre awards.
Copywriter,
editor and graphic designer since 1992, Alison has also been a comic book store
manager, small press publisher and web designer. Currently she is the Executive
Director of Crime Writers of Canada.
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CONNECT WITH ALISON:
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Blog:
Email:
abruce@alisonbruce.ca
Email:
writer@alisonbruce.ca
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Alison will be awarding an
ebook copy of Deadly Season to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during
the tour.
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Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteWow - I never thought of being partially deaf as lending itself to story creation. This was an interesting post, one I'll not forget. Lovely site, by the way. The colours sing.
ReplyDeleteBeing partly deaf can be awfully boring if you don't make stuff up. I should also add that long car drives are conducive to storytelling
DeleteI was afraid you were going to say the bookshelves toppled over with you halfway up...
ReplyDeleteNo.My dad built those shelves so solidly into the wall that the went with the house. It's like he knew we'd climb them.
DeleteI agree with Melodie, I never thought of that aspect of partial deafness contributing to thinking about stories all the time, but it makes sense. Writing comes from our inner worlds and yours is massively creative. Thanks for sharing that.
ReplyDeleteThank you for hosting me today! Looks great!
ReplyDeleteMake that AB FAB!!!
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