Hello lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Camille
A. Collins and her new book, “The Exene Chronicles”! For other stops on her Goddess Fish
Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in
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Be sure to make it to the end
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and to increase your chances of winning!
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by! Wishing you lots of luck in this
fabulous giveaway!
The Exene Chronicles
by Camille A. Collins
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GENRE: Vintage Young Adult / Multi-Culture
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BLURB:
Camille
A. Collins's lyrical debut novel speaks to the passionate engagement of
adolescent girls—with music, with injustice, with love, with life. This is a
courageous coming-of-age story, one that poet Nikki Giovanni recommends
"sharing with our teenage sons and daughters."
Collins's
1980s southern California set novel is a literary debut that tackles social
inequality with poetic riffs and heart-pounding angst.
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EXCERPT TWO:
Cobblestones,
crisscrossed by scarlet rills…
Away
from the clean, wide streets of Coronado, downtown San Diego, with its vagrant
hotels, Salvation Army treasures, and errant trash tumbling along the gutters,
provided Ryan and Lia some undefined relief. The grit egged on their teething
pathos, their emerging view of life through some inverted prism, where on the
one hand, they believed that in some far-off distance they would attain a sort
of middle-class contentment, but for the present, nothing besides a
noncommittal flirtation with the dark, baneful, and untoward, procured in the
pedestrian way of most fourteen-year- olds (through books, music, and
imaginative musings), could create for them a sense of satisfaction.
In
order to feed their insatiable quest for all things bleak on a diet more
substantial than what Danielle Steel had to offer, the girls’ eighth grade
English teacher introduced them to Baudelaire. Whether or not they had really
understood The Fountain of Blood was hard to say.
“Romeo
and Juliet isn’t so melodramatic,” Ryan murmured reflectively.
“I
mean, who wouldn’t die for love? I would…if it came to that.”
“You’re
nuts.”
“It’s
just…I think that Prince song is right: the party’s over in the year 2000. Do
you realize we’ll be, like, thirty years old, if we even live to see 2000?”
“Wait.
What’s that got to do with anything?” Lia frowned.
“I
dunno, it’s just … I’d rather die young for love instead of living without it,
not knowing what might happen. Have you ever seen those warships down at the
end of Palm Avenue? I hate them.”
Lia
paused to consider Ryan’s words.
“You’re
right. I never thought about it that way … but you’re absolutely right. I guess
I’d prefer it that way too.”
Apparently,
what Mrs. Buchanan had offered as a cautionary tale had suffered gross
misinterpretation.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Camille A. Collins has
an MFA in Creative Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She
has been the recipient of the Short Fiction Prize from the South Carolina Arts
Commission, and her writing has appeared in The African-American National
Biography, published by Harvard University and Oxford University Press; in The
Twisted Vine, a literary journal of Western New Mexico University, and other
places.
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Camille will be awarding a lovely pen and
notebook to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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