Hey, lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Kimberley B. Jones and her new book, “Our Friendship Matters”! For other stops on her Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.
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Our Friendship Matters
by Kimberley B. Jones
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GENRE: Young Adult
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BLURB:
Leah and Sasha are 17-year-old friends who had been close to one another since elementary school, but as the summer approaches they find their friendship tested in ways they never anticipated.
Following graduation, Sasha’s privileged life and perception of the world around her is suddenly altered when an old childhood friend persuades her to join in a campaign against an injustice after his best friend is killed by a cop.
But joining the protest has unforeseen consequences for Sasha, distancing her from Leah, who becomes jealous of Sasha’s new friends and finds herself on the opposing side, protesting alongside her group of new white friends.
As the tension mounts between the two bitterly opposed factions, a tragedy strikes and threatens to make Sasha and Leah enemies. Can they find a way to resolve their differences, putting them to the side and learn to accept each other’s viewpoints? Or is their long friendship finished for good?
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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT:
Rashad was lying in the bed with a patch over one eye and dressed in a hospital gown. The kind that tied in the back and showed your butt unless you squeezed the gown with your hands from the back (which I, personally, think should be the front). I pitied him. You know that moment when you want to cry but you have to be strong for that person, just to not make them feel bad.
“You know, you are the only person who has been here to see me other than my mom sneaking me three meals a day. She said the hospital food isn’t nothing but plastic.”
I was shocked. “Wow, you haven’t talked to anyone, not even Ricardo?”
“Well, Victoria called, but only you came to see me. She said she was coming tomorrow.”
“I do know they were here the night it happened. Well, I’m glad you are moving around and talking. If you don’t mind me asking, do you know who did this to you or anything that happened that night?”
“No, but I think I have a clue.”
“What makes you say that?”
“Well, if you don’t already know, we haven’t been just protesting. We’ve been going at it with the white kids in Frontenac.”
“Yeah. One day, I overheard Victoria talking to Ricardo when we were leaving the mall, and that would explain the cops stopping me twice on the way to Ricardo’s. That’s when I backed off a little because I didn’t want to get in any trouble.”
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AUTHOR BIO:
Kimberley is a professional early childhood educator. She was born in the small town of Saint George, South Carolina, on September 12, 1982. Graduated from Woodland High School in 2000, Benedict College in 2004 with B.S., Child & Family Development, and from Ashford University in 2013 with a Masters in Early Childhood Education.
After receiving her education and being a military spouse, she held several jobs as a preschool teacher and a preschool director, but she wanted to her education to use by writing children’s books. She wrote her first book in college for her children’s literature course. She has self-published several children books on Amazon.
Currently, she is branching off into writing fiction YA, NA, and A novels on issues in society. She loves writing and would not change it for nothing in this world She is now published by Rhetoric Askew. Kimberley is the author of Our Friendship Matters.
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Website:
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Email:
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BookBub Author Page:
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Goodreads Author Page:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20448335.Kimberley_B_Jones
Goodreads Book Page #1:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54355969-our-friendship-matters
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54343364-our-friendship-matters
Amazon Author Page:
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BOOK BUY LINKS:
Amazon Kindle eBook:
Amazon Paperback:
Barnes and Noble Paperback:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-friendship-matters-kimberley-b-jones/1137553501
The Book Depository Paperback:
https://www.bookdepository.com/Our-Friendship-Matters-Kimberley-B-Jones/9781949398359
BAM! Books-A-Million Paperback:
https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Our-Friendship-Matters/Kimberley-B-Jones/9781949398359
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Kimberley will be awarding a signed copy of “Our Friendship Matters,” (US ONLY) to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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Kimberley ~ Good morning! Welcome back! It is so great to have you here again! Congrats on your new book and good luck on the book tour! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for having me Ally!
ReplyDeleteNew author for me, sounds good!
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