Find out where and how the idea for The Fairytale Keeper series came from at YA Book Blog, Beneath the Moon and Stars.
Category Archives: Snow White
Upcoming Signings
Mr. K’s Bookstore in Greenville, SC on Saturday June 2nd 11-2
Fiction Addiction in Greenville, SC on Friday, June 8th 4-6
The Bookstore in Laurens, SC on Thursday June 7th 3-5
Copperfield Review and a Give-away
Click here to find out what Copperfield Review writer, Kimberly Sonner thought about The Fairytale Keeper: Avenging the Queen and when you’re done head over to YA Book Blog, The Girl Reads and score five free books including a free advanced readers copy of The Fairytale Keeper: Avenging the Queen.
Sneak Peek at The Fairytale Keeper
Can’t wait to read it? Want another little taste? Check out Claire Reads Young Adult Book Blog today for the latest excerpt from The Fairytale Keeper: Avenging the Queen.
Which Disney Princess Were You?
I’d love to know which Disney Princess you are! Belle, Cinderella, Aurora, Snow White, Jasmine?? Since my book is based on the Snow White tale, most might think I was a Snow White. Nope. To find out which Disney Princess I was dubbed and how that affected me when writing The Fairytale Keeper: Avenging the Queen, check out my post on Christy’s wonderful YA blog, Captivated Reading
Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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What Are Your Reading?
What are you reading this week? Naiche Lizzette Parker, creator of the amazing YA book blog, The Book Girl Reads, is reading, drum roll please, you guessed it: The Fairytale Keeper: Avenging the Queen.
I’m reading Phillpa Gregory’s The Queen’s Fool. Oh, how I love Phillipa Gregory! I’m finally done with my last round of revisions and very happy to be reading for fun again.
Win a Free Book!
Want your very own autographed copy of The Fairytale Keeper: Avenging the Queen? Enter the Magical Giveaway on The Anfractuous Bookaholic Young Adult Book Blog and you just may walk away with a free copy.
Reviews and Interviews
Well, the ball is really rolling on this project! Many blogs are going to be hosting an event called Fairytale Fortnight, in which they review upcoming fairy tale retellings. The Fairytale Keeper: Avenging the Queen is to be featured on quite a few of those. In the next three weeks, I expect to see between five and ten more reviews and I’ll post links to those as soon as I get them. My author interview with Alice at Alice in Readerland was recently posted and a review by Vicky Culbertson, Sanders Middle School’s Media Specialist, was posted to my page on Amazon.
A Crazy Month
March has been a whirlwind for The Fairytale Keeper! I received my first copy of the book a few weeks ago and since then have sent off a dozen or so copies to reviewers. I started a Facebook fan page two weeks ago and already have 450 fans. The first chapter was posted about a week ago and the reviews have been very positive so far. In fact, I was the featured author on The Secret Writer on March 22, 2012.
I’ve been talking to wholesalers, distributors, and the like to make sure my readers can order my book from independent bookstores, major book sellers (Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Borders), and online retailers (Amazon, Createspace, Apple). And I’m happy to say that on June 1, anyone who wants a copy should be able to get one pretty easily! Here’s hoping that April is just as productive a month as March!
Mommy Approves
So my mom finished reading my manuscript yesterday. I’m floating on cloud 9 right now because it seems she couldn’t put it down. When I gave it to her on Tuesday, she told me to give her a while to finish it (which I assumed to mean a few weeks). She finished it in two days!!!
I’m sure some of you authors out there can relate to this: Having an unpublished novel is like having read an amazing book and having no one to discuss it with. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t talk about it anyways, but this one-sided conversations usually ended in someone changing the subject with good reason, I suppose. A huge thanks to my mom for giving my book a general thumbs up, giving me some well-needed feedback, and giving me someone to talk to about my baby.
THE WRITER-LY WORLD OF ANDREA CEFALO 