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Finding Perdita - Book Tour and Giveaway

5/2/2019

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Finding Perdita
by April Grey
Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy 

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Fairy Tales can come true, it can happen to you...Run!
Down on her luck and out-of-work, actress Cindy White's life changes for the worse when her roommate kicks her out. Landing in new digs in an old Chelsea tenement Cindy discovers a tunnel to the land of Perdita, a place she'd thought her father had made up in the fairy tales he'd once told her. 
A dangerous, ruined place of fairies, demons and captives, like her father who she thought was dead.
In this dark fantasy, a young woman discovers her true self and must align it with the old in leaving the world she knows behind in an effort to free her father.



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She stripped out of her wet clothes and ran a bath. In the note Sadie said to use up whatever was in the apartment. So be it. One of the old style cabinets revealed a collection of booze and there was soda in the fridge. With a medicinal rum and coke in hand, Cindy eased into the steaming tub.
A furious thumping on the front door roused her from her peace. Knocking? More like the men in blue had decided on an unannounced raid.  "Hold your horses." Cindy, wrapped in a towel, headed through the kitchen to find out who was making such a noise.
"Sadie, hurry up I got news," came a bass voice from the other side of the door.
"She's not here. What do you want?"
Silence for a long minute.
"Who in blazing hell are you?"
Well, with that attitude Mister Voice could stay where he was in the hallway.
"I’m the sub-lessee. Now go away. You can ask the Weird Sisters what’s going on."
"You let me in this moment. You’re in danger and you’ve got to get out."
"Nice try, buster. I’m not buying it." She heard footsteps leaving.
It was getting dark out, yet the kitchen clock said it was only 4:10 in the afternoon. After getting dressed in a semi-dry tee and shorts, Cindy searched through Sadie's store of snack foods. The nacho-flavored Doritos looked good.
Bag in hand, she froze when she heard a key in the lock. Too late, she ran to put the chain on the door. He was in. Oh my, he was a big one. He looked like an escapee from the World Wrestling Federation. She took a frying pan from the stovetop and held it over her head with the bag of Doritos clutched to her breast.
"What are you planning to do? Poison me?" He nodded at the Doritos. He was taller than Josh's six feet one. He had about 20 pounds on Josh, all in muscle. His black tee displayed rippled biceps. His reddish-gold hair, mustache and sideburns made him look like a cross between a Confederate Rebel and a 70’s rock musician. She held the frying pan higher. He slid past her. "I don’t know what you’re planning, but I like my eggs over easy." A comedian.
"Get out." Cindy waved the pan.
"We need to talk. I don’t know what Sadie told you, but this place isn’t safe and she shouldn’t have involved you."
Cindy stayed near the open door still holding her weapon.
"Go ahead, talk." Cindy lay the bag of Doritos on the kitchen counter only to have them snatched up by the stranger. He ripped them open. With a wink he held half the nachos from the bag in his bear-like paw. In the living room he plopped down, taking up the entire couch.
"How much did Sadie tell you?" he said with a mouthful of neon orange-colored crunchy corn triangles.
 "Thor, she doesn’t know anything." Cindy whipped around to see her neighbor, Leo, standing in the hallway.
"Tor? Like a granite outcropping?" Cindy asked.
"No, Thor like the god." The intruder smirked. “The “h” is silent―It’s the Scandinavian pronunciation, unlike the Marvel movies.”

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April Grey's short stories are collected in The Fairy Cake Bakeshop and in I'll Love You Forever. She is also the author of two urban fantasy novels: Chasing the Trickster and it's sequel, St. Nick's Favor.

She edited the anthologies: Hell's Bells: Wicked Tunes, Mad Musicians and Cursed Instruments; Hell's Garden: Mad, Bad and Ghostly Gardeners, Hell's Grannies: Kickass Tales of the Crone and last year's, Hell's Kitties and Other Beastly Beasts.

She and her family live in Hell's Kitchen, NYC in a building next to a bedeviled garden. Gremlins, sprites or pixies, something mischievous, lurks therein. Someday she'll find out. Please visit www.aprilgrey.blogspot for her latest news.



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​Last year was the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The following might add some further appreciation to this accomplishment of the first Science Fiction novel.


14 Things To Know about Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the author of Frankenstein.


• Born in 1797, Mary Shelley was the daughter of two famous radicals, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, a feminist, and William Godwin, known for his proto-anarchist political beliefs.
• Due to the lack of germ theory, doctors did not wash their hands before seeing patients. Mary Shelley’s mother died of childbirth fever, probably due to this lack of sanitation. Perhaps leaving Mary with the guilt that she caused her mother’s death by being born.
• Her father remarried resulting in Mary having two step siblings and a half-brother.
• Mary was sixteen when she began her affair with Percy Bysshe Shelley--who was married at the time and whose wife was pregnant.
• Mary had her first child with Shelley out of wedlock when she was 17, and that child, born premature, died after only a few weeks of life.
• Prior to writing Frankenstein, Mary wrote in her journal that she dreamt of her dead infant returning to life.
• She was only able to marry Shelley after his wife committed suicide. Mary was 18 at the time.
• She began her novel Frankenstein at the age of 18.
• By the time Mary was 25, she was a widow and had witnessed the death of 3 children plus nearly died of a miscarriage. Her son, Percy Florence Shelley, was her only child to reach adulthood.
• The first printing of Frankenstein (1818) was anonymous, and thought to be written by her husband.
• The popularity of Frankenstein may be due to the numerous staged and film adaptions of the book, over one hundred plays, in the past two hundred years.
• In the first adaption to stage (1823), Frankenstein’s creation was presented as a mute, hulking monster. In the book, his speech is quite elegant. Also the character of the bumbling assistant was a creation of the playwright.
• Though the plays kept her novel in demand, she never saw any money from the productions due to early copyright laws.
• Her writing of Frankenstein could be seen as an inditement of men not taking responsibility over their creations, such as children; or about the horror of creation itself due to the death of Mary’s children and the death of her mother due to Mary’s own birth.


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43 Comments
Janet W.
5/2/2019 06:40:55 am

I really like this unique cover! Sounds like a great read!

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April Grey link
5/2/2019 07:12:28 am

Thanks so much! I love the cover as well--kudos to https://www.facebook.com/dawne.dominique for her wonderful design.

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Rita Wray
5/2/2019 11:01:26 am

Sounds like a good book.

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April Grey link
5/2/2019 04:40:54 pm

I think it is, but I'm partial.

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Calvin
5/2/2019 11:35:57 am

I like those glowing bokeh type balls on the cover

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Kelly D
5/2/2019 12:46:07 pm

I like the book cover. . it looks really neat.

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Debbie P
5/2/2019 01:29:46 pm

This book sounds like a fantastic read. Awesome cover!

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April Grey link
5/2/2019 04:41:50 pm

I hope that you read, and I'd love to hear what you think.

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wendy hutton
5/2/2019 02:54:56 pm

wonderful cover, really grabs my attention, thanks

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Victoria
5/2/2019 05:45:19 pm

I love the cover, thanks for sharing :)

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Mary Cloud
5/3/2019 07:26:02 pm

I like the cover. It's interesting. No questions.

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Myra Ball
5/3/2019 09:34:45 pm

This fantasy book sounds like something I would read. A tunnel to another world. Wow. That cover is all kinds of unique and pretty.

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April Grey link
5/4/2019 11:25:20 am

I'd love to hear your thoughts after you do read it. Thanks!

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Terri Quick
5/3/2019 09:35:16 pm

Thanks for this giveaway

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April Grey link
5/3/2019 11:15:52 pm

It's been a real pleasure participating here.

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bn100
5/4/2019 03:24:19 am

interesting book

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Denise Higgins
5/4/2019 04:56:44 am

Love the cover

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Beyond Comps
5/4/2019 05:37:08 am

Great looking cover!

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lynn clayton
5/4/2019 12:05:45 pm

nice cover looks like a great read thank you

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Kelly Nicholson
5/4/2019 02:05:46 pm

What do you think of the book or the cover?

not sure i would wanna find her

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April Grey link
5/4/2019 07:02:45 pm

Thank you all for the wonderful comments.

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Angela Saver
5/4/2019 09:32:16 pm

I enjoyed the excerpt and the cover looks awesome!

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April Grey link
5/5/2019 04:02:24 pm

Thank you all for the comments. There is a lot of humor, sex and drama --even Shakespeare--in the book. I hope you all get a chance to read it.

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Mood Reader
5/7/2019 12:15:01 am

Love that cover!! :)

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heather
5/9/2019 03:43:49 pm

I love the cover of this one and it sounds like one that will keep me interested.

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Ann Fantom
5/10/2019 01:40:25 pm

I like the cover. It has has great graphics

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April Grey link
5/10/2019 04:56:02 pm

Thanks so much for all your kind comments!

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Jennifer D
5/12/2019 07:49:12 pm

Love the cover! I like how it’s so detailed. I feel like I see something new every time I look at it

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Kathy Cozzarelli
5/12/2019 10:02:49 pm

The cover is cool and creepy.

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Nikki
5/12/2019 11:43:35 pm

I love the colors!!

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April Grey link
5/15/2019 10:05:29 am

Thank you all for the kind comments. I love the cover, too. It really reflects the content of the book.

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Lisa Ellison
5/17/2019 03:58:51 pm

I like the cover and the book looks interesting!

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Celeste HERRIN
5/20/2019 06:18:58 pm

Great job on the cover!
Can't wait to read this one!!

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Daniella bonagura
5/24/2019 11:50:32 am

Love the cover.

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thomas juarez
5/30/2019 05:53:40 pm

love the face peeking through the cover!

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Daniel M
5/30/2019 07:31:50 pm

like the cover

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nicky
5/31/2019 10:14:49 am

The cover is unique and mysterious!

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Emmaline
6/2/2019 07:15:56 am

What a beautifully striking cover. I almost didn't notice the other characters underneath.

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April Grey link
6/2/2019 08:10:45 am

Thank you one and all for your wonderful comments!

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Corey Hutton
6/2/2019 11:01:06 pm

Good luck with the book and Thanks for the giveaway.

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Jerry Marquardt
6/2/2019 11:31:19 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Finding Perdita, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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April Grey link
6/4/2019 09:03:33 pm

I have another two novels coming out. One is a Regency Gothic and the other a ghost story!

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Jerry Marquardt
6/19/2019 07:47:23 pm

Regency Gothic is going to make summer special. Thanks for holding the book blitz.




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