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Sorrowfish - Book Tour and Giveaway

7/23/2020

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Sorrowfish
The Call of the Lorica Book 1
by Anne C. Miles
Genre: Fantasy 

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Two Worlds. One Fate.
A bard. A wizard...and a college student from Kentucky.

Sara Moore is having crazy dreams. Gryphon and dragon crazy.
The scary part? Waking up, with scratches and splinters. Is she losing it because of stress? Her twin sister is in a coma. One more unfinished sculpture will fully tank her grades. Goodbye bachelor's degree, hello failure.

It's enough to make anyone sleepwalk.

Choosing to defy the Conclave, Trystan risks capture and mind control to find a magical lute through a shadow network. Dane meets a sinister stranger and barely escapes with his life. Together, guided by a fae only known as Sara, they will end an ancient curse…or die trying.
INDIES TODAY BEST FANTASY BOOK 2019

"A richly conceived fantasy with a grand emotional payoff." -Kirkus Reviews




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Anne C. Miles, an award-winning author, was born in Chicago Heights, Illinois in 1971. She successfully avoided writing fiction for years by blogging and extensive journaling. However, one day, she logged into a writing site and scribbled. She kept going, and now cannot stop. Her book, Sorrowfish, was named Best Fantasy of 2019 by Indies Today. A chapter within the second book (not yet published) won an honorable mention from the Writers of the Future contest in 2020.
Anne designs and builds websites with her husband and enjoys video games. She was confirmed in the Anglican Church (ACNA, High Anglican) in 2016. When Anne isn't working or writing, she plays violin badly and spoils her grandchildren.
She is hard at work on the next book of her series, The Call of the Lorica.



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Can you, for those who don't know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?
I started writing fiction for fun for the Writer’s of the Future contest. I joined Wattpad in 2017 and got involved with a book club called #NBR. The club was extremely involving and very helpful to me, giving me feedback on chapters. I wrote every weekend until I finished the entire story. I loved writing and I couldn’t stop.
I’m a graphic designer and web developer, and one of my clients was an editor. She helped me edit the book and plan the next three. I created my cover and launched the book. That’s how I became an author.

What is something unique/quirky about you?
I have a genuine bat phobia. I can’t even look at photos of bats, I start crying and shaking. There’s no reason for it, but yeah. Phobias are no fun.

Tell us something really interesting that's happened to you!
I played an augmented reality game on my mobile phone called Ingress. It’s a capture the flag game, the precursor to Pokemon Go. The game never stops. The game was run by Google, before Alphabet spun it off. I organized and worked with 85 countries to take over the world for the Resistance in an operation called Unight16. The biggest thing was working with the Saudi team and coordinating their movements with the Israelis because both teams could have been punished for what they were doing. The Saudi team actually had gone to jail for the game. It was tense. After that, I visited Google Venice and met the engineers who worked on the game. That was fairly exciting for me.

What inspired you to write this book?
I got the title first. When my daughter and I were dealing with some relationship issues, I was really angry with her and was praying about it. I thought, “She’s just selfish.”
Immediately, I heard an answer in my heart. No. She’s sorrowfish.
I had the image in my mind of a little girl in pain, crying out for help. Of course my attitude changed toward her. I kept the idea of selfish/sorrowfish and used it a few years later when I started writing.
I wanted very much to explore the idea that the artist’s journey and hero’s journey are the same. I also had an idea about God, that he uses our inner music, our ear worms, to speak to us. Mix all of that together and you get Sorrowfish.

What can we expect from you in the future?
I have at least three more novels yet to write in this series, The Call of the Lorica. I have an idea for a book about gamers, similar to Ready Player One. I’m also ghost writing a memoir right now.

Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in Sorrowfish?
There’s a bard, a wizard and a college student from Kentucky. The bard is named Trystan and he’s actually a prince from a northern country called Pelegor. He’s studying at the Bindery, trying to earn a master’s ring. Bards are not simply musicians, they’re also politicians and confessors and story tellers. They shape opinion. He’s a younger son, but can have some influence and a good life as a Bindery Master.
The wizard is in hiding and his name is Dane. Wizards in my fantasy world are called dewin. Magic is called the Song. Five hundred years ago, there was a war and the Song was broken. The dewin went violently mad. Now they are captured and their minds are wiped out if they are found. But Dane is a dewin luthier and he is preserving magic, preserving the Song, by creating special instruments which connect to and play the true Song, the Song as it was before the war.
Trystan finds out about the instruments Dane is making and orders one. Chaos ensues.
Sara is our hero and she is from Louisville, Kentucky. She visits Canard when she dreams and is eventually drawn in.
There are gryphons and dwarves and gnomes as well.

Who designed your book covers?
I did. I’ve been a graphic designer for 19 years. I wasn’t about to let anyone else do my cover. I designed the cover and my book’s website, sorrowfish.com

What are your top 10 favorite books/authors?
The Lord of the Rings(Tolkien), The Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis), The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan) and The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper, I also love A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle and The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay. I think that’s more than ten books. Oops.

How long have you been writing?
My whole life. I have always kept a journal and I’ve written a lot during my professional life. I just hadn’t done fiction. When I started writing fiction it was like someone turned on a hose.

Do you see writing as a career?
I see it as a calling. I am physically incapable of stopping.

Pen or type writer or computer?
Computer, but by hand if I don’t have my laptop where i can get to it.

What is your writing process?
I try to get on paper everything I know about the story. That’s my first draft. My outline for this series is actually a poem and I don’t know what everything means yet. Then I figure out the where the blanks are and ask myself questions and fill them in. Most of the time I fill them in by discovery writing.



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65 Comments
Bernie Wallace
7/23/2020 05:32:30 am

How long did it take you to write your book?

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Anne link
7/23/2020 08:25:15 am

It took me three years to write and edit it, once I started writing. I got he ideas for the world in 1998. So it took a while for me to start writing. But three years once I did.

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Michele Soyer
7/23/2020 06:26:11 am

Beautiful cover.. so very pretty...

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Anne C. Miles link
7/23/2020 08:26:26 am

Thanks!

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James Robert
7/23/2020 08:17:57 am

Congratulations on your new release and thanks for sharing your great book.

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Anne C Miles link
7/23/2020 08:27:46 am

Well it's coming up on a year old next month. Lol. So not new-nea launch. But thx.

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Anne
7/23/2020 08:29:32 am

Not new-new. Bleah spelling. Lol

Rita Wray
7/23/2020 08:37:50 am

Sounds like a good book.

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Anne
7/23/2020 01:56:44 pm

thank you very much!

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Wendy Jensen
7/23/2020 09:08:34 am

Great book cover.

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Anne
7/23/2020 02:50:35 pm

tyvm :-)

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Beyond Comps
7/23/2020 09:09:16 am

Great cover!

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Anne
7/23/2020 01:57:25 pm

Thanks!

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wendy hutton
7/23/2020 01:44:43 pm

very beautiful cover

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Anne
7/23/2020 01:50:34 pm

thx!

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Victoria Alexander
7/23/2020 02:34:39 pm

Great cover!

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Anne
7/23/2020 04:21:32 pm

Thanks Victoria.

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Sherry
7/23/2020 05:57:12 pm

Sounds like a good book.

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Debbie P
7/23/2020 06:12:23 pm

Nice cover! This sounds like a very good read.

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Calvin
7/23/2020 06:36:57 pm

Good music element! :)

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LYNN CLAYTON
7/23/2020 07:57:55 pm

oh nice cover looks like a great read

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Kelly D
7/23/2020 10:36:23 pm

I like the cover. It looks like a great book.

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Karin
7/24/2020 08:14:05 am

Great cover art

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shannon zeidan
7/24/2020 12:17:16 pm

This sounds like an amazing read!

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Susan Smith
7/24/2020 06:10:32 pm

Sounds great, I like the cover.

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avm
7/24/2020 08:24:54 pm

i like it

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Lisa
7/25/2020 12:50:39 pm

Love the cover.

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Stephanie Liske
7/25/2020 01:02:13 pm

I like the cover.

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Ann Fantom
7/25/2020 01:25:57 pm

I like the cover. It has very nice artwork

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molli taylor
7/25/2020 01:30:16 pm

looks like a great read!

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Shay
7/25/2020 01:39:08 pm

Nice

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Thomas Gibson
7/25/2020 02:29:46 pm

The cover is excellent!

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Victoria Scott
7/25/2020 03:13:15 pm

Nice cover! Thank you for sharing!

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Sandy Klocinski
7/25/2020 03:50:26 pm

Awesome cover! This sounds like a great read.

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Terri Quick
7/25/2020 07:48:31 pm

Cool cover

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Ginger Hafer
7/26/2020 04:46:06 am

Interesting cover. Like the artwork. Sounds like a good read.

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Julie Lundstrom
7/26/2020 07:06:35 pm

I like the cover of this book.

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Heather Mahley
7/26/2020 07:49:45 pm

Really nice cover

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Jennylyn Gross
7/26/2020 09:04:46 pm

cool cover

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Renata
7/27/2020 02:49:35 am

Nice cover

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Francine Anchondo
7/27/2020 02:14:58 pm

I love this cover

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beth shepherd
7/27/2020 09:28:00 pm

This looks great!

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Dorothy Boucher
7/29/2020 01:24:31 pm

I love the cover and Loving the title of this book.
@tisonlyme143

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Marcy Meyer
7/29/2020 05:00:42 pm

Unique cover. Looks great.

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Diana Hardt
7/31/2020 06:20:57 am

Nice cover. I liked the blurb. It sounds like a really interesting book. Thank you for sharing.

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Julie Murphy
7/31/2020 08:12:59 am

The cover looks good.

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Kayla Harmon
8/2/2020 07:47:03 pm

amazing cover

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Christopher Krug
8/4/2020 11:34:04 am

Love the Cover and The Way Words are Viewed..Reminds me of Daughter's Game Skyrim!

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Darlene Owen
8/4/2020 05:33:40 pm

I love stories about twins, this sounds like a great book.

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Ben Stone
8/4/2020 07:06:44 pm

I love the book cover. Very striking.

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joy f
8/6/2020 11:47:25 pm

Sounds good.

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Lisa Ellison
8/8/2020 01:09:03 pm

I like the cover and the book sound very interesting!

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Mya Murphy
8/9/2020 01:57:51 pm

I don't read much fantasy, but this sounds super interesting!!

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Lily Kwan
8/13/2020 10:36:36 pm

I think the cover looks nice.

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Daniel M
8/20/2020 07:47:10 pm

like the cover

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Karen A.
8/21/2020 01:24:05 pm

This sounds like a very interesting book

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latisha depoortere
8/21/2020 06:51:57 pm

This sounds like a great book!

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Amber Y
8/21/2020 07:15:44 pm

The cover looks like it was very well thought out! I like that it pulls in elements from the excerpt and description. I feel like you know exactly what you're getting into with enough mystery to be intriguing and to pull you in. I also really like that the book excerpt quotes are overlaid on top of the image!

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Bella Martinez
8/21/2020 10:52:41 pm

I think it sounds very intriguing.

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Jen R
8/21/2020 11:53:55 pm

The book cover is very eye catching with the black, white, and neon green.

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Carrie Conley
8/22/2020 11:30:44 am

I love the cover

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booklover_8
8/22/2020 06:02:21 pm

Nice cover.
This sounds like an interesting book

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Jeanette Jackson
8/23/2020 07:30:38 pm

The story sounds interesting and the cover is lovely

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Laurie Nykaza
8/23/2020 11:06:17 pm

Love to cover great sounding book I now want to read.

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Jerry Marquardt
8/23/2020 11:14:16 pm

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

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