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New Waking Beauty Trailer – meet my hero with a rescuer complex

I love Arpien, Sleeping Beauty’s prince. He’s an idealist. He’s handsome. And he’s a dork. If he were a puppy I’d adopt him.

 

May Special! Fairy Tale Workshop FREE for limited time for libraries and schools

I love talking to people about fairy tales! I offer a 90-minute workshop for writers and fairy tale fans.

There is a special promotional rate for groups who book before May 31 (the actual event can take place later). Schools and libraries will be FREE for a limited time.

Putting a New Spin on Sleeping Beauty
Fairy Tale Workshop

Are you addicted to fairy tales, but want to tell them your way?

I did it, and I’ll show you how you can, too.

In this workshop for ages 12-adult, author Sarah E. Morin invites you to:

Uncover proof that people have been tweaking and twisting folktales for generations.
Chat about your favorite modern retellings (Narnia, Cinder, Disney, Into the Woods, Harry Potter, and your favorites).
Enter her world of unruly fairy tales and poems, including Goldilock-picker and her new novel, Waking Beauty.
Spin a fairy tale as only YOU can. Come with your favorite fairy tale in mind. Pencil and paper will be provided, or bring a laptop for writing.

For more information, download the detailed fairy tale workshop description or contact sarahemorin1836@gmail.com.

What are people saying about the New Spin workshop?

It was a great program! Everybody loved it! I loved all the history on fairy tales and the teaching on how to twist a tale. Your enthusiastic manner and getting into character with your dress was excellent! Your presentation was very animated and funny. I found the worksheet you handed out most interesting. Broken down like you had it really helped me with the ideas of where to take my story. The drop spindle analogy was perfect! The candy kisses were a great touch.

-Debbie Fox, Librarian, Elwood Public Library

Fun time, great writer.

-Judy, writer and attendee

You were great! Sarah, thanks for meeting with all of us. We all had a great time!

-Ben, writer and attendee

Sarah E. Morin serves as kidwrangler at an interactive history park. Her 100 youth volunteers are her best consultants in the fields of humor, teenage angst, and spinning wheels (which, they assure her, are not hazardous to anyone but Sleeping Beauty). She is actively involved in the local writing community, including Noble Poets. Her first novel, Waking Beauty, earned her a spot as finalist in the American Christian Fiction Writers Genesis Contest. She studied fairy tales extensively at Butler University, but when she grows up she wants to be a child prodigy.

Book Blitz! Free ebook by Sharon Hinck

Sharon Hinck’s book, The Restorer, is free right now as an ebook! Hurry, Hurry!

A Soccer Mom in Our World. A Promised Deliverer in Another. Susan Mitchell thought she was an ordinary homemaker. She was wrong. Pulled through a portal into another world, she finds a desperate nation waiting for a promised Restorer. While she struggles to adapt to a foreign culture, she tackles an enemy that is poisoning the minds of the people, uncovers a corrupt ruling Council, and embraces a profound spiritual journey. Will this adventure demand her life? Can she find a way back to her family? She has always longed to do something important for God, but can she fill this role?

What do you want from an Author Event?

So the question of the day is:

What do you want from an author event?

While I think every author wants to foist her books on the willing (or unwilling) public, what’s in it for YOU? I am looking for ideas as I go on tour these next few months: freebies, activities, etc. I have already figured out, to butcher Field of Dreams, “If you feed them, they will come.”

But most people don’t know me from Eve, and time is valuable, so tell me, what would make you go see an author? Do you have memorable experiences with author visits in the past?

Please comment below, and check out my events and workshop page.

Here’s what mischief I’m up to tomorrow:

I’ll be back at Nickel Plate Arts in Noblesville, IN as part of an Author Showcase. The opening reception is this Friday, May 1 from 6-9 pm. The Indiana Artisan exhibit opens in the Judge Stone House Gallery and Nickel Plate Arts is also a part of Noblesville Main Street’s Upstairs Downtown Tour. The Belfry Theatre will be performing snippets from Nunsense at 7 and 8 pm. Bill Kenley, author of “High School Runner (Freshman)” will read from his debut young adult, coming-of-age novel.

Admission is free; cash bar with local beer and wine available for sale.

I will take part in a short segment of the public readings. I also will be around all evening to chat, sell/sign my novel Waking Beauty, and hand out Hershey Kisses. Come for the chocolate, if not for me.:)

The author displays will be up at Nickel Plate the entire month of May.

Cover Contest – I’m in the finals!

Hey, everybody! Thanks in part to your support, KirkDouPonce’s cover for Waking Beauty won the weekly cover contest! It has now moved forward to the finalists competition. If you are interested in voting, I’d appreciate it.

Creme dé la Cover Contest:

Come vote for your favorite among the best in the business!!

Each week of the month, we will post 4 of the best covers sent for review.  Vote for your favorite – voting closes each week on Monday at midnight (PST).  Each week’s winner will receive 1/4 page free ad in Ind’Tale magazine.  That’s not all, the last week of each month, the weekly winners will vie for the title of Creme de la Cover and the grand prize of a free full page ad in InD’Tale magazine!!  So… take a minute to peruse this weeks contestents, then place your vote!

http://www.indtale.com/polls/creme-de-la-cover-contest

Insert Hip Hop Medieval Music here

Tomorrow is FACEBOOK PARTY DAY! *insert hip hop medieval music here* Y’all dancin’ yet? Morgan Busse and I will be celebrating the release of our books together, and we invite you to party with us. I’m thrilled by the number of you who have already signed up. Feel free to invite your friends by sharing this link—it’s open invitation. There will be guests authors like Jill Williamson, Gillian Bronte Adams, and my Genesis buddy, Sara Ella. There will be giveaways! I will provide party food—the best kind because virtual food is guilt-free. And I’ve heard from one of my characters that she’s planning to crash the party…

Click the banner to see our event on Facebook.

Enclave Spring Releases

We’re just a few days away from Enclave’s Spring releases on April 21! Lovers of spec fic and Christian fiction, check them out! You can also reach the Amazon.com page by clicking on any book cover.

Through the breaking ice, in a vortex of brilliant light, energy, and sound, Jeremy plunges into a dangerous and mysterious new world. It is a world where music is absolutely prohibited – on pain of death. And Jeremy breaks that law when he arrives in Persus Am in a swirling cloud of light and music. A stranger in a strange land, he does not know why he has been sent. But it soon becomes clear that he must risk everything to help his new friends in the weary and war–torn world. From the vast Gray Desert to the jeweled palace of Perusus Am, the forbidding Rock of Calad to the fabled land of Caladria, Jeremy finds himself in the midst of horrifying evil and heroic good–ness. As he searches for an answer to why he is here, he must face the truth that is written on his own heart.

 

The great city of Thyra has fallen and shadows spread across the land. Rowen Mar, the last Truthsayer, is taken before the Shadonae. But the Shadonae are not who she thought they were, and now they want to claim her as their own. Caleb Tala, former assassin and prince, is now a Guardian of mankind. Exiled from his country, Caleb wanders the desert in search of his mother’s past and clues to who he is. These are the last days of the Eldaran race. Rowen and Caleb must find their way along the dark path set before them by their ancestors: to heal what was wounded and love where hatred grows. But the road is narrow and the darkness beckons. If either of them fails, all will be lost… And the human race will be no more. Book three of the Follower of the Word series.

 

Forced to forsake her royal heritage, Lady Firebird now faces new and powerful enemies. Firebird is pregnant with twins when her new husband, Brennen Caldwell, is left as the only heir to ancient messianic prophecies. Meanwhile, on another world, Firebird’s sister defects to the enemy camp and is made a prisoner. Brennen’s superiors ask him to try to rescue her, and Phoena’s desperate husband travels light–years trying to enlist Brennen’s aid. But Brennen is not tempted to comply … until a divine dream sends him exactly where he does not want to go. Book two in the classic “Firebird” series.

 

The rescue wasn’t going at all how he planned. Prince Arpien intends to gain a throne and the sleeping beauty’s heart with a single kiss that wakes her from the evil fairy’s curse. But kissing the princess is only the beginning of a series of unforeseen obstacles: man-eating bugs, deadly spindles, talking lapdogs, and fiery pickles. The sleeping beauty is the biggest complication of all. Princess Brierly is Beautiful and fairy-Gifted, but also…daft. After one hundred years of sleep imprisonment, Brierly refuses to believe this rescue is anything more than a tantalizing but doomed dream. Arpien is drawn to the vibrancy beneath Brierly’s indifferent exterior. Can they reclaim her kingdom? Do they dare trust in the Prince of the old tales to help them battle the evil fairy who cursed Brierly? What is the price of waking beauty?

Waking Beauty – All About Brierly

Meet my main character, the snarky, dreamy Brierly. This ain’t the Sleeping Beauty you know…

Book cover contest

Hey, kids! The cover for Waking Beauty is in an online indie publishing contest! It’s pretty neck and neck. Wanna vote? I am so appreciative to the artist, Kirk DouPonce, for just nailing the symbolism in my story with his work. Would love to support him!

http://indtale.com/polls/creme-de-la-cover-contest…

Book Launch: In-Person and with Fairies!

Waking Beauty Book Launch (In Partnership with Fairyville Trail)
April 24, Friday, 6-9pm
Nickel Plate Arts Campus

107 S. 8th Street Noblesville, IN 46060

(317) 452-3690

To clarify, this is my IN-PERSON book launch, as opposed to my online Facebook party with Morgan Busse. Both events will be very different and lots of fun.

I am partnering with Nickel Plate Arts for my in-person book launch. Nickel Plate hosts several days of a creative and whimsical event called Fairyville Trail. Community members make miniature houses for fairies, typically out of natural materials. They are incredibly creative. The houses are spread through Forest Park in Noblesville.

There are several events associated with Fairyville Trail, as you will see on their website. I am part of the kickoff event on Friday night, at the main Nickel Plate Arts campus.

I will be selling and signing my new novel, Waking Beauty. Preview it now!

Also expect readings, crafts, fairy godparent training, fairy houses, flute music, food, art, and fairy reenactors from the Fishers Ren Faire. There will be something for all ages.

How I am involved:

For teens-adults:

Because the emphasis of the evening is on fairies, I will be highlighting the fairies I have written about both in Waking Beauty and in my poetry. Because, hey, there are some MAJOR fairies in Sleeping Beauty. I’ll be featuring the villain of my novel, the evil fairy Voracity (she cursed Brierly to prick her finger on a spindle), as well as Brierly’s youngest fairy godmother, the feisty Gowsma. The Tooth Fairy may even show up, if she doesn’t go on strike.

For young kids:

Find out if you have what it takes to be a fairy godparent, earn your wand, make your wings, pick your fairy name. If you graduate fairy training, you will be able to present your Christening Gift to “baby Sleeping Beauty” in a simple, fun skit.

No tickets required. Food and activities free, plus some giveaways, but there is a charge if you choose to purchase Waking Beauty or wine. Drop in anytime between 6-9pm. The award ceremony for the houses starts at 8:30p, so most of my readings will wrap up at that time, though I will still be there to cheer on the fairy house winners.

Registration is not required, but I have created a Facebook event page for your convenience.