Guest Post by Saundra Mitchell, Author of Springsweet

Today I have the very great pleasure of introducing you to Saundra Mitchell, author of the historical magical novel THE SPRINGSWEET. She's such a sweet author and a whizz at marketing--if you're not already following her blog and reading her books, get on that! Check out her post below for a chance to win both of her historical novels and a copy of A MILLION SUNS!




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"Do you know what
I've missed since coming here? Books. I do miss reading novels, don't
you?"

-Zora, The Springsweet







Pretty much every writer started out as a reader; now that
we're writers, we can't help but write about people who love books. Sometimes IN
the books. It's meta upon meta, but it makes perfect sense to us.




To celebrate books, Saundra Mitchell's blog tour is all
about sharing two great things that go great together: books + free.  And in this case, whiplash- one minute,
you're enjoying a strange, dark future in A MILLION SUNS, the next, you're
whipped back to magic on the prairie in 1891.




Get your whiplash for free. Enter to win a copy of  A MILLION SUNS, and a signed set of Saundra's
THE VESPERTINE and THE SPRINGSWEET. All you have to do is comment in this
entry, and leave an e-mail address where we can contact you. (US & Canadian
residents only, please.)




And tell us about your favorite book, too. Growing a TBR
pile is the best gardening there is!










THE SPRINGSWEET

A Companion to The Vespertine

by Saundra Mitchell

Hardcover & E-book

From Harcourt




“A lovely
historical romance takes readers back to the 1890 Oklahoma territory. (T)he
author conjures a convincing picture of life on the Oklahoma prairie, painting
an absorbing portrait of the landscape and of the people there. A high-quality,
absorbing drama.”




– Kirkus
Reviews, 02/01/12














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It’s a long way from
Baltimore to Oklahoma Territory. But Zora Stewart will go any distance to put
the tragic events of her sixteenth summer behind her. So this city girl heads
to the tiny frontier town of West Glory to help her young widowed aunt keep her
homestead going.




When another Baltimorean shows up in West Glory, Zora
couldn’t be more surprised. Theo de la Croix made the long trip out west hoping
to court Zora, whom he has long admired from afar.

But Zora has developed an attraction to a rather less
respectable fellow: Emerson Birch, a rough-mannered young “sooner” whose
fertile land is coveted.




As Zora begins to suspect that there may be more than luck
behind Emerson’s good land, she discovers an extraordinary, astonishing power
of her own: the ability to sense water under the parched earth. When her aunt
hires her out as a “springsweet” to advise other settlers where to dig their
wells, Zora feels the burden of holding the key to something so essential to
survival in this unforgiving land.




Even more, she finds herself longing for love the way the
prairie thirsts for water. Maybe, in the wildness of the territories, Zora can
finally move beyond simply surviving and start living.







THE SPRINGSWEET

is available at Indiebound | Amazon |
Barnes
& Noble















Saundra Mitchell has
been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture-deliverer and a layout
waxer. She's dodged trains, endured basic training, and hitchhiked from Montana
to California. She teaches herself languages, raises children, and makes paper
for fun. She's the author of Shadowed
Summer, The Vespertine, The Springsweet, and the forthcoming The Elementals and Mistwalker. She's also the editor of the forthcoming YA anthology Defy the Dark. She always picks truth;
dares are too easy.