Blog Tour: FORWARD TO CAMELOT by Susan Sloate & Kevin Finn
FORWARD TO CAMELOT
Susan Sloate & KevinFinn
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GENRE: Time Travel Thriller
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BLURB:
RETURNTO A VANISHED WORLD, in this new edition of the beloved time-travel thriller:
Extensivelyresearched, filled with real but still unknown tales of history, FORWARD TOCAMELOT takes readers on a grand adventure, filled with danger, deceit andreal-life heroes.
October2000
Soap-operaactress Cady Cuyler knows she is not brave, adventurous or accomplished; that'sSheila, the glamorous EMT she plays on TV. But too many other people thinkshe's Sheila, which Cady doesn't understand: Recently divorced from her agent,Cady's life consists of playing Sheila and providing a safety net to her motherSandra, who has hardly noticed her since her birth; she's still lost in griefover the disappearance of her husband years before in Dallas. Cady's deepestwish is to somehow earn her mother's love and attention.
Whena profound tragedy alters her own life and her job abruptly ends, Cady isoffered the chance of a great adventure: She agrees to recover the Bible ownedby JFK, which was used to swear in LBJ as president, on November 22, 1963, thesame day her father, whom she idolized, disappeared forever. To do this, shemust travel back in time to the Dallas of 1963, a dangerous world filled withdangerous secrets, and meet the man with the most dangerous secret of all--heplans to assassinate President Kennedy during his upcoming visit to Dallas.
Forthe first time in her life, Cady, the armchair adventurer, can live anadventure more exciting than anything Sheila ever did. She might even changeher own destiny... if she dares.
Timecan be altered. Lives can be altered.
Historycan be altered...
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ExcerptTwo:
John gazed around the room. “I don’t believe history iswritten in stone. I think if you add or take away certain elements—well—you’dhave to be looking at a whole different outcome. Not the big events,” he saidhastily. “I don’t mean you could stop a war or anything, but if your fatherhadn’t disappeared, your mother would have been a lot happier, wouldn’t she? Imean, that’s why she—why things happened the way they did.” He seemed to behaving trouble presenting the idea, and it made me like him. “If you couldprevent your father’s disappearance, then your own life could be—” He gave me aquick glance, and I felt as though he knew every heartache I’d felt in the last20 years. It was exhilarating, it was extraordinary… it was frightening.
I thought of Mel telling me I could fly on my own.
I thought of the lack of opportunities that awaited meelsewhere.
I thought of this man who had dropped into my life, thefirst one in years who had aroused any feelings in me that could be calledpassionate.
I looked at him, and I could feel a warm, inviting smilestretching across my face. I had a direction. I had a plan. I had achance—which is all we can ever ask. “All right,” I said. “Where do I sign?”
John’s face lit with relief, and Mel, seeing that smile,began to sing “Fly Me to the Moon”.
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Review: Cady was an actress on a daytimedrama series. Unbeknownst to her, she had shot her last scene for the show,killing off her character for good. Now what?
The next project she’s offered wasthe role of a lifetime: a treasure hunter in search of John F. Kennedy’s biblefrom 1963. For real! What?! Like actual time-travel? Cool! But the real reasonshe whole-heartedly agreed to this was for the chance to stop her father frommysteriously disappearing in 1963—the day the president gets assassinated.Intrigue!
Right away, this had aninteresting premise. Some of the scientific stuff got a little too technicalfor me and some of the narrative can be way too long. But I do like a goodtime-travel story. Imagine travelling to 1963 and meeting your parents before youwere born. Cady really gets into the mystery that leads to her father’sdisappearance and the reader eagerly follows along. Surprisingly, the man Cadymeets in 1963 was not the father her mother boasted about. The man she was acold, domineering, promiscuous brute that hated the president. What was goingon? Could the missing woman from the company be connected to the dead woman?What was her father’s company hiding that caused their downfall?
A surprising twist was Cadymeeting and confiding with Lee Harvey Oswald, the man that would be responsiblefor the president’s assassination.
This story was generallycompelling, but it was a long and somewhat complex read. About halfway through,you become a little daunted by the lengthy narratives and trivialities, whichbrought this down to a 3.5 for me. When does she start looking for the bible?
I would’ve liked this to have beenshorter and quicker as this was much too long. Also, the cover was so simplethat it could’ve been spiffed up to be more eye-catching and alluring. But,overall, this story kept me reading from page-to-page for a good portion. Goodconcept and pretty good read!
Rating: 3.5 stars
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
SUSANSLOATE is the author or co-author of 24 published books, including 2 previouseditions of Forward to Camelot, the #2 Amazon bestseller and Hot New ReleaseStealing Fire and Realizing You (with Ron Doades), for which she invented a newgenre: the self-help novel. The original 2003 edition of Forward to Camelotwent to #6 on Amazon, was honored in 3 literary competitions and was optionedby a Hollywood company for film production.
Susanhas also written young-adult fiction and non-fiction, including the children’sbiography Ray Charles: Find Another Way, which won the silver medal in the 2007Children’s Moonbeam Awards. Mysteries Unwrapped: The Secrets of Alcatraz led toher 2009 appearance on the TV series MysteryQuest for The History Channel. Shehas also been a sportswriter and a screenwriter, edited the popular Kyle &Corey young-adult book series, managed two political campaigns and founded anauthor’s festival in her hometown outside Charleston, SC. Visit her athttps://susansloate.com.
ABronx native, KEVIN FINN began his professional writing career as a televisionnews- and sportswriter just six months out of high school, moving on to produce& report for daily news shows, features, documentaries and live sportsevents. Over the past thirty years, he's established himself as a screenwriterand has mentored young writers for the American Film Institute's Writer'sWorkshop Program, as well as being a noted freelance script consultant and anovelist.
Equallyadept as a cameraman and editor, he currently produces and films local mediacontent in the Princeton, NJ, area, while continuing to mentor new and youngerwriters, including the heralded web series The News Kids. His first Young Adultnovel, 200 METERS, will be published later in 2016, and the long-awaited novelBANNERS OVER BROOKLYN is scheduled for release early in 2017.
FollowKevin on Twitter @finnkv.
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