FANNY FITZPATRICK AND THE SIRENS
FANNY FITZPATRICK AND THE SIRENS
Dana Hammer
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GENRE: MiddleGrade Fiction
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BLURB:
It’s the end of the school year. For most kids, it’s time to relax and get ready for summer. For Fanny, there’s work. She has a brand-new baby brother, and she’s been hired by Zeus to look after his “injured” son. And she still has her and her friends’ cheesemaking business! Fanny is overwhelmed.
But then she meets three sirens who want Fanny to join them on Feather Island for a summer of singing, instrument playing, and fun at the beach. The program is totally free and could start an amazing musical career-the thing that Fanny has always wanted the most.
Athena and Gemma are dead set against it. Athena says that the sirens are bad news; that their whole purpose in life is to lure men to their deaths with their beautiful singing. Gemma says that Feather Island is part of a network of unmappable islands, the type of place where criminals and sketchy organizations hoard their wealth and do their crimes.
Surely, the sirens don’t do that anymore, right? All that stuff was a long time ago. If the sirens want to keep their island paradise a secret, well, that’s not so weird, is it? Fanny has talked to them, and she just knows that they aren’t as evil as everyone says. They are perfectly nice ladies.
Right?
Follow Fanny Fitzpatrick as she navigates big sisterhood, friends who disapprove of her life choices, burning ambitions, and a bunch of sirens luring her away to their private island.
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EXCERPT
The thing with funerals is, you have to be sad. Or at least, you have to act sad, because it’s ghoulish and weird to be happy at a funeral, even if you really, really didn’t like the person who died. But when someone dies, you can’t say you didn’t like them. You have to pretend that whoever died was a nice person, who you will miss very much.
That’s the situation I’m in today. I’m at a funeral for my cousin, Ava May. And it IS sad that she’s dead. OBVIOUSLY. My aunt and uncle are devastated, and my mom has been crying all morning, and even my dad got a little teary, and I don’t think he liked Ava May either, but of course he can never say that, because she’s dead.
The thing with Ava May is, she was never nice to me. Ever. She was always saying terrible things about my family because we don’t have as much money as hers. My aunt is an oceanographer and a college professor, and my uncle is an investment banker, and together I think they make a lot more money than us, but that doesn’t mean my family is trash or whatever. My family is fine. But Ava May was always like, “Oh my god, who doesn’t have a pool in this day and age? Don’t you get hot in the summer?” And “I can’t believe you’ve never been to France. You’re so provincial.”
But now Ava May is dead, and I can’t be mad at her anymore, because A) it would be petty and B) it wouldn’t do any good.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Dana Hammer is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. She has won over forty awards and honors for her writing, few of which generated income, all of which were deeply appreciated. She is not a cannibal, but she is the author of A Cannibals Guide to Fasting. Dana is also the author of middle grade fantasy My Best Friend Athena which was inspired by a desire to write something her 9 year old daughter could read.
Website: https://www.danahammer.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danahammerwriterofthings
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fanny-Fitzpatrick-Sirens-Dana-Hammer/dp/1962308243/ref=sr_1_1
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Q & A With …
Tell us about you as a person.
I am chronically stressed. I love bears, and will probably die trying to give a bear hug. I don’t believe in Bigfoot, but I hope so badly that I’m wrong. I love cheese. I think Jurassic Park is a really great idea that suffered from poor leadership and bad execution.
If you could hang out with one famous person for one day, who would it be and why?
Jeff Goldblum. He seems like a genuinely wonderful human being, and I’d like to hang out with him while he’s Jeff Goldblumming around.
What’s the story behind your latest book?
Fanny Fitzpatrick and the Sirens is the third book in the Fanny Fitzpatrick series. In it, Fanny is recruited by sirens — she is invited to attend a summer camp on the mysterious Feather Island, where she will learn the secrets of becoming a real live siren. Her friends tell her not to go, because sirens are dangerous and they kill people with their beautiful singing voices. But Fanny really wants to be a professional singer, and besides, all those murders were a long time ago…right?
What advice do you have for other writers who want to get the word out about their latest book?
Do virtual tours and guest blogs like this one! Post about it on your socials. If you have the budget, do advertisements. Try to get your friends and family to talk about it. Donate books.
List 5 things on your bucket list.
1) Attend as many hot spring resorts as possible.
2) Make sure my daughter becomes a healthy, well-adjusted adult.
3) Hot air balloon festival in Switzerland.
4) Find a gluten free croissant that tastes good.
5) Hug bears.
Any final thoughts?
I really hope you read and enjoy my book! If you do, please leave a review!
