The Fantastic Flying Book Club

Tour Sign-Up: The Requiem Red by Brynn Chapman

/ Feb 12, 2016

Hello FFBC Team! We are now announcing a new tour we're hosting for The Requiem Red, released on April 5th 2016 by Month9Books.

The tour will run from April 11th - April 17th and there will be available the following types of posts:

Review (Limited spots)
Interview with the author (Only 2 Available)
Guest Posts (Only 2 Available)
Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
Dreamcast (Blogger's Choice)
Favorite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
Promotional Post

Remember that April 11th is reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick April 11th in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book via NetGalley, so make sure you have an account before signing up to this tour.

As always, there will be a tour giveaway provided by the author. Details to come soon!

IMPORTANT NOTE: Signing up for the tour does not guarantee you will be selected. We will reach out to all hosts that have been chosen once the sign-ups have closed and the tour schedule has been published.

The Requiem Red
by Brynn Chapman
Publisher: Month9Books
Release Date: April 5th 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy

Synopsis:

Patient Twenty-nine.

A monster roams the halls of Soothing Hills Asylum. Three girls dead. 29 is endowed with the curse…or gift of perception. She hears messages in music, sees lyrics in paintings. And the corn. A lifetime asylum resident, the orchestral corn music is the only constant in her life.

Mason, a new, kind orderly, sees 29 as a woman, not a lunatic. And as his belief in her grows, so does her self- confidence. That perhaps she might escape, might see the outside world.

But the monster has other plans. The missing girls share one common thread...each was twenty-nine's cell mate.

Will she be next?

Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, Brynn Chapman is the daughter of two teachers. Her writing reflects her passions: science, history and love—not necessarily in that order. In real life, the geek gene runs strong in her family, as does the Asperger’s syndrome. Her writing reflects her experience as a pediatric therapist and her interactions with society’s downtrodden. In fiction, she’s a strong believer in underdogs and happily-ever-afters. She also writes non-fiction and lectures on the subjects of autism and sensory integration and is a medical contributor to online journal The Age of Autism.

She also writes under the pseudonym R.R. Smythe.

Tour Sign-Up: The Yearbook by Carol Masciola

/ Feb 8, 2016

Hello FFBC Team! We are now announcing a new tour we're hosting for The Yearbook, released on October 2015 by Merit Press.

The tour will run from March 7th - March 13th and there will be available the following types of posts:

Review (Limited spots)
Interview with the author (Only 2 Available)
Guest Posts (Only 2 Available)
Playlist (Blogger's Choice)
Dreamcast (Blogger's Choice)
Favorite Quotes (Blogger's Choice)
Promotional Post

Remember that March 7th is reserved for the Welcome Post, so do not pick March 7th in the sign-up form.

Reviewers will receive a digital copy of the book.

As always, there will be a tour giveaway provided by the author. Details to come soon!

The Yearbook
by Carol Masciola
Publisher: Merit Press
Release Date: October 2015

Genre: Historical Fiction, Time Travel, Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary

Synopsis:

Misfit teen Lola Lundy has every right to her anger and her misery. She’s failing in school, living in a group home, and social workers keep watching her like hawks, waiting for her to show signs of the horrible mental illness that cost Lola’s mother her life. Then, one night, she falls asleep in a storage room in her high school library, where she’s seen an old yearbook—from the days when the place was an upscale academy for young scholars instead of a dump. When Lola wakes, it’s to a scene that is nothing short of impossible.

Lola quickly determines that she’s gone back to the past—eighty years in the past, to be exact. The Fall Frolic dance is going full blast in the gym, and there she makes an instant connection with the brainy and provocative Peter Hemmings, class of ’24. His face is familiar, because she’s seen his senior portrait in the yearbook. By night’s end, Lola thinks she sees hope for her disastrous present: She’ll make a new future for herself in the past. But is it real? Or has the major mental illness in Lola’s family background finally claimed her? Has she slipped through a crack in time, or into a romantic hallucination she created in her own mind, wishing on the ragged pages of a yearbook from a more graceful time long ago?

Carol Masciola got the idea for her novel The Yearbook (Merit Press, Nov. 2015), after inheriting a 1924 yearbook that had belonged to her grandmother. She is a former newspaper reporter and winner of the PEN/West Literary Award in journalism. Two of her screenplays, THE FIERY DEPTHS and THE UGLY STICK, are in development.

She is a graduate of Oberlin College.

Tour Schedule: A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes #1) by Brittany Cavallaro

/ Feb 6, 2016

A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes #1)
by Brittany Cavallaro
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Release Date: March 1st 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Contemporary, Retellings, Fiction, Romance, Thriller

Synopsis:

The last thing sixteen-year-old Jamie Watson–writer and great-great-grandson of the John Watson–wants is a rugby scholarship to Sherringford, a Connecticut prep school just an hour away from his estranged father. But that’s not the only complication: Sherringford is also home to Charlotte Holmes, the famous detective’s enigmatic, fiercely independent great-great-granddaughter, who’s inherited not just his genius but also his vices, volatile temperament, and expertly hidden vulnerability. Charlotte has been the object of his fascination for as long as he can remember–but from the moment they meet, there’s a tense energy between them, and they seem more destined to be rivals than anything else.

Then a Sherringford student dies under suspicious circumstances ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Holmes stories, and Jamie and Charlotte become the prime suspects. Convinced they’re being framed, they must race against the police to conduct their own investigation. As danger mounts, it becomes clear that nowhere is safe and the only people they can trust are each other.

Equal parts tender, thrilling, and hilarious, A Study in Charlotte is the first in a trilogy brimming with wit and edge-of-the-seat suspense.

Brittany Cavallaro is a poet, fiction writer, and old school Sherlockian. She is the author of the poetry collection Girl-King (University of Akron) and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She earned her BA in literature from Middlebury College and her MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, she's a PhD candidate in English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches creative writing, detective fiction, and lots of other things. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, cat, and collection of deerstalker caps. Find her at her website, brittanycavallaro.com, or on Twitter @skippingstones.