Book Info-
Title- Stealing Fire
By-Susan Sloate
Expected Publication Date- late August 2013
Blurb-
“How do you recognize your soulmate?
In glittery 1980’s Los Angeles, Beau Kellogg is a brilliant
Broadway lyricist now writing advertising jingles and yearning for one more hit
to compensate for his miserable marriage and disappointing life.
Amanda Harary, a young singer out of synch with her
contemporaries, works at a small New York hotel, while she dreams of singing on
Broadway.
When they meet late at night over the hotel switchboard,
what begins will bring them each unexpected success, untold joy, and piercing
heartache ... until they learn that some connections, however improbable, are
meant to last forever.
STEALING FIRE is, at its heart, a story for romantics
everywhere, who believe in the transformative power of love.”
STEALING FIRE was a 2012 quarter-finalist in the amazon
Breakthrough Novel Award Contest.
Links-
Amazon Kindle- http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fire-ebook/dp/B00DQUKI0I/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-3&qid=1379800493
Amazon Paperback- http://www.amazon.com/Stealing-Fire-Susan-Sloate/dp/1935970127/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1379800493&sr=8-3
Smashwords- http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/332272
B&N paperback- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stealing-fire-susan-sloate/1116263708?ean=9781935970125
A Short history/bio on each of the main characters:
AMANDA HARARY is my heroine. She’s 25 (this is 1982) but
she’s not your typical twenty-something, not at all. She was raised with her
mother’s thwarted dreams of singing on Broadway, and she’s carrying on her
mother’s dreams. She loves old show music and really yearns for the kind of
courtship and romance that existed years before - or at least, that her mother
told her existed. She’s the assistant manager at a small New York hotel--that’s
her day job, while she’s working on her singing career--and she’s very
efficient and even-tempered on the job. Among her co-workers is a girl named
Cherry, who’s about Amanda’s age, but they’re as different as night and day:
Cherry is clearly a child of the ‘80s, while Amanda is a girl out of the ‘50’s.
She’s the kind of young woman you can depend on--she’s honest, very
hard-working and responsible, and terrific with the hotel guests. So it’s no
surprise that she attracts Beau, who is high-strung, sensitive and has had a
mostly unhappy life.
BEAU KELLOGG is my hero. He’s spent many years as a
brilliant lyricist and librettist in the musical theater. (A librettist is the
person who writes the story and script for a musical show.) So Beau is not just
a poet who sets words to music, he also understands building story and characters
and how to fit songs and story together to build an integrated whole. Beau has
been in the theater since his 20’s, during the Golden Age of musicals, but he
intended to retire years before, when it became clear his kind of musical was
dying out. Unfortunately, his investments were lost in a stock-market crash, so
he had to go back to work--and now he’s writing advertising jingles for L.A. ad
agencies. He’s been successful at it, though he hates it, and when the story
opens he’s being asked to meet with an agency in New York. A lyricist friend of
his, also a Broadway show writer, got sick and dropped out of a big job, and
recommended Beau for it. So Beau is coming to New York for meetings about a job
he doesn’t want but knows he has to take, because the money is too good to turn
down. His marriage is unhappy but inexorable; he can’t bear the thought of
walking out on his wife, though his life with her is miserable. He’s a romantic
as well, though it’s been many years since he’s allowed himself to think about
that side of his life. He doesn’t know it, but he’s been waiting all his life
to meet someone like Amanda.
About the Author-
Susan Sloate is the author or co-author of more than 20
books, including Realizing You(with Ronald Doades), a recent self-help novel,
and the 2003 #6 Amazon bestseller, Forward to Camelot (with Kevin Finn), which
took honors in 3 literary competitions and was optioned by a Hollywood company
for film production.
She has written young-adult fiction and non-fiction,
including the children’s biography Ray Charles: Find Another Way!, which was
honored in the 2007 Children’s Moonbeam Book Awards. Mysteries Unwrapped: The
Secrets of Alcatraz led to her 2009 appearance on the TV series MysteryQuest on
The History Channel. Amelia Earhart: Challenging the Skies is a perennial
young-adult Amazon bestseller. She has also been a sportswriter and
screenwriter, managed two recent political campaigns, and founded an author’s
festival in her hometown outside Charleston, SC.
Stealing Fire was a Quarter-Finalist in the 2012 Amazon
Breakthrough Novel Award contest and combines autobiographical experience with
her lifelong love of the musical theater. She is proud to be distantly related
to Broadway legend Fred Ebb, the lyricist for Cabaret,Chicago, All That Jazz
and New York, New York.
Visit Susan online at http://susansloate.com.
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Thanks for hosting me today - it's great to be here!
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DeleteSTEALING FIRE is a wonderful read. The romance of Amanda and Beau is a love story for the ages. A real page turner and tear jerkier. This book is really hard to put down. Don't miss this one.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mary Lou! I love hearing praise like that from my readers! Especially happy it made you cry!
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