Welcome to our first #exploreleira tour blog tour round up! We are celebrating the (almost) one year book birthday for Songkeeper! It is the second book in the Songkeeper Chronicles, which tells the story of a girl who can hear the song that created the world. If this is your first encounter with the blog tour, we are continuing a series of alphabet posts looking at the world and characters and magical creatures of the Songkeeper Chronicles … and we have an awesome giveaway that you can enter below!
Now, the #exploreleira tour tour has been gallivanting all over the blogosphere lately, so I thought it might be handy to come back here and share some of the more recent posts, in case you might have missed one or two! (Note: If you’re confused by the fact that the links jump from F for Fireflowers to I for Dah Inali – because I probably would be – the posts between were either posted directly to my blog or were shared in another post on my blog. You can find a complete list of posts here.)
Scroll through the list below to find out a bit about each post and then pop over to say hello to the host bloggers and enter the giveaway on their site!
F is for Fireflowers!
We visited the site of Ronie Kendig, a fantastic author of suspense and speculative fiction. (Seriously you should check out her latest paramilitary novel, Conspiracy of Silence, and her fantasy series Abiassa’s Fire starting with book one, Embers.) In my humble opinion, Ronie is also one of the coolest, sweetest, most genuine people you will ever meet.
POST SNEAK PEEK: “I have always been slightly fond of things that are combustible, explode, or go out with a bang. Fireworks? So much fun. Firearms? Also fun. Fire … well, it’s probably a good thing that I have joined the local volunteer fire department. So when it came time to develop the world of Leira for the Songkeeper Chronicles, I knew we had to have some sort of explosive in there to keep things exciting …) READ MORE …
I is for Inali
Rebekah Gyger hosted the blog tour for a look at Dah Inali, one of the desert warriors in Songkeeper. She is a fellow writer, book lover, and has been a faithful reader over the past several years! I absolutely love the look of her blog, “Backing Books,” and it’s a great place to find out about new reads.
POST SNEAK PEEK: “We first meet Dah Inali in Songkeeper. Dah Inali is the brother of Sa Itera and the brother-in-law of Matlal Quahtli, chief over the entire Saari nation of the Vituain Desert. Born heir to the Sigzal tribe, he lost his inheritance when Itera was made mahtem in his stead and the Sigzal tribe was aligned with Quahtli as her dowry. It is a loss that he bears bitterly …”
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J is for Jirkar
For this post, we swung over to the beautiful blog of Laura Pol! She is a book blogger and Christian urban fantasy writer and has been a reader and sweet supporter for several years! And she makes fan made book trailers too, which is just super cool.
POST SNEAK PEEK: “Jirkar is a dwarf from the Whyndburg Mountains, where he goes by the full name of Jirkar Mundibus Icelos Creegnan, Commander of the Fifth Cohort of the Adulnae. He has a twin brother named Nisus. The two look quite a bit alike, sharing the same short, curly dark hair and cropped beards, though Nisus has reddish streaks in his hair and beard and slightly sharper features. Of the two brothers, Jirkar tends to be more cheerful …” READ MORE …
K is for Ky
Jane Maree hosted this post on her blog “Maiden of the Misty Mountains” all the way from Australia! She is a fellow reader, writer, and lover of words, with a lovely blog with Tengwar script on the background! (Geeking out over here) Oh, and did I mention that she hails from Australia?
POST SNEAK PEEK: So what is it that makes Ky who he is? He is not the biggest or the strongest, not the fastest or the bravest, not the smartest or the most well-spoken. He isn’t always right, even when he is convinced that he is. But he has conviction and the courage to back it up, and he cares deeply about those he seeks to protect. Ky lives in the occupied city of Kerby. Five years before the events of Orphan’s Song, the soldiers of the Takhran, the Khelari, took over the city …
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L is for Langorian Pirates
We visited with the lovely Deanna Fugett for this post. She is the author of an upcoming edgy YA Dystopian called Ending Fear, the first in the Gliding Lands series. Ran into Deanna at a writer’s conference a few years ago, and I’m super excited about the chance to read her book soon!
POST SNEAK PEEK: Because who doesn’t love pirates! Confession time. I used to be slightly obsessed with pirates. The good kind, you know. The swashbuckling, charming, roguish sort that you run across in Pirates of the Caribbean and—one of my favorites—Wayne Thomas Batson’s novel Isle of Swords. I may have held a pirate birthday party for five or six years running, in which everyone was required to show up in appropriate pirate garb and we devoured pizza by the pound (because all good pirates love pizza) and chocolate cake. (Pirates also love cake. In case you were wondering.) READ MORE …
Hope you enjoyed the blog tour round up! We’ll have another one in a week or two so you can make sure to catch all the posts before the tour ends. In the meantime, if you’re enjoying the tour, why not share a post with a friend and invite them to #exploreleira and the Songkeeper Chronicles with you!
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