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.
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***Kj's Review***
I was immediately in love with this book for no apparent reason, can’t even begin to explain why. I just know this story touched me right down to my soul. Amanda and Beau, May and December, they were just right, no matter what age. Amanda had been pulled to the old Broadway music from the time she was a tiny girl, sang along with songs that were no longer even recognized. Beau was part of the team that created some of that music and he was looking to do it at least one more time.
I flat out recommend this book to everyone, I can’t say enough good about it. I cried at the sad parts, laughed at the happy parts, I was in for the ride of my life. I want to thank Susan Sloate for giving me her book to read and review, it was a pleasure. I still cannot stress how awesomely beautiful this story was, I am probably going on a bit much but I want more like this. I give this book 5 stars.
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.
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Kj, thanks so much for hosting me today - it's great to be here! And THANK YOU, THANK YOU for the BEAUTIFUL review! It's really thrilling to know that the book moved you; it's what every author hopes for, but it doesn't happen nearly enough often!
ReplyDeleteYou're most welcome, you are a talented author!!
DeleteThanks, Kj! (blushing) - and before I forget, would you mind posting this wonderful review on Amazon and Goodreads? It's so good I really want as many people as possible to see it!
DeleteYou got it, I will do that right now.
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