#Giveaway - Lumiere by Jacqueline Garlick

Lumiere
(The Illumination Paradox #1)
by:  Jacqueline Garlick


Publication:  December 12, 2013
ISBN: 1503944557
ASIN:  B00VSF8MDI
Length:  400 pages
Genres:  Steampunk, Young Adult


Blurb:

Even in a land of eternal twilight, secrets can't stay hidden forever.

Seventeen-year-old Eyelet Elsworth is no stranger to living in the dark. She's hidden her secret affliction all of her life - a life that would be in danger if superstitious townspeople ever guessed the truth.After her mother is accused and executed for a crime that she didn't commit, the now-orphaned Eyelet has no choice but to track down the machine - her last hope for a cure. But Eyelet's late father's most prized invention, the Illuminator, has been missing since the day of the mysterious flash - a day that saw the sun wiped out over Brethren forever.

Alone and on the run, she finds the Illuminator - only to witness a young man hauling it away. Determined to follow the thief and recover the machine, she ventures into the deepest, darkest, most dangerous part of her twisted world.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR : 

I'm Jacqueline Garlick, author of young adult and new adult fiction I love strong heroines, despise whiny sidekicks, and adore a good story about a triumphant underdog. (Don't you?)

I love to read, write, paint (walls and paper). I have a love/hate relationship with chocolate, grammar, and technology and would rather hang out with a dog than a cat. I prefer creating things to cleaning things, and believe laughter is a one-stop-shop solution to all that ails you. You will always find a purple wall (or two) in my house (currently in my writing room), and there may or may not be a hidden passageway that leads to a mystery room. (Okay, so you won't find a hidden passageway, but a girl can dream, can't she?) Oh, and tea. There will always be tea.


My writing style has been described as edgy and rule-breaking, and by some -- a touch Tim Burton-esque. Because of this, I am often referred to as the Quentin Taratino of YA among writing friends.

In my former life, I was a teacher (both grade school and college - don't ask), but more recently I've been a graduate of Ellen Hopkin's Nevada Mentor Program and a studen of James Scott Bell, Christopher Vogler and Don Maass. An excerpt from Lumiere earned me the 2012 Don Maass Break Out Novel Intensive Scholarship.

Lumiere -- A Romantic Steampunk Fantasy - my debut novel, is the recipient of an indieBRAG Medallion !! B.R.A.G Medallion Honoree Oct 15, 2014. I am so proud !!

Also, check out my young adult contemporary romantic/mystery serial, IF ONLY, where reluctant telepathic sleuth Kyla Cooper must embrace her powers and risks all to solve the mystery of what happened to her boyfriend Denver Munro, becoming his voice of truth, before he has no voice at all...


I'm open to reviews and interviews, requests for skype visits, guest blogs, pod casts, and book club meetings! I LOVE TO HEAR FROM READERS!!

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Clockwork Fantasy by Pauline Creeden ( @P_Creeden)

Clockwork Fantasy - A Steampunk collection has just been release in time for Christmas. It is sure to please the steampunk lover on your list. Buy on AMAZON  

Four Steampunk Fantasies in one collection:

CHRONICLES OF STEELE: RAVEN (complete series novel)
Human life has value. The poor living in the gutter are as valuable as the rich living in a manor. The scoundrel is no less valuable than the saint. Because of this, every life a reaper takes must be redeemed.

Raven has lived by this first tenet since she was trained by her father to become a reaper. But since his death, she’s been spending years redeeming the lives she’s taken. By her count, she’s even and it’s time for that life to end. If she settles down and becomes a wife, she might just feel human again. But on the way to the life she thinks she wants, the baron of New Haven asks her to complete a task which she cannot ignore… Just when Raven decides to give up on her life as an assassin, she’s pulled right back in.

HEARTLESS IN NEW ORLEANS (short story)
Helen's time has run out, and she must sneak into the graveyard to get the key she needs from her former master. It is a race against time and the ticking of her own heart.

ARMORED HEARTS
When a crippled young lord rescues a girl falling from a tree, it reveals a secret about himself and his mother's side of the family that could put him at the center of a war with beings he thought only existed in fairy tales. Tristan Gareth Smyth lived his entire life stuck at home at Waverly Park and left behind while his Grandfather makes trips to London, all because of his blasted wheelchair. Then an American heiress falls in his lap, literally, and he must find a way to keep her at a distance to protect not only his secret, but everyone around him from an assassin sent to kill him.


WINTER FAE ~The Short Story Prequel to ARMORED HEARTS (Steampunk Fantasy)~
Once upon a time, a fairy princess gave up her home, her family, and her birthright for the love of a human lord. But life outside has made her sick. When she returns to the land of fae with her son, she discovers things are not as they should be. Will she find the healing she so desperately seeks for herself and invalid son? Or will she be received with the coldness of winter?

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Pauline Creeden

Pauline Creeden is a horse trainer from Virginia, but writing is her therapy. In her fiction, she creates worlds that are both familiar and strange, often pulling the veil between dimensions. She becomes the main character in each of her stories, and because she has ADD, she will get bored if she pretends to be one person for too long.

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