Day 9: Raven's Reviews

One of the great joys of doing this Book Blog Tour is revisiting favorite characters from "The Missionary and the Brute" with backstories and prequel shorts that are not necesary for understanding the book itself but are fun nonetheless for me. Raven Starr had a small but integral role in the novel, but is really fun to write about outside of that tale. This is one of my favorite pieces - a web log review she supposedly did for a class project of a Steam Punk novel. It is replete with strikeouts and suggestions and comments from her AP English teacher. (It also let's me talk about "Flash Gold" by Lindsay Buroker!) So much fun - and I get to write about Steam Punk too. Thanks to Brenda Drake for turning me on to this genre - I look forward to her own contribution to Steam Punk literature in time!

And thanks again to Sheila Pierson for so graciously opening up her blog to my little words. It is amazing the generosity of fellow writers. I'm always amazed and thrilled by that. It's really heartening to feel that support!

Thank you thank you thank you!


And someday maybe, Raven might, just might join that hallowed coterie of authors. You never know...
(well, I do maybe but not you...lol)

Enjoy!

Today:

Thursday March 8th

"Raven's Reviews"
http://sheilapierson.wordpress.com/

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Complete Schedule:

Wednesday February 29th

"Interview with John Kenworthy"

http://inkdropinterviews.com/2012/02/29/john-kenworthy/

Thursday March 1st

"Mrs. Starr's EZ Peasy Spinach Surprise"

http://sheilapierson.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/john-d-kenworthy-blog-tour/

Friday March 2nd

"Stunt Double"

http://honiebriggs.com/2012/03/02/stunt-double-2/

Saturday March 3rd

"Educating Tanzania"

http://www.raychelle-writes.blogspot.com/2012/03/guest-blogger-john-d-kenworthy-talks.html

Sunday March 4th

"Kenworthy interviews Author Raychelle Muhammad"

http://www.raychelle-writes.blogspot.com/2012/03/kenworthy-interviews-author-raychelle.html

Monday March 5th

"Kenworthy interviews the Missionary Jadwin Ross"

http://www.catherinenoble.com/2012/03/john-kenworthy-interviews-missionary.html

Tuesday March 6th

"Interview with John Kenworthy"

http://mefrancoauthor.blogspot.com/2012/03/interview-with-john-kenworthy.html 

Wednesday March 7th

"Alwyn Ross writes: Visions of Bakshi" (NSFW) 
http://maxloved.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/special-short-story-with-guest-blogger-john-kenworthy/

Thursday March 8th

"Raven's Reviews"

http://sheilapierson.wordpress.com/ 


Friday March 9th
"How to get a bad review without slitting your wrists" at

http://themanicheans.wordpress.com 

Saturday March 10th

"Kenworthy interviews author Sam Kirshaw" at
http://samkirshaw.blogspot.com/ 

Sunday March 11th

"Free Excerpt of The Missionary and the Brute"

Monday March 12th

"Travel Tips with Jadwin Ross"

Tuesday March 13th

"Interview with John Kenworthy"

Enjoy!!!

Day Two! If you can't stand the heat...

The Missionary and the Brute Blog Tour continues today with a decided left turn! My friend and fellow writer (poetry, short stories), Sheila Pierson, graciously opens her blog to a bit of madness today as we follow the kitchen travails of two of the characters from "The Missionary and the Brute" in a prequel short story set just days before the mother and daughter travel to Tanzania with the Missionary Jadwin Ross.

It's funny how characters evolve. When I began writing the novel, I had planned that Mrs. Starr and Raven be minor peripheral characters who would disappear into the woodwork while the heavy hitters took the stage. I had no intention on focusing on them much at all. As the writing progressed however each took a somewhat decided turn and ultimately became a bit more involved than I anticipated.

And here they are again!

Thursday March 1st

"Mrs. Starr's EZ Peasy 

Spinach Surprise" at

http://sheilapierson.tumblr.com/

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Complete Schedule:

Wednesday February 29th

"Interview with John Kenworthy"

http://inkdropinterviews.com/2012/02/29/john-kenworthy/

Thursday March 1st

"Mrs. Starr's EZ Peasy 
Spinach Surprise" at
http://sheilapierson.tumblr.com/

Friday March 2nd

"Stunt Double" at http://honiebriggs.com/

Saturday March 3rd

"Educating Tanzania" at  http://www.raychelle-writes.blogspot.com/

Sunday March 4th

"Kenworthy interviews Author Raychelle Muhammad"

Monday March 5th

"Kenworthy interviews the Missionary Jadwin Ross"

Tuesday March 6th

"Interview with John Kenworthy"

Wednesday March 7th

"Social Imperialism in The Missionary and the Brute"

Thursday March 8th

"Raven's Reviews"

Friday March 9th

"How to get a bad review without slitting your wrists"

Saturday March 10th

"Free Excerpt from The Missionary and the Brute"

Sunday March 11th

"Travel Tips with Jadwin Ross"

Monday March 12th

"Video Excerpt"

Tuesday March 13th

"Interview with John Kenworthy"

Enjoy!!!