He is the Monster, the new verse novel by Amy Ellis, is available now in paperback and eBook format on Amazon.
After almost exactly three years, I am excited to announce that my new verse novel He is the Monster will officially launch on August 29, 2018.
When Esther comes back at dawn on a school night, she’s expecting an argument with her parents at breakfast. Instead, the police arrest her father for molesting girls in their neighborhood. As her father awaits trial and her mother wastes away with grief, Esther seeks comfort in the things that make her numb: parties, boys and her secret relationship.
She is fine.
Everything is fine until Esther meets Matthew, who refuses to be just another notch in her bedpost. Forced to confront her feelings, Esther has to decide whether to stay comfortably wild and numb or if it’s time to start dealing with the painful reality of her shattered life.
Written in verse, He is the Monster tells the heartbreaking story of loss and desire after learning that your loved ones aren’t always who you think they are.
Hello book bloggers--this one is for you.
As the title says, I've updated my policy for review copies for book bloggers.
I've always been happy to send out free review copies of any of my titles in eBook format and I still am. If you're a book blogger and would like an electronic copy of one of my books to review, send me an email with a link to your blog and your Twitter handle. (I want to follow you!) I'm happy to send you a copy of any of my books in whatever format you prefer.
However, I'm now able to provide physical review copies of my books for book bloggers with over 1000 followers on Twitter. Again, just drop me a line with your blog's URL and Twitter handle. I'm limiting physical copies to bloggers in the USA and United Kingdom for now (to cut down on shipping costs) but I may change this to include EU and Canadian book bloggers as well.
Happy reading!
-Amy
PS
If you're interested in getting a review copy of my upcoming book, sign up to my mailing list as I'll be sending out an email with Advanced Review Copies up for grabs soon!
My birthday's tomorrow and I am... excited... I guess. I think I'm finally starting to realise that the older you get, the less fun birthdays are. I think the way to cope with this feeling is to eat too much cake, drink (a bit) too much wine, and give away some books.
I've done birthday giveaways in the past but this is my biggest one yet.
Two winners, three books each!
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I mentioned in my last post that I won second and third place in the Oxford Brookes Wellbeing Poetry contest and then completely forgot to follow up with some photos.
The reading was fantastic. I was in really good poetic company that night and the small audience was very receptive to all of us. I had a great time reading in front of people for the first time in a few years and my legs only shook a teeny-tiny bit.
Here's what the judges had to say about my poems, which you can read here:
