Book Tours: Starter Day Party for The Camellia Resistance

I’m hosting the starter day party today for the book tour dystopian / urban fantasy “The Camellia Resistance”. Visit all the tour stops, and enjoy the tour!

Tour Schedule

June 15^th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

June 15^th: Promo post @ Ashley’s Paranormal Book Review Blog

June 17^th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader

June 18^th: Guest Post @ Editor Charlene’s Blog

June 20^th: Book Review and Author Interview @ Slayer of YA Fiction

June 21^st: Promo Post @ Bookaholic Ramblings

June 22^nd: Book Review @ Clutter Your Kindle

June 25^th: Book Review @ All Sorts of Books

June 27^th: Author Interview @ The Single Librarian

June 29^th: Book Review @ Paranormal Romance and Authors That Rock

June 29^th: Book Review and Excerpt @ Dalene’s Book Reviews

About The Camellia Resistance

Title: The Camellia Resistance

Author: A.R. Williams

Genre: Dystopian, Urban Fantasy

The Camellias is a trilogy set in the New Republic of America. It all starts with Willow Carlyle, a committed employee of the Ministry of Health.When she gives into temptation in the fall of 2044, she is completely unprepared for the consequences. Unemployed and isolated, Willow struggles to make sense of her sudden downfall. An encounter with a member of the Camellias, a resistance group living outside the bounds of Ministry-approved regulation, immerses her in a world she didn’t know existed.As Willow learns more about her personal history, she uncovers a secret that rocks the Ministry of Health to its core.

Author Bio

A.R. Williams is obsessed with language and myth, not just playing with words and making up stories, but with the real-world impact that the words we use have on the way we live our lives. Words are the only things that never get boring, an endless puzzle with no right answer, and an infinite variety of ways to get wrong. Writing is the only thing she has wanted to do consistently: other hobbies, such as sewing and photography, become alternate means to feed the writing habit. Ms. Williams feeds her obsession with curiosity: people, philosophy, technology, psychology, and culture. Living in Washington D.C. is a good source of inspiration. From the sublime heights of arts and achievement available for free at the Smithsonian to the bureaucratic banality of Beltway politics and scandals, it is a great city for fantasy, possibility, power, and consequence—ideal fodder for the fictional life.

As a teenager, Ms. Williams drove her parents crazy with her taste for adventure. Her father questioned her taste in crushes once and she told him “don’t worry, it will just give me something to write about later.” That approach eventually led to a cross-cultural marriage that failed spectacularly – not on the promise of love but on the reality of trying to negotiate contradictory assumptions about everything. The subsequent divorce, combined with her emergence from a conservative Christian subculture, eventually evolved into the first book in the Camellia Trilogy. Ms. Williams lives in-between an ordinary external life filled with time cards, meetings, and deadlines; and an extraordinary imaginary world where anything is possible, and everything is fueled by music. Language is our only means to bridge the distance between ourselves and others. Imagination, the co-creation that happens between a writer and reader, is alchemy. It is an aspiration that never gets old.

From an eclectic mix of upbringing, genetics, experience, and the best possible luck in friends and family, Ms. Williams writes with the hope of doing for others what her favorite authors did for her: provide company through difficult days and create a sense of wonder and possibility when everything seems limited by circumstances.