Today is the starter day party for the tour for YA coming of age “Patches”. The tour runs from July 16th to July 23rd. Check out the tour schedule below!
Tour Schedule
July 16th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
July 17th: Promo Post @ Stormy Night Reviewing
July 19th: Book Excerpt @ The Key Smash Blog
July 20th: Promo Post @ Author C.A. Milson’s Blog
July 21st: Book Excerpt @ Nesie’s Place
July 22nd: Promo Post @ Bookish Madness
July 23rd: Book Excerpt @ Indy Book Fairy
July 23rd: Book Review @ I Heart Reading
About the Book
Title: Patches
Author: Valicity Elaine
Genre: YA Coming of Age
Michael Bull Jr. is best friends with the most popular guy in school, his father is a famous politician, and he’s just started his last year in high school. He is the perfect student with the perfect life … except for his face.When you’ve got a disease that changes the color of your skin, turns your hair grey, and threatens to blind you, high school can be tough. It also doesn’t help when your crush decides to blackmail you and expose your secret. But hey, what can you do except try to survive?
Author Bio
Valicity Elaine is the owner/creator of The Rebel Christian Publishing. She is an avid reader and loves to write just as much! She grew up in upstate New York in a beautiful Christian family and loves using her writing and illustrations to express her wonderful faith. When she isn’t writing, she is spending time with her family or helping out her church. Random fact; Valicity LOVES pasta, haha!
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Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Louisville living in Central Illinois. She’s spent her time as a three-continent expat trailing spouse, mom of three, real estate agent, brewery owner and bar manager, and is currently a social media consultant and humane society development director, in addition to being an award-winning author. With stories set in the not-so-common worlds of breweries, on the soccer pitch, inside fictional television stations and successful real estate offices, and even in exotic locales like Istanbul, Turkey, her books are compelling and told with a fresh voice. The Liz Crowe backlist has something for any reader seeking complex storylines with humor and complete casts of characters that will delight, at times frustrate, and always linger in the imagination long after the book is finished.
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