Book Tours: Starter Day Party Inside the Tall, Thick Book of Tales

I’m hosting the starter day party today for fantasy novel “Inside the Tall, Thick Book of Tales”. I’ll be reviewing the book in January. Stay tuned for the review and meanwhile, check out the other tour stops!

Tour Schedule

December 23^rd: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading

December 25^th: Book Excerpt @ The Single Librarian

December 27^th: Guest Post @ Marsha A. Moore’s Blog

December 29^th: Book Excerpt @ The Book Daily

December 31^st: Author Interview @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

January 2^nd : Book Excerpt @ Bookish Madness

January 3^rd: Guest Post @ Forever Book Lover

January 5^th: Book Review @ All Sorts of Books

January 7^th: Book Excerpt @ I’m an Eclectic Reader

January 9^th: Author Interview @ The Book Daily

January 11^th: Book Excerpt @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog

January 13^th: Guest Post @ Editor Charlene

January 15^th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading

January 17^th: Book Excerpt @ Bookaholic Ramblings

January 19^th: Book Review @ Forever Book Lover

January 21^st: Author Interview @ Majanka’s Blog

January 23^rd: Book Review @ Endazzled Reading

January 25^th: Book Excerpt @ The Reading Guru

January 27^th: Book Review @ Deal Sharing Aunt

January 29^th: Book Excerpt @ The Book Gazette

January 31^s:Guest Post @ Endazzled Reading

February 1^st: Book Review @ Books, Books and More Books

February 3^rd: Author Interview @ MichaelSciFan

February 5^th: Book Excerpt @ Fantasy Book Lane

February 7^th: Book Review and Interview @ Readers Writers Connect

February 9^th: Book Excerpt @ 365 Days of Reading

February 10^th: Book Review @ Daily Mayo

February 14^th: Author Interview @ Daily Mayo

February 15^th: Book Excerpt @ Hollow Readers

February 17^th: Book Review @ Hello Book Lover

February 19^th: Book Review @ My Tangled Skeins Book Reviews

February 21^st: Book Review and Character Interview @ The Most Happy Reader

February 23^rd: Book Review, Interview, Excerpt and Giveaway @ Dalene’s Book Reviews

About The Book

Title: Inside the Tall, Thick Book of Tales

Author: A.C. Birdsong

Genre: Fantasy

On a small farm just outside of a tiny town lives Jacob, the last in a long line of Caretakers of Magic. His mission in life as the world’s only magician (in fact the only person who knows magic is possible) is to preserve magical skill in preparation for the day when magic is needed in the world. Other than what is required to train an apprentice, Caretakers aren’t to be practitioners, a tenet Jacob adheres to religiously.

Jacob has been teaching an apprentice, Palmer, for eight years. As a student, Palmer is a dismal failure, but this does not stop him from experimenting. Feeling that the pace of his instruction is unnecessarily slow, Palmer takes the little magic he knows, twists it, and uses it to trap Jacob and a young neighbor Lucy inside an old book of fairy tales (The Tall, Thick Book of Tales). Palmer refuses to release them unless Jacob imparts all magical knowledge to him in an instantaneous way.

From the moment of Jacob’s entrapment, Birdsong creates three interwoven storylines: Palmer’s dealings with the townspeople, who are searching for Lucy and quickly suspect Palmer for her disappearance; Jacob’s journey to escape, which takes him through scenes written into the book by Palmer, designed to harass Jacob and to speed his compliance along; and Lucy’s interaction with the book’s original characters, all magical themselves, trapped within the margins by Palmer’s spell, and are united in their desire to expel the intruders. Added to this mix are an enchanted bookworm and the fairy tales’ narrator, who have objectives of their own.

Readers will enjoy Inside the Tall, Thick Book of Tales. Birdsong skillfully mixes the real and the imaginary worlds with a lean and fast-paced style. A well-crafted and fun novel with colorful characters and great dialogue written for any fan of adult fiction, and suitable for young adults and older adolescents as well.

Author Bio

A.C. Birdsong wrote the first draft of Inside the Tall, Thick Book of Tales during an unseasonably cold winter in Athens, Greece. “I spent all my time either writing the story or searching for a reasonably warm and cheap place to write it. Often this left me huddled near tepid steam heaters in dingy hotel rooms, and drinking endless cups of weak Nes to fight the cold. Eventually the weather turned, which was not only fortunate for me, but for Jacob and Palmer as well, because they probably would still be fighting it out inside that book otherwise.”