Today I'm pleased to showcase young adult author Helen Whapshott and her
new release The Glow, from Little Bird Publishing.
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 1st 2014
AUDIENCE: YOUNG ADULT
THEME: PARANORMAL – GHOSTS, WITCHCRAFT and FRIENDSHIP
SYNOPSIS: What would you do if you saw a ghost? Would you ignore
it hoping it would fade away, or would you go up to it and see if it needed
your help?
When thirteen year
old Megan Webb discovers she has been gifted with The Glow, so called because
it gives off a light, like a candle in a dimly lit room attracting ghosts,
spirits, and others who belong to the supernatural and paranormal world, she
has to learn to come to terms with seeing the world in a whole new way.
And if this wasn’t
enough to deal with during the delicate years between childhood and adolescence,
her parents make the shocking decision to move her away from everything and
everyone she knows to live in a creepy hotel inherited from a late aunt.
But it isn’t just the hotel that is creepy, the whole town seems a little odd until she makes friends with a strange boy, a witch, and a chain-smoking spirit guide who help her adjust. Life couldn’t get any more complicated … could it?
AVAILABLE FORMATS: e-Book on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and Paperback
available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com. (It will be available for other
retailers after October 2014)
REVIEW COPIES: We are delighted to offer free PDF review copies or
paperback review copies under certain circumstances littlebirdpublishinghouse@Yahoo.com
INTERVIEWS and BLOG APPEARANCES: Helen is delighted to participate in
interviews, spotlights and giveaways. Please contact the author directly at
Helen Whapshott ghostrat@hotmail.co.uk.
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BIOGRAPHY: Helen was born in Aldershot in the year of 1980. She
survived the infant, junior and senior schools of Cove. Helen started her
working life in a bakery before deciding catering wasn’t really for her, that
she wanted to work in the care industry.
After attending
Farnborough College of Technology, where she did her diploma in nursery nursing
she took on a variety of roles that included being a Nursery Nurse, a Special
Needs Teaching assistant, a support worker for people with special needs and a
care assistant in a nursing home.
She’s worked as a
Health Care Assistant at a local hospital for eight years and also works as a
bank carer at a children’s hospice in Surrey.
She has five
wonderful nephews, a lovely niece, two very understanding parents and extremely
patient brother and sister.
Helen has always
loved stories, ever since her Mum used to read Hans Christian Anderson and
Roald Dahl to her at bedtime. When she
learnt to read by herself she couldn’t get enough of books, becoming a big fan
of authors such as Arthur Conan Doyle’s, Sherlock Holmes stories, as well as
Neil Gaiman and Ben Aaronovitch.
With a love of reading came a love of creative
writing. She recalls how her first hit was, “How The Kangaroo Got It’s Hop, at
infant school when I was six, but I missed out on seeing my classmate’s
enjoyment because I was off several weeks with the mumps; when I got back the
hype had died down. A disappointment I’ve never really gotten over! Being able
to share my creations this time and is a dream come true.”
CONTACT:
Please contact either
Helen Whapshott at
or
Kitty
Rackham at
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