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I am a high school English teacher in the Omaha area. I love to read YA fiction and then pass it on to my students. I write reviews for both VOYA magazine and TeensReadToo.com. If there is a book out there that I should read...let me know! I'm always in search of the next thing to read!
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My name is Chris Tusa, and I'm a writer from New Orleans. My debut novel, Dirty Little Angels, is now available for pre-order from Amazon.com, and I am writing because I was hoping you might be willing to read it and post your thoughts on Amazon.com (or some of the other book review sites). If you're interested, I'd be more than willing to send you an e-book version by e-mail. Just let me know. I've included a summary of the novel below:
Dirty Little Angels
Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to God to save her family. When her prayers go unanswered, Hailey puts her faith in Moses Watkins, a failed preacher and ex-con. Fascinated by Moses's lopsided view of religion, Hailey, and her brother Cyrus, begin spending time down at an abandoned bank that Moses plans to convert into a drive-through church. Gradually, though, Moses's twisted religious beliefs become increasingly more violent, and Hailey and Cyrus soon find themselves trapped in a world of danger and fear from which there may be no escape.
If you'd like to read the first chapter before you commit, feel free to visit my web site:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id=894
Thanks so much,
Chris
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Christopher Tusa
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Editor, Poetry Southeast
http://www.christophertusa.com
mail@christophertusa.com
Thank you for contacting me and thanks for expressing interest in my book, Diary of a Teenage Faërie Princess. I do appreciate you saying you'll have to get one soon, but I've got an offer for you. How about if I send you a copy and you read and review it on one of the sites you deal with. Oh, and pass it along to your students afterwards as well. If this sounds like something you wish to pursue, please let me know.
Cheers,
CB
My novel, Beyond the Shadows of Summer, has already been reviewed by TeensReadToo.com, but I'd love to send you a copy to review for VOYA magazine, if you are interested. It is a bittersweet tale of hope, survival, tolerance, and magic, following the death of the 14 y.o. protagonist's younger brother.
Let me know what you think,
Jonathan
www.jonathanzemsky.blogspot.com