Meet the Flutters from BAD FAIRY by Elaine Kaye / IWSG

PLEASE HELP ME TO WELCOME MY MOM, ELAINE KAYE, FOR HER DEBUT MIDDLE GRADE BOOK BAD FAIRY!

AVAILABLE TODAY!

Title: Bad Fairy

Series: A Bad Fairy Adventure (Book One)

Author: Elaine Kaye

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Genre: Fantasy Middle Grade

Length: 66 pages
Age Range: 8-12

BLURB: Thistle Greenbud is not a bad fairy. She simply doesn't like rules, and it's just her luck that her homework is to create a new rule for the fairy handbook. But first, she has more important things to do. Like figure out how to get back at Dusty and Moss for playing tricks on her.

Before she can carry out her plan, though, disaster strikes and she finds herself working alongside the very fairies she wanted revenge on. Can they work together and trust each other, or will things go from bad to worse?

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MEET THE FLUTTERS:

Thistle
Flutter Club Role – President

School – Level A (Average)

Nickname – Bad Fairy

Favorite Color – All shades of red, including pinks

Favorite Food – Cabbage patch stew

Personality – Spunky, tough, likes to pay back Dusty and Moss when they pick on her

Dislikes – RULES and BULLIES

Lilly

Flutter Club Role – Vice President

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Blue

Favorite Food – Blueberries

Personality – Sweet but no pushover

Dislikes – when Dusty and Moss play tricks on her best friend

Weedy

Flutter Cub Role – Active Member

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Dark green

Favorite Food – Dill

Personality – Prickly, sometimes rude, not afraid to say what’s on her mind

Dislikes – Drama queens and beauty queens.

Clover

Flutter Club Role – Active Member

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Pale green

Favorite Food – Clover flowers

Personality – likes to be in the spotlight and thinks she’s the leader

Dislikes – being told what to do and when Rose trades clover flowers with Lacey

Rose

Flutter Club Role – Active Member

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Pink

Favorite Food – Artichokes

Personality – sweetheart, shy, and is passionate towards other’s feelings

Dislikes – clover flowers and being left out

Lacey

Flutter Club Role – New Member

School – Level A (Average)

Favorite Color – Silver

Favorite Food – Clover flowers

Personality – nice to everyone, fashionista, and smart as a whip

Dislikes – getting rainwater on her wings

FLUTTER CLUB HELPERS:

EXCERPT:

     “Where have you been?” Clover asks when I fly in.

     Standing in front of the four Flutter members, I answer. “I’ll tell you later. We need to get down to business. Lacey wants to join our club. Should we let her?” I look at each member for some kind of response.

     “She’s a whiner,” Weedy says. “All she does is complain. If her wings get a little bit wet, it’s the end of the world to her. She says rainwater will dry them out and they won’t shine anymore. How pathetic is that?”

     Weedy never has a problem saying what’s on her mind. She’s a lot like Clover, but Clover is a little easier to get along with. Clover has chestnut-brown hair and gray eyes, whereas Weedy has short-cropped black hair and green eyes. And she always wears green, making her look like a real weed, especially if her hair is windblown.

     Rose speaks up. “Well, I like her. She’s always nice to me. She even trades her spinach and artichoke salad for my bag of clover flowers.”

     Rose is the sweetheart of the bunch, shy and extremely passionate toward other’s feelings. Rose is curvy and short with red, frizzy hair and hazel eyes. One reason I like her is she mostly votes the same way I usually do, the opposite way from the others.

     Clover glares at Rose. “Why don’t you ever swap lunch with me? You know how much I love clover flowers.” She pouts.

     “Because you don’t eat artichoke salads,” Rose says.

“I hope you choke on an artichoke,” Clover snaps with a fling of her hair.

     This has gone too far. “Girls! ‘A Flutter can never threaten another Flutter.’ That is rule number two. And what is rule number one?”

     “‘Love your fellow Flutter,”’ Clover mutters.

     “And Rose? What is rule number three?”

     “‘Consider your fellow Flutters’ feelings,’” Rose quotes. She walks over to Clover. “I apologize.”

I elbow Clover.

“Me too,” Clover mumbles.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Elaine Kaye is the author of A Gregory Green Adventure series. She first created Gregory Green after her son, who loved her homemade pea soup, thus inspiring the story Pea Soup Disaster. Bad Fairy is her middle grade debut and the first of A Bad Fairy Adventure series.

Kaye has worked as a library assistant and teacher’s assistant in elementary schools in the Sunshine State. She currently lives in Florida, but she has called Michigan; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Okinawa, Japan home. She is a grandmother of three boys.

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Why Did I Write a Prequel to 30 Seconds? / Vlog

Thank you for coming to a vlog edition of Write with Fey!

In the first video, I reveal why I wrote a prequel for 30 Seconds.

In the second video, I give a reading of 30 Seconds Before.

Enjoy!

Why Did I Write a Prequel to 30 Seconds?

Length: 5:09

30 Seconds Before Reading

Length: 5:20

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QUESTIONS: Do you read prequels? Have you ever written a prequel?

Three Real Life Vampires / Guest Post by Patricia Josephine / A Quick Bite

Are you hungry for A Quick Bite? ;) Please help me to welcome back to my blog PATRICIA JOSEPHINE/LYNNE!

BLURB:

Vampires.

Werewolves.

Zombies.

These monsters tickle our imagination.

Sink your teeth into a collection of tales about paranormal creatures that go bump in the night. Each story is told in exactly 200 words and designed to give you a quick bite no matter how busy your day is.

Are you hungry?

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 Three Real Life Vampires (or so they say.)

Tales of vampires have fascinated humanity for centuries. Sometimes they are monsters, and other times, they are sexy, sparkling heroes. While most stories are complete fiction, here are three cases of so-called real vampires.

Mercy Brown

Mercy Brown was a young woman who lived in New England around the 1900s. Disease spread to her family and the locals got the idea that that meant she was a vampire. After she died, her body was dug up to make sure she wasn’t a vampire. Her body hadn’t decomposed and they found fresh blood in her system, leading them to the conclusion that she was a vampire. They cut out her heart and burned, putting the ashes in a drink which was fed to her brother. They believed it would save him since he was sick. Sadly, it didn’t work.

Fritz Haarmann, The Vampire of Hanover

Fritz Haarmann was a German serial killer in the early 1900s. His method of killing was to bite the neck of his victims so they bled to death. That led to rumors of a real vampire prowling for victims. Of course, alleged cases of real vampires weren’t uncommon then, but they were usually baseless. Fritz Haarmann was eventually captures and executed.

Arnold Paole

Arnold Paole was a Serbian man who feel to his death in the early 18^th century. A sad tragedy, but the story became remarkable because afterwards, local villagers stated he had become a vampire. Their proof: 16 villagers had died recently. His body was due up to be examined. They found no decomposition and claimed to have seen fresh blood on his lips. So they staked the body.

Source Link Vampires: http://eskify.com/10-alleged-cases-of-real-vampires/

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Patricia Josephine is a writer of Urban Fantasy and Sci-Fi Romance books. She actually never set out to become a writer, and in fact, she was more interested in art and band in high school and college. Her dreams were of becoming an artist like Picasso. On a whim, she wrote down a story bouncing in her head for fun. That was the start of her writing journey, and she hasn't regretted a moment. When she's not writing, she's watching Doctor Who or reading about serial killers. She's an avid knitter. One can never have too much yarn. She writes Young Adult Paranormal, Science Fiction, and Fantasy under the name Patricia Lynne.

Patricia lives with her husband in Michigan, hopes one day to have what will resemble a small petting zoo, and has a fondness for dying her hair the colors of the rainbow.

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Thank you for sharing A Quick Bite with us, Patricia! Please leave her a comment. :)