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Saturday, July 6, 2013

#WeWriWa Excerpt from Stevie-girl and the Phantom Student

Hey, Everyone,

Welcome back to another excerpt from my Phantom series. This time it's from the 2nd book in the series, Stevie-girl and the Phantom Student. I'm giving you the foreword because I think it explains a lot about the time period and the set up. The only thing it doesn't mention is the phantom student herself!
NEXT WEEK, JULY 9TH - 13TH, the first book in the series, Stevie-girl and the Phantom Pilot, will be FREE on Amazon http://tinyurl.com/crr5kry

Below is the foreword from Book Two, which serves as my excerpt today. It is in Stevie's POV and yes, Victoria, there really is Creative Punctuation:
Stevie-girl and the Phantom Student

©Ann Swann

Book Two of

The Phantom Series

This book is dedicated to all those students who walk the halls like phantoms, hoping their differences truly are invisible.

To us, 1970 was a time of beginnings, but to the country, it was a time of endings. National Guardsmen ended the lives of four students at Kent State College; one hundred thousand marched on Washington to end the war in Vietnam; and in England, Paul McCartney announced the end of The Beatles. It was also the year Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both ended their lives through drug overdoses. It felt as if the whole world was in turmoil.

Our homeroom teacher said not to let the weight of the world stop us from being open to new experiences. In fact, she said it was more important than ever that we should be open-minded. I wondered if she’d gone radical on us; for a moment, I thought she might pick up a sign and start chanting.

Come to find out, she was simply prepping us for a new addition to our class at Crossroads Junior High; his name was Derol Pavey and he had something called Tourette syndrome.

Okay, folks, that's all from me, today. But hop on over to the Weekend Writing Warrior's Website http://www.wewriwa.com and catch up with a bunch of awesome authors~and don't forget to pick up your Kindle Copy of Stevie-girl and the Phantom Pilot starting July 9-13 FREE!

Saturday, June 29, 2013

The Phantom Series #WeWriWa

Hallo paple--
Trying out a new accent, what do you think? Dorky? Oh well, read on, it gets better.
Starting this week for Weekend Writing Warriors I am going to do a snippet from each of the three books in The Phantom Series because Book One, Stevie-girl and the Phantom Pilot, will be FREE July 9th - 13th so grab your copy. http://tinyurl.com/crr5kry

It's a novella, a quick read with 25 great reviews!

Okay, here's a sample:

Stevie-girl and the Phantom Pilot (the set up)

Home alone, twelve-year-old Jase heard a small plane flying low over his rural home. When the plane's engine went suddenly silent, he rushed out to see what had happened.

In the field behind his house, he saw the small plane on its top, wheels pointed toward the night sky. He thinks if the wind hadn't been blowing so hard, the pilot might have pulled off the emergency landing. But now, it's up to Jase and his dog, Lady the German Shepherd, to go down and check for survivors.

This passage is told in Jase's first person POV.

I shined the flashlight all around.

“Hello!” I called. The wind hooted at me through the trees.

The cockpit was crumpled. I would have to crawl underneath the wing for a closer view. “Anyone in there?” I did not want to stick my head inside that darkness.

“Here.” The voice came from behind me.

I spun around, dropping the flashlight. It rolled over and over in the dirt shooting light this way and that until I snagged it and aimed it at the voice.

Sorry, I added a couple extra sentences to finish the scene -- well, it actually went on for quite a bit longer, but I don't want to give away too much. You can read the whole thing next week for FREE!

Afterthought: Next week I will feature a snippet from Book Two, Stevie-girl and the Phantom Student. It has received great reviews, too.